JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR: It's very interesting. In the United States when we have this kind of disaster, you see the government coming in to assist people, people rallying around the relief effort. Here it seems to be a very much a pitched battle of rhetoric between those effected by the mine disaster and the government itself. The prime minister even said something highly controversial. He said, hey, mine disasters happen all the time, almost seemed to be downplaying the situation. That only infuriated the mining families and the victims there.</s>MICHAEL PEREIRA, CNN ANCHOR: Again, many lives were lost right in the beginning. Some rescues were made. You can see how violent this is getting. People stomped on the ground. You can tell temperatures are flaring. Our Ivan Watson is on scene and we've been working to establish to get contact with him. Ivan, give us an idea where you are and what we're seeing.</s>PEREIRA: Obviously communication is really difficult warnings but the pictures speak a thousand words when you look at the anger coming on the part of the protesters, the reaction of the riot police there involved that.</s>BERMAN: Again, the unrest has spread at times beyond this town. This is something that's become a political incident there that could have serious ramifications for this government there. I know Ivan is trying to re-establish contact. We will go back to him if we can, but, again, that's the scene in soma in turkey right now.</s>PEREIRA: We're going to take a short break. In a moment, @THISHOUR continues.
Riot at Turkey Mine Disaster