top story here on our air both call reaction groups news that members of the controversial punk band pussy riot will spend the next two years in jail putting their political protest done to russia's main cathedral. and the voting bloc the only meetings told me international responds with protests held across the globe and the u.s. even calling a review of the case. given asylum but still trapped britons are moved by accident that's really the sands of the political refugee saying the whistleblower is still subject to arrest and won't be allowed to leave the country . and erode the u.s. hacker group claims it's behind an attack on the argentine website in an attempt to

silence coverage job julian assange. you're watching r t live from moscow with me to bomb would say our top story a russian court has sentenced members of the controversial punk band pussy riot to two years in jail following their protest stunt in russia's main cathedral the three women were found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred meanwhile police have detained sixty people outside the court who had been rallying both in support and against the group artie's jacob grieves has been following developments at the scene. ever since that news was announced the verdict was given received a motion the charge seen outside the courthouse and there have been those in favor of all the really freedom of the free defense who stood trial indeed also those of

the supporters who wanted the pussy riot defendants to go down to to spend time in prison they both state as well now they have been angry because they say it is blasphemy what transpired in favoring price a victim the child the so-called home prayer though they retain the defendants it was politically motivated as the location that i knew was when the faithful of the russian orthodox church now we have throughout the course of receiving stay seen over fifty people being detained by police at the post sides of the fence has also been opposition opposition members from the moment today they did very vocal for the last seven or eight months when it comes to standing it's funny persian standing as the government as well maybe expected their presence here today and indeed today they have announced that there will be another protest being held on the back of this bird to hurt you the russian orthodox church speaking out saying that they maintain their position and this is the last of me three defendants did

they do some degree of seeds to be given to them i've also heard from the french and they say they will seek to appeal this sentencing this verdict if they have to take this do you think courts of human rights of course the reaction to the verdict has also been flocking in from around the world there's been a wave of protests across the globe in support of the punk band the official reaction is also coming with the u.s. state department calling on russia's authorities to review the case artie's marina porton iowa has more from new york. in both political and public reaction over the pussy riot verdict now around the globe there has been several protests on friday in support of the three russian band members that were convicted of hooliganism paris brussels london and tell of evil are among the cities where demonstrators gathered to denounce the trial and the two year sentencing those that are in

support of these three women and members of the pussy riot say that the decision that was made by moscow's court was emblematic of russia's intolerance of dissent on a more political front the u.s. embassy in russia has called the verdict on fair portion it there was also reaction coming from amnesty international which said that the decision was a bitter blow to freedom of expression in russia also political figures in europe have begun to weigh in on this developing story we heard from the high representative of the european union catherine ashton who has said she's deeply disappointed by this verdict calling it disproportionate a similar sentiment has also been echoed by germany's foreign minister so clearly this story taking place in russia has ignited a wave of reaction around the globe. right let's get some inside to into the

reaction to this verdict from our u.s. based in this don de bar here live with us now is the ball washington seems to be quite selective in responding to trials in various countries reacting quite strongly to the pussy riot case in russia and yet keeping silent over the recent jail sentence full of prominent human rights activists in bahrain how do you explain the double standard. it's a double standard the united states has other double standards that bear on this case to first let's look at the 1980's. case of st patrick's cathedral where act up members came into the church about forty five of them were arrested before they could really voice their own protests and numerous times since the beginning of the iraq war around the united states people have tried to go into churches to speak to the congregations and on it modern for example one activist in the united states has done it about thirty times to try to say look it's your religious beliefs or so

and so i got it's happening violates them please join theirs and they've been threatened with the rest of arrested me and worse use of the united states does exactly this and finally you can sue in new york state alone and this is true with all the states and federal if you choose there is a hate crime statute that this action anything fits exactly to the parameters and what it calls for is a sentence enhanced meant so that for example if you were charged with criminal mischief for interrupting a church service or for some other you know related violation the penalties got stepped up as if you had committed a more serious crime three years is not out of line with the new york state statute so they are hypocritical across the board now the u.s. state department says it hopes that russia will revise the verdict in the pussy riot case just how noble do you think it is will foreign governments to offer statements like that well that is the official foreign government's position and there are geo political considerations for example syria and others that i think

are deeply involved but they're also the unofficial spokespeople for the state department particularly amnesty international and human rights watch and one of which is actually now run by hillary clinton's former chief of staff i told the our producer when they contacted me a little while ago to come on but i received three separate emails book e-mails from amnesty international about this pussy riot case i didn't receive anything about the threat of the u.k. next to invade the embassy of echo. the war in london and as i was transmitting the three that i had received through the producer i got another one from amnesty international because what's happening is the united states for some reason that will become apparent later is stirring this up to make russia work as if it were a repressive lawless state while the united states which has more incarcerated people than the next three countries on the planet and that's only in absolute

terms in terms of relative terms more than any other country on the planet the united states has all these people in jail and it's going to lecture other countries about how their legal process should work i just think it it has no credibility around the world and i think it's shameful washington also says that the verdict is a disproportionate doesn't really have the right to give this kind of assessment well first of all i'd be curious to see if they actually studied the case i think instead that again geopolitical considerations are driving the statements that come out of there certainly it's not any concern for democracy or democratic rights because as you pointed out at the very beginning they would be screaming about the situation in bahrain which instead they are probably engineering because bahrain of course is the home to their fleet in that area the naval fleet. but now what's the reaction from russia if the you with a ming ad provoking with this strong response. well i mean either or no reaction so

that they can continue to turn up the heat in a public relations fashion against russia because i have a concern that as they moved from code of want to libya to syria and eventually iran that they may well have russia in their targets this is i'm talking about the u.s. senior policymakers and they maybe will be softening the ground right now to try to show that russia is hostile the government is hostile to its own people but it lacks legitimacy etc all of the things that the queues each of the other countries of as they move their military forces in that may be one thing or another is that it presents a crisis for the russian government in terms of it being an unsolvable problem if you consider it a problem either they continue to do what they do and they continue to have this public relations campaign conducted against them or they cave in ceding part of their sovereignty obviously in front of the world and demonstrating by example that hey if you play this game with us you'll win rights that you as gentle as they had

done the bottle into us on our t. giving us an insight into the international reactions on the verdict of the pussy riot which was out this often in giving them to yes in jail but as one of the international public reaction on the streets of the pussy riot cases exploded across the internet the host of artes website program why you should came bloodgood tim kirby told my colleague rory's to share about the online response. oh there's definitely some negativity you know when you look at the internet like i've been saying it's i've been talking you there's. a lot of the more liberal people the supporters of course they're going nuts and they're posting everything that this is awful and on the other side of people who have a more religious take on things i think feel very justified my personal opinion is to be honest usually for the thing they call hooliganism you get fifteen days from what i've heard so i really wish they would have gotten fifteen days the more standard punishment but the court didn't agree with my position but what about the

hype on the on this case how is it reflecting public opinion in russia because a lot of people say that moscow is not a true representation of all of russia trust me as a foreigner i get to hear that every day and it really isn't the sort of moscow super liberal internet click really isn't and the problem is is that people are saying this is dividing russia and it's since it is but it's dividing it between kind of religious people and the tiny tiny minority of ultra liberal extremists who have a bigger voice because of the internet than they would under normal circumstances and so i think that a lot of ways worse it's not really. being depicted i think a lot of the average people in russia this is a really huge thing for them or they're sort of passively against it. right all the details of the story of a label for you on a website including a timeline of events in and outside the courtroom and reaction from relatives of the three women log on to our dot com. joining us on she

is now officially a political refugee but sees a no closer to getting out of the ecuadorian embassy in london than before the asylum announcement britain made the deal did not affect its determination to arrest the whistleblower and extradite him to sweden in clear defiance of international law as matthew was at the embassy on the day of drama has the details . it was the day they'd all been waiting for julian our soldiers holed up in london's ecuadorian embassy for two months and his supporters who turned out to cheer for him rain or shine since his legal battle against extradition to sweden first began more than eighteen months ago also there in large numbers the police who didn't wait long to make their first arrests. when the decision came it was the one they wanted. we decided to grant asylum to julian

a song. called it a significant victory and his mother was fulsome. and shining like it will automatically encourage the government. but not everyone was pleased the u.k. foreign and commonwealth office called the decision disappointing and foreign secretary william hague said it changed nothing it does not change the fundamentals of the case we will not allow. safe passage out of the united kingdom nor is there any legal basis for us to do so hague also denied any suggestion that british police would storm the embassy so over in territory under international law to arrest but that's not what ecuador inferred from a letter it says was delivered through the british embassy in quito in response ecuador played hardball. what is no national law could be used in this way in any

intrusive way in any diplomatic facilities any place in the world it shouldn't be used to threaten or blackmail the sovereignty of any other country and they called a summit to try to deal with this threat so that this fact doesn't go unpunished. the scary part the part that i found completely incredible and outrageous is the british threats to actually go in and try and extract julian assange but i must say that british police surrounding that embassy was it an act of intimidation that should not be allowed and is not allowed under asylum or stuck in the middle julian assange who has a new home but no way of getting there try parts and put him in a big trunk and label him in his diplomatic bag i'm not quite sure whether that would work but otherwise we might see him holed up there for a mixed couple of years who knows until it's reach a solution to this impasse if he leaves the embassy he's liable to arrest by the

u.k. which insists it must still extradite him to sweden a position that wouldn't accept it or respond to the united kingdom it would that mean possibly breaking relations on a regional level if it happens on the ground seeing of asylum by ecuador stupid enough songs has been spelled the end of this tale already full of twists and turns in fact it appears to be the beginning of something else with neither the u.k. no ecuador apparently willing to back down it's developing into an ugly diplomatic spat which could affect relations for some time laura smith i don't see outside the ecuadorian embassy inducted. earlier we talked to the week he leads a spokesperson chris inhofe and then he said if britain continues to ignore songes asylum riots the his lawyers will take the medicine to the international criminal court. let's hope that the the british government will come to its senses and say yes it's

a country it's the only right thing to do but if there are two is in this hard line position which is going to be reassured given the circumstances. the legal team of julian bond will use these failures but also go slow as indicated that he will take the matter before the international court of justice. and force the government to give him as it's clearly say that this is a threat by the u.k. authorities who to go extraordinary have called for a. strong reaction especially in light of the american countries. it is beyond my understanding why the william hague will take such an extreme step especially when the negotiations were ongoing according to the ecuadorian in the period between two countries and this should include offsets doing well in nations all over the world and i'm pretty sure that. you must be. very secure

in solitary areas giving offense at that all government is willing to violate the convention of the twenty two with these threats they just won't believe it will carry. muskets of course also watching closely the developments around the son's case and the russian foreign ministry has said its be ruled out by britain's position on the whistleblowers asylum deal the ministry representative said of the thread to take the funds in the embassy by also contradicts the vienna convention he also added that the u.k. itself of the harboring dozens of russians suspected of grave crimes but it denies the right to assign them to a staunch you haven't seen time among those who found shelter in london the meds are wanted for charges of terrorism and murder and from a tycoon baris verizon scheme ickes a fraud and attempted coup. and they seemed like our extensive coverage of getting us knowledge is the case has attracted more attention than we expected

earlier today our car was jammed by in our lunch of online traffic in what's known as a denial of service attack by how her group and tea leaks it was done for several hours but if it's forty available now tom barton reports if you try to go to our t.'s website today you may well see this message instead of the actual website that's the result of a d.d. o. s. cyber attack which struck many hours ago and has made r.t. dot com one available around the world on twitter a group calling itself anti leaks is claiming responsibility for the attack they linked in their tweets to the topics june songe and wiki leaks they also made a joke about the show hosted on r.t. saying that they wanted to see him smoking cigars and drinking whiskey but that they weren't able to because of this attack those and other tweets indicate that they wanted to stop artie's coverage of the granting of diplomatic asylum to the

wiki leaks founder by ecuador's embassy in london d.o.'s or distributed denial of service attack is where attackers use remotely controlled computers around the world to flood a website with too much traffic for it to handle until leaks has previously attacked wiki leaks his site itself would didio us as well but they say that their primary target is julian assange himself describing him as a new breed of terrorist the group says they're based in the usa there's much speculation as to who until leaks actually are. so now you can fully enjoy a website at our dog comet just get there for any stories and features you may have missed here's what we've got before you scandal at the paralympics as the games of serving as a symbol of world unity are overshadowed by accusations that have outraged just able to take a bold. and terrifying statistics that suicide rates in the u.s. army reach a new peak with an average of more than fourteen people killing themselves every

month. the u.n. has confirmed that the formal dinner in foreign minister. who will replace kofi annan as an envoy to syria meanwhile international observers in the country are winding down their mission after the u.n. security council decided not to prolong it the move is viewed as disappointing by russia which sees the mission as key to finding a political way out of the war artie's honest to see it shooting the reports from new york. regretfully for russia we have to see the united nations security council did in fact decide to not prolong the mission the mandate of the observer mission in syria of the united nations now there were two conditions for this mandate to keep for them to keep functioning on the ground and these were an end to the violence as well as ending the use of heavy weaponry and of course we know that this unfortunately has not occurred as of yet the united nations will however

maintain a presence on the ground in a different format this will be a civil mission that they will put in place the details of which are being discussed now russia's position in all of this is quite simple. as monday is coming to a member we believe that those members of the council who insisted to. continue the . commitment to ending course still it is. working towards a political settlement in syria however we're looking forward to the form of doing a u.n. presence in damascus. doing the job it is supposed to do in the light of the need to stop violence and to stop the political process in syria it's important to keep in mind that russia of course has been calling for a peaceful political process in solving the syrian crisis and this of course comes as we're hearing armed groups on the ground threaten to combine forces with al qaida if the west does not help them out and this would of course be

a catastrophic development in the crisis filling the shoes of kofi anon will be a lot of dark brahimi a seventy eight year old veteran diplomat among his previous titles is the foreign minister of algeria and curiously it's an interesting selection for several reasons first of all we do know that in the past this man has served as u.n. envoy to iraq and afghanistan where of course as we're well aware the conflicts and the violence continue and also his daughter actually a former employee at c.n.n. is married to a family. a royal member of the jordanian royal family and of course this is important in the in the sense that we know that this is a country that's been accused of supporting the armed groups on the ground so this is quite an interesting twist we're going to have to wait and see what kind of approach this man takes but we do know that he has already said that he would like a different official title from kofi annan because he doesn't want to be seen as

somebody just filling his shoes he believes that kofi annan approach was a failure and he wants a different mandate and a different name so we're going to have to wait and see how this man works in the crisis from now on when he takes the position when a mandate officially expires at the end of this month. taking a look at other news from around the world to this hour police have killed more than thirty workers striking outside a south african mine off the open file when the group charged at them with machetes and spears the strike began last week when mine is demanded high salaries and better working conditions the shooting is one of the worst in south africa since the end of the apartheid era. iraqi police and hospital officials claimed there is a wave of attacks across the country has left more than ninety people did the bomb and shooting attacks targeted civilians and police in baghdad and other cities near the capital making it the deadliest day in three weeks of violence this month the death toll has risen to two hundred people as al qaeda here in the the country

apart to eight months after u.s. troops left the country. and the afghan police officer has shot dead two u.s. soldiers just minutes after they gave him a new weapon as a gift the incident in the west of the country is the latest in a number of similar attacks when members of the local security forces have targeted those training them overall thirty six and nato troops have been killed this year alone by afghan allies raising concern over the presence of u.s. troops in the country. right dimitris next door with the business news so what's been the reaction in the market we've had the pussy riot verdict has it affected the markets at all yes especially the sentence when it came out at six o'clock moscow time this had a moderately negative reactions let's take a look at the final figures most of the day the markets were down around point two percent so they were pretty flat but in the end. on

a negative note down one percent as you can see there the former finance minister of russia of executed said that this case will have a damaging effect for russia's investment climate over india. niters states right now we're seeing a different picture would be dow jones and nasdaq up twenty three percent their lot with the nasdaq driven by apple shares investors they're looking ahead to the launch of apple's new product especially the i phone five in september. over in europe we've also had a positive day with the dax up point six percent that's on the back of higher consumer confidence data over the united states and also on the back of that statement from this angle a merkel said reiterated basically in a statement to support the euro. but this was not enough to prevent the euro from forming and because of that high consumer data in the united states the dollar had more demand than the euro and the russian ruble fell around point three percent to

the. commodities also falling for almost a day when the light switch has gone up they've been out of sync throughout most of the week and this is on the back of the branches falling one half dollars per barrel this is on the back of rumors that the united states might use of its reserves world and don't have to increase supply and reduce prices. ukraine has made the first big step to wean itself off russian gas now the country has drawn a consortium led by exxon mobil to develop a gas field at the bottom of the black sea now the ten billion dollar project is supposed to bring ukraine around five billion cubic meters of gas per year and that's around twelve percent of what the country is currently getting from russia that exceed your ships he explained. the biggest gas deal involving foreign investors in the history of silver in ukraine this is how experts have been describing the latest agreement between the ukrainian government and the exxon

mobil consortium on development and exploration of the natural gas field in the black sea coast of ukraine the offshore gas field combined with other potential deals which the ukrainian government is now discussing with the british investors within this trauma center by john and took many stand could in large the natural gas extraction in ukraine in the next twenty years by four times which would make this country all but independent from the gas imports it's been having from russia currently key it is on a contract with moscow until twenty nineteen buying russian gas in a certain amount of a certain price and it's been looking actively for both the discount and lowering the amount of gas it has been buying but so far when the stand negotiations have not brought any success another way that ukraine is trying to implemented to diversify its natural gas resources is getting a loan from the china investment company and there's already been an agreement on

that three point six billion dollars on buying new technologies which would allow ukraine to buy less russian gas certainly this raises many concerns among european consumers whether there would be any more disruptions of the russian supplies into the european continent which go through ukraine but both sides in the negotiations have been holding over the past several years have been saying that regardless of how much gas ukraine buys from russia the transit of russian gas through ukraine to europe will not be hampered will not suffer in any way besides russia is already building several other pipelines to deliver its gas to europe so this should not be a concern according to both countries' governments and both countries gas monopolies companies. only that's it from me and the rest of the business team you have a nice weekend and join us next week as well dimitri thanks for that final update from you guys. see see right i'll be back with the headlines in just a few minutes watching our team.

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