there. smoked out with tear gas flushed away by water cannons turkish police resorted to harsh methods to keep defiant anti-government protesters out of his den bulls taksim square. lethal arms 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 it's not convinced. other stories 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. iran's new president hassan rouhani promises a new moderate voice as the west hopes for a major shift in the country's nuclear ambitions and a softening in the stance on syria.

eleven pm in moscow treasure bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news we begin in it is ten below where turkish police have resorted to their tried and tested methods to prevent protests from 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 having the opposite effect with angry protests now flaring up across the country in a response or a really good go has more. there are more 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 there lesser 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 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 in gezi park literally bulldozers brought in to get rid of 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 how 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 where the hearing about this thousands of people marched on to talk to. police on the bosphorus bridge again losses of up to there again tear gas and water cannons this is. 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 who is creating that. and for a second day in a row turkey's prime minister gathered an army of his supporters for a counter rally this one was held in istanbul where overnight government demonstrations were forcefully dispersed. again labeled protesters traitors and accused foreign media of painting an incorrect picture of what's happening world affairs journalist neil clark things prime minister aired a once taken a combative stance against protesters feeling he would get away with a crackdown thanks to thanks to strong western support. one hundred feels emboldened 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 he is very interesting to see just how limited 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 cited the

french have been silent and i think we should voters to climb down hard on protesters putting the police putting water cannons that the plastic bullets etc i think go to heinz field really that visionary room pressure on him to actually negotiate to meet anything 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. syria's civil conflict could enter a new phase with washington deciding to arm rebels this week and possibly put in a no fly zone the white house said the assad regime and crossed a red line by allegedly using chemical weapons damascus called the evidence a fabrication and moscow was skeptical earlier i discussed the developments with artie's alexei our chefs. 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 maybe only a voice or 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. but 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 the samples were collected by the organizations experts and if these experts controlled the samples and rude to the board turris our 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. well 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 military and civil and has certainly a striking resemblance to 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 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 there have been scenes and footage just 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 britain's prime minister in london where they met ahead of the g eight summit both leaders said they shared a common ground on the need for a diplomatic solution to the crisis but polly boyko reports from london differences

remain. well the leaders both said that they are committed to having a diplomatic resolution to the syrian crisis they are committed to organizing this 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 sat is to blame for everything that's taking place and that he must go peter 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 lifting that you arms involved of sending military aid to the syrian rebels the first 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 these are sent to syria and if they fall into the wrong hands. when it comes to selling weapons to ourselves government 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 each in their entrails on camera do you want to support these people do you want to. live near putin in response to a journalist's 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 rules 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 mark arman a professor of international relations are anti assad rhetoric is unlikely to bring peace talks any nearer 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 excluded and you've decided who the legitimate government to 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 without really being in control or the rebels who it wishes to see come out from that conference as effectively be approved through

syria even the most optimistic analysis of the rebels would have to admit there are a variety of people not only fighting a sad but also fighting each other the whole idea that we can be confident that the weapons we supply even if we give them to people we train will stay in those hands and those hands went turn even stars it seems to me to be tonight in practice i'm afraid the risk is that the sort of people who were actually break use these weapons may initially be probably against assad but we've seen from afghanistan over the last thirty years to the present day in the chaos in libya were american diplomats and have been killed british attacked it's very young what is to think we really do control these people on the ground for getting out of talks in line inviting reporting in david cameron held a ceremony with veterans from world war two their warded medals to u.k. sailors who race the icy waters of the arctic to maintain. soviet union three thousand brits died during the campaign russia's attempts to recognize their heroism was the world watched by the u.k. which said it was against the rules the foreign office said awards could only be

given for services to one specific country which happened within the previous five years john sears one of the few remaining veterans of the arctic convoy says the award is long overdue big comb will contest the as an australian new zealand canada now have men served alongside me and every save that medal a novice did know it it the foreign office a lot razan. well they said they of course we haven't done nothing when the last fall i vehicles i was very very upset not just for the bank for old apollo some present ship mites. and though some of their families. more still to come here on our t.v. stay with us after this short break.

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for your media project free media r.t. dot com. quarter 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 will reveal his identity after leaking documents showing the u.s. national security agency has been keeping tabs on 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 obama administration is conducting amounting to tens of thousands of hacking operations worldwide artie's marina portnoy it takes over. the 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 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. each 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 and from the congress the reality of vastly excessive surveillance 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 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 r.t. so this fellow whistleblower weaken these editor julian assange the witch hunt against those revealing government wrongdoing scares many into silence maybe

sources are quite scared i mean we've seen coley colleagues of mine have even stated publicly that their sources are reluctant to talk because it's the crackdown against bradley manning and that's what that whole trial is trying to achieve it's trying to set the precedent the communicating with the media is the same as communicating as you know and that's a death penalty offense. an outrageous president to crack down on the whistle blows has been very public and i think that escape people would be that i mean there's ways to do it without ending up like the way bradley manning is going to go or smoke i mean most sources reveal that he mation a perfectly fine. closely watching developments on this story live on to our web site r.t. dot com for the full timeline of events analysis and the latest updates. iranians

have voted to replace outgoing a hard line president mahmoud ahmadinejad with a pro reformist moderate hasan rowhani took more than fifty percent of the vote after promising among other things to open dialogue with the west but artie's marouf in ocean reports that some of the most sensitive issues could be out of his reach. people have taken to the streets of tehran to celebrate the victory all of us on the money and that is there right now. that's hot his victory has provoked mixed feelings among iranians misspoken so this 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 under the top sanctions for years now over its controversial nuclear program during his campaign rouhani has promised to prepare the civil rights structure response the economy and the relations with the west his good sides have let him use us many times making

remarks that cost the country credibility but at the same time. period there on realize that the iranian system works with major power held by the supreme leader of the president can do little to change things dramatically. the supreme leader has the final say on big issues like terence disputed nuclear problem on syria for example. say that the next president can at least takes the time out of grants dealings with the outside world the moment chief nuclear negotiator is never for his consulting approach. turning now to some other stories making global headlines this hour activists dressed as giant caricature of the 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 a dish using tax in the land as tools of economic repression at protests in london

this weekend the capital is said tax dodging by major companies is placing the burden of debt on ordinary people. discontented financial policy also being expressed in spain hundreds of protesters marched through madrid demanding the government do more about staggering unemployment rates of twenty seven percent many authorities are pushing the nation toward the poverty line. a man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder in the u.k. city of birmingham after four people were stabbed at the local mosque the thirty two year old reportedly attacked a worshiper with a machete one policeman also injured trying to arrest the man all victims said to be in stable condition in the hospital journalist aside bayed tells us the roots of the attacks like this lie within britain's policies we can blame 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. for you to take root 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 was 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. at least thirty people have been killed in a spate of bombings in done assaults targeting shia muslim neighborhoods across iraq this follows a week of sectarian violence between sunni and shias artie's lewsey coughing of has an in-depth look at what's behind the conflict that's 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 field 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 flew jets and. 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 also 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 for first 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 believe the new system political system or of the sectarian basis. like they made the proportions for the seventies for this heat then and for the dish this is very good all. those divisions have taken a toll on iraq a generation separated by the threat of violence i know that. causes

a lot of programs between me and my friends especially if they're from a different six we can't work together we'll hang out in public in some neighborhoods i can get killed for being seen with someone from a different religious group ten years after the war iraq is still struggling to find peace and the ghosts of its sectarian past haunt the future. r.t.e. baghdad plenty more on lighting clued in gold for our team we snatched the award for best twenty four hour news program at the monte carlo television festival online a look at what coverage attracted the attention of the jury plus. reality for some young israelis trying to avoid serving in the i.d.f. is that prison is better than option and picking up a gun more on that on line. and up next an investigation to the human impact of the global financial crisis in this city by the bay where half a million californians have been made homeless stay with us here in our new.

six sandiego residence 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 four years ago do america better get on the ball and. speak english adequately but there is a problem about fifty million tourists visit america every year according 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 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 half of the planes flying over the united states but that's just my opinion. the. rest. we. are we going. through.

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