pussy riot and their global fan club foreign governments and media hit out of the two year jail sentence given to the members of the russian female punk band. breaching the president veterans and for task take over barack obama's election office in oakland calling for the release of jailed whistleblower bradley manning. plus an occupation of flames from nato and international troops on alert as afghan forces deemed friendly increasingly turn their guns on their mentors. this is coming to life from moscow i'm marina joshie the jailing of three members of russian punk band pussy riot has attracted criticism from across the world and

seen protests in support of the women they received a two year sentence on charges of holguin isn't motivated by religious hatred for their mob prayer in russia's main orthodox cathedral foreign governments also had their say on russia's internal matter the u.s. even calling on the authorities to review the case are just more important i reports from new york. there has been 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 the valar 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 unfair. or should 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. reported there in the u.s. based journalist on the bar says washington should look closer to home and tidy up its own affairs before judging others. the united states has other double standards that bear on this case too first let's look at the one nine hundred eighty nine

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 at 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 i know nic modern for example an activist in the united states has done it about thirty times to try to say look your religious beliefs are so and so what's happening violates them please join us and they've been threatened with arrest arrested and worse so the united states does exactly the lead that is 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 that has no credibility around the world and i think it's shameful all the fish the reaction

from around the world over the trial has been overwhelmingly critical public opinion has not been so definite and here are some of the feedback we've received at r.t. dot com. this ridiculous case makes me think of the middle ages what would the banishment have been had this happened in saudi arabia i'm sure it would have been a call for death for once i actually agree with russia take this joke of a band and look at the much longer what they do is immoral and unacceptable god bless christianity disgusting and here i was thinking russia was getting more progressive this has put a big dent in my respect for russian british m p that went to russia to support the right why didn't she use her time to free young black youths and who present some silly crime if she's so concerned about justice system in russia i think the us should get even with russia by arresting justin bieber. well the coverage of the

pussy riot trial was hyped by foreign media and that's the opinion of larry jacobs managing director of the world congress of families. i don't really expect immediate suit necessarily. always report truthfully in the u.s. and western europe we have seen some of the same issues so it's politicized the issue that made it about objection to putin in about supposedly a political statement but again. you know we have plenty of opportunities to make political statements and that we need to be responsible for our actions and there's no question that they were that they were guilty of any group is free to protest. if it is again on a place where they. are they are not violating someone else's rights in this case they certainly violated the rights of the church they trust other vandalised and so

you have to expect the consequence is. that there is more on the story online to check out our teaser for free for more videos from inside and outside the courtroom where the russian female robbers receive their sentence we can see the moments the tree of finally discovered their fate. these are the images. from the streets of canada. operations are over. to the us now our police were called and arrests were made after protesters offered by barack obama's campaign office in oakland the group made up of veterans and activists was part of a hundred strong march in support of bradley manning. demonstrators

marched on the office chanting free bradley manning he's accused of leaking classified information to weaken this and if found guilty could face the death penalty the protesters demanded that president obama release the whistleblower scott olsen an iraq war veteran and one of the protester says the government's making an example. the law but it was one. of the matter so. if you're. a mad man and. further trying to make an example out of them they're your own. people. or so. you were. going to go. and that's what i went through

to and including why me as well if you know me you know we're not going to going. you're trying. and matter. well fears the u.s. is desperate to lay its hands on john the son is the man behind the we can fix website or playing on the minds of diplomats to declassify documents from the australian embassy in washington reveal concerns and might add up on trial the state's soundest currently stuck in ecuador's london embassy it was britain vowing to prevent him taking asylum in latin america but we got the spokesman christine happens and believes the matter may go to the international court of justice. let's look at the the british government that will come to its senses and give him safe passage so the country it's the only right seem to believe they're on to is in this hard line position which is going to be assured of giving this to those those who is. the legal team or julian that we can use these photos to but also to

go forward as indicated that he will take the matter before the international court of justice. and force the government to give them because it's clear you say that this is a threat by the u.k. authorities want to go to a store where you have called for a. strong reaction especially a lot of american countries. to be on my list and the way the william hague will take such an extreme step there specially when the negotiations were ongoing according to that we're using the. between two countries and this should include of doing with the nations all over the world and i'm pretty sure that the british do it must be. very secure in voluntarily areas giving effectively or government is willing to violate to the convention of the twenty two with this. guy just one of the leading. well coming up later in

the program permission to pray in the holy land israel stands accused of denying palestinians access to mosques during the holy month of ramadan and arresting those allowed through. the board on the new private military contractors and during the market to clean up blackwater solid image of guns for hire. aside from roadside explosives taliban and al qaeda fighters nato forces of ghana stand are increasingly under attack by a new foe friendly afghan forces two more u.s. troops were shot yesterday in an insider shooting episode bringing the total to a dozen soldiers in just over a week as are these going to go on the reports this is a problem that multibillion dollar defense brought it just can't solve. the ads for military hardware in the u.s. look like hollywood blockbuster trailers whether it's for a tactical armed drone which can fit into a backpack. or for

a special robot like clothing for soldiers a sense of the user wants to do where the user wants to go and then explosions like to call these men thomas systems but many ask why with all the high tech gear the u.s. can't win against man of simple means from some remote afghan villages a u.s. marine general estimated that eighty percent of his troops casualties in afghanistan were caused by homemade bombs components of which often cost no more than a few dollars. jake dilla better served in afghanistan at the beginning of the war the camera and the armored humvees are cost millions of dollars and they're destroyed by something that costs the price of a pizza we don't have any effective weapons to combat that animosity that rage against american presidents there's no such thing it's sort of like if the chinese moved into you know wyoming or you somehow that why oh why oh why it's going to be

happy now not at all there's no way that they just simply want them to leave the us invests in military gear more than the world's ten other biggest military spenders combined the pentagon resists cuts in their gigantic budget arguing that they need to fight terrorists in other places we continue to face three seek serious security challenges in the world of today we are still at war in afghanistan we still confront terrorism even though there's been significant damage to the leadership of al qaida the reality is we confront terrorism in somalia and yemen in north africa . the u.s. is extensively using drones to go after who they identify as terrorists. but will there ever be enough weapons to kill terrorists in this look at anwar locky before he was assassinated by a drone did we stop al qaeda on the arabian peninsula we stop this march on yemen

no we did not we actually in many ways made it worse by the fact that others besides a walk we were targeted and killed and that same campaign civilians we invest in the military hardware destruction which obviously is to perpetuate the cycle of killing kill five ten come back you've got to have more hardware to kill that ten. retired lieutenant colonel anthony shaffer says the pentagon's obsession with military resources hasn't changed since the time when their enemy was the soviet you mean it was all about the numbers it was all very accountable regarding hardware hardware purchases how much how many missiles can you have how many can you defeat it is all very binary this or that this or that it was always it was a match force on force. and the current today's war it's not like that there's no

force on force equation there's no way of measuring the number of tanks that will take care of the taliban because the taliban doesn't use tanks they don't need them and so this is for our current paradigm the us paradigm on war it's completely outdated all those fancy weapons certainly project power but in real warfare in afghanistan for example all that advanced gadgetry still hasn't delivered victory some argue is because while spending tremendous amounts of money on military gear the u.s. has failed to fully understand their enemy and what motivates them to fight i'm going to check on in washington our team the u.n. has officially named lifeguard raimi the former algerian foreign minister as it's new and voight to syria kofi annan successor is a veteran diplomats with experience in still volatile iraq and afghanistan but some have a question he's objectivity because of his ties to jordanian royalty is daughter a former reporter that c.n.n. is married to one of the king's sons jordan has allegedly been providing support for rebel forces in syria lakhdar brahimi has received wide backing from the

international community arab experts warn against excessive optimism. the mission. is to have been good for a while and can be easily attributed to there are three members whose curiosity really front you create a new us in beating for opium and i do think there will continue to be to it we're going to go to break me he seems to be a bit discouraged or even from the stir he was trying to record but not really all forty six hours new mission. the u.s. labor department has released alarming data suggesting unemployment has surged again in almost every state later today artie's financial gurus max kaiser and stacy herbert pulled no punches about those so you believe are responsible for economic hardships was coming your way next hour but here's a preview. give you figures not calculate anything having to do what

a sustainable economy and life affirming qualities the only thing that contribute to g.d.p. in the u.k. in the u.s. in the g twenty countries is suicide if you commit suicide fast like they do in india the farmers are committing thousands of suicide a month because a month ago that's considered a growth story the emerging market it's a happening contrary they're committing suicide really fast there's the u.k. people are committing suicide at a more leisurely british post like oh darling of their guilt by cell ok that's considered g.d.p. but not quite as aggressive as in the united states oh yeah well in their case it's more homicidal suicidal so you get those massive shootings and then you've got people killing themselves ordinarily so it's a combo play. well the holy month of ramadan and drawing to a close muslims around the world they're flocking to mosques to celebrate by the palestine that often means standing for hours at security checkpoints only to be

denied permission to pray reports. people here want to pray that soldiers stand in a way it's a painful game of control and every day it is played out at checkpoints throughout the palestinian whisper and at this time of year in the holy month of ramadan it's at its most crucial and the threat is like dogs being houston's half past five in the morning and i was twelve thirty seven hours i'm here and they won't let me cross with a knowledge of the head or the wave of an arm and israeli soldier says he can play and who cannot it is a distressing scene for those who wait palestinian worshippers. desperate to get to jerusalem have been standing pushing and shoving here for hours many have already been through several checkpoints it does of course then in order to retain order order is very important. control over the palestinians is important because that's

how you can. take control over their lives the alex a mosque is the third holiest place in islam on fridays the holy day hundreds of thousands of worshippers from across the west bank in east jerusalem make their way here human rights groups say the checkpoints have eased up this year but in the past his radio soldiers would ride on horseback into the crowds and use tear gas on fasting worshippers the hardest element we have found that people who are considered dangerous during the rest of the year are suddenly allowed to cross during ramadan because they're about forty years old it means they still been a terrorist for a short while it's absolute and it shows there is no security problem but israel says its checkpoints are here for just that the army says it wants to avoid trouble by making sure men between the ages of twelve and forty don't pass unless they have special permission that sometimes takes weeks to organize the influx of hundreds of thousands of palestinians into most of them since an unmistakable message to the

israelis and that is that your wisdom is no easy matter. the grand mufti of jerusalem accuses israel of having and now terry a motive when it comes to the al aqsa compound the. radical jewish groups say they want to demolish and take control of they claim it is a part of israel and if not the mosque itself then the yards they want to show our mouth's proving once again there is no democracy in israel. for those who make it through the israeli barriers it's a small victory the other store just show me pass this suspect that i'm going without me. behind on is that the bad things about what i want you to do that you must with eyes that the child let me go because i have that machine so i just said no we have to trick you i said the subject me you don't have the. fuel

you don't have to get those who don't make it through simply bow their heads in korea and find and defiance they know another degrading struggle lies ahead next week. you can always check out more reports from our middle east correspondents at r.t. dot com and here's a taste of what else is there for you bahrain's crackdown on the opposition triggers anger from international human rights groups after a prominent protest leader gets a three year sentence. plus a modern day robin hood toughest drive a spanish mayor to mastermind robberies and give money away to the poor.

private military firms are now as big part of modern war as death and destruction and they operate in an industry has an image has been destroyed by the alleged crimes of blackwater in iraq so at least on bart and went to meet some new players in the field who are on a p.r. offensive. fighting for profit the trade is as old as warfare itself but modern private military contracting is a growing market and russian companies want in on the action this training is to hone the skills of the stuff and it is military training not just security but it want to be here in this forest outside moscow they want to be working in places like iraq and afghanistan. question security systems or r.s.b. is a private military company founded by former russian soldiers they are for convoy and guard duties around the world they use selling point they say they are more careful

than other firms about what they do. we know that there is no state no high ranking official to back us we work on our own a russian company must respect all the rules and laws of the country of residence as well as its lifestyle and mentality with. guns for hire so what's the difference between military contractors and mercenaries that's the tag that some american firms have been labelled with after killings where they were based for guards from u.s. based military contractor blackwater which has since changed its name of facing fresh indictments for allegedly opening fire at a baghdad road junction in two thousand and seven killing seventeen iraqis the discrediting of firms like blackwater has opened up the market for russian firms says r.s.p.b. but in this business there will always be a tension between morals and money who chairs the company the purpose of creating a private military company is to make profit and as a rule the biggest profits come from clandestine operations so that's tempting for

the company and for individual operators should not be permitted he would call them what you will the market is there for a reason the private sector is supplying services that overstretched state forces either can't or won't provide such as in the treacherous waters off somalia come under the new yorker crew did everything in their capacity to fix the engine as quickly as possible but i remember my heart throbbing because we knew there were pirate ships in the vicinity them who could assault us at any moment put it to them while pirates bandits or others could strike it seems governments and companies are prepared to accept the controversy and pay for the likes of dimitri and his kind tom bottom r.t. . let's not take a look at some other stories from around the world south africa's president has ordered the probe into the shooting death of thirty four striking platinum mine workers by police jacob zuma called the events shocking and on acceptable police

opened fire on a crowd of protesting miners armed with machetes who were demanding better working conditions it's one of the worst incidents since the end of apartheid and nine hundred ninety four. nasa curiosity rover is preparing to make its first big leave by zapping a rock m r us with a laser and that's just one of ten tools it has available to help study the red planet and its ability to support life back on earth aren't his or her office went to find out whether average new yorkers are excited about curiosity's adventures. human technology is on mars so what this week let's talk about that i hope we'll find some whole other kind of fly fish there and i think it can help to understand that we're not alone in the universe do you think that we will shift our perception of how to be if we learn man. i hope so i hope so maybe you will become

a bit more. i hope so it's fair to say that because i'm french and we're not on board all but i think we need to understand that we're not alone i don't think as many people are into it that should be i posted something on my face we're going to have a head of one comment or one like at all and that was a couple days ago so that's kind of a little bit of a little bit of a disappointment why is that you would think reaching another planet deller i feel like maybe the olympics shadowed it you know and kind of eclipsed the moment but i tend to think there's more pressing issues here on earth and i'd rather see the money invested in. environment. and. global food issues and that kind of thing but could we possibly find other solutions if we look outward for that possibly i think it's great too i feel like we've lost that spirit of exploration largely it's underfunded

a lot of people have it but we don't we don't commit enough to education either at school in our government or in our living room or in our solar system. maybe they'll find some old worm holes or something of carbon you know carbon based or some of that but no martians no martians what if they did find martian there i don't think they'll want to come to earth and if they're getting our television they won't be want to be coming though they'll be seeing our lives are the actions of that i know whether or not you think it's a big deal that humans have technology on mars the bottom line is it kind of is the big deal or at least it's a massive accomplishment no matter what we learn from it. well president here in r t and i'll be back shortly we'll have a to our top stories. tall

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