judgment day the controversial pussy riot punk band make their final plea and then that's all they'll discover that next friday. libya braces for his first post gadhafi transition of power from its interim leaders to an elected assembly all of this despite continued aftershocks from the revolution. plus british police are accused of using stop and search powers to target black people officers claim that preventing gang crime minorities disagree.

it's good to have you with us here on r.t. today rule re sushant live in moscow and the judge here in the russian capital in charge of the case against feminist punk band pussy riot will announce of next friday the women who perform what they call a punk in russia's main orthodox cathedral have delivered their final police now they're awaiting their fate now reporting from outside the courthouse as artie's peter. 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 during 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 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 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. he 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 very well another one of our correspondents. who was inside the courtroom in her twitter stream you can find exactly what the three said right before the court retired she said the courthouse burst into a standing ovation guard dog dog as pussy riot left the building. it's good to have you with us here an r.t. in a post libya the recently elected parliament is preparing to replace the country's interim leaders the national transitional council predicts a peaceful handover despite ongoing sporadic outbreaks of violence the red cross has announced it's suspending work in several major cities in libya after its

headquarters in misrata pounded with rockets it was the fifth time in less than three months the independent agency had come under attack in the country and in other violence a car bomb exploded near a military police building in the capital tripoli last weekend and a sting operation outside the city saw three men suspected of planning bomb attacks killed talk to a columnist at foreign policy in focus says the new parliament is unlikely to bring 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 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 it to kill or point in time in a particular place and i think that the people in the south many of them are berbers are they have a very very different agenda then 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 far from libya to that of egypt now where government 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 of course from power in egypt as a whole slew a report israel is getting worried over the ongoing activity on its border. in the early hours of this morning wayne's day huge action military launched several airstrikes 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 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 creating infidels operating in the sinai peninsula it follows a degree of attack on sunday night in which sixteen injection 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 boldly 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. come of the program your rhetoric backlash turkey stepped up attacks on kurdish rebels firing their legs. in syria some analysts believe this is the first sign of calls to oust assad backfire. poland could make

a break from its military protectors in america with the country's president suggesting the development of a missile defense shield all of its own the polish leader said that a deal to allow part of america's planned system on its territory left security at the mercy of policy shifts in washington the explanation here to. 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 was change 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 bernie could mean whether poland may take some kind of turn around and may change its 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. a correspondent reporting there will all the twists in this u.s. missile defense plans available for you online as well as plenty of other stories including political correctness under fire in europe a belgian battle with mental health problems you can hardly speak or write to run for the city council when you succeed all of the story on our website. don't trust and verify barack obama fights bad on the indefinite detention of citizens that threatens the fundamental rights of the u.s. constitution.

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now britain's black community says the police are targeting them with stop powers officers deny discrimination but ethnic minorities say they feel like they're being treated as second class citizens or 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 are black it's twenty eight times more likely to happen to you when 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 a separate that tell me describes a typical police shakedown they happen more in the summer and often when he's

driving his car through it think about trust that everything got a car left on the sidewalk had their had their way again no reason to reasonable suspicion should assess what is pulled or so far no sort of mannerism thing he's. not going to treat 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 question. by the equality and human rights commission to 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 to stop what seems to be just a mistake has a very damaging effect on the community and it makes the community feel that well with them being a part of being protected there are problems 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 started here in tottenham after the shooting by police of a young black man and that the first anniversary of the riots approaches is the 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 problems with doesn't change. all week is a lot of lip service from the police that if the new approach is revised traded we're trying to engage with the community a lot more in numerous ways but they don't 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 to his community. and

on the other side of the ocean the authorities also stand accused next hour on our talk to an occupy activist and a war veteran who was unfortunately brutally beaten by police while protesting against corporations and their politicians he says the future of america should be defined by. 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 goes like they were going. 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. he was in about an hour and twelve minutes but for now the man convicted alongside jailed for more oil tycoon. has had his sentence reduced by a russian court that means that platinum could walk free next march which would mean that's about three years. in two thousand and two he was arrested at the same time as his partner who was once russia's richest man and owner of all john you cos they were found guilty of tax evasion money laundering embezzlement and fraud sentenced to thirteen years in prison. now turkey's 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 who have been fighting for autonomy sense nineteen eighty-four could exploit the power vacuum in neighboring

syria some experts say the cause of regime change emanating from turkey are only making the situation worse do syrian case very i don't it case for turkey because turkey is for the first time demanding a region change in syria which the unities introduce 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 so i'm not talking i mean is not clearly what to do with these two kodesh was not in syria i'm not saying all ditto dish groups in north and syria are against turkey as far as a i know there are more than twenty five independent groups but some of them are seriously invited to p y d do you do. is you know branch ignore to iraq when you are not in syria sort of clinched the resound

do the figure or is it regime in syria i don't leak we create. all g.g.t. lead kurdish organizations and there is an expectation told many kurdish groups are moving along or to new iraq in order to syria. is involvement of the syrian conflict may be more than just rhetoric president assad's forces say they have. in time has made his first t.v. appearance in almost three weeks is vowing to cleanse the country of terrorists a statement came on the heels of a visit to damascus by the circuitry 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 contend the recent kidnapping of forty seven iranians in damascus for which president assad blamed rebel forces.

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 the tensions come after a swedish plane illegally crossed the belorussian border and dropped parachuting teddy bears they were carrying approach opposition slogans. and it's another day of violence in afghanistan at least three nato soldiers under civilian have been killed in a double suicide attack targeting a military patrol near a local government a headquarters in the east 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 just over the last month as ambushes increased following america's announcement it will withdraw by two thousand and fourteen. well i'm waiting for us so diligently there's always more in

a good to see you again today you've got the business news but for once will you just try and shock me rory what you expect from me i could i guess i could say europe has recovered that would be a great. greece has the mall us on employment rates in the world out all good why don't we have to spain after spain and i guess that russia in the longer depends on oil and gas more money that would be the best thing but well done right and you don't know me well and what would i be talking about that's the interesting thing and that's what i would like to know what other news are there but of course there is nothing like that so we have a europe which is in the red big shocker that we have the footsie lose in the half a percent this hour the german dax slightly behind there and the main reason for that is the fact that we got a lot of negative average wards in the eurozone and of course what we know is that the drug companies as well as energy majors are among the biggest decliners all of the day now stay above europe but i want to talk about the u.k.

in particular because british investment bank standard chartered the shares there are finally rebounding and that's after their first one they declined in decades it's now almost eight percent which is incredible because at last around seventeen billion dollars of the bank's market value in just a single day we're talking about she used a year and this comes as the bank is suspected of hiding tens of thousands of tonnes actions with iran which is subject to u.s. economic sanctions and american financial regulators have said the bank has laundered as much as two hundred fifty billion dollars over nearly a decade standard chartered which denies the allegations now faces losing its u.s. banking license. and staying with the you're moving to germany now we have new statistics their exports totaled seventy three billion euros in june which is one of the half percent lower than in may imports dropped as well by for. three percent to just over seventy six million euros and while exports to your song countries

that climbed three percent if we compared to two thousand and eleven exports to countries outside of the e.u. soared twenty percent compared with the previous year. standard and poor's which has delivered a new blow to greece it has downgraded its outlook and now one from stable to negative and the ratings agency says this is due to the fact that they have not the greek government will be able to make those cuts needed to receive those requirements to get the other tranche of cash from the e.u. and of course many investors wiley's happy that it was in a credit downgrade which we saw the troubled economy though still needs as much as seven billion euros this year just to stay afloat and given it's been shrinking for the last five years with on employment skyrockets into twenty percent. and a quick look at currencies now the euro is still we can in against the u.s. dollars we can see there extending those losses in fact this hour when it comes to

the ruble we're seeing that against both major currencies and let's not forget that on monday was actually at its highest level in the summer but it managed to make a detour and we're seeing the numbers there moving on to the markets it started off negative and it's remained there when it comes to the arts yes minimizing the losses slightly this hour but still over half a percent on the right and the my sex is down a lot of a percent decline in oil prices of course have something to do with that we know that russia has an energy independent country and with the allies with us try to get around ninety three dollars per barrel and the brand blacked out around one hundred eleven and all of this is due to the fact that recent gains but analysts are saying that they were excessive and also we know that there are signs of weakening demand in the u.s. which is very important because as the world's biggest consumer of crude and that's how it all looks that's our rory i would say but that said i get to go home it's the middle of the day. right here and you know exactly how will you hear of buying

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