normally organized plan a fairly large explosion there, a stun grenade and it encourages peaceful protesters to go home. i ve been watching 15 hours more or less of standoff, and a massive volley of tear gas about three hours ago. you have to ask yourself how does this end, what is the administration s end to calm istanbul and do they want pictures like this playing out for another 15 hours? if you re just tuning in, you re watching live pictures from taksim square in downtown istanbul where protesters and police have been clashing for hours. our own nick paton walsh is in taksim park, as well as arwa damon.
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from taksim square in istanbul, turkey. we are wondering if we re watching where this tips into chaos. police are firing water cannons and a seemingly endless supply of tear gas into the crowd. many, however, are still there. a short time ago istanbul s governor gave a press conference calling the protesters marginal groups and blaming them. the government will keep taking necessary measures until all protesters are gone. our senior international
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protesters back and then they would surge back in toward the center of the square. as it stands now, that volley you heard is from one group of riot police pushing themselves down to gezi park to where arwa damon was. i have just seen an excavateor. part of the construction equipment in this area, that s on fire as well. the police now retreating to that main monument. the key thing, the mayor of istanbul saying this would continue until they regain control. at this point they seem to be heading toward protesters and sparring tear gas at this many, perhaps hoping they ll go home. we ve seen no sign of that being imminent. in other capitals when they try to move crowds away ethey have a