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 that road. having seen so many standoffs here. christian christiana, this is a repeat cycle of violence on both sides in many ways. i have to confirm that i haven t seen in the dark how the protesters are responding to the police, but each time they rally back in the center they re tear gassed again. they re to the point where the last volleys have been so intense they seem to have been settling down the side streets away from taksim park. there are 50 on this side
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.
they want the appropriate measures to be taken and they want the end of this project for taksim park. nothing has been done. you heard the member of parliament there telling us that the prime minister still intends to meet with a group of protesters, particularly those who call themselves environmental protesters, regarding the plans for gezzy park. do you think that that will happen and how do you think that conversation is going to go? what can the prime minister say to allay their concerns? well, i don t really know who are going to meet with the prime minister, but it has been 14, 15 days right now and he has waited so long to meet with people.