the percy riots appeal gets underway of moscow city cause the punk band received two years in jail for publicity stunt and russia's main cathedral. also this hour fierce reception for chancellor angela merkel during her visit to greece with tens of thousands of protesters pointing to her as the source of their economic misery. and israeli prime minister netanyahu appears to go all out for reelection as he would as a snub paul at the peak of his popularity citing budget recovery. news

from russia and around the world this is us he with me our thanks for joining us moscow city court has started hearing an appeal by they pursue riots punk band punk band the sentenced to two years in jail for performance in the country's main orthodox cathedral and aussies point to join us live now from the course pauline nice to see you so what's going on where you are now. where there's plenty of people gathered here outside the most scary city court as we speak the appeal hearing is taking place inside the courtroom we've already heard from the pussy riot women themselves we've heard from their lawyers development today is that one of the members of the pussy riot punk rock collective yackety rena summit savage her lawyer she fired her lawyers last week during the first appeal hearing she no longer has the same lawyers as the remaining two members of the band and what we've

heard today is that her new legal representative has said that she didn't even enter. the cathedral back in february during the punk prayer performance that the women are now have been arrested for so hardline has changed her line of defense we've also heard from the lawyers of the remaining two women and mark fagan who represents the two local. he's called on the court not to bow down to pressure from vladimir putin who recently said in an interview that he thinks that the sentence of two years of pussy riot for really given isn't really motivated by religious hatred was bad so he's called on the court it was a very sort of loud statement that he made that got some people applauding some people booing and lots and lots of attention around it now there are legal experts and trial observers who say that the defense team for pussy riot for the

two women that are still defeat being defended by mark fagan and value at the volkova that they are in fact not good towards reducing the women sentence says but in fact increasing the p.r. for the brand the post you right now registered brand so that could have a little to do with why you could see in the some would say riches decided to change her legal representative but here's my report on the on the story. the riot feminist punk rock has registered trademark a brand new global one major russian concert organizer says they've been flooded with calls from foreign promoters offering to organize a pussy riot tool that could fetch up to six hundred million euros. over the next there's a red square behind me that post the riots stormed the area and performed an

offensive song about blood and may have roots in a warm up gig of sorts but that particular. stunts didn't bring the punk rock was the big break that they were off to exert a little attention on the internet and more importantly failed to rouse the interest of the off thorazine just weeks later kirsty riot took their protest start to moscow's central park. the stunning video went viral pussy riot were arrested their trial a worldwide media circus western and russian celebrities called for the women's release misty international branded them prisoners of conscience and free pussy riot t. shirts sold out the pushing it was quite normal that's the way you attract attention they always look that famous pop stars around the world look at the way we're done is dressed look at that look at all the other. we can do as well as that or we can

do something different and they hated the idea of going into the cathedral and seeing their blasphemous songs because that. would in fact be something. cheering the trial some was struck by the women's defense team's tactics. there is no defense in this case it's simple p.r. law is uncorking out on ali feel they're working towards the brand in order to capitalize on it in the future and it's worked i think two years in prison for the crime they committed is too harsh but at the same time i can see that their lawyers did everything in order to get them those two years in prison you missed the band's appeal against the sentence says it was postponed in a moscow court last week one band member to reno so much seven unexpectedly announced she now wants different lawyers from have fellow band members a trial observer believes it signals a rift among the punk rock collective prosecutors say the dissenting band member is

merely a ploy to add hype to a story that's not generating the headlines it did with the concept requests poor. and there are those that say that pussy riot courtship eel is just like the trial that preceded it the point here isn't to reduce the women's sentences but rather it's about increasing the number of clicks headlines and the saleability of the now protected perceived brand polly boyko r t moscow. paulo boyko reporting there live. and we are watching the purser and case closely all the details are lined up for you at home and here's some other stories also waiting for you there. now reuters and for from warm welcome from the greek people for chancellor angela merkel on her visit to arsons a german leader praised the government over its austerity measures an army of riot police held back turns of thousands of demonstrators just streets away on our first

reports now from athens on why merkel's visit has so riled the people. it was supposed to be a conciliatory gesture but in the end seemed only to serve to add fuel to the fire of austerity anger. clashes are breaking out between the riot police on the protesters on the streets that are going on. because those are taking the country it was supposed to demonstrate solidarity but all it serve to do if i like the divisions there remain in the country itself between the people and the politicians and between the euro zone countries as well the blows between crease in germany runs deep greece largely blames germany for the tough measures they faced this seen them caught in a devastating economic spiral and they germany's rhetoric may have softened recently greeks have knives or three given will forgotten their trail at the start of the euro crisis the bad ones of the bunch. government.

to the people the people are suffering catch. jobs. for working people to flourish chunks of the greek population looking increasingly isolated from the political class this far from alone from greece to spain to italy staring his poor year isn't economies to their needs and with unemployment particularly amongst year is used now reaching epic heights people have simply had enough if this looks like a familiar sight because that is when we thing many times before in recent years so in cognise with standoff between the right. along the streets and people standing around this is the result of years of austerity this is what

of thirty means. a population that is being pushed. it's breaking point all of the side of these pants band of happening perhaps this will be the wake up call to eurozone leaders as the crisis drags on and on the protests are growing larger and more frequent where there were one schools to ease the pain of the cuts now many people simply want out altogether have to leave the euro zone have to have to break with. generally we have to break with the system but before people have to break with companies to be important thing is that much resistance it's not only the burden on the people but. it's has been three years of history if you've got three years of general strikes and education that gives hope and we're going to go like that so r.t. athens and and i go out in search here is a sociological lecture from the university of the adrian says that not even merkel

support will give a shake agree government or that's much the better. we are in the fifth year of recession we're in the third year i was there at the measures they're asking out or even how they are stare at them as a person this a thirteen billion cuts mainly in what concerns wages and so did we were really really angry and i think that there's also a lot of rancor against of mrs merkel who is being seen as our representative all of us said them some of the cannot make a gratian against greece or this protest and think no one saw it that ok mrs merkel comes here so things are going to be better and i think that the situation is not very stable despite all this attempt even by mrs merkel to so some sort of support to mr prime minister some of us in the reality the greek government is not so stable since it is sitting on top of a huge social crisis as a huge social crisis can easily turn into

a political crisis. i. i i. i. i. i. i. it's great is that i had to pull some eighteen months i did that expected as prime minister binyamin netanyahu has announced a snap election and said the coalition's failure to nail down that budget is behind the russian the polls are expected to be held at the end of january or the beginning of february which gives less time for netanyahu his potential rivals to strengthen that platforms then move also comes just ahead of the u.s. presidential election the outcome of which according to some made mistakes the us will have a major impact on israel's politics. that is taking advantage of situation and the budget is. that to pass a budget is difficult but he could have done it but this is the best time for

response to view because the coalition today in israel is in shambles so he catches actually a moment in which from his point of view within three months he will enter and he can make a huge victorious i think these here another element the element of obama. has actually linked himself almost totally to much involvement in the american elections in favor of only we told news an old friend of the time you know they're holding similar conservative positions and they all in all his relations with obama are very sour i believe that if obama would be elected this will become also issue in the elections and i will not meet a possibility it wish obama in direct way would also try to influence the election scene is worth. meanwhile in the u.s. reports on kavanagh of me trying these sharp business practices the straight edge republican nominee the only smoke one cigarette in his life he had no problem with

pushing millions of them or not as if it meant good business. deals and they said the united arab emirates plan is the muslim brotherhood saying the islamist group is a trojan horse plotting to bring revolutionary trails into the gulf states that's right ahead. of his day starts at five am even earlier in the winter tending to his flock of three hundred sheep in the mountains and pains of. thirty five years old it wasn't the life he jumped off having studied accounting but he dition and familiar dictated that he would take on the can of these animals after his father. he's just made camp at their winter farm stage setting up his ute traditional to fenian round tent made of diskin. back amongst his family as his job is

a lonely one and tough going out in all weathers braving streams of plus to minus forty degrees celsius just that i miss them there are certain difficulties there's not enough time for everything i'm almost alone my sister works with my mother my mother is seventy five she's very old and i miss mountains when i'm in town and i spend a lot of time here and so on most of us is simply carrying out the work that his father did and his father before him nothing has changed over many many centuries and that's half the problem it's hard work and many people don't want to come into the industry now and that's where they fit their could die out altogether. it's difficult to manage everything alone i used to have people who helped me but they were no good they didn't take care of the sheep with all their hearts they hurt the cattle. with people leaving them coming to the countryside the region's government is having to act making the life of the herd and more attractive than

promising largest subsidies for countryside and livestock and organizing cooperatives for the sale of day put out to ensure the hoda get the highest fair price i asked sympathizes with those youngsters leaving for an easier more profitable life day in their publics capital because ill but he no longer wishes to join them he enjoys his pastoral way of life now looking for a helper who shares his enthusiasm but more time on his hands he says matter of fact way he can start to look for a new wife. sigrid laboratory makes him a kirby was able to build the world's most sophisticated robot which all unfortunately doesn't give a darn about anything turns mission to teach creation of life you care about humans and. this is why you should care watch only on the r g dot com.

this is welcome back republican nominee treme has taken a slight lead in the polls ahead of the second u.s. presidential debate previously romney stated that he considers russia to be one of america's principal rivals but it seems that his business history that forced

a tobacco addiction that makes trading with the enemy ok chicken has a story today as mitt romney views russia as america's number one geopolitical foe i don't know what mr romney had on russia twenty years ago but we do know that back then he did his best to get russia to smoke more so some twenty years ago he's a boston based consulting firm bain capital was helping tobacco titans to move forcefully into the new russian market the soviet union just collapsed russia was up for grabs according to the person who worked for romney in russia at the time someone named. hope i pronounce his name correctly romney was very excited about the smoking market in russia. he reported to mitt romney directly about his efforts to promote smoking in the one nine hundred ninety s. tobacco market in russia skyrocketed which of course led to more smoking related deaths and candidate romney who has apparently made his modest very modest

contribution to that but obviously for him it was more about money than anything else just business even if it killed by the way mitt romney himself never smoked except for the one cigarette he said he had when he was very young he explained his attitude to smoking saying it's a religious thing mr romney is a mormon and mormons have a strict health code but apparently there's believes his faith never stopped him from pushing cigarettes onto the nation he refers to as a poke in washington i'm going to check out. a big isn't always better at least for american police department of homeland security phil turned smaller versions of bottled rust to stretching the legal limits of spying and. the united arab emirates has a key is the one of world's most influential islamist groups the muslim brotherhood of plotting to overthrow regional governments the country has called on gulf arab states to unite to stop its rise and egypt where dominates political life of a double arrested around six to islamist this year alleging they belong to the

group and work conspiring to oust the shaikh but author and journalist eric margolis things these concerns show the state's paranoia the muslim brotherhood primary goals have been expressed through welfare programs and it's the reason it's continued part you larry it's never been very popular among muslims and mostly underdressed that's coming in the gulf or it's now is coming from. the americas i'm a gonna very difficult position i want to be on the side of history of improvement in the region but they've been stuck supporting dictators traditionally historically their american government is stumble and forward right now trying to figure out work to do and it's under the obama obsession under great attack by the republicans who are driving the big political issue of the fact that. religion is

not clear. iraqi prime minister nuri al maliki is on a visit to moscow to seal billions of dollars worth of arms deals with russia there's been no official statement on what exactly but dad is buying but the shopping lists reportedly includes fighter jets helicopters and missile defense systems iraq says it needs the modern weaponry to combat terrorists in the mountains and desert. us police may soon employ the same drone technology which the army uses to target targets abroad only the downsized version the department of homeland security has tested smaller unmanned aircraft to be used for surveillance as part of a public safety program and aim is to buy knowledge from the electronic privacy information center says this may practically lift the legal limits of domestic spying. and there are no laws out there right now that protect privacy from the use of drones and as this technology gets more available the police will be able to do more and more with it will be able to do more and more with it without needing

a warrant so we're entering an age where everything that we do even possibly down the road in our own homes could be subject to unwarranted police surveillance so there are police departments that have expressed interest in having rubber bullets having tear gas possibly having deadly weapons on the drones in the future they are able to target surveillance targets better too so if some they want to keep an eye on a suspected criminal or maybe even just somebody who may have gone to a protest they're able to do that much more efficiently. and let's move on to financial matters marino's following the global markets for us so how is the day shaping up marina you know of all investors are concerned over the financial help of spain and greece and this is really dampened the global sentiment right now for take a look at the european markets will see that they are currently we've seen that they will make some group this hour's put susan about a third of a percent but let's stay with europe told what is that just about then that's about european banks which may have to sell four point five trillion dollars worth of

assets through two thousand and thirteen well that's the verdict of international monetary fund and it says that in case a group fails to solving this crisis that's what will happen the figure is up eighteen percent from the previous estimate of earlier the european central bank prize them are the drug permits it's doing everything possible to save the euro zone. a quick look at the russian markets here they're tracking losses overseas right to us over half a percent that's how some are in there with m i six are not helping either we'll take a look at the labor force the currency the euro continues to weaken against the us dollar when it comes to the ruble it's now again and against the back and euro this hour now oil is dropping on a high right now and that is. where expect their reports that come out what analysts say will show that stockpiles are wise how is that what has made a turnaround and this again i'm just not to buy tickets from one hour to the next next one talk about alexander novak who is currently in london meeting with

international investors and that's as the country seeking funds to develop the challenging oil fields all of the poles it's now the energy minister says a russian the one trillion dollars worth of investment by its one thousand and twenty into the energy sector and alexander novak spoke exclusively to r.t. and explained that the tax incentives that will help boost production. first of all we've created a sort of stimulating measures to boost the development of new all deposits in siberia secondly for the existence of posits that are unprofitable under the current tax system with cut the export tax by five percent on top of that we will take steps to stimulate drilling of hard to reach oil reserves on the shelves. and that's how it looks this hour now right thanks marina coming out calls three and bringing special report of bones and.

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