there are. turkish police fired tear gas and rubber bullets and dispersing protesters angry with high level corruption scandal and demanding the government's resignation. right to new york a judge says it is illegal for the n.s.a. to gather phone data in bulk the verdict contradicts a ruling in a different case which found the n.s.a. surveillance to be constitutional. or winds down we'll look back at some of the most significant stories of two thousand and thirteen among them the force feeding of hunger striking detainees in guantanamo protesting against indefinite detention. and the hunger strike is largely an officially said

to be over we know that at least fifteen people are continually being force fed here today the procedure was described as a form of torture by the un but the notorious detention camp remains open despite public outrage and to president obama's pledges to close it. and it live from our studios in moscow this is thomas going to have you with us now a massive anti-government demonstration in east on bulls central square sparked by a high level corruption investigation has been violently dispersed by police demonstrators are now calling for the country's prime minister tayyip to want to step down but he refuses to give in to their demands reports. the

mock spy prepared. for the past couple of weeks prime minister. the biggest challenge to his leadership in fighting the first time offense is once again take to the street. and i think half the family and the political family continues to run false thinking that the protests prime minister addressing the crowds that very much they would fly would say that this is the financial fair through it but of course anything that's clear not sure quite that would be for a number of political stunts and there is a possibility that with their fear they can write a corruption. understand exactly what ben i'm feeling bad for the fact that the professor to hit them with thank you very much for joining us. let's start with a little exactly is going on we're going to expect in the at a government cheval before anything happens. if you do that but at the moment we have three resigned ministers and. ministries with no spread to humans but i think

it's true of that to conclude that actually sounds better when we come through and the person repair a very strong very experienced minister is there. and after that and we. maybe should remember seems to. have a reaction. to the political elections that it is too much time to put. the prime minister the mattapan. branch which has been disproven actions would be test for mr mandela. a very early election and then he would have to stand still be true surely you. can see. the rabbit and the sousa rivera's there but this is rather bad. for you but if you stand there whether people think may be very difficult. we're going for.

our teaser first. goal getting public opinion on the ongoing government crisis in turkey you can find it on her twitter account also there are pictures from the streets where protesters are venting their anger over a corruption scandal and demanding the government to resign. turkey's prime minister has been addressing crowds of supporters in the country's western city of miami he blamed foreign agents for carrying out what he called a smear campaign freelance journalist and blogger. was taksim square says even deep divide has emerged within turkish society. it's not just the crash and 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 their no i'm. 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 crash and 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 u.s. or argue that movement itself people do believe that. a gathering of phone data from millions of americans is illegal and it helps to counter al qaeda and that's what a federal u.s. judge ruled in a case putting a major civil rights organization against the national intelligence chief but nearly two weeks ago in a separate case another judge said that the n.s.a. is phone data collection was unconstitutional. as details. a federal judge in new york william of paulie 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 meditative 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 the secret status of the documents which exposed the n.s.a. surveillance played a key role in this ruling daniel mcadams is an executive director of the ron paul institute for peace and prosperity he told us why he thinks the wording of the

verdict could cause 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 that 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. meanwhile some of the world's most well known hackers and cyber activists are discussing ways to counter the n.s.a.'s digital surveillance

they have gathered in hamburg before the thirtieth annual chaos communications congress journalist glenn greenwald who has been releasing edward snowden's n.s.a. leaks gave a keynote address via video chat he criticized the mainstream media for being servants of the government and cited his recent interview as an example. it was on this program called hard talk and i at one point had made what i thought was the very unremarkable an uncontroversial observation that the reason why we have a free press is because national security officials reaching levi 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 pull the you would suggest that senior officials generals in the united states and the british government are actually making false claims to the public how can you also.

getting quite a reaction there now still ahead in the program we report on america's notorious guantanamo bay detention camp. marez by play since two thousand and two. by president obama's promises to close the prison it remains operational holding over one hundred detainees the majority of whom have been cleared to return to their native countries. plus a britain has become an international online hub for selling and consuming the legal equivalents of class a drugs according to experts and they could be just as harmful as the originals all details coming up shortly. jamie diamond is a guy who's big. 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 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. was very interesting because all the dropped out of the sky in the roar of. the were shift across a few degrees. do a circle and at a speed which you know just astronomical speeds as you know they travel very very is it just look like a falling star that falls really quickly and then rises again what does it look like a lot of just look like a star. and

welcome back you're watching our team now with the new year just around the corner we continue our look at the major events two thousand and thirteen will be remembered for. now one of the year's biggest stories wasn't the hunger striking inmates at the guantanamo bay prison in july the number of detainees refusing food reached one hundred people before it began to drop but it has now become impossible to keep track of how many prisoners are on hunger strike earlier this month the u.s. military stated that it will no longer be releasing event data for the media artie's crew visited the facility to find out what other restrictions are in place . 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 and 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 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 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 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 getting the operations the detainees you know make it their mission 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 have called again for be just not leading. 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 then not using them is as you know. you know. making them some kind of curiosity you know on film the 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 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 one time detention camp. why not read 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. and we've been. following the hunger strike at guantanamo since it began in february just a click away on our website we've got the full timeline of events surrounding the

notorious facility for more stories that shaped the year we will be bringing you further reports of wide two thousand and thirteen matters here on r t international . these are very close to being. braving the elements in the wanted to stand up to us oil giants chevron. this comes after a massive hunger strike that returned the world's attention to the place that sums up the gulag of our times. is an undeclared global battlefield in which again and it's just one of the front lines.

pardoned russian acts tycoon at me what of koskie has been all over the headlines in recent weeks as the media retells his story a murder case back from the one nine hundred ninety s. comes in to light that of blood he made a pretzel haul of the assassinated mayor of the russian town where holder cough ski's oil company was registered while the former mogul continues to deny any link to the murder but two hobs widow paints a different picture. in the spite the fact that hunter kosky has escaped responsibility on those counts i'm convinced he's behind my husband's murder. why do you think the hoof was shot dead on his way to work with the whole of. he walked to work and he usually did and was shot he died from the last shot and the temple. it just was the if you got his mind every game tightly wound with one of the most notorious legal sagas of the last shot you can skate from nineteen eighty five they

were junkies news to you q guns and they've taxes to the city and the region if they're welcomed by the us was registered there so when it came to tax revenues it was answering to the mayor next to your guns with the hope they depended on him and that was the only reason why he even mattered how did they insist her late husband as a mayor of the town because he was registered was approached by top managers of the company because if. you. first offered to reach an agreement they called it ultimate station of taxes back then a production reached about seventy million tonnes of oil here they said there was too much but the and seven eight million tonnes would be more than enough but you could not have the full for you so striking a deal over he went on hunger strike demanding it is to be seen to be 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 i want you to believe that the hope is murder wasn't connected to you chris and they allege a tax fraud scheme that of course he himself said if there was a need to avoid taxes then there were many other ways it could have been done the former head of security company received a life sentence before. the wife is sure that the real mastermind has never been held to. it that the. only time will solve the mystery surrounding my husband's murder but i'd just like a copy to confess and clear his conscience. in those are. that the solution yeah russia successfully launches an upgraded. rocketed it is the latest addition to the family of rockets that have become the world's most frequently used since the program started in one thousand nine hundred sixty six

you can head. for the full story. plus check this out destructive flooding in colorado a devastating tornado in oklahoma and numerous massive wildfires despite the wii's and other catastrophes in the year two thousand and thirteen it was relatively kind to the united states as it experience its fewest amount of natural disasters in recent history on our website we've got all of the details on a surprising finding. in the antarctic a rescue operation continues for a russian research ship with australian scientists on board called the academic shokalskiy the vessel has been trapped there by thick ice since tuesday an australian ice breaker is on its way there now after previous attempts by french and chinese ships failed to reach it despite being stuck in ice since christmas the scientists are said to be in good spirits and continuing their research the worst

case scenario we'll see them evacuated from the vessel by helicopter. let's take a look at some other world news making headlines around the globe for you this hour we start in egypt where a second student has reportedly been killed and another seriously wounded following clashes with police at a university in cairo state media reports the violence was sparked when supporters of the muslim brotherhood set fire to two campus buildings organizers though denied the allegations saying the demonstrators only resisted the use of tear gas at least sixty students were arrested in the disturbance. israel is poised to free another twenty six palestinian prisoners or this is the third release out of four a total of one hundred four palestinians will be freed from israeli jails over a nine month negotiating period that ends in april this comes before u.s. secretary of state john kerry's visit to the region later this week opponents of

the prisoner release staged a rally outside the israeli prime minister's home protesting the move. more than five hundred municipal lawmakers in one chinese province have resigned after being implicated in an electoral fraud scandal officials stepped down after admitting to accepting bribes from members of the provincial assembly to elect them to their posts chinese president xi jinping has launched an anti-corruption campaign pledging to target both high and low level government officials. a platform in the north sea was shut down after an oil and gas leak about eighty workers have been evacuated by helicopter the incident happened on one of three platforms and a large oil field that straddles british and norwegian waters the reason for the leak remains unknown. now the addicted to man of a europe vast the reputation the u.k.

has earned itself in recent years according to a leading social policy think tank now their report suggests one in every twelve brits between the ages of fifteen and twenty four has tried so-called legal highs that means a total of around six hundred seventy thousand a youth's now these drugs won't land you in jail but as studies show they could be very every bit as dangerous as their blacklisted equivalents since two thousand and ten the government has put temporary bans on fifteen such substances but the substitute drugs are popping up at a faster rate than regulators can handle. 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 being as to maybe there is at

least one new product on the drug market each week to substances are advertised online as a leak go 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 this substances are dangerous men died when did he take probably it was decide one dissenter the kind of noise it's 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 on 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 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 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. late 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 came in crack same problem in europe and we also have one of the worst drinking problems in europe you know we have the worst female drinking coke in 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. trying to become addicted to drugs and alcohol than anywhere else. well coming up after the break max and stacey will be here with the kaiser report you're watching our to international stay with us. 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 scandal involving one of the stars of the show phil robertson who got suspended for making what many consider anti-homosexual 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 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 are closed and he 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 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 it 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's to impress is 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.