awaiting their fate in the town of virtual pussy riot trial a verdict is expected any day now the prosecution is demanding three years behind bars for the female trio. slap in the face for america's military ambition president all of this so the fans agreement with the west stake and announces his own plans. to get braces for its first post gadhafi transition of power from its and to ring leaders to an elected assembly despite continued violent aftershocks from the revolution. last british police argues of using stop and search powers to target black officers claim they're preventing gang crime minorities feel discriminated against.

what you are going to live from moscow i'm marina joshie else go court reviewing the case of feminist punk band pussy riot is set to announce the date when the verdict will be read out prosecutors are demanding three year jail sentences for the woman who held a protest in russia's main orthodox cathedral are just bitter all over is live outside of court for us so peter what's the atmosphere where you are right now. well here outside of the central moscow core where the trial is taking place a small crowd is gathered made up of supporters of these three women on groups that say that they should face the three year jail sentence that prosecutors called for on tuesday now on tuesday we heard from both the prosecution calling for those sentences those three year sentences for each of the three women also from the

defendants themselves where they said that their actions in the may moscow call to may moscow cathedral i beg your pardon in february of this year in no way intended to offend the old to doc's church that they were making a political protest not no intention to cause any offense there but the trial underway at the moment to be bringing you all the latest from what comes out of the courtroom as we get it right well peter as it was convert has divided opinions not only in russia but also internationally so what's the latest twist here. well it's really been quite an amazing journey in this trial the amount of. media interest around the world that it's grabbed from the the music industry we've seen quite a few superstars of the business coming out and supporting these three women the likes of staying the red hot chili peppers and faith no more the latest to join that group with madonna now she played in moscow on tuesday night and was on stage

with the words pussy riot painted on her back now madonna of course no stranger to controversy and certainly no stranger to controversy regarding the church you cast your mind back to one nine hundred eighty nine and has single like a prayer the music video for which was condemned by the it's a can and so some catholic groups are calling for excommunication and in fact it ended up losing a sponsorship from a group such as as pepsi among others so she knows about controversy when it comes to this and she's throwing his support behind pussy riot but it's not just these issues that have been coming out and giving their opinions on this case we've seen politicians from well from the west from britain from germany from the united states some of them coming here to the course to see what was going on it and giving their opinions out through it but this is really i think hard to believe you divisive court case still here and russia very much black and white there are some that have basically pre-trained these three women as molten they say almost they

should have icons painted over them whereas on the other side there are people treating them as heretics is blasphemous and some even go to school i was suggesting that they should be should be good to the state should times and really something that has stood up a motion and passions among people in the state not just here in russia but also around the world. all right peter thanks very much indeed for bringing us us up there peter all of our reporting there. and another our correspondent is currently inside a courtroom and she's keeping us up to date with all the latest developments on one of her latest tweets she says there was a stampede outside the worse of the courthouse and cameras are permitted to fill inside the trial today.

poland could make a break from its military protectors in the u.s. with the country's president suggesting the development of a missile defense shield all of its own the polish leader said a deal to allow part of america's planned system is territory left security at the mercy of policy shifts in washington are just explains. signing an agreement with washington on taking part in the european anti-missile defense shield project was a big political mistake this was the message of the polish president but he's not come out of ski spoke to a polish newspaper saying that his country played a high political price for signing this agreement back in two thousand and eight something which he believes must not must not repeat itself must not happen again he probably meant that countries previous administration signed this agreement with washington in two thousand and eight that poland would take part in the european a.m.d. project by having american missiles american troops on its soil then when the

president obama when president obama came to office when there was a change of administration in washington this one was changed was altered and now poland is paying the consequences of relying too much on washington's efforts in building this european a.m.d. project rather than participating in this project having american troops on its soil reason to believe that poland should have its own antiwar anti-missile defense system which would guarantee that whatever. however comes to office in washington still the polish defense would be active still still it would have the needed resources to fight off any attacks coming from the air from any rank states should they decide to attack poland right now the polish president believes the current missile defense of the polish armed forces is very weak and outdated so rather than taking part in this project by nato by washington poland should invest into building its own system couple of years ago in two thousand and ten poland already hosted. several sets of the interceptor missiles of nato on its soil in the town

of morag in northern poland something which was certainly criticized heavily in moscow saying that this move like this basically builds up the hostility in the region and comes a full contradiction with the agreements made between the two countries certainly it's really only to say what the new statements by bring use of komorowski could mean whether poland may take some kind of turn around and may change this policy and whether it may actually drop itself from the a.m.d. from the nato and u.s. a.m.d. project in europe but definitely a statement like that coming from the country's leader who is marking two years in office right now is something you and definitely brings a lot of spice to this rather interesting interesting story as it is. nice if you ask your point there and coming up in just a few minutes unrest proximity gyptian for skilled militants in the sinai area as post revolution clashes move dangerously close to the border with israel.

and turkey steps up a task on purpose travels fearing they'll exploit turmoil in syria some analysts believe this is the first sign of bankers' cost. backfiring. and post gadhafi leave yeah the recently elected parliament is preparing to replace the country's interim leaders national transitional council predict a peaceful handover the spy sporadic outbreaks of violence the red cross and now says this. worked in several major cities in libya after its headquarters and misrata were pelted with our meat and rockets it was the fifth time in less than three months they depended agency has come under attack in the country a car bomb also exploded near a military police building and the capital tripoli last weekend a sting operation outside the city saw three men suspected of planning bomb attacks killed richard spencer a founder and coeditor of online magazine alternative right says this instability plays into the hands of some world powers. what i would say is this is that

the united states is very happy if libya becomes a kind of chaotic place where there's no real there's no real central power that whatever who's anything they do if there is some you know borderline secular people battling islamicist and so on and so forth and there's not a strong man like gadhafi who actually would question the washing consensus who would threaten to offer a different kind of monetary standard who would oppose washington and israel and foreign policy if if washington can't prevent someone like that i think washington would be happy i think washington would be happy if you have islamicist squabbling with other factions and you have this parliament that has no clear majority and that would last for decades and libya just kind of sinks into a weak powerless place. egyptian forces have killed twenty islamic militants in the

sinai region close to the border with israel it's the latest in a series of clashes which have a skule to dramatically since the ousting of hosni mubarak from power in egypt are just policy or has the latest for us now live well paula what's happening is signing. well in the early hours of this morning wayne's day egypt's military launched a civil air strikes in the northern peninsula and according to egyptian media at least twenty people have been killed there several spots were targeted and why this is significant is that this is the first time since nine hundred seventy three that the egyptian air force has operated in the sinai peninsula it certainly is indicative of an increased militant activity there that such efforts are being employed such desperate efforts it does follow involved by cairo that it would crack down on what is called the infidels operation in the sinai peninsula it

follows a deadly attack on sunday night in which sixteen egypt soldiers were killed and just last night tuesday there were at least three incidents at joint border crossings boy and a joint checkpoints between egyptian soldiers and egyptian police now ever since the former egyptian president hosni mubarak was ousted from power last year february we have seen growing nor listeners and chaos across the sinai peninsula certainly seeing that the militants are starting to act much more boldly we have heard a number of incidents of militant attacks and militant operations in the growing concern is also that this violence is moving closer to the egyptian israeli border and this has not only tel aviv concerned but people in the region that this violence might spread further and have regional implications certainly television has indicated and said that it will act unilaterally if it feels threatened. all right paula thanks very much indeed for bringing us the very latest possibly or

there. well we have more on clashes in egypt online as was plenty of other stories including political correctness and a fire in europe i felt a man with mental health problems could hardly speak or write plans to run for the city council will he succeed find out on our website r t dot com. fossil don't trust and verify brock obama fights a ban on the indefinite detention of citizens that threatens fundamental constitutional rights. than a hundred of them all live in your. forty acres and nineteen ninety three and decided it would be

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load here unless you come over here and live in my house for a week. i have no rights. to. brazenness black communities say police are targeting them with stop and search powers officers denying discrimination but asking minorities say they feel like they're being treated as second class artists laura smith reports. the police conduct a stop and search operation on a group of youths in london they can stop anyone in some cases without even

suspecting a crime but research shows if you're black it's twenty eight times more likely to happen to you mohamed el me is young and black and has lived on his west london estate all his life he's also a trainee lawyer articulate and intelligent and yet the police are constantly stopping him you're looking at probably five to ten times into five to ten times a week a week and i've got to stop a search slip to waterproof that l. me describes a typical police shakedown they happen more in the summer and often when he's driving his car through everything about just that you got a car left on the sidewalk had their at their way again no reasons as to reasonable suspicion should assess what is pulled the know so of mannerism things he's. not going to treated like second class citizens police say the use of stop and search

is critical in their efforts to tackle knife gone and gang crime but its efficacy and legality has been questioned by the equality and human rights commission who point to excessive use on ethnic minority. and they say in some areas up to three hundred people are stopped before a single arrest is made it's marginalizing entire communities just the experience of being repeatedly stopped and stopped for what seems like very little reason to stop what seems to be just your honesty has a very damaging effect on the community and it makes the community feel that were other than being a part of being protected their problem this being policed against a disconnect between the police and the people race was one of the factors found to have sparked all last august's riots the disturbances started here in tottenham after the shooting by police of a young black man and the first anniversary of the riots approaches it's

a situation young people say hasn't got any better the metropolitan police say they are changing the way they work here they're attending a meeting with young black people in the area to listen to their concerns but tell me says it's all for show. attendant crime sure doesn't change change in one week is a lot of the police that if one you approach is revised trade in trying to engage with the community a lot more in numerous ways but they don't they don't seem to weapon l. me goes on with his legal training while getting shaken down by the police ten times a week so in the future he can advocate to his community laura smith. well on the other side of the ocean the authorities also stand accused this hour with talk to nothing but activists in a war veteran who was brutally beaten by police while protesting against corporations and their puppet politicians he says the future of america are surely the fine people. there are

a lot of veterans getting her by this is that is you know in the sense that they come back to a broken system a system that they feel disconnected from and that's why we're having a thousands of veterans a day commit suicide most likely we're either going to vote for a democrat or republican and i think what both of those are wrong choices they're both working for the same system that they both take money from the same people from the same banks and and we you can see in their policies that they are rewarding their donors and voting for that continuance of policy is not going to change anything at all. the man convicted alongside james former oil tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky has had his sentence reduced by a russian court that means. could walk free next march which will be more than

three years earlier two thousand times pressed it down the same time as partner holocaust who was once russia's richest man and owner of oil giants here cos they were found guilty of tax evasion minor laundering problem and fraud and sentenced to thirteen years and things were going to. turkey's government says its troops have killed one hundred fifteen kurdish rebels over the past two weeks in a stepped up offensive and cries worry the kurds have been fighting for autonomy since ninety four could exploit the power vacuum in neighboring syria and some experts say the calls for regime change and eating from turkey are only making the situation worse do syrian case betty i don't a case for turkey because turkey is for the first time demanding a regime change in syria which is a unique case in tortures history says that its creation in one nine hundred twenty three turkey for the first time demands a regime change in a neighboring country but this you know is producing some counterproductive

outcomes that is the autonomy of kurdish groups circle turkey i mean it is not clear what to do with these two code kodesh groups nor to syria i'm not saying all ditto dish groups in north and syria are against turkey as far as i know there are more than twenty five independent kurdish groups but some of them are seriously entitled to mainly the p y d do. is you know branch ignore to iraq when you are not in syria so all of course they resent the figure of a situation in syria i don't leak we create. all the lead kurdish organizations and there is an expectation told many kurdish groups are moving from north in iraq in order to syria. turkey's evolvement in the syrian conflict may be more than just rhetoric president assad's forces say they've captured turkish officers in a flashpoint city of aleppo said himself meanwhile has made his first t.v.

appearance in almost three weeks vowing to cleanse the country of terrorists a statement came on the heels of a visit to damascus by the secretary of iran's supreme national security council during the visit the two states pledged mutual support saying their alliance is an axis of resistance against western influence you also condemn the recent kidnapping of forty seven iranians in the mask is for which president assad blames the rebel forces. ehlers has decided to withdraw its embassy from sweden suggesting stockholm does the same by the end of august however many stressed it is not going to diplomatic ties with the country the tensions after a swedish plane a legally cross over some border and drop parachuting teddy bears carrying pro opposition slogans. now it's another day of violence in afghanistan at least one civilian has been killed and several others wounded in a double suicide attack targeting

a provincial council in the east and nato troops came under fire in the central province were up to forty militants attacked security checkpoints from two different angles forty international troops have been killed over the last month as ambushes increases following america's an announcement it will withdraw by two thousand and fourteen. all right if you are up to date and for more you can always look at our website r t dot com in the meantime we can cross to the world of business and maureen of course you've got the latest but we want to know how the trading session is going on well basically we're seeing the mixed picture marina of us our if we start with europe and the numbers there basically everyone is focusing on the recent outlook downgrade of greece i'll get to that in a second and we have drug and energy majors them particularly badly this hour the footsies losing almost a half a percent there and the german dax is slightly behind they're losing the half of that is now if you move on

a second look at the wrong markets which kicked off with the losses right now they are extending them all the minimize that this hour means the r.t.s. and set in one third of a percent and then my sense is news in point one percent this hour lower put prices have something to do with i don't like a lot of those in the second and the second look at the exchange rates and see what's happening there when it comes to the euro it is a losing against the u.s. dollar when it comes to the ruble it's weakening against both major currencies in fact we saw in the previous sessions that it reached its highest level of the whole summer but now it's dropping from that now i want to talk about this and particularly as i was saying the downgrade standard and poor's has now downgraded its outlook from a stable to negative and the ratings agency believes that greece will fail to basically come up with more cuts that are required to get the next tranche of the bailout fund from the e.u. of course now more details on that at least this time with didn't see

a credit downgrade now the troubled economy may need as much as seven billion euros this year to stay afloat and that's going the fact that it's been shrinking for the last five years with unemployment skyrockets into twenty percent. and in asia markets are now closed and let's take a look at how the picture looks there we have the neck a that remain the process. it's already and the hang sang that didn't manage to escape when it comes to japan we had exports them particularly well as well as steel majors and very soon their investors were more focusing on the optimism that we will see more financial stimulus by the u.s. and european central banks when it comes to china they are awaiting a key economic reports on thursday and the sentiment is really not why post of there now if we move on and take a look at all prices i mentioned later earlier i should say that they're heading south in fact they're coming almost a week to monetise i should say with that light sweet us trading at around ninety three dollars a barrel when it comes to the brant blunders that are on one hundred eleven dollars

and fifty two cents there and the reason they're heading this south is because there is speculation that the recent gains we saw were excessive and also made to weaken in the mines in the move west which is of course the world's biggest crude consumer and i want to talk about norway's saxo which isn't talks with the gas from over its options in the gas development. basically following that there are reports that norwegian the firm has pulled out instead to focus on russia's energy rich arctic about for a second when the agreement between france is total and the gas from terminated in late june now with no new deals at hand the companies are in talks over the new plan to develop russia's arctic both that's all and so it's discussing options with no further details being made public gets boxwood do know about. its war condition and lower taxes. and there you have it see i'm not asking anything right now i'm

very. thanks very much indeed marina see you next hour and meantime can watch the full version of our interview with an occupy activist who was brutally beaten by police while protesting against corporations and their puppet politicians that's after the headlines that's coming your way shortly.

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