a difficulty level pussy riot imitators could face three years in prison for disrupting a church service in germany the contrie that slammed the two year term for the russian problem band. ecuador gets overwhelming support from fellow american nations and its raul with britain over joining the sonship condemning efforts to undermine the sanctity of embassies. egypt's new leader extends a hand of friendship to china and iran in a gesture seen as the country breaking away from washington's influence.

hello and welcome to our team it is saturday here in moscow and it's four o'clock i'm karen taraji well three german followers of the russian punk band pussy riot are now waiting to learn their fate after church officials press charges for storming cologne cathedral ironically the last activist could face a longer jail term than their moscow idols who they were imitating germany could find itself in a difficult position now after its vocal criticism of the russian verdict last week peter all of our explains. two men and one woman all in their early twenty's they interrupted a mass service that was taking place in cologne chanting free pussy riot decked out in the the garish balaklava some brightly colored clothes that have become synonymous with the the russian punk rock collective calling for the freedom of the three women that were sentenced to two years in jail for hooliganism motivated by religious hatred now the group pussy riot had performed

a so-called punk rock prayer in russia's main cathedral which offended many orthodox christian believers the catholic church of press charges against the three people germany we're waiting to find out exactly what they will be charged with now they could be charged with a breach of the peace and disrupting the free practice of religion the a lot of the charges brings with it a maximum penalty of three years in prison so physically these people taking part in the copycat version of the pussy riot demonstration could actually find themselves being sentenced to more time in prison than the people that they were trying to emulate well it's all very interesting that this is how many here germany germany of course was one of those countries that was particularly critical of moscow's handling of the pussy riot trial in russia now it seems that germany is facing a similar type of situation itself whereby three people could face up to three years in jail for performing a demonstration a political demonstration in

a church. peter oliver and in germany now following developments on the story via his twitter rant he says it's surprising how little attention is given to the case in the country's media given how many german correspondents were in moscow commenting on the pussy riot verdict you can check out peter's feed for more updates. ecuador has scored another point in its diplomatic row with britain over granting asylum to julian assange a thirty four member a bloc of american nations has declared solidarity and support for the country condemning the u.k.'s earlier threats to storm the sea and london to get to the whistleblower five hours of talks in washington resulted in

a resolution to reassert the inviolability of diplomatic premises there isn't total unity within the bloc though the u.s. and canada have some reservations both long time british allies they claimed the u.k. wasn't threatening to raid the embassy instead simply outlining the walls that allowed it to do sell and as attorney in our spanish host eva golinger explains the meeting once again showed how the north america's agenda differs from the south. the united states and canada had actually opposed the convening of this meeting in the first place and so the meeting in those positions throughout the meeting whereas the rest of latin america and the group b. and workers were in the meeting and found it important to talk about in debate this issue that's affecting one of the members did you know they act in accordance with threats against one of their member states or when some issues are disturbing regional peace. and latin america standing together to share in unity that they

absolutely. will not let any other nation as powerful as i mean even close their agenda or their will upon the people's buttons and i think again it was a show it was a force of the relevance of the organization of american states today as an industry that includes the u.s. and canada and clearly they're at odds with the rest of latin america and the caribbean. well the u.k. remains set on a rusting assault if not in the embassy than outside of it and london police officer accidentally revealed plans to detain the wiki leak or after he was photographed holding a clipboard with sensitive information they handwritten tactical briefs showed how a song hold up at the ecuadorian embassy for over two months now could be detained in a number of different scenarios they seem to include assad and merging in a vehicle under diplomatic immunity or even in a diplomatic bag his immediate future is far from certain so let us know what you

think is next for the whistleblower by taking part in our poll at r.t. dot com. where we have how the opinion is divided so far the majority of you believe they'll stay in the ecuadorian embassy in london amid the never ending standoff just a little over a quarter sales songe will get a permit to leave for ecuador as the u.k. will eventually so calm to public outcry around twenty percent think the whistleblower would be smoked out of the embassy and handed to sweden for questioning over sex crimes gay shirts and the rest fourteen percent believe he'll be passed to the scandinavian state by act with or if it gets a guarantee assad won't end up in the u.s. you can have your say at r.t. dot com. well for ecuador it's not just about assad it's fate any longer as the country may still have to face harsh consequences for its just her rafael correia exclusively shared his view only issue with artie's spanish channel his full

interview is coming your way later this hour but here's a preview. normally sutured decisions shouldn't have any consequences if all countries respect international law which clearly says that the state has the right to draw into some of them were many times as sweden granted to certain but unfortunately in this particular case we see that sim countries are displaying the colonial indian pure relentless. yes there is this interesting it turns out that it could do a grunt just saw them to someone so it's certainly much of consequences there is definitely new but let's face it it's really a might be reprisals which would be terrible if the u.k. for example. roots and invades or if it's a risk to some extent you mention how big of a precedent this would since. nuclear talks between iran and the un atomic watchdog have once again hit an impasse with no date set for further negotiations the islamic republic has stuck with crippling

sanctions and continued accusations of pursuing an atomic bomb the allegations were fueled by a hog reportedly stepping up its uranium enrichment program which it insists is peaceful jamal obviate from the national iranian american council says the country had no other choice western sanctions have been escalating the pressure on iran has been escalating and to expect a country to sit on its hands well it's having these pressure tactics level at it is completely unrealistic so for iran where do i think when it looks at this situation it had several opportunities regarding how does it respond how does it escalate in turn that it could have taken far more provocative actions i think actually installing these centrifuges was probably the lowest grade retaliation to the western sanctions and some of the threats of war at the end of the day it's still the judgment of the united states of israel of all of the western

intelligence agencies that you run has not begun to actually build a nuclear weapon they have not made that decision yet and so all this talk about war zones of immunity and so forth is completely premature and counterproductive to actually resolving this conflict. with the year hoping to get a look inside iranian military bases one thing you won't find is the s. three hundred missile launcher still ahead we look at the air defense system once commented. and how it's being developed into its mystic headed weapon right here in russia. and greece fails to get the reassurances it longed for despite its charm offensive in europe aimed at winning more time for the ailing economy. opponents of egypt's president have clashed with his supporters it's crowd surged in colorado and alexandria the anti-government protesters accuse president morsi

and his muslim brotherhood party for overstepping their authority and undermining parliament morsi is currently trying to establish a new foreign policy that's seen as moving away from american influence egypt's leader heads to china next week seeking investment then it's a trip to iran which is one of the west's main thorns right now michael hughes from the new world stretchy strategies coalition predicts a significant rebalance of power. the unspoken link here is that israel you know it's egypt can leverage this relationship and vice versa to put pressure on israel to stop you know this talk of bombing iran you know there's a connection for morsi starts looking like a geo political genius if you can pull this off if he can get israel though it was step back on the whole bombing iran thing better be pretty amazing they find a partner in iran and they don't have to rely on us you know with the lion israel

and they can offset counterbalance the gulf monarchies they're trying to rebalance and shift away from the west and they need the immediate cash from the west they need it from the i.m.f. in the united states and the gulf monarchies but long term they want to get in bed with china who can fill the gap so there have to rely on the west gets asked to access the mediterranean in some suez canal priority which the u.s. gets currently. and you know because other than that it is hard to see that. china is going to get much but those two things are pretty big they want they want and they want to allow a line themselves with the nonaligned and aligning with the chips you know taken away from us is a win for china background and analysis to egypt's trappin transformation can be found at our team we also have lined up plenty more there for you such as the university of the wild west by colorado students can now pack guns as well as

books in their school back. and norwegian mass murderer on their spread make heads for a decades long stand jail where it turns out really might not be so bad after all. and bloodshed not a war zone but a football match russian hooligans go on the rampage putting their team's future and european competitions in jeopardy. russian energy giant gus prawn has joined the club of companies you literally coming under attack from greenpeace six environmental activist ambushed one of the firms floating oil rigs in the arctic in protest against plans to trail in the area

despite warnings from platform markers activists managed to latch onto the raid suspending themselves all of it for fifteen hours they claimed they were then sprayed with water from above and retreated to avoid risks any freezing conditions environmental campaigner christopher williams thinks greenpeace is targeting enemies that downing sensed jell very keen to drill and have been given allowances from the obama administration to begin an ex exploring the process it's opening up a whole new area for oil and gas drilling and mining which was previously closed those things and also close to shipping many oil companies in the west on the east salivating over the prospects for. increasing the oil reserves through drilling in the arctic so it's not just about russia b.p. shell gazprom. trying to open up the entire area for extensive

drilling it's a tragic irony that climate change largely caused by fossil fuel production largely caused by the drilling for oil is now facilitating more drilling for oil which is leading now to extra protests it'll be interesting i think to find out with greenpeace i would expect them to also be protesting just as vigorously western oil companies when they start drilling as they have been now occupying the oil rig. so to come on our home grown products struggle to break through a strict economic barrier as palestinian farmers see their crops go to waste because of the israeli regulations. and where in new york turns people there if they are poor or don't give two hoots about the democrats and republicans increasingly dominating their t.v. screens. no a sign of

a sigh of relief for greece after its p.r. blitz in europe to try and win more time to enact the painful reforms promised to its creditors the greek prime minister has met the french president after seeing the german chancellor a day earlier but both of the key paymasters have held back from giving greece the breathing space that it says it urgently needs anglo-american under rising pressure at home but the parliament leaders saying neither the time nor the content can be renegotiated asset management specialist philip of war drums believes no matter how hard greece tries it won't be able to pay back what it was. greece is bankrupt i think there's no discussion about that today and it hadn't been two or three years ago even with the hardest possible were a lot of cards and extremely austerity and very greece won't be able to pay back the huge amount of that they have flowed into the show that there's only one

way of the rescue and greek gaining of competitiveness increase and this is the exit from the eurozone. politicians always argue there are enormous costs in war with the exit of greece that's perfectly right but what is the amount of costs involved with greece staying within the euro zone. britain may now be using the euro but its finances continue to feel the pinch from the eurozone debt woes despite this new numbers show the economy has actually tanked less than predicted that sparked a spark of optimism rather it gets the cold shower treatment from artie's max keiser and stacy herbert the full program is coming up later today. this is what happens when the government throws money to the oligarchs and the monopolies the oil companies and the bankers because when they stop giving them money they can pull the old atlas shrugged that we like. you know we're not going to work anymore

we're in a gatekeeper position we're wedged into the economy if you don't give us more money we're call systemic collapse which is ridiculous because the government if they want to give away money they should give it away to the entrepreneurs' they should give it away to the consumers it is a consumer economy after all why not help the consumers know that never go to george osborne youyou eaton oxford you know friend of cameron georgie porgie in his bubble and fraud putting. products labeled made in palestine are a symbol of pride for their producers however due to israel's economic blockade of palestinian farmers struggle to get their goods to the rest of the world as artie's parsley or found out things are about to change. this tiny bottle of olive oil is at the heart of an economic battle it may be small and expensive but it's one of those products that defines where people stand in the ideological battlefield of

the middle east from palestine to europe and beyond each purchase is seen as a shot in an economic bailout through other people are not sufficiently aware that israeli settlement products are competing with palestinian products abroad also when we tell the customer that there is a difference between settlement products and israeli products and do you understand we are living under occupation and we can. to buy or not and more and more consumers are choosing not to buy israeli products originating in the system and some palestinian territories they are seen by many as the foods of the occupation the boycott movement has within it by god movement by god. and us. distributors to carry venice and products the problem is all in the way and it's difficult to make a product stand out from those families with the systems you hear in our products can't say made in palestine because we're under occupation and not yet a state they can say made in the west bank or made in gaza or

a palestinian product and for some companies like this palestinian pharmaceuticals company in the west bank it's even worse it can't even sell in its own backyard a lot of us love to be able just love to be distributed in israel because. it's with. but it will be rejected by the security is being restricted to the palestinian market is causing a lot and creating economic difficulties for the farmers. everyone here grows olives and so the local market is very small in the competition big we don't get much money for either it is part of a bigger problem when the demand is there the occupation means more often than not farmers are prevented from gathering water or even getting to their land it means more than half of palestinian crops go to waste but there is hope in a corner of the remote city of janine this private company is helping farmers overcome their troubles and get into international markets can be our lives are

processed pressed and stored as is an order comes through the oil is pumped up here from where it is oxfam bottled to international standards it appears demand is growing especially in the us we find that as much as much of the jobs. are excited to find anything in specialty goods and. marketplace they are calculating ok what backlash am i going to get from zionist bloggers in the marketplace this snag is that these products sell for almost double the value because of the cost of getting them to market the hope for producers here is that this supporters around the world would put grudge the few extra dollars for a bottle of olive oil and rather they'll see it as a gesture of support policy r r t janine in the palestinian autonomy. election season in the us isn't during the homestretch both republicans and democrats will hold their national conventions in the coming weeks parties in new york to ask what

these gatherings accomplish and whether anyone will notice. in the us republicans and democrats are about to hold their conventions to kick off the presidential elections the event so one of these conventions even do this week let's talk about that you're throwing your eyes i say convention into that stuff why are you into the politics of all crooks yet but we have to choose right all crooks what are the conventions do do you think what do they do they were so out of money that's what they do good for media purposes because they can create a lot of hype around certain condit so yes i think they do too so we really need more hype. in today's world to hear do you spend a ton of money on it just by sheer or do they are an advertisement prize on the news and then it stops at a certain time and then from then on it's business as usual so we don't do this

where you go from start to start and i think that i mean you just said the key word business i think there's a lot of money on the table in american ballot there and that's a bit of a worry is the case that we were there for the truth what if they put money into the numbers and i want something out of a donor but i think the whole political process is crazy the amount of money they spend on ads and different things it's just ridiculous and it's not truthful the ads are generally false fake and just you know don't really serve any purpose it's a lot of waste of money for the taxpayers you know do you think it's going to get dirty or romney or obama. romney who do you think is going to win. why. because of mitt romney he doesn't appeal there like either and you don't like either one or. you think he's going to end here i think you know are going to run a good job. republican so i don't republican issue you're going to vote for romney . no choice no matter what the conventions do or don't do the bottom line is the media is going to try to make them seem really really important so grab your

popcorn and the media circus it's just about to start. time now for more of the world's news in brief for you this hour. at least nine people are in a hospital in new york after being wounded in police gunfire near the empire state building officers were responding to a shooting where a sacked employee killed a former coworker firing at the gun man and killing him but also hitting five standards in the process police say they had no choice but to open fire but investigators are still trying to figure out if the gunman pulled the trigger on the officers. and all refinery explosion in western venezuela has killed at least nineteen people and wounded around fifty others blast also damaged nearby buildings and was apparently caused by a gas leak dorothy's claim the situation is now under control with firefighters on

the national guard deployed to secure the site for. the trouble just keeps coming for greece this time though it's the wildfires now skirting the suburbs of the capital helicopters firefighters volunteers have all been drafted in to stem the blazes which have already ravaged thousands of hectares of forest searing temperatures and high winds bring wildfires to greece every year but many of the summer are thought to have been started deliberately. to keep the country safe you need the hardware to match today's ever more sophisticated threats russia thinks it has the answer as r.t.c. got discount all of has been watching it in action. seek and destroy. greens helicopters and even you name it the s four hundred dry if you're lucky and hunt down almost any flying to or get. first the target is spotted and

identified then the system starts monitoring it all following its course then the command makes the call to either eliminate the target or not after getting the green light the system opens fire one of the strong suits of the system as it's more it can literally create full scale air defense anywhere on the ground within minutes. of course preparation takes no more than five minutes and everything's done by three people one officer and two conscripting soldiers. the system can shoot down an object as small as a soccer ball even if they're flying at supersonic speeds ejaz one hundred system consist of several elements one radar which monitors the skies looking for targets a second one which follows specific targets of command and the larger itself or the gun as it's called here in the army combines the elements of a system can follow up to three hundred targets flying from as low or just a few feet above the ground and up to nearly fourteen miles high in the skies were

just pretty much around six times higher than the average passenger jet. the first asked four hundred systems are already in service and along with the older asked three hundred and bonser s. to protect the skies over moscow st petersburg and the central industrial region of russia it is planned that the ass four hundred will completely replace the s three hundred its production has already been and it is the least three hundred is capable of intercepting the targets not higher than thirty kilometers which isn't enough since we're only covering a small area but when the altitude capacity is raised we can protect a larger territory analysts say the recent conflicts have shown how vital it is to have reliable defense not only from threats from the skies but from space also and this is what the s four hundred was designed to do it can locate targets nearly six hundred kilometers away and has a firing range of up to four hundred kilometers that's around five times more than . it's a western analog the patriot there are no plans for exploring it just yet giving

russia germans for an unprecedented advantage against any threat from the skies for at least the next twenty years you go to school of our deep southern russia on the way as most american nations get behind ecuador over julian assange the country's president tells us what he thinks will happen next stay with us. long live.

the mission of free critic a should free cruise for charges free. range month three. three stooges free. the old free blog just wanted video for your media projects and free media and on to our teton tom. my name is richard davis i'm an architectural photographer from london and i've been traveling in russia for the last ten years on a project fed rough wooden chair choose obviously i fell in love with the tragedies they are extraordinary ok it's a beautiful objects and the church is is a religious monumental obviously but it's also an object of wonder you know it's something that people can look around and it opens their eyes that their chairs

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