awaiting their fate in a controversial pussy riot trial verdict is expected any day now the prosecution is demanding three years behind bars or the female trigger. baby braces for its first posted off the transition of power from remembers to like the salmon's by looking in violent aftershocks from the revolution. was a british police aren't used to using stop and search powers to target black officers claim they're preventing gang crime or from any of the against.

it is one pm in the russian capital you're watching r t a marina joshie welcome to the program of bosco court reviewing the case of a 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 women who held a protest in russia's main orthodox cathedral spear all over is outside the court for us now. well here outside of the central moscow corps 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 montreux sentences those three sentences for each of the three women also from the defendants themselves where they said that their actions in the may moscow cathedral in february of this year in no way intended to offend the altar docs

church that they were making a political protest not no intention to cause any offense there well it's really being quite amazing to me in this trial the amount of media interest around the world that it's grabbed from 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 was madonna and how 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 thousand nine hundred eighty nine and single like a prayer the music video for which was condemned by the vatican and saw some catholic groups calling for excommunication and in fact it ended up losing a sponsorship from groups such as as pepsi among others so she knows about controversy when it comes to this and she's thrown her 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 the west from britain from germany from the united states some of them coming here to the course really something that has stood up a motion and passions amongst people not just here in russia but also around the world. well we are awaiting a verdict in about two hours stein that's three pm moscow time so we'll keep you updated on this now another hour to correspond there we go is currently inside the courtroom and she's keeping us up to date with all the latest developments. in. the women are currently delivering their final pleas and they were in this twitter three men can find what exactly three are say the courthouse is full of journalists as cameras are permitted to film inside the trial today.

now impose could obviously be a recently elected parliament is preparing to replace the country's interim leaders the national transitional council predict a peaceful handover despite sporadic outbreaks of violence the red cross announced its suspending were several major cities in b.b. and after its headquarters in misrata were pounded with grenades and rockets of where it was the fifth time in less than three months in a pan an agency has come under attack in the country a car bomb also exploded near a military police building in the capital tripoli last weekend and a sting operation outside a city saw three men suspected of planning bomb attacks killed dr khan and a columnist at foreign policy in focus says the new parliament is unlikely to bring order to the war ravaged country. i think that country is currently divided into three particular areas the west the east and the south and i think there is no

central power so we talk about transferring power i don't know who's going to transfer power and i don't know to whom you're going to transfer it i mean the situation is a market at this point and it is also spreading regionally as well one of the effects of the libyan war has been that. to spread a lot of weapons and a lot of fighters eccentric to other areas in the in the sahara including mali and the people who are power today in libya whoever has the most guns had a particular point in time in a particular place and i think that the people in the south many of them are burst are they have a very very different agenda than the people in the in the east and in the west and the west has a very different agenda people in the east i mean in many ways this is a kind of polyglot country with lots of different and conflicting currents in transit i don't see that this elected transitional government is going

to bring order out of that chaos so i don't see where what it's legitimacy is gyptian forces have killed twenty islamic militants in the sinai region close to israel it's the latest in a series of clashes which have escalated dramatically since the ousting of hosni mubarak from power in egypt as policy reports israel is getting worried over the activity as border. in the early hours of this morning wednesday the egypt's military launched civil air strikes in the northern peninsula and according to egyptian media at least twenty people have been killed several spots were targeted and why this is significant is that this is the first time since one thousand 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 was a degree attack on sunday night in which sixteen egypt soldiers were killed and just last night chews day there were at least three incidents at joint border crossings a joint checkpoints between egyptian soldiers and egyptian police now if the sun is the former egyptian president hosni mubarak was ousted from power last year favor we we have seen growing enormousness and chaos across the sinai peninsula certainly seeing that the militants are starting to act much more bold me we have heard a number of incidents of militant attacks and militant operations the growing concern is also that this violence is moving closer to the egyptian israeli border and this has been 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 coming

out of the program here in r.t. rhetoric backlash turkey stepped up attacks on during the war it from all in syria some hours believe this is the first. calls to oust backfiring. one could make a break from its military protectors in the us where the country's president suggesting the development of a missile the failed shield all of excel the polish leader at a deal to allow part of america's planned system was. territory left security at the mercy of policy shifts in washington ask you now 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 komorowski 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 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 plan 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 recent going off to believe that poland should have its own anti-war anti-missile defense system which would guarantee that whatever whoever 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 iraq 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 and poland already hosted the 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 early to say what the new statements by you 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 a from the nato and u.s. a.m.d. project in europe but definitely statements like that coming from the country's leader who is marking two years in office right now is something you definitely brings a lot of spice to this rather interesting interesting story as it is. all the twists

in the u.s. missile the fans' plans are available online as well as plenty of other stories including political correctness under fire in new york a belgian man with mental health problems who can't hardly speak or write plans to run for the city council or he succeeds and find out on our website r.t. dot com. plus don't trust and verify brock obama fights a ban on the indefinite detention of citizens that threatens fundamental constitutional rights. to walk nuclear fireballs hides inside the. radioactive fallout of all government betrayal the government of law and laud and laud and laud how can the truth be revealed if there's no official evidence there

was a very great danger to the servicemen concerned who will give a low problem. and to the people of this country generally because of radio like the fall of. the secrets of the u.k.'s nuclear tests it's just. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.

britain's black community say police are targeting them with stop and search powers officers deny discrimination but asking minorities say they feel like they are being treated as second class artist laura smith now 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 mohammed 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 looking up probably five to ten times of the first ten times a week a week and i've got to stop a search slip to waterproof tell me describes a typical police shakedown they happen more in the summer and off than when he's driving his car through everything about everything about a car left on the sidewalk had their way again no reason to reasonable suspicion should assess why this pulled us over no. 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 gun 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 minorities 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 and stopped for it seems to be just your ethnicity has a very damaging effect on the community and it makes the community feel that were other than being a part of the society is being protected there a problem is being policed against a disconnect between the police and the people they serve 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 as the first anniversary of the riots approaches is 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 has an approval. attendant punctual and. all we get is a lot of lip service from the police that it when you approach is revise traded we're trying to engage with the community a lot more in numerous ways but they don't they don't seem to work well 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 for his community laura smith r.t. london. on the other side of the ocean the authorities also stand accused next hour we talk to an occupy activist and war veteran who was brutally beaten by police while protesting against corporations and their papa politicians he says the future of america should be defined by its 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. commit suicide most likely we're either going. democrat or republican and i think both 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. 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 jailed former oil tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky has had his sentence reduced by a russian court i mean spot on livid you could walk free next march which will be more than three years early two thousand and two he was arrested at the same time last part holocaust who was once russia's richest man owner of oil giant yukos they

were found guilty of tax evasion money laundering battlement and fraud and sentenced to thirteen years in prison. turkey's government says its troops have killed one hundred fifteen kurdish rebels over the past two weeks in a stepped up offensive and chorus worried 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 emanating from turkey are only making the situation worse. do serial killer is a very i don't it case for turkey because turkey is for the first time demanding a regime change in syria which is a unique case in torture she's through says that its creation in one hundred twenty three georgia for the first time demands a regime change in a neighboring country but this we know is producing some counterproductive outcomes that is the autonomy of kurdish groups sort out. i mean it is not clear what to do

with these two totally kodesh groups nor to syria i am not saying all ditto dish groups in northern syria are against turkey as far as a i know there are more than twenty five independent kurdish groups but some of them are seriously in photo mainly p y d do you do. is you know branch ignore to iraq what you are not in syria sort of clinched the resent do the figure of regime in syria i've only can we create. all chichi lead kurdish organizations and there is an expectation in told many kurdish groups are moving from north to iraq in order to. not turkey's involvement in the syrian conflict may be more than just rhetoric president asad forces say they have captured turkish officers in the flesh point city of aleppo acid himself meanwhile has made his first t.v. appearance in almost three weeks vowing to cleanse the country of terrorists this statement came on the heels of

a visit to damascus by the secretary of iran's supreme national security council during a visit to the two states pledged mutual support saying their alliance is an axis of resistance against western influence they also condemn the recent kidnapping of forty seven iranians in damascus for which brother nasser blames the rebel forces. well look at that bella has decided to withdraw its embassy from sweden suggesting does the same by the end of august whenever a man's press is not going to cut diplomatic ties with a country the tensions come after a swedish plane illegally crossed the belle of russia more and drop parachuting teddy bears carry pro opposition slogans. it's another day of violence in afghanistan at least three nato soldiers and a civilian have been killed in a double suicide attack targeting a military patrol near a local government h.q. in the east of the country coalition troops also came under fire in a central province where militants attacked security checkpoints from two different

angles forty international troops have been killed over the last month as ambushes increased following america's announcement it will withdrawal by two thousand and fourteen. by the breeze up to date here on argue let's see what's happening in the world of business. while marina you won't be bearer of good news this hour is more bad news who agrees. is the thing that's because its outlook was downgraded but at least it wasn't a credit rating that would have been evolved wars have been said that it doesn't it can really get any worse than that but i'll get to that in a second the first let's take a look at how european markets are doing and basically it's a sea of red across the board except for asia actually except for japan but markets are close focusing on euro the pussys losing almost half a percent similarly with the german dax has caught up now and basically we have drug makers and energy firms among the biggest decline there is this our ambassadors want to see more monetary stimulus from both the u.s.

and european central banks so we're waiting to hear about something to do with out of maybe that's where most of market is going higher and higher but i want to stay with europe and talk about a couple of other stories as shares of standard charters are now rebounding and basically that's after the deepest one day the cline in decades it's now almost six percent after losing seventeen billion dollars off the bank's market value in just one day it comes as the bank is suspected of hiding tens of thousands of transactions with the wrong which is of course subject to u.s. economic sanctions american financial regulators have said the bank has launder this much as three hundred fifty billion dollars over nearly a decade and the bank which denies the allegations now faces losing its u.s. banking license. and saying with europe we have new statistics for germany exports hold seventy three billion euros in june which is one and a half percent lower than made imports dropped as well by three percent to just

over seventy six billion euros and while exports to yours own countries the quine three percent if we compared to two thousand and eleven exports to countries outside of the e.u. soared it's one seat. son compared with the previous year. and from germany to greece as i mentioned earlier standard and poor's has downgraded its outlook form stable to negative their rating services says the ratings agency i should say says that i has doubts about the greek government being able to make the further cuts needed to get the next tranche of cash from the e.u. now as i said at least it wasn't a credit downgrade because that would have been a complete blow to the economy there which may need as much as seven billion euros this year just to stay afloat that's taken into account that it's been shrinking for the last five years with unemployment is in suits twenty percent. and now let's continue with ensor national markets and take

a look at currencies the euro is still losing against the u.s. dollar when it comes to the reports weaker than against both major currencies which is in a stark contrast to what we saw on monday where it was not as high as the level of the whole summer now if we move on and say they're ocean markets not a lot of optimism here either the r.t.s. setting over half a percent my sights set in the half of that and the decline include prices aren't helping because if we can take a look at those while i explain this obviously they have a major fight on the russian economy because it's very energy dependent we see that lights were destroyed at ninety three dollars and fifteen cents and the brand blend just about one hundred eleven dollars and the reason for that the claw is weakness but there's been speculation that the gains we saw recently were excessive because in fact there was at his highest close in almost two months and i believe it was in the previous session and also that summit speculation of weakening demand in the us which is the biggest consumer of crude in the whole world so all of that makes

sense that's how it connects works and that is what i have this hour. all right thanks indeed for this information and of course we're looking forward to more next hour up next though you can watch our documentary by the amazing russian republic and the people's passion for music there that's after they have a line shortly. mission

free accreditation free transport charges free. range month free. three stooges free. download free blank counseling video for your media projects and free media on down to r t don tom. cole started here before going global and now it's killing the fire. choose your place. take your stand. make your statements. spread the word. my little

story slowly.

the official. bridge. favorites. to watch. you need. to. build a. mission

to teach. only.