breaking news on r.t.l. 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 as world leaders meet in the u.k. this week for the g eight. an explosion has reportedly rocked the syrian capital in a neighborhood with numerous embassies in the military airport meanwhile washington consider sending lethal arms to the rebels and imposing a no fly zone over the country. smoked out with tear gas and flushed out by water cannons turkish police resort to harsh methods to break up defiant antigovernment protesters gathering across the country despite uproar over

the crackdown on istanbul's taksim square. and iran's new president hassan rouhani promises a new moderate course as the west goes from a just shift in the country's nuclear ambitions and its stance on the syrian conflict. around the week's news and the very latest about events this is r t well breaking news here it's been revealed that former russian president dmitry medvedev was eavesdropped on during the g twenty summit in london back in two thousand and nine according to reports in the guardian newspaper and other foreign politicians communications were also intercepted in the revelation emerges britain prepares to

host the g eight summit which kicks off on monday r.t. contributor action returns he joins us live now for some perspective on this the u.s. government has said that the prison surveillance program was aimed at a virtual terrorism threat so what justification is there then do you think for eavesdropping on a global leader. this is obviously nothing to do with terrorism whatsoever you know i'm just in a studio talking to you just down the river from that g. twenty twenty nine conference where it turns out it may be that president was and so many other world leaders were bugged we know edward snowden if this is true he has terabytes of this data there's going to be more of it coming you know this was about the twenty zero nine critical summit when the crisis in western capitalism hit its peak gordon brown here was saying we must put a trillion dollars into the world's financial institutions which of course argue

because the crash and whatever happens in all stakes they wanted this to happen they wanted to have continuous surveillance over media over foreign governments over foreign institutions because they were desperate not to have any other types of movement try and create something out of that twenty zero nine g. twenty summit where it was famous here because riot police murdered in tomlinson a newspaper vendor and there were riots on the streets this was how desperate this government was to create a new liberal model that the theme off that the twenty summit was globalization must be seen as a force for good are you saying that this kind of surveillance could be used to influence the course of international talks. i think that kind of blanket surveillance we're talking about fake internet cafes in the jewelry being set up blackberries routinely monitored turkish for instance they mention the turkish finance minister with this and other. officials to yes that's available is being

used and of course with their on the rage and presumably they were trying to. make those talks amenable to washington and british interests we must remember because it can not be the british they were sponsible for this i mean this is in a sense to the core of what he was talking about this this happened presuming with menwith hill in america in yorkshire and there's a demonstration on july the fourth here about that these kinds of revelations show that government such as britain and the united states come close to worrying they will use this to try and persuade different officials of different governments to sway them but you're linking the u.s. and britain there in this issue then so what role did the u.k. play in all this in your opinion for many years since the one nine hundred sixty s. when we had some revelations that the secret service here were trying to overthrow the government of our old wilson britain knew or some british people realized that

the national security agency was basically using the united kingdom as an aircraft carrier the four hundred twenty first airborne division is in yorkshire and the largest spying outfit in the united states is here in britain but who runs the spying who or where is the sovereignty already we've had legislation here that seems to protect the british government from being taken to the international criminal court for the kind of thing that i would snowden has revealed to us and could other summits have been monitored that. well of course this is what the delegates assembling in ireland or occupied island somewhere around the world in the next forty eight hours because how many other summits have been bugged the problem with this kind of revelation is there seems to be a kind of lazy acceptance in the media and let's remember there are revelations about how the media are running this country and how close they are to the spying thora t.v. or secret agents that seem to be running this kind of thing saying that well you

know they're trying to protect us and they've got to stop subversive because russian spies or foreign spies this kind of relays the drift into one thousand nine hundred four well in mccarthyite style government seems to be all over the media at the moment but certainly if they're monitoring other summits u.s. authorities don't seem that worried president obama doesn't and of course previous . previous vice president dick cheney said in the past few hours that edward snowden is a traitor as far as i know he is alive at the moment you mention the g eight summit coming up of course this week i mean can this lead to tensions among world leaders if i think being monitored while all this is going on. of course monks world elites there will be i suppose a level of mirth as they the most expensive food in the world as will get the

details of those menus at least if not the negotiations but more seriously i think some of those world leaders should definitely be asking serious questions perhaps of the united nations as to how britain thinks it can get away with this and certainly be asking david cameron what what sort of government is being run at the moment because this government is refusing to answer any questions about the snowden leaks the foreign secretary william hague is saying oh well you know he can't. give us any information about it because it's secret and there's going to be mounting pressure as these certain leaks get bigger and bigger and bigger here we have this regulation of investigatory powers act and the british government be hiding behind that and continuing to tell other leaders at the g eight and the participants of the one members of the richest countries at the summit in that all is well and you know everything is fine obviously people will be using much more secure encrypted methods and will show that this kind of spying operation is.

idiotic and if it global leaders are not safe from having their communications intercepted what about the fate of the general public. well of course this goes to the heart of what edward snowden is trying to say i mean he is an interlocutor in a sense glenn greenwald and i got to save the latest revelations of the hong kong government is now investigating snowden revelations that the national security agency is spying on the hong kong government he's saying he supports the united states constitution and his complete fealty is to that u.s. constitution so what other governments will say about this and how this is going to play out the problem is the mainstream media will try and prove this and say everyone knows this everyone or if everyone knew this and all world leaders and all delegates at that summit in twenty nine knows that they are being surveilled then why the british or american authorities do this here in london and could this

affect u.s. russia relations now and in the future. of course they have been tricky in recent years there have been various spying scandals i suppose we can expect some comments from president putin he didn't this came too late for the press conference between the british prime minister and mr putin here in london i presume other world leaders will be mentioning it in the days ahead but for british people this is lamentable because there's a long history here of mining the miners the ford workers usually they're jailed here the whistle blower's from g c h q and we have countless c.n.d. the anti-apartheid movement and perhaps british people will realise that they are living in a state where their media and all institutions surrounding them all industrial aspects of civic society are under a kind of surveillance state that is not being covered in the news and alas it had to take this guy working in hawaii

a former private contractor to reveal all to the british people i have to tell you already i've noticed in the past few hours since the story came out very little coverage and what the british and american press will be covering this revelation. r.t. contributor ash in a taxi thanks so much for joining us here live on r.t. today thank you. our head of that g. eight summit syria dominated talks between russia's president and a british prime minister in london to leaders said they shared common ground on the need for a diplomatic solution to the crisis as artie's party boyko 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 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 it's a blame now you know that david cameron has supported the idea of lifting that you arms involved all but sending military aid to the syrian rebels versus britain hasn't committed itself to that yet however they have definitely been discussing it they would think the u.s. taking that step now appears and isn't sure about what will happen if are sent to syria and if they fall into the wrong hands. but still. 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 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 while we've got birth 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 i mean while in a serious self according to the country state t.v. a powerful blast in a neighborhood in the capital damascus reports suggest it could have been caused by a car bomb which detonated near the airport is also a hub for government lead forces local media also indicate numerous injuries. and syria's civil conflict was soon enter a new phase washington decided to arm rebels this week and possibly impose a no fly zone so the assad regime had crossed a line i did should be using chemical weapons the massacre says the evidence was advocating it while russia expressed skepticism but only my colleague a mattress discuss the developments with artie's next. this week washington confirmed it has ample proof of assad's troops using chemical weapons against the opposition but the timing seems to be rather strange for that the incident in

question allegedly happened in december last year but it's been brought up only now when the government troops are winning the battle after battle according to the russian foreign minister this makes no sense at all from the military point of view and the follow up statement by president obama that he wanted to see the balance of power is restored in the country and possibly even arm the syrian rebels is creating even more grounds for concerns in russia and europe as well so we have russia being skeptical about it the only voice or other others were skeptical about the u.s. evidence not everyone is buying it the e.u. the main allies of the united states they are asking additional checks from the u.n. investigators russia says that the proof gathering process itself was done with violations of international regulations you. know there are certain rules of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons which suggest that samples of blood urine or clothes and so will can be classed as evidence only if these samples

were collected by the organizations experts and if these experts controlled the samples and ruta weren't tories are u.s. colleagues failed to surance that these procedures were here to. so why do you think there's been a lot of resistance to accepting this evidence that the u.s. says it has well just let's look at the history let's go back ten years ago to two thousand and three when the u.s. state secretary colin powell was shaking a vial with allegedly anthrax in it suggesting that iraq has weapons of mass destruction chemical weapons we all know where this when so the u.s. clearly don't want to step on the same break again the same time another rather concerning statements coming from the u.s. that they are considering implementing a no fly zone over syria which in many cases is the first step for military and and has certainly a striking resemblance to the iraqi scenario almost a decade ago and so as we've seen the rebels themselves are kind of a very diverse group a lot of interest and a lot of different groups as part of the so-called opposition that they have in

syria other allegations against them as well i've heard words of regret coming from the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov that all claims and allegations coming from the syrian government that the opposition used chemical weapons against them have never been investigated there have been scenes and footage of the opposition testing chemical weapons on rabbits more recently twelve people from al nusra front the syrian militarized opposition brigade were detained in turkey by the turkish police allegedly carrying vials of zareen gas on them so definitely there are no saints here but these claims are not being investigated for some reason. well coming up later in the program resistance is everywhere that's the charm from demonstrators on the streets of. have been venting their anger against the country's prime minister more than two weeks now after the break we report on the brutal actions of turkish police attempt to suppress the rest.

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then surely the spanish find out more visit. welcome back to the program what about the ongoing unrest in turkey and according to the latest reports thousands of people have gathered on the anchors kennedy avenue setting up barricades to block access for police vehicles a citizens' demand the prime minister resigns and ongoing clashes with protesters across the city police dispersing the crowds and tear gas but only a istanbul's taksim square the symbol of anti government on rest was sealed off of the special forces drove demonstrators out and destroyed temporary camps response to the police's heavy handed actions angry protests continue to flare up across the country. reports. this point there are more of 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 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 used in taksim square and it gets a park literally bulldozers were brought in to get rid of the tents and to get a 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 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 upon hearing about this thousands of

people have marched on to talk to the side of this but they were stopped by police on the bosphorus bridge again lashes erupted. but it can and this is just remains quite tense at the moment because a lot of people are saying that there is an increasing chazan between the protesters and those people who support prime minister erdogan and a lot of people believe that he as a matter of fact is the one who is creating that chazal as we show in our report. clashes turmoil blood to 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 gezi park demolition nor on other requests coming from taksim square his actions made the tension between the two parties. more serious than it was before and. he travelled to support is. spreading some disinformation about people drinking in

mosques or people attacking her square for him and like the people or killing policemen most of those informations were incorrect looters alcoholics extremists foreign agents all bound to wreak havoc in turkey and this is the reality of protests according to her don and those some may believe him ah there's i mean critical of the prime minister. i'm against the process but i think this broad has 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 what ever he wants he doesn't care what other people think. i'm against the protests are certain gears the park because things are getting out of control also the foreign press show it 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 were for three days without sleep or food when you can eat and afterwards we can think about is sleeping we slept on the pavement on the grass or on our shields maximum one hour a day 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 ordered 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 conflict growing increasingly tired and desperate and the

government making no clear effort to ease the tensions some begin to wonder where prime minister dawn prides himself on a building boom in turkey has actually destroyed the very bridges within society in the country in istanbul that in a. meanwhile turkey's prime minister gathered an army of his supporters for counter-rally held in istanbul where overnight anti-government demonstrators were forcibly dispersed the defendant sat. days police actions claim it was his duty to clear tax and square recep tayyip erdogan again label the protest as traitors and accused foreign media of painting an incorrect picture of what's happening in the first journalist neil clark thinks the prime minister has taken a comet of stance against the protesters leaving he'll succeed with a crackdown thanks to strong western support. on hand feels emboldened really to act in a very harsh where gets the protesters elite in poland because he did member of nato i mean u.s. ally and i think he acts very interesting to see just how limited the criticism of

the don has 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 bowlers have to come down hard on protesters put in the police put in the water cannons the plastic bullets etc i think over time field really that vision at root 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. iranians have chosen a pro reformist moderates president to take the place of the all out to getting a hard line president. asserting that rouhani received over fifty one percent of

the votes of the promising to open dialogue with the west and some of the most important issues maybe out of his reach as with a national explains that. 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 a heart transplant mixed feelings among iranians mixed comes into this is known as a reformist and carries the hope of many specially in terms of greater freedoms boiron hands and surrounds diplomatic isolation the country has been on the top sentence for years now over its controversial nuclear program during his campaign rouhani has promised to prepare the civil rights charges response the economy and the relations with the west criticize the middle east as many times making remarks that cost the country its privileges but at the same time. period there on realize

that the iranian system works with major power held by an elected supreme leader be the president can do little to change things dramatically the supreme leader has the final say on big issues like terrence disputed problemo syria for example. say that the next president can at least ten days this time out of grants dealings with the outside world the moment chief nuclear negotiator is now for his consulting rate at brooch. well some other world news in brief the south park obama has reportedly chosen a high powered washington lawyer as the special envoy tossed with clothes in the prison at guantanamo bay could sloan is believed to have been at the project responsible for transferring detainees to their home countries sloan has served in the past in senior positions in both democratic and republican administrations.

four men are said to be shiites have been killed in an ambush in lebanon's army they were traveling in a truck that was hit by rocket propelled grenade the civil war just a few miles across the border in syria has inflame tensions in the area where sunni muslims support the uprising against bashar al assad will she hot spot the syrian president. well coming up after the break on t. travels to a remote village in georgia a closer look at the life of a very unique way to screw the news. to news sigrid laboratory tim curry was able to build removes most sophisticated

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