this is eastern turkey. van is the largest settlement in eastern turkey. at that time its peak it had about 700,000 people in it during the summer. beautiful like, absolutely gorgeous place to be. after the earthquake everybody who could leave, did. so what you have left are those that are either die-hards, the people that are the leaders of the community that want to rebuild, or people that couldn't leave. and that's really telling because when you look at these pictures you're going to see abdomen abject poverty. that's not really what it was before the earthquake so it went from bad to worse for these people. but what you saw time and time again is they were out and rebuilding and carrying on and i think that says a lot about people in general and that's the next take away, is that no matter if you look at van turkey, you

clashes in istanbul and police used tear gas and water cannons against rock throwing protesters in eastern turkeyeyton walsh is in turkey. we can see them behind you, nick. >> behind me, we've seen two unions that have converged very noisily in this center of the square here. now it's important to point out that while this is very noisy and populated, two things have changed. the crowd is a lot older. these are adults, presumably part of the strike action for today and the police. we're not really seeing them. they obviously decided to hang back. but there is an err of tension here. the municipal authority has written the protest asking them not to have unauthorized demonstrations. so there is concern, of course, as to how long this will necessarily go on for. at one point the police may feel they have to intervene. they had a helicopter in the sky above me for the past hour or so. but the major issue here is we get to see the police intervene in that violent way with tear gas. these protests significant in number and right in the heart of the capital here meters away from government buildings. w

that we are hearing reports of violence in some of the eastern cities of turkey right now. erin? about the eastern cities, just makes me think of a lot of the country supported him. won elections with close to 50% of the vote and people in turkey get a lot less. you have to do coalitions. he appeared to have a mandate. tripled the income of average turks. where are his supporters right now? >> reporter: well, it's an interesting question. he did get 50% of the vote in the last national election. and he actually kind of issued a veiled threat. he said, you know, i can get my 50% out. i'm having a hard time keeping them in their homes and raises fears of clashes between the supporters and opponents and that even the spector of civil war. we went to the neighborhood that erdogan grew up in and they're hard core supporters of the man saying he's the best thing that ever happened to this country. they have very negative things to say about the demonstrators. they call them vandals and looters. and they say we're waiting in the homes, we're ready to fight for the prime minister if he a

approach will calm people down, though we are hearing reports of violence in some of the eastern cities of turkeye lot of the country supported him. he won elections with close to 50% of the vote. went often in turkey people get a lot less. he appeared to have a mandate. tripled the income of average turks. where are his supporters right now? >> reporter: well, it's an interesting question. he did get 50% of the vote in the last national election and he actually kind of issued a veiled threat. ky get my 50% out. i'm having a hard time keeping them in their homes, which raises fears of clashes between the supporters and opponents and even the specter of civil war. we went to the neighborhood that he grew up here in istanbul. it's a mile from where i'm standing. and there they are still hard core supporters of this man. they say he's the best thing that's ever happened to this country. they have very negative things to say about the demonstrators. we're waiting in our homes. we're ready to come out and fight for our prime minister if he asks us to come out. we come out with just one word. those are

eastern. trouble in turkey. is the resolution in sight?irst, we want to go to meteorologist dylan dreyer with the latest on a tornado watch that's been issued in at least four states. what can you tell us? >> it is in effect till 9:00 this evening. central time. you can see the area in red that pops up on the radar here. that's the area where we are going to look at the potential not just for tornadoes but wind gusts up to 75 miles per hour or higher. we're looking at flash flooding. it's areas in chicago and points south and east between about 6:00 and 11:00 this evening where we could see our best chance of most of these severe storms. especially northwestern areas of illinois. that's going to be the area where we will keep an eye out for tornadoes. again as we continue through the evening, we are just starting to see these storms develop right now. it is something we'll be keeping a close eye on throughout the rest of the evening. i want peacocks. peacocks? walking the grounds. in tuscany. [ man ] her parents didn't expect her dreams to

eastern. the streets of istanbul turkey are calmer today.y are cleaning up the mess after days of violent protests. police sprayed the protesters with water cannons and tear gas. it began as a small protest and become the biggest protest movement against turkey's prime minister in ten years. >>> saying god bod-bye to a beld tv star. we look back at the life of jean stapleton at 2:00 p.m. eastern. now back to "fareed zakaria, gps." >>> if you caught the top of the show, you heard my thoughts on the american economy that seems to be bouncing back and if you tuned in late, you can look at it on our website. but i wanted to get another perspective from someone who has been worried about the effects of austerity, the rise in pay roll taxes, the cuts mandated by the sequester and it was a deep understanding of economics from the united states to europe to japan. that is why i invited paul krugman to join me. he is, of course, the columnist for "new york times" a princeton professor and nobel laureate in economics. welcome, paul. >> hi, there. >> i

on one happened, turkey has bridged the european an middle eastern divide so well, its economy has done so well, but as these protesters have highlighted, there is growing concerns that this government is becoming slightly a little bit more authoritarian and trying to revert back some of the secretary esecular traditions. >> a lot of times people jump on to these situations to stir up problems. so another question that comes up, is this a natural ground swell or a lot of more violent sort of extremist groups jumping on board. >> they're not extremists, but definitely legitimate grievances among the people. they don't represent the majority of people in turkey. keep in mind this government has been elected several times over the past 11 years. prime minister erdogan has been elected at least three times, his party as well. so over the course of the last 11 years, they have had the mandate to govern with an overwhelming majority. that number has diminished, but they still have the mandate to govern. grieve vadvances have spread, bt not yut enough on get the government to change in a drast

eastern. >> eric: a lot to go over. meanwhile, there is more violent protests in turkey. been increasing and increasingly troubling situation that seems to grow with each passing day. what is going on in turkey, will it end? we'll have the latest in a live report. >> jamie: millions of americans are being treated for high blood pressure and new study, maybe you don't have to be. we'll tell you about that in sunday house calls straight ahead. ♪ ♪ >> eric:

if you have ever been to turkey, it is very unlike many of the middle eastern countries you may have heard and seen on the news before. it is very modern. there is a lot of wealth. a lot of advancement. a lot of freedom. a lot of social freedom. it is not exactly what you think of as the typical place that you have seen arab spring uprisings before. which is why this has taken so many people by surprise. there you have it. many of them armed with molotov cocktails. and wooden shields, trying to battle up against a very strong riot police force. i think arwa damon is back up with us. arwa, are you with us on the phone? are you safe? >> yeah, i am on the phone. my crew and i are safe. we are fine. we just had to move back a bit. it got pretty intense. we moved into another part of the camp right now. a bit further away from where that tear gas was coming at us. now that tear gas was coming down one side of the camp. one side street. we have now moved toward the other. we can hear tear gas being fired down the side street. as well. and the riot police are really trying to -- push throug

certainly many in the west have been concerned as to whether turkey is more in the western camp or in the eastern camp these days. the united states, president obama, members of the european allies who have turkey as a nato ally and as a very strong, reliable ally believe that it is much more in the western camp. so i think that's very important. recently what has upset the young secular urban professional classes of turkey is the potential fear because that was what was raised with this restricting of alcohol recently. you know they've just passed that, restricting of the use of alcohol or any public spaces. not in private but in public spaces. restricting the images of alcohol and advertising, alcohol on the air waves. this is something that actually takes place also in many other western democracies. you can't always see alcohol on the television or on billboards but people are concerned because amongst some members of turkey there is a fear about that. i think what's happened is that people believe that he's just getting too authoritarian to listen to them. i listened to him many months ago,

it is a new turkey where a new majority middle class is basically rising for bigger respect for individual freedoms and i think it's really more about style of gosk easternance than anything else. therefore it is not a spring because it does not follow winter the it is the middle class making -- taking to the streets to make some basic demands. >> the demands of democrat soy, the right to assembly, that kind of thing, not basic economics demands? >> right. the original sit-in to save a downtown istanbul park from being converted into a shopping mall is a very pro-environment get-together where they want to save trees. and when people organized and police move in to crack down on that in the middle of the night, 3:00 a.m., tens of thousands of people poured onto the streets to protest that. they said the police should not be doing this crackdown. this is very new in turkey. people are protesting others' rights to protest and assemble. > it doesn't seem there is a coherent philosophy or set of demands. do these last? >> they're not political and not let -- led by any political movement. what's really interesting is that this movement, this wave might fizzle bu

eastern germany thousands of people are being evacuated. damage is estimated to be more than $150 million. parts of austria has been hit. >>> in turkey the battle between protesters and government is now in its 11th day. no sign of either sides letting up. riot police fired tear gas. the prime minister is a dictator and they want him to resign. the prime minister warned demonstrators that his patience is now coming to an end. more than 4300 people have been wounded in those protests. >>> now to the philippines where this is an amazing story. this hero dog getting a heroes welcome back home. k-pug lost her snout and her jaw when she jumped in front of an oncoming motorcycle to save her owner's daughter and niece. after months of surgery and treatment in the united states she arrived back home yesterday. look how cute she is. people from around the world donated money for her treatment. >>> prince harry was showing off piloting skill. he's an apache helicopter hipil. he's done a couple of tours if afghanistan. what do you think about that? >> fascinating story. this was the raf air show in england. prince harry who is better known as c

eastern german state of saxony and in munich. the suspects involved are accused of helping to fund militant islamic activities. >> as you heard earlier in the show, europe has been anxiously watching the protest in turkeyand the way the prime minister has been handling the crisis. >> almost nightly reports of violent clashes in turkey's major cities suggest his government is on the back foot. there is still a lot of support for the prime minister, nowhere more so than in the prime minister's very own hometown. >> this is a taxi driver in a small city about 1000 kilometers east of istanbul. he gets his news from state-run television and says he does not know much about the protest. >> some police were injured and also some civilians. but i do not really know what these protesters want. we just had floods here, and i've had other things to do. our leaders up high will know what to do. >> this is the city where the prime minister's family comes from. since he came to power, state funding has flowed from ingres. people welcome the investments. not that long ago, it was a sleepy city on the shores of the black sea, lacking basic sanitation and gas lines. now the streets are booming. the mayor says the city

eastern german state of saxony and in munich. the suspects involved are accused of helping to fund militant islamic activities. >> as you heard earlier in the show, europe has been anxiously watching the protest in turkeyand the way the prime minister has been handling the crisis. >> almost nightly reports of violent clashes in turkey's major cities suggest his government is on the back foot. there is still a lot of support for the prime minister, nowhere more so than in the prime minister's very own hometown. >> this is a taxi driver in a small city about 1000 kilometers east of istanbul. he gets his news from state-run television and says he does not know much about the protest. >> some police were injured and also some civilians. but i do not really know what these protesters want. we just had floods here, and i've had other things to do. our leaders up high will know what to do. >> this is the city where the prime minister's family comes from. since he came to power, state funding has flowed from ingres. people welcome the investments. not that long ago, it was a sleepy city on the shores of the black sea, lacking basic sanitation and gas lines. now the streets are booming. the mayor says the city

turkey as well. there's a war on in afghanistan with two u.s. soldiers, a policeman, nine kids killed in the easternrt of the country today, and a suicide bomb attack outside a school. the war we left in our wake in iraq heated up with the u.n. saying this weekend that the death toll just last month from bombings and assassinations and other attacks in iraq was over 1,000 people killed. it is a big, complicated world out there, with a lot of particularly difficult foreign policy problems confronting our country. and six sitting members of congress decided to meet with the kgb on a trip arranged by steven seagal, the action movie guy from the '90s. four of six members are on the intelligence committee or foreign relations committee in congress, including michele bachmann. what do other countries think of us when a congressional delegation like this shows up in their country? >>> six current and former irs agents testified from behind screens. their voices distorted to protect their identity. they said they're afraid of the irs, too, calling it vindictive, arrogant, merciless to taxpayers that owe mon

have the west part of eastern iraq the iranians would like to play it over for eight years in the north you've got the kurds and the kurds spin loose and join with the kurds in turkey then you threaten the territorial integrity of turkey it's a quagmire something that the bush administration officials knew exactly what the fate of iraq would be if there was an invasion do you think that the destabilization of the country was part of the plan no i don't think it was what they wanted to do was to get saddam hussein and they did and what mr cheney said there he went on to say on the front page of the new york times when the invasion was actually taking place. excuse me. what kind of government would you get shia sunni a moderate democratic races and what and the answer is you're not going to get anything the problem i think is that people like me who know something about their country are not listened to by people who think that they know everything about their country so you stand there and you try to tell them what it's like i speak arabic i lived there for two and a half years. and know they know more than i do call a blind arrogance the belief that you know everyt

the west part of eastern iraq the iranians would like to play in front of them for eight years in the north you've got the kurds and the kurds spin loose and join with the kurds in turkey then you threaten the territorial integrity of turkey it's a quagmire something that the bush administration officials knew exactly what the fate of iraq would be if there was an invasion do you think that the destabilization of the country was part of the plan no i don't think it was what they wanted to do was to get saddam hussein and they did and what mr cheney said there he went on to say on the front page of the new york times when the invasion was actually taking place. excuse me. what kind of government would you get shia saudi a moderate democratic races what and the answer is you're not going to get anything the problem i think is that people like me who know something about their country are not listened to by people who think that they know everything about their country so you stand there and you try to tell them what it's like i speak arabic i lived there for two and a half years. and know they know more than i do call of bly and arrogance the belief that you know everyth

turkey, up from 2007. it was a very stable, prosperous market. an entryway in many ways easternanies and so the more the stability continues, the more likely investors are going to feel shaky on this and will think about getting out. the capital inflows can be affected as well affecting the deficit and how they can pay back the deficit which would create even more instability. stuart: you have a gigantic overseas debt. you have to repay that debt with their own currency. and i he keeps on going down. doesn't that set up, what is the correct expression, debt crisis? very near in the future if it is not resolved. >> that is the first thing on the mind of the prime minister. within the cities this is happening in, whether they can contain this and keep it to a minimum. you have to remember internally it can create a lot of inflation and other issues as well. stuart: they want to host the olympics. >> 2 million tourists go through turkey every year. i have seen how beautiful and how peaceful it was. if they lose on thatcomet could hurt the re eu and the economic viability in the fut

eastern china. that was a wild scene there. a conservative chinese newspaper saying, quote, it only penalizes mothers while ignoring the responsibilities of fathers. >>> in turkeyprotesters are clashing for the fourth straight day. almost 500 were arrested overnight in the capital. the demonstration started off as a peaceful protest against construction in a small park in istanbul. it has since spilled to other major cities grown out of anger over excessive police force. >>> activists in china taking social media to call on the public to wear black tomorrow on the 24th day, year of the teen aman's square breakdown. the crackdown on prodemocracy protesters killed hundreds on june 4th, 1989. >>> opening arguments are set today in the court-martial of a former marine accused of leaking classified documents to wikileaks. 25-year-old bradley manning said he wanted to show the public how america was really fighting the wars in iraq and afghanistan. he faces 21 counts of espionage. he could face life in prison if convicted. >>> an alleged mob boss on the run for 16 years finally being brought to trial today, james whitey bu whitey bulger charged with playing a major r

turkey has apologized for police aggression in nationwide anti-government protests. cnn's yvan watson reports relative calm in istanbul today but violence in some eastern cities. >>> andrince william and catherine, the duchess of cambridge, were among the guests at westminster abbey for a service marking the 60th anniversary of queen elizabeth ii's coronation. william and catherine are expectation their first child next month. much excitement. isha, thanks so much. crime and punishment tonight. for the first time tonight we have the answer straight from the alleged mass murderer's mouth to why this happened. one of the deadliest mass killings at a u.s. military base. the shooting rampage that claimed 13 lives 3 1/2 years ago at ft. hood, texas. today the man facing court-martial for the massacre told the judge he did it for the taliban. army psychiatrist major nidal hasan now representing himself in court wants more time to prepare a new defense. and his defense is that he was acting in defense of others. and when the judge asked whom he was defending major hasan replied, "the leadership of the islamic emirate of afghanistan, the taliban." he specifically named taliba

eastern dictators by claiming there's a conspiracy against him to overthrow him and has named individual companies that have expressed sympathy for the demonstrators and singled him out. >> is this getting coverage in turkey? because i'm getting tweets they're seeing penguin documents. >> my colleagues in the turkish media are terrified of this government and of this prime minister. they're very afraid of criticizing him. they have been -- their credibility has been hurt terribly by this crisis because there was so little coverage of this because news channels were showing cooking shows and documentaries about penguins rather than showing what is happening in the largest city in the country. so not only by putting pressure on the media, he's losing the legitimacy and credibility of other institutions in turkey. >> our correspondents are still on both sides of that square covering all of the conflict. we'll continue to check in with them. our panel, thank you all. we'll dig deeper into the implications for the u.s. from national security analyst fred townsend. the rest is up to you. so consider an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. like all standardized

eastern. anderson cooper starts right now. >>> good evening to our viewers here and watching around the world on cnn international right now. a police crackdown on protesters picking up again over the last several hours in turkey, now spreading to turkey's capital. this is taksim square in istanbul. what began as a protest last month has evolved into something bigger. what you're seeing has ebbed and flowed throughout the evening. police moving in, then regrouping. many protesters leaving. some digging in. the situation heating up again within the past hour or so. there are now reports of unrest in the turkish capital, firing tear gas overnight, toward apparent protesters as armored vehicles cleared makeshift barricades along the streets. the latest chapter here in taksim square is still unfolding. police moved into the square, some of what you'll see and hear are not gunshots but protesters setting off small fireworks and the small of tear gas canisters firing. much of what you'll see and hear is chaos with our correspondents right in the middle of it. thousands of demonstrators. we were standing here when an altercation broke out. >> we don't know what sparked this police move. there was an altercation. they

eastern politics. he needs to stop doing that. he's a prime minister. we people elected him. >> reporter: turkey'sd with characteristic defiance, ridiculing the protesters and defending a decade in office, during which his political party has won many elections. >> translator: he's a dictator. if you are the kind of person that can call someone who serves their people a dictator, then i have no words for you. >> you have a prime minister who has done great deeds and he really does run the economy well, but you also have this paternalistic style, i know what's good for you, and i, as your father, can decide on the poor, the rich, the city, and the constitution. so i think people are just wanting to have a more -- more inclusive form of democracy in turkey. >> reporter: now, wolf, i think the past couple of days and this recurring images of police cracking down on demonstrators have pretty much hurt the image of the turkish prime minister, who has tried to portray turkey as a model muslim democracy to those arab countries over the last two years, the arab countries of the arab spring, where people r

eastern province. it was the latest in a series of so-called insider attacks by members of the afghan forces in the u.s.-led nato occupation. tens of thousands rallied in turkey sunday in the largest anti-government protests since unrest broke out two weeks ago. the movement began as an effort to block the razing of a public park but has since grown into challenging turkish prime minister erdogan for what opponents call excessively religious and authoritarian tendencies. the largest crowd sunday filled istanbul's taksim square, with thousands more in ankara and the western city of izmir. police dispersed the ankara protest with tear gas and water cannons. erdogan meanwhile addressed a counter rally of thousands of supporters upon his return from a foreign trip. he said his patience is wearing thin with the opposition protests. former south african president nelson mandela has been hospitalized and remains in what is been described as serious but stable condition. it is his fourth trip to the hospital since december for recurring lung infection. the former south african president is 94 years old. the senate is beginning debate on the bill apart as an immigrati

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eastern. anderson cooper starts right now. >>> good evening to our viewers here and watching around the world on cnn international right now. a police crackdown on protesters picking up again over the last several hours in turkeyul. what began as a protest last month has evolved into something bigger. what you're seeing has ebbed and flowed throughout the evening. police