judgment day the controversial pussy riot punk band make their final plea and told they'll discover their fate next friday. libya braces for his first post transition of power from its interim leaders to an elected assembly despite continued violent aftershocks from the revolution. plus british police are accused of using stop and search powers to target black people claim they are preventing gang crime but minorities feel discriminated against.

a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at the mosque i'm wrong received the moscow judge in charge of the case against the feminist punk band pussy riot will now announce a verdict next friday that the women who performed what they call a punk prayer in a russia's main orthodox cathedral have delivered their final plays and now are awaiting their fate from outside the courthouse as ati's peter out of. well and the eighth day of the pussy riot trial the judge has set a date for the verdict to be announced of the seventeenth of august at three pm moscow time now this followed on from the defendants giving their own closing speeches in which they compared their trial to the stalinist trials of the nineteen thirties as well as to the trial of a russian all thirty of the dostoyevsky in the nineteenth century for blasphemy now each of the three women went on to say that again they intended no offense to the russian orthodox church through their protests which took place in february of this

year in moscow's main cathedral at their protest was against now what they termed as putin isn't just president vladimir putin but against the whole political system in russia 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 good 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 a city 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 and 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 the west from britain from germany from the united states some of them coming here to the course of seven months ago these women were relatively unknown you'd be hard pushed to find anybody. you knew really what pussy riot was all about these women in particular were known more for their shocking stunts individually in the past they'd taken part in an orgy in a museum which they invited the the media to they want also it was filmed performing a sex act with a frozen chicken in a supermarket other shocking stunts other stunts that have been carried out including the kissing of of policemen on the metro so the way in which in the last seven months the attention surrounding these women has snowballed is certainly something that whatever the result of this trial is going to be discussed for

a long time to come. reporting right well another of our correspondents are going to go inside the courtroom. twitter stream you can find exactly what the three said right before the court retired she said the courthouse burst into a standing ovation. as pussy riot left the building. 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 and the red cross announced it is suspending work in several major cities in libya after its headquarters in misrata but pounded with. it is the fifth time in less than three

months the independent agency has come under attack in the country most of exploded near a military police building in the capital tripoli last weekend. operation outside the city saw three men suspected of planning bomb attacks killed a lot of. foreign policy in focus says the new parliament is unlikely to bring any order to the war ravaged country. i think the country is currently divided into three particular areas the west the east in the south and i think there is no center power so one we talk about transferring power i don't know who's going to transfer that power and i don't know to whom you're going to transfer it i mean the situation is anarchic at this point and and it is also spreading regionally as well the one of the effects of the libyan war has been then 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 have 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 of of polyglot a 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 i don't see where what it's legitimacy is. now egyptian forces have killed twenty islamic militants in the sinai region close to israel that's the latest in a series of clashes which of escalated dramatically since the ousting of hosni mubarak in egypt. now reports say israel is getting worried over the ongoing

activity on its 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 been 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 screwing infidels operating in the sinai peninsula it follows a deadly attack on sunday night in which sixteen egyptian soldiers were killed and just last night choose 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 february 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 of militant operations 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 those mines might spread further and have regional implications certainly television has indicated and said that it will act unilaterally if it feels threatened. of course want to pull us live reporting right there well it's good to have you with us here in our through today still to come for you in this program of rhetoric backlash he stepped up attacks on the kurdish rebels wieringo to exploit the child while in syria some of this believe this is the first side of the worst cold that's by far.

the potent could make a break from its military protectors in the u.s. . the country's president suggesting the development of a missile defense shield or of its own the polish leader said a deal to allow parts of america's planned system on its territory left security at the mercy of policy shifts in washington. the story. 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 his country's 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 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 bringing 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. 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 definitely brings a lot of spice to this rather interesting interesting story as it is. reporting there all the twists in the u.s. missile defense plans available for you on line as well as up plenty of other stories including political correctness under fire. a belgian man with mental health problems who can hardly speak or write plans to run the for the city council seat you can follow that story on our website. plus he doesn't trust and verify barack obama fights a definite tension of citizens that threatens the fundamental rights of the cost to choose.

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targeting them with stop and search powers officers deny discrimination but ethnic minority who say they feel like they are being treated as second class artists or a 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 also prove that l. me describes a typical police shakedown they happen more in the summer and off than when he's driving his car through everything about just everything got a car left on the sidewalk had their had their way again no reason just

a reasonable suspicion should assess what is pulled or so far 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 gun 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 what seems to be just your ethnicity has a very damaging effect on the community and it makes the community feel that were them being a part of being protected their problem this being policed against a disconnect between the police and the people who was one of the factors found to

have sparked all last august's riots the disturbances doth a tear 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 it has improved ever since. attendant problems with. 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 seem to web 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 for his community. and

on the other side of the ocean the authorities also stand accused later this hour here on our talk to an occupy activist and a war veteran who was brutally beaten by police protesting against corporations and their puppet 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 to. commit suicide most likely we're either going to go for democrat or republican and i think both of those are wrong choices they're both working for the same system 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 their

continuance of policy is not going to change anything at all. thanks for joining us here today the man convicted to alongside jailed for more oil tycoon. has had his sentence reduced by a russian court and that means a platon lebedev could walk free next march which would be more than three years early in two thousand and two he was arrested at the same time as. he was once russia's richest man and the oil giant. they were found guilty of tax evasion money laundering embezzlement and fraud ultimately sentenced to thirteen years in prison. the turkish government says its troops have killed one hundred fifteen kurdish rebels over the past two weeks in a stepped up offensive ankara is worried the kurds have been fighting for autonomy since one thousand nine hundred four could exploit the power vacuum in neighboring

syria some experts say the calls for regime change emanating from turkey are only making the situation worse do syrian case very ironic case for turkey because turkey is for the first time demanding a regime change in syria which is a unique cheese in turkish history since the 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 so. i mean it is not a clue what to do with these two kodesh groups nor to syria i'm not saying all the traditional ups in north and 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 invited to mainly p.y. de doo doo doo to do is you know branch ignore to iraq when you are not in syria sort of clinched the resound do the figure of

a situation in syria i don't he can we create. all the chichi lead kurdish organizations and there is an expectation in told to many kurdish groups are moving in iraq in order to syria. now or turkey's involvement of the syrian conflict may be more than just rhetoric assad's forces say they've captured turkish offices in the flashpoint city of aleppo assad himself meantime has made his first t.v. appearance in almost three weeks of i'm going to quote cleanse of the country of terrorists a statement came on the heels of a visit to damascus by the secretary of iran's supremum national security council during the visit the two states have pledged mutual support saying their alliance is quote an axis of resistance against western influence you also condemn the recent kidnapping of forty seven iranians in damascus for which president assad blames rebel forces. other news in the r.t.

world opt out including belarus which has decided to withdraw its embassy from sweden suggesting stockholm does the same by the end of august however minsk stressed it is not going to cut diplomatic ties with the country or the tensions come after a swedish plane illegally crossed the belorussian border and dropped parachuting teddy bears that were carrying pro opposition slogans. and it's another day of violence in afghanistan at least three soldiers and a civilian have been killed in a double suicide attack targeting a military patrol near a local government headquarters 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 just the last month as ambushers increased following america's announcement it will withdraw by two thousand and fourteen. but off to marina we go good to see you to

tell us what happened to standard chartered in the thing about what twenty three percent at one point one billion actually they lost billions of dollars just like that in one day all over news that came out but the question is that they were bouncing they are not in a leave that mystery around for a little bit longer for someone to look out what's happening with the european markets and basically it's a sea of red bear markets are failing to escape negative territory which have both the footsie and the dikes are setting around half a percent as our drug makers as well as energy firms are among the biggest decline there's and all of this is due to the fact that we got a lot of negative earnings reports today all right now let's talk about the scandalous standard chartered which of course is now rebounding after their steepest one day decline in decades and this hour it's almost actually over six percent right now and that's after news in seventeen a billion dollars off the bank's market value in just one day all this comes as the

bank is suspected of hiding tens of thousands of transactions with iran which is subject to u.s. economic sanctions american financial regulators have said that the bank has laundered as much as three hundred fifty billion dollars over nearly a decade and now standard chartered which the nies the allegations face is losing its u.s. banking license. he's saying with europe we have new statistics for germany exports totaled seventy three billion euros in june which is one of the half percent lower than and made imports dropped as well by three percent to just over seventy six billion euros and while exports to europe on countries decline three percent if we compared two thousand and eleven exports to countries outside of the e.u. so ward at twenty two percent compared with the previous year. and from germany would move on to greece where standard and poor's has downgraded its outlook on the country from stay. negative in the ratings agency says all this is due to the fact

that they doubt the greek government will be able to make more fulfill their requirements to get next tranche of cash from the e.u. of course a lot of investors are happy that it's not another credit downgrade but the troubled economy mainly this much is seven a billion euros this year just to stay afloat given the fact that it's been shrinking for the last five years with unemployment skyrocket since it's twenty percent. now say look at what's happening with currencies the euro is still losing against the u.s. dollar when it comes to the ruble it's weakening the against both major currencies coming down from its highest level of somewhere that we saw on monday moving on let's take a look at the russian the markets and they're also stock and negative territory as you can see that the arts yes that in almost one percent this hour and the my six about a third of a percent crude prices which always have a major effect on the russian economy played a big part of that today and we start there on the way down light sweet as trading

at around ninety three dollars per barrel the run blind that are out a hundred and eleven and the reason that prices are headed south is because analysts speculate that the recent gains we saw were excessive and also my speculation that demand in the u.s. might be weakening and of course the u.s. is the biggest consumer of crude in the world and that's the business looks out for now back to you rory are many thanks it was a pleasure we'll see you soon. just a moment here on the headlines then we'll be talking to. a war veteran about the ongoing occupy movement just a moment. one

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