awaiting their fate three feminist punk rockers are still to find out a court verdict for staging a protest in russia's main cathedral as we assess how an obscure band ended up hitting headlines around the world. this is one of the most costly is of actions that are never seen anywhere in the world in terms of human life loss and destruction as opposed gadhafi libya prepares for its transition of power to a newly elected assembly continued violence threatens to derail hopes for democracy . and it's getting dangerously tense on the border between egypt and israel as karo bombs militants while a new leader struggles to stop violence in the post mubarak country our top stories this hour.

online on screen international news and comment live from the new center here in. the russian quarter of in 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 are facing three years in jail for storming the altar of russia's main cathedral and belting out what they call a protest punk prayer the trial is deeply divided russian society and triggered strong reactions from abroad but he's president of reform in the case and you will 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 now.

thirty's as well as to the trial of a russian all thirty of the last day of skiing the nineteenth century for blasphemy now each of the three women went on to say that yet 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 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 has single like a prayer the music video for which was condemned by the vatican and so some catholic groups are 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 who 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 i was filmed performing a saying socked 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 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 sent from a donor a clear message of the she threw her weight behind the group in find out more about this as well as other reactions on our website r.t. dot com. also on minorities course one of the in english though was inside the courtroom as the pussy riot is delivered their final pleas and her twitter stream you'll find what exactly the three women said before the court time.

egypt's president mohamed morsi has sacked the intelligence chief and the governor of north sagna following the killing of over a dozen egyptian security forces by militants the military responded to the massacre by launching airstrikes against the government and killing twenty suspected islamic terrorists violence has escalated dramatically in the country since the l. sting of hosni mubarak last year or his point to slim as 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 there 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 efforts are being employed such

desperate efforts it does follow involved by cairo that it would crack down on what it's calling infidels operating in the sinai peninsula it was a deadly attack on sunday night in which sixteen injection soldiers were killed and just last night choose day there were at least three incidents at a 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 favor we 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 further and have regional implications certainly television has indicated

and said that it will act unilaterally if it feels threatened. coming up shortly in the program this hour a friendship that so far the prudish president admits the signing of the missile defense agreement with washington was a big mistake also. a year after the devastating london roads minority groups in the british capital city communities remain divided with police actively pursuing racial profiling classes. in the business better tennis and more trouble for alarm . u.k.'s banks. is accused of dirty deals but u.k. parliament that headed back to the gold i knew that because of a commercial cartel ok it's a long time in town that is pretty self. wealthy

british soil. is not on the title.

market why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our. mission to be soon which brightened if you are about song from tongues to freshen up so. please please don't talk don't come. 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 gadhafi the water old nation is still flooded with weapons and struggles to control outbreaks of violence as a result. the editor in chief of black star news believes the widespread divisions in libya will be a difficult hurdle towards democracy 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 a selection that up ever see it 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 but nato washington paris and london decided to ignore that and instead impose the dentists 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 but it should be investigated we can't sweep inconvenient truths under the rug. the syrian regime and rebels say the government has dealt a serious blow to the opposition forces in the flashpoint city of aleppo myself the president assad's troops have taken positions in the rebel stronghold in the area and on site intense fighting on the ground the information war around syria shows no sign of abating either a number of western and arab news outlets broadcast a report from the syrian rebels who claimed they had killed a russian general who had been assisting the sounds forces i'm sure the video is

said to be the general's id issued by the syrian military but emerged the alleged victim that. is actually alive and well and left syria several years ago and he even appeared on t.v. to prove it. the syrian rebels are now becoming a source of growing concern for them opposition activists are worried that foreign islamist fighters who are helping them to topple assad will eventually work to sabotage the syrian state we're going to come to find out more about why and how the stricken nation could turn into a constant battle ground after any regime change. so there for the moment find out how a change in the more means the business partner of the jailed oil tycoon and russia's former richest man mikhail khodorkovsky could be released from jail three years earning. secret laboratory to mccurry was able to build a new its most sophisticated robot which fortunately doesn't give

a darn about anything tunes mission to teach the creation why it should care about humans and. this is why you should care only on dot com. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you . are welcome to the big picture. nuclear. side. radioactive fallout all government betrayal of the government of law and law and lauded

and claude how can the truth be revealed if there's no official evidence there was indeed a very great danger to the servicemen concerned who were given no problem protection and to the people of this country generally because of the radioactive for. the secrets of the u.k.'s nuclear tests it's. a mission free cretaceous free in-store charge of free. range month free. free. free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects a free video down to r.t. dot com.

continues here and fifteen minutes past the hour now the polish president has made to the country's missile deal with the u.s. was a political mistake and it should not be repeated. he said that poland needs its own missile defense shield in the sun of the country shifting its policy away from washington's influence on his correspondent in eastern europe and. explains the problem and that 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 by having american. 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 early 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 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. now for more stories making headlines in the around the world in the world update fifteen policemen have been charged with medics during last year's uprising the doctors have been accused of siding with the opposition. protesters and one of the staff of

the who is denied the allegations saying they were doing their jobs in helping the injured. standard and poor's downgraded its outlook on greece's long term credit rating from stable to negative agency says the greek economy is rolling deeper into crisis amid a delay by the authorities in athens in implementing austerity measures countries rating will be lowered further if the nation now fails to receive additional help from international lenders. and hurrican investor has hit mexico's yucatan peninsula bringing with it to ritual rain its speed slowed as it made landfall but the storm has still forced many locals to leave their homes and seek shelter elsewhere and esther is expected to enter the gulf of mexico later on wednesday when an assessment of the damage left behind because. the controversial police tactic is minorities and london feeling like second class citizens of this is say this stop and search policy is necessary to fight gang crime yet the city's black community fears it's nothing more than racial profiling nor smith has

a story. to 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 l. me describes a typical police shakedown they happen more in the summer and often when he's driving his car through everything about everything about a car left on the sidewalk had their at their way again no reason just a reasonable suspicion should assess why this poor. mannerism thinks 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 to stop 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 such as being protected they're a problem is being policed against a disconnect between the police and the people always 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. tragedy all week is a lot of lip service from the police that it when you approach is 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. london. now we all like going for a stroll but one woman in russia is taking it to new heights a video released online gives a terrifying top down view of the thrill seeker going about her whole body with

apparently no safety ropes she teeters on the edge of a skyscraper as the world goes about its business far below the film's already been viewed more than one hundred twenty thousand times by me i'm feeling a bit dizzy now after washington. well let's get down to earth now and join katie on the business desk early what do you got for us yeah absolutely this is the reality of it all the markets all rebounding out today bill the u.s. stocks are actually in positive territory now and a loss there because there's a rally in hewlett packard's over two and a half percent and that's helping boost momentum in the region because earlier i was talking about the fact that companies like mcdonald's and disney posting negative results that was kind of really making everyone worry about their future growth prospects for the biggest economy in a while but as you can see there the dow jones was simply flat but as i say it

still drives itself in positive territory and then just three modest basis points that the european stock markets they too have managed to drag themselves up i believe for the dax it's still slightly down three bases voice in negative territory but it's nowhere near as dismal as what it was earlier on in the session but it's still the drug and energy companies that are the biggest retreat is there in the session it was bad news for john. the biggest economy in the industrial production declined almost one percent in june also want to talk about shares of british investment bank standard chartered they already found off the steepest one day decline in decades 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. parliamentarians they suggest the move is part of a commercial battle against. american financial regulators say the bank laundered as much as two hundred fifty billion dollars over nearly

a decade standard and chances which deny the allegations they could face losing their u.s. banking license over this. of the u.k. that the first issue economy is fall from a covering the bank of england has lowered the country's g.d.p. growth forecasts from around two percent to zero this year the regulator says that things are worse than they see this few months ago and the inflation may fall below this year's target of two percent. as standard and poor's they have lowered its outlook on a greece to negative from stable the rating agency believes it will be hard for the greek government to make more cars which all needed necessary to meet the requirements for the next tranche of cash from the e.u. now this time around at least they did avoid a complete credit downgrade just the outlook at a moment maybe because it's ratings go overseas so bout the they couldn't potentially get any worse the troubled economy may need as much as seven billion

euro is this just to stay afloat given it's been shrinking for the last five years now with unemployment skyrocketing to twenty eight so it's still holding on to the euro dollar although we can see that it is declining one twenty three sixty five in reaction to the outlook downgrade and many more things as well the german. production to say that's the reaction of the traders favorite house to the rebel house finished up moving and shaking and in the last hour would you believe it managed to get a against the u.s. dollar and the european car as he says back out to those summer highs we're also going to have at the exit markets here they seem to manage to have a change of fortunes towards the end of the day and they still want is to finish in the rather earlier on it was so pretty much the same it is sort of flocked to negative all round also want to mention as well that russia is yet to the inflation rate of four point six percent so it is have

a look at the biggest commodity the all of course set up oil prices well they all gave in but for much of the most go session they were really dropping and that was putting pressure on the markets here were really causing concern for investors but as we can see now we've got the votes in the us now for the full day reversing out it's kind of no point nine percent it's a bill that's how the market is that for now if you want more business more find out is get on the website. and we'll get more from you related to you thank you very much and because you will be back with a look at today's headlines in just a few minutes from now don't go away this is all too long in moscow.

download the official application so for choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from alzheimer's l.t.v. is not required to watch on t.v. all you need is your mobile device watch r t any time of the. world or the finance technology innovation all the movies developments from

around russia we've got the future covered. in full starting here before going global and now it's cooling the fire. log. choose your place take your stand. to. make your statement. spread the word. it's true. wealthy british style.

markets why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cars or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kaiser report on our.

mission of free accreditation free in-store charge is free. range minsk free. three stooges free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects free medio dog r t dot com.