the two year sentence for infamous russian punk band pussy riot is a storm of criticism at home as well as abroad but as russia points out it's less than they would have received in europe. at least eight people are injured in the attacks on the mosque in dagestan this comes as muslims around the world prepared to. celebrate the end of ramadan. a no fly zone over syria would violate the country's sovereignty and the u.n. charter that is moscow's reaction to the u.s. considering a no fly zone over syria without un approval. and

broadcasting live from our studios in central moscow this is r t glad to have you with us let's get to your top stories the jailing of three members of russian punk band pussy riot who performed a protest stunt in russia's main cathedral has polarized opinion in russia and abroad. thank you. your. two year jail sentence handed down to the trio for hooliganism motivated by religious hatred drew crowds of people outside the court rallying 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 backing from outside russia with a number of extreme stunts staged like this one in ukraine where a feminist movement took a chainsaw to a cross foreign governments also say have had their say with the us calling on the authorities to review the case is more important i reports from new york. there's

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 sentencing those that are in support of these three women and members of the pussy riot say that the decision that was made by moscow's court was emblematic of russia's intolerance of dissent on a more political front the u.s. embassy in russia has called the verdict on fair portion it there was also reaction coming from amnesty international which said that the decision was a bitter blow to freedom of expression in russia also political figures in europe

have begun to weigh in on this developing story we heard from the high representative of the european union catherine ashton who has said she's deeply disappointed by this verdict calling it disproportionate a similar sentiment has also been echoed by germany's. minister so clearly this story taking place in russia has ignited a wave of reaction around the globe the pussy riot trial has spawned a wave of hysteria on the part of the western media claiming the sentence to be a violation of freedom of speech but as the professor of political science at innsbruck university points out this outcries based on stereotypes and money to pussy riot women. according to my highly inappropriate behavior was wildly meaner if you want to protest your leadership if you want to protest even the party out you can do is outside the church that should not. play if it is still here to

actually push if this is believed possible to me because you're right it's an extremely good starting story here you have young women it's pretty they have small children and they are now fighting the beast and mr putin was a very very bad reputation among the best so that's a story you can so pretty well for many of the media it's it's simple right secondly for many europeans and even more still for people in the west it is still the old stereotype of russian being the enemy i mean only in society that their interests aren't so high by addressing the the problem in russian religious and political leadership and these women you're always refer to this tradition. in response to the criticism from abroad over the case over the pushrod case excuse me russia's foreign ministry has highlighted the fact that

legislation in some major european countries like austria and germany could see similar stunts and so on a church land even bigger jail terms. now the mark pryor the pussy rioters performed in the christ the savior cathedral wasn't the first time the group has tried to court controversy as part of the art group voice one of the convicted women participated in an orgy in moscow's biology museum just four days before she gave birth and another stunned the activists tried to provoke reactions from police officers by kissing them on the metro martin mccauley a russian specialist at the university of london believes there simply motivated by publicity and not politics. they did something very very daring. it all but produced today they wanted to make themselves famous if you like and therefore therefore decided to go into the main cathedral. and they achieved 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 to become famous they have achieved their goal they're really world famous and we've understandably been getting a mountain of feedback from around the globe while we've been covering the pussy riot case here on our t.v. public opinion to the story has been diverse to say the least here are 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. 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 shouldn't be that went to russia to support the right why didn't she use her time to free young black youths and who

present for some silly crime if she's so concerned about justice system in russia. not only russia that's been seeing protests against high profile cases in the u.s. at least six people were arrested as a hundred strong group of war veterans and activists occupied barack obama's campaign office in oakland over the bradley manning case. manning is currently being detained for allegedly leaking classified information to wiki leaks pretrial hearings are currently under way if found guilty the private could face severe punishment or prosecutors say they would not seek the death penalty or he's ramon glinda reports from california. 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 supporters a man 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. 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 into 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 weeks 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 again in the prosecution of bradley manning that this is an assault on free speech and really an assault on peace. the u.k. is now seeking an amicable solution to the diplomatic deadlock with ecuador over julian assange it has now agreed to hold talks with the country's diplomats both in

london and quito experts think the move is an attempt to quell public anger and outrage in latin america after reports london had threatened to storm the ecuadorian embassy to detain a song this weekend diplomats from the union of south american nations plan to hold two special meetings to discuss the recent standoff between ecuador and the u.k. additionally the representatives of the organization of american states may meet on friday next week to discuss the songe affair though the u.s. and canada were against such a move wiki leaks spokes person says if britain doesn't grant safe passage to assad they will bring the case to the international court of justice. let's hope that the the british government will come to its senses and save us its country it's the only right thing to do but if they're on to it is system this hard line position which is absolutely absurd given the circumstances. of the legal team of julian

that we can use these for and there's just a buzz that goes on as indicated that he will take the measure before the international court of justice. and force the government to give as it's clearly to say that this is a threat by the u.k. authorities who to go extraordinary have called for a. strong reaction especially in love and marry in countries it is it is be on the my list and the way the stuff of william hague will take such an extreme step especially when the negotiations go on what we know according to that was or is in the period between two countries and this issue could upset the nations all over the world and i'm pretty sure that the british state must be. very secure in all of this highly areas they have to get all government is ready to violate the convention out of the twenty two with this these threats that i just believe that

will carry. out of course you are welcome to share your opinion on what's next for joining us sanch have your say in our poll dedicated to the issue at r t v dot com . russia says that the imposition of a no fly zone over syria would be illegal and would run contrary to previous u.n. agreements foreign minister sergey lavrov was reacting to recent comments coming from u.s. senior officials hinting at the possibility of such a measure artie's you've got a piece going off reports. foreign minister a while her office says that the no fly zone over syria would be a violation of international law which moscow would never support especially with the experience from the no fly zone 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.n. doesn't do revolutions yes we've heard the statements from the u.s. military commanders but 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's sovereignty and the u.n. charter. earlier washington said that it's looking at steps that creating a no fly zone over ports of syria and its it could bypass the u.n. security council if needed and the russian foreign minister says that there is a very troubling signal especially knowing that the syrian rebels who are calling for miss for this help from the west also say that they're ready to join forces with al qaeda also slammed 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 it 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 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. what has he got peace can offer put in for us there now coming up later in the program with ramadan drawing to a close. palestinian worshippers facing a major challenge while trying to cross the border into jerusalem and the growing invasive security checks. but if they did find maher said 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 her dad she said i got to go. while nasa has a rover prepares to zap its first martian rock the resident people in new york on

how they feel about the curiosity mission. more than a thousand dead and almost two thousand injured those are afghan civill the casualty figures so far this year according to the latest u.n. report homemade bombs that cost less than a smartphone continue to claim lives in the war torn country despite billions of dollars being pumped into the state of the art military equipment by washington ortiz comments. 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 what 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 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 qaeda 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 perpetuates 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 if it's all very binary this or that this or that it was always 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 u.s. 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. a blast has reportedly taken place at a shia mosque in the russian republic of dagestan where earlier two armed men opened fire at worshipers and people are reported injured two are in critical condition on tuesday as blocky has the latest. unconfirmed reports suggest that the blast shook the mosque and biggest on city of of you will the bomb squad rushed to the scene after a suspicious item was found in the building but it's unclear what happened as they were trying to disable the explosive device it all occurred hours after two masked gunmen answered the same mosque and fired handguns a few years were hit by bullets the youngest of them just seventeen years old two people are still in critical condition we know that it was a shiite mosque and one of you one of biggest fans larger cities with

a population of over one hundred thousand there are dozens of ethnic and religious groups in this caucus republic but in this case we don't know for sure what the mood it's behind the shooting nevertheless local police sent reinforcements to other mosques fearing that criminals who are still at large may strike at a different location a criminal investigation has been launched and police forces and biggest on a currently on high alert. the incident in dhaka song comes on the final day of the muslim month of ramadan as worshippers around the world prepare to celebrate a need for muslims in palestine that often means spending hours at security checkpoints with many pilgrims denied permission to cross the border into jerusalem artie's policy it 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 and the 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 if 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 does of course then in order to retain order or those 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 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 now terry a motive when it comes to the aqsa compound at the. 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 mouth's proving once again there is no democracy in israel. for those who make it through the israeli barrier is it's a small victory the other store just told me pass this suspect that i'm going to be gets me from behind. is that the bad things about what i want you to do that you must quit and that is that the shot let me go because i have that mission so i just said no we have to take you i said that subject me you don't have the. you're going to have to kick me again those who don't make it simply bow their heads and wave and find and defiance they know another degrading struggle lies ahead next week. now taking a brief look at other news making headlines around the world for this hour. suspected

al qaeda militants in yemen have killed at least nine hundred soldiers in an attack targeting an intelligence office in the south of the country officials also say nine officers and three civilians were wounded the gunman used rocket propelled grenades and automatic weapons when they forced their way into the buildings courtyard al qaeda remains highly active in southern 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 increased this year certain regions are considered to harbor members of al qaeda and the taliban the strikes are criticized throughout the country for violating pakistan's sovereignty. and the new phase of studying mars begins as nasa is curiosity rover gets ready to zap the first rock

sample with a laser to examine its chemical composition the car sized vehicle has ten different tools to study the red planet and one of them was developed right here in russia. went to the streets of the big apple to find out whether new yorkers are excited by curiosity is mission. human technology. so what this week let's talk about that i hope will find so molder going to fly here and i think you can help us in that we're not alone in the universe do you think that we will see. if we learn then. i hope so i hope so maybe you will become a bit more. i hope so and it's funny to say that because i'm friends with her not 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 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 breaching another planet that 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 to i feel like we've lost that spirit of exploration largely well so and 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 we're poles 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 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. a lasers march in space it's all pretty cool to me that brings you up to date up next to that's the headlines that max and stacy discussed how diligent savers and up subsidising fraud in london.

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