turkey and was invited to brussels. that is an epic mistake and look what is happening all. demonstrations in turkey might have been sudden but you can't say the same about the repression being carried out. we had our warnings but the european union is blind to reality, and is now all -- fields has an attitude on the part of the european union. miss ashton says the e.u. is determined to maintain the dialogue with turkey so once again rolling out the red carpet, this is completely absurd. enough is enough. as far as my party is concerned, not welcome at all in brussels, the e.u. is not worth very much indeed. thank you. >> translator: thank you. ladies and gentlemen, our first duty as members of the house is to express our regret for the violence and loss of life in istanbul and need to express firm commitment to freedom of expression to demonstrate and the right of minorities. we need to act in a responsible way in the e.u. not leading to radicalization or polarization and coming up with solutions based on dialogue, mut

in turkey and in syria. the group that turkey supported. well hardly legitimate i mean i'm sure you yourself have probably have some. concerns about their tactics and their altima goals and i don't need to mention the names like i don't know the other groups as well yeah but i'm not i'm not talking i'm not talking about the he's not supporting i'm not supporting all nusra when i just don't know but it must be easier in a position to me if the league is purely legal or stick me you know what's happening with the russian weapons it's a fake argument to say this is a legal way of providing the arms to a dictator which kills his own people but i didn't see what he and what is happening with the little well actually does go to charity to syria i mean nobody knows what's happened what is happening to those weapons as well i'm sorry we're talking about the civil war we talk about the dictator the has killed a thousand of his people and there is resistance on christians there as well from ordinary syrians i'm in favor to get weapons to resist mr ga

it's to show that the application of turkey tenderloins, ground turkey, turkey sausage can take the placem, other proteins and be very tasty in dishes. >> welcome to disney's grand california. i'm andrew sutton. i'm the executive chef for the napa rose restaurant, and i'm gonna help make the holidays a little bit more easy. nothing's more intimidating than a turkey, believe or not, even though it's just laying here on this bench. but this is a beautiful american bronze turkey. but sometimes they can be intimidating. how many minutes do you put it in the oven for? how long do you cook it? can i get the dinner on the table in time? well, i got the secret for you. this is gonna work out really slick. this is my, uh, 6-minute turkey. you can have this thing on the table in 6 minutes with a little preparation. what i've done is put a little--i have a precooked turkey breast that i've sliced into nice large eaks. i've oiled them lightly and put a little secret rub on that you can get through the website and through the magazine. and i have a little bit of a--a stew which we've made up. now, you

that a lot of people in turkey. happy with you can almost but they don't want to be told by the prime minister not by anyone how they should lead to their life speaking about the economy you just mentioned that turkey has been doing very well on the economic front and much of it is probably here to the credit of our don but i have seen some turkish observer suggesting that at least partially these protests in tech scene was due to a growing resentment among turned towards these very cozy relationship between the government on the one hand and real estate companies on the other hand we have to keep in mind that one of the proposed ideas here was to build this shopping mall now i don't believe that this is of course the main reason but. since the ball is in the midst of never and being construction boom do you feel like people are really getting tired of these never ending building and construction process yes there are two different things one is indeed as you mentioned the close links as happened in the past with pr

turkey is the key. turkey is the key to president obama's policy. it's been a key for the west for decade after decade after decade. i think the president, if he's talking to prime minister erdogan, i think the president will say basically, let us know how we can help you. be careful, mr. prime minister. respect the rights of others. i don't think president obama is going to presume to lecture to a person who is absolutely indispensable to that region. don't forget, secretary of state john kerry engineered this beginning of reproach between israel and turkey. that has to continue. right now prime minister erdogan is preoccupied. he's not going to have time for this sort of high-minded diplomacy with israel right now as he deals with his own internal descent. i've spent a fair amount of turkey over the last 12 years, pretty much coinciding with the rise of erdogan. as mike hirsch said, it's fascinating to watch with each visit the change. more and more high rises, more and more fancy restaurants, beautiful new contemporary art museum down by the harb

about turkey not in the way that he had hoped. definitely not in the way he hoped he was basically pointing out that democracy well established democracy that he has managed to sideline and. hold to the. politics and it was emerging as an economy power and he had the mandate democratic mandate of the people perhaps for that time and time and that's why i wouldn't call it similar to an arab spring because unlike the arab spring which were launched and wait but that people. take the ships which were egypt. tunisia also yemen and it's still going on against the dictatorship and also against. dictatorship as well. tekkie is it democracy but i do believe that god has shot him in the foot he is fighting with one hand tied behind his back because he has encouraged people in iraq which is again another tick more christian maliki was elected through the ballot box he encouraged people and sidelined with the protesters and took them to avoid and sweep under the carpet all democratic mechanisms that it's going through the parliament and also

europe and that can be a place for turkey. there can be a place for turkey in europe.if -- and that's the point -- if they've apply european values and european principles, freedom of speech, and a real democracy. that is the key question. the other cite tierarch not an old fashioned discussion about culture and language, and i know what i'm talking about. i come from belgium. [applause] >> translator: thank you. thanks, mr. president. i'm very pleased that we're having a debate on this in the house today. shows we have all understood that something is really going on in turkey. the question is, what is going on? i think it's something that actually something we should be pleased about and also worried about. pleased about because we feel, one feels we see civil society and citizens really getting involved. that's promising for a completion of turkish democracy, but worrying because we see the authorities' response has been so far. the authoritarian repressive road using security forces and that leads us in the direction of a russian style brute force democracy. so, wh

turkey is not greece. turkey is not egypt. it's not syria.'s made terrific progress over the last decade, a much bigger middle class. part of what this is all about really is a -- a debate in turkey about where -- where a middle class islamic society should be heading, and -- and that's actually a good debate, so this is a terrible event, but i -- i'm sympathetic, brian, with your view that lets -- let's not assume that because we saw pictures that look like this on syria, on egypt, on -- >> david, i was -- i was in athens for a week when a lot of the protests were going on. you have 40% unemployment among people who are under 25 years of age in greece. turkey's unemployment level, above probably where anybody would like it to be, is actually the most favorable in the region and the economy, the gdp has tripled in the last decade. >> absolutely, yeah. >> absolutely. i mean, that's basically i think -- that this -- that this is not -- this is not the beginning of a major political collapse and crisis in turkey. it may be the case that erdogan

the question where turkey is heading i have been a great admirer of to him so i think turkey no longer can offer an mmog of democracy to the arab world and i think it has failed miserably in that regard and i do not to believe that what we are seeing today is going to be quelled to very soon and that's going to be the end of the story this may very well be the beginning that it's a really good place. to let me go let me go to london you know heads i jump in the beginning of something or not i do believe all those are hugely important factors my my my colleague has the internal policies i do have to emphasize that his foreign policy hot spectacularly failed spectacularly backfired and we are seeing now the fighting and backlash to those policies particularly until policy on syria he used to preach and lecture. said on how to deal with people how to treat people on how not to use massive disproportionate force we are seeing do seeing him doing the exact things that he said and you also preach to i'm not a q. who has been elected through again democratic process and you have accused him o

islamic turkey.cal voices being heard in the protests. >> shepard: it's interesting, the similarities to what happened in the park here in new york, a small park, as a 12-year new yorker, i never heard of, and all of a sudden they've taken the thing over. we didn't see them clear that park out. the new york police department took the cameras within, went in under the cover of night, took people out with varying degrees criticism how it was done but you didn't get to see it, here in this beacon of democracy, they did it under cloak of darkness, but in turkey we're watching, and sometimes watching the sausage made is unpleasant. >> but just to give the cops their credit here, this is after weeks of occupation of -- >> 12 days we have had here,ç d now we'll see another way of handling it, if this continues through the night we may have a whole new situation. can become major victories. i'm phil mickelson, pro golfer. when i was diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis, my rheumatologist prescribed enbrel for

turkey is the change. they need to make it possible for civil society to be represented as a nighttime for parliament otherwise you can't get in at all. we need the political culture to change in turkey, not a dictatorship of the majority, but minorities need to be respect to and have their voice heard. quite clearly we need to carry with turkey. is also one thing. today is not the day for us to talk about these chapters. another one that is unfairly oppressed good to see progress made if we talk about these people released a many to see political change in turkey. [applause] >> thank you. >> thank you. the violence against the people in the gezi part in also in turkey simply not acceptable. besought protesters have been beaten up, tear gas, and shared and have been massively arrested. some have even died. the people simply because they spread news and use social media. all promises of dialogue have been empty promises so far. i urge the high representative as well as the commissioner to step up their effo

we're drawing close to midnight in istanbul turkey.ngoing protests, david rothkopf, a ceo and editor. and bulent aliriza. what choices does prime minister erdogan find himself in right now? >> the current situation is untenable. he's used force to drive protesters out of the square and park. either he uses more force and pushes everybody out of not just the square but also out of the park but all the implications of that, including additional fatalities and people will draw the and al -- analogy of taksim square and he loses face. the prime minister is a gifted man. he has many gifts, otherwise he would not have been able to rule turkey for ten years, win three elections but he does not have the gift of compromise, seemingly does not have that gift. without that we're in for tumultuous days. >> you say additional fatalities. people watching may not know there have been four fatalities. who were the four? >> there were three demonstrators and a policeman involved in a skirmish with demonstrators. but if the police were to use additional

turkey is a democracy.everybody can believe what they like. >> the majority of people here support the prime minister. people are conservative, hard- working muslims. in a city where families are important, fathers usually run the household, just like the prime minister runs the country. authority is not questioned -- in fact, it's welcomed. few here understand the protests in taksim square. >> just time for a little bit of sports news. madrid have a new coach. >> he has steered some of europe's top sites. he won the champions league twice. you are up-to-date. >> stay with us here on dw. more news at the top of the hour. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- detain the tries to whistleblower. what are the repercussions of tracking down eric snowden? protesters will continue to march. are the concerns really been addressed? "inside storyng americas" from washington. as of monday afternoon

turkey is a democracy.everybody can believe what they like. >> the majority of people here support the prime minister. people are conservative, hard- working muslims. in a city where families are important, fathers usually run the household, just like the prime minister runs the country. authority is not questioned -- in fact, it's welcomed. few here understand the protests in taksim square. >> just time for a little bit of sports news. madrid have a new coach. >> he has steered some of europe's top sites. he won the champions league twice. you are up-to-date. >> stay with us here on dw. more news at the top of the hour. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >>> glad to have you with us on this edition of "newsline." it's wednesday, june 26th. i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. edward snowden is holed up in the moscow airport, and looking for a way out. u.s. authorities want the former intelligence contractor on espionage charges. they want russian officials to extradite him. pres

on the fifth day of nationwide protests in turkey a twenty two year old man is allegedly shot dead by police becoming the second fatality in the escalating unrest. in the trial over the largest u.s. security leak in history prosecutors patrol private bradley manning as a traitor claiming he knowingly aided the enemy i mean while. covering the whistleblower. there he takes its toll on person's health with hospitals and clinics under pressure thanks to. a very good morning to you from all of us here in moscow it's about just off a ten am here in the russian capital. with the worldwide headlines. the unrest in turkey has claimed a second life police already facing widespread criticism for using excessive force being accused of being behind the killing of a twenty two year old man let's get more on this now. joining us live here in istanbul hello to you from moscow every now can you bring us up to speed here what do you know about this latest death. well at this point the details are somewhat murky again the man who is a twenty two year old man did die after his sustaining a head wound du

to turkey's capital. this is taksim square in istanbul. what began as a protest last month as a protest bulldozing a park nearby 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. as we said, there are now reports of unrest on the streets of ankar, 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 in the individual we're about to show you 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. >> reporter: there were tens of thousands of demonstrators. who were peaceful. again, we were standing

turkey. turkey. before our don government was never into our fearing that our neighbors internal affairs but in it seems that under the under our there are gone government turkey is mainly serving to u.s. interests not to turkish interests. also besides this. there is a deep rooted in turkey probably because of our government so-called kurdish separatists in and use kurdish separatists in is. especially accelerated by the great middle east initiated of united states and israel policy and i'm too right we'll have to leave it there so i thank you very much for explaining how you see the situation there in turkey thank you very much live in ankara. well on our website you can find live updates on the unrest in turkey including footage photos and witness accounts from they also take part in our site vote and share your own ideas on the story with us in the comments section all at r.t. dot com. and history demonstration in the german financial capital of frankfurt this week took a turn for the wor

to give turkey a bad name. we want to go to our correspondents on the scene. we've been talking to nick paton walsh and arwa damon. they've seen them with their gas masks on and tear gas is firing. the pictures show a fairly quieter situation than was the case even half an hour ago. seems to be a series of cat and mouse games between the police and the protesters with the police coming in and the protesters shunting aside and they're moving back. nick, they're in taksim square. what does it feel like on the ground now? wrr as y >> reporter: as you mentioned, things quieting down. they're firing a substantial volley of tear gas in that direction. i think through the fog of my gas mask and the dark light, you can see the image of the fire some protesters moving down that particular road. i believe that's what they were aiming this massive volley of tear gas at. towards our live position here. i have to wear this gas mask. apologize for how hard it is to hear me. we're trying to see how many protesters are down th

protesters are in turkey.shington, new reaction in the white house ahead. yoyw97 >>> if you're just joining us, police are cracking down on protesters in central istanbul. in taksim square, bulldozers, armored vehicles, water cannons. this is what it looked like. you can hear pops of tear gas canisters being fired, stun grenades. the clashes have ebbed and flowed throughout the evening, 18, 19 hours. what began as an environmental protest has grown to a much larger protest against the prime minister. the white house has heard protesters and police in turkey to restrain from violence. the national security council continues to follow events in turkey with concern. dan, how concerned is the white house? based on what they're seeing in turkey, a key ally? >> they're very concerned. the white house, as you pointed out, have been watching the so there's concern about that. there's concern about the white house putting out a statement earlier this evening talking to that point. so the hope is that this can be correc

most of us know that turkey is a hot spot certainly for european tourists. a fundamental part of the economy in turkey is that of tourism now when i got this morning i saw a news story with a london officials warning u.k. citizens to avoid turkey because of the danger so should we be expecting a bite to be taken out of the tourism industry into this is a concern because you say it is a popular prize that she one of the most popular places in the world thirty six million people visited in twenty twelve for a significant inducer is a large chunk of their economy in the have been warnings come out already although it must be said that the turkish government have come out they said it's not a problem we're going to deal with it but in terms of tourism it's a big money maker and it is something to be concerned with right now so watching the process but now we see one so issues the issues of tourism for example there's a violence we see we see some of the shaking going on with the markets any other aspects of the turkish economy we should we should be up to speed

lex turkey has blamed angela merkel for blocking negotiations on turkey joining the european union. she recently said she was appalled by the harsh treatment turkish demonstrators -- of turkish demonstrators, saying that does not correspond with european ideals. police have arrested about 3000 people in three weeks of street violence in turkey. some of those were involved and support appearances after turkey accused merkel of the electioneering. turkey's ambassador to germany was summoned to the foreign ministry in ankara and did the same. >> more on that diplomatic spat from our political correspondent. is this one set to get worse? >> it's hard to say how far this is going to run. it is certainly unusual to see these two countries using the diplomatic sledgehammer of summoning each other's ambassadors. that smacks of another era in international relations, and it is not what you would expect from military allies and two countries who see themselves as key partners in europe. i think ankara is feeling the pressure of international criticism about its reactions to the protests we ha

turkey?thing else. because the government officials they do not work. they cannot find a solution. it seems the international organizations, they cannot find any immediate solution at the moment and i am very sorry for this. >> reporter: what do you think is going to happen next? where does the country go from here? >> well i think somehow it will settle down. but we have to find -- i mean all of us all the citizens not only the government offices, all the citizens have to sit down and tell the government what they would like to have in this country. it's not a matter of suppressing people. they have to listen listen listen. >> reporter: thank you so much for joining us. wolf that's been what we've been hearing a lot here. despite the fact that the government has been describing people as being extremists or a minority and a lot of people here are self-described professionals. they work during the day. they come out here at night. and their position towards the government as each day goes by

is normally like at 3:07, 3:08 turkey time in the morning. nick said he's been there 18, 19 hours. i want to check in with arwa damon. arwa, explain where you are in relation to nick and what you're seeing now. >> reporter: i am on the other side of the square from where nick is and we're held up inside a hotel that is kindly opened it's doors to us and dozens of other demonstrators and a make-shift health clinic. the street outside we're speaking. i can barely see gezi park that is less than 20 feet across the street from me because the smoke from the tear gas is so thick at this point in time. now similar to the -- and nick has a vantage point on this that the demonstrators have been occupying, they were clashing the riot police down one end of the street and this intense, intense volley of tear gas that effectively cleared all of it of the demonstrators, a lot of tear masks. causing complete chaos, people running into this hotel. then we saw the riot police with armored vehicles driving down the street pushing all of the barricades away. t

lex turkey has blamed angela merkel for blocking negotiations on turkey joining the european union. she recently said she was appalled by the harsh treatment turkish demonstrators -- of turkish demonstrators, saying that does not correspond with european ideals. police have arrested about 3000 people in three weeks of street violence in turkey. some of those were involved and support appearances after turkey accused merkel of the electioneering. turkey's ambassador to germany was summoned to the foreign ministry in ankara and did the same. >> more on that diplomatic spat from our political correspondent. is this one set to get worse? >> it's hard to say how far this is going to run. it is certainly unusual to see these two countries using the diplomatic sledgehammer of summoning each other's ambassadors. that smacks of another era in international relations, and it is not what you would expect from military allies and two countries who see themselves as key partners in europe. i think ankara is feeling the pressure of international criticism about its reactions to the protests we ha

that is what is going on in turkey. now, to afghanistan where today, the deadliest attack in more than a year to place in kabul. 16 people were killed when a convoy of buses was attacked by suicide attacker. >> once again, the sound of sirens cut across the midsummer air of kabul. once again, a suicide bomber had evaded the security ring. this time, the target was a convoy of buses carrying office workers home from the supreme court. people whose job was delivering justice, murdered by a suicide bomber. they did not stand a chance. >> these are the enemies of afghanistan. they have committed yet another crime by targeting civilians. packed flatshtly of the housing estates close by, people were injured in their homes by flying glass. nearby hospitals quickly refilled with the injured in a series with -- in a city where the doctors have a familiarity with the civilian cost. heavily armed police arrived quickly at the scene. this time, there was no armed taliban and attacker holed up in a building, just one suicide bomber,

demonstrators across turkey are met with clouds of tear gas as they clash with security forces for a fourth straight day there are mounting allegations over time by the authorities. on reaching a milestone we'll look back at the online videos that you watched helping unseat to become the finest global t.v. channel to reach one billion you tube views. new song russia and around the world this is all i see was me. and welcome to the program. one hundred and fifty four years the amount of time whistleblower bradley mining could spend behind bars he's a spanish trial begins later today in the u.s. after his arrest and twenty ten which saw him charged with aiding the enemy on two legs thousands of classified documents online content of the details for us it was a video that shocked the world footage of a u.s. apache helicopter killing twelve iraqi civilians including two journalists collateral murder the cold blooded brutality of the occupation captured on film it was leaked by a young american soldier army private bradley manning the video was uploaded to wiki leaks but it would prove to

the day of nationwide protests in turkey a twenty two year old man is allegedly shot dead by police becoming the second fatality in the. united states sends patriot missiles and f. sixteen fighters the military drills in jordan but they say that they couldn't stay there afterwards it's just a hop across the border conflict stricken syria. over the largest u.s. security leak in history prosecutors portray private bradley manning as a traitor. good morning from moscow where it's now a just off the clock. worldwide. now the unrest in second life police already facing widespread criticism for using excessive force being accused of being behind the killing of a twenty two year old man. who's in istanbul has the latest details on this. did die after his sustaining a head wound during the night protests in the south of turkey in the city of kentucky and now some of the some of the protesters are saying the shot came apparently from a police car however this information we have to stress this hasn't been confirmed yet so we have to wait and see for at least somewhat official results whether or not t

just what's been happening in turkey and the. weapons which are inevitably the weapons of. the regime which is attempting to suppress the. protests of people behind these gates is where it all began at the porton down military research base in england's rural will show c.s. gas was developed and tested has secretly in the one nine hundred fifty s. since then it's become a profitable industry sold to police forces the world over in the form of tear gas and pepper spray in the past four years britain has sold almost as much tear gas to europe as it has to the middle east so it's a weapon system is manufactured by the number of companies and for those companies it's obviously extremely profitable to be to be selling the more civil unrest the more shoes the more the selling and the more money that make what we would size arms to use that profit must never ever ever come before human rights and what we really need is governments to ensure that when the last thing the stuff they all stopped going to see any takers supplies of any tickets where there is a clear risk as in the case

hello and welcome to all the protests in turkey have. we can show no sign of abating turning a country from a moral muslim democracy just a month ago it's a case study of growing up there is tearing the top there both of these descriptions while to stop that i'm now joined by your like and columnist for the mana one of turkey's leading newspapers thank you very much for your time sir. we've seen a lot of protests in recent years both in the region and beyond and i think it's fairly easy to cost turkey as just another country sort of getting into the rally mood but i would argue that what we're seeing in turkey of these days is very different fundamentally different from what we saw in the arab spring countries and in the west of it they occupy movement would you agree with that yes i would. agree with not making a comparison with the arab spring. has been made at the start of what you're into now i think turkey of today is in the totally different position egypt or tunisia or libya in two thousand and eleven. the prime minister with all

all over istanbul and indeed the protests have gone largely unnoticed by the state media here in turkey however people did have the last word by destroying the satellite trucks of local state media channels if not to prove a point then at least to vent out their anger and frustration at the media that did not cover the events at home pepper spray water cannons tear gas all hell was breaking loose in taksim with police trying to evict environmentalists and their supporters from the park last weekend but when turkish audiences flipped on their t.v.'s they saw something entirely different. from c.n.n. and. you guessed the poll is the people and take c.n.n. turk there was a commentary. it's. produce a print of the protests disapproving of the lack of coverage by the turkish media nevertheless believe news outlets have good reason for tuning out when things take a turn. for the unexpected actually it's the pressure of the prime minister that is reflected on the media and we think it's unfair other channels international channels sharing this information and we have to find out about it on th

the confrontations have expanded too many of turkey's major cities. used waterofficers cannons to try to dampen the discontent. alternating with teargas and pepper spray. then, in the middle of the afternoon, the police withdrew from the square, allowing protesters to claim this space. many protesters and the international community have criticized the government for heavy handedness in their approach, something the prime minister had to acknowledge. >> it is true that the police force made a mistake in using tear gas. i have ordered the interior ministry to investigate this. using teargas was unnecessary. the government has attempted to restrict turkish media from reporting and many say that this is a secular protest. >> there are people with all kinds of ideologies here together, but the attitude for the police never changes. >> the environmentalists and you cannot have this with the party or the ground. >> at issue is the future of turkey as a secular state. although there are many protesters, half of the electorate voted for his party in the last

and the government in turkey has apologized for the violent response by security forces towards protesters. water cannons and tear gas for. protesters made fresh attempts to reach the prime minister's office at least fifty being arrested. dozens of homes were raided and sixteen people detained simply using social media and the internet has been used to share information. against the government turkish prime minister has its role in the riots. in particular. the people. on the television news. the revolution will not be televised that is according to graffiti spray painted all over istanbul and indeed the protests have gone largely unnoticed by the state media here in turkey however people did have the last word by destroying the satellite trucks of local state media channels if not to prove a point then at least to vent out their anger and frustration at the media that did not cover the events at home pepper spray water cannons tear gas only hell was breaking loose in taksim with police trying to evict environmentalists and their supporters from the park last weekend when turkish audiences

well meanwhile turkey's prime minister gathered an army of his supporters for a counter rally held in istanbul where open i turn to government demonstrators were forcibly dispersed and defended saturday's police actions claiming it was his duty to clear the city square. anti-government on rest. label the protesters traitors like used foreign media are painting an incorrect picture of what's happening on the first turn a snail carjackings upon ministers take a common. stance against the protest as believing he'll succeed with a crackdown thanks to a strong western support. to hunt feels emboldened really trapped in a very harsh way gets protesters uneasy in boulder because he's a member of nato and the u.s. ally and i think he acts very interesting to see just how limited the criticism of the don is been over the last week in the west john kerry baits mutterings about not using too much force but william hague for example has been silent the french have been silent and i think mission boehner has to come down hard on protesters put in the police put in the water cannons that the plasti

instability, instability spreading into turkey, a key u.s.hat region is a desperate situation for the white house tonight, shep. >> shepard: indeed it is, ed henry at the white house. as we continue to look live this is taksim a large square in the center of the city. another square near where all of this began. it's actually just a very small park. and it was very close to this and had what amounted to the last green space in all of this part of the city. that's how all of this began with a group of protesters who wanted to save the trees. the prime minister has asked to meet with them tomorrow but they are now refusing. at 2:30 in the morning we know he will be meeting tomorrow with some sort of famous people and the protesters, the original protesters are saying this is just the beginning, that this will now spread and it will grow. joining us now from context and perspective, ambassador stewart holiday. he is the former u.s. ambassador for special political affairs at the united nations. sir, with what degree of concern do you watch this?

turkey. it has exploded into fire and tear gas tonight. this is a green revolution of an entirely different sort. because it started as a protest over green space. parks that were disappearing. but it has devolved into so much more. you might say a vote of no confidence by turkey's people towards its long-standing prime minister. look at the scene. riot police moved in on tens of thousands of protesters in istanbul's taksim square. within minutes, the scene erupted into a volley of stun grenades, firecrackers, water cannons, and tear gas. it got so bad, cnn's arwa damon was overcome by gas as she was trying to report live. >> reporter: we're right now in the very front of the park. you can see people trying to help us out because of the tear gas. the entire front part of the park right now has been cleared out. because of the intensity of what was just fired in. >> we are just learning they have been tear gassed again. you saw peppermint being sprayed into arwa's eyes. the cnn crew trying to help her so she could continue her live reportin