twenty four. anti-government protesters violently dispersed by riot police in the stamboul as a corruption scandal shakes up turkey's ruling a. federal judge in new york declares the n.s.a.'s bulk collection of phone data to be lawful directly contradicting a court opinion for washington d.c. that mass surveillance violates the constitution and. the reporter who broke the average snowden leaks lashes out of fellow journalists at a conference in germany for giving government an easy ride and failing to put the spotlight on official wrongdoing. plots as more than one hundred fifty detainees at guantanamo bay prepare to enter and nother year without charge or due process we

bring you our special report from america's notorious military prison. what you know as the international coming to you live from moscow with me marina joshing. a massive anti-government protest has spilled into violence in central istanbul the rallies erupted over a high level corruption scandal that's forced a major candidate reshuffle and resulted in the arrests last week of twenty four people including the sons of two ministers and the head of a state owned bank thousands shout to catch the thieves demanding the prime minister. step down holes that he has already rejected riot police called up to disperse the rally sprayed the mob with tear gas while protesters fall back with rocks and firecrackers or to surf or was there. you go to the protests this

downgrade the safety then the police again trying to push them back here saying this is the kind of the place already been absent this pay. he said tonight this is some tape that we feed. thanks for being sixpence again he's made was to stay put the food we see was it made sense we cut it with the cake i mean it was a fake political risk it was a good night the precise moment i'm comin to the believe the cause here but the first thing we see the face thing a challenge from the people who was a little silly was that. god gave me a minute we'll let you go you. believe you. should really take. them because that's the way you think you see that some of the phrases that's a bit to the back of. this

or you could be because some of the place where they said they were was the nicest and the big that it takes is. symbolic or really of the sleaze tellings that space to crimea said because they said well aspart have been saying the most recent protests bring back the violent scenes that erupted in turkey this summer over plans to destroy a park the government was widely criticized back down for excessive use of force a situation that's likely to repeat itself this time around says jeremy salt an associate professor at bill can hear diversity in ankara. the fact is the problem it sends a very very strong pull of supporters and they will believe anything he says has become more authoritarian of the last four years so you know one can trace any kind of most of that progress be the last elections bush won very very comfortably we saw for example the beauty of the arab spring the way that he had of the syrian

crisis was extremely aggressive and confrontational. and that this has been the characters of he's moving and dealing with a protest inside his own country he's just gone from a kind of middle class people who have a genuine basic every reason to protest government promises and he doesn't seem to understand that he doesn't seem to think that the protest is genuine they're all part of some kind of post. i will continue to follow the unrest in turkey so stay with us for the latest developments right here on our chief international and also online. and the new york federal judge has declared the mass collection of phone data by the n.s.a. to be lawful just over a week after a judge in washington d.c. ruled out dragnet surveillance would likely be proven unconstitutional the lawsuit brought by the american civil liberties union was dismissed by the rides the group is expected to appeal the motion. has a details a federal judge in new york william of pauli ruled friday that protections under

the fourth amendment do not apply to records held by third parties like phone companies the n.s.a.'s indiscriminate and systematic collection and storage of phone records belonging to all americans while that's lawful this decision came down because the a.c.l.u. was suing to halt the n.s.a.'s bulk metadata collection program but the federal judge granted a motion filed by the obama administration to dismiss the challenge now in his ruling judge pauley said that the n.s.a.'s blunt tool only works because it collects everything during his decision he also raised the nine eleven attacks arguing that if the n.s.a.'s. mehta data collection program had been in place before september eleventh two thousand and one the hijackers may have been caught now the a.c.l.u. has expressed disappointment and says it plans to appeal that decision two weeks ago federal judge in washington d.c. said the n.s.a.'s metadata program most likely violated the fourth amendment as

part of that ruling judge richard leon ordered the government to stop collecting data on two plaintiffs who brought the case against the u.s. government will have to wait and see if the supreme court does take up the issue of the n.s.a. very controversial metadata program us president barack obama was asked to identify any specific instance in which analysis of the n.s.a.'s bulk metadata collection actually stopped an imminent attack the u.s. president could not identify one instance or at least he did not give one example to the journalists that were asking him now u.s. officials have for many years asked americans to sacrifice some of their privacy in the name of security but so far no top u.s. official can mention any danger imminent danger that's been thwarted through the collection of everyone's personal information. threats to online pirate privacy and

new ways of protecting data have generated an president of global interest in a hackers conference which started out as a small get together the chaos communication congress is now underway in hamburg oliver is there for us the main speech on day one was by the journalist and political commentator glenn greenwald he of course worked so closely too with edward snowden to get those leaks that snowden took from the n.s.a. out into the public domain you know during his keynote address which was by videophone to a packed out auditoriums he praised the work that edward snowden did done me also called on governments around the world that have showed an indignation revelations that they were spied on to not just show indignation but to actually do something to help a man who is sacrificed so much for them now also in his address c.e.o. went on to accuse the the us british government of systematically lying to their

people and also accusing the press in those countries of being complicit in allowing that lying to take place it was on this program called hard talk and i at one point had made what i thought was the very unremarkable and on called the first observation that the reason why we have a free press is because national security officials routinely lied to the population and shield their power and to get their agenda advanced when i said that he interrupted me and he said i just cannot hold that he that you would suggest that soon your official generals in the united states and the british government are actually making false claims to the public how can you. well it's not just about speeches that's taking place here at the conference is also workshops to try and help people understand how to protect themselves online better with things like encrypted e-mail now to the. borderline computer illiterate

like myself that kind of sounds like the old saying however so the guys here issued me that just a little bit of knowledge on the subject you can help make sure that you'll private messages remain private we invited interested people to learn about cryptography since a long while and we noticed since the summer that there's a huge group i's in request for those to parties that's a party where we meet for like two or three hours and people who know how to encrypt emails how to encrypt your chat how to browse on the misleading the internet teach this to other people who actually asked people when they came why do i why are you here and people told us i learned that if we are spied on and i want to protect myself well the conference here and how to go a ways attracts a pretty large crowd however this year following those revelations from edward snowden it's even increases the vulnerable people want to learn how to protect themselves online and still people like the n.s.a. snooping on them. and we'll be bringing you more updates from the conference here

on r.t. so do stay with us for that i had in a program here on our to international toxic stations experts tell r t how britain has become an international online hobby for selling and consuming the legal equivalent of class a drugs that could actually be just as harmful as the originals all the details are coming out. and also former russian oligarch way hotter kosgei may be out of prison but some of those who remember how he is oil company fought its way to the top say it left plenty of victims along the way and we talked to the widow of one of them just a few minutes here in our to. st augustine. strategic region to. cover team of journalists trying to release wiki leaks documents about zero. the united states is

trying to yeah. maybe a local media more pro-american they encounter fear ignorance and pressure. the country blocks the way to information freedom. media stuff on our t.v. . what is your life if you call it face it's a beautiful. pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i roll researcher.

welcome back you're watching r.t. international as a world prepares to welcome in the new year we're looking back at our coverage of the top stories of twenty thirteen and bring a you a recap of what made them so significant. the u.s. president has approved a law easing the transfer of the guantanamo bay detainees to their home countries but it's still a far cry from actually closing the notorious prison which barack obama has been promising to do for years in the wake of a mass hunger strike dragged on for most of two thousand and thirteen are the one behind the barbed wire of get. every morning at eight am the u.s. national anthem erupts across the beast that holds america's most scandalous prison no one likes to be spit on no one wants to have their own torture hunger strikes

and suicides have marred this place since two thousand and two and they're human beings after all they're there's no reason to expect that they enjoy being here you know we pretend otherwise prisoners held indefinitely in the name of the never ending war on terror whether they're innocent or guilty is not our job right here j t f you know we have the court system determined that in just over a decade a total of seven hundred seventy nine prisoners the majority released without charges on the other side of the barbed wire. life is a blast. furnace and water and it's nice there's nothing really bad about here just like any common american town now is awfully scared to come here but i mean it's absolutely beautiful place and you get around other stuff getting around the other stuff is not hard a lot of what goes on here is kept under a thick veil of denial and secrecy delta house is a hospital and library and this is also the place where patients are force fed and

even though the hunger strike is largely and officially said to be over we know that at least fifteen people are continually being force fed here today a tube is passed down through a person's nostril and pushed all the way down to their stomach before it's passed down the nose we lubricate it in we give the patient a choice do they want to have the key which is the agent who will numb the area or if they want to lubricate the tube. most of our patients have been using all of the will like it in fact some of our patients are so used to this they will. described which nostril they want this while major world medical bodies are in agreement that force feeding is not ethical and should not be practiced the force feeding them i've got my clients of experience to guantanamo they've certainly described this torture the restraint chair that they're strapped into they actually call the torture chair an arabic

force feeding takes up to forty five minutes and is performed twice a day the patients that had the civilian world of it feel strange i've never heard insisting on. i have not heard that good move fishes are beyond nonchalant about the highly criticized practice you might feel differently from the way i might feel uncomfortable has been the most of it i have heard but they don't even believe in what this thing anymore because they know it sounds stupid i volunteer that the procedure be demonstrated on me requesting the prisoners who've not met one another and speak different languages keep saying the same thing that we were tortured used . to the chair legs to the ground. strap across forced in a tube into our noses never in thirteen years have detainees been allowed to speak directly to a journalist while remaining it gives only leaking statements through the years they would love nothing more than to sit down with journalists and just tell them you know about their daily lives but communicating seems to only occur here if

someone was a point where maybe they had been verbalizing a lot of hopelessness we were immediately intervene and try to assist that person to make sure that there wasn't any thoughts of maybe wanting to harm themselves or end their lives with charts like these often used to pinpoint patients despair you'll ask them how do you feel right now and they'll be able to point to it we have not had a patient in this area. thank you meanwhile six suicides and dozens of suicide attempts have taken place at the detention facility we haven't seen any autopsies the u.s. government hasn't released any formal reports or findings we're now inside two active camps at guantanamo camp five old single cells where the so-called compliance detainees are held camp number six is one filled with communal cells when officials deem the detainees better there will be warded by being allowed to

live in groups while detainees are kept away from us what we witness are clean empty prison cells with cozy pajamas colgate toothpaste and maximum security shampoos paraded in front of journalists as proof everything is so much better here than any silly horror stories we all have heard and. cuba and earlier we spoke with a former chief prosecutor when tom obey colonel morris davis stepped down after refusing to accept the waterboarding of detainees there and he says the u.s. military will be hard pressed to find an excuse to keep the prison open beyond twenty fourteen. closing down the facility at guantanamo is going to be a you know a slow process but i think the detainees will pay attention and watch and if they continue to see progress and i think they'll kind of let it run its course but i think if they feel like they're forgotten again then you're likely to see another hunger strike lately the department offensive so they're just not going to tell

anyone what the numbers are on how many people are participating you know the argument that we have made over the last twelve years on our authority to detain. people at guantanamo or to other facilities is that we're at war war in afghanistan comes to a close in twenty fourteen so we're about twelve months out. from the war officially ending which also ends are the legal authority to detain the enemy for the duration of the conflict in the conflict is over. r.t. has been keeping track of this year's hunger strike at guantanamo since it began in family riyadh and it had to r.t. dot com for a comprehensive timeline of events at the infamous detention center. for the hotter cops get out of prison some of those whose lives were crushed by his company back in the ninety nine he still bear the scars one of them is the widow of an official who was murdered in mysterious circumstances fifteen years ago are just

going to go investigate. some of them and that does this by the fact that hunter kosky has escape responsibility on those counts i'm convinced he's behind my husband's murder. when you put the hoof was shot dead on his way to work with the whole thing is to put your profile that he walked to work and he usually did and was shot he died from the last shot in the temple. it just was the if you got his murder we came tightly wound with one of the most notorious legal sagas of the twentieth century russia because kids from nine to ninety five they were junkies face to you q guns and they taxes to the city and the region. by the us was registered then so when it came to tax revenues it was answering to the mayor next to your guns with the hope they depended on him and that was the only reason why he even mattered how did they insist her late husband

as a mayor of the town because he was registered was approached by top managers of the company because i. first offered to reach an agreement so he called it a limitation of taxes back then a production reached about seventy million tonnes of oil here they said there was too much but the and seven eight million tonnes would be more than enough but you could not get the full refused to strike a deal moreover he went on hunger strike demanding an investigation into this alleging their corruption scheme involved many regional officials several days later he was found murdered and investigation found his killing was ordered by the co owner of ucas but many don't agree with what you're doing they believe that the hope is murder wasn't connected to you chris and the alleged tax fraud scheme that of course he himself said if there was the need to avoid taxes then there were many other ways it could have been done the former head of security at the company

received a life sentence for organizing. the before his wife is sure that the real mastermind has never been held to account. only time will solve the mystery surrounding my husband's murder but i'd just like a copy to confess and clear his conscience. in those are. a car bomb explosion has killed three people in russia's southern. city of pentagon risk the vehicle blew up on friday evening outside a local traffic police headquarters a blast with the force of fifty kilograms of t.n.t. ripped the car to shreds and shattered the windows of the nearby buildings police say the motive for the attack is unclear answer tends to place in this region which borders russia's volatile north caucasus republics were attacks and security forces are relatively common. which in our dear national now is take a look at some other stories making news around the world and we begin now with

southern india where fire on an express train has killed at least twenty three passengers including two children over sixty people were on board when the blaze engulfed a carriage early on saturday it's believed most of the victims suffocated in the six mo the cause of the fire is still unknown rescue teams are on site searching for survivors. and egyptian officials say at least five people have been killed in clashes between police and rock throwing supporters of the ousted president mohamed morsy security forces used water cannons and tear gas to disperse the crowds and arrested over two hundred people the government's been cracking down on the muslim brotherhood since july with a movement being declared a terrorist organization earlier this week the brotherhood has vowed to continue its rallies. a russian ship now stuck in the antarctic may have to wait until sunday for help a chinese icebreaker that was expected to rescue today was forced to turn back

after being unable to push its way through heavy ice the russian vessel academics a kosky wasn't a research expects position and got stuck on tuesday after a blizzard and powerful winds prevented it from advancing to. the chinese ship and a french vessel before it had been forced to retreat now all hopes are being pinned on this trail in ship which has the best chance of cutting through the ice but the passengers and crew are keeping their spirits high they have enough supplies and are in no danger of sinking the scientists on board are continuing their research despite the setback. the addicted matter of europe and that's the reputation the u.k. has earned itself in recent years according to a leading social policy think tank their report suggests one in twelve young brits have tried to so-called legal highs these drugs won't land you in jail but as reports may well be as dangerous as the air ban equivalence. pink panther bubble or

the magic dragon they may sound harmless to anything but these a mind altering substances that mimic the effects of drugs but they're legal and britain is consuming more of them than any other country we currently know that hundreds of websites are selling drugs online it does bring us to maybe there is at least one new product on the drug market each week two substances are advertised on line as a legal and save for a turn or two to illegal drugs then not fifty two people died from using psychoactive substances last year that's up seventy nine percent from the year before researchers at the university of hartford tell me about the newest substance they've been looking into cycling as you can see these substances are dangerous men died when did he take probably it was decided on the synthetic kind of noises smoked it but it's marketed as not for human consumption yes but of course people

buying it online they know perfectly how to use it the government's been accused of being an acceptably slow in its response to designer drugs flooding the country i. learned in clubs like this one a full to the gram every night revelers drinking and dancing having fun but the reality is rather more sober and. substance abuse is taking on new forms one addiction psychiatrist set up a special government funded clinic to deal with the abuse of so-called club drugs as for the clients we have lawyers we have nurses we have managers we have teachers we have a group of people who don't really necessarily and would label as drug users and i very much remember the very first day we opened and thinking well will anybody come you know will there be a demand for the service or not and actually

a couple of years. later we've been flooded with referrals at the moment the u.k. is not only the worst place in europe as far as legal high experimentation is concerned we also have the biggest heroin problem we have the biggest became an crack cocaine problem in europe and we also have one of the worst drinking problems in europe we have the worst female drinking problem the whole of europe so this can't be seen in isolation the truth is that more people particularly young people in the u.k. are trying to become addicted to drugs and alcohol than anywhere. and up next the story of that we can make so she adds who traveled across central asia in search of media outlets willing to publish leaked diplomatic cables but if you are watching from the u.k. as george galloway west sputnik.

summer break a time when all students rejoice and most importantly relax but in russia summer break for male students could change dramatically and involve lots of guns currently male russian citizens have to put a year into the armed forces but the ministry of defense thinks that they can make things easier by having students spend their summer breaks in the military this training would tie in with their future professions such as engineering students being put into military engineering position now the question is does your summer break belong to you or another words does the government have the right to tell you what to do and make you serve in the army even if just for three summers during your college years i think the answer this really depends on your culture in places which haven't been invaded countless times or have a strong individual ism streak any form of conscription sounds barbaric and oppressive but if you come from a country that is less individualistic and has been attacked invaded by pretty much every country that possibly could like russia then having a draft makes more sense i think this program could work and if i was in college i

would be pumped to spend my summer vacation with some heavy artillery but this is definitely not a universal idea for all countries i don't think liberals or libertarians in america would take too kindly to it and rightly so but that's just my opinion. yeah i got fired to their cars. because i wrote an article about.

the year conditions of work there since we journalists have when they were in israel palestine. and the year the journalists there they interviewed the very frank with me and they told me about the different things that they couldn't report to calm things that they could hear the censorship that the experienced in. at their workplace when the material was published two of the six journalists dared interview and they retracted their statement so you see the. face you seriously thought that you knew something in the dam or you think out of context or something i think if somebody does an interview with you and then you're entirely open frank about it. and then after a while maybe you realize that this is going to be shown on television and your boss is going to see this and your mother is going to see this and then you know you start.