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hear me any longer or if we have any of our reporting staff, or clearance that they re okay. if we can get our producing staff in istanbul some clearance that arwa and her staff are all right. we want to make sure that is okay. here is the other issue. these are protesters many of them have spent days trying to get a message out. usually about the green space. usually about the innocuous. it has evolved into something different. the prime minister of this country has said that he will have none of this. he is using an iron fist, at least with the rhetoric he has been employing in trying to quell what is happening in his streets. to say this is not turkey. this is not the way we want our international image. i will not stand for this protest in our streets. not being met well. when you send in the riot police in this kind of demonstration with 10,000 people there is bound to be death and injuries. and there have been. upwards of 5,000 injuries so far in the past days and weeks of
day creation, has really prided itself on the fact that it is utterly separates politics and religion. and many of prime minister erdogan s opponents say since he has come to power that is really no longer been the case. it s fascinating to hear, to watch, but also a bit nerve-racking as we have been watching you all day, arwa, so, please take the utmost care. you and your crew. ensure that you are safe. we have plenty of camera angles we can cover this from. we appreciate the hard and taxing work that you have been doing throughout the day. arwa damon is live in istanbul, in the middle of that, she and her crew, cnn group with nerves of steel putting themselves at grave risk to bring the story to you as it unfolds live only as cnn can. we have a lot more of this breaking news from turkey coming up. another of my colleagues i have watched for 18 hours, nick paton walsh, with a gas mask, and again an iron gut. he is also watching taksim square and he will join us live right after the
as you head down there last night there were buses blocking the way. as you move down towards some of the brand hotels there. that are in this upscale part of istanbul. it must be a for those facing the police advance, in many ways, a terrifying situation. i think we are just sort of lucky to have a change of wind during this hour where you have been able to report without a gas mask. i ve seen you on since 5:00 this morning with that gas mask and battles against those clouds of tear gas that have pervaded that entire area. on the left-hand side of your screen, a few riot police, firing their tear gas cannons, indiscriminately it seems. maybe strategy we don t see. on the right, the reuter shot of taksim square. from above it doesn t look as dire as it does from street view. listen, nick, there does not seem to be any chance that these kinds of factions while this is