hearing, protesters finding whatever pieces of corrugated iron they can, kicking it, punching it, trying to unify by the noise they can make by the lack of direct unified political message. it s ringing out across the square now where police seem to be moving in occasionally firing water cannons at them. fireworks again. those fireworks clearly being fired at the police armored vehicles there. i think it s fair to say not by accident. that s causing them to retreat. and now that thumping subsided in the square and, again, that question, where does this go sneks what is the police strategy for restoring order
amount of chaos and they sit there and fall back. we don t know quite what they wanted to achieve by all of these clashes. nick, thanks. worth repeating that the mayor of istanbul has gone on television telling people to leave for their own safety and saying that the police will do what it takes. he said unremitting measures to clear the square. it will take however long it takes, he said. i want to go to ankora. the bureau chief from a newspaper there. can you tell me what is going on in ankora and whether there is this kind of protest and trouble there tonight? well, actually, the night started a bit quiet but now i do hear a lot of voices coming out. probably people seeing what s happening there in taksim would also be pouring into the streets and into the avenues of ankora as it has happened in the
down on one of the side rose getting off the square. two fires in the central square itself. protesters continuing to vent their anger by pounding whatever piece of corrugated metal they can find down there in the square below me. there s a sense of disarray. almost a sense of routine, in fact, to see how some of these protesters are milling around. they ve been pushed back by police with tear gas and surge forward repeatedly in the past hour now. as you were saying earlier, hala, what is the strategy from the police? are they simply trying to remind police of their ability to push them back or are they trying to hold this vital part of istanbul. we are hearing the crack again of what sounds like tear gas near where we are. the protesters have been using
what did you think when you saw the mayor of istanbul on television a short while ago saying that this was going to continue, the police action, until the square is cleared? yeah. i mean, not only the mayor, but also the governor. both of them used the similar similar attitude, but they re not alone. i mean, it starts with the prime minister, of course. there are some actually moderate voices even in the government, like the prime minister, but also in state structure up to the president but unfortunately the prime minister didn t share their approach and the way of dialogue with the protestors even though people are ready for a consensus and to solve this issue with finding a common way. but it seems, i mean, the
reporter: i think we re seeing what are a couple of fires in the central square. we re not sure of the origin. they re trying to be extinguished by a water cannon. just a few moments ago, arwa, there was a dramatic atmosphere. protesters found every piece of corrugated iron. i ll let you see the fireworks going off behind me now. it s unclear if they re celebratory or they re being fired at the place as part of the protests, make shift arsenal of weapons. what we have is a whole square united and banging whatever corrugated iron it could find. this huge drum ringing out which eventually subsided. people moving in force back towards the center of the square. the occasional crack of tear gas now lit up sometimes by the flashing lights and ambulances moving around the square. i should point out, we don t