two years behind bars for the russian punk band pussy riot. but russia. less than they would have received. in the u.s. the occupy protesters taken to a new level as demonstrators stormed barack obama's campaign office demanding the release of jailed bradley manning. several arrests being made. and even with this multibillion dollar defense budget u.s. troops still can counter the devastating effects of the cheap.

is a pleasure to have you with us today here on. the. russian punk band pussy riot who performed a protest stunt in russia's main cathedral as he met with a vocal polarized reaction from the russian public. for. you. know the two year jail sentence handed down to the trio for hooliganism motivated by religious hatred drew crowds of people outside the court of both rallying in support and against the band more than fifty people were arrested from both sides of the fence for ultimately violating public order the band is also being backed by supporters outside of russia and some followers resorting to extreme measures of protest foreign governments also had their say the us calling on the author of

peace to review the case and reporting from new york on tuesday morning a fortnight. there has been both political and public reaction over the pussy riot verdict now are around the globe and 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 eve are among the cities where demonstrators gathered to denounce the trial and the two year sentence saying 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. there was also reaction coming from amnesty international which said that the decision was

a bitter blow to freedom of expression in rochelle 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 is deeply disappointed by this verdict calling it disproportionate a similar sentiment has also been echoed. fight germany's foreign minister so clearly this story taking place in russia has ignited a wave of reaction around the globe and his main point not reporting right that what our u.s. based john has done to basra is that washington should perhaps tidy up its on offense before casting judgment on 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 of 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 i know nick 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 this plea 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 this has no credibility around the world and i think it's shameful. now in response to the criticism from abroad over the pussy riot case russia's foreign ministry has highlighted the fact that in countries like austria and germany similar stunts inside a church would land big jail terms now the mock prayer the pussy riot has performed

in the christ the savior cathedral was not the first time the group has tried to court controversy as part of the our group of why you know one of the convicted women participated in an orgy in moscow's biology museum just four days before she gave birth and another activists try to provoke reactions from police officers by kissing them on the metro mccauley a russian specialist at the university of london police there simply motivated by publicists. out of products. did from the very very daring it all but produced at the wanted to make themselves famous if you like and therefore therefore decided to go into the main cathedral. huge their goal. being becoming really world famous by doing what they did. and when they are released they will in fact travel the world to become famous they

have a goal they're really world famous well here at r.t. understandably we've been getting amounts in feedback from all around the world or while we've been covering the pussy riot case here on r.t. public opinion to the story has been diverse to say the least some of the examples of the views we've received on our website are to talk calm 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 once 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 and b. that went to russia to support the right why didn't she use her time to free young

black youths in her prison for 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. these are the images the world from the streets of canada. operation. while it's not only russia that's been seeing protests against internal criminal proceedings in america at least six people were arrested as a hundred strong group of war veterans and activists occupied barack obama's campaign office in oakland. the demonstrators they marched through the offices you could hear are chanting slogans in support of bradley manning he of course the soldier jailed for allegedly

leaking classified information to wiki leaks pretrial hearings are currently underway found guilty the private could face the death penalty. under reports from kind of the latest protest. we saw several arrests happen there in oakland there were actually several arrests in portland as well as a group of supporters conducted several protests up and down the west coast now in oakland where dozens of people showed up the supporters of manning there were trying to deliver a couple of demands to president obama first of all they want president obama to apologize to bradley manning remember last year president obama during a fundraiser said that. many had committed a crime now in the eyes of many of his supporters this really creates an environment where bradley manning won't be able to get a fair trial given the fact that the commander in chief has already pretty much rendered him guilty in this trial saying he has committed no crime and second of

all the supporters of bradley manning also want president obama to step in it in to guarantee that many another u.s. soldiers are not punished before they go to trial now there's been a lot of world rights worldwide criticism over the treatment of bradley manning while incarceration by the u.s. government in fact the u.n. torture chief called his degrading so definitely still a lot of anger over the way that manning is being treated so far and these protests are a new sign that bradley manning supporters are really stepping up their pressure on the obama administration but definitely this coincides with the asylum granted to julian assange now a lot of. supporters are bradley manning. i believe that the work of week and even even though there is no proof so far that bradley manning was in fact the person who leaked these documents to wiki leaks they know that the principle of

free speech and the fact that all these secrets were exposed about the iraq war about the afghanistan war i mean they definitely think that there is a coordinated attack about against both wiki leaks and in the prosecution of bradley manning that this is an assault on free speech and really an assault on peace. well another well known whistleblower julia songe conti remains she would say trapped in the ecuadorian embassy in london although there seems to be some progress in the diplomatic impasse abounding of the ongoing situation on the u.k. have reportedly agreed to resume talks over the whistleblowers fate breakthrough following a bit of a rally of a britain's earlier threat to storm the embassy and take a stand by force foreign ministers from across south america and the u.s. have agreed to meet next friday to discuss the standoff at the us was one of three members to oppose the gathering arguing that diplomatic asylum is not

a matter of international law and songes a legal team clearly disagrees the wiki leaks spokesman saying if britain doesn't grant safe passage to the political refugee they might well take it to the international court of justice. let's hope that the the british government says. it's the only right there is the one to is in this hard line position which is to be assured of getting the services. of the legal team of julian that will use. his job but also go as well as indicated that he will take the measure before the international court of justice. and force the government to give a shit if you say that this is the u.k.'s or easy to sort of really have called for a. strong reaction especially in love and marry in countries. on the my list and the way the. extreme especially when the

negotiations were ongoing stories in the period between two countries and this could upset you nations all over the world and i'm pretty sure that. you must feel . very secure in voluntarily areas you have to get all government is really to violate the mention of the twenty two with this is. just one of the legal. and you are very welcome indeed to share your opinion on what's next for julian assange you can have your say in our poll though dedicated to the issue you can find out it dot com. now just because you spend a lot doesn't mean you'll get a lot it's a lesson the u.s. military is learning the hard way even with multibillion dollar high tech weapons american troops in afghanistan still falling victim to homemade bombs ultimately

built for pennies artie's guy nature can reports. the ads for military hardware in the us local 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 like a call these men tom an assistant 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. j. still a better served in afghanistan at the beginning of the war the arabs 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 only it's going to be happy now not at all there's no way that they just will simply want them to leave the u.s. seemed best 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 very sleek serious security challenges in the world of today we are still at war in afghanistan if we still confront terrorism even though there's been significant damage to the leadership of al qaeda the reality is we confront terrorism in somalia 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 lockey before he was assassinated by a drone did we stop al qaeda on the arabian peninsula the we stop al qaeda us 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 where our current paradigm the us paradigm on war is 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. and if he is coming to you live from the heart of moscow we're still on the way in this program i hope and a prayer and a whole host of. palestinian worshipers during ramadan find their devotion tested

or try to cross the border into jerusalem as they face what they call invasive and degrading security checks. that person may not use the single currency that doesn't stop it feeling the shock waves of the eurozone debt crisis and now one city in the u.k. has decided to distance itself from the troubled euro even more by launching its own currency the bristol pound is said to be launched in september and local businesses are already queuing up to join the scheme thousands of also being offered a chance to have their salaries paid in bristol it's just another symptom of the u.k. as wide a struggle to overcome tough times as max keiser and stacy herbert reveal just a bit later today on. one thousand suicides linked to hard economic times in britain the only thing that contributes to g.d.p. in the u.k. in the us 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 of monsanto that's considered a growth story the emerging market it's happening contrary they're committing suicide really fast there's the u.k. people are committing suicide or legally british pace like oh darling i think i'll tell myself. it's so good to have you with us here on r.t. today with the holy month of ramadan drawing to a close muslims around the world a flocking to mosques to celebrate but in palestine it often means standing for hours at security checkpoints only to be denied permission to pray. reports. people here know when 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 west bank at this time of year during the holy month of ramadan it's at its most brutal. they threaten us like dogs i've been here since 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 nod of the head or the wave of an arm and israeli soldiers says who can pray 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 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 al aqsa 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 is ready 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 stop being 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 of no matter. the grand mufti of jerusalem accuses israel of having and all terry a motive when it comes to the al aqsa compound. the. radical jewish groups say they want to demolish and take control of al aksa 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. it's a small victory the other store just. gets me from behind and. think well you do that you must. know we have to. meet. those who don't make it simply. and. they know another degrading struggle next week. when i do bear in mind you can always check out more reports from our middle east correspondent. plenty of other stories there as well for example one kind hearted

woman in philadelphia with a hefty penalty just for providing children with food. a robin hood. drive. to. put food on the table of those who need them. and it's a u.s. drone attack in pakistan that kicks off the world update at least five militants were killed in the strike a small town near the afghan border was targeted as muslims held a festival marking the end of ramadan and the number of attacks in pakistan by american unmanned aircraft has drastically increased this year certain regions are considered to be supported by al qaeda and the taliban the strikes are criticized

throughout the republic for violating the country's sovereignty. now this is a curiosity rover has begun work on planet mars preparing to zap a small rock with a laser to examine its chemical composition the car sized vehicle has ten different tools to study the red planet or one of which was a developed right here in russia artie's did go to find out whether the average new yorker is excited by curiosity submission. human technology is on mars so what this week let's talk about that i hope will find some other kind of fly there and i think it can help to understand that we are 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 for you to say that because i'm french and we're not at

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 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 breaching another planet stellar 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 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 oh 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 seeing our lives are dashing said i don't know whether in. i 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 matter of accomplishment no matter what we learned from man's. hour back with the headlines and just a moment. you

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