barling high level corruption scandal in turkey trigger street violence police break up crowds demanding the government's resignation. yes you can a federal judge rules it's legal for the n.s.a. to collect the phone records of millions of americans it helps to counter terrorism while american and british media are slammed for failing to challenge the government. is not to be adversaries their role is to be spokespeople journalist glenn greenwald scolds his colleagues for unquestioningly serving those in power as he addresses an international hackers congress. and this is the year winds down we look back at some of the most significant stories of twenty thirteen among them the hunger striking detainees at guantanamo force fed in

response to their protest against indefinite detention. well over it even if you just joined us in this is r.t. international currency live from moscow it's six pm here now our top story a massive anti-government demonstration in istanbul's central square has been violently dispersed by the police the rallies were sparked by a high level corruption investigation that's led to a major cabinet reshuffle and the arrests of several top officials demonstrators are now demanding the country's prime minister to step down but the leader of selves calling the corruption allegations a smear campaign security forces used tear gas and rubber bullets to push back the protesters in istanbul and crew indeed was there and got caught up in not chaos

that rocked. the pre-sets this town. and the police that. trying to push them back you say with a cannon the police. say this place has. been six. weeks. since we've. taken. the feet. to the first thing we see with the fame thing a challenge from the people. that will let you leave until you. take us to. the briefing to get you

back. to. where you can be some of the places. of the city's times that space. meantime turkey's prime minister is addressing crowds of supporters in the country's western city a minister you can see the latest pictures here you screen from a rally a valid to put up a fight refusing to give in to the protesters the mom's jeremy souls who associate professor of children university rank or you tell me who is being too aggressive towards. the fact is the prime minister has a very very strong hardcore supporters and they will believe anything he says has become more authoritarian of the last four years as you know and one can trace many kind of milestones in their progress from the the last elections which one very very comfortably we saw for example the beauty of the arab spring the way that he he had of the sunni syrian crisis was extremely aggressive and confrontational very

busey's and these are going to characteristics of his man in dealing with a protest inside his own country he's just gone kind of middle class people who have a genuine reason to protest government policies and he doesn't seem to understand them it doesn't seem to think that their protest is genuine they're all part of some kind of plot. coming up with a program to speak to the widow of a russian mera sasnett in the wake of a conflict with mikhail khodorkovsky his former oil company she tells us who she thinks is behind husband's murder just a few minutes from now. but next to one of the n.s.a.'s most a tourist surveillance techniques its sweeping phone tapping program has been ruled legal a federal judge said it's crucial for security because it collects everything and that's despite another federal judge concluding the quote bulk phone records collection was likely unconstitutional and that is more important reports. 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 during his decision he also raised the nine eleven attacks arguing that if the n.s.a.'s metadata 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. well meantime journalist glenn greenwald is when channeling revelations from n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden lashed out at the mainstream media for turning a blind eye to the government's while ations he made a keynote speech at a conference in germany scrutinizing the paper all of it was in how to for the international i. perhaps the most anticipated speech at this year's calles

communication conference was the keynote address by journalist and political commentator glenn greenwald he delivered his keynote speech by videophone to a packed out auditorium here in albuquerque and which he praised edward snowden for the work that he's done and also called on those governments that have shown indignation at the revelations of how much their citizens are being spied on by america and its allies to do more than just show that indignation that they should do more to help a man who has sacrificed much in order to bring them the truth though he also addressed the u.s. and british governments accusing them of routinely lying to their citizens and speaking about the press in those countries said that they were complicit in allowing the governments to do that lie you to understand just how the american and british media function or ball is not to be adversaries their role is to be people all those actions they pretend to exercise over say the role of the us media and

their british counterparts is to be voices for both with the greatest power and to protect their interests and serve them but this conference isn't just about the speakers it's also about workshops and we spoke to some of the organizers who are telling us just how with a little bit of knowledge you can help try and protect yourself. with things like encrypted emails now to the likes of me who are borderline computer illiterate and also quite frightening however they sold me with just a small amount of knowledge you can make sure that what you want to stay private states private be too quick to parties fair we invited interested people to learn a. cryptography since a long while and we noticed since the summer that there's huge through ice in requests for those trips 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 anonymity in the internet teach this to other people we 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 now the conference always draws a good crowd this is the thirtieth year that it's been running however this year following those revelations from edward snowden it seems that more and more people are wanting to find out how they could look after their personal information online they've been coming here to try to find out how we're all over there coming up as if problems with illegal drug addiction were not enough for the u.k. the country has now become an online hub for buying and selling the legal equivalent of class a drug for the report coming up. but with the new year just around the corner we continue our look at the big events twenty thirteen will be remembered for. one of the year's biggest stories was the hunger striking inmates of guantanamo bay

detention said despite repeated promises from the u.s. to shut the infamous facility it remains operational it continues to spark public rage and r.t. crew were behind the barbed wire to see what life was like for the inmates there. 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 every week we get media like yourself international media or local media or 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 or the material that you guys are gathering to make sure that it abides 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 the program established to a car or a car program accomplished with regulation 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 here not to get their vision so we try to photograph them to take down we are warned violations of media ground rules may result in restricted access denial of future visits and or removal from guantanamo bay. people just kind of mislabeled

it and i have called the four bia just not leading. giving the true picture i mean the only people who knows what goes on and get more is under the twenty's and getting the detainee's side of what goes on at 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 is 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 it we are as transparent as possible after one minute glimpse at one detainee our schedule is in fact all booked up by their command paper they were taken to the detention camp kitchen to witness how well things were on their bill since we're 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 the 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 do you do anything related to the time to teach him. like. that 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. we spoke to us federal public defender carlos warner who represents several guantanamo detainee easy believes media coverage funny pushed the administration into releasing those cleared to leave. 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 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. she's been keeping track of under struck at one time or since began back in february just a click away on a website we go to full time on the use the rather than the tories facility and for more stories that you will be bringing you special. because. these are. braving the elements in you want to stand on u.s. soil giants chevron. comes after a massive hunger strike that returned the world's attention to the place that summed up jobs the gulag of our times. is an undeclared global battlefield in which again and it's just one of the front lines.

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the wave of media right now with journalists across the globe seeking to interview the high profile former prisoner but important questions about his controversial actions back to the ninety nine years ago. such as how it was connected to the mudir of a mayor in the city where it was registered. looking

at some of the cars that spike the fact that her kosky has escaped responsibility on those counts i am convinced he is behind my husband's murder. lupita who was shot dead on his way to work at the hole in your slip or your pilot he walked to work as he usually did and was shot he died from the last chart in the temple. but it does husband was the mayor of his few guns his murder riggin tightly wound with one of the most to tourists legal sagas of the russia case from one thousand nine hundred five giant was based in a few ganske and they'd taxes to the city and the region. by ucas was registered there so when it came to tax revenues it was answering to the mayor of next to your guns but the whole of they depended on him and that was the only reason why he even mattered why did they insist her late husband as

a mayor of the town where you guys was registered was approached by the top managers of the company with a look of offer. at first they offered to reach an agreement they called it optimization of taxes back then production reached about seventy million tonnes of oil a year they said there was too much but the and seven eight million tonnes would be more than enough but was it the hoff refused to strike a deal moreover he went on hunger strike demanding investigation into vehicles 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 that finding they believe that the two halves 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 from

a. divorced 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 her to kake to confess and clear his conscience. even though school. on life was free right now pangs of conscience force an american professor to resign after admitted to the revolutionary aids vaccine which brought him a multi million dollars grant won't bring relief to those suffering disappointing news for it's a reason if you don't read it more about that society dot com today also as well you can follow the ocean's most voracious predator on twitter find out what a stray and scientists have come up with to keep swimmers from an unwelcome shark encounter on our web site. tracking that russian ship has been caught in the antarctic for christmas with the australian

scientific expedition on board but it may now have to wait until sunday for help the vessel academic should got stuck in think ice on tuesday two icebreakers a chinese ship and a french vessel before it failed in their rescue mission now the to turn back now or hopes of being pinned on an honest really and ship which has the best chance of reaching the stranded scientists meantime the passengers and crew are keeping their chins up we hear they got enough supplies and are continuing their research despite the setback. the addicted man of europe that's the reputation the u.k. is in itself in recent years according to a leading social policy think tank their report suggests one in every twelve brits between the age of fifteen and twenty four has tried so-called legal highs that means a total of six hundred seventy thousand youngsters now these drugs won't land you in jail but his studies show could be every bit as dangerous as their black listed equivalents indeed since twenty ten the government's put temporary bans on fifteen

such substances but these substitute drugs are popping up at a faster rate than the regulators can handle artie's polly boyd to reverse the gates. 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 should tell me about the newest substance they've been looking into cycling as you can see these substances are

dangerous men died when we did he take probably it was disappointing 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. london clubs like this one a full to the brim every night revelers drinking dancing having fun but the reality is rather more sobering. 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 the lawyers we have nurses we have managers we have to choose we have a group of people who do we necessarily and would label as drug users and i

very much remember the very first day we put it in 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'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 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 else. r.t. . more of the day's top news stories syrian opposition group says the government's launched an airstrike on the country's largest city aleppo the board say the attack killed at least twenty of the helicopters drop barrel bombs near a hospital or market aleppo has been

a major front in the country's civil war since rebels launched an offensive there have been twenty twelve the city is now divided into rebel and government controlled areas in egypt a student protest has been killed in clashes with police at the university in cairo state media says the violence sparked after supporters of the muslim brotherhood set fire to two campus buildings organizers deny the allegations saying the demonstrators only resisted the use of tear gas against them at least sixty students were arrested in the emirates. twenty five or six here in moscow next news update then just played thirty four minutes time with me kevin i mean next about international review what she wrote the world special report on wiki leaks warm censorship and if you're in the u.k. watching is there evening to you start with breaking the set with host abby martin and joy.

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 other 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. she's the.

mom. i'm not. sure i got fired do because. because i wrote an article about her. about the year conditions of work since we journalists have when they were going to israel by this time. and the year journalists that they interviewed they were very frank with me and they told me about different things that you couldn't report to calm things than the good and the censorship that to be experienced in. there. at their workplace when the material that was published two of the six journalists that are tired of you they retracted their statements so

you see the. face you see. that you get something in the dam or you think out of a long text 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. you know you start understanding the consequences it's not just a conversation between you and your friends but in reality i just evolved about it because i think to an extent. i made a very big mistake with this with that article and the mistake that i did was that i was. hard to know very journalistic very difficult journalistic work. about journalists and the standards for doing the journalistic work about journalism has to be one hundred.