global noise until stars demonstrations are staged worldwide while acts those raise eyebrows over eyebrows over the decision to award the post stricken european union with the nobel peace prize. see where bounced check your flights over its territory to anchor on grounds of the sea one passenger plane for allegedly carrying russian weapons something moscow denies. and one of the three drogue members of the russian punk band pussy riot is released on appeal as also he looks into how the group became a lucrative international law and. the

latest news on the week's top stories this is all see with me about how loud and welcome to the program i will and he was terribly projects has swept across the planet dubbed a wake up call for the world against choking financial restrictions that percent of the global noise demonstrations is focused on europe this week received the nobel peace prize news that was received by many with surprise and puzzlement that it's a rush of skill reports now from the expunged. the union needs for nudists have over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation democracy on human rights in europe but is this the peace they're talking about tear gas fascist flags and massive furious crowds of the most common sites across the award winning continent lately protests like this will echo in thirty five

countries across the world over the next several weeks the global and so iow stary to voice only in spain alone hundreds of thousands have been voicing their anger ever since the government announced more painful budget cuts for next year everything worth spending is now unemployed and this grim story is pretty much the same for portugal and greece towm is one of the leaders of the protest movement in madrid he sas people have just about had enough behind it the crises and the capitalist system right now in spain transfer private data into public that and these causes huge cuts to public spending and health system and it took a shit and it's affecting millions of poor people it's producing huge you can employment and it's producing and whole social best composition of gold society with so many going against the system across europe at times clashing violently

with the police the decision to award the e.u. with a peace prize has raised many eyebrows this is like giving the prize to frankenstein for being the best monster created during the past twelve months there's only one contender for the peace prize this year and that's julian assad the fact that he did not win this prize is will be in a tunnel stain on the nobel committee no one has done more to push peace than julian assange should be getting this award from this committee the fact that they turn to a bunch of machines and technocrats and the a hero is an embarrassment they should go back to making dynamite this award is even more questionable to some because of the e.u.'s rather dubious peacemaking record and that moreover the current financial turmoil is the biggest danger to peace. europe has been bombing libya and europe has been bombing syria europe isn't bombing afghanistan or iraq yugoslavia a few years ago yes it's because they're trying to say ok guys we're giving you

a hold your together europe has been spending money they don't have that's going to have to stop and it's going to cause more riots in the streets more social unrest more governments failing perhaps even countries failing and perhaps even people pulling out of europe and could lead to war again in europe in two thousand and nine barack obama won the same award having been in office for only two weeks that was before he sent more troops to afghanistan and waged war in libya but as the latest nobel peace prize award is debated worldwide protesters in spain seem to care little about the prestige than their own survival calls for independence are heard loud and clear in the country's largest and wealthiest region cut the lumia a clear indication the continent is losing that unity which the nobel committee has decided to. see reporting from madrid in spain. and spanish journalists and rights have. to believe this iteration the year of one

to improve until the undertakes a complete overhaul of itself. piling up more and more there because of these payloads who already have a banking bailout which is worth what we don't know exactly how much yet but probably will be around fifty billion euros and then leave for spain goes for the fall belt it will be even more than that so yes i guess depth has become the common currency of the european union rather than the euro itself the debt is now the central issue of the economic crisis we've come to a point in which it has become unbearable it makes impossible growth and it forces us these pressures of austerity which are basically stalling the economy and killing growth the reason why i think that the european union sits in the east is because it's easier than trying to solve the underlying problem here no matter whether you have the nobel peace prize the fact is that there were opinion does not have a working assumption in democracy. going

on syria has been in flights from entering its airspace and the latest escalation of tension between the countries this comes just days after taking falls down a sewer and passenger plane for allegedly transporting russian weapons to damascus moscow says the cargo contained nothing but harmless and legal and it tronics obviously not going to. they pointed their guns at us hungover put us on the ground then they drove us back to the plane and to the. roof d'armes in better dignity with an international scandal thrown in on top all in the name of peace at least that's the stance taken by the turkish authorities when they tried to justify forcefully grounding a syrian plane on route from moscow to damascus this is us. we in turkey own want peace and safety in the region that is our desire which we would never have an

incentive to start your uncle right has he revealed exactly what was in the cargo of that plane though they do insist it was russian made a mission and technical equipment something moscow denies. it was certainly no sourness willingly and they simply could not at least any idea also the aircraft was carrying a cargo that was being shipped from russian supplier to a legitimate customer in a legitimate way it was a cargo of electrical supplies of radar stations this is purpose equipment you know but it is not barred by any international conventions that surely neither do turkish officials say where they received the tipoff about the suppose it weapons on board some of those have their suspicions this is washington telling prime minister earlier one who says he's so independent to go in and go for it down the use the f. sixteen s for all its peace mongering talk and righteous outrage over russia's supposed unwillingness to help out in its efforts and cannot appear to be

surprisingly open when it comes to supporting one side in the syrian conflict the rebel fighters it is supporting the rebels it's allowing the b.b.c. showed earlier this week large quantities of ammunition. to enter syria. lebanese journalist uniform was described what she believed to be an arms delivery on the border between turkey and syria yet. the scene was real. dark clean filled with all of trees armed men and flashing lights from the trucks packed with weapons the group takes its cheer. i was asked not to film the immensity of the scene of the journalist you know was interrogated for days by turkish officials before being released when she was back in lebanon should realize the incriminating pictures should filmed on the turkish syrian border had been wiped while she was in custody some believe still a g. towards president assad has little to do with the situation in syria and everything

to do with iran's ambitions i was in this country as a major political player preparing itself for its one hundredth anniversary and twenty twenty three it was the whole campaign of a very ambitious platform of how turkey is building some fine lines it's going to position itself as a global power on cries establishing itself as a regional boss threatening a full out war with syria and openly violating iraqi sovereignty by bombing kurdish bases not exactly what bomb but all feats of diplomacy so in turkish officials to speak of peace and stability in the region their words are drowned out by the exchange of fire with their neighbors in tel aviv r.t. . you can find a full timeline of the ongoing conflict in syria you know what science. expert opinion extensive analysis of the latest news are always in for you on. the last tour a as you watch the space shuttle endeavor makes its final journey to the california

science center will have the pictures along. the race for russia's regions as all millions of people across the nation are coasting ballots for candidates running for posts ranging from regional heads to units of officials and for the first time in eight years of voters also treating governors themselves let's not get more from caution about good morning to medina so how much is at stake for russians at this regional pool. while this day russian voters are judging for themselves with the who takes place and who takes charge of their regions no more than twenty two million russians are expected to arrive at the polling stations and choose from an unprecedented number of candidates what is so interesting about this day well it was introduced following last december's waves of government protest the biggest in russia's recent history during the protest

people were demanding changes to the current election system they were also they also wanted to bring back a regional director regional elections and also to see a more representatives from the opposition in parliament at that moment and a bad time then president dmitry medvedev scrapped the old system we saw the regional officials hand picked by the government and also made it easier for a new political parties to match it giving a more competitive complection to the local elections so as i said before the single voting days taking place for the first time in the last eight years and gives russians an opportunity to choose for themselves who they believe is worthy of governing that's where exciting indeed within a cautionary reporting there live thank you very much. and still to come this hour turning a joke on bond into a global brand to see why it has become a name recognized worldwide making some question of the real goals and objectives

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it's sunday morning here in moscow you're watching aussies great to have you with us let's continue now a member of the jailed russian punk band pussy riot was freed on appeal this week to colleagues failed to get the sentences overturned and all because the tree where one hundred to get one antiproton stands on russia's main orthodox cathedral also

he's going to boycott reports now on the way the band members have been able to cash in on the media frenzy. pussy riot feminist punk rock has registered trademark a brand gone global one major russian concert hall denies it says they've been flooded with calls from foreign promotion is offering to organize a. tool that could fetch up to six hundred million euros. of red square behind me that post the riots stormed the area and performed an offensive song about blood and may have been. a warm up sorts but that particular stunt didn't bring the punk rock was the big break that they were off the internet so that tension on the internet and more importantly failed to rouse the interest of the thorazine just weeks later kirsty riot took their protest start to.

the stunning video went viral pussy riot well rested their trial a worldwide media circus western and russian celebrities pose for the women's release. international branded them prisoners of conscience and free pussy riot t. shots sold out the pussy that was quite normal that's the way you attract attention . they always look that famous pop stars around the world look at the way but always dressed look at the look at all the other. well we can do as well is that all we could do something different and they hated the idea of going into the cathedral and singing their blasphemous songs because that. would in fact be something. chairing 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. lawyers uncorking out there 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 the two years in prison forgiveness of the bonds appeal against the sentence says is perspire and in a moscow court last week. that immediate arena somebody said it unexpectedly announced she now wants different lawyers from her fellow band members to have called it was still on fire. during their trial some were struck by the women's defense team's tactics. but a trial observer. believes it signals a rift among the punk rock collective. i think you get to rina some would say we just took another look at the situation and saw the following tension goes tonight there's nicholas she's been pegged as the face of the band the lawyers are making a name for themselves while did go to some would say to get two years of prison and

forward so i think she decided to get some real lawyers before i do you know who. in the face of the worst but actually free her but. prosecutors say the dissenting band member is merely a ploy to add hype to a story that's not generating the headlines it did it's the benefit of hindsight that led some of us to question just how contrived the percy riot phenomenon was and continues to be with the concept requests pouring in there are those that say that pussy rights horse appeal is just like the trial that preceded it the point here is actually reduce the women's center says but rather it's about increasing the number of us headlines and the saleability of the now protected pussy riot brand polly boy. moscow. and investigative journalist tony gosling says the resulting popularity and vandalism in the wake of the band's trial

raises a big question over who's really benefited from the sentence. let's not forget what's else is going on around the world around this case because you have got loads of problems at the in a way you know part of the punishment is to stop these people cashing in on the free published two they've got you know this published there's been two prizes awarded to these people one from the lennon oh no fun which is a prize for peace which i find incredible since this has been such a divisive case the other is the luther prize which has been awarded boy of the city of wittenberg which is where protestantism started and what's happened is the city has awarded the prize for the people of the city and they are protesting against that saying you know we don't actually endorse this sacrilege i think there's something really a bit sad about a band an organization that defines itself by the opposition to the church and it's quite clear through this court case that's what this is about we've even had the desecration of orthodox crosses across eastern europe in different parts of eastern

europe in support of pussy riot so this is actually about i think an attack on the cathedral an attack on the church. and let's now take a brief look at some of the day's world news is the most find his in mali has threatened to open the doors of helpful french citizens and there are a paris father pushes for armed intervention the u.s. security council has unanimously voted to accept a french drafted resolution calling for a military mission to liberate these rebel held north is limited groups have control two thirds of the country since sweeping into its territory in april. at least two militants have been killed and one injured in an israeli air strike in northern gaza the israeli military reportedly carried out four strikes that target sites of terrorist activity how at the other three at times did not result in casualties the strikes were launched in response to rocket fire from gaza into southern israel and friday the dead were members of a jihad just a salafist group blamed for a series of bonding time only israel's. mauritanian military patrol has

opened fire on its own president mohamad abdalla says it was returning to the counter so after a regional trip when his convoy was hit by bullets authorities say the soldiers did not recognize the president's vehicles as they passed by the shells injured the leader in they are now being treated in hospital. on thursday this week it was time for the u.s. vice presidential hopefuls to cross swords in their battle for the hearts and minds of americans november's president election. that's right i know this is a price i know you're under a lot of to rest to make up. but i think it will be better served if we don't keep interrupting each other well if we don't take all four minutes that it was proved to be a hostile to the debates democrat joe biden and republican paul ryan spot of a host of foreign policy and domestic moss' the two camps show that was appalled while the pontiff saying such by saying issues as the crisis in syria and what

washington's next step should be of iran and afghanistan. he suggested there was no clear winner best that something that could never be won on a stays not that priority sauces kind of foreigners to invest to professor paul child in fact after the first debate where you know going round to your political cartoonist. don't you those fighting each other with their noses this is no different than what other way to life. neither side would attack the other on things in which they were vulnerable and that's why you have to pick these tiny little issues for example of why it was biden said correctly that. ryan had voted to us what iraq and afghanistan wars on the credit card helping to cause the deficit is actually right and he was right about that he didn't bother to say the democrats will report right and of course he's one of the ones who says it's going

to be he says why total world domination by told the military over agree at the same time you're going to want to say there iran was the world's leading supporter about terrorism for example impact america and saudi arabia one more terrorist organizations in the region than anybody else it's time for them to quit whining and start to put the american voters with the world watching. that member of the european parliament who gives his take on what exactly is well within the. the sun rises over what seems like and lost forest but here in the new directions quite hundred kilometers north of live off stalk as in much of the world it's disappearing at a catastrophic rate. mockers both illegal and those finding ways to outsmart the system for filing down the

forests of the more skewed region for them profit goes well beyond the future of our planet and the result could be an ecological crisis the world wildlife fund for nature makes regular trips to help local rangers do what little they can to stop the logging but it's not easy logger set up trucks making them hard to reach an already rough terrain and have mastered ways to jump through legal loopholes this is a nature reserve we're only sanitary logging of disease trees is allowed according to law and not a single berry can be picked but loggers like this use their sanitary logging permit to cut down absolutely healthy trees and sell the profitable timber over the border in china we are on the hunt for illegal loggers and it's not going to be easy the forest is enormous and our chances are slim now for now we can stay in our dreams but as soon as we find solid tracks we'll have to drop our wheels and get

out silently in order not to scare the loggers off alexander some morning call has been a ranger for over twenty five years he can spend weeks at a time tracking a single group of loggers easier to work when snow falls in autumn it's impossible to find human tracks and even transport tracks are hard to see after hours of driving we get sent in the right direction by word of mouth you can see that the ground is soft here which means that there is trails the tractor trails are very fresh which in fact means that we need to be quite. in order to not scare them off as we get closer. this team says they're illegal but have no documents now xander can now call the police to take over his work here is done he is overwhelmingly outnumbered there are too few rangers working in the promoter ski region and the w w f says the government isn't doing enough to stop it i guess the government now is they started shooting for more of forest legislation source since

two thousand so in regards and your forest court and according to the opinion of every forest. guys involved in the in the forest to the still. forest courts still doesn't work yes you. do it no one tries to stop them in just five years the forest will be gone they'll sell it all to china what will the people who live afterwards do. it's a question more and more people are aware of today climate change and the safety of our environment as a whole are being discussed around the world and perhaps it's those small steps that might be a start to people living in harmony with nature. today i'm talking to daniel had a conservative member of the european parliament he's vowed to bring his euro

skepticism to the heart of brussels mr hollande thanks for talking to us now apparently doing the rounds in brussels is a popular joke which says that if the european union was a country applying to join itself it would be rejected for not being democratic enough to amazing thing and we've stopped being amazed by it simply because of familiarity but we should be shocked by it that the only body that can propose new legislation in the european union is the unelected european commission if any country were run by if supreme power wielded by twenty seven people who were immune to the ballot box that would be regarded as an outrage. and yet the people who talk most fervently about turning the e.u. into something like a super state are remarkably relaxed about the undemocratic nature of it and from that basic lack of democracy you get the contempt for popular opinion you get the way of sort of the side referendum results if they go the wrong way and you get

a sense that public opinion is an obstacle to overcome rather than a reason to change direction it is an extraordinary and sad paradox that twenty seven countries each of them a liberal parliamentary democracy in its own right have come together and accepted a system that would make zimbabwe look democratic and how did that happen exactly was its kind of creeping takeover by technocrats i think the origins actually go back to the very beginning of the european union the founding fathers had had a very mixed experience of democracy is specially of the referendum plebiscite re kind of numb ocracy that existed in the one nine hundred thirty s. they sort of mock or see as opposed to i won't go so far say they were anti democratic but they saw it is a potentially dangerous force that could lead to demagoguery to fascism and to war and so they were quite open about deliberately vesting supremes.