then he took. a ride on 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. reaching the president veterans and professor stake over iraq obama's election office in oakland calling for the release of jailed whistleblower bradley manning. plus an occupation in flames nato and international troops on alert as an afghan forces demons friendly increasingly turn their guns on their mentors. fortunately live in moscow one pm in the russian capital on 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 mock prayer in russia's main orthotics because the foreign governments also have their say on russia's internal matter the u.s. even calling on the authorities to review the case going to marina reports from new york. there's been both political and public reaction over the pussy riot verdict now around the globe and there has been several protests on friday in support of the three russian bad members that were convicted of hooliganism paris brussels london and tell of eve 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. a more

political front the u.s. embassy in russia has called the verdict unfair hershon it there was also reaction coming from amnesty international which said that the decision was a bitter blow to freedom of expression in a rush hour 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 at code by germany's foreign minister so clearly this story taking place in russia has ignited a wave of reaction around the globe. are now reporting their u.s. based journalist don de bar says washington should look closer to home and tidy up it so if they are as 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 no modern for example one 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 are arrested and worse so the united states does exactly this we've got to 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. well the official

reaction from around the world over the trial has been overwhelmingly critical public opinion has not been so definite and here's some of the feedback we have received at r.t. dot com. this ridiculous case makes me think of the middle ages what would the punishment have been had this happened in saudi arabia i'm sure it would have been a call for death for one so i actually agree with russia take this joke of a band and look them up 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 her prison for some silly crime if she's so concerned about the justice system in russia i think the us should get even with russia by arresting justin bieber. much of the media coverage of the pussy riot trial labeled the case politically motivated but former

spokesman to the russian arts praised bloody murder vigilance casings there are no grounds for that conclusion. here it is possible that the pussy riot punk band aim to stage a political protest but they actually did nothing of the sort of the side of the cathedral neither putin nor the patriarchs names were mentioned the lyrics were edited in later on inside the cathedral that actions boil down to insulting god and the virgin mary no politics so it's wrong to say they were persecuted on political grounds it's wrong to bring politics in here but it's something the west loves to talk about and they convicted and their lawyers were selling the story for a high price. personally i think the verbal offenses should not be punished by a jail sentence but there's no way do i want to blame the authorities with a court this is the brainchild of russian legislators. well there's more in the

pussy riot story online check out his new team for more videos from inside and outside the courtroom where the russian female rapper is received their sentence you can see the moment the trio finally discovered their fate. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. operations are over. to the u.s. now where police were called in and arrests were made after protesters occupy the rock obama's campaign office in oakland the group made up of veterans and activist was part of a hundred strong march in support of bradley manning. demonstrators marched on the office chanting from bradley manning he's accused of leaking

classified information to release and found guilty could face the death penalty protesters demanded that president obama release the whistleblower scott olsen at iraq war veteran and one of the protests or says the government's making an example . of them and so. if you're. a mad man and. you know. further trying to make an example out of them there are people not to war but what you want. lower that's why i'm getting all the free trial funds and by the third sort of committed to ending why me as well recently in a very trial you know we're not going to stop and we're going to keep trying and

keep trying other ways to get it in time sentencing for your brother maddening. welfare's the u.s. is desperate to lay its hands on join us saunders the man behind the wiki leaks website are playing on the minds of diplomats to declassify documents from the australian embassy in washington reveal concerns who might end up on trial in the states assad is currently stuck in there going to london embassy was britain vowing to prevent him taking asylum in latin america and we give the spokesman christian happens and believes the matter may go to the international court of justice. let's hope that the the british government will come to its senses and give him safe passage so a country it's the only right seem to believe they're on to is in this hard line position which is going to be sued given the circumstances. the legal team or julian when we get. these families together but as it goes forward as indicated

that he will take the matter before the international court of justice. and force the government to give him as it's clear you see that this is a threat by the u.k. authorities want to go it sort of really 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 war using the period between two countries and this is true could offset it with the nations all over the world and i'm pretty sure that the british do it must be. very secure in voluntarily areas getting effective in all government is ready to violate to the convention on 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 stands

accused of denying palestinians access to mosques during the holy month of ramadan and arresting those are allowed to roam. and we report on the new private military contractors and are in the market to clean up the blackwater solid image of guns for hire. aside from roadside explosives taliban and al qaeda fighters nato forces in afghanistan are increasingly under attack by a new photo 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 going to count our reports this is a problem that multi-billion dollar defense projects 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 they sense what the user wants to do

where the user wants to go and then explode would like to call these men tom an assistant but many ask why with all the high tech gear the u.s. can't win against a man of simple means from some remote afghan villages a u.s. marine general estimated that eighty percent if 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 and 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 combine the pentagon resists cuts in their gigantic budget arguing that they need to fight terrorists in other places we continue to face very sleek 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 walkie were targeted and killed in 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 union 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 was 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 putting 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 brahimi to formal jury and foreign minister as its new envoy to syria. successors a veteran diplomat with experience in still volatile iraq and afghanistan some have questioned his objective eighty because of his ties to jordanian royalty his daughter a former reporter at c.n.n. is married to one of the king's sons jordan has allegedly been providing support for rebel forces in syria dharma hammy was received wide back has received wide backing from the international community arab experts warn against excessive

optimism. have been good for a while and can be easily attributed to military members and security council really thrown at you and you know it's a beating for. are you sitting continue to be you were going to go to but i mean he seems to be a bit discouraged or even from the stir he was trying to record. all for example a new mission. well 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 geyser and state her report no punches about those they believe are responsible for konami car tips the full show is coming your way about fifteen minutes time but here's a preview. give you serious not calculate anything having to do what

a sustainable economy and life affirming qualities the only thing that contributes 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's out oh 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 pace like oh darling i think guilt by itself 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 with a holy month a rather down drawing to a close muslims around the world are flocking to mosques to celebrate but in 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 in checkpoints throughout the palestinian we spend at this time of year in the holy month of ramadan it's at its most brutal and the threat is like dogs being houston's half past five in the morning and i was twelve thirteen seven hours i'm here and they won't let me cross with the knowledge of the haid or the wave of an arm and israeli soldier says he could pray and who cannot it is a distressing scene for those who wait listed and wished. 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 jerusalem sends 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 i'll tarry a motive when it comes to the al aqsa compound at 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 told me pass this suspect that i'm going without. me from behind. is that the bad things about why what you do do that you must with. those that the shot 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 prayer and find and defiance they know another degrading struggle next week. or remember again always check out more of course from our middle east correspondent at r.t. dot com here's a taste of what else is there for you. bahrain's crackdown on the opposition triggering anger from international human rights groups after prominent protest leader gets a three year sentence plus a modern day robin hood toughest already cuts drive a spanish mayor to mastermind robberies and give money away to the poor. private military firms are now as a big part of modern war as death and destruction and they operate in an industry

whose image has been destroyed by the alleged crimes of blackwater in iraq and went to meet some new players in the field who are on a p.r. offensive. fighting for profit to trade is as old as warfare itself but modern private military contracting is a growing market and russian companies want in on the action to move this training is to hone the skills of the staff and it is military training not just security they don't want to be here in this forest outside moscow they want to be working in places like iraq and afghanistan. russian security systems or r s p is a private military company founded by former russian soldiers they offer convoy and guard duties around the world they use selling point they say they are more careful than other firms about what they do. is that 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 holding your 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 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 chose the purpose of creating a private military companies to make profit and as a rule the biggest profits come from clandestine operations so that attempting 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 of somalia commander in york our 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 on them to deal with 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 barton artie. now 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 blood in the mine workers by police jacob zuma cold events shocking and unacceptable police opened fire at a crowd of protesting miners armed with machetes who were manning better working

conditions that's one of the worst incidents since the end of apartheid in one thousand nine hundred ninety four. the nasser curiosity rover is preparing to make its first big leave by zapping a rock on mars with a laser as just one of the ten tools it has available to help study the red planet and its ability to support life back on earth artie's or harvest when to find out whether average new yorkers are excited about curiosities adventures. human technology is on mars so what this week let's talk about that i hope we'll find some 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 press the option 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 at all but i think we need to understand that we're not alone yes i don't think as many people are into it that should be i posted something on my face we're going to haven't had one comments 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 feller i feel like maybe the olympics shadowed it you know and kind of eclipse 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. possibly i think it's great too i feel like we've lost that spirit of

exploration largely well done 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. that 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 if they're getting our television they won't be want to be coming though they'll be seen hard live for dashing something i don't 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 it's. all let us additional cause report is coming your way right after bringing the headlines to this.

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