tear gas billows over turkish police blocking protesters from reaching tacks in a square after forcefully flushing out the activists there. the white house says it will put lethal weapons into the hands of syrian rebels and 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. from bad to worse this week for washington as more details of its global surveillance web were leaked to the public with america's closest allies and partners alike expressing shock. and hope for change among western countries is moderate reformist. wins the presidential

race in iran inheriting a tough legacy from his predecessor. you're watching our team bringing you the days of breaking news on the week's headlines live from moscow it is three pm in the russian capital good to have you company. police have blocked off the central tax him square in turkey use in istanbul using tear gas and water cannons on protesters trying to reach it it follows a violent crackdown on the activists that had been there for more than two weeks artie's arena has more from istanbul. this point there are more of confrontations between the police and protesters taking place in other parts of this goal 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. the same time where the upon hearing this thousands of people have marched on to talk scenes from the asian side of a stumble 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 prime minister erdogan and a lot of people believe that he is a matter of fact is the one who is creating that challenge 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 in the prospects of gives you the demolition nor on the requests coming from taksim square she's made the. more serious than he was before and. he provoked his supporters telling you spreading some of his own formation about people drinking in mosques or people attacking her square for men and the like the people or killing policemen 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 the han and those some may believe him or others i mean 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 . the don't really angry with the government i think the one acts like because he does have a he won't he doesn't hear of the people think. i'm against the protests or seen gezi 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 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 so. 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 protest. tina with all participants of the conflicts going increasingly tired and desperate and the government making no clear effort to ease the tensions some begin to wonder where prime minister dongle prides himself on that building boom in turkey has actually

destroyed the very bridges within society and the country in istanbul that. well dr hussein baxi from the middle east technical university in ankara believes the current protests are an outcry against the increasing islamisation of turkish society it is like in your eruption of of all can or concerning the policies for prime minister erdogan in the recent years and in the recent months he has been mostly involving in the private affairs of the citizens and his way of speaking he's very old doing things. also consider to leave the democratic values to leave the republican values of the country. trying to get turkey into much more islamist . state. experiencing the strong reaction i think the values of democracy and. understanding pleasure now it will be not civil war but it

will make their lives to prime minister very difficult in coming weeks and days. hong kong's witnessing a marathon of surveillance rallies in support of edward snowden who was holed up there after exposing washington's parallelled spy web the outrage over the mass new pings being mirrored across the planet and is artie's marina portnoy in our 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 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 that astley excessive valence 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. consider 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 and 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.

of yoga we're 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. well fury in washington has not has not subsided over the past week with senators saying they hope the administration will i quote go to the end of the to catch snowden and intelligence on its glenmore trying to harvey told us the white house may well do 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 horse has bolted. well the thing is that the way 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 or germany has been under heightened surveillance which has come as a surprise to many artie's peter all of a reports. 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. well coming up by domestic incident which may send reverberations through british society muslim community facing the rising sentiment to one of its members for. the first female in space. celebrates fifty flights which plays women's way to the plenty more coming up shortly.

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dot com. welcome back to our take coming to you live from moscow they never ending civil confrontation in syria could be about and a new phase as the u.s. claims the red line 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 try to find out why from artie's alexei out a chef ski who'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 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 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. there are certain rules of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons which suggest that samples of blood urine and clothes and soon the evidence only if these samples were collected by the organizations experts and these experts controlled the samples and route to the border tories are u.s.

colleagues failed to surance 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 the same time and other 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. 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 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 are not saints here but these claims are not being investigated for some reason deepak three party honoree research fellow at the university of rhode hand believes the u.s. leadership's only using the war in syria to divert people's attention from its painful problems at home. it helps obama and it helps residents. in france. prime minister cameron here in britain all three of us have very serious domestic problems economic problems social unrest etc etc when

he is facing serious domestic problems then you do all the moves through is this. all threats to national security and. to be brought on and tried to do unite the population or at least. domestic opposition. well the russian president vladimir putin addressed the issue during a q. and a session with artie's own journalists here at our moscow headquarters he believes there's a lack of coherence in the stance of some foreign players he may be unwillingly encouraging the opposition to fight on. not significant your opposition has always been to allow people to make a decision about the structure of power in syria our rights interests in safety will be ensured only after these agreements their reach should return to more systemic transition and not vice versa to 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 they say no i asked them so we you just swap them away like flies i know they say so what will happen they say but if we don't know where is the logic. is going to it and you can hear more on what the president had to say in a long interview in the next hour here on r.t. . in iran pro-reform hassan rouhani has been officially named successor to mahmoud ahmadinejad's 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 artie's marie ivanovna reports on what the world could expect. people have

taken to the streets of tehran to celebrate the victory all of us on the hot. air right now. that's a hot victory has provoked mixed feelings a man iran's misspoken says 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 funded top sanctions for years now over it spins are virtually liquid broader during his campaign rouhani has promised to prepare the civil rights structure response the economy and improve the relations with the west his good sides have let him use as many times 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 i neglected supreme leader be the president can do little to change things dramatically the supreme leader has the final say on big issues like terence disputed nuclear problem oh syria for example certain of those say that the next president can at least takes the time overruns dealings with the outside world moment chief nuclear negotiator is not for his consulting approach. four men including a police officer have been stabbed at a mosque in the u.k. city of birmingham the victims were taken to hospital and their conditions are described as stable a thirty two year old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder although it's thought to be a domestic incident between members of the muslim community there are fears right wing activists may try to take advantage of the incident we can in the people that carry out the attacks but also there's

a climate of hatred that's been created over the years by politicians in this country and on even the media allow for islamophobia to take root the physical act the violent act is only the last step before that is the kind of ideological attacks that take place there's a new language of hatred that's become mainstream and i think that the first the government has to acknowledge is that there was in iraq and afghanistan have radicalized people i think that's the first issue that they have to accept that foreign policy right to close is i think the other issue is about equal opportunities acceptance as to the question of identity so there's so many things that the government can do but unfortunately politicians are unwilling to accept even the first thing which is that foreign policy is a right to closing for many young people and until they except that there won't be any change now she's been inspiring women all over the world to follow their dreams for half a century now the first woman in space valentino telescope of

a house celebrated fifty years since her groundbreaking flight artie's tom barton tells her story. one small step for a woman two years after yuri gagarin valentino tarrasque over changed his rocket very present to orbit in one 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 guardian in russia and in space valentino ten saying q thank you so much for being an interest in 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 her place. of course i wanted to go into

space all of us did now we're celebrating to score as an adverse 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 just space race as such the project was kept top secret valentino didn't even tell her own mother what she was doing a 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 mean 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 i'm ok 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 publicist for the soviet union she was banned from flying ever again after guards 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. coming up we continue an investigation into the horrific human impact of the financial crisis in america where half a million californians have been made homeless stay with us on r.t. .

six san diego residents. were thrown off of an airplane not for what they said but how they said it because they sent 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 speak another language to be here yes of some group of people were to commit a terrorist act then speaking in a foreign language would be a good tactic i can't deny that and foreigners who come to america better get on the ball and learn to speak english adequately but there is a problem about fifty million tourists visit america every year according to the us 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 and 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 half of the planes flying over the united states but that's just my opinion.

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