smoked out with tear gas and flushed away by water cannons turkish police resort to harsh methods to keep defiant protesters. taksim square. in other news that 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 fly zone in washington's response to syria's apparent use of chemical weapons but damascus calls the evidence lies and russia says it's unconvinced. and iran's new president hassan rouhani promises a new moderate course as the west a major shift in the country's nuclear ambitions. on the syrian conflict.

you're watching bringing you the day's top stories on the week's headlines it is seven pm here in moscow turkish police in istanbul have resorted to that tried and tested methods to prevent protests restarting that's using tear gas and water cannons to prevent crowds gathering in the center taksim square the symbol of anti-government unrest is sealed off after special forces drove demonstrators out and destroyed temporary camps but the crackdown is having the opposite effect with angry protests flaring up across the country in response. to reports. below this point there are more of confrontations between the police and protesters taking place in other parts of this song bowl 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 taksim square and gezi park an hour after prime minister erdogan 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 it gets a park literally bulldozers 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 one is allowed there the protesters have come to gated 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 with up on hearing about this thousands of people marched on to talk to this side obviously but they were stopped by police on the

bosphorus bridge again russians are up to there again tear gas and water cannons this is written in turkey remains quite tense at the moment because a lot of people are saying that there is an increasing chozen 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 the lavish use of tear gas has led to criticism not only towards turkish police but towards the countries selling it imports of the chemicals have increased fifty four world over the past decade with the u.k. one of the main suppliers polly boyko looks at the dangers of using the so-called non lethal gases. an all too familiar sight to 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 that 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 effect so i worked primarily on sort of if you like prime age i don't matter and we know very well that the p.c.'s and those other gases affects differentially people who are old 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 behind these gates is where it all began at the porton down military research base in. englands were a will so c.s. gas was developed and tested here 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 amnesty is that profit must never ever ever come before human rights and what we really need is governments to ensure that when the last thing this stuff they all stopped paying all our senses it only took us supplies of money to where there is a clear risk as in the case currently in turkey that goes back to be used in the

suppression of a few minutes 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. r.t. london prime minister has taken a combative stance against the protesters as he feels he will get away with a crackdown thanks to strong western support while that's the view of world affairs journalist neil clark one hundred feels emboldened really to act in a very harsh where gets protesters uneasy in poland because he's a member of nato and the us ally and i think he you know it's very interesting to see just how limited the criticism of her down has been over the last week in the west john kerry breaks mutterings about not using too much force but william hague for example has been silent the french have been silent and i think we should

bowlers have to come down hard on protesters put in the police but in the water cannons that plastic bullets etc i think go home field really good visionary pressure on him to actually negotiate to meet with the protesters why should he think 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 did a very strong position. edward snowden the man who exposed the extent of 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 now after leaking documents showing the u.s. national security agency has been keeping tabs on both americans on foreigners hundreds of people marched outside the u.s. consulate to show their support for the whistleblower activists they were outraged

by the level of spying obama's administration is conducting amounting to tens of thousands of hacking operations worldwide autumn's more important examines how the revelations of its spying machine have left crux and washington's democratic facade . 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 the n.s.a. leaker told the south china morning post if 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 erika's best kept secrets known as prism was revealed the n.s.a.'s clandestine electronic surveil. 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 the congress the reality of that astley excessive surveillance 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 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. you know 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. . snowden's a fellow whistleblower wiki leaks editor julia songes told me which is revealing government wrongdoings scares many into silence maybe sources are quite scared i mean we've seen. colleagues of mine have even stated publicly. 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 that's a death penalty offense. an outrageous president to crack down on whistleblowers

has been very public and i think that has scared people bit 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 here reveal information perfectly fine. where closely watching the developments on this story log on to our website dot com for the full timeline of events expert analysis on the latest updates meanwhile stay put for more news here after this short break.

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welcome back to our take coming to you live from moscow syria's civil conflict could soon enter a new phase with washington deciding to arm rebels this way can possibly put a no fly zone in place the white house said the assad regime has crossed a red line by allegedly using chemical weapons but damascus called the ads fabricated a moscow xpress to skepticism alexei got a chef discuss the developments with my colleague much reza. 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 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 or 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 turris our u.s. colleagues will do surance that these procedures were here to do you think there's been a lot of resistance to accepting this evidence that the u.s. says it has well just let's look at the history let's go back ten years ago to two thousand and three when the u.s. state secretary colin powell was shaking

a vial with allegedly anthrax in it suggesting that iraq has weapons of mass destruction chemical weapons we all know where this 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. 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 there are no saints here but these claims are not being investigated for some reason. there are also concerns that washington's decision to send relief to rebels might scupper the idea of peace talks in geneva the syrian opposition has already failed to commit to turning up political analyst on a walk off explains why the rebels are refusing to negotiate. we can get 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 would be good 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 anymore at all 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 still to come for you here on our table in the house of worship in the couple of minute details of how one man launched a crazed machete attack at a british mosque injuring four people. also this hour we take a look at how recent spike in sectarian violence is undermining hopes for peace in a region at war with itself. iranians have voted to replace the outgoing hardline president mahmoud ahmadinejad with

a pro reformist moderate son rouhani took more than fifty percent of the vote after promising among other things to open dialogue with the west result is maria for national explains some of the most sensitive issues will be out of his reach. people have taken to the streets of tehran to celebrate the victory all. mixed feelings that. he is known as a reformist carries. 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 civil rights. his.

many times. the country. at the same time. he ran his 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. talk. dealings with the outside world all the chief nuclear negotiator rouhani. concealed carry approach a man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder in the u.k. city of birmingham after four people were stopped at a local mosque the thirty two year old reportedly it's hard to worship with a machete one policeman was also injured trying to arrest the man who the victims are said to be in a stable condition in hospital janice i said begged told us the roots of

a tux like this lie within britain's policies. 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 even the media allow for islamophobia to take root in the 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 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 up 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 close in for many young people and until they accept that there won't be

any change and there's plenty more news stories online for you including gold for our we snatch the 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 the prison is a better option than picking up a gun. at least thirty people have been killed in a spate of bombings and gun assaults targeting see a muslim neighborhoods across iraq it follows a week of sectarian violence between sunnis and shias artie's lucy catherine of takes an in-depth look at what's behind a conflict which is left more than two thousand dead 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 the ocean was the government systematically driving sunnis from baghdad this is missing. 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 a 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 or of the sectarian basis like they made the proportions for the sudanese for this. and for the dish and this is very little. those divisions have taken a toll on a rocky youth a generation separated by the threat of violence. that really affects causes a lot of problems between me and my friends especially if they form 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. well coming up after the break he travels to a remote village in the south of russia for a closer look into a very unique religious sex stay with us. six san diego residents were thrown off of an airplane not for what they said but how they said it because they said it in another language russian in fact a paranoid and cowardly steward on the plane told them that they had to clear out just for speaking another language to be here yes of some group of people were to

commit a terrorist act then speaking in a foreign language would be a good tactic i can't deny that and for the code to america better get on the ball and learn to speak english adequately but there is a problem about fifty million tourists visit america every year according to the u.s. department of commerce and trust me not all of the marquis and if the usa is going to have millions of tourists arriving in traveling by air then don't be surprised when they speak their own languages if you're going to throw foreigners off of airplanes just for speaking their native languages then you're going to have to basically throw people off of half of the planes flying over the united states but that's just my opinion.

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