turkish police and protesters from reaching tax in squared off to forcefully flushing out. the white house says it will put lethal weapons into the syrian rebels contemplates a no fly zone as he says the red line has been crossed a decision that could see dramatic twists and turns in the course of the two year old civil war. this week for washington as more details of its global surveillance were leaked to the public with america's closest allies and partners alike. plus we have from wiki leaks guru julian a song to tells us how the whistleblowing community has been affected by. the white

house. hopes for change among western countries as a moderate reformist. wins the presidential race in iran inheriting a legacy from his predecessor. you're watching bring you the day's breaking news on the week's headlines live from moscow it's two pm in the russian capital police in full have blocked off the central taxing square using tear gas and water cannons on protesters trying to reach it it follows a violent crackdown on the camp that had been there for more than two weeks. has more from istanbul. this point there are more of confrontations between the police and protesters taking place in other parts of istanbul they have been going on

really throughout the night and the entire morning they're lesser in numbers but it doesn't mean they're less intense than they were last night when clashes erupted after police decided started clearing out taksim square and gezi park an hour after running the studio on has made another announcement that his patience has run out and he said the protesters have until sunday to leave but like i said just an hour later the police began their operation with tear gas water cannons even rubber bullets all of this was used in taksim square and in gezi park literally bulldozers were brought in to get rid of the tents in the gezi park at this point it's completely clear as well as taksim square gezi park is not open to any public whatsoever no media no medical staff no no one is allowed there the protesters have congregated in the streets really close to talks and square last night adjacent to the square they were also dispersed by police pushed back into the city for the same time where the upon hearing about this thousands of people have marched on to

talk scenes from the asian side of this don bull but they were stopped by police on the bosphorus bridge again clashes erupted there again tear gas and water cannons the situation in turkey remains quite tense at the moment because a lot of people are saying that there is an increasing chazan between the protesters and those people who support the prime minister erdogan and a lot of people believe that he is a matter of fact is the one who is creating that chavez and as we show in our report. clashes turmoil blood to smoke and even death this has been to cause 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 gives you the demolition nor on the requests coming from taksim square she's made the issue between the two parties. more serious than he was before and. he provoked his supporters telling me spreading some of his own formation about

people drinking in mosques or people attacking her square for men and like the people or killing police men most of those formations 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 though some may believe him or others i mean critical of the prime minister. i'm against the protests but i think 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 because he does whatever he wants he doesn't hear what other people think. i'm against the protesters in gezi park because things are getting out of control also the foreign press show it like it was a big event and this made the protest even bigger but the government wants to make peace with me. 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 when and you can 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 orders 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 growing increasingly tired and desperate and the

government making no clear effort to ease the tensions some begin to wonder where prime minister who prides himself on the building boom in turkey has actually destroyed the very bridges within society in the country in istanbul that. well the choking fog of tear gas and golfing the protesters is unlikely to clear anytime soon that's because turkish riot police have plenty more of it supplied in part by the u.k. imports of the chemicals have increased fifty forward over the past decade. looks at the possible long term effects of the so-called normal gases. an all too familiar sight for many europeans and your stereotype protests in greece spain. and germany. gay marriage demonstrations in france and now antigovernment protests in turkey whatever the occasion for these european governments tear gas is the answer here gas was invented in part to shut people up

in thinking about you know this is where where communication meets politics we're talking about a technology a weapon that actually inhibits people from being able to speak that enters into the throat that enters into the lungs that forces people to kind of disperse so it is actually a technology that is the complete opposite of what freedom of assembly and freedom of speech look like vision iva convention perhaps it's the use of tear gas in international war and yet it's perfectly legal to use against civilian populations the problem with all of these agents is there talk system in the long term effects are worked out primarily on sort of if you like prime age i don't my horse and we know very well that the d.c.s. of those other gases affects differentially people or all people who are pregnant people who are sick and children the past eighty years have seen reports of lost

eyes cranial damage and even deaths as a result of tear gas canisters it's still somehow legal somehow ok for companies manufacturing tear gas to call themselves non-lethal meanwhile the canisters come with labels on them that say this is deadly this could be deadly and how is that even ok you see the tear gas being used increasingly being extensively particularly because of the intense civil unrest which is developing across europe as a result of the economic crises and you see it in greece you see it in spain italy . it's not just what's been happening in turkey and the. weapons which are inevitably the weapons of. a regime which is attempting to suppress the. protests of people behind these gates is where it all began at the porton down military research base in england's rural will show c.s.

gas was developed and tested is secretly in the one nine hundred fifty s. since then it's become a profitable industry sold to police forces the world over in the form of tear gas and pepper spray in the past four years britain has sold almost as much tear gas to europe as it has to the middle east so it's a weapon system is manufactured by the number of companies for those companies it's obviously extremely profitable to be to be selling more civil unrest more shoes the more they're selling and the more money they make what we would say is amnesty is that profit must never ever ever come before human rights and what we really need is government to ensure that when the last thing the stuff by all stopping all our senses of any tear gas supplies or any tickets where there is a clear risk as in the case currently in turkey that goes back to be used in the suppression of if human rights westminster is currently reviewing the export licenses to turkey in light of the istanbul disturbances but for those worried

about it seen creasing use c.s. gas is merely a symptom of more fundamental issues surrounding democracy and playboy r.t. london. hong kong's witnessing a marathon of the surveillance rallies in support of edward snowden is holed up there after exposing washington's on parallelled spy web the outrage over the mass new pings being mirrored across the planet on this artie's marina portnoy now reports surveillance is costing america its image as a big can 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

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 surveillance has been documented by the material the authentic material from the n.s.a. that were snowden has released revelations about prism has prompted the a mare. 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 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 port r.t. one of the people reportedly in touch with edward snowden is one of the founders of wiki leaks julian assad's speaking to r.t. he told us that america's witch hunt against whistleblowers has scared others away . many sources are quite scared i mean we've seen colleagues colleagues of mine

have even stated publicly that their sources are reluctant to talk because it's 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 it's a death penalty offense. an outrageous president to crack down on whistleblowers has been very public and i think that to scare people would be it 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. that where there were thousands and yet we only know. that if i had problems and it's alleged this is because they talked to informants well especially unnerved by these surveillance revelations as europe where privacy and data protection laws are taken very very seriously you are krauts are demanding answers

from the u.s. saying the scope of the spying operation goes beyond all boundaries particularly vocal was germany which its image was singled out for extra wiretapping and communication interception the country's economic success has led some to believe the spying goes beyond countering terror into the real realm of industrial espionage all the e.u. states also reacted with shock but not the u.k. i thought the british political activist jim killick says is very worrying i think what is a bit disturbing about the the attitude of our government to the moment is that they are. really there resting on the laurels of the americans i think well this is great we've got a close relationship with the americans who are benefiting from the intelligence we get from them so let's not rattle the cage too much i think that doesn't apply for instance of the german government in the same way or many of the european governments who have a more respectful relationship with their own laws and expect to respect the

privacy rights of their citizens and have been really quite shocked by what the americans are doing in germany in particular they've had such experience of what surveillance really means for them to society that they do their absolute best to stop it from happening within germany so when they find that the americans are spying on them pretty much more than any other european country then of course they're going to be very shocked and angry you're watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow there's more news coming up shortly.

speak your language. use programs and documentaries in spanish matters to you. a little turn to bangalore kid story. here. spanish find out more visit. you are watching take until ewing with the day's top stories they never ending civil confrontation in syria could be about to end a new phase as the u.s.

claims the red line it set for president bashar al assad has been crossed washington said this week it was now preparing to controversial rebel groups after finding evidence the syrian government resorted to using chemical weapons the claim however has been met with a wall of doubt my colleague much reza trying to find out why from. he's been following the story. 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 europe as well so we have russia being skeptical about it

are they the only voice or are there 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 used. 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 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 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 us 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 and has certainly a striking resemblance to the. this is an area 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 they have been seen that footage is 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

they're not saints here but these claims are not being investigated for some reason meanwhile efforts to push both sides to peace talks continue to stall amid the opposition's failure to join the upcoming geneva conference of former british intelligence officer frank leverage believes that ignoring the diplomatic push can lead to dreadful results both sides are insisting on preconditions particularly i think in this case the opposition they won't talk to to the syrian government unless assad agrees to go you can't show up at a negotiation of any kind with with the with preconditions like that simply it's a recipe for disaster and negotiations wouldn't go if they even if they take place at all they wouldn't go past the first the first half hour the way to conduct negotiations is to go without preconditions but understanding on all sides that there is pressure particularly from the big powers from the opposition's case from the u.s. particularly along with. fellow travelers the france and the u.k.

and the to a lesser extent e.u. pressure on both sides you know want you've got to negotiate this because this cannot go on. well there's more stories on our website including canadian scientists are counting against cancer literally they think sophisticated math models will help them battle the disease as they hope to create special soldier viruses. pilot error bad weather or even alcohol there have been many theories over the death of year regarding the first man in space but now the truth could finally be revealed find out online why the cosmonauts plane slipped into a fatal tailspin. in iran and pro-reform hassan rouhani has been officially named successor mahmoud ahmadinejad after winning the presidential election with more than fifty percent of the votes some western politicians have already expressed hope the country will become more

flexible under the new moderate leader maria phenomenal reports on what the world could expect. people have taken to the streets of tehran to celebrate the victory all of us on the money that is there right now. that's hot his victory has provoked mixed feelings that man iran's mistake until it is known as a reformist and carries the hope of many specially in terms of greater freedoms boy around and still runs diplomatic isolation the country has been on the top section spoke of years now over its controversial nuclear program during his campaign rouhani has promised to prepare the civil rights structure response the economy and the relations with the west his good side but it was many times making remarks that cost the country and credibility but at the same time. period there on realize that

the iranian system works with major power held by the i neglected supreme leader of the present can do little to change things dramatically the supreme leader has the final say on big issues like difference disputed nuclear problem oh syria for example set those safe bets that the next president can at least tracks this time overruns dealings with the outside world moment chief nuclear negotiator is never good for his consulting rate at brooch. more world news in brief now apparent coordinated blasts and shootings takes a rock on sunday killing at least thirty people and injuring many more most of the attacks took place in shia muslim areas one in the holy city of new jobs left eight people dead after a car laden with explosives detonated in a packed marketplace more than two thousand people have been killed in into religious violence since april. a huge blast

a shaken east manhattan in new york badly damaging a car although no one was injured as those a transformer fire caused an explosion underground blasting a manhole cover into the vehicle parked above it eyewitnesses reported buildings shaking from the explosion officials have been investigating the cause of the fire this week has also seen a string of industrial blasts in the u.s. as to chemical plants in louisiana were hit by deadly explosions forcing environmentalists to sound the alarm the latest occurred on friday evening and killed one person just a day before that another explosion had rocked a different facility killing two when injuring more than one hundred pain from the international action center says the practice of putting profits ahead of safety is regrettably the norm. 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 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 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 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 calculation the infrastructure of the united states is largely it's largely lacking and it's falling apart in many places. well there's up more news on r.t. in just about thirty minutes time a coming up it's the latest edition edition of our discussions i was a part. of

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right at my side of the car nine bullets were found under my seat valentino to discover seagull in space policy. hello and welcome to all the protests in turkey have. we can show no sign of abating turning a country from a moral muslim democracy just a month ago it's a case study of growing up there is tearing the top there both of these

descriptions while to stop that i'm now joined by your like and columnist for the mana one of turkey's leading newspapers thank you very much for your time sir. we've seen a lot of protests in recent years both in the region and beyond and i think it's fairly easy to cost turkey as just another country sort of getting into the rally mood but i would argue that what we're seeing in turkey of these days is very different fundamentally different from what we saw in the arab spring countries and in the west of it they occupy movement would you agree with that yes i would. agree with not making a comparison with the arab spring. has been made at the start of what you're into now i think turkey of today is in the totally different position egypt or tunisia or libya in two thousand and eleven. the prime minister with all the criticism that i think he deserves.