public unrest against prime minister erdogan this government has gone on for over three weeks now tom barton is in ankara. the goalie of the day it is just here the turkish capital and throttle the streets having to come sit on the nightly study on the team league police atlanta testers police and fire to stop the fight at least this was finally space until their struggles if any cash is going to treat it just the tone i let me. sleep at night i was also. thinking that she was not likely to want a seat at least for a week that removes all those lectures i want to see such as my face it was nice to see how to fix it was a decade ago they could do well if he is planning to make it seem to such like she is the shortest it could go badly it shows that he has a good way to go to catch up to suddenly the only guys these protests to

political situation here but it's one thing's for certain it's souring the mood around his party tom bartonr t ankara turkey. the u.k. government doing all it can to get people in scotland onside in the lead up to the stork referendum on independence there william hague has given a speech in edinburgh warning even the famous whisky industry there could take a hit if it splits from britain but was already sarah for three ports the foreign secretary has only added fuel to the explosive debate over scottish independence. sounding the battle cry of the twenty fourteen scottish independence date creep seven era politicians and campaign is a like a cranking up the volume on the debate this is your mission to google canada on thursday and it was the turn of british foreign secretary william hague foreign secretary william hague in edinburgh today to give his speech outlining why in foreign policy terms the u.k. is but its gather nothing to take that afternoon for i think. the talk was given to an audience of around one hundred fifty people it's the foreign secretary said that he was not in scotlan

a crime that could really cause some public anger riot tom thank you very much for that report tom barton here with me at the theatre thank you. for a sick night of running into those more of the same clashes leading to police unleashing their water cannons and tear gas on protesters and a surface ality has been confirmed in the rest after a man died from head injuries and corrupt hospital activists one of the police chiefs responsible for the vinyl tops has removed and ocean officials to ban the use of tear gas protesters also want all those that have been detained released say that that could end three days of riots the turkish prime minister returns from a trip to north africa later and will be expected to do something about the police discontent which has seen demands for him to revise his policies but as. everyone appears to be looking for scapegoats. there are kids in banners flags and tear gas turkey's going through a rough time right now so who's to blame. there is a problem called twitter right now and you can find every kind of lived there the thing that is called social media i

is tom barton explaining more. lavrov spoke of double standards when it comes to the west's approach to various regimes saying that whilst they supported some dictators because they were considered their dictators in his words other dictatorial regimes were not considered worthy of support and therefore they were considered ripe for toppling this is a thread you do what must be done. in the us and russia c o two out of. every single stupid you know that there were also the position which is called through syrian government there is the realizations for. one of their was the glue of the poorest nation both devoted to the goods and job and the needed political solution for this group because europe and most of the abuse because there is because the ocean as well because of the forwards the regime double standards if you wish but why the move you are on the buso whom you work and who your dog or you agree become one. person of international borders it must be said that the organization al nasra has been blacklisted by

political situation here but it's one thing's for certain it's souring the mood around his party tom barton r t ankara turkey. in the meantime. one of the protesters and gives you park in istanbul it's where the demonstrations first began she says at a certain point the police ignited the vaal and so by themselves i've seen a lot of violence i've seen police being brutal in terms of arresting people in terms of tear gassing people and in terms of using water cannons on them and there's been no kind of softening on their stance until gezi park was actually taken by the people by the protesters or police actually retreated from gezi park over about ten days it was quiet it was it was almost like a festive atmosphere and gezi park and it was nice not to have the police and not to have to your gas even though everybody was joking that o two net we missed a little bit of tear gas maybe tomorrow we'll have some more but eventually one when the violence broke out again on tuesday and then erupted again on saturday and sunday it was it was it was certainly a one sided show of force because police w

capital this all coming not long after nato had control over afghanistan to local forces artie's tom barton now joining me live here in the studio to talk further about this tom thanks good to see you again this morning on the timing of the attack many are saying it couldn't be any more symbolic how did that handover go in general of security that is yeah it was last week when the international security assistance force led by nato handed over for the first time since two thousand and one. a security lead to afghan local forces they'll stay there till two thousand and fourteen to provide backup and it seems they may need to after this attack the fact that insurgents were able to attack the presidential palace in the heart of kabul the center of afghan power is going to be unnerving some people especially at this time. the afghan led response to this attack the police chief local police chief says that they managed to suppress the insurgents and stop all of that action within two hours so they achieved they didn't cave in the right but this is the center of kabul they have all the resources

the ongoing anti-government unrest while the capital is witnessing sporadic clashes as well as tom barton who was himself caught up in the violence has the latest. there i am in the turkish capital tension is now rising in response to what has just happened in tax him square of course all of this going back three weeks three groups of people that gathered in tax him square. thousands of people gathering there doing that as a memorial to at least four people who have so far been killed in these three weeks of clashes the police tactics they use. have been to charge crowds with water cannon which has happened in tax in square and has been happening night after night here in the capital where protests have also been ongoing when i was reporting from a street a police force a cannon drove up behind me as i was speaking into the camera and shot me in the back with a water cannon so a lot of this feeding into the accusations protests is that police are trigger happy gun ho and far too brutal justice ranged against the prime minister of egypt. and he's a k. party and the government seen by prote

protests that public unrest against prime minister ones government has gone on for over three weeks tom barton is in ankara for r.t. . the goalie of the day is going to be a gesture the turkish capital and profitable the streets having to come sit on the nightly stud on his team like police handler testers over the weekend to stop the fight at least this was finally supposed to be a struggle of the many crashes going green is it just love that let me. sleep tonight was that it was basically electricity not little wind it she was horribly removes all those electricity want to see the sky i think is the it's nice to see how to fix it was a decade ago they could do well if he is planning to make it seem to such a species that this issue just because sadly it shows that he has a good way to look to catch up to suddenly the only guy that's one of these protests to show that it has become the service was a case study it is about. the free to do just so and to keep his little point logos on the stone thing that was striking was made up she was a part of. the turkish police crackdown has been widely c

unfortunately the possibility for bloody clashes between police and protesters r t is tom barton reporting from caro now we are of course closely following the unrest in turkey on air and online as well had to argue dot com for instant updates and a live pictures from taksim square. washington is pressuring china to extradite a whistleblower edward snowden who is in hiding in hong kong the u.s. says the failure of beijing to act quickly would complicate relations that is after prosecutors filed criminal charges against noting accusing him of espionage he leaked classified documents which first revealed that the globe spanning high tech ease dropping network ran by the n.s.a. to use going to church account has more edward snowden has been charged with espionage theft and conversion of government property now the u.s. justice department has also reportedly asked hong kong to address that word snowden the united states has an extradition treaty with hong kong and snowden could fight extradition if he's arrested there but the treaty has an exception for political offenses so snowden is defense

companies to hand over all of its core data let's get some more details on that right now it is tom barton joining us live here in the studio to talk with us rushing in on this story it certainly sounds like potentially sweeping surveillance here one of the latest revelations you know about your list comes from the britain's guardian newspaper in an exclusive they report that the national security security agency of the u.s. is collecting millions of people's data from their phone calls those with the company of risin one of the u.s. is largest telecoms providers there this order coming from a top secret court the foreign intelligence surveillance court on april twenty fifth and the data itself telephony metadata that's the numbers of both parties in a phone call the location data of that call also the time and duration of all those calls the contents of the conversations are not included but you can imagine how anyone is looking at that could find out who is talking to who where they are when they call and how long before you can really zoom in and pinpoint someone from that kind of kind

down on the thousands of demonstrators inside istanbul's tex in square we'll get more now from tom barton he's on the line now. more of the same it seems what is happening there at the moment where you are. correct its capital and career at the moment but resignation what's happening in taxi driver in istanbul very much as well at the moment from where i am we've seen some of the latest developments from taxi in a lot of. cross turkey very interconnected and we've heard reports. police have moved in with water cannons on the around ten thousand protesters there trying to break up those crowds those crowds sort of trying to lay a memorial for four protesters killed during the course of three weeks. of protests here in the capital the moment quiet they have been ongoing protests here though for the park for the past week clashes nightly between between police and protesters just last night i was reporting from one of those streets that's a scene of nightly clashes when a police water cannon vehicle decided to iron my cameraman game and shot me in the back with a water cannon nearly knocking

taksim square this is own career riot police once again ring tear gas down on demonstrators marches tom barton was in the thick of it. i've just taken off my gas mask for a minute the air is heavy with the smell of tear gas these two police water cannon shots into the center of this street in ankara just messing around and when has. anything happen in mind the police response heavy handed police response in the eyes of protesters that protesters have been so i'm going about in the past weeks they say the. prime minister erdogan is government is too authoritarian and the police that are all supporting the government all as well and they will do nothing to try and ease back concerns will this affect the politics in turkey upcoming local elections is very much yet to be seen though i grew on the street it's very much continuing on a day to day basis to speak to this particular course right has become a scene for nightly confrontation between the police and protesters. however earlier in the week protests went on until a small out of the morning without incident yesterday and today. the police res

space valentino telescope of a house celebrated fifty years since her groundbreaking flight artie's tom barton tells her story. one small step for a woman two years after yuri gagarin valentino tarrasque over changed his rocket very present to orbit in one nine hundred sixty three to become the first woman in space. the training was the same for men and women space doesn't make allowances for gender. even today valentino is a folk hero only slightly less famous thing the guardian in russia and in space valentino ten saying q thank you so much for being an interest in to me and many other women and girls around the world to reach our dreams congratulations but back then she started off as one of many selected from among hundreds of applicants one of five other finalists could've gone in her place. of course i wanted to go into space all of us did now we're celebrating to score as an adverse three but of the time we were naturally very upset that it didn't choose us. it was a time of cold war with soviet leader nikita khrushchev desperate to keep the momentum going after the garden was first to

of success for peace in syria are right on thank you very much indeed hurt our days to our teens tom barton live from central moscow thank you. all right tough to be the fast man in space and tough to make the first feature film about the first man in space but the russian river makers have finally taken on the challenge and now a new a new flick dedicated to yuri gagarin is set to open in theaters across the nation on thursday and up until now worldwide audiences have been limited to documentary images of journey tools the stars but now what is says will be able to see how the son of a carpenter and the dairy woman was picked from among that three thousand candidates for the coveted role of brave because models russian filmmakers three years to just approve the script five more to deliver it to theaters and over nine million dollars to make it all happen so buckle up for the ride of a lifetime an altar as a tribute to the monk who become a symbol of all of mankind to visit our website called for more details on the upcoming feature. lot who will be granted entry into the euro when next jan

country's biggest cities as police unleash their non-lethal arsenal to quell the public anger artie's tom barton reports from the tear gas streets of the capital ankara the smell of gas is thick in the and you can see the water cannon busily working surrounded by you pelting them with stones trying to clear barricades on the central ankara streets. this confrontation really exploded just shortly ago and the police charged in trying to clear this barricade the protesters ranged against the police who they say a brutal brutal the police and the government for their part saying these are no longer the protesters that were there in the park in istanbul these are hooligans however along the street no shop windows have been broken a lot of the local people throwing out mattresses and helping the people to build barricades. to then set fire to try and stop the police the positions on both sides in french and the result is unfortunately a lot of violence across turkey as we can see in march more resistance that's the word demonstrators are using in turkey as protests continue three weeks after they star

public andras against prime minister abdul one's government has gone on for over three weeks now tom barton is an encore of forty. the culture of the day is going to be a test here the ticket shuttle and the streets having to come sit on the nightly stuff doesn't seem like police and protesters we can do to stop the fight at least post finally somebody can see their struggles if any cash is going we need it just . because i was the cause was the actions of enough lead to whine it's worse for at least it removes all those elections i want to see such as i think is the next nasty house of texas politics decades ago they could go well if he is punished to make it seem to students he's going to say this is still just because sadly i think that he has a good thing going to say it's for cyclists the only guys these protests to show that it has become serious about the case that he needs to get to the politics of this region soon so that to teach his point was on the stand that it was a strike was made up she was a part of. the turkish police crackdown has been widely condemned full in supply lind

dozens of arrests across the country as authorities bid to stop the three weeks long unrest artie's tom barton witnessed this latest crackdown. this crossroads in the center of ankara was filled with protesters just a few minutes before it might be hard to believe it now is totally empty you can see one of the police vehicles up there still using its water cannon against the remaining few protesters the police charged in here with two vehicles firing tear gas everyone in the square choking on having to dive for cover and water cannon blasting everything around they've left branches handing off trees and debris and water all over the streets protesters who had been gathered to try and demonstrate their anger at perceived or forward terrorism by prime minister. of turkey coming to scatter into side streets all around here very shocked by the sudden on rush of these police vehicles in this particular spot has marked nightly confrontations between police and protesters some might say some onlookers might say really proving what protesters might be saying that the police really overreacting some of

and tom barton caught up with an m.p. for turkey's ruling party chart he said police were being forced to resort to tougher measures against the protesters. this thing was shared between protesters and troublemakers and members of illegal organizations were trying to create havoc within and within the city of stumble and some other cities in turkey. the police has a lawful rights to use. the law given means to them to disperse of these troublemakers and vandals and now. if you're looking for a balanced i would say the police has to has to act within its law given powers that is a balance for the police however decisions who are trying to use their democratic rights to protest have to do this peacefully if you're resorting to violence and using malt of coke tails and other kinds of weaponries against officials who are. given the duty by the state to protect public order then of course these law these law enforcement officers have the right to use the force that is given to them by law within the law. obeying he's a truck c

protests the public unrest against prime minister government has gone on for over three weeks now tom barton is in ankara. but colder than any other day is going to be a disaster the turkish capital ankara profitable the streets having become the city join the nightly study of the team lead police atlanta tester's police came here to spotlight find it leave this post finally spoke to their struggles of the many crashes going to treat it like churchill son let me. sleep i was like oh please please actually something not lose your mind if she was horribly removes all those lectures i want to see the try to the next night see how to fix it was a decade ago they could do well if he is planning to make it seem to such like she is the shortest because at least it shows that he has a good way to look to kish for suddenly the only guys these protests to show that a trip was becoming serious was ok but if you need to have a good thing the politics of this region was true and so i found it tricky because they want to point out i was on a student that was let's try this may see the power of the. turkis

friday after the angry mob clash with police leaving fifty five people injured details now from tom barton. around two thousand protesters attempted to storm the mine in eastern kurdistan resulting in violent clashes with riot police at the site dozens were wounded including protesters and police exchanges of rubber bullets stun grenades and of stones one police bus was set on fire another was completely destroyed a state of emergency has been declared by the government in kurdistan these follow earlier protests where protesters came to try and blockade the mine and cut the power to it earlier the canadian company centerra gold which owns the mine say's these actions are illegal but the protesters have a variety of demands of their own ranging from the redistribution of some of the wealth from the mine to the state's budget increase social benefits nationalization and concerns about the local ecology and lack of infrastructure the mine itself which brings about twelve percent into koga stands for me has been the subject of heated debate in may two thousand and twelve a similar protest your

texas square the flashpoint in symbol of the ongoing government unrest let's get more now from tom barton he's joining us live on the phone so more of what's going on there what's been happening the last three weeks what's the situation. hi there bill yes well from where i am in the turkish capital the tension is now rising in response to what has just happened in tax and square of course all of this going back three three weeks the groups of people that are gathered in taxes where. i wasn't of people gathering they're doing that as a memorial to at least four people who have so far been killed in these three weeks of clashes. between police and protesters that's just ranged against the prime minister. and he's a k. party and the government seen by protesters as two off or a terrier and the police as to brutal and their crackdowns in on the other side of the government saying that there are extremist elements within the critter does that they have somehow been helped from an outside by foreign influences perhaps and that they've caused a lot of damage and they don't present a lot of the t

street meanwhile in ankara riot police have once again rained tear gas down on protesters auntie's tom barton was in the thick of it. i've just taken off my gas mask for a minute the air is heavy with the smell of tear gas these two police water cannons have charged into the center of this stranger non-corrupt dispersing bronwyn has. been examining mind of police response heavy handed police response in the eyes of protesters that protesters have been so i'm going about in the past two weeks they're saying the. prime minister earlier ones government is too authoritarian and the police that are supporting the government always well and they will do nothing to try and ease their concerns will this affect the politics in turkey upcoming local elections is very much yet to be seen though anger on the street is very much continuing on a day to day basis respect to this particular crossroads has become a scene for nightly confrontations between the police and protesters. however earlier in the week protests went on until a small out of the morning without incident yesterday and today. the police re

hand over its core data in bulk the company has decided declined rather to comment on the issue tom barton brought me the details. this was started by the british newspaper the guardian that managed to obtain documents we'll show you a little extract from those documents from the u.s. national security agency and a secret court there that they've used these documents have taken a small extract to obtain the phone calls of millions of us customers of arisan one of the largest telecommunications companies in the u.s. wanting call detail records and what are those those records specifically their telephony metadata we're looking at the the the numbers of both parties of the phone call the one making the called one receiving it location data from the call the time of the call and the duration so although the the contents of those calls aren't mentioned. if and if the authorities wanted to they could look at who was calling who where when and for how long that's a lot of data that you can use to try and pinpoint an individual and it's hoovering up all of that data does whoever their eyes and cu

the guy we saw standing there it's a new form of resistance spreading throughout turkey in fact tom barton reports from ankara because the other day is really just here the tickets capital ankara the streets having become synonymous at least a little seemingly police tester's. to this fight at least close by least close here and it still feels that many cash is going. to the son. of god because the. police action is coming up little one it seems at least for a week removes all those elections i want to see why. it's nice to have sixty six decades they could do well if he is planning to make it seem. like he's the subtleties take it badly it certainly look he has a lot of sick popular certainly beyond. these protests to show that a true has become. the party needed. in the politics of this region loses . and to keep his point was on the stoop and that was what struck me was me it seems the power. of the g eight talks in northern ireland where as expected dominated by the syria conflict in their final press conference world leaders agree to work towards peace talks to end the civil war but s

biggest phone companies to hand over all of its call data let's get details on this now artie's tom barton joining us live here in the studio to bring us up to date on this a fascinating story a bit disturbing as well it sounds like massive sweeping surveillance what are the latest revelations that you know about you know this comes from britain's guardian newspaper who run an exclusive and they report that the the u.s. national security agency is who is who the agency that's doing this collecting the telephone data of millions of us customers of the rise and one of the biggest u.s. telecommunications companies it comes from a top secret court order this is the document the guardian obtained from the foreign intelligence surveillance court on april twenty fifth the data audit to lessen the data specifically the numbers of the parties of the phone calls both those calling and receiving the call the location data and also the time and duration of the calls the content of those calls is not asked for by the government but you could imagine how authorities could look in on that and find out wh

consolidate their cries into a more directed political message yet the violence continues artie's tom barton brings us the latest from turkey. i've just taken off my gas mask for a minute it's heavy with the smell of tear gas these two police want to count and i have charged into the center of this street going on corrupt dispersing random remember. anything happening in mind a police response heavy handed police response in the eyes of protesters that protest has been so i'm going about and apos weeks past saying the. prime minister otoh i'm still minister to a poet tarion and the police that are paid all supporting my government all as well and they will do nothing to try and ease back and stood with this effect the politics in turkey upcoming local elections is very much yet to be seen though i'm growing the street is very much continuing on a day to day basis respect to this particular cause riots have become a scene one night a confrontation between the police and protesters. however earlier the way the protest went on until a small out of the whole day without incident yesterday and to

police once again rain tear gas down on the protesters tom barton was in the thick of it. i've just taken off my gas mask for a minute the air is heavy with the smell of tear gas these two police water cannon charged into the center of this street your non corrupt dispersing kronenberg have . many things happening in mind a police response heavy handed police response in the eyes of protesters that protest has been so i'm going about in the past weeks past saying the prime minister otoh wants government to authoritarian and the police that are all supporting that government all is well and they will do nothing to try and ease back concerns will this affect the politics in turkey upcoming local elections is very much yet to be seen though anger on the street is very much continuing on a day to day basis mr to this particular crossroads has become a scene for nightly confrontations between the police and protesters. however earlier in the week protests went on until a small out of the morning without incident yesterday and today. the police response very different with these

and a half years ago in siberia but there was a happy ending all eighty one passengers survived tom barton covered this story my word it got some hits didn't it will take more than a minute to tell us remarks the story first it was an incredible story covered as as it unfolded this plane at thirty four thousand feet suffers an enormous power failure and the pilots somehow managed to find a disused airfield in the middle of rural russia and managed to land on this airfield do a crash landing without any of the proper instruments that they were supposed to have the plane overshoots the runway by about two hundred meters again luckily there is some brush and small trees that the plane careers into all eighty one people on board managed to get off ok could have been such a mass no you had over two million hits for this reportedly of people watching it why the after are surprised at what i mean was it was it because of you know well it was because the story i down to dollars and into do with. it was. it was the incredible series of luck and skill that allowed this plane to land i think first of

we have a report narrated by tom barton of independent television news. >> molotov cocktails thrown, while fired tear gas. the moment protests in ri de janairo turned violent as crowds attempted to sort the state assembly. across brazil an estimated 200,000 people took to the streets to protest, mostly peaceful were held in at least six major cities. the cost of the world cup running in to billions has proved a focal point of protesters. this banner says, when your son gets sick, take him to the stadium. this protester is calling for money to be spent on schools and hospitals, not an expensive football tournament. a month away from a papal visita year away from a world cup and just three years from hosting the olympics, brazil seems far from prepared for its moment on the world stage. >> >> sreenivasan: a major new auto recall is coming. chrysler agreed today to call in nearly three million jeep vehicles. federal safety regulators say their gas tanks can catch fire in a rear-end collision. they say 51 people died over three years in fiery crashes involving jeeps. chrysler initially i

that it might get to it is very likely that it could create a lot of anger right on barton live at the i.t. studio tom thank you very much indeed for that report eighty. for the six nights who are running in turkey it was more of this site clutches leading to police unleashing their water cannons and tear gas on versus a third fatality has been confronted in the rest after a month died from head injuries and ankara hospital after a swarm the police troops responsible for their violent tactics were removed and officials to ban the use of tear gas protesters also on those that have been detained released saying that that could and the days of riots detective prime minister returns from a trip to north africa later and will be expected to do something about the public discontent with her sin demands for him to revise all his policies but as. of course everyone appears to be looking for scapegoats. barricades in banners flags and tear gas turkey's going through a rough time right now so who's to blame them we consider the sincerity of these protests social media has been full of fabricated news baseless c