i. aspire aling high level corruption scandal in turkey trigger street violence as 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 telephone records of millions of americans as it helps to counter terrorism while american and british media are slammed for failing to challenge their government. all is not to be adversary their role is to be spokespeople all journalist glenn greenwald scolds his colleagues for unquestioningly serving those in as he addresses an international company. and this year winds down with a packet some of the most significant stories of twenty thirty eight among them the hunger striking detainees in guantanamo force fed in response to their protest

against indefinite detention. hello good evening for me kevin owen here in moscow very please you can join me there for a latest news update here about the international a top story the note eight pm here a massive anti-government demonstration in istanbul central square has been violently dispersed by the police the rallies were sparked by a high level corruption investigation has led to a major company reshuffling the arrests of several top officials demonstrations now demanding the country's prime minister tayyip bedouins step down but the leader of the corruption allegations a smear campaign against the security forces used tear gas and rubber bullets to push back to protest as in istanbul last night now it's a crude. was there and got caught up in the chaos that the rough for. the police

assisting with the safety and the police will be trying to push them back using us because the people really believe that this protest cleanness is simply. think if he thinks it's a good thing he's making the statistics. we've seen. since we think one could think that. the police committed any feat. because he a bit the first thing we see in the play the piece thing a challenge me from the people you would think would be loosely then with. him it will be for you to be. doing this you. think i. was leaving you feeling

the effects of let's think back i. think i think. we could be some of the places. any of the cities telling us that space crime is because they. serve furthur well turkey's prime minister has been addressing a crowd of supporters in the country's western city of minister. to put up a fight refusing to give in to the protesters demands. as a cable issues in istanbul's taksim square last night either things take time to be with us tell us what you saw i mean what did you see how balanced was the police reaction. well there i don't i don't think their reaction was balanced at all i was walking towards success square from a nearby neighborhood. and already on the way to attacks from square there were a little pockets of police buses parked and waiting base appeared to reattack any time and these were probably maybe like twenty minutes to walk walking distance of

sections there so they were getting ready and when i got there i realized that there were there's a lot more police than there are protesters and initially original rally was that it planned for seven pm but police started attacking half an hour before that already and by six thirty they were updates from the square from from people who were at the square saying that police is using police were using water cannons and rubber bullets actually really just going to try what you saw the police moved in first before the protesters would actually while the actual rally was supposed to take at seven pm it was organized by text and so there it was announced on twitter some people worse were actually gathering and coming to texas where for the for their alley and to hear the statement from attacks from so america but unfortunately it was their way before the way before their presence there themselves the majority of the protesters excuse me and so there was a lot more police than the protests initially at seven pm. the

crisis is there's a live news empowered to this corruption scandal as the more two of them going to glass of water. i'm sorry i always get you when you live on television. is it just don't to the corruption scandal or is there more to it why are people so peeved with the. well it's not just a corruption scandal it's just one of the recent explosives that that kind of came upon our don and his leadership it all started way before that and as you know this summer was pretty critical for our go on and how he reacted to that protest as well so it's it's kind of attack after not attack except this time it didn't come from the outside it came from with them the party itself. and from the government itself so it was a local issue the corruption issue that erupted and damaged our once reputation and forced all these people outside on the streets of these protestors soit obviously all the covers

a good to see what's the german rules strength of feeling for his policy well it's kind of a kind of it's kind of divided you have a big of people who are against a ruling party and against the art aren't regime but then there are still a considerable amount of people as our no one says himself are often the fifty percent of the people still support and they still concern him a very charismatic leader and they still believe in everything that he says so whenever he goes on camera as in my nice hour or before in samson or everywhere else that he's been in the past week ever since the corruption case erupted and he's been saying that you know this is the conspiracy theory that this is the work of israel or the u.s. or argue that movement itself people do believe i'm still because of his popularity and because of this power that he holds in the country for example the program should. thank you thank you for having me. one of the in the sages most notorious surveillance techniques and sweeping from

topping programs been ruled illegal a federal judge said it's crucial for security because it collects everything and quote i want to spot another federal judge concluding that the phone records collection was likely to. port most of the story . 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 that 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 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. is very controversial metadata program the u.s. 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 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 this is journalist glenn

greenwald who's been channeling revelations from n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden of course to the mainstream maybe even turning a blind dog to the government's violations he made a keynote speech should a haikus come from germany. who was in the forest for the. gathering. perhaps the most anticipated speech of this year's calles communication conference was the keynote address point 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 they citizens of 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 our 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 bows 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 line with things like encrypted emails now to the likes of me who are borderline computer illiterate i can 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

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 on the misleading the internet teach this. to other people he 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 the conference always drools a good crowd this is the thirtieth year that it's being running however this year the following those revelations from edward snowden it seems that more and more people wanting to find out how they could look after their personal information online they've been coming here to try to find out how. peter all of a paid we speak to the widow of a russian matter assassinated in the wake of a conflict with mikhail khodorkovsky former oil company she tells us who she thinks was behind her husband's murder just

a few minutes from now. jamie diamond is a guy who's begging to be euthanized and i think as a country as a world he 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 the 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 kentucky 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 on the scene. first for you and i think that you're.

on a reporter's. instrument. to be in the. hello again with a new year just around the corner we continue our look at the major events twenty thirteen is set to be remembered for. one of the biggest stories of the year was the hunger striking inmates of guantanamo bay detention center despite repeated promises from the u.s. to shut the infamous facility it remains operational and continues to spark public outrage and r.t. crew went behind the barbed wire in the air to see what life was like for the a

mates 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 but 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 the material that you guys are gathering to make sure that it divides by our policies here even though transparency is a word brought out 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 in this series the program established to a car or a car program accomplished with regulation sorry old video and audio recordings and even sketches are carefully studied cellphones 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 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 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 if people just kind of mislabeled it and i have a call to get before just not. giving the true picture i mean the only people who

knows what goes on get more is os 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 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 that time and they say were taken to the detention camp kitchen to witness how well things run their will 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 of detention camp. 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 learn there we're not the only ones simply being treated to a show and party one tunnel bay cuba. we'll be keeping track of the hunger strike

since it began in february just a click away on our website we've got a full timeline of events surrounding the tories facility for more stories that shape the year bringing you our special report why twenty thirty or not. these locals to be. braving the elements in order to stand on u.s. soil giants. this comes after a massive hunger strike that returned the world's attention to the place that summed up the gulag of our times. is an undeclared global battlefield in which yemen is just one of the front lines. oh.

pardon deck's tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky is riding the wave of media hype these days with journalists across the globe seeking to interview the former high profile prisoner but important questions about his company's controversial actions back of the one nine hundred ninety s. ago and asked such as how was connected or not to the murder of a mayor in the city where the oil giant was registered. spoke to the mayor's widow . and despite the fact that hunter kosky has escaped responsibility on those counts i am convinced he is behind my husband's murder. as you know that the hoof was shot dead on his way to work. he walked to work and he usually did and was shot he died from the last shot in the temple. but it does husband was the mayor of his few guns his murderer game tightly wound

with one of the most notorious legal sagas of the russia the case from one thousand nine hundred five giant was based in new q ganske and they'd taxes to the city and the region. by yukos 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 how did they insist her late husband as a mayor of the town were you because he was registered was approached by top managers of the company who look to get off. at first offer to reach an agreement they called it optimization of taxes back then production reached about seventy million tons of oil a year they said there was too much but the and seven hundred million tonnes would be more than enough. to hope for a few three strike a deal moreover he went on hunger strike demanding an investigation into vehicles alleging their corruption scheme involved many regional officials several days

later he was found murdered an 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. the divorce why it 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. check those stories online through our t. dog home right now pangs of conscience forces american professor to resign after admitted that his revolutionary aids vaccine which brought

a multimillion dollar grant won't bring relief to those suffering we've got more on the revelation r.t. dot com you can now follow the ocean's most voracious predator on twitter you can find out what a story in science has to come up with to keep swimmers from unwelcome shark encounter on our website. police in bahrain of arrested a prominent leader of the main shia opposition bloc early solomons accused of anti government activities in the sunni led kingdom pushes tear gas to disperse supporters that the gathered outside his home demanding immediate release he's been summoned five times before by the authorities also survived an assassination attempt last year i gather on the we go live to a side how the messiah is a member of the same party as solomon i say live on r.t. if you did hear me what exactly is. facing now that he's been arrested can you tell me exactly what he's charged with them and what's ahead for him. well so so they

morning early morning they sent him a police summons and they asked him to attend to the c.i. the criminal investigation department actually he went on time two o'clock but. he was surprised that they shifted him to the p.p.o. public prosecution our first. three hour clock fifteen pm until now. we have no any idea about the decision are they going to arrest detained him they were released the problem behind this call yesterday we believe this is not just that they. pray in capital manama he tried to criticize the policy of the author if he. tried to remind the people

of about what's happened on two thousand and thirteen which which means that is talking about this through ation in bahrain calling for them across the calling for peaceful demonstration this. is conserved by the authority as a fine unfortunately i. hate you and your party want a constitutional monarchy for bahrain or anywhere near getting that at any stage soon. actually this is a kind of struggle we are calling for constitutional monarchy because we believe that's what's existing now it's dictatorship it's corruption in politics it's just the right royal family which on everything on all authority legislation. judicial everything so we need to change our situation in peaceful manner and professional political

activities unfortunately. they don't appreciate this kind of opposition which is very peaceful. where the biggest. block in the in the parliament and back and they should consider this and put it on their mind unfortunately what sort of public support do you want to support base actually since colley been shifted to with a p.p.o. the people tried to demonstrate on roads and the authority sent their police forces to says that you guys on the other hand are slopes of people trying to get out to protest against if they decide to check ali in detention. actually believes that the. democratic powers are. called.

to prevent them. detaining because they did not invaded the. really prominent famous leader ok bahraini opposition party members. thank you for explaining what's going on they'll be keeping pressure the story closely thank you. all right my skies is next will the scandals be on the financial headlines with more news who just have often i was time maybe catching that. 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 to 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 of 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 are libertarians in america would take too kindly to it and rightly so but that's just my opinion.

welcome to the cuz the report max kaiser nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth nothing easier than flattery which is why the financial news hails 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. 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 press is kids maybe they want to see.