awaiting their fate three feminist punk rockers still to find out a court verdict for staging a protest inside of russia's main cathedral all of this as we assess how an obscure band ended up hitting the headlines around the world. this is one of the most costly as a lecture that i've ever seen anywhere in the world in terms of human life lost and destruction as post gadhafi libya prepares for its transition of power to a newly elected assembly to new violence threatens to derail any hopes for democracy. and it's getting dangerously tense on the border between egypt and israel and as cairo bombs militants while a new leader struggles to stop violence in the post mubarak country.

global news from the heart of moscow this is r.t. life with me rule received shy 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 belting out what they call a protest punk prayer of a child is deeply divided russian society and triggered strong reactions from abroad. has been following this case i should advise you you may 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 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 been 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 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 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. 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 that one also was filmed performing

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. the debate around the whole 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 talk radical christian groups or a very clear message after she threw her weight behind the group more about this as well as other reactions. also on law in. the courtroom as the pussy riot has delivered their final pleas twitter stream right there you can find exactly what the three women said before the court.

now egypt's president mohamed morsi has sacked the governor of north sinai following the killing of a dozen egyptian security forces by militants are the military responded to the massacre by launching ass strikes against the gunman and killing twenty suspected islamic terrorists. in the country since the ousting of hosni mubarak last year this report. 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 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 a desperate if it's it does follow involved by cairo that it would crack down on what it's calling infidels operating in the sinai peninsula economies of degree attack on sunday night in which sixteen injection soldiers were killed and just last night to stay 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 seem that the militants are starting to act much more told 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 through that and have regional implications certainly television has indicated and said that it will act unilaterally if it feels threatened and to look into that was audi's paula for the other coming up in the program are just a few but it's a way that of a friendship cooling off the polish president the signing of a missile defense agreement with washington was a big mistake also just a year off of a devastating london riots minority groups in the british capital say communities remain divided with police actively pursuing racial profiling plus. in the business for the senate small trouble for. the u.k.'s banks. is accused of the us until by u.k. parliament herons that headed back to the old crimea that the heart of a. long time in ten minutes with the south.

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is a right now turning ten minutes past the hour moscow time and 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 moammar gadhafi and the water nation still flooded with weapons and struggling to control outbreaks of violence milton alomari the editor in chief of black star news believes the widespread divisions in libya will be a difficult hurdle towards democracy and the country is flooded with weapons the country is split into almost four of five different it's almost not 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 existence this is one of the most costly is a lecture that up ever see it anywhere in the world in terms of human life lost 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 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 we can't sweep inconvenient truths under the rug. court out on our attention is out of syria where the regime and rebels say the government army has dealt a serious blow to opposition forces this in the flashpoint city of aleppo and that's

after president assad's troops have taken positions in the rebels' stronghold in the area syria's largest city been the scene of intense fighting in recent weeks and the battle is widely seen as decisive for the country's future meanwhile the u.s. says the world must stop planning for a future after assad's government falls something washington sees as a foregone conclusion but the white house is also warning against sectarian warfare or imported terrorism in syria in case of a power vacuum. created

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project freely deodato r.t. dot com. what you not see just a moment in the world of data for now the polish president has admitted the country's misawa deal with the united states was a political mistake and should not be repeated and would almost love come out of ski said poland needs its own missile defense shield in a sign the country is shifting its part of policy away from washington's influence our correspondent in eastern europe is going to ask a. 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 playing 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 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. reporting

right there before we get to katie in the business that. will start with crane fifteen policemen is in charge with torturing medics during last year's uprising the doctors had been accused of siding with the opposition for treating the injured protesters however the medical staff always deny the allegations saying they were only doing their job in helping the injured. standard and poor's has downgraded its outlook on greece's long term credit rating from stable to negative emotions 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 now fails to receive additional help from international lenders. hurricane ernesto has hit mexico's yucatan peninsula bringing with it huge amounts of torrential rain its speed slowed as it made landfall but the storm has still forced many locals to leave their homes

and seek shelter but in the snow is expected to enter the gulf of mexico later on wednesday when an assessment of the damage left behind will begin. now a controversial police tactic has minorities in london feeling that like second class citizens officers say that stop and search policy is necessary to fight gang crime in the city's black community fears it's nothing more than racial profiling r.t.s. or 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 of two five to ten times

a week a week and i've got to stop a search slip to also prove that bellamy describes a typical police shakedown they happen more in the summer and off than when he's driving his car through it think about that everything got a car left on the sidewalk had their had their way again no reasons as to reasonable suspicion should i say asked why this pulled us over no sort of mannerism thing he's pleased nothing 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. 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 to

stop what seems to be just your ethnicity has a very damaging effect on the community and it makes the community feel that well them being a part of being protected there are problems 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 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 has been a pretty. attendant problems with. all week is a lot of lip service from the police that it when you approach is was traded 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. now we all want to go for a stroll but one woman in russia has taken it to well certainly some new heights of video released online gives a terrifying tony jones view of the thrill seeker going about her hobby with apparently no safety rope she teeters on the edge of a skyscraper as the world goes about his business far far below now the film has already been viewed more than one hundred twenty thousand times combine them both lovely view. and off the katie we go to how the markets right now we're going to start with wall street if i may because they are up and running as the morning session and they're still managing to see a three day gain actually last year because of disappointing corporate sells we had

some healthy ones yesterday but today we got will disney in the limelight they're sliding around one and a half percent they failed to impress investors trailing estimates donalds as well their results today are they were unimpressive as hers there's a lot of a lot of kind of a flat display at the moment where they were waiting for some more to come out the softer names but at the moment a lot of disappointment on the price but if you don't have the dow jones has managed to drag itself up in positive territory that just around the tenth of a said this is donald even the european stock markets they too went down this drug and energy make is that are among the biggest retraces in the session we also are germany's are still production declining almost one percent month on month. i also want to talk about the shares of the british investment bank stand. shelter found a lot softer than the first one day decline in decades why i hear you cry well because the bank is suspected of hiding tens of thousands of transactions with

a wrong which is subject to u.s. economic sanctions but some u.k. parliament herons they suggest the move is part of a commercial so long now american financial regulators say the bank as much as two hundred fifty billion dollars over nearly a decade now started to chill to the nines navigations they could lose their u.s. banking license over. the british economy is the fault of the fright the bank of england has lowered the car just g.d.p. growth forecasts from around two percent to zero this year the regulator says that things are worse than they seem to three months ago and the inflation may fall below this year's target of. sends. a mole trouble this time it's a gray standard and poor's they've lowered their outlook all grace to negative from

standard from stable i should say sorry sorry it's gone from bad to worse it was already pretty job all of us but it's not the agency believes it will be hard for the great government to make more cuts which are needed to meet the requirements for the next tranche of cash from the now this time around the world in a complete disaster because they did avoid a credit downgrade it's just the outlook that's going down now that maybe because it's ratings are already so bad like they can get me to call them a may need as much as seven is the share and that's just to stay right given it's been shrinking for the last five years they've got a problem with unemployment skyrocketing to twenty but they're hanging on to the year so what is the euro doing just now who say it is actually declining in the session it's been declining for most of it actually one. twenty three sixty two lot is happening in europe today now we've also got the rouble that's how it's finished and as you can see it managed to get even in the last hour i had to return to

fortune and it finished up hard against the u.s. dollar and the european currency says back up to its highest levels of the summer to now there's gold sixty markets here in moscow that if we may see the closing figures as we can see they finished up on the back foot but it was in the dissolved stuff is just pretty flat rate a just dips into the red eight basis points for the arts yes and pretty much the same for the my sector a day. and moving on that i also wanted to mention god just about inflation as well because it reached four point six percent. oil now this is managed to start climbing in the last maybe hour and a halt so did pretty affect the russian markets as we can see is a complete change of direction so it's advancing for a full day now. and that is the markets will be back about fifteen minutes for another update for you or many thanks good to see you about. just one of the headlines and that will be people of oil and quest.

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