leaked information reveals american spies based in the u.k. intercepted the top secret communications of former russian president dmitry medvedev during his visit to britain for a g twenty summit last as well leaders meet in the u.k. this week for the g. eight. explosion has reportedly walked to the syrian capital a neighborhood with numerous embassies and the military airport meanwhile washington considers sending lethal arms to the rebels and imposing a no fly zone over the country. smoketown to tear gas and flushed out by water cannons turkish police resort to harsh methods to keep defiant anti-government protests this out of istanbul's taksim square. and iran's new president has time rouhani of promise is

a new moderate course as the west hopes for a major shift in the country's nuclear ambitions and stance on the syrian conflict . around the week's news on the latest developments here with our team. while the global outrage over america's sweeping secret surveillance program gains momentum another revelation is coming from the u.k. according to the guardian newspaper former russian president dmitry medvedev was eavesdropped on the g twenty summit in london back in two thousand and nine report says other foreign politicians communications were intercepted as well as the various program included monitoring telephone calls and the setting up of internet companies to spy on it and its computer use leak comes on the eve of the upcoming

g. eight summit which kicks off on my very well fast n.s.a. surveillance program exposed father former cia officer snowden has marked google outrage. head of the g. eight summit syria dominated talks between russia's president and the british prime minister in london and soon leaders said they shared common ground on the need for a diplomatic solution to the crisis was artie's reports from the u.k. capital differences still prevail. well the leaders very 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 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 it's a blame now you know that david cameron has supported the idea of lifting that you arms in bargo 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 they said the u.s. taking that step now appears and isn't sure about what will happen if sent to syria and if they fall into the wrong hands. but still. when it comes to selling weapons to our says government who'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 deny that we shouldn't support people

opening up other people's bodies and eating 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 action 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 or meanwhile in syria itself according to the country's state t.v. a powerful blast to the neighborhood in the capital damascus preliminary reports

suggest the explosion could have been caused by a car bomb or video allegedly shows that far in the area which houses numerous embassies and military airport witness accounts indicates that many injuries at the scene they have yet to be confirmed. syria's civil conflict could soon enter a new phase with washington decided to arm rebels this week and possibly impose a no fly zone. regime had crossed a lot red line by legibly using chemical weapons but ask us says the evidence was fabricated russia was skepticism early on my colleague trying to discuss the developments with artie's and actually ourselves. 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 in 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 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 failed to 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 military and civil and has certainly a striking resemblance. 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 they have been seen that 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. now istanbul's taksim square remains deserted but police have intervened on the crowds gathered in anchors avenues according to local media that have been ongoing clashes with protesters across the city with up to seventy people arrested earlier taksim square the symbol of anti government under arrest was sealed off of special forces drove demonstrators out destroyed a temporary camps in response to that angry protests are flaring up across the country are nicholas can report. this point there are more of confrontations between the police and protesters taking place in other parts of istanbul they have

been going on really throughout the night and the entire morning they're 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 using taksim square and it gets a park literally bulldozers are brought in to get rid of the tents and again the park at this point is completely clear as well as taksim square gezi park is not open to any public whatsoever no media no medical staff no no one is allowed there the protesters have congregated in the streets really close to talks and square last night adjacent to the square they were also dispersed by police pushed back into the city for the same time where the hearing about this thousands of people

have marched on to talk to the asian side of the stumble but they were stopped by police on the bosphorus bridge again russians erupted 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 she has and as we show in our report. clashes turmoil blood smoke and even death this has been turkey's reality for the past two weeks as protests show no sign of subsiding prime minister erdogan shows clear indication he won't budge neither on the prospects of gives you the demolition nor on the other requests coming from taksim square. made the between the two parties. more serious than it was before. trouble to support is telling you spreading some disinformation about people

drinking in mosques or people attacking has car for men and the like the people are killing policemen and most of those informations were incorrect looters alcoholics extremists foreign agents all bound to wreak havoc in turkey this is the reality of protests according to our don and though some may believe him others remain critical of the prime minister and i'm against the protests but i think that these protests come from foreign forces from other countries which are not happy with the success and development of turkey i'm really angry with the government i think the one acts like a dictator he does whatever he wants he doesn't care what other people think. i'm against the protests or gears the pork because things are getting out of control also the foreign press showed like a big event and this made the process even bigger but the government wants to make peace with people. so far however these efforts appear to have resulted in

more clashes in istanbul than in karate throughout the week with numerous reports of police brutality we spoke directly to officers to try to find out their side of the story. from day one we worked for three days without sleep or food when you can't eat and afterwards we can think about is sleeping we slept on the pavement on the grass or on our shields maximum one hour. i didn't get face to face with the protesters but i had no access to any information my phone battery died so i had no idea why the protests got so big the only things i heard were alders from our commanding officers. the pressure on police has been so great that according to their union six officers have committed suicide while nearly a thousand resigned because of the protests as the protests continue with all participants of the conflicts girly increasingly tired and desperate and the

government making no clear effort to ease the tensions some begin to wonder where prime minister don who prides himself on a building boom in turkey has actually destroyed the very bridges within society in the country in istanbul that. well meanwhile turkey's prime minister gathered an army of his supporters for a counter rally held in istanbul where open i turn to government demonstrators were forcibly dispersed and defended saturday's police actions claiming it was his duty to clear the city square. anti-government on rest. label the protesters traitors like used foreign media are painting an incorrect picture of what's happening on the first turn a snail carjackings upon ministers take a common. stance against the protest as believing he'll succeed with a crackdown thanks to a strong western support. to hunt feels emboldened really trapped in a very harsh way gets protesters uneasy in boulder because he's a member of nato and the u.s.

ally and i think he acts very interesting to see just how limited the criticism of the don is been over the last week in the west john kerry baits mutterings about not using too much force but william hague for example has been silent the french have been silent and i think mission boehner has to come down hard on protesters put in the police put in the water cannons that the plastic bullets etc i think go to him field really that visionary room pressure on him to actually negotiate to me in protest why shouldn't 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. but we have more news coming up here in our tale after a short break we'll take a detail look at the spying scandal in the u.s. and its implications stay with this.

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level of spying the obama administration is conducting amounting to tens of thousands of rocking operations worldwide. examines how the revelations have left cracks in washington's democratic credentials. last weekend the u.s. president and his chinese counterpart met for a private bilateral summit focused on cyber attack. and virtual espionage washington blaming beijing for being an online outlaw today the tables have turned courtesy of n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden as the n.s.a. leaker told the south china morning post of the u.s. has been hacking chinese and hong kong computers since since zero nine snowden alleges that the u.s. national security agency's targets included the chinese university of hong kong public officials and students allegations that give weight to claims by officials in beijing that the country has been the victim of u.s.

hacking efforts america has turned into the world cop they think that they can basically set the standards for everybody else to follow their own paranoia global paranoia and outrage has been rising ever since one of america's best kept secrets known as prism was revealed the n.s.a.'s clandestine electronic surveillance program records digital communications and allows for real time online surveillance of citizens both foreign and domestic prism gives u.s. intelligence agencies direct access to files stored on the servers of nine major internet companies including google and facebook to identify and target potential terrorist suspects officials in italy britain and germany the most spied upon country said the program was both alarming and encroached on privacy politically to some extent i think it's the united states government but rather because despite all the claims from the white house 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 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. 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. . we're closely watching the developments on this story you can log on to our website at r.t. dot com for the full timeline of events expert analysis and the latest updates. iranians have chosen a pro reformist moderate president to take the place of the outgoing hardline president mahmoud ahmadinejad's son rouhani received over fifty one percent of the vote of the promising to open dialogue with the west but some of the most important issues may be out of his reach as man from the ocean explains that. people have taken to the streets of tehran to celebrate the victory all of us on the hot. air right now. that hot victory

has provoked mixed feelings that man iran's move into this is known as a reformist and carries the hope of many specially in terms of greater freedoms boiron still runs diplomatic isolation the country has been funded sob sanctions for years now over a spencer version of nuclear program during his campaign rouhani has promised to prepare the civil rights structure re strong economy and to improve your relations with the west his good side of that is as many times making remarks that cost the country its privileges but at the same time. period there on realize that what the iranian system works with major power held by an elected supreme leader of the present can do little to change things dramatically the supreme leader has the final say on big issues like terrence disputed brother mo syria for example

set those safe bets that the next president can at least takes the time out of iran's dealings with the outside world moment chief nuclear negotiator is never good for his consulting approach. comes to iran but he'll have plenty to deal with left over from his predecessor here's my report on what that means as legacy leaves a baseline of her public like there has been in the real estate business for years in iran when we ask him to summarize the legacy of president. he talks about if you compare is right side increased by one hundred percent since last year we have no hope for the future of the economy is bad then it's getting worse. one of the president's promises after taking office in two thousand and five was to make iran's vast oil revenues felt at the dining table of every single family was he

leaves behind is a country hit by the worst financial crisis illyria's but there are some who say it's not what it is just who's to blame for the downturn under sanctions were tough recently is hard to keep afloat of but the president of the people i'm sure that iran is able to resist international pressure the iranian economy has been hit hard by strain of ever tougher sanctions imposed successively by the e.u. the u.n. and the u.s. over accuse ations the countries trying to develop nuclear weapon something which was never approved as autonomic energy that has been able to stand up to the whole world over iran's nuclear program and the country is better off for it and other battle the departure in libya will be remembered for is his rhetoric about israel and iran six resident relations reached the point when even war seemed very possible and while ahmadinejad has not exactly been friendly towards israel the way

facts have been gentled about him has done more damage to his reputation than his own wards years ago a statement was mistakenly streamlet it to him which was inequity translated as israel must be wiped off the face of the map actual words were that israel must vanish from the arena of time and didn't even belong to one ishant any way other than the objective is to make up with the knee jerk a villain he stands for universal rights where every country would have an equal say but some powers want nothing but dominance and they focused on blocking the name of our president one of this year's presidential candidates doesn't agree say korea let me join the two thousand and eleven countries and he criticized his advisors and they were after a race that's not the best and most honest way to get the power mad in. the deadly protests that raged across the country after they were. actions are also thought to have undermined our image the result many people were frightened of other let me

not talk about my job at all. even those who don't still to this a pool to when i say there is little he can actually do here according to our constitution the supreme leader has much more powers in this country almost every step the president takes should be supervised and blessed by the ayatollah so despite all the controversies surrounding president definition it looks like iran will continue to be a force in the region and therefore will remain the foolish side of the us and its allies mahmoud ahmadinejad's eightieth presidency provokes mixed feelings every controversial leader here was equally hated the worship in iran has been made when the president and the pope defend their running policy today if iraq is hopeless but his legacy will cost a shadow over the next president some time. race nationality technorati iran. now a couple of other world headlines for you in brief barack obama has chosen

a high powered washington lawyer as the special envoy tossed with closing the prison at guantanamo bay reportedly clifford sloan has been picked to head the project will be responsible for transferring detainees to the home countries sloan has served in the past in senior positions in both democratic and republican administrations. for a man said to be shiites have been killed in an ambush in lebanon is because really they were traveling in a truck that was hit by a rocket propelled grenade the civil war just a few miles across the border in syria has inflame tensions and a sunni muslim support the uprising against bashar assad all shiites that the syrian president. well coming up oksana takes an in-depth look at whether turkey shifting towards a more authoritarian form of rule that's in a part of the break here. sigrid

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download free blog plug in video for your media projects a free media dog our t. dot com. hello and welcome to all the part of the protest in cherokee have i'm told that we can show no sign of abating turning a country from a mobile muslim democracy just a month ago it's a case study of growing up the retiring any top player both of these descriptions well to stop that i'm now into. invite you also like indict a columnist for the mana one of turkey's leading newspapers thank you very much for your time so. we've seen a lot of from tass 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 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. 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 or libya in two thousand and eleven. the prime minister with all the criticism that i think he deserves has been elected three times the 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 as happened in other parts of you know in the states with the occupy.