russian punk band pussy riot appeal against that so you get prison time after staging a punk for a russia's main cathedral. also the sound georgians caused the ballots for a new more powerful parliament while scandals president saakashvili is reading all say. the u.k. admits to political benefits to plans for secret courts without voicing complicity in torture charges the main object. of. news from russia and around the world this is all see with me thanks for joining us

russian punk band pussy riot appearing in court in moscow to appeal against that prison term the three were sentenced to two years in jail in august for inciting religious hatred during a political protest at russia's main cathedral the verdict sparked controversy in the country and abroad and let's not talk to our sees a show i'm told was kind of that so has anything come out of the courtroom get shown. well certainly as you know this is the appeals process specifically regarding the sentence and what that means is that no new information or no evidence will be heard in today's court hearing and coming out of the court today we've learned that you've got to be in a somewhat serious which the oldest of the three women has requested a new what lawyer and in turn has requested more time so that she can deal with the documents and deal with the paperwork she needs to have in place for today's hearing now that does not mean that today's hearing has stopped but it is

a bit of information that has come out of the courtroom today now just to give you no idea what it's like here the courtroom itself is packed full to the brim with people and have spilled out into the hallway outside of the courtroom in fact there are chairs and benches into. the vision set up so that the media can see what's happening and of course outside the courthouse itself out here in the courtyard there are people both for and against pussy riot as well as many people from the media as well just waiting to find out what happened today let me take you a little bit back in about the details on february twenty first upon a riot of pussy riot excuse me performed what they called a punk a prayer against the crisis savior church cathedral in central moscow then in march and they were arrested and then a trial issued over the summer then in mid august they were sentenced to two years in prison today is specifically devoted to that sentencing now what could happen is that the sentence could be reduced and the. i mean the defense says that they want

that reduced by at least six months they're not expecting anything though there could possibly be an acquittal as well but that is not expected either now outside the court there has been relatively peaceful process of people out here showing their support being against pussy riot as well and there have been a couple of excited little skirmishes but nothing really to write home about and that's what it feels like today outside the court as you say because it has proved highly controversial with voices for and against the bond in russia and to rule out india as a bring it up today that. well certainly this incident has sparked a lot of international attention support for the group of media frenzy as well as calls for leniency for the group major artists like bjork madonna and the red hot chili peppers have called for the government to be lenient as well as other western governments have said that they need to find a punishment that is more fitting to the crime of what they say is more fitting to

the crime there's also been many copycat incidents around russia as well as in other countries as well in ukraine one woman took a chainsaw to a crucifix and destroyed it in a cologne germany and. seadrill there are three people got up in the middle of the service and had a protest there they were arrested their trial starts this week as well also brought in russia this country is very divided about the subject as seen here today this country is a very religious country and many people were offended by what happened in the country's main church even saying that some of pussy riot earlier antics were very offensive as well now prime minister medvedev has said that he doesn't see any reason for this group to spend any more time in jail that the time that they have served is already punishment enough for the crime but president putin has said that he is completely staying out of this he does not want to interfere at all now the orthodox church itself they say that they are wanting clemency if the women do

choose to repent that is not expected to happen as he's shown thomas reporting there live from a mosque a city called sean many thanks indeed and you can find live transmission from the courtroom on our web site if you want to see it all lobel to. georgians are heading to the polls and what is billed as a landmark parliamentary vote for the country president mikhail saakashvili is reading policy faces a tough challenge from the united opposition with his campaign he depart on occasions of corruption and a prison abuse scandal he's an exciting russia bullets now found a nice. running in this election but the main battle is understood to be between the party of the president the ruling party of the united national movement and the businessman who's fortune makes up almost half of the country's budget mr ivanishvili has sponsored georgian dream it's actually in fact an alliance of six opposition parties on saturday the country saw the biggest political rally in its

modern history with two hundred thousand people protesting in the streets and definitely this adds a lot of spice to this election the importance of this election is that. when he steps down next year the parliament of the majority parliament will be able to elect the prime minister who according to new amendments in the constitution will have almost the same powers as the president so definitely the party which wins this election will have the future of georgia in its hands right now the service suggests that the ruling party is in a slight lead but still the opposition still has a very good chance to be victorious in this election as this election seems to be pretty much unpredictable given the latest twist of events in georgia with the political complain the election campaign ahead of this vote has been very very turbulent first the businessman mr vanished nearly announces his participation in the election and he is then being stripped of the georgian citizenship fined for about ninety million dollars for as it was alleged using techniques in winning the

electorate then in september the reason torture and abuse was released in georgia which caused massive outrage in a country with hundreds of thousands hitting the streets and a thing which troubles the opposition and many in georgia the most is the allegations by the opposition that the country is gradually emerging into a police state with the torch in prisons with the ruling party with the government suppressing any kind of opposition on television and the judicial system also being very much under the thumb of the current president and his party for. you know once described saakashvili as a neo bolshevik rule and that these countries are getting more authoritarian so this definitely promises to be a very tight race we will certainly be bringing all the latest exit poll results as they come out later during the day. a massive press has falling childress prison abuse scandal and money refused to buy president promises of transparency and

democracy is going off reports now what's behind the country's modern age. for a new board takes banks brass routes and a western style facelift in general is definitely something georgian authorities can be proud of glass was in police stations and many other new government buildings aimed at creating an image welcome we transferred state system but is it merely an image the recent footage of alleged torture and sexual abuse of inmates in prisons has shocked the georgian public many are comparing it to cases from guantanamo except it contains suspected terrorists and these are ordinary georgian inmates. you were the former senior staff member of one of the prisons who leaked the footage claims president saakashvili is perfectly aware of the torture thousands took to the streets in protest demanding the arrest and prosecution of

all those responsible while a burning broom has become a symbol of the opposition since this is what the authorities are accused of using for torture in some of the videos this will not be tolerated opposition activists dodges agree or claims over six hundred people have been tortured in prisons and nationwide many died he says are to me our goal is to make sure the election is without provocations and the people who committed these crimes are punished especially mikhail saakashvili duchy was arrested by traffic police the day after we met officially for resisting orders he was given ten days in prison meanwhile to save face president saakashvili was busy sacking the police chief arresting all the officers shown in the video footage and substituting the staff in all prisons with the police but both his and the ruling parties readings still dropped when you. twenty percent. urge portion of the government supporters used to come from civil

servants now many of them are resigning in a crossing over to the opposition with an average salary or around four hundred u.s. dollars a month poverty is another issue sparking public disapproval in shiny new buildings can't hide that here in georgia a change is going to happen fast the question is how bad the georgians want them he got the skin off r t v. and coming up later on r c brushing a barrel saying revelations under the carpet the beds to want to cover up sensitive issues with the system of secret courts which could still go ahead despite a coalition but it. does sound much more ahead for you also a short break stay with us. a sacred place rising out of the waters of the lake the law ministry is home to one

hundred fifty orthodox monks mostly younger than thirty five and they've come from many different places and backgrounds to live in isolation here spiritual life it takes up many hours on the road to becoming a monk requires both hard work and religious telly cation. say wants to become and herds cattle as part of this preparation. however these beasts get a musical company. they can remember sound sequences you know they want to the sound signals the flutes the herders had in the old days they needed them it wasn't just for fun but these meadows didn't come naturally the current decades of composting to bring the soil up to farming standard this island is mostly rock. the soil here is very thin on the monks can't just get more of it because they're surrounded by the lake so they have to work very hard in order to provide whatever

food they need. they grow their own crops find their own fish and repair their own churches. but the central purpose of alarm has always been religious the main monstrous surrounded by smaller priories spread through the many archipelago the monks here know their existence is a little different from that of other ministries here we are out of the way and we do have. built rooms and so on times tourists as well but only. tranquility use is hardly. the. combination of high religion and down to earth hard work that motivates these men. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something

else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. if. it is. a.

welcome back here with r.t. coming to live from moscow london's plans to set up a new system of secret courts has been rejected by one passing the coalition the liberal democrats but it's might still see the light of day documents show the government of the missing secret hearings would allow the u.k. to easy to defend itself from such allegations as being complicit in torturing detainees or broad aussies laura smith looks at all the emotional tales flipping charges of complicity in the bud that's what the u.k. government admits it's trying to do with its plans for secret courts ministers have argued that more secret courts a need is to protect sensitive information and the workings of security agencies but in documents seen by the guardian newspaper the government acknowledges it

would benefit politically able to defend itself from allegations like complicity and torture without the details ever becoming public there have been a number of cases where the government was ill but the government's lawyers have tried to shut down court hearings and have been heard in private a minute has transpired through the judicial process that what they were really trying to cover out was a lot of government embarrassment about wrongdoing our main would be in the agencies these proposals if their past will sweep away hundreds of years of the british legal tradition the proposals follow a law suit brought by binyam mohamed who was held in guantanamo and all gude the british government was complicit in his rendition and torture mohammed won the case to the deep you merely a shit of the government and now they're trying to change the law so that government often a party in these matters would decide if a case should be heard in secret it wouldn't just be kept from the public if the.

proposals go ahead neither the defendant nor the defendants legal team would be able to hear the evidence against the human rights lawyers are concerned it would trample on the principle of a fair trial in effect a large chunk and presumably a very important chunk of the keys you're trying to run about half your client you're going to be. there are going to be behind closed doors closed sessions that you are not allowed access to so if there is an inherent on furnace there is a huge scope for. future miscarriages of justice evidence m i five and m i six knew that britons were being tortured in guantanamo m i six helping to deliver libyan dissidents into the hands of gadaffi secret police critics say that's the kind of information the bill is designed to suppress so beg who was held here alleges tortured in background and guantanamo has

a special interest in making sure there are no more secrets remember the discussions that were taking place at the time it was very all the former guantanamo prisoners on one side sixteen of us and a whole bunch of government officials on the other side having a discussion negotiating a settlement we would have been able to do that basically we would have. certainly tried to take the government to court but we would have to do it with our hands tied behind their back even the government admits that black and asian muslim men will be disproportionately affected as it's they who are most often involved in cases where sensitive information is being considered and still the bill rolls on the plans for so-called secret justice proven so deeply. it's like a bad penny they keep turning up and every time they do it gives human rights groups or not the opportunity to weigh a proposed legislation they say goes against one of the founding principles of the

british legal system not only that justice is done but that it's. seen to be done laura smith aleksey. top story now on the appeal hearing on the russian punk band pussy riot let's not get the latest from the cool from thomas social and bring us up today that. will certainly court has wrapped up before the day and this is coming after you cut that you know some would say of it is the oldest of the three women requested a new lawyer and the court has granted that request which means she needs time to prepare the appropriate documents in the papers in order to let this specific hearing go through what this hearing was supposed to be was an appeals process specifically for the sentence no new evidence or any evidence was to be heard it during this particularly part of the appeals process and now a new lawyer is involved so they need to give that new lawyers some time to step in and get up to speed on a new court date has been set for that hearing that is october tenth now again

today. many people here to see inside the courtroom it was packed in fact it spilled out into the corridors of the courtroom so that people could watch on television to see what was happening inside the courtroom outside the courthouse itself many more people both pro and against a pussy riot coming to let their voices be heard showing that this case specifically still has wait a minute still resonates inside russia very divided country a little bit about the details on february twenty first pussy riot performed what they called a punk prayer at christ the savior cathedral in central moscow they were arrested in march a trial during the summer and then in mid august they were sentenced to two years and this is part of the appeals process today which has now been delayed until october tenth but of course we will be bringing you all the information and details as it comes to us. at. sean

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itself. is quite obvious the united states military is leaving behind a new our faction or a new militia in afghanistan in addition to the business that already exists in a move for him to the of go national army at least parts of that are well trained by the u.s. military and this national army is not turning against its benefactors as mentors afghan national army is is one of the blunders of the u.s. military in afghanistan in addition to. the midst of created a country with three thousand american citizens died on nine eleven the u.s. military blunders resulted in addition old americans dying of man has done over the past decade and these are the american soldiers and of months to this nurse basically belongs purely to the u.s. military to pentagon to the cia because of the understand has been their baby. and now to some other news from around the world the sound bite that action muslims

infuriated by a photo of burned khurana on a facebook account have torched turned buddhist temples the picture was allegedly posted by a buddhist teenager bright as a tongue as a buddhist communities injuring dozens of people the boy however said the photo appeared on his account by mistake his parents have been detained and investigation region. japanese police have forcibly removed protesters and dismantled barricades from around the u.s. marine base in the city of juneau while local residents protested against the deployment of american also spray planes and staged a sit in front of the entrance to the base the demonstrators say the aircraft's safety record is not up to standard following a series of crashes in the past. bahrain's top court has rejected an appeal by nine doctors convicted for their participation in last year's pro-democracy uprising and held the previous verdict this comes and they don't go and police the

jailing of key opposition leaders antigovernment protests have been a constant across the country for more than a year with some western countries being criticized for turning a blind eye to the violence. the italian newspaper career here is reporting that four will even be more make a darkie may have been killed by a french are certain who list with the revolutionary brigades this challenge is the official version that he was murdered by rebel fighter after being cornered in a drainage pipe sources claim paris wanted to silence gadhafi over his alleged links with the french government and election campaign financing. time out of the business was not tosh and what's the sentiment on the markets this hour that touch well the bulls are running the show now banking stocks drive european equities higher in the second hour of trade let's see that now. ber's and that's after the latest stress tests showed that spain's banking system needs

a lower than expected capitalization but spain's overall health concerns still remain its debt will continue to rise next year piling the pressure on the state it has been struggling to cut spending the nations that will reach eighty five percent of the g.d.p. this year and up to ninety one percent of twenty thirteen and that's almost three times more than the before the property bubble burst in two thousand and eight analysts believe it's only a matter of time before spain requests a bailout now back to the equity markets here in russia at noon and actually we're seeing the currencies and here the currencies again the currency vast kid to is higher to the russian ruble and the euro at the moment is shedding a value to the u.s. dollar now on to the brushwood markets what we're seeing there is a pretty bullish picture on like last hour they are gayety and gaining quite a bit three quarters of a percent for the my sex. and one of the main gate as

a last week with the bear bank on the news that it has finished its takeover turkey's debt his bank it ranks among the top ten banks in turkey the deal is worth three billion euros the cash will help did his bank parent company dixie a lowered debt first bread bank it's the second largest deal of the year after buying austria's bank international now onto what's happening in asia and japan's nikkei is shedding of value in the first trading session of the quarter and that's after the bank of japan survey showed that to the mood among manufacturers this worsening chinese manufacturing facility is also deteriorating and of course hong kong's hang seng would have reflected that but it's closed for a holiday this monday. that's all we have time for in the situation of business see you back in fifty minutes all right thanks to. shortly we'll look at why some

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