smoke with tear gas and flushed away by water cannons turkish police resort to harsh methods to keep defiant antigovernment protesters out of taksim square. and other news that shaped this week after exposing america's secret surveillance program cia whistleblower edward snowden remains holed up in hong kong awaiting washington's retaliation. to rebels and a possible no fly zone washington's response to syria's apparent use of chemical weapons but damascus calls the evidence lies and russia says its unconvinced. president hassan rouhani promises a new moderate course as the west hopes for a major shift in the country's nuclear ambitions and stance on the syrian conflict

. you're watching the day's top stories on the week's headlines it is six pm here in moscow. police in istanbul have resorted to their tried and tested methods to prevent protesters restarting using tear gas and water cannons to prevent crowds gathering in the center taksim square the symbol of anti-government on rest is sealed off to special forces drove demonstrators out and destroy the temporary camps but the crackdown is having the opposite effect with angry protests flaring up across the country in response. reports. there are more of confrontations with police and protesters taking place in other parts of they have been going on really throughout the night and the entire morning there lesser numbers but it doesn't

mean they're less intense than the were last night when clashes erupted after police decided started clearing out. the park an hour after prime minister 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 using taxpayer funded literally bulldozers were brought in to get rid of the tents in the gezi park at this point it's completely clear. 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 to the square they were also dispersed by police pushed back into this. the same time we're hearing about this thousands of people have marched.

by police on the bridge clashes erupted there again tear gas and water cannons this is. quite tense at the moment because a lot of people are saying that there is an increasing 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. well you can see live pictures from istanbul where the prime minister is a jew to address the crowd later on this evening. yesterday he was in the capital ankara where he also addressed a crowd that had come to support him pro-government rallies taking place in opposition to the government demonstrations that we're seeing so we'll be jus on stage to address the crowds very very shortly here and we will of course bring you what he has to say. well the lavish use of tear gas has led to criticism not only towards turkish police but towards the country selling it imports of the

chemicals have increased fifty four world over the past decade with the u.k. one of the main suppliers ati's probably boyko looks at the dangers of using these so-called normal lethal gases. and all sites are many europeans and here stereotype protests in greece spain. and germany. gay marriage demonstrations in france and now antigovernment protests in turkey whatever the occasion these european governments tear gas is the answer tear gas was invented in part to shut people up we're talking about a technology a weapon but actually inhibits people from being able to speak that enters into the throat that enters into the lungs so it is actually a technology that is the complete opposite of what freedom of assembly and freedom of speech look like vision of a 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. and we know very well that the p.c.'s and those other gases affects differentially people 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 the how is that even ok behind these gates is where it all began at the porton down military research base in england's rural wilts. 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 what we would say is arms these that profit must never ever ever come before human rights and what we really need is governments to ensure that when they last seen this stuff by all stalking horse and suzi any takers because of any two camps 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. london . while prime minister erdogan has taken a combative stance against the protesters as he feels he'll get away with

a crackdown function strong western support is the view of world affairs journalist neil clock. one hundred feels emboldened really trapped in a very harsh way gets protesters uneasy in bolton because he did member of nato and u.s. ally and i think he was very interesting to see just how muted the criticism of murder has been over the last week in the west john kerry bates mutterings about not using too much force but william hague for example has been silent the french have been silent and i think mission bolen's to come down hard on protesters put in the police put in the water cannons that plastic bullets etc i think go home field really divisional room pressure on him to actually negotiate to meet with the protesters why should he is thinking because he's got the backing of nato and the u.s. the u.s. will do everything to stop him from falling from power the other thing is of course elections are here in turkey for two more years the opposition is divided so he thinks he's in a very strong position. edward

snowden the man who exposed the extent to america's secret global surveillance program remains at an unknown location in hong kong awaiting washington's next move against him he willingly revealed his identity after leaking documents showing the u.s. national security agency has been keeping tabs on both americans and foreign as hundreds of people marched outside the u.s. consulate to show their support for the whistleblower activists said they were outraged by the level of spying obama's administration is conducting amounting to tens of thousands of hacking operations worldwide ati's marina portnoy examines how the revelations of its spying machine have left cracks in washington's democratic facade. 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. 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 of congress the reality of that astley 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 us goal 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. or washington is putting together a list of charges against the twenty nine year old with some senators insisting snowden has committed treason intelligence analyst glenmore traina javi believes

the u.s. will stop at nothing until they get their hands on the whistleblower 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 it 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. but we're closely watching the developments on this story log on to our website. for the full timeline of events

expert analysis on the latest updates meanwhile stay put for more news here on our say because after this short break we've got stories coming up including details of a machete attack at a mosque in the u.k. city of bombing at.

least be cool language. programs in documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the world talks about six of his v.o.i.p. interviews intriguing stories for you. in trying. to find out more visit arabic t.v. . you're watching live from moscow it's good to have your company. syria's civil conflict could soon enter a new face with washington deciding to arm rebels this week and possibly put a no fly zone in place the white house said the asaad regime had crossed a red line by allegedly using chemical weapons but damascus called the evidence fabricated and moscow expressed skepticism auntie's alexei you have

a chef ski discuss the developments with my colleague mattresses 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 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 truth gathering process itself was done with

violations of international regulations. 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 who are used to us colleagues will do 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 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 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 syria other 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. well there are also concerns that washington's decision to send lethal arms to rebels might scupper the idea of peace talks in geneva the syrian opposition has already failed

to commit to turning up political analyst imo walk off explains why the rebels are refusing to negotiate weakening the rebels on the ground may actually be a positive thing in any political dialogue or a new political negotiations because those people have the power to stifle or kill any political process to their aura of invisibility should be reduced it could be for the political representatives of the opposition to have any meaningful say in a negotiation table and actually being able to keep their words afterwards but as long as there are promises of weaponry and support towards those rebels on the ground without that they won't go to the table or the more told in fact with the ideology behind what they're been doing since the very beginning especially. affiliated groups they are not interested in negotiating with the regime anymore or

the syrian government at all they see it as an infidel regime that must be toppled no matter what or the syrian issue was also addressed by the russian president during his q. and a session with our teams own journalists here at our moscow studio write him a putin said the lack of a united stance among foreign players is causing the fighting to escalate. not if significant your 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 their reach should return to more systemic transition not. just throw everyone out and then will plunge the entire country into chaos but 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 i asked them so we 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 in this is going to it and you could hear more of what the president had to say to our teens journalist in a longer version of the interview that's coming up at four pm g.m.t. . iranians have voted to replace the outgoing hardline president mahmoud ahmadinejad with a pro reformist moderate hassan rouhani took more than fifty percent of the vote after promising among other things to open dialogue with the west but artie's maria phenomena explains some of the most sensitive issues will be out of his reach. people have taken to the streets all the tamron to celebrate the victory all.

mixed feelings it. is known as a reformist so carries many specially in terms of greater freedoms. still runs diplomatic isolation the country has been on the job sanctions for years now over its controversial nuclear program during his campaign rouhani has promised to prepare the civil rights to free strong economy and relations with his side many times making remarks that cost the country predictability but at the same time. they're 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 differences. syria for

example. the president can. dealings with the outside world com a chief nuclear negotiator rouhani. has been something approach a man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder in the u.k. city of bombing them off to four people was stopped at a local mosque the thirty two year old reportedly attacked to worship with a machete one policeman was also injured trying to arrest them on all the victims are said to be in a stable condition in hospital janice i said but he told us the roots of attacks like this lie within persons policies. and we can in the people that carry out the attacks but also there's a climate of hatred that's been created over years by politicians in this country and on even the media allow for islamophobia to take root in 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 and people i think that's the first issue that they have to accept that foreign policy right it closes i think the other issues about equal opportunities exceptions 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 accept that they won't be any change or there's plenty more new stories online for you including gold far to the award for best twenty four hour news program at the monte carlo television festival online we show you what coverage attracted the attention of the jury. and the harsh reality for some young israelis trying to avoid serving in the army

is that prison is a better option than picking up a gun. it's been exactly fifty years since valentino tanishq over became the first woman in space a groundbreaking flight lasting almost three days as inspiration for women ever since ati's tom barton has the story one small step for a woman. two years after yuri gagarin valentino turner schoolwork chased 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 gaar in russia and in space valentino ten saying q thank you so much for being an impulse inspiration 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 garren 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 and she didn't believe them either saying she's not me in the 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 and there are lots of women astronauts and other 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 for have they don't trust women enough valentino became a perfect publicist for the soviet union she was banned from flying ever again after good governance 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 single 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 top bottom moscow. you're watching are taken coming up it's the latest edition of our discussion show while the part.

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question more. hello and welcome to all the part of the protest in turkey have and to is that we can show no sign of abating turning a country from a mortal 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 to getting into to 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 have to be greedy we're not making a comparison with the arab spring. comparison that has been made at the start of what you're into now i think turkey of today is in a totally different position than egypt or tunisia.