spirally high level corruption scandal it triggered st malo says police break up crowds demanding the government's resignation. yes she can the 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 the government's. wall is not to be adversary their role is to be spokespeople journalist glenn greenwald scolds his colleagues for unquestioningly serving those in power as he addresses an international hackers conference. plus is the winds down we continue to look back at some of the most significant stories of twenty thirty among them the hunger striking detainees in guantanamo force fed in response

to their protest against indefinite detention. over good morning she just joined this morning kevin i mean this is our international coming she live from moscow it's one am here now and our top story this hour a massive anti-government demonstration in istanbul central square sparked by a high level corruption investigation has been violently dispersed by police demonstrators are now demanding the country's prime minister tayyip bedouins step down but the turkish leader refuses and says the allegations are a smear campaign. seen a stumble for us. then in the mock spy protests. over the past couple of weeks prime minister the fifth biggest challenge to his leadership in fighting the first time offense is once again take to the streets of istanbul and i think i think half

the police and the political family strong false thinking that the protest prime minister addressing the crowd that very much they were slight would say that this is a financial stand the curfew thing that's clear not sure quite that we will be facing a number of political stunts and the reason for the possibility that will benefit second right of corruption. understand exactly what ben i'm feeling bad for the fact that a professor at the head if that were thank you very much for joining us. let's start with mitt exactly is going on we're going to expect in the adrenaline cheval before anything happens to speak to that but at the moment we have three days that ministers. ministers the police have to do lines but i think it's true of that to conclude that actually everyone's governments become the pros and the person

repairer very strong very experienced ministers there. and after the family. maybe should remember seems to. have a reaction. to the political elections that it is too much time to put. the prime minister the best. branch which is of an isp elections would be best for mr mandela. and. then he would have to stand still be true surely you. can see. the rabbit and the sousa revise their policies rather bad. for you but if you lose your stubborn people think may be very difficult. for. or turkey's prime minister his part in addressing crowds of supporters in the country's western city but vowed to put up a fight refusing to give in to the protesters demands freelance journalist

a blogger a bullet was in istanbul's taksim square she told me the deep divides emerge with in turkish society. not just the crash of scandal it's just one of the recent explosives that that kind of came up on our one and leadership you have a big group of people who are against a ruling party and against the are no i'm but then there are so a considerable amount of people they so concerned about their charismatic leader and they still believe in everything that he says so whenever he goes on on camera as in my nice hour everywhere else that he's been in the past week ever since the corruption case i represent and he's been saying that you know this is a conspiracy theory that this is the work of israel or the us or our group movement itself people do believe him. coming up on the program in a few minutes we speak to the would do of a russian or assassinated in the wake of a conflict with mikhail khodorkovsky a former oil company tells the sushi thinks behind this murder is coming up as

a bit later. but next 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 else of course despite another federal judge concluding quote bulk phone records collection was likely unconstitutional and quote in a separate case is more important as the story. 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 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 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 with a secret status of the documents which expose the n.s.a. surveillance played a key role in this ruling john mcadams is an executive director of the robo institute for peace and prosperity he told me why he thinks the wording of the it could be cause for major concern. this ruling by judge of hallie on friday said that the a.c.l.u. doesn't have the right to challenge this collection of metadata because it was it

was gotten illegally because of the the revelations by snowden because congress meant for section two fifteen of the patriot act to be secret orders under that sentient to be secret and the a.c.l.u. had no right to challenge it when the implications are incredible if you think about it it means that if the government were illegally using two fifteen it in something we would object to we say as an illegal way use of two fifteen we could never challenge that because we weren't supposed to know that they were doing it it's absolutely chilling. this journalist glenn greenwald who found the revelation from n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden washed out of the mainstream media had to in a blind alley to government violations a statement came during his address to a hackers conference in germany between all of those in a forest at the international gathering. 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 and we also address the us if you were a jewish governments accusing them of team lisa 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 to 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 a bone 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 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 to do crypto parties fair we invite interested people to learn. about cryptography since a long while and we noticed since the summer that there's a huge crew eyes 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 anonymity 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 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 and find out how you know more relevant than ever well with the new year just around the corner we continue our look at more of the big events twenty thirty will be remembered for. and another of the year's biggest stories was the hunger strike again made some guantanamo bay detention center despite repeated promises from the u.s. to shut the infamous facility remains operational and continues despite public outrage and are secret behind the barbed wire to see what life's really like for the inmates. 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 garnham 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 local media whatever and they're welcome to come you know we tell them 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 policy 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 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 this said purpose of these ground rules to protect the safety and security of getting the operations to detainees you're not make it their mission so please 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 have a call to get it just not leading. giving the true picture i mean the only people who knows what goes on get more is i'm going to news 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 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 if we are as transparent as possible after one minute glimpse at one detainee our schedule is in fact all booked up i think i mean they they 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 any news related to the time to tell him that i know. that. 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. and we'll be keeping track of the hunger strike at guantanamo since it began in favorite just a click away on our website we've got a full time line of events surrounding the tories facility and for more stories that shape the year will bring you the reports of why a twenty so. why do you want to take.

these are you close to being counted sour here braving the elements in order to stand up to us oil giants chevron. this comes after a mass hunger strike that returned the world's attention to the place that some have dubbed the gulag of our times. is an undeclared global battlefield in which yemen is just one of the front lines. that is a. social science center just published

a study suggesting that two thirds of muslims in western europe hold their religious rules of the laws of the countries that believe that if you read the bible if you get if you go into christianity you find the sentence that you should obey god more than caesar. means religious schools more important and more convincing those of the students in the very same thing that is now referred to muslims. killed it. without the federal. consent to. choose to. choose the stories to. choose access to.

x. 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. going on asked such as how was you close connected to the murder or not of a mayor in the city where the oil giant was registered. spoke to the mayor's widow . and spite the fact that hunter kosky has escaped responsibility on those counts i'm convinced he's behind my husband's murder. that minute the hoof was shot dead on his way to work but the reporter profile that he walked to work and he usually did and was shot he died from the last challenge and the temple.

so you just how clearly if you got his money every game tightly wound with one of the most notorious legal saw goes a long shot you can skip the mining giant you feel if you don't evade taxes to the city and the region if they let them buy new cars was registered then when it came to tax revenues that it was answering to the mayodan if you guns can use that argument with the whole field they depended on them and that was the only reason why he even mastered chad how did i insist her late husband as a mayor of the town was doing i was approached by top managers and promptly i knew that i was their offer to write an agreement for them so he called an organization of taxes back then a production reached about seventy million tonnes of oil here they said there was too much but the and seventy eight million tonnes be more than enough but you

cannot let me talk with you since like you are if you want to hunger strike demanding these. legendary corruptions can you hold them in regional official says these leaders he was following really an investigation found his killing was ordered by the co owner of ucas but many don't agree with i want you to go to the beleaguered in hopes merger wasn't connected to the case and they allege a tax fraud scheme that of course he himself said did you know was going to tax them there were many other ways as could have been done the former head of security companies like. i was sure the mastermind has never been held. at the company and the best to get that only time will solve the mystery surrounding my husband but i just like to confess and clay has. achieved. this. with the solution yet let's use a couple stories on one side going

a lot of the. check it out yourself pangs of conscience forced the american professor to resign after he admitted that his revolutionary aids vaccine which brought him a multimillion dollar grant was in fact bring relief to those suffering or potentially. r.t. dot com is a place to get more on that plus you can have followed to the oceans most veracious predator on twitter find out what a strain scientists have come up with to keep swimmers from an unwelcome shark encounter on our website. saw a few things connected with the sea an update on that russian ship that's been caught in the antarctic for christmas with an australian scientific expedition on board may have to wait now for help a little longer apparently the vessel i could there make sure you got stuck in fake ice on tuesday two ice breakers a chinese ship a french vessel before it failed in their rescue mission they had to turn back now all hopes of being pinned on a stray lee and ship which is the best chance apparently of reaching the stranded

scientists we're the passengers or crew are keeping the spirits up they've got enough supplies and they're continuing the research despite the setback. in more world news in egypt a second students reportedly been killed following clashes with police of a university in cairo state media says the violence was sparked when supporters of the muslim brotherhood set fire to campus buildings organizers deny the allegations saying the demonstrators only resists the use of tear gas against them at least sixty students were arrested in the disturbance. in southern india a fire on express trains killed at least twenty three passengers including two children more than sixty people remained courage at the time when the fire broke out it's believed most of the victims suffocated officials say thick smoke comes from rescue efforts to the cause of the places still not. dating a story from bahrain that we brought you a few hours ago now we're hearing that alley selman the prominent leader of the main shia opposition bloc has been released hours after he was summoned for

questioning security forces used tear gas to disperse supporters of the gathered outside his home demanding as immediate release salmond was taken without explanation after anti-government speech which according to the sunni led government quote contained sectarian language to incite hatred. the addicted man of europe that's the reputation the u.k. zoned itself in recent years according to a leading social policy think tank their report suggests that one in twelve brits that's between the age of fifteen and twenty four has tried so-called legal highs that means there for around six hundred seventy thousand use of tried it now these drugs will land you in jail but as studies show they could be every bit as dangerous as their black list of equivalents in fact since twenty ten the government put temporary bans on fifteen sub substances because fast is happening these substitute drugs are popping up at an even quicker rate than the regulators can handle these polly boyd investigates. 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 should 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 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 and 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 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'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 cocaine and 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. the good news that you service twenty four seven just a few clicks away at all tito comb shoulders who through the nights who have bring you the latest news updates i'll be back tomorrow after the break breaking the set with host me.

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 any 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 think cry that firing him would violate his rights and i'm sure some websites would make him into a hero or demand a boycott or closer to a n.d. 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. economic down in the final. days the new york shanghai and the rest because i think it's the every week on. the the the. it's going on over on i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set another cold war is technically over looks like a new kind of arms race is alive and well so european leaders have just announced

they're forming a drone club decision of them decades in the making in france germany and several other you nations are pouring money into a new generation of armed drones to rival those used by the u.s. and israel looks like all of america's unmanned kills are leading to a bad case of drone and b. but it's not just europe that has set its sights on these deadly robots for the last few years iran has been working on its own drone fleet this week the islamic republic on a veil that's the largest armed unmanned aerial vehicles to date capable of striking targets almost anywhere in the middle east in fact the u.a.e. views are so popular now seventy six countries possess them according to government accountability office one can only hope our world leaders are taking into account the alarming inefficiency and deadly outcome of these drone wars because if they don't will find out the true danger of a global drone race. of the day.

it was a problem. very hard to take up early so. that he ever had sex with her right there looking. for the killer. of the for. the people. live lives that look. like that. this week another round of talks between the u.s. and eleven other countries regarding the transpacific partnership for t p p are taking place in salt lake city throughout the week people have been demonstrating and pro.