turkish police. blocked new waves of protesters from reaching taksim square this after forcefully. and the white house says it will put lethal weapons into the hands of syrian rebels over a no fly zone says the red line has been crossed and this could see some dramatic twists and turns in the course of the two year old civil war. and from bad to worse this week for washington as more details of its global surveillance web board leaked onto the public eye with america's closest allies and partners alike. hope to change among western countries as moderate reformers to. the presidential

race in iran inheriting a tough legacy from his predecessors. thank you for joining us here on our just in time for the weekly with me wrong when we come to you live from moscow. it's been a night of violence in istanbul with police using tear gas and water cannons on protesters trying to cross the bosphorus connects the european and the asian parts of the city does follow though a violent crackdown on activists in the central square joining gezi park clearing a protest that's been there now for more than two weeks now the latest from istanbul analogies correspondent. people. trying to cross

the bridge and. to get clear they actually started running immediately after hearing the power to disperse their. people problems actually was great and to get the car there being powered by the water can only dream hard to see exactly how long the current standoff between the president of the down bowl and they're going to walk because obviously people are very determined to get. around eight o'clock in the evening we're going to hunker down peeking around. that person . who we've until. i don't know if in the immediately after he left out but we came out water cannon. and there were there there was a really heavy on set. and. the same time there were both. workers in the cart who were clearing the area from the pentagon from the protesters that were still inside the park. have already declared that they will go

on get on strike in office and. they're protesting and nation. virtue of protests in town will visit another occasion on which prime minister has acted soon after he spoke about the determination to clear out old protest from gezi park he has made several statements in that regard throughout the two weeks again referring to the protesters as looters alcoholic cooks themis and saying that foreign forces are behind this and this also comes on the same day when thousands of supporters have gathered in an encore. and many believe that this is a matter of fact is yet another indication of the prime minister creating a rift in the district of society this is a report that we have compiled earlier on the matter. clashes turmoil blood to smoke and even death this has been turkey's reality for the past two weeks as

protests show no sign of subsiding prime minister to one shows clear indication he won't budge neither on the prospects of gezi park demolition. nor on other requests coming from texas where his actions made the tension between the two parties. more serious than it was before and. he traveled to his supporters telling you spreading some of his own formation about people drinking in mosques are people attacking house car for men and they're like the people are killing policemen and most of those information is very incorrect looters alcoholics extremists foreign agents all bound to wreak havoc in turkey and this is the reality of protests according to our don and those some may believe him others remain critical of the prime minister and i'm against the protests but i think that these protests come from foreign forces from other countries which are not happy with the success and development of turkey i'm really angry with the government i think the one acts

like a dictator he does whatever he wants he doesn't care what other people think. i'm against the protesters and gears the park because things are getting out of control also the foreign press show it like a big event and this made the protest even bigger but the government wants to make this work. so far however these efforts appear to have resulted in get more clashes in istanbul than in karate throughout the week with numerous reports of police brutality we spoke directly to officers to try to find out their side of the story. from day one we were for three days without sleep or food you can't eat and afterwards we can think about is sleeping we slept on the pavement on the grass or on our shields maximum one hour a day i didn't get face to face with the protesters but i had no access to any information my phone battery died so i had no idea why the protests got so big the

only things i heard were ordered from our commanding officers so. the pressure on police has been so great that according to their union six officers have to meet its suicide while nearly a thousand resigned because of the protests as the protests continue with all participants of the conflicts girly increasingly tired and desperate and the government making no clear effort to ease the tensions some begin to wonder where prime minister don prides himself on a building boom in turkey has actually destroyed the very bridges within society and the country in istanbul that. hussein back to you from the middle east technical university and. he believes the current protests are an outcry against the increasing islamisation of turkish society. it is like an eruption north of all conall concerning the policies of prime minister have done in the recent years and

in the recent months that he has been mostly involving in the private affairs of the citizens and his their way of speaking he's very well doing things. also consider to leave the democratic values to leave the republican values of the county by a bad law and he's trying to get turkey into much more islamist structure based on his state. experience and this is a strong reaction i think the values of democracy and. understanding clashing now it will be not civil war but it will make the lives to prime minister very difficult in coming days. live from moscow this is r.t. hong kong is witnessing a marathon of anti surveillance rallies in support of edward snowden has been holed

up there after exposing washington's unparalleled spy web that the outrage over the mass new pings being mirrored across the world as his marine corps now reports the surveillance is costing america its image as a beacon of democracy. from last weekend the u.s. president and his chinese counterpart met for a private bilateral summit focused on cyber attacks and virtual espionage washington blaming beijing for being an online outlaw today the tables have turned courtesy of n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden as the n.s.a. leaker told the south china morning post of the u.s. has been hacking chinese and hong kong computers since since zero nine snowden alleges that the u.s. national security agency's targets included the chinese university of hong kong public officials and students allegations that give weight to claims by officials in beijing that the country has been the victim of u.s.

hacking efforts america's turned into the world cop they think that they can basically set the standards for everybody else to follow their own paranoia global paranoia and outrage has been rising ever since one of america's best kept secrets known as prism was revealed the n.s.a.'s clandestine electronic surveillance program records digital communications and allows for real time online surveillance of citizens both foreign and domestic prism gives u.s. intelligence agencies direct access to files stored on the servers of nine major internet companies including google and facebook to identify and target potential terror suspects officials in italy britain and germany the most spied upon country said the program was both alarming and encroached on privacy politically to some extent i think it's the united states government but rather because despite all the

claims from the white house from a congress the reality of vastly excessive certain valence has been documented by the material of the authentic material from the n.s.a. it was snowden has released revelations about prism has prompted the. can civil liberties union to file for lawsuits against the obama administration more than one hundred and fifty thousand american citizens have signed an online petition calling for an end to washington's massive spying apparatus a clandestine program which the president who promised an unprecedented amount of transparency ironically defense you can't have one hundred percent security. and also then have one hundred percent privacy and zero inconvenience. you know that we're going to have to make some choices as

a society the obama administration finds itself losing not only the war on leaks but enormous credibility at home and abroad with the oversell a school of watching everyone in the name of national security one may wonder if the u.s. government has become its own worst enemy reporting from new york marina port r.t. and fury in washington has not subsided over the past week with senator saying they hope the administration will quote go to the ends of the earth to catch snowden and intelligence analysts at glenmore trying to harvey he told us the white house may well do just exactly that they will use all of the palos available to them both legal and dare i say it illegal we've heard of rendition well he's he's too high profile at the moment i think to be spirited away so i do think that they will pay for the legitimate operation but there's no surprise about this it's

a huge embarrassment it's a political embarrassment there is a phrase closing the stable door after the horses bolted. well the thing is that with that was snowden he has given away so much information is difficult to stop things now but they they will not stop this is the way that the intelligence services get their information nothing will change and while the u.s. spy net spans the entirety of the world surveillance against certain nations was given a top priority among them strangely enough was that of germany that is lending strength to arguments the spying amounts that of industrial espionage correspondent peter all of a filed this report. among the information that was revealed by whistleblower edward snowden is a map that shows where around the world the united states was listening in to

people's telephone conversations now this maps generated so that countries with minimum wire taps taking place in the color green and those where the most why it's happening was taking place are in red now this has thrown up a few surprises one of those is that right here in germany a lot of pearson a looted orange on the map suggesting that it was the subject of quite significant why it's happening it's been suggested that although these claims are made that they're trying to stop terrorism that these could be used for economic purposes to try and find out just what's going on inside of europe's only real economic success story at the moment well of course this caused some outrage here in europe and it's certainly going to raise some serious questions when president barack obama arrives here in berlin next week for talks with angle of merkel another man here in germany who's in charge of protecting german citizens identity and personal data is called the u.s. actions unacceptable saying that the level of protection that was in place to look

after u.s. citizens well was really far greater than those to look after a u.s. citizens and well aren't we all allies after all now the social democratic party here in germany who are the main opposition party have said that they want to hear from the german secret service to find out exactly just how much and when they knew that german citizens were being listened to during their phone conversations or we've got a much more of the weekly and today's world update coming your way in just a moment.

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a never ending civil confrontation in syria now at risk of reaching a new phase as the u.s. claims the red line it said assad has not been crossed and washington said this week it was now preparing to controversial rebel groups after finding evidence the syrian government resorted to the use of chemical weapons that the claim however has been met with a huge wall of doubt my colleagues try to understand why correspondent. this week washington confirmed it has ample proof of assad's troops using chemical weapons against the opposition but the timing seems to be rather strange for that the incident in question allegedly happened in december last year but it's been brought up only now when the government troops are winning the battle after battle according to the russian foreign minister this makes no sense at all from the military point of view and the follow up statement by president obama that he wanted to see the balance of power is restored in the country and possibly even the syrian rebels is creating even more grounds for concerns in russia and in europe as

well so we have russia being skeptical about it the only voice or others who are skeptical about the u.s. evidence not everyone is buying it the e.u. the main allies of the united states they are asking additional checks from the u.n. investigators russia says that the proof gathering process itself was done with violations of international regulations just. there are certain rules of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons which suggest that samples of blood urine and clothes and soon can be classed as evidence only if the samples were collected by the organizations experts and if these experts controlled the samples and rude to the board during our u.s. colleagues will do surance that these procedures were here to do you think there's been a lot of resistance to accepting this evidence that the u.s. says it has well just let's look at the history let's go back ten years ago to two thousand and three when the u.s. state secretary colin powell was shaking

a vial with allegedly anthrax in it suggesting that iraq has weapons of mass destruction chemical weapons we all know where this where and so the u.s. clearly don't want to step on the same break again at the same time another rather concerning statements coming from the u.s. that they are considering implementing a no fly zone over syria which in many cases is the first step for a military and eventually and has certainly a striking resemblance to the. the scenario almost a decade ago and so as we've seen the rebels themselves are kind of a very diverse group a lot of interest in a lot of different groups as part of the so-called opposition that they have in the syria are there allegations against them as well i've heard words of regret coming from the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov that all claims and allegations coming from the syrian government that the opposition used chemical weapons against them have never been investigated there have been scenes and footage of the opposition testing chemical weapons on rabbits more recently twelve people from al nusra front the syrian militarized opposition brigade were detained in turkey by

the turkish police allegedly carrying vials of zareen gas on them so definitely there are no saints here but these claims are not being investigated for some reason and. honorary research fellow at the university of roehampton who believes the u.s. leadership is only using the war in syria perhaps divert people's attention from problems that. thank you obama as it helps president. in france and prime minister cameron here in britain thank you all three of us have very serious domestic problems economic problems social unrest etc etc and when he is facing serious domestic problems then you do all the moves through is this. all threats to national security and. the

order and try to unite the population or at least pacify. domestic opposition. now this all comes amid continuing efforts to bring the syrian opposition to that of the negotiating table president putin addressed the issue during a q. and a session with r.t. zone journalists here at our moscow headquarters he believes there's a lack of coherence in the stance of some foreign players who may be on willingly encouraging the opposition to carry on fighting. not a significant chill opposition has always been to allow people to make a decision about the structure of power in syria how rights interests in safety will be ensured only after these agreements are reach should we turn to more systemic transition not. just throw everyone out and then plunge the entire country into chaos but what our colleagues cannot answer is this one of the key organizations inside the so-called armed opposition is a nurse or a u.s.

state department deems it a terrorist organization with ties to al qaeda and the group doesn't make that a secret will it be part of the new government let's go they say no means that i asked them so we just swap them away like flies i know they say but i mean is that so what will happen they say we don't know. where is the logic. is going to it. and you can hear more of what are the president had to say in a much longer interview that will be coming your way next hour here on. turning our attention now to that of iran where pro-reform haasan who won he has been officially named successor to mahmoud ahmadinejad's this after winning the presidential election with more than fifty percent of the votes as some western politicians have already expressed hope the country will become more flexible under the new leader r.t. is that marie ivanovna reports on what the world perhaps could expect. people have taken to the streets of tehran to celebrate the victory all.

that's hot his victory has provoked mixed feelings among iranians moves into is known as a reformist and carries the many specially in terms of greater freedoms boiron still runs diplomatic isolation the country has been on the top sanctions for years now over its controversial nuclear program during his campaign rouhani has promised to prepare the civil rights structure research the economy and improve relations with the west his criticize us many times for making remarks that cost the country its privileges but at the same time. period there on realize that 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 brother mo syria for example. say that the next president can at least takes the time out of iran's dealings with the outside world moment chief nuclear negotiator rouhani has never been suffering approach. journalist some of the present it believes the west could actually see it will flexible iran with mr rwanda at the helm. what i'm trying to say is that the art of negotiation perhaps which has been nonexistent in recent years maybe mr rouhani would be able to rebuild the reigning negotiating team in such a way that they can negotiate the whole thing in a better way i did say we need to understand that iran doesn't want anything more than its rights iran wants its nuclear rights to be respected and it is the west

and the ball is now very much is in the court of the western countries who have been accusing that ahmadinejad's administration of being stalled burn out and of being not very much serious about the talks now that message one is in place is in office the west doesn't have any more excuses they have to come to the negotiating negotiating table ok on sea world time now starting with the big hole where he lost her shake in manhattan in new york of course substantial damage to a car but didn't injure anybody it's thought that a transformer exploded on the ground blasting off a manhole cover that became imbedded in a vehicle above it emergency services are still at the scene. for man including a police officer had been stabbed at a mosque in the u.k. city of birmingham and the officer was attacked as he was responding to an emergency call of the victims were taken to hospital conditions described as stable

and one thirty two year old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted attacks against muslims in britain have certainly been on the rise since the killing of a soldier in london last month at the brutal machete murder apparently carried out by two islamic inspired extremists. to greece where leftist coalition parties have rejected an offer from the prime minister to restart a limited number of news programmes on the national public broadcaster it's t.v. and radio channels were shut down in a snap cost cutting decision earlier this week forcing more than two and a half thousand public sector workers out of a job at the two minor parties in the ruling coalition a calling for the channels to go back on area but accept the broadcaster needs to reform certain issues when it comes to the budget it comes after a week the so public anger boil over onto the streets of the decision to pull the plug on state media a move critics have labeled as an attack on democracy and the government says its

money saving obligations under the term of a financial agreement with the e.u. and i.m.f. left it no choice so george. he's a professor of constitutional law and says the move has been actually employs massive sweeping ramifications for greek society. the majority of the group. this is the good news soon as a blow to democracy and of course to the independent source of news for our society in my opinion it's actually an act of very very soon the government is facing a period you. need. to do to distract the political appearance run towards another goal as you know we are living now we know very dire economic situation so it's 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 . ok a very short break here on r.t. then if you can stay with us we're back with well interesting travel to a remote villa. in the south of russia getting a closer look at a very unique religious ally from moscow. 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 for those 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 us 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.

yes. you. you just get. out let's go you did. we settled here in the nineteenth century. and then some of them to canada. a bit a.f. . how do we handle their face.