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. leaders meet in the u.k. this week for the g. eight. explosions has reportedly rocked the syrian capital in a neighborhood with a new assembly seasoned military airport meanwhile washington considers sending lethal arms to the rebels and imposing a no fly zone. with tear gas and flushed out by water cannons turkish police resort to harsh methods to break up defiant anti-government protesters gathering across the country despite uproar over the crackdown istanbul's taksim square.

iran's new president hassan rouhani promise is a new moderate course as the west hopes for a major shift in the country's nuclear ambitions. on the syrian conflict. this is his weekly news review right. now it's been revealed that former russian president dmitry medvedev. in the g twenty summit in london back in two thousand and nine according to a report in the guardian newspaper and other foreign politicians communications were also intercepted revelation emerges as britain prepares to host the g eight summit which kicks off on monday well your i spoke to r.t. contributor ash in tennessee who says that britain has served as

a surveillance platform for the u.s. for decades. i think that kind of blanket surveillance we're talking about fake internet cafes eventually being set up blackberries routinely monitored that surveillance is being used and of course with their on the raging presuming they were trying to make those talks amenable to washington and british interests these kinds of revelations show that when governments 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 for many years written knew or some british people realized that the national security agency was basically using the united kingdom and the largest spying out for the united states is here in britain but who runs the spying who or where is the sovereignty and perhaps british people will realise that they are living in a state where their media and all institutions surrounding them all industrial

aspects to 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 have noticed in the past few hours since the story came out very little coverage i want to have the british and american press will be covering this revelation the problem is the mainstream media will try and prove this and say everyone knows this ever and if everyone knew this and if all world leaders and all delegates at that summit in twenty nine know 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. well ahead of the g eight summit syria dominated talks between russia's president and the british prime minister in london two leaders said they shared common ground on the need for a diplomatic solution to the crisis was artie's party boy to reports from the u.k. capital differences to 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 are to blame now we know that david cameron has supported

the idea of lifting that you arms involved of sending military aid to the syrian rebels the british britain hasn't committed itself to that yet however they have definitely been discussing it they've always had the us taking that step now pearson isn't sure about what will happen if this 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 deny that we shouldn't support people opening up other people's bodies and 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. but meanwhile in syria itself according to the country's state t.v. a powerful blast has hit a neighborhood in the capital damascus reports suggest it could have been caused by a car bomb which detonated at a military airport which is also a hub for government elite forces well the local media also indicate the numerous injuries at the scene and syria's civil conflict will soon enter

a new phase with washington deciding to all rebels a sweet and possibly impose a no fly zone waters so they are sort of regime would cost a lot on by that is the using chemical weapons baskets says the evidence was fabricated russia expressed skepticism earlier my colleague transat discuss the developments realities and exhaustion of ski. 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 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 you. know there are certain rules of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons which suggests 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 rude to the board tories are u.s. colleagues will to assure us 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 where and 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 a military and to venture in 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 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 and mark almond who's a professor of international relations says harsh rhetoric by the west is unlikely to bring peace talks any nearer. if you want to know preconditions which essentially say that one party to the conference is going to leave early and is basically going to exclude it and you've decided who the legitimate government of serious 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 both serious doubt that in a sense the west is trying to stage a conference on its own terms without really being in control of the rebels who it wishes to see come out from that conference as effectively be approved. 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 homes and those homes won't turn of them stars it seems to me to be extremely naive 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 and the chaos in libya were american diplomats are being killed british attacked it's very unwell eyes to think we really do control these people on the ground of the unrest in turkey now according to the latest reports are thousands of people who have gathered on anchors kennedy avenue and now being dispersed by police forces tear gas and water cannons have been used to force the angry crowd out and destroy the barricades set up there by demonstrators who are attempting to block these armored vehicles in mass sporadic clashes with protests as i think in place in other cases around the city of an allegation is that the set x. pepper spray into water cannons they fired. he has all the victims early on sunday

turkey's prime minister gather the army of his supporters for counter-rally held in istanbul while police fired tear gas on and to go in protest is another part of the city country's association of lawyers claims that up to three hundred ninety people were arrested the russians throughout the day taksim square the symbol of government unrest was sealed off to special forces group demonstrators out to destroy the tempi terms. istanbul. 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 there lesser numbers but it doesn't mean they're less intense than the were last night when clashes erupted after police decided started clearing out taksim square and gezi park an hour after prime minister erdogan has made another announcement that his patience has run out and he said the protesters have until sunday to leave but like i said just an hour later the police began their operation

with tear gas water cannons even rubber bullets all of this was used in taksim square and it gets a park literally bulldozers are brought in to get rid of the tents in the gezi park at this point it's completely clear as well as taksim square gezi park is not open to any public whatsoever no media no medical staff no 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. the same time we're hearing about this thousands of people marched on to talk to the side of this but they were stopped by police on the bosphorus bridge again lashes 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 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. 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 provokes his supporters telling you spreading some of his own formation about people drinking in mosques or people attacking house car for men and the like the people are killing policemen and most of those informations were incorrect looters alcoholics extremists foreign agents all bounds to wreak havoc in turkey and this is the reality of protests according to our don and those some may believe him others i mean critical of the prime minister. 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 and 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 seen gezi park because things are getting out of control also the foreign press show it like a big event and this made the protest even bigger but the government wants to make peace with people. so far however these efforts appear to have resulted in get more clashes in istanbul than in car author all 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 know 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 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 conflicts girly increasingly tired and desperate and the government making no clear effort to ease the tensions some begin to wonder where prime minister who prides himself on the building boom in turkey has actually destroyed the very bridges within society in the country in istanbul that. well so far pavey from turkey's republican people's party believes what began as a protest against a british element of a park has exposed the oppression many turkish citizens feel from i don't want to

says this is a social explosion it's a cultural clash this is interclub i mean it is the youth protecting the part but its job the government is very rough response on them as strong as something in the sightly that is about secular we mun standing against you know journalists who has been exposed and been shut down there is not freedom of press in turkey and it's about lawyers who have been just arrested hundreds of them. which was followed by the push of the site to be released we are very concerned not only about the heavy crackdown that may follow the prime minister's words but also that which. may follow everything else in the long run. we are very concerned for it.

iranians have chosen a pro reformist moderate presidents to take the place of the outgoing hardline president mahmoud ahmadinejad's son rouhani received over fifty one percent of the vote on a promising to open dialogue with the west but some of the most important issues may be out of his reach as many are from the ocean and i expect. people have taken to the streets of tehran to celebrate the victory all of us on the hot. right now. that's hot his victory has provoked mixed feelings the man who ran into this is known as a reformist and carries the many specially in terms of greater freedoms boiron still runs diplomatic isolation the country has been on the top sanctions for years now over a sprinter version of nuclear program during his campaign rouhani has promised to

prepare a civil rights charge of research the economy. your relations with the west is pretty subtle but it is as many times making remarks that cost the country its credibility but at the same time assertively value here and there on realize that what the iranian system works with major power held by an elected supreme leader 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 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 more his concerns or approach. comes to iran but he'll have plenty to deal with left over from his predecessor here's my report on

that let me just 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 ahmadinejad he talks about how if you compare is that right side increased by one hundred percent since last year we have no hope for the future of the economy is better than 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 a hundred sanctions were tough recently and it's hard to keep afloat but the president of the people and showed that iran is able to resist international pressure the iranian economy has been hit hard by a string 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 out 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 juggled about him has done more damage to his reputation than his own words 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 and 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 new judge a village 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 quarter million joining the two thousand nine. hundred s. and they were after a race that's not the best and most honest way to get the power but in. the deadly protests that raged across the country after they were. actions are also thought to have undermined john's image the result many people were frightened of other let me not talk about on my job at all. even those who don't still to this a pool to when is god 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 ahmadinejad it looks like iran will continue to be a force in the region and therefore will remain the fool in the side of the us and

its allies mahmoud ahmadinejad's eightieth presidency provokes mixed feelings a very controversial leader he was equally hated the issue here in iran has been lazy many lessons in the focal defender and in policy people today if iraq is hopeless but his legacy will cost a shadow over the next president some time. race nationality to hear on iran. well we have more stories few online including a join the military or go to prison some young israelis are choosing to spend time behind bars rather than serving the country's military to r.t. dot com for more nuts. plus our team wins top prize for best twenty four hour news program on the monte carlo television festival online revealed the eye catching coverage that caught the attention of the jury from. a man who's been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder in the u.k.

city of birmingham after four people were stabbed the local mosque thirty two year old reportedly attacked a worshiper with a machete on policeman was also injured once trying to arrest the man on the victim is also to be in stable condition in hospital journalists are said bega told r.t. that the roots of attacks like this lie within the prisons bosses. we can give 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 there's a kind of i did logical attacks that take place there's a language of hatred that's become mainstream and i think that the first the government has to acknowledge is that there was in iraq and afghanistan have radicalized people i think that's the first issue that they have to accept that foreign policy record closes i think the other issues about equal opportunities exceptions 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 closing for many young people and until they accept that there won't be any change. there are some other world news in brief for you this hour barack obama has reportedly chosen a high powered washington boy as the special envoy tasked with closing the prison at guantanamo bay if it slowly is believed to have been picked to head the project responsible for transferring detainees to their home countries in modern belfast amnesty international held a protest amounting obama close the facility detainees at guantanamo bay are in the fourth month of a hunger strike against their indefinite detention without charge. four men are said to be shiites have been killed in an ambush in lebanon's bekaa valley 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 in the area

a sunni muslim support the uprising against russia. back the syrian president. czech prime minister internet us has announced that he'll resign on by way of the days of political turmoil was forced to quit by bribery and spying scandals pressure had been growing since his chief of staff was charged on friday bribing members of parliament and wooden intelligence agents to spy on people to former acts minister and high ranking members of the military intelligence and also been detained under the threat constitution the government must now step down. at least fifty one people have been killed and dozens wounded in a spate of bombings and gun attacks targeting shia muslim neighborhoods across iraq it follows a week of sectarian violence between sunnis and shias auntie's the second half of takes an in-depth look at what's behind the call that has left more than two

thousand dead since april. may was the bloodiest month seen in iraq in the past five years a surge in sectarian violence that's raised fears of another civil war sunni versus shia one country two sects. iraq has been through this before and that divide never really sealed tensions are growing between the shiite led government and minority sunnis inflamed by the raging conflict in neighboring syria to understand the divisions we had 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 the 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 softer is one of those protesters he's brought his son to almost every demonstration there for a residence but not by choice he says he was forced to flee baghdad for fear of arrest by the military and that his sect made him a target of one day a military brigade surrounded the area where we lived in baghdad and started making arrests they were targeting sunday residents and arrested two of my cousins so i gathered my family in the street to flu jab. with. 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 motion was that the government systematically driving sunnis from baghdad this is missing. migrations

is being done in the open cities are restricted in everything from where we live to the kinds of jobs we can have but in a shia neighborhood a different version of the story fearful of retribution for speaking out this residence prefers to hide his identity he tells us of the dangers iraqi shia face from armed groups. we also have been displaced by threats from al qaeda and other militias this used to be a mixed area but people have started exchanging houses between sunni and shia families to safety some analysts blame the united states for the divisions they go to the new system political system in iraq on the sectarian basis like they made the proportions for the seventies for this then and for the kurdish and this is very little. those divisions have taken a toll on iraq a generation separated by the.