awaiting their fate three feminist punk rockers a still to find out a court verdict for staging a protest inside russia's main cathedral as we assess how an obscure band ended up making headlines all around the world. it's getting dangerously tense on the border between egypt and israel as cairo bombs militants while a new leader struggles to stop the violence in the post mubarak country. and a defensive divorce poland says his missile shield relations with the u.s. have been a mistake and now plans to secure its borders by itself. a

very warm welcome to you from all of us here at the moscow rule received a russian court reviewing the case of the controversial feminist punk band pussy riot says it will not now announce its verdict until next friday the members of the group of facing three years in jail for storming the altar of russia's main cathedral and belting out what they call a protest punk prayer and the trial has deeply divided russian society and certainly triggered strong reactions from abroad peter all of it is following the case i should advise you you might find 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 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 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 say exact 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 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 that's of course one of our reporting right that the debate around the pussy riot case is getting really heated here in russia and the opinions of some famous faces are getting people inflamed quite literally in the case of the queen of pop radical christian groups and madonna a clear message after she threw her weight behind the group find out more about this as well as other reactions to you taught. also online aussie's correspondent was inside the courtroom as the pussy riot has delivered their final plays stream here you'll find what exactly the three women said before the court for time.

thanks for joining us on our to today egypt's military has launched against militants in the sinai region this for the first time in decades twenty suspected islamic terrorists were killed in the operation and comes after armed militants killed over a dozen egyptian security forces violence has escalated dramatically in the country since the ousting of hosni mubarak last year this report. in the early hours of this morning wayne's day 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 bear that such efforts are being employed such disparate efforts it does follow evolve by cairo that it would crack down on what is creating infidels operating in the sinai peninsula it's one of the bigger attack on sunday night in which sixteen injection soldiers were killed and just last night truce day there were at least three incidents at joint border crossings a joint checkpoints between egyptian soldiers and egyptian police and 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 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. our correspondent. coming up here shortly in the program here on our friendship cool that's all for the polish president the signing of a missile defense agreement with washington it was a big mistake. just a year off of the devastating london riots minority groups in the british capital say communities remain divided police pursuing racial profiling. and in sport russia's men's basketball team will be aiming to reach the summit finals at the olympics for the first time since the breakup of the soviet union i don't find out in sporting to.

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as i write now turning ten minutes past the hour moscow time this is r.t. libya's national transitional council is handing over power to a newly elected assembly of two hundred members it's been ten months since the country's uprising led to the killing of colonel moammar gadhafi and the water a nation still flooded with weapons and struggling to control outbreaks of violence as a result of more and today's transition without joined by editor in chief of black star news milton ali mahdi sir thank you very much for coming out r.t. today with the national transitional council ready to hand over power do you think libyans realistically can hope for a fully fledged democracy. it's going to be challenging obviously we wish the best for libyans but we have to be very realistic and not as the empty sea never really exercise real power in libya so for you to hand over power. is question of how can you hand over something that you don't control unfortunately libya is still very divided into misrata into benghazi into tripoli

and then we have western libya and then we have the southern part of libya and then the elections itself where. a bit problematic you cannot execute exclude an entire population out of elections it undermines democracy and i'm referring to the people of toronto the city which was ethnically cleanse during the civil war and this is a city that had the majority black population there been completed this place this is almost forty thousand people and they're now confined in refugee camps within their own country mr a lot of you exist out of money and you say how do you exclude people in an exercise of democracy i believe you are going to say but then how do you include us so many different factions that many continue to knock heads with each other. well this is us probably a child and we have to be very realistic person i believe that before even there holding these elections perhaps libya should have had an exercise of national

dialogue and national reconciliation and it may ultimately still have to come to that because let's be very realistic we all know how split the country is right now and if the anti c could barely exercise any power at all how do we expect this new elected legislative body to exercise power in such a divided country but there are many say that during the times of moammar gadhafi in libya compared with the entire continent it had the best schools the best hospitals the best road network systems but surely there are many that are saying many that are saying that perhaps with the u.n. intervention resolution one nine seventy three everything's gotten much much better . well there being i'm realistic and we know that let's look at the facts the country is flooded with weapons the country is split into almost four or five different it's almost a semi autonomous zones let's be very realistic and in order for things to start

improving on libya i still believe they need an exercise in national reconciliation and national dialogue let's just be honest about it it's one thing to pretend that you want to see something existing and it's another thing to create that existing existence but do you do you think as we're understanding during our conversation here there are many different factions inside libya the n t c the national transitional council mostly made up now of independence these do you actually think if you were to generalize the consensus in libya do you think people actually want democracy in. a well it depends on how we define democracy i think i can we can safely say that most people around the world would like to determine who their leadership is and i think in libya they're also entitled to that same right but the question is is it being done in an equitable and free and fair manner

or are there certain factions that are being. said preferred of favored by the western countries that actually helped install the empty seat in power and that's a question that still needs to be addressed as well when you talk about western countries you know installing the became the and the cia well i spoke to a guest last hour here on the program comparing comparing libya to that of iraq and afghanistan can you draw any parallels there because some say that the so-called fledgling democracy in these two countries isn't exactly taking root. absolutely i think as i say every community every society every nation deserves to elect their own leadership and determine their future but when that exercise is so influenced by the outside world it becomes compromised and in the long term it undermines the so-called democracy that you would want to install because believe me in the long run that the outside support cannot be sustained it's very costly

and ironically in the case of libya this is one of the most costly selections that i've ever seen anywhere in the world in terms of human life loss and destruction because let's remember colonel gadhafi had actually agreed to foreign supervised elections in which all parties in libya would be free to contest and this is after he had met with the south african president jacob zuma but nato washington paris and london decided to ignore that and instead impose the m.t.c. in power after virtually destroying libya and in fact the bombardment and the destruction by nato has not yet been investigated even though the i.c.c. the international criminal court had mentioned at one point that it should be investigated. editor in chief of black star and you in the end i mean truths i would honest i'm so sorry you i mean you're right there should be inconvenient

truth swept under the rug but there are many that say that that perhaps permeates centuries of history of around the world that mr alomari i wish we had more time to thank you indeed for coming on the program today without saying. right. now the syrian regime and rebels say the government army has dealt a serious 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 assad's government for something washington sees as a decided matter the white house is also warning against sectarian warfare or important terrorism in syria in case of a power vacuum up on the fact the syrian rebels themselves are now becoming increasingly worried that for an islamist fighters who are helping them to topple

assad will eventually work to separate towers of the syrian state law going to want you to come to find out more about why and how the stricken nation could turn into a constant battleground after any regime change. also therefore you will find out how a change in the law means the business partner of the jailed oil tycoon and russia's former richest man. could be released from jail three years. the polish president has admitted the country's missile deal with the u.s. was a political mistake and should not be repeated bronislaw komorowski said poland needs its own missile defense shield in a sign that the country is shifting its policy away from washington's influence correspondent in eastern europe is a chef scale. 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 the 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 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. reporting right there let's get into the r.t. was up there now we'll start training for fifteen policemen in charge with torturing medics during last year's uprising the doctors have been accused of siding with the opposition for simply freaking injured protesters however the medical staff have always denied the allegations saying they were just doing their jobs and helping the injured. standard and poor's has downgraded its outlook on greece's long term credit rating from stable to negative the agency says the greek economy is rolling deeper into crisis amid a delay by the authorities in athens implementing austerity measures. the country's rating will be lowered further if the nation now fails to receive additional help from international lenders. hurricane ernesto has hit mexico's yucatan

peninsula bringing with it torrential rain its speed slowed as it made landfall but the storm has still forced many locals to leave their homes and seek shelter elsewhere but enough snow is expected to enter the gulf of mexico later on wednesday when an assessment of the damage left behind it will begin. well the controversial police tactic has minorities and london fitting like second class citizens officers say the stop and search policy is necessary to fight gang crime yet the city's black community fears it's nothing more than racial profiling artie's laura smith has the 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 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 tell me describe the typical police shakedown they happen more in the summer and off than when he's driving his car through it think about everything about 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 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 it's epic. 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 being protected they're a problem that's being policed against a disconnect between the police and the people they 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 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 hasn't. attendant punctual.

all week is a lot of lip service from the police that is when you approach is revise trade in 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 to his community laura smith r.t. london. i thought he was coming to life in the heart of moscow now we all like to go for a stroll but one woman in russia has taken it to new heights a video released online gives a terrifying view of the thrill seeker going about her hobby for the parents you know safety ropes she teeters on the edge of a skyscraper as the world goes about its business far below other films already been viewed more than one hundred twenty thousand times perhaps one might say people are keen to see the girl making the breast of

a bad situation. well speaking of bad situation katie how the markets today are low they're sure a right we're going to get out of u.s. markets and see what's going on world take a look at the wall street numbers if we can just to take off and see that they have indeed opened up the lowest snapping a three day day that she wishes role the disappointing although it's because of the corporate results we've got walt disney sliding around want to know how to stand up as revenue trail that's the most also mcdonald's as well filed to impress their with their results for july so less people talkin in to that we've got the dow jones. the nasdaq around a quarter percent down in the dumps all right this given the european markets as it was going on they are indeed still entranced in the red the good drug and energy make is really feeling the pain today so the big retreat is in that sector i would also go out of british investment bank standard chartered is always talking about it because though says all rebounding now this hour around nine percent. this is

one day decline in the. last of this story and it seems to be all coming out of it of our case situation now the situation is the bank has been suspected of hiding tens of thousands of transactions with the wrong which is subject to u.s. economic sanctions now american financial regulators say the bank will and as much as two hundred fifty bedded. nearly at decades that's not a chill they do deny these allegations but they face losing their u.s. banking license now meanwhile some u.k. parliamentarians they suggest the move is a part of the u.s. commercial battle. and moving on we are also going to talk about grace polls they've lowered the outlook on greece to a negative that was from stable so from bad to worse the rating agency believes it will be hard for the greek government to make more cots needed to meet the

requirements for the next tranche of cash from the. move on see some currency rates and if we see how the variable is responding to all of that we've got it lower than one twenty three forty two just as you can see is responding negatively and as we see we can just see that greece is called more troubles on the agenda just sat out for the ruble though it's not for long to move and shake just now and is actually declining against the baskets of cars if you can resist one of those highs of the sama all right that brings us on to the markets here in moscow they too don't have long to change their fortunes on the looking set to finish on the back foot yes around half a percent down on the my six tenth of a percent in negative territory also what while the brushes that used to date

inflation least four point six. all right to some of the oil prices because it's complete change of four which is this now the now imposed two they are vaulting now for the full day and that's reversing a kind of no point nine per cent. how mark is that for now we're back about fifteen minutes and in that one i'll have a question because of the russian market story thanks so much. just a few moments on the headlines here on out so you will see you in just a sec. the

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