turkish police used tear gas on protesters trying to cross the bosphorus bridge in istanbul just hours after pushing protesters out of taksim square. the moderate cleric rouhani takes almost fifty one percent of the vote become iran's new president elect amid questions over whether he will change the country's nuclear ambitions. and syria calls america's claims that it used chemical weapons fabricated while russia which is also unconvinced condemns washington's decision to arm rebels as an undermining of peace efforts.

and broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is r t i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us. violence has hit turkey again as security forces are now trying to move demonstrators from the bosphorus bridge using tear gas earlier police used a force to disperse crowds of protesters from he stumbles taksim square is comes shortly after the prime minister issued yet another warning to protesters saying security forces will intervene if they do not clear taksim square by sunday let's now talk to our. on the phone from istanbul for some more information even a thanks for being with us so what exactly is happening right there now. well

several thousand people apparently or have been trying to close to bridge in to stumble to get to check some square they actually have started moving immediately after hearing about her sort of people from texas great and good cigars but of course considering the fact that the bridge and considering the fact that there was a lot of police force that was in action as taxi man again it was sort of to be expected that these thousands of people will not be able to actually get to their point. to get to their goal to check he was cleared so they're now being brought some by police on the bridge across ponds for the people literally stuck on there they're being showered by tear gas and water cannons which really have been used liberally abides only since the evening like i said they were initially very misleading all this for some taksim square is of course they're trying to keep people away from dense sort of hotbed of discord in clashes day in

and in that second largest carrier circumvention city and it is really hard to say exactly how long the sense standoff between. between the president doesn't stumble and they're coming from different areas of the city and the police are going to walk because obviously people are very determined to get to taksim presented to the store and sort of the ultimate goal most sacred goal right now but police are obviously all there in in in huge numbers attendance tens of thousands of police. officers really on the streets and. we don't exactly know what all this standoff is going to have the last thing going on for several hours it's going you know you've been there for quite a while covering this story it's been going on this particular crackdown has been going from on for about two weeks now what is the general mood across the country.

well at this point people are outraged and i would dare to human that after this particular person which really has been jerrine very quick and not altogether expected to be frank i think people will get even a dream because until then the mood was really starting to rise a lot of people are saying that. is purposefully purposely putting people. in opposition to each other and by that i mean his supporters and his opponents has been gathering in huge rallies in there explains that there was a really big rally supporters in on kharaj are just on saturday and almost immediately after that rally wrapped up is going to police came out in full force on talking square so really the situation in the country as well as the mood overall is incredibly tense and i would say. it's really hard to take down three what will happen to turkey right now because people are incredibly unhappy and i

would say they're outraged at this point now can you take us up to this particular incident what unfolded earlier tonight it gives you part. absolutely actually i around eight o'clock in the evening when they're going down started speaking at a rally and he said that first answers hobbs to leave until sunday i don't know significantly since he left out it was clear that something was going to happen because there were a lot of people in taksim square they were generally keeping kind of to get me fired and so then for about the last week or so. that he was a really violent dispersal of protesters on they own so and then stumbled so everybody was hoping that that was going to be the case and he was bracing for yet another dispersal and there was talk about jesse part being. abroad almost immediately after you know on the rest of his speech on saturday night police came

out and used water cannons first and then there was there was a really heavy onset of tear gas it was impossible to believe people are scattered all over the place so i wouldn't have stopped in the streets or leading up to junction square they were also blocked off blood police as again we saw the tear gas water cannons being used against protesters to kind of get them out through these streets and. at the same time there were bulldozers and workers and the car or clearing the area from the tents and from the protesters that was still inside the park we're also getting reports of people being violently extract from a hotel near taksim square where they went to seek refuge and while. while they were doing that we actually managed to catch up to some of them and listen to their immediate reaction to the ongoing event. as my

analyst and ten police came next to me and one of them was very violent to whom i guess mass and i told him you know i had on him. and i cannot breathe please don't take much my gas mask they didn't they didn't they didn't listen and ninety four of them came. through brutally they took my gas mask my parents my cats and then my friends she had to give her own gas mask to me so i didn't throw any like stones to the police but they're still attacking me and millions of people like me two days ago he said you have twenty four hours did that yesterday you said you you have twenty four hours and today is that you have sealed until tomorrow so i this is ambush we're going to be here we're not going to leave because this is our preferred the sets. and this is basically the mood that prevails people on the street essentially miss cumberland this point like we said the beginning ten thousand there now are literally jammed into bridge across bosphorus people definitely don't want to go anywhere and there's also clashes in some sensors and

police in the capital city of on karachi and i have to mention that clashes between transplanted weren't happening there for the past two weeks in fact there was only two evenings when situation was rather quiet and peaceful on the other days we've been hearing a lot of violence again water cannons and tear gas being used against protesters. i could just say that the mood in turkey has becoming increasingly tense with this latest transfer and so. really isn't over yet so it's really hard to see exactly what's going to happen in turkey tomorrow or even the day after tomorrow when we know that hundreds of thousands. millions have already declared that they will go and get no strike in opposition and especially to express their protesting and nation display is the first live protest. eating that was there with us by the phone in turkey thank you for being with us we know there are you're

going to be staying across the situation as it becomes available as it develops stay safe while you're there. thank you now austin machall a journalist who has covered the middle east and says that protesters have little chance of getting their message across unless they are unified. what we see here is it isn't been primarily a nomination from secular western facing to the kind you used to having a very in a law to role in politics in china having allowed the police the most powerful police that it presents in the countryside and the think that the rise to power of the islamists was upset now and then you know this is a really positive element to the protests and in the sort of the young kids in just popped who you know we in the west and elsewhere around the world can identify with this yearning to greater freedoms but there's a real danger that if that if he gives you kids don't get their act together set

a state that they what they're going to do is end out mainly benefiting the generals and the old school security for terence. moderate cleric hasan rowhani is iran's new president alleged the reformist backed former secretary of the supreme national security council and x. nuclear 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 artie's way from the ocean and has been following the vote and reports from the capital. people have taken to the streets of tehran to celebrate their victory all of us on their honeymoon and that is that right now.

that's hot his victory has mixed feelings among iranians. he is known as a reformist and carries the problem many specially in terms of greater freedoms. and surrounds diplomatic isolation the country has been on the top sanctions for years now over a spencer version nuclear program during his campaign rouhani has promised to prepare the civil rights charges three strong economy. places where as his good side many times making remarks that cost the country it's pretty ability but at the same time. they're on. the iranian system works with major power held by the supreme leader the president can do little to change things dramatically. the supreme leader has the final say on big issues like terrence

disputed nuclear problem syria for example send those same bets with the next president. time out of iran's dealings with the outside world moment chief nuclear negotiator rouhani has never been something approach syria's government has condemned the claims by washington to use chemical weapons as a caravan of lies based on 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 impose a no fly zone over parts of syria with egypt's president mohamed morsi also backing that option or he's going to church again 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 mass 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 this 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 sarah 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 is taking ninety three. thousand lives according to the united nations was fueled by outside forces got their 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 iran in the context of these discussions how much of this is about in your opinion well john mccain's comments are very interesting but but not unusual if you look back at the last thirty years the united states has made the my enemy's enemy is my friend the theme of its foreign policy and armed osama bin laden the mujahideen against the afghan government because it was a socialist government and aligned with the soviet union 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 in 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 used to 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 second. well jason ditz news editor at antiwar dot com says that it if a no fly zone is imposed over syria the conflict will reach a point of no return. the evidence is mostly secret there hasn't really been any chance for the public to that is so early and even the obama administration was rejecting this exact same evidence only a few weeks ago saying it did constitute we shouldn't allow them to sort of style

the no fly zone as a half measure between full scale military intervention and doing nothing but let's not beat around the bush it no fly zone is an act of war it's a step to war the defense secretary hague bill has said repeatedly that imposing a no fly zone would mean. the u.s. is committed to an open ended conflict in syria and just like him you would likely just ask america russia is unconvinced by america's chemical weapons findings saying it would make no sense for assad to deploy a toxic arsenal foreign minister sergey lavrov slammed washington's decision to arm rebels saying it undermined peace efforts artie's oleksiak cesky has more on moscow's response. the russian foreign minister revealed that it was very regrettable that when the allegations of rebel syrian rebels using chemical weapons at the town of aleppo were made public by the syrian government it's time to ask

the un commission to investigate and nothing was eventually done but only when the allegations of she seriously government using the sham of a weapon of weapons appeared at the national expert stocks that it was conduct a certain investigation on this matter also revealed that for some time his partners in the west and israel have been saying all along that the syrian government would only use chemical weapons if it's backed against the wall she just seemed to be the syrian regime hasn't been pushed into the corner the regime according to the rebels is advancing on the ground what's the point of the regime using chemical weapons and in such small amounts to set itself up. with the chemical weapons usage by the syrian government the alleged chemical weapons usage now being hotly debated across the atlantic as well as the calls to arm the syrian rebels lover off said that he didn't believe that the red line the so-called red

line was actually crossed first of all because what the united states believes to be the proof of assad using chemical weapons is not a substantial proof at all mainly because the prove gathering process itself was not made in accordance with international regulations. there are certain rules of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons which suggest that samples of blood urine clothes and so will can be classed as evidence only if these samples were collected by the organizations experts and if these experts controlled the samples and rude to the born tories u.s. colleagues failed to assurance that these procedures were and he had to lever off also remind it that recently allegedly its wealth people from the al nusra front a syrian rebels were detained in turkey care. chemical weapons also unconfirmed reports of chemical weapons being produced in iraq for the syrian rebels found it's very regrettable as well that these reports even despite being unconfirmed did not

cause any concerns in the west or to the reporting for us there now still ahead for you this hour who owes who. world leaders can expect a frosty welcome as anti-capitalist protesters in the u.k. come together at 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 against its own citizens is getting immense public support. a blast at a second chemical plant in louisiana in as many days has killed at least one person and injured seven others the accident occurred as explosive nitrogen was being moved. in from the international action center told r.t. that companies and politicians are 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 to form a close shop contract and so there's that there's hostile anti-union legislation that makes it very difficult for workers to organize and to form unions so as a result of that it's much more likely that that the working conditions and in such factories with it 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 organized to make profits for a small group of people and the needs of the workers are last in the lives of the workers in 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. a mass rally has been held in belfast to challenge the policies and

priorities of world leaders due to meet at the g eight summit in northern ireland on monday over a thousand people marched against large corporations accused of dodging that the payment of huge sums of taxes it follows protests in the london where riot police moved against demonstrators to disperse them after a standoff lasting several hours or days boy boyko has the details for us. and here austerity 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 buckley's now it's an event called they owe us and their 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 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 said even though 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 on 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 the banks out so. quoted to me if we've got the banks out i mean is there a debt to us you know we're going to say this simple stuff earlier this week anti capitalist protesters clashed with riot police in central london and around sixty arrests were made one word on the lips of many of the protesters are speaking to today's inequalities while this business district is home to a number of investment banks separate the god and territory norm one of london's poorest areas where four out of ten children live in poverty so with further government spending cuts on the way protests disappointed. thanks.

well we've got more stories for you on our website including. mathematics. could be destroyed to destroy. a new initiative to bring global attention to g.m.o. foods has launched a website specifically devoted to a. video explaining why. to our website to learn more about the monsanto video revolt. the cyber standoff between the u.s. and china has taken a new twist amid revelations of potentially wholesale industrial espionage by washington the same system that spies on millions of americans is alleged to be

hacking into the communications of chinese computers. surveillance have prompted displays of anger outside capitol hill although even protesting is proving a challenge the. wall has more. lieutenant michael battle of the united states don't believe correctly you are demonstrating without a permit. not only because you love the school it is losing it is what we are entitled to move to was your right there with you to debate it to chill groups so that we're 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 ham over into the park maybe we'll just have our selves and 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 protestors here voiced their support for edward snowden the man who admitted to being the source of leaking

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 about this massive accumulation of power through the control room for mace information about people's personal lives as well as there simply was information gathered on every digital what chronic gadget has been america 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

wall r.t. . and in hong kong hundreds have also rallied in support of edward snowden demonstrators are urged to their government to protect the n.s.a. leaker from extradition lashing out at the u.s. sweeping surveillance program he exposed also sent a letter to. the u.s. consulate demanding an end to the surveillance of internet users under the n.s.a. program which they say violates the rights of people all around the world. we've got breaking news here on r t it seems that four people including a police officer have been stabbed in a mosque in the british city of birmingham they have been taken to the hospital and a thirty two year old man has been taken into custody on suspicion of attempted murder we'll bring you the latest information as we get it in and of course our teams are keeping track of the situation. now turning to some other international news for you making headlines around the world this hour thousands of teachers have protested in lisbon against austerity measures imposed by the government they

voiced their anger against longer working weeks larger class sizes and the risk of layoffs demonstrators say that the public schools are sending thousands of qualified teachers onto the streets austerity measures are being imposed as part of a seventy eight billion euro international bailout agreed to in two thousand and eleven. in pakistan at least fourteen people have been killed by a bus bomb at a women's a university in the city of quetta another blast was later reported at the hospital where the injured were treated this was followed by a fierce gun fight or at least four security officers and four assailants were killed and in a separate attack three rocket propelled grenades hit the former residence of late founder mohammad ali jinnah. hundreds of protesters have clashed with police outside the national stadium in the brazilian capital at least two people have been

injured by rubber bullets they're boarding to police at least fifteen arrests have been made demonstrators are angry about the high cost of holding international football tournaments and the money would be better spent on health care and education this comes a day after nationwide protests over an increase in transportation fares. the u.k. has celebrated queen elizabeth the second birthday with a belated grand parade more than one thousand soldiers horses and musicians took part in the event known as trooping the color an annual ceremony marking the queen's birthday prince philip was unable to attend the celebration as he is recovering from abdominal surgery the monarch's actual birthday was on april twenty first when she turned eighty seven. and coming up after the break our travels to a remote village in the south of russia for a closer look into a very unique religious sect.