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 cost because of actions that are never seen anywhere in the world in terms of human life loss and destruction as opposed 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 cairo bombs militants one a new leader struggles to stop violence in the post mubarak country.

and on screen international news and comment live from a new center here in moscow a russian court reviewing the case of the controversial feminist punk band pussy riot says it will delay 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 peter oliver is following the case and you'll 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 yet again they intended no offense to the russian orthodox church through their protests which took place in february of this year and 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 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 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 and 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. 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 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 there were 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. well the debate around the pussy riot case is getting really heated here in russia the opinions of some famous faces are getting people inflamed quite literally in the case of the queen of pop radical christian groups and the donor a clear message after she threw her weight behind the group find out more about this is one of the reactions on t.v. dot com. also on minorities correspondent in english who was inside the courtroom as the pussy riot is delivered their final pleas in her twitter stream you'll find more exactly the three women said before the court retard.

egypt's president mohamed morsi has sacked the intelligence chief and the governor of north sinai following the killing of over a dozen egyptian security forces by militants the minute 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 al sting of hosni mubarak last year. has this report. in the early hours of this morning wednesday the gyptian 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 there that such efforts are being employed such desperate efforts it does follow involved by cairo that it would crack down on what is screwing infidels

operating in the sinai peninsula it was a degree attack on sunday night in which sixteen injection soldiers were killed and just lost my tuesday there were at least three incidents and 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 seem 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 threatened. or come up short

in the program this friendship that's all for the polish president of the signing of a missile defense agreement with washington was a big mistake also. just a year after the devastating loss in raj minority groups in the british capital city communities remain divided the police actively pursuing racial profiling plus . in the business by the time it is the more trouble. pays. thanks tom that is accused of dills by u.k. parliament parents that heading back i knew that because of a commercial parts ok it's a long time in ten minutes for the south. wealthy

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water nation is still flooded with weapons and struggles to control outbreaks of violence as a result nelson of the mahdi the head it in chief of 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 as elections 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 fry and 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 but it should be investigated we can't sweep inconvenient truths under the rug. rebels in syria have admitted that the south has dealt them a serious blow in the flashpoint city of aleppo that's after president assad's troops have taken positions in the rebel stronghold in the area alongside intense fighting on the ground the information war on 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 killed the russian general who'd been assisting assad's forces showed a video said to be the general's id issued by the syrian military but it emerged that the alleged victim. is actually alive and well and left syria years ago and he

even appeared on t.v. to prove it. meanwhile the syrian rebels own eyes and are becoming a source of growing concern for them opposition activists are worried for an islamist fighters who are helping them to topple assad would eventually turn against them and try and gain control of the entire syrian state slogan to watch it all come to find out more about why and how the stricken nation could turn into a constant battle ground after any regime change. or so therefore we find out how a change in the law means that business partner of the jailed oil tycoon and russia's foreman richest man. could be released from jail three years early. if you're. forty acres and ninety ninety three and decided it would be a great place to find a member of

a home and retire. there here. we call it our new neighbor neighbor no seven. we have seventy acres. i can't convince them that they need to drill somewhere besides two hundred. the needs of a growing economy also means expanding our domestic production of oil and natural gas which are vital fuel for transportation electricity and manufacturing this is what. problems us before we do radical. change. you know our flows are not toxic and we get a lot of it there's a lot of mis understanding of what exactly in these fluids. time they said you can load here unless you come out here and live in my house for

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the news continues the colonel t. 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 poda needs its own missile defense shield in a sign that the country shifting its policy away from washington's influence on his correspondent in eastern europe and explains the problem and 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 by 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 in 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. 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. now for some more stories making headlines of the world in the world update fifteen following policemen to be in charge of torturing medics during last year's uprising and doctors have been accused of siding with the opposition for treating injured protesters with the medical staff of always denied the allegations saying they were only doing their jobs in helping the injured. start of

a pause as downgraded result look 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 the country's rating will be lowered further if the nation else fails to receive additional help from international leaders. mexico's yucatan peninsula bringing with it to ritual rain its speed slowed as it made landfall the storm is 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 will begin. a controversial police tactic has minorities and love them feeling like second class citizens officers say their stop and search policy is necessary to fight gang crime at the city's black community fears it's nothing more than racial profiling smith has a 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 l. me describes a typical police shakedown they happen more in the summer and off than when he's driving his car through everything about everything about a car left on the side had their at their way again no reason just a reasonable suspicion should assess what is. no. mannerism thing he's. not going to treat like second class citizens police. a 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 being protected there are problem this 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's 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 hasn't. attendant problems with. 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. don't go for a stroll but one woman here 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 hobby apparently no safety rope she teaches 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 no doubt all enjoying the lovely view. all right let's get down to earth know and join katie on the business katie hello there belle now at the moment really investors are looking a little bit reluctant to extend the three day rally that we've been witnessing in recent days right now as far as wall street is concerned as i say there's a reluctance in the air and very much a sense of caution we're here mixed figures at the moment we've got as i can say yet it still breaks very much so it's really really both pretty much flat but just in opposite directions now there is some good news there because it got hewlett and packard that up around two and a half percent now it's not helping boost and the parts of big companies coming out with very disappointing corporate earnings including mcdonald's and disney both of them posted negative results in the session the european markets they are closed

now but we'll have a look at the figures and it was the drug and energy sectors that really took a battering in a sector and as you can see there again it's a mixed picture germany just a production i wanted to mention as well because it did decline almost one percent . month all month in june also want to talk about the british investment bank standard chartered now the stocks they did manage to rebound the yeah and that was off the best one day decline in decades and that's because the bank is this but it's dividing tens of thousands of transactions with the wrong which is subject to u.s. economic sanctions but some u.k. parliamentarian's they're saying that the move is part of a commercial so. now american financial regulators say the bank laundered as much as two hundred fifty billion dollars over nearly a decade of standard chartered which does deny these allegations are just say face is losing their u.s. banking license. so we're talking about the u.k.

another bank of england it's lowered the country's g.d.p. growth forecasts from around two percent to zero this year but the bank of england governor mervyn king said the bank would do all it can to pull the economy out of recession so you get a limit of the bond purchases using freshly created money in other words quantity of easing but ruling out a near term a cut in the key interest rate something to look out for greece stands in pause a lowered its outlook for all but negative excuse me to negative from stable elevation agency believes it will be hard for the greek government to make more cars which are necessary if they're going to meet up with those requirements for the charges of money that they're expected to get from the now it's not quite as bad because they didn't get an credit downgrade could have been wise among us maybe because as far as their ratings are concerned there's nowhere else to go they're

pretty much as low as they are at the moment and the troubled economy may need as much as seven billion euros this year to stay afloat now if we consider the economy has been shrinking now for the last five years and unemployment skyrocketing to twenty percent. but it's still holding on to this currency right here the traders favorite pair the year i we've got it one twenty three sixty five and it is indeed declining in the session lots to absorb for that currency that one twenty three sixty five but of course it's holiday season so we're going to look at the ruble as well which managed to gain in the last hour against the basket of prices what we had just as well to see and ask the same price that last one does it really sort of negative so i mean for him solo this time of year as i say is holiday season the olympics is going on perhaps investors are very much being amused by that at the moment not selling or buying now as we can see the. flat to negative as i say i also wanted to mention the inflation as well because we have those figures coming

out today four point six percent last year to date this have look at those prices because as soon as the russian markets close we have the ore prices starting to rise and it's rising now for a full day and that's as a government report showed that u.s. stockpiles dropped more than expected and also concerns about tensions in the middle east disrupting global supplies as also has bought into those prices coal i mean the last of the. bill is pretty much so round ready to be honest ragas you will hear more from you than enough you know absolutely good thanks very much. with a quick look at the headlines for you in just minutes from no go away this is all to.

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