anti-government protesters violently dispersed by riot police in the stamboul as a corruption scandal shakes up turkey's ruling elite. 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 from washington d.c. that mass surveillance violates the constitution also. the reporter who broke the edward snowden leaks lashes out a fellow journalist at a happier conference in germany for giving governments an easy ride and failing to put the spotlight on official wrongdoing. lots more than one hundred fifty detainees at guantanamo bay prepare to and her and another year without charge or do you process we bring you our special report from america's notorious military

prison. which marty international coming to you live from moscow with me maria joshing. a massive anti-government protest has spiraled out of control in central is stamboul the rallies a rapid over a top level corruption investigation that force a major cabinet reshuffle and resulted in the arrests of twenty four people including the sons of two ministers and the head of a state owned bank prime minister. insists that probe is a smear campaign but that hasn't quell the public anger with crowd shouting catch the thief demanding that he step down rival use force the mob back tear gas artists or would. you go to the places this down to the safety and the police again trying to push them back using this. and the police the way to be that's unfair for this

protest tonight and the calling this is something that we've seen quite a bit and thanks if you think that's a good news because to stay put it through we see a listing maybe since we think we can cut it because of the insult to the political risk it was very good i'm going to make the case has no one can fight the best way but the cause here but the first thing we see the prime minister the you think the challenge not only from the people who will tell you we will see them with a new government then say we're. going to be a minute we'll let you believe it or you. believe you. they should really take us with them because that's that was leaving you to believe some of the phrases the glitchy back was to.

this week indeed it was some of the place where they said that was the nicest and they got it on taxes that they were they were clearly out of the cities tidings that was hard to say because they said well experts have been saying the most recent protests bring back the violence seems 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 has jeremy salt an associate professor bill can university in ankara. the fact is the prime minister has a very very strong supporters and they will believe anything he says has become more authoritarian of the last four years so you know one can trace many kind of milestones that progress will be the last elections she 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 confrontational very abusive and this has been the

characters he's moving on dealing with a protest inside his own country he's just gone from the middle class people who have a genuine basic reason to protest. and he doesn't seem to understand that he doesn't seem to think that the protest a genuine they're all part of some kind of plus. we'll continue to follow the unrest in turkey so stay with us for the latest developments right here and the line of course at r.t. dot com. and you are a 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 that dragnet surveillance would likely be proven unconstitutional the lawsuit brought by the american civil liberties union was dismissed by the ride's group and is expected to appeal the motion maria board now has the details a federal judge in new york william of pauly 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 matter. 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 mehta data program most likely violated the fourth amendment as part of that ruling a 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. now threats to online privacy and new ways of protecting data have generated unprecedented global interest in a hackers conference which started out as a small i.t.

get together and the chaos communication congress is now underway in hamburg or despair 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 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 auditorium he praised the work that edward snowden did done the 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 u.s. 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 uncalled 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 when 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 comp. to relate to it like myself that can sound quite daunting 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 try but

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 in requests 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 anonymously in the internet teach this to other people we actually asked people when they came why do i argue 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 more a whole people want to learn how to protect themselves online and still people like the n.s.a. snooping on them. at will be bringing you more updates from the conference here on our team. but i had in a program here in the international toxic imitation experts tell r t britain has

become an international line help for selling and consuming the legal equivalent of class a drugs that could actually be just as harmful as the originals. and former russian oligarch meal how to calm me out of prison but some of those who remember how you spoiled company fought its way to the top say it left plenty of victims along the way we'll talk to the widow of one of them in just a few minutes. jamie diamond is a guy who's begging to be euthanized and i think as a country is a world we should get together and answer his wish he wants to become one with his maker he says look i broke the law please arrest me i want to go to jail and be abused by hundreds of thousands of inmates and some on godly way that's my goal in life i'm tired of being free put me in prison i beg you so he breaks more and more

laws but unfortunately the law breaking becomes the basis of the g.d.p. for a country of qatar pursued like america and they can't put him in jail because they need him out there breaking the law so they can pay themselves huge bonuses at the end of the year so he's really is an existential crisis. right from the street. first street view and i think the true. on our reporters twitter. and instagram. to be in the. welcome back you're watching r t international as the world prepares to welcome in the new year we're looking back at our coverage of the top stories of two thousand

and thirteen and bringing you a recap of what made them so significant. u.s. president has approved a law easing the transfer of guantanamo bay detainees to their home countries but it's still a far cry from actually closing the tories prison which barack obama has been promising to do for years in the wake of a mass hunger strike they dragged on to a most of two thousand and thirteen r.t. one behind the barbed wire of get. transparency is a word repeated by u.s. officials working at guantanamo like a mantra by those few who are comfortable speaking on camera you see the conditions under which the detainees live you get to talk to the people who are responsible for garner we make it is transparent as possible and those preferring to remain on identifiable like the majority of officials we were permitted to speak to do we get

media like yourself international media or local media whatever and they're welcome to come you know we tell them what we have any journalists workflow at guantanamo starts with a mandatory introduction to media rules the so-called operation security briefing the material that you guys are gathering to make sure that it divides by our policies here even though transparency is a word brought up by all the personnel we talked to on the ground we as journalists access to detainees aside are asked to be very careful about the shots we filmed all the backdrops and at the end of each day videos are reviewed and any shots deemed unacceptable are deleted this one will be ok because palm trees are not too controversial remind you of any frowned upon seaward like censorship it's this series of program established to our. program accomplished within the purview of sorry all video and audio recordings and even sketches are carefully studied cell phones are banned from camps we're not supposed to put anything on facebook or anything like that or you know even worry about talking about it over

the you know anything over the phone the said purpose of these ground rules to protect the safety and security of get more operations to detainees you're going to get their vision so we try to photograph them down we are warned violations of media ground rules may result in restricted access denial of future visits and or remove all from guantanamo. if people just kind of mislabeled it and have called the good will for just not. giving the true picture i mean the only people who knows what goes on get more oss and the detainees and getting the detainees side of what goes on and get most apparently just couldn't be done after an extensive explanation of how exactly we are to film the prisoners the amount of detainee face time we get a total of one minute and five seconds through a dark glass window the reason we're given out of respect for them and not using them as as you know. you know. making them

some kind of curiosity you know on film a thing like that we don't want to do that despite our requests to not even film but at least witness more real prison or life a high ranking guantanamo admiral convinces us that we actually have a lot more access than we think you're seeing what there is to to see you know. given the amount of time that you have here to to see if we are as transparent as possible after one minute glimpse at one detainee our schedule is in fact all booked up there i mean they they were taken to the detention camp kitchen to witness how well things were on their wilsons were not really being allowed to close to the detainees this might be the closest glimpse of their life we might be getting today we're being told that these are the meals that they're offered on a daily basis. we're also taken to the only local radio station all made up like zombies in the audience military personnel serving at the base you do any news

related to the time to teach them. to public media because. you know there's enough journalists over there covering that music sports and talk radio pure infotainment rains here. and so we learned there were not the only ones simply being treated to a show and party one tunnel bay cuba. u.s. federal public defender carles warner represents several guantanamo detainees he says the media coverage this year helped set in motion the framework for releasing prisoners the president. promised in in his first election campaign to close guantanamo it took the hunger strike for him to wake up on this issue and really turn the light switch on it began with him complaining that congress was prohibiting him from doing any of these transfers and we work very hard colleagues

in people on the right and the left in the united states to give the president the power to transfer these individuals and he now has it one of the concerns i have with my clients and one of the things that i assure is that when they are transferred that they're transferred to a safe place that they will not be persecuted or prosecuted for things that they haven't done. already has been keeping track of this year's hunger strike and went on and since it began in february and you can have to come for a comprehensive timeline of events of that infamous detention center also on our website right now. from anonymous to us on jam and sound so to manning check out our tease top thirteen of the year our web page down the biggest stories to fly under the mainstream media greater during twenty thirty. plus you would normally expect a princess to serve as a police officer especially in a conservative muslim nation but that's just what's happened in bahrain find out

how her background allegedly helped her get away with torture allegations on our web site. with me a lot of cost you now out of prison some of those whose lives were crushed by his company back in the one nine hundred ninety s. still bear the scars one of them is the widow of an official who was murdered in mysterious circumstances fifteen years ago art is going to investigate. at some. because this by the fact that holocaust he has escaped responsibility on those counts i am convinced he is behind my husband's murder. wasn't that the hoof was shot dead on his way to work but the whole thing is there for your profile that he walked to work and he usually did and was shot he died from the last chart and the temple. it just was the mayor if you got his morning became tightly wound with one of the most a tourist legal sagas of the twentieth century russia you could skate from one

thousand and five the world giantess face to you can dance evade taxes to the city and the region and they're welcomed by the us was registered there so when it came to tax revenues that it was answering to the mayor or next to your guns can be met 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 this was registered was approached by top managers of the complete i. was first offered to reach an agreement they called it optimization of taxes back then production reached about seventy million tons 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 imagine if the first few six tried to deal over he went on hunger strike demanding 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 him on using they believe that to hold his murder wasn't connected to you chris and they allege a 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 divorce my wife is sure that the real mastermind has never been held to account. that only time will solve the mystery surrounding my husband's murder but i'd just like her to kake to confess and clear his conscience. and even go. it has to go to some other stories from around the world. in southern india fire on an express train is 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 and

officials say the sick smoke has been hampering rescue efforts the cause of the fire is still unknown. in egypt 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 cannon 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 as vowed to continue its rallies. south sudanese government has agreed to start to go shooting with rebel forces in a bid to hold the violence plaguing the newly formed nation recent fighting is estimated to have left at least a thousand people dead on tuesday the united nations approved plans to almost double its peacekeeping presence there while rich south sudan has been in the grip of a power struggle between rival armed groups since again in the pan as in twenty wanted

. a russian ship that's now stuck in the arctic with an international group of scientists and tourists on board 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 sick the vessel academic chicago was on a research expedition and got stuck on tuesday after a blizzard a powerful winds prevented it from advancing to eyes breakers the chinese ship and a french vessel before it have been forced to retreat now all hopes are being pinned on a stray away and ship which has the best chances of cutting through the ice by the passengers and crew are keeping their spirits high they have enough supplies and are in no danger of sinking and the scientists on board are continuing their research despite the setback. the addicted math of europe that's the

reputation the u.k. has earned itself in recent years according to. there are reports of just one in twelve young brits have tried so-called legal highs these drugs won't land you in jail but as police reports they will be as dangerous as they are banned 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 to 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 decide one dissenter the kind of noises moped 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 fall 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 this service or not and actually a couple of years. later we need 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 cane in crack cocaine problem in europe and we also have one of the worst drinking problems in europe you know the worst female drink. so this can't be seen in isolation the truth is that more people particularly young people in the u.k. try to lead to drugs and alcoholism. next kaiser is next with all the scandals behind financial headlines.

although i have gone duck hunting a few times i've never seen the duck dynasty t.v. show but gosh if i heard about the standoff involving one of the stars of the show phil robertson who got suspended for making what many consider anti homo sexual comments in an interview this celebrity scandal is creating a lot of arguments about freedom of speech on social networks many people who believe that robertson deserved to be booted from the show for what he said argue that freedom of speech means that robertson can't be arrested by the government for what he said but the eighty t.v. channel has the right to fire whom they like the thing is that if this situation were reversed and robertson was fired for making pro l.g. p.t. statements then people who are currently defending any right to hire and fire as

they please would all be bashing the t.v. channel for violating the star's freedom of speech they cry that firing him would violate his rights and i'm sure some websites would make him into a hero or demand a boycott a closed and a forever very few people actually believe in freedom of speech for all they just believe in freedom of speech for people who agree with them but that's just my opinion. welcome to the kaiser report i'm max kaiser nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth. nothing is or them flattery which is why the financial details jamie diamond for example as a hero just having a ball rescuing the financial system he helped destroy while the truth is according

to david de end of so on my magazine j.p. morgan c.e.o. just violated a federal statute during a prison sentence but will the punishment fit the crime states arab or max yes i think this was the liberal media in america their kind of miracle on park avenue they were fantasizing before christmas jamie diamond's perp walk why it could be this year's christmas miracle so even putting aside the rap sheet of crimes committed by j.p. morgan chase over the past several years for which a c.e.o. can be said to be ultimately responsible just a week ago jamie dimon explicitly violated a federal statute that carries a prison sentence that he's a free man today with no fear of prosecution doesn't only speak to our two tiered system of justice in america it should color our perceptions of new rules and regulations that supposedly get tough on the financial industry as we recognize that any law is only as strong as the individuals who enforce them so by his own admission apparently jamie diamond violated section nine zero six of the sarbanes

oxley act by his own admission yes yes because he's just dumping people he's just letting them know that he can break the law with impunity i think it still impress his kids maybe they want to see daddy break the law and get on t.v. i mean it's amusing isn't it the banking industry at the end of the day is very easy business it's like a utility business you're just essentially loaning money out there you're taking in and you're making a spread on the difference in those two interest rates as the banking industry sort of jazz it up to give a banker like jamie diamond some kind of amusing reason to go to work he breaks the law is the same way kids would rip off the wings off fly flies or maybe a serial killer likes to go around killing people and burying them in the backyard just to break up the monotony of being you know in middle class nincompoops jamie likes to break the law he's a liza he lays a law breaking it that.