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have you with us today. the case of the controversial feminist punk band pussy riot. now announce its verdict next friday the members of the group are facing three years in jail for storming the. belting out what they call a protest punk. the trial is deeply divided russian society and strong reactions from abroad following the. should warn you there are some sexual images in his report. 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 or 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 been quite an amazing journey 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 choose day 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 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 seven months ago these women were relatively unknown you'd be hard pushed to find any by. he knew really what it was all about these women in particular were known. individually in the. museum which they invited the media to they want also was filmed performing with a frozen chicken and. other. being 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. around. really. and the opinions of some famous places are getting people in. the case of the queen of. christian groups. before.

egypt's military has launched. for the first time in decades suspected islamic terrorists were killed in the operation and it comes after militants killed over a dozen egyptian security forces. dramatically in the country since the ousting of hosni mubarak. in the early hours of this morning wayne state the egyptian military launched several 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 if it's all being employed such desperate efforts it does follow evolve 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 injection soldiers were killed and just last night to state 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 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 this violence might

spread further and have regional implications certainly television has indicated and said that it will act unilaterally if it feels and. of course one of their reporters. still to come for you on this program a friendship cools top of the post president admits the signing of a missile defense agreement with washington that was a big mistake also. to figure out devastating longer briards minority groups in the british capital say communities remain divided police actively pursuing racial profiling and all that i want. small coming your way in just a couple of. wealthy

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markets why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cause or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report. would be soon which brightened. about song from finest impressions. team dot com. thanks for joining us here on r.t. today the polish president has admitted the country's a missile deal with the u.s. was a political mistake and should not be repeated. said poland needs its own missile

defense shield in a sign the country is shifting its policy away from washington's influence r.t. is correspondent in eastern europe is. 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 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 to the komorowski 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 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. our turning our attention out of out of syria where the regime in the rebels say the government army has dealt a serious a blow to the opposition forces in the flashpoint city of aleppo that's after president assad's troops have taken positions in the rebel stronghold in the area syria's largest city has been the scene of intense fighting in recent weeks the battle is widely seen as decisive for syria's future meanwhile the u.s. says the world must stop planning for the country after

a government forms something washington sees as a decided matter for the white house is also warning against sectarian war or imported terrorism in syria in case of a power. themselves. to build a. mission

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fifteen policemen have been charged with torturing medics during last year's uprising the doctors had been accused of siding with the opposition for treating injured protesters however the medical staff. doing their job and helping the. downgraded its outlook on greece's long term credit rating from stable to negative edges he says the greek economy is rolling deeper into crisis amid a delay by the authorities in athens in implementing austerity measures the country's rating will be lowered further if the nation it now fails to receive additional help from international lenders. mexico's yucatan peninsula bringing with it massive torrential rain its speed slowed as it made landfall but the storm is still forced many locals to leave their homes and

seek shelter elsewhere the next i was expected to enter the gulf of mexico. where an assessment of the damage left behind will begin. a controversial police tactic has minorities in london feeling like second class citizens officers say that stop and search policy is necessary to fight gang crime here the city's a black community fears is nothing more than a racial profiling. story. 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 into five to 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 that got a car left on the sidewalk had their way again no reason to reasonable suspicion should assess where this pulled us over. mannerism think 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 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 what 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 are problem this being policed against a disconnect between the police and the people they was one of the factors found to have sparked the last august's riots the disturbances started here in tottenham after the shooting by police of a young black. and as 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 has been a pretty. attendant problems with doesn't change. 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 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 next hour here on our to talk to an occupy activist and a war veteran who was 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. they come back to a broken. 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 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. and i just i mean it's katie with the business finale we all like going for a stroll but one woman in russia has taken it to new heights a video released online gives a terrifying top down view of the thrill seeker going about her hobby with apparently no safety rope so she teeters on the edge of a skyscraper as the world goes about his business fall below the film's already been viewed more than one hundred twenty thousand times i suppose perhaps it's not difficult. to see why it.

quickly through all the business we go there is currently good to see you are a thing happening on the trading floors this hour a lot going on and it's really centered around europe as per usual worries that's where i'll get started we'll have a look at the city on the doesn't see the figures for this hour and i do believe they are still down right now it is the drug companies on the energy companies that are particularly having a hard day of it today as you can see the sea around to help with that down the dots around. negative territory now also want to talk about standard chartered as well the u.k. based because that's really feeling the pressure but to day it's now at this hour around seven of zero percent of the moment and solved losing it seventeen billion dollars on the banks market value in just one side why let me fill you in now shares of the british investment bank they all rebounding i just imagine gods they were having a tough day of it and as all to do with this a money laundering claims relations with iran now apparently they happen suspected

of hiding tens of thousands of transactions with iran now they also object to u.s. economic sanctions american financial regulators have said that the bank has wounded as much as two hundred fifty billion dollars over nearly a decade the standard which denied the allegations faces losing its u.s. banking license over the last like it was say we're done with. the new statistics expose totaled seventy three billion euros in june which is one point five percent lower than in my imports dropped as well by three percent to just over seven six but in your eyes ball that school year is. two point three percent if we compare that to twenty eleven exports to countries outside the e.u. soared twenty percent compared with the previous year let's talk about greece stands in import has lowered its own. look on grey's to negative and that's from stable

a low rating agency believes it will be hard for the greek government to make more cuts needed to meet the requirements for its next tranche of cast from the. least this time it's not a credit downgrade all together they managed to avoid that and that's maybe because its ratings are already sort of bad they could quite seriously not get any worse sellers troubled economy made as much as seven billion euros this year to stay afloat that is given it's been shrinking for the last five years with unemployment skyrocketing twenty percent so with that in mind with the standard charts over the germany with a great story in mind that see how the common currency is reality and where the case down is declining it's one twenty three forty two this has been declining for much of the day as for the russian ruble because it is that it's losing out because the u.s. dollar and the euro so we did see it was gaining earlier in the week is joining us on the highs just coming down from that now we look at the extreme markets here

moscow is see that they are still feeling the pinch and that's because prices are taking a turn also had some other news as well russia's yesterday inflation reached a point six percent another news event happening only market was down just a percent down the my so it's going to be around a third of a percent all right it's going to oil i mentioned is dropping now from its hardest close in more than two months a loss because of the weakening tomorrow in the u.s. of course the biggest conceive of the commodity and slowing growth in germany that i mentioned the figures for us we can see the prices declining but that's the business for this hour we are back in about fifteen minutes and i have the figures for the u.s. markets as well. just one of the headlines here on r.t. but then if you do stay with us a fascinating documentary about the amazing russian republic of tuva and the people's passion for music this is art.

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