do you. smoked out with tear gas flushed away by water cannons turkish police resorted to harsh methods to keep defiant anti-government protesters out of the stand bill's taksim square. lethal arms to rebels in a possible no fly zone washington's response to syria's apparent use of chemical weapons damascus though calls the evidence lies and russia says it's not convinced . news that shaped the week after exposing the u.s. secret surveillance program cia whistleblower edward snowden remains holed up in hong kong awaiting washington's expected retaliation. arounds new president hassan rouhani promising a new moderate course as the west hopes for a major shift in the country's nuclear plans and stance on the syrian conflict.

ten pm in moscow i met trezeguet good to have you with us here on r t our top story turkish police in istanbul resorting to tried and tested methods to prevent protests restarting using tear gas and water cannons to prevent crowds from gathering in the city center taksim square the symbol of anti-government unrest sealed off after special forces drove out demonstrators and destroyed temporary camps but the crackdown is having the opposite effect with angry protests now flaring up across the country in response or need to read reports. there are more confrontations in the police and protesters taking place in other parts of the bold 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 last night when clashes erupted after police decided started going 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 of the people he's began their relation with tear gas water cannons even rubber bullets all of this was using taxes and that's why literally bulldozers they brought in to get rid off the tents in the gezi park at this point it's completely clear. the park is not open to any public whatsoever no media no medical staff no one is allowed there the protesters have congregate in the streets really close to. the square they were also dispersed by police pushed back into the city. the same time with this thousands of people have marched on to talk to the. police on the bosphorus bridge again clashes erupted there again tear gas and water cannons this is remains quite tense at the moment

because a lot of people are saying that there's 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 creating that. for a second day in a row turkey's prime minister has gathered an army of supporters for a counter rally this one held in istanbul where overnight anti-government demonstrators were forcefully dispersed. again labeled protesters traitors and accuse the foreign media creating an incorrect picture of what's going on world affairs journalist neil clark thinks there to one is taking a combative stance against protesters feeling who would get away with a crackdown thanks to a strong western support. and really trapped in a very harsh way against the protesters at least in boulder because he did member of nato and the u.s. ally and i think it's very interesting to see just how muted the criticism of murder has been over the last week in the west john kerry made some mutterings about not using too much force but william hague for example has been silent the

french have been silent and i think the shin bone to come down hard on protesters putting the police putting the water cannons that the plastic bullets etc i think one field really that there's no room pressure on him to actually negotiate to meet with the protesters why should he's 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 did a very strong position. syria's civil conflict and soon enter a new phase with washington deciding to arm rebels this week and possibly put in a no fly zone the white house saying the assad regime has crossed a red line by allegedly using chemical weapons damascus calls the evidence fabricated and moscow expressed skepticism earlier i discussed the matter with our

kids like sarah have seen. 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 to me it's 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 truth gathering process itself was done with violations of international regulations used. but there are certain rules of the

organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons which suggest that samples of blood urine clothes and soon can be classed as evidence only if these samples were collected by the organizations experts and if these experts controlled the samples and rude to the board tories are u.s. colleagues failed to assure us that these procedures were here to why do you think there's been a lot of resistance to accepting this evidence that the u.s. says it has well just let's look at the history let's go back ten years ago to two thousand and three when the u.s. state secretary colin powell was shaking a vial with allegedly anthrax in it suggesting that iraq has weapons of mass destruction chemical weapons we all know where this when so the u.s. clearly don't want to step on the same break again at the same time another rather concerning statements coming from the u.s. that they are considering implementing a no fly zone over syria which in many cases is the first step for a military and and has certainly a striking resemblance to the iraq

a scenario almost a decade ago and so as we've seen the rebels themselves are kind of a very diverse group a lot of interest and a lot of different groups as part of the so-called opposition that they have in the syria are there allegations against them as well i've heard words of regret coming from the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov that all claims and allegations coming from the syrian government that the opposition used chemical weapons against them have never been investigated there have been scenes and footage of the opposition testing chemical weapons on rabbits more recently twelve people from al nusra front the syrian militarized opposition brigade were detained in turkey by the turkish police allegedly carrying vials of zareen gas on them so definitely there are no saints here but these claims are not being investigated for some reason. syria also dominated talks between russia's president and the british prime minister in london where they met ahead of the g eight summit both leaders saying they shared common ground on the need for diplomatic solutions to the crisis but as artie's polly boyko reports from london differences still remain. well the leaders

very said that they are committed to having a diplomatic resolution to the syrian crisis they are committed to organizing the so-called geneva two conference which will see both sides come to the negotiating table in order to discuss a peaceful way out of the quite says but at the same time they both admitted that they have very different approaches and analyses of the situation in syria at the moment while david cameron says that bash our last sad is to blame for everything that's taking place and that he must go suddenly putin says it's less clear and he thinks that both sides are to blame now you know that david cameron has supported the idea of the lifting that you arms involved of sending military aid to the syrian rebels the birth person hasn't committed itself to that yet however they have definitely been discussing it with a big u.s.

taking that step now jim a person isn't sure about what will happen if on this are sent to syria and if they fall into the wrong hands. but. when it comes to selling weapons to ourselves government and he's responsible for the blood including of children i don't think you'll deny that both sides are responsible there's always the question of who's to blame i don't think you deny that we shouldn't support people opening up other people's bodies and eating the entrails on camera do you want to support these people you would then like me putin in response to a journalist question about why russia provides arms to syria he was quite frank he said russia provides defensive weapons to the syrian the legitimate syrian government it's not breaking any laws while it does so and he calls on every other government to act within the framework of international law so what we've got both

leaders talking about. seeking out a diplomatic solution on the face of it on the other side we've got some very different actions from the british government so at the moment it's unclear how successful even planning this peace conference is going to be at the g eight summit over the next two days. let's discuss the exchange on syria between russian and british leaders with professor mark all men at present international ations joining us live from oxford so it does london's persistence that the assad regime must step down and that support for syrian rebels does that square with the organization of this proposed peace conference. well this is a big problem isn't it if you want to have preconditions which essentially say that one party to the conference is going to leave early and is basically going to be excluded and you've decided who the legitimate government of syria is going to be in its place then it makes it very difficult to hold a conference however david cameron and the americans face a great problem that they're not to talk clear who from the opposition side is

going to come and so those are. serious doubt that in a sense the west is trying to stage a conference on its own terms but without really being in control or the rebels who it wishes to see come out from that conference as effectively be approved. do you think came a follow washington's lead here and also supply direct arms to the rebels or do you think it may take a different tact well of course as david cameron knitted in an earlier interview today britain is supplying various forms of assistance to the rebels and some of these so called non lethal forms of aid of course help people to have actually set off roadside bombs and to talk up their weapons so we're moving step by step to that what he faces is a problem in his own party across parliament and his allies are never going to cross i think in public opinion which says that the real and the new president has to have the real people who are fighting not the some one general sitting in expensive hotels mr ambuhl making televised appeals for aid they're all much more

seriously islamic from the interest groups some of them drawing people from britain and other european countries including sweden and belgium and people are rather worried are we going to be supporting the kind of people who turn their weapons back on and some of the people who try to reassure us like one of the british government sponsored libyan rebels who helped fight colonel gadhafi but fought the soviet union in afghanistan then for the americans recently told german television oh don't worry after it is going to syria are not going to come and fight you in europe they're going to go into russia and china afterwards well that may be reassuring to some people in europe. but hardly to the russian or chinese government or peoples now cameron cameron though it does seem confident that their arms that they may send or in the assistance that's going to rebels are going to the right rebels so to speak what do you think makes them so sure that it will get into the right hands i find it almost impossible to believe that he's really thought through what he's saying. precisely because even the most optimistic

analysis of the rebels would have to admit there are a variety of people not only fighting a sad fight each other the whole idea that we can be confident that with weapons we supply even if we give them to people we train will stay in those hands and those hands when turned against us it seems to me to be extremely naive in practice i'm afraid the risk that the sort of people who actually break use of these weapons may initially be primally against assad but we've seen from afghanistan over the last thirty years to the present day we can see from the chaos in libya were american diplomats them being killed british attack it's a very young what is to think that we really do control these people on the ground and finally briefly if you can the u.s. is considering a no fly zone over syria do you think that the e.u. and britain would back them up on that well they might back them up whether they would agree to take part in a no fly zone not approved by the u.n. . even the french government has said it would have to have u.n. approval and it is difficult to see russia and china agreeing without some very

very clear concessions about what it is all about not so it would not have to be another libyan open in did no fly zone which in fact was a regime change bombing raid right story a visiting professor at university an arguer a turkey thanks for your time thank you. well before getting down to talks in one environment putin david cameron held a ceremony with veterans from the second world war where they awarded medals to u.k. sailors who braced the icy waters of the arctic to maintain vital supply lines to the soviet union three thousand british men died during that campaign russia's attempts to recognise the heroism last year were blocked by the u.k. which said it was against the rules the foreign office said the awards could only be given to services to one specific country which happened within the previous five years john the sears one of the remaining veterans of the arctic convoy says the award was long overdue. colm will contest the as an australian

new zealand canada now men served alongside may and every save that meadow a novice did know it it all of the foreign office for what reason oh well they said that because you haven't done nothing when the last five years has very very upset not just for me for all the posts and present chit bytes we have main and those have their families. lots more news coming up after a short break stay with us here on r.t. .

do we speak your language or not a day in. the news programs documentaries and spanish what matters to you. is a little turned into bangles stories. here. the spanish. visit. sixteen minutes past the hour now edward snowden the man who exposed the extent of the u.s. secret global surveillance program remains at an unknown location in hong kong

awaiting washington's next expected move against him he willingly revealed his identity after leaking documents showing the u.s. national security agency be keeping tabs on both americans and foreigners hundreds marched outside the u.s. consulate in hong kong to show their support for the whistleblower activists said they were outraged by the level of spying the the obama administration is conducting amounting to tens of thousands of hacking operations worldwide our teams are very important as well. last weekend the u.s. president and his chinese counterpart met for a price. 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 way to claims by officials in beijing that the country has been the victim of u.s. hacking efforts america has turned into the world cup they think that they can basically set the standards for everybody else to follow their own paranoia global paranoia and outrage has been rising ever since one of america's best kept secrets known as prism was revealed the n.s.a.'s clandestine electronic surveillance program records digital communications and allows for real time online surveillance of citizens both foreign and domestic prism gives u.s. intelligence agencies direct access to files stored on the servers of nine major internet companies including google and facebook to identify and target potential terrorist suspects officials in italy britain and germany the most spied upon country said the program was both alarming and encroached on privacy politically to

some extent i think it's the united states government but rather because despite all the claims from the white house from a congress the reality of vastly excessive valence has been documented by the material of the authentic material from the n.s.a. that were snowden has released revelations about prism has prompted the american civil liberties union to file for lawsuits against the obama administration more than one. hundred and fifty thousand american citizens have signed an online petition calling for an end to washington's massive spying apparatus a clandestine program which the president who promised an unprecedented amount of transparency ironically defends you can't have one hundred percent security. and also then have one hundred percent privacy and zero inconvenience.

you know that we're going to have to make some choices as a society the obama administration finds itself losing not only the war on leaks but enormous credibility at home and abroad with the oversell a school of watching everyone in the name of national security one may wonder if the u.s. government has become its own worst enemy reporting from new york marina portnoy r.t. students fellow whistleblower wiki leaks editor julian a son tells r.t. the witch hunt against those revealing government wrongdoings scares many into silence many sources are quite scared i mean we've seen callie colleagues of mine have even stated publicly that their sources are reluctant to talk because it's a crackdown against bradley manning and that's what that whole trial is trying to achieve it's trying to set the precedent the communicating with the media is the

same as communicating with your enemy and that's a death penalty offense. an outrageous president the crackdown 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 perhaps the way bradley manning is going to go or snowden i mean most sources reveal i mation up a perfectly fine. we're closely watching developments in the story a lot on the r.t. dot com for the full timeline of events expert analysis and the latest updates. the iranians have voted to replace the outgoing hardline president ahmadinejad with a program for moderate assad rouhani took more than fifty percent of the vote after pledging among other things to reopen dialogue with the west or he's murray if an ocean explains though some of the most sensitive issues could be out of his reach people have taken to the streets of tehran to celebrate their victory all of us on their honeymoon and that is.

that's a hot victory has provoked mixed feelings among iranians. he is known as a reformist and carries the problem many specially in terms of greater freedoms. and still runs diplomatic isolation the country has been on the job sanctions book of years now very expensive versions of nuclear program during his campaign rouhani has promised to prepare the civil rights trial to restart the economy and improve your relations with the west is a good sign that he's as many times for making remarks that cost the country a privilege but at the same time they're gonna realize that when 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

the difference disputed from her syria for example send them say that the next president can at least take the time out of the runs the links with the outside world the moment chief nuclear negotiator rouhani has now been told he's been suffering at the brooch. a man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder in the u.k. city of birmingham after four people were stabbed at a local mosque the thirty two year old reportedly attacked the worshiper with a machete one policeman also injured trying to arrest him all the victim is said to be in stable condition in the hospital the journalist assad big tells us the roots of the attacks like this lie within britain's policy. we can blame 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 physical act the

violent act is only the last step before that is the kind of i did logical 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 they wars in iraq and afghanistan have radicalized people i think that's the first issue that they have to accept that foreign policy directive closes 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 fact to many young people and until they accept that there won't be any change. turning now to some other stories making global headlines activists dressed as a giant caricature of world leaders gathered in belfast ahead of the g eight meeting that starts in northern ireland tomorrow they were attempting to raise the issue of poverty by showing the figures preparing to use it preparing a dish using tax and the land as tools of economic repression at protests in london

this week anticapitalist said tax dodging by major companies is placing the burden of debt on ordinary people. just in time that financial policy also being expressed in spain hundreds of protesters marched through madrid demanding the government do more about the staggering unemployment rate of twenty seven percent many cues the authorities of pushing the nation toward poverty. and up next the latest edition of our discussion show worlds apart stay with us here on r.t. . secret lover a tour to mccurry was able to build a new its most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't give a dollar amount anything tunes mission to teach music creation why it should care

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hello and welcome to all the part of the protest in cherokee have i'm told that there is that we can show no sign of abating turning a country from a model muslim democracy just a month ago into a case that. growing up there is tearing 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 their west of it they occupy movement would you agree with that yes i would definitely 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 a 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 has been elected three times democratic elections on the other hand the comparison with the occupy movement to a certain extent. is correct i mean they're occupying a small piece of land that's happened in other parts of you know in the states with the occupy movement there they're reflecting or they're voicing concerns about the

present government shared by many people outside of the park but i think you're actually hearing a very important point and that's where i think the the protests are so different is because during the occupy protests and actually in some of the arab spring protests as well the main grievances for economic of course there were some political slogans but people were primarily concerned about that economy inflation unemployment but turks cannot really complain on base from because that economy exceeded all their expectations so. this is really the first round of protests that are purely political and i wonder how deep seated do you think these political grievances really are it is indeed political it's about democracy it's about the style of government one can see the grievances focus more and more i would say on the on the person the personality process of the.