two years behind bars for the russian punk band pussy riot triggers another launch of reaction both at home and abroad but russia defense the sentence pointing out is less than they would have received any viewer. in the u.s. the occupy protesters taking to a new level as demonstrators jon brod obama's campaign office demanding the release of jailed whistleblower bradley manning the action leading to several arrests. of. the no fly zone over syria would violate the country's sovereignty and the u.n. charter but so russia responds to u.s. claims that washington could impose the measure on the war torn country by passing the us.

live from moscow are you watching r t with me to say first say the jailing of three members of russian punk band pussy riot who performed a protest stunt in russia's main cathedral has been met with a vocal and polarized reaction from the russian public. the utter the only such thanks. to. the two year jail sentence handed down to the trio for hooliganism motivated by religious hatred to crowds of people outside the court to writing both in support and against the band more than fifty were arrested from both sides of the fence for violating public order the band has also received a backing from outside russia with a number of extreme stunts staged like this one in ukraine where

a feminist movement took to a chain saw to across foreign governments also had this say with the u.s. calling on the authorities to review the case is marina porton a report from new york. there's 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 on fair hershon 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 go talk to get a hard man good professor of political science at innsbruck university who's been closely following the pussy riot case thank you so much for joining us here on our professor now the sentence in this trial has on the launch of criticism in the west to do you think the sentences excessive given that a similar stunt inside

a european church could in theory lend you in jail or you know for up to three yes' . well let me say well of course you're right women did according to my you know inappropriate behavior it was wild and you know if you want to protest your leadership protest even. you can do is are also the church that should know. researchers are here to watch and bush at the. very same time as the charge by the courts hooliganism based on religious hatred is rather unfair to sentences i don't think that this is a good signal either for the political system or for the church to a society which is asking for freedom. girls have made use of that is inappropriate now what does a wave of criticism for the pussy riot verdict to the response to the case like the

jailing of the prominent human rights activists in bahrain or britain's refuel refusal to observe a thunderous asylum ride i know i'm nearly as vocal in the west why is that. well you see i think we've got to distinguish between how the media treats the two cases read charts. and who you are and the political me because you're right it's an extremely good starting story here you have the young women are considered pretty small children and they are now fighting the beast and mr putin was a very very bad reputation i'm on the west so that's a story you can so. you can still the story about that she most. europeans don't know we're really nice united states we just don't know what either they don't have only. lived with. him but they acquired the area that so many of the media simple to celibacy right and it's.

the overture secondly for many europeans and even more so for people in the west the stereotype of russian. and alien society that their interests are so high by the pressing the the the problem from the religious and political leadership that women always refer to this tradition. now i don't have any right now some opposition leaders in russia have actually used pussy riot as a symbol of the protest movement in russia as you just said that you know they're pretty the have kids it's much easier to sell them overseas what mpeg do you think the case could have on this movement. i think it's unfair. to focus so much now consume riots actually are. already. very helpful for

bringing a rational forward to a modern trip was much more than your views to opposition groups when there are very interesting. ideas so let us focus so i dos and don'ts ideas there are critical platforms not. even we've seen by which you write on your home of course knowing that the russian opposition is very primitive it personally politically either logically this case puts you right helps them to unite but i think. after he speaks of passion one should focus particularly in western coverage of russian the most. much more on political ideas critical to farms less and activists and their actions and it's well thank you very much get her to maine go to professor of political science and into brick university thank you for your insight on this story that's just ahead it has everybody divided really.

now in response to the criticism from abroad over the pussy riot case russia's foreign ministry has highlighted the fact that legislation in some major european countries like austria in germany could see a similar stance inside a church lent even bigger jail terms now the mock prayer the pussy riot has performed in the crisis savior cathedral wasn't the first time the group has tried to court controversy as one of the our group boy am one of the convicted women participated in an orgy in moscow's biology museum just four days before she gave birth in another stunt to the activists tried to provoke reaction from police officers by kissing them on the metro martin mccauley a russian specialist at the university of london believes this simply motivated by publicity and not politics. they did something very very very it's all about producing the they wanted to make themselves famous if you like and

therefore therefore decided to go into the main because it will. be achieve their goal of being becoming really world famous by doing what they did. and when they are released they will in fact travel the world become famous they were achieved their goal they're really world famous now we were understandably been getting a mountain of feedback from around the globe while we've been covering the pussy right case here in our team public opinion to the story has been diverse to say the least here's some examples of the views we've 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 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 m p that went to russia to support the right why didn't she use her time to free young black youth and her prison for some silly crime if she is so concerned about justice system in russia. these are the images the world from the streets of canada. operation. that's not only in russia that's been seeing protests against internal criminal proceedings in the u. was at least six people were arrested as a hundred strong group of war veterans and activists occupy barack obama's campaign office in oakland.

now the demonstrators marched on the office chanting slogans in support of bradley manning the soldier to jail for allegedly leaking classified information to rekey leaks pretrial hearings are kindly under way and if found guilty the private could face the death penalty is remarkable and reports from california with the latest protests took place. we saw several arrests happen there in oakland there were actually several rest 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 that he has committed no crime and second of all the supporters of bradley manning also want president obama to step in and to him 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 definitely still a lot of anger over the way that manning is being treated so far in 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. believe that the work of weak you leads

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. another well known a whistleblower julian assange is currently remains trapped in the ecuadorian embassy in london although there seems to be some progress in the diplomatic impasse surrounding the situation aquittal and the u.k. have reportedly agreed to resume talks over the whistleblower's fate a breakthrough following a bitter all over britain's area of thread to storm the embassy and take us by force foreign ministers from across south america and the u.s. have agreed to meet next friday to discuss the standoff the us was one of the three

members to oppose the gathering arguing that diplomatic asylum isn't a matter of international law as on his legal team clearly disagrees or that we can be exposed when saying if britain doesn't grant safe passage to the political refugee they will go to the international court of justice. let's hope that the the british government do will come to its senses and save this country it's the only rights well if they are on to is sitting this hard line position which is going to be reassured giving this to those those who is. the legal team of julian then we can. be exposed but also go forward as indicated that he will take the matter before the international court of justice. and force the government to give as it's clearly see that this is the u.k. authorities who to go short of really have called for a. strong reaction especially

a lot of them very in contracts. to be on my list and the way the stuff of william hague will take such a extreme step especially when the negotiations were ongoing it according to the warriors in the series between two countries and this should include also doing well in nations all over the world and i'm sure that. we must be. very secure in solitary areas due to the. then she went into. this thread. and you're welcome to share your opinion on what's next with jillian as sons have us they in our poll dedicated to the issue at our. now russia says the creation of a no fly zone over syria under humanitarian pretext would be foreign minister

sergey lavrov was responding to a recent u.s. statement claiming it could successfully implement the measure in the conflict torn country. brings us the details foreign minister says that zone over syria would be a violation of international law which moscow would never support especially with the experience from the north was all over libya when a un resolution aimed at protecting civilians was instead used to overthrow the libyan regime and so you of course says the u.s. doesn't do revolutions yes we've heard the statements from the u.s. military commanders this is not the first time when there's been talk about establishing security zones or no fly zones if the zones involve the territory of the syrian state this will be in violation of the country starving t. and the u.n. charter. earlier washington said that it's looking at steps at creating a no fly zone over ports of syria and it could bypass the u.n. security council if needed and the russian foreign minister says that that is a very troubling signal especially knowing that the syrian rebels who are calling

for mis for this help from the west also say that they're ready to join forces with al qaeda to go off also to the west for trying to bury the agreements reached in geneva when world powers were able to reach mutual understanding on syria saying that equal pressure has to be applied on all sides of the conflict and that they have to put their weapons down simultaneously and said you know i would have said that that community has signed in geneva gives a way for a peaceful end to this conflict but judging by the steps strongly being made by many western states it's not really peace they're interested in but simply regime change in syria the russian foreign minister also rejected the speculation that this opposition by moscow to the west when it comes to syria is creating political isolation however a major media war against russia is currently underway which is aimed at harming its image and distorting its position on syria so you have also commented on how

he's now often called mr know because of this opposition to the west on syria and he says as long as it means up holding the international law then while he's proud to be mr know. now at least six people have been injured to. have been injured after i'm dead man a pet opened fire in a mosque and russian's republic of dagestan the incident comes on the final day of the muslim fasting month of ramadan. has been lost the reports. we for for free for government and for the more good to go blind fear more to crime instead of a white handgun injuring several people for the leavers who wonder who of them are still in critical condition with older because or c i'm often hard for you one but just on larger city with a population of over one hundred thousand there are dozens of ethnic and religious groups of the of the republic for them to be we don't know for sure what are the motive that harm the shooting nevertheless the local police reinforcement of other

people fearing that criminals were there with large shooting occurred on the point over and over more than one of the holiest days for muslim criminal investigation will be launched to force the from that you don't agree with your lawyer work. and later this hour report on how penicillin is find their devotions and test it during ramadan. as they try to cross the border into jerusalem the washing his face what they call invasive and degrading security checks. but just because you spend a lot of doesn't mean you'll get a lot it's a lesson the u.s. military is learning the hard way even with multi-billion dollar high tech weapons american troops in afghanistan are still falling victim to homemade bombs built for a fraction of the price. reports. 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 we 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 village it's a u.s. marine general less than made that eighty percent it's 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 u.s. investment 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 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 you 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 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 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 us has failed to fully understand their enemy and what motivates them to fight i'm going to check on in washington our team. with the holy month of ramadan drawing to a close the muslims around the world of flocking to mosque to celebrate build in but in palestine that often means standing for hours at security checkpoints all need to be detained and denied permission to pray policy and reports. people here want to pray but 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 why did they threaten us like dogs been here since half past five in the morning announced 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 soldier says you 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 to 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 is ready soldiers would ride on horseback into the crowds and use tear gas on fasting worshippers the hardest 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 fourteen 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 is no easy matter. the grand mufti of jerusalem accuses israel of having and i'll tell you

a motive when it comes to the aqsa compound. radical jewish groups say they want to demolish and take control of what they claim it is a part of israel and if not the mosque itself then the yards they want to show our mouths 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 the past of this suspect that i'm going with gets me from behind and started to talk bad things about what i want you to do that you must when i started to shout let me go because i have that mission so i just said no we have to trick you i said the subject me you don't have the. you're going to have to kick me again those who don't make it simply by all the hits in syria and silent defiance they know another degrading struggle lies ahead

mixed with. the artillery jerusalem. taking a brief look at other news from around the world suspected al qaeda militants in yemen have killed at least one thousand soldiers in an attack targeting an intelligence office in the south of the country officials say nine officers and three civilians were wounded the gunmen is rocket propelled grenades and automatic weapons when they force their way into the buildings core chart al qaeda remains highly active as other in yemen where separatists are seeking independence from the north. at least five militants have been killed in a u.s. drone attack in pakistan a small town near the afghan border was targeted as muslims held a festival marking the end of ramadan the number of attacks in pakistan by american unmanned aircraft has drastically increase this year as 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 servant. my that's all we had for you this was stay with us we'll be back shortly with the headlines. isolation and prejudice. aging.

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