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thank you for joining us here just in time for the weekly with me. as we come to you live from the center of moscow it is. full with police using tear gas and water cannons on protesters trying to cross the bosphorus bridge that connects the european and the asian sides of the city it does follow of. activists in the central square and its adjoining gezi park protest. more than two weeks and the latest details from istanbul correspondent. several thousand people

apparently are have given trying to cross the bridge into somebody to get to check seems clear they actually have started moving immediately after hearing about the dispersal of people from texas great and good cigars they're being showered by tear gas and water cannons and it is really hard to see exactly how long the stern standoff between. between the president of the stone bowl and the police are going to last because obviously people are very determined to get to around eight o'clock in the evening when they're going home started speaking either rally and he says that first answers have to leave until sunday i don't know significantly after he left out but we came out used water cannons first and then there were there was a really heavy onset of tear gas and. at the same time there were bulldozers and workers in the cart who were clearing the area from the tents and from the

protesters that were still inside the park hundreds of thousands of them from national unions have already declared that they will go on general strike in opposition to it on chinese french to express their protest and get the nation displayed is done to start with protests in eastern bo is yet 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 there again referring to the protesters as looters alcohol because three missing the foreign forces are behind this and it also comes on the same day when thousands on supporters have gathered in the suburbs and many believe that this is a matter of fact is yet another indication of the prime minister creating a rift in the thick of society this is the report that we have compiled earlier on the matter. clashing turmoil blood smoke and even. this has been turkey's

reality for the past two weeks as protests show no sign of subsiding prime minister erdogan shows clear indication he won't budge neither on the prospects of gezi park demolition nor on other requests coming from taksim square his actions made the tension between the two parties. more serious than it was before and. he provoked his support is telling you spreading some of these information about people drinking in mosques or people attacking house car for men and the like the people or killing policemen and most of those informations were 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 ah there's i mean critical of the prime minister. 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 at the one acts like a dictator who does what ever he wants he doesn't care what other people think. i'm against the protesters and gives the pork because things are getting out of control also the foreign press show it like a big event and this made the process even bigger but the government wants to make peace with people. so far however these efforts appear to have resulted in 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 work for three days without sleep or food when 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 alders from our commanding officers. the pressure on police has been so great that according to their union six officers have committed 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 prides himself on a building boom in turkey has actually destroyed the very bridges within society in the country in istanbul the. view from the turkish republican people's party it believes what began as a protest against rebuilding a park ultimately exposed the plight of all the groups they feel oppressed by over the ones policy. this is a social explosion it's a cultural clash this is interclub i mean it is the e.u.

is protecting the part but its job the government is very rough response on them as strong as something in the society that is about secular women standing against you know journalists who has been exposed as been shut down there is not freedom of press in turkey about lawyers who have been just arrested hundreds of them. which was followed by the question at the site to be released we are very concerned not only about the heavy crackdown that made on the prime minister's words but also that which. may follow everything else in the long run. we are very concerned right. this is our to live from moscow hong kong was witnessing a marathon of surveillance rallies in support of snowden it would snowden holed up there after exposing washington's on power by web of the average over the mass new

pings being mirrored across the world as all these marina portnoy reports the surveillance is at least costing america part of its image as a beacon of democracy. 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 that the south china morning post of the us has been hacking chinese and hong kong computers since since zero nine snowden alleges that the us 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 has 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 terrorist 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 valence has been

documented by the material the authentic material from the n.s.a. there were snowden has released revelations about prism has prompted the american. 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 defends 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 portnoy r.t. one of the people reportedly in touch with edward snowden is one of the founders of wiki leaks that of julian assange and speaking to us here at odds he he said that america's witch hunt against whistleblowers has indeed scared many others away. many sources are quite scared i mean we've seen. colleagues of mine have even stated publicly that their sources are reluctant to talk because of the crackdown against bradley manning and that's what that whole trial is trying to achieve it's trying to set the precedent for the communicating with the media is the same as communicating with your enemy and that's a death penalty offense. an outrageous president to crack down on whistleblowers has been very public and i think that to scared people would be that i mean there's

ways to do it without ending up like the way bradley manning is going to go or snowden i mean most sources reveal information perfectly fine to me that we're thousands and yet we only know. of two of the had problems and it's alleged this is because they talked to informants. and especially i know by these surveillance revelations is europe where privacy and data protection laws are no laughing matter a year a kratz a demanding answers from the u.s. saying the scope of the spying operation goes far beyond the old boundaries particularly vocal was germany which should say most was singled out for extra wiretapping and communication interception the country's economic success has led some to believe the spying goes beyond countering tara into the realm of industrial espionage italy austria france and other e.u.

nations also expressed serious concern about keeping an eye on europe according to some is a matter of economic security for the united states. germany of course is the center of the european economy and the european economy is both a partner and in many ways an appendage to the very same economic interests that dominate the american economy and consequently the american political system so with all of the changes that it's taking place in various parts of europe the pressures in greece and spain and portugal and italy and on and on and on the and an uprising of sorts already among german people themselves in solidarity with the people of those other nations against the interests that are sucking the blood out of the economy and europe the interests of the united states are very interested in watching that the politicians in germany do what they're supposed to do that the

media do what they're supposed to do that the gatekeepers basically keep keeping the gate safe so they can keep sucking the money out a europe. now united states not the only nation that's got a beef with speaking out coming up here on to your washington's gulf allies are cracking down on online with simple twitter posts some more than a decade behind bars. and the first female in space. she celebrates fifty years since a flight blazed the way to the stars for women coming your way shall.

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a new phase as the u.s. claims the red line that president assad. has not been crossed motion tim 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 claim however has been met with just a huge wall of doubt my colleagues much as are trying to understand why with r.t. 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 arm 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 other others were 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. but there are certain rules of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons which suggest that samples of blood urine clothes and soon 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 board tories are u.s. colleagues failed to assure us that these procedures were here to why 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 when 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 and has certainly a striking resemblance to the iraqi 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 and 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 without a no fly zone washington can boost the rebels effort with patriot air defense batteries an f. sixteen fighter jets already deployed to the syrian border in jordan former pentagon official michael maloof. fears that propping up the assad fighters may well turn out badly we have to be very skeptical i was in the pentagon at the time that intelligence assessments were made regarding iraq and its w m d programs weapons of mass destruction and we know what the results were trillion dollars later forty five hundred lives and we. had nothing nothing to show for it and there were and there was no w m d i was in damascus recently spoke for an hour and a half with the syrian prime minister and he says why would we be gassing our own

people the timing of this is meant to try to boost morale but the problem is how do you the opposition is so fractured how do you determine who will get the arms and so that it doesn't get into the hands of the foreign fighters the al destroy the al qaida types there's no guarantee about this and that's why i believe it's going to prolong a conflict. and a syria continues to implode it's pushing iraq off balance it's a recent spike in violence calls deadly chaos across the country increasingly jeopardizing hopes for peace in a region that's ultimately at war with itself. and public anger boils over in greece after the state broadcaster was unceremoniously shouted this week and that's despite an offer from the prime minister to partially restart the channels that's coming up shortly here on the program. shift gears now turn our attention

to that of tehran is where are the pro-reform a candidate hasan the one who has been officially named successor to muck with ahmadinejad after winning the presidential election now with more than fifty percent of the vote some western politicians have already expressed hope that the country could become more flexible under the new moderate leader. reports on what the world could expect. people have taken to the streets of tehran to celebrate the victory all. right. i had that hot his victory has provoked mixed feelings on iran's moves into this is known as a reformist and so carries the hope of many specially in terms of greater freedoms boiron still runs diplomatic isolation the country has been under sob sanctions for years now over a spencer version nuclear program during his campaign rouhani has promised to

prepare a civil rights child to respond to the economy and to improve your relations with the west his criticize us many times for making remarks that cost the country it's pretty ability but at the same time assertively value here and 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 the difference dispute that brought her to syria for example set of those 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 for his consult her approach. comes to iran but he'll have plenty to deal with left over from his predecessor here's my

report on. the legacy leaves a baseline of. like there has been in real estate business for years in iran when we ask him to summarize the legacy of president and. he talks about it so if you compare the price increase by one hundred percent since last year we have no hope for the future of the economy's bad and it's getting worse. one of the president's promises after taking office in two thousand and five was to make iran's vast oil revenues felt at the dining table of every single family was he leaves behind is a country hit by the worst financial crisis in the years but there are some who say it's not what it is just who's to blame for the downturn under sanctions were tough recently it's hard to keep afloat but the president of the people i'm sure that iran is able to resist international pressure the iranian economy has been hit hard by strain of ever tougher sanctions imposed successively by the e.u. the u.n.

and the u.s. over accuse ations the countries trying to develop nuclear weapon something which was never approved as a lot of ahmadinejad has been able to stand up to the whole world over iran's nuclear program and the country is better off for it and have a battle the departure in libya will be remembered for is his rhetoric about israel and iran six president relations reached the point when even war seemed very possible and while ahmadinejad has not exactly been friendly towards israel the way facts have been juggled about him has done more damage to his reputation than his own wards years ago a statement was mistakenly treatment it to him which was in the curtly translated as israel must be wiped off the face of the map and actual words were that israel must vanish from the arena of time and didn't even belong to any way other than the objective is to make up with the new judge a villain he stands for universal rights where every country would have an equal

say but some powers want nothing but dominance and they focused on blocking the name of our president one of this year's presidential candidates doesn't agree say let me during the two thousand and eleven campaign he criticized his advisors and they were after a race that's not the best and most honest way to get the power. the deadly protests that raged across the country after the. actions are also thought to have undermined our image the result many people were frightened of other let me not talk about my job at all. even those who don't totally support a when you say there is little he can actually do here according to our constitution the supreme leader as much more power as in this country almost every step the president takes should be supervised and blessed by the ayatollah so despite all the controversies surrounding president ahmadinejad it looks like iran will continue to be a force in the region and therefore will remain the fool in the side of the us and

its allies mahmoud ahmadinejad's eighty a presidency provokes mixed feelings a very controversial leader he was equally hated the worship in iran has been mostly going to be presidents and the both public defender running all the people today if iraq is open but his legacy will cost a shadow over the next president some time. break nationality tehran iran. so chemical blasts in america and the first woman in space these are some of the stories coming your way in just a minute. i . i. i i i i i i i i i i

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live from moscow this is a suicide blasts and roadside bombs have ripped across iraq in another wave of deadly violence this week putting sunni muslims against shias and raising the specter of an all out into religious war. on the sectarian tension that's now killed more than two thousand since april. may was the bloodiest month seen in iraq in the past five years a surge in sectarian violence that's raised fears of another civil war sunni versus shia one country two sects. iraq has been through this before and that divide never really sealed tensions are growing between the shiite led government and minority sunnis inflamed by the raging conflict in neighboring syria to understand the divisions we have to travel to an area off limits to foreign journalists the end bar province following the u.s. led invasion this area was the heartland of the sunni insurgency today it's become

the focal point of the anti-government protests. for several months now every friday this scene prayer on the highway to baghdad followed by protests against the baghdad government it's a situation that's reflective of the state of iraq today a country that has been torn apart by war but doesn't seem to be and closer to healing the wounds in the divisions that have been on the least during that occupation here the sunni protesters who have gathered behind me want a different kind of system they want to change they feel that the government doesn't represent them. is one of those protesters he's brought his son to almost every demonstration there for a residence but not by choice he says he was forced to flee baghdad for fear of arrest by the military and that his sect made him a target of one day a military brigade surrounded the area where we lived in baghdad and started making arrests they were targeting sunday residents and arrested two of my cousins so i

gathered my family in the street to flu jab. the demonstrators complain of discrimination arbitrary arrests detention even torture under the rule of prime minister nouri al maliki charges that the government denies. that the government systematically driving sunnis from baghdad this is a seat. migrations is being done in the open cities are restricted in everything from where we live to the kinds of jobs we can have but in the shia neighborhood a different version of the story fearful of retribution for speaking out this residence prefers to hide his identity he tells us of the dangers iraqi shia face from armed groups. we also have been displaced by threats from al qaeda and other militias this used to be a mixed area but people have started exchanging houses between sunni and shia families to safety some analysts blame the united states for the divisions they build the new system political system in iraq on the sectarian basis like they made

the proportions for the sudanese for this then and for the kurdish and this is very little. those divisions have taken a toll on a rocky youth a generation separated by the threat of violence i know that it really affects this thing causes a lot of problems between me and my friends especially if they're from a different six we can't work together we'll hang out publicly in some neighborhoods i could get killed for being seen with someone from a different religious group ten years after the war iraq is still struggling to find peace as the ghosts of its sectarian past haunt the future. r.t.e. baghdad. or 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 as 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 workers out of a job thousands onto the streets in protest the government says its money saving obligation is to be in the i.m.f. left it no choice but to close the broadcaster george country professor of constitutional law he says the move has sweeping ramifications for greek society. the majority of the good. this is the end of good news soon as a blow to democracy 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 i fear you are. right this attempt to distract the political appearance on towards another goal as you know we are living now we know very dire economic situation so it's good government

for its inability to control the situation. to act like about you know decisions that even its allies have to either party's. political coalition are disapproving and unprecedented a crackdown on dissent is unfolding in the arabian peninsula or gulf war i said desperate to stamp out naysayers on line one example and woman in kuwait this week was given an eleven year jail sentence for making a post critical of the emir. but it's going to reports now on just how draconian some of the rules really are. qatar the united arab emirates kuwait bahrain and saudi arabia now in saudi arabia local media reports that the authorities asked the mobile providers to find ways to monitor encrypted messaging and apps like viber skype and whatsapp and said that if these applications could not be monitored then they would have to be blocked while last month senior saudi religious clerics

declared those who use twitter are risking quote demonstration and lose both this world and their afterlife let's move on to qatar now seen by many as a regional media hub which openly supports radical freedom fighters in syria while it's now looking at punishing web sites and social media with a new internet coach under the new draftee of dorry's will be allowed to remove news videos or posts even factual ones if they think the violate the sanctity of privacy now this brings us to the united arab emirates a country ruled by seven hereditary rulers were political parties are banned by law and their citizens can be jailed for tweeting like the recent case of a man who received ten months behind bars for describing the legal process around a group of civil society activists quote in bad faith now in kuwait this year alone at least six journalists and dozens of activists have been arrested on charges that include insulting the mirror on twitter other widespread charges for criticism

online from users are threatening national security and offending religion all on the web but the jail sentences are anything but virtual and sometimes stretch to two years behind bars despite being party to the international court and on civil and political rights now finally last but not least reign six bloggers were given one year in prison each after they were found guilty of misusing the right of free expression and insulting the king even though apparently they're angry tweets were merely criticism of the authorities. you're watching the weekly on this week seen a string of industrial blasts in the u.s. as two chemical plants in louisiana were hit by massive explosions forcing environmentalists certainly to quickly sound the alarm of the latest blast occurred on friday evening it killed one person and just a day before that another explosion rocked a different facility killing two and injuring more than one hundred ten live maupin

from the international action center says the practice of putting profits ahead of safety is regrettably the norm nowadays. 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 closed shop contracts and so there's a 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 the working conditions in such factories where that are non-unionized in states where there is a culture of anti union politics it's much more likely that they would they would have these kinds of accidents that really you know industry is organized 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 calculations the infrastructure of the united states is largely it's largely lacking and it's falling apart in many places good to have you with us here on

a day she has been inspiring women all over the world to follow the dreams now a half a century the first woman in space valentino at the disco now celebrating fifteen years since a groundbreaking flight and this story to want to stay on but one small step for a woman. two years to you are going home and tina turner chased his rocket very it was up to the nine hundred sixty three to become the first woman in space. the training was the same for men and women space doesn't make allowances for gender. even today valentino is a folk hero only slightly less famous thing the gaar in russia and in space valentina tereshkova thank you thank you so much for being an interest in spiration to me and many other women and girls around the world to reach our dreams congratulations but back then she started off as one of many selected from among

hundreds of applicants one of five other finalists could've gone in a place. of course i wanted to go into space all of us did now we're celebrating to school wasn't a verse three but of the time we were naturally very upset that it didn't choose us . it was a time of cold war with soviet leader nikita khrushchev desperate to keep the momentum going after the garden was first to cross one of the great hurdles of the space race as such the project was kept top secret valentino didn't even tell her own mother what she was doing the break i told her i was in a parachute jumping team and she believed me when her friends congratulated her she didn't believe them either saying she's not been in space she's a parachutist it would be two decades ago before the next female cosmonaut went into space and after fifty years only three russian female cosmonauts have ever been in orbit i sense that on them there are lots of women astronauts another

countries and it's hard to explain why the situation in russia is different this is largely due to russian attitudes to women in space i would call this uncivilized perhaps they don't trust women enough valentino became a perfect publisher ttyl for the soviet union she was banned from flying ever again after the guardian's death viewed as too valuable a public face to lose along this hall of fame a statues of men central to soviet space exploration but valentino tedesco is the only woman you'll find here call sign was seagull and for the u.s.s.r. and for all the women who dreamt of doing the same this seagull through higher than any other tom watson r.t. moscow. russia as president i came and visited artie's new headquarters here in moscow that was on tuesday and did stay for a chat with some of our correspondents and that's coming your way next.

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to the at. the arab world's one issue that at least our views are generally excited about today is the snowden case a man who is now being dubbed a second a sound has exposed total surveillance practices employed by the american government there are two sides to the story on the one hand that was classified information which makes this man a traitor but on the other hand the information has leaked is of crucial importance primarily for the american public and for the world in general what do you think of that. i think everybody has long been aware that signals intelligence is about surveillance of individuals and organizations is becoming a global phenomenon in the context of combating international terrorism and such

methods are generally practicable but the question is how well those security agencies are controlled by the public i can tell you that at least in russia you can't just go and tap into someone's phone conversation without a warrant issued by court that's more or less the way a civilized society should go about fighting terrorism with modern day technology. and demanded to know his deputy editor in chief with. some you have the mike is going to. look i mean to ask you about drones as you know american police drones to deliver airstrikes almost on a daily basis to this happens especially often in pakistan and if you other countries on one hand drones are efficient in combat but on the other hand will all aware of the collateral damage the public in many countries and i found this shocking and there has already been a motion for imposing an international ban on news and rumors about what i would like to ask you about russia's attitude on the issue of modern means of warfare keep evolving and they always will i doubt if it's possible to simply ban it all

but you certainly can and should introduce certain rules and exercise control i know that currently debating this issue in the united states and the notion is being advocated increasing the often within the u.n. framework that you need to put drones and to control you need to lay out certain rules of engagement in order to prevent or minimize collateral casualties it's extremely important i don't know whether a western counterparts will choose this option but i would suggest it would be in their best interest however there are other threats to for example they are presently debating the option of using non nuclear ballistic missiles in the united states can you imagine how potentially dangerous that is what if such a missile were to launch from somewhere. in the middle of an ocean and get spotted by nuclear powers early warning system how should that nuclear power react to a missile coming its way how are they supposed to know whether this missile comes with a nuclear warhead or not or if the missile impacts right next to its border or inside

its territory do you realize how perilous that can be. or take the notion of low yield nuclear weapons do you realize how badly that can blur the very barren trees of using nuclear bombs or how low the threshold might sink for authorizing such destroying can you imagine the possible implications of something like where are the limits for lowering that threshold and who setting them there are many threats in the world of today and there is only one way trip dress them efficiently that is working together within the boundaries of international law. and now would like to give the floor to peace in the valley what has been presented on one of our most popular shows cross talk it seems like we live in the age of opposition. and we have the arab spring and heard about europe and the crisis there. and the occupy movement united states which our team did an excellent job in covering but what

about the opposition in russia public opinion polls show it's very small not much support what kind of opposition would you like to challenge you at a certain point we saw the police cracking down on the occupy wall street activists i won't call the actions of police appropriate or inappropriate my point is that every opposition movement is good and useful if it acts within law if they don't like the law they should use democratic means to change those laws which they should persuade voters to join them and they should get elected into legislature is so that they can have a chance to change the law if there are people who act outside the law then the state must use legal means to impose law in the interests of the majority that's the way it's done in the us and that's the way it's done in russia truth be told we're criticised for that but when the same thing happens in the us it's considered to be normal never mind that it is double standards we have got accustomed to this and pay little attention to it.