all. awaiting their fate three feminist punk rockers are still to find out of 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 a much better received anywhere in the world in terms of human lives lost and destruction. as opposed to gadhafi libya prepares for his 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 trick.

and on screen international news and comment live from the new center here in moscow the russian quarter of in 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 tron 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 follows from the defendants giving their own closing speeches in which they compared their trial to the stalinist trials of the one nine hundred thirty s. as well as to the trial of

a russian all thirty of the nineteenth century for blasphemy now each of the three women went on to say that. but 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 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 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 of seven months ago these women were relatively unknown and 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 that one also was filmed performing a sex act 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 the. this woman has no balder certainly something that whatever the result of this trial is going to be discussed for a long time to come. well we don't know support for the groups not going down well in all court is a radical christian group was so inflamed by her words that it decided to inflame her literally find out more about this is well as other reactions on. dot com. also online artie's course was inside the courtroom as the pussy riot is delivered that final please twitter stream you'll find what 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 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. reports in the early hours of this morning waynes day egypt's military launched several airstrikes in the northern peninsula and according to egyptian media at least twenty people have been killed bears several spots were targeted and why this is significant is that this is the first time since the nine hundred seventy three that the egyptian air force has operated in the sinai peninsula it certainly is indicative of an increased a militant activity there that such efforts are being employed such a desperate efforts it does follow involved by cairo that it would crack down on what is called the infidels operation in the sinai peninsula it's one of the did

the attack on sunday night in which sunni interruption soldiers were killed and just last night choose day there were at least three incidents. edge of a 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 just a few weeks we have seen growing enormousness and else across the sinai peninsula something missing that the militants are starting to act much more told me we have heard a number of incidents of militant attacks and of the militant operations the growing concern is also that this violence is moving closer to the egyptian israeli border and this has been not only tell of this concern for people in the region that this violence might spread further and have the regional implications certainly television has indicated and said that it will act unilaterally if it feels threatened. well coming up short in the program this hour from the ship calls that

after the polish president admits the signing of a missile defense agreement with washington was a big mistake also. just a year after the devastating not the rights of minority groups in the british capital city communities remain divided with police actively pursuing racial profiling plus. and in sport the russian men's basketball team has set up in a little pick semifinal against european champions spain or not in sport in half an hour.

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a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report. which brightened a few. songs from phones to impressions. dot com. the news continues here in r.t. with libya's national transitional council handing over power to a newly elected assembly of two hundred members it's been ten months since the country's uprising that to the killing of colonel gadhafi the waterfall nation is still flooded with weapons and struggles to control outbreaks of violence as a result militant on the mahdi the editor in chief of black star news believes the widespread divisions in libya will be

a difficult hurdle towards democracy big countries flooded with weapons the country split into almost four. five different it's almost not a semi autonomous zones let's be very realistic and in water 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 are 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 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 that it should be investigated we can't sweep inconvenient truths under the rug. rebels in syria the assad's army has dealt them a serious blow in the flashpoint city of aleppo president assad's troops have taken positions in the rebel stronghold in the area alongside 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 reporting the syrian rebels claim they killed a russian general been assisting assad's forces issued a video said to be the general's id issued by the syrian military but emerged the alleged victim. is actually alive and well and left syria years ago and even appeared on t.v. to prove it but. meanwhile the syrian rebels are becoming a source of growing concern for the opposition activists are worried foreign

islamist fighters who are helping them to topple assad will eventually turn against them and try and gain control of the entire syrian state or even over to r.t. dot com to find out more about why and how the stricken nation could turn into a constant battle ground after any regime change. but also there for the moment find out how a change in the law means the business partner of the jailed oil tycoon russia's former richest man. could be released from jail three years early. good laboratory. to build a most sophisticated. mission to teach creation why it should care about humans and. this is why you should care only. see

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all you need is your mobile device to watch on t.v. any time any. wealthy british sign on. the free. market why not scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy cause a report on our. life in moscow the polish president has admitted the country's missile deal with the u.s. was a political mistake and it should not be repeated from the stuff coming said that the the pota 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 and he 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 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 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 uncomfortable contradiction with the agreements made between the two countries certainly it's really early to say what the new statements by bernice are coming off to 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. 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. more stories making headlines around the world in a world update in chile and students have taken to the streets raging over the government's policy on education they say their protest is motivated by a lack of response to their demand to make public education accessible to all the stories of what they've called the radicalizing demonstrations but the message is so far only field for. fifteen bahraini policemen to be in charge with torturing medics jewing last year's uprising the doctors have been accused of siding with your physician for treating protesters over the medical staff who is denied the allegations saying they were only doing their jobs in helping the injured. a couple that has killed at least eleven people

and wounded twenty more southeast of baghdad the attack targeted worshipers at a shiite muslim commemoration ceremony it was the latest in the parent spike in violence since the beginning of the muslim holy fasting. month of ramadan. instead of the pauses downgraded its outlook on greece's long term credit rating from stable to negative emotions he says the greeks economy's rolling deeper into crisis amid a delay by the authorities in athens in implementing a sturdy measures the country's rating will be lowered further if the nation nell fails to receive additional help from international lenders. because of virtual police tactic has minorities in london feeling like second class citizens officers say their stop and search policy is necessary to fight going crime the city's black community fears it's nothing more than racial profiling of these last month as 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 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 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 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 got a car left on the sidewalk had their way again no reason to reasonable suspicion should assess why this pulled us over no. mannerism thankyous please nothing of the sort 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 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 society is being protected there are problem this being policed against a disconnect between the police and the people they have was one of the factors found to have sparked last august's riots the disturbances started here in tottenham after the shooting by police of a young black. man and as 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 problems with. changing all week is a lot of lip service from the police that it when you approach is traded trying to engage with the community 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 here in russia has taken it to new heights look at this video released online gives a terrifying top down view of the thrill seeker going about. with apparently no safety rope she teaches on the edge of

a skyscraper as the world goes about its business for below the film's already been viewed more than one hundred twenty thousand times no doubt all enjoying the lovely view. while they are back down to earth enjoying for a reality check the latest business report on how the markets then still a bit flat the sky they are pretty much actually below we're looking at kind of flat to negative figures very much for the u.s. market is really desperately trying to get above the waterline but they are mothers going to bounce off from earlier losses that we saw as you can see is still pretty much makes nice to stay flat bill one of the top gainers though was hewlett packard they're up over two and a half percent as a little bit of a lead sample of those of us the massive companies posting dismal results with mcdonald's and disney to name it to the biggest ones on the list today i also wanted to mention as well that seventy has actually increased in american company

is part not because they're growing more in employee is just because they're making the work harder so we're kind of these uncertain times being made to work harder for less money to say no more now we've got some european markets to look at as well these are actually the closing figures we're going to look at just now and. ok it's looking pretty flat as well that is probably the word of the day but they all managing to limit the losses that we saw earlier on in the session although. modest to finish eight basis points higher i'm going to talk more about love's a little bit later on it was shares of commodity banks that managed to get in the session towards the end of an industrial production decline almost one percent month on month but says the british investment banks. they managed to rebound that solves this deepest one day decline in decades after the bank was accused of hiding tens of thousands of transactions with the wrong. now by all subjected to u.s.

economic sanctions but some u.k. parliamentarian's this just in 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 now standard chartered though they do deny these allegations bartz they face losing their u.s. banking license so. now i did mention. talk about the economy because the recovery looks like it's coming any time soon the bank of england they've lowered the country's g.d.p. growth forecasts from around two percent to zero but the bank of england governor mervyn king said the bag would do all it counts to pull the economy out of recession meaning signaling a further says using freshly created money that's the pump of money quantity of easing in other words but rooting out

a new cut in the key interest rate is about off the cards all right then let's talk about greece because of rating agencies standard and poor's they've dealt another blow to graze why would you see their credit outlook from stable to negative on the grounds that the greek government will find it hard to make more cuts needed to meet the requirements for the. next lies of cash they desperately need from the now the troubled economy may meet as much as seven billion years this year just to stay afloat and that given that it's been shrinking now for five years with unemployment skyrocketing to twenty. so let's see the currency that they want to hold onto for now is the year it all as we can see is declining one twenty three sixty five for the traders favorite bad it's about the russian ruble though because it did manage to get even in the last hour of trade it managed to gain against both the us dollar and the euro as well so we're right back up to those highs of the

sama ok that seem obvious here moscow that we'll see the closing figures and shy away the cvs yes we've got. the word of the day it is eight basis points out of the my sex just a fraction of wanted to mention the inflation as well because it's now reached four point six percent for russia this is the ore price isn't shy away most important quantity here and it's what investors here are family focused on i'm a very pleased to see this tomorrow when they wake up because we've got gains we've had gazed out for around three hours the russian markets close so they're rising now for a full day and it's as a government reports are that u.s. stockpiles drops and that was more than expected as well as concerns about tensions in the middle east as well they may disrupt global surprise so those news events combined means all prices again in belle's so back in about fifteen minutes with a roundup of the day's business news looking forward to seeing if you will for

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