latest news in the week's top stories the brutal killing of a soldier in london by alleged muslim extremists leaves the u.k. reeling and the sharp rise in any muslim hate crimes as security services come under your scrutiny. shaken by eight straight nights of unprecedented youth rioting sparked by the police killing of an elderly immigrant. millions take to the streets across the world to protest against biotech giant monsanto is the company used to promoting hazardous products and monopolizing the food market. seven am in moscow i matras are bring you today's top stories and

a look back at the week's news here on our t. britons were shocked wednesday by the savage killing of a soldier in broad daylight by suspect an islamist in london the country's security services of come in for particular criticism after it emerged the two suspects had been tracked by m i five for years some reports suggest security services even tried to recruit one of the attackers six months ago nine people so far arrested in connection with the case three of them released on bail already the attackers claim they were motivated by revenge for the british military actions abroad arky sarah furthur ports from london. a flag at half mast a grizzly attack with a machete style knife and a murdered soldier his death leaves behind a two year old son the seemingly behind this crease a max seeking to bring scenes of violence usually seen in war ravaged parts of the world to the london suburb of will in a poignant interview r.t. spoke to an army officer he told us of the reaction among some in the armed forces

to remain anonymous anger. not scared maybe scared you never get someone to. be scared i witness accounts of the precise attack detailed the men chanting islam is slogans as the body of soldier drama leave it be a second battalion the royal regiment do you still is they only pleading they asked people to video then if you listen to the words of the attackers themselves it's clear that they will wish to bring the war which they saw prosecuted on the streets of baghdad and kabul to the streets of london to speaking at a press conference london mayor boris johnson okayed many senior political figures trying to distance this latest act of violence from the recent a.b.c.'s exploits this is not a question of blaming the religion of islam it is certainly not

a question of blaming any aspect of british foreign policy or what our british troops are do in operations abroad when they risk our lives on behalf of all of us the london mayor in charge at the time of the london two thousand and five bombings disagrees they are lying they are completely complicit with the united states policy tony blair was with george bush they are prepared to stand and say well we think this strategy has been a disaster it has been a disaster not just for the young man killed on the streets of london but for the hundreds of thousands of. people in afghanistan and in iraq who've been killed a simple reality if you invade other people's countries they come back it's one side of an argument but one that's going to be weighing heavily on many now that this has hit so close to home you feel less secure i think that's what.

he think if we went out there then perhaps a bit more space scope for al qaeda to produce the sounds they'd be afraid more within the u.k. because when we're out there we're constricted in space and not allowing them that freedom of maneuver now then that means their base of operations over here was we can both say the arguments from my youth because we're out there we're inspiring the more motivates in the presence of the resource motivate in the cells that back in the u.k. to operate more and carry out more attacks as the police investigation continues that deep sense of guilt and outrage from the local community here in southeast london at the brief the attack and they sentiment echoed across the country as people struggle to come to terms with how a crime like that could happen here. oxy london u.k. seen a surge in anti muslim sentiment following the attack far right activists rallied in several cities clashing with police

a number of people have been arrested for racially motivated assaults more than one hundred fifty such incidents reported in the u.k. since wednesday's killing earlier my colleague bill died discuss the reasons behind the violence with ian dunn editor of politics dot c.e.o. doug new carrion crows for tell you from the far right wing british national party . what could a should be responsible immigration customs gate he's good to us you have get across the u.k. people who find difficulties who will find you hard to integrate. all right and they don't want a lawyer to find that example it's immigration isn't working it's irresponsible and there isn't enough included in this information on the sat and that's you know that on so of course the major problem the real id the other scenario a major problem with what he's saying is that this acts of terrorism really conducted by the far right you very generously describe the b.n.p. is a right wing party idea they're not right wing they're far right they're

a fascist party and the acts of violence that they perpetrate against mosques against property the threats against muslims these are also acts of terrorism these are also acts of violence by non-state actors political means but i've got to learn from and i have to do something to do with with my how to help like all the people around saying that i say sure is done by right wing fanatics and i have to come to the person. the other person who is talking doll signori completely the fog that i personally have an open dialogue with muslim communities that recently i had the bait with muslim communities in books in but the city in london about these very issues. for employees. and the. issue of these racist you should learn about what are you know proud of on

ok to listen to mr dunn now please but you know i wouldn't don't know we don't know we don't. have websites people from east. from we people from from they. let me really judge their members or is it lies or. you know when you have sound some other lunatics who also agree with your demented view of the world however that does not mean that you know what is there what is that they mentioned that it was he is a you are you look at it just a joke just for it is that it does not just toss you shorted the british people died there a poll by what's happened they want to stroll response from government they don't want a reaction is going to be tempered by fears of political incorrectness what should be done there's going to be some strong reaction surely political correctness really has no connection to where the you have a viable response to a terrorist incident stopping terrorism is about having joined up services by intelligence agencies by the police by mental health authorities by schools by the

muslim community these are the kind of sensible i don't mean that you take to prevent violence they show. we are social programs combined with out these us through us foreign policy. these regard for the rights of other countries and of course people who who are leaving in isolation cut moldings with the outside world but if. and when british governments go on the rampage of course they are on grief and that's a failure of integration. meanwhile a large manhunt underway after an apparent copycat attack in paris on saturday where a soldier was stabbed in the neck the suspect reportedly of north african origin and counter-terror officers are involved the investigation but the french president stopped short of linking the attack to the london murder activists shot in those

says the violence will be used to demonize muslims and draw attention away from government policies. these type of attacks plays into the strength of the g.o.p. the state to promote a full sense of islam so that is the people of the masses around the world can see wrongly as islam is a disgusting version of the face and in so doing criminalizes all muslims around the world and then the. to conduct the stabilization so the french can go in pretending to be the new to arbitrate is bringing peace and stability this is a big game or three it's a smoke and mirrors that really has to be distinctive from from a position that is opposing wilson to germany as part of the state strategy is to make sure that everyone is pointing fingers at everyone but the actual of the trade off the economic crisis of police corruption or unjust an immoral foreign policy i.e. those in power in france. and sweden the peace of the normally tranquil scandinavian country was shattered as riots rage in the capital before hitting other cities for

eight nights in a row use from disadvantaged neighborhoods set fire to cars police stations and even schools undeterred by a heavy police presence there riots triggered after an elderly man was shot dead by police in a part of stockholm mostly populated by immigrants or peter all over takes a look. nice neat and normal not the type of place you would expect to see this. speak on the outskirts of stockholm and the epicenter of sweden's issue with race and that's bubbling over in sweden you get welfare you get access to the education system up to university level you get access to public transport to libraries to health care to everything and still they feel that they need to throw stones and molotov cocktails it's ridiculous it's a bad excuse the violence in the usually peaceful city has become a political football the swedish democrats are exploiting these events they make it all about immigration to suit their needs they see being anti immigrant as being

pro-choice. for the past week stone throwing in. become the norm in this part of town known for its high unemployment predominantly immigrant population all sparked after a sixty nine year old man was gunned down by police while brandishing a knife that let loose a wrong wish of emotions it's the state that creates this type of gets wise ation so they move everyone from abroad into these parts of town when it comes to unemployment sweden is below the average of almost one quarter of under twenty five out of work prompting some to say it's time for further action saying a lack of control by government has led them to the situation the police can put these right down in five minutes if the politicians were to allow them although swedes defer over what caused this week's violence they are in agreement that it's

government policy that must be changed to avoid scenes like this being repeated on the streets of stockholm peter all of r.t. sweden. fears the syrian conflict could spread over the borders being once again stoked as the border area of syria lebanon and israel strewn with rocket fire only a day after the hezbollah leader backed assad in the fight against rebels more on that still to come in the program. but first a wave of protests against food giant monsanto rolled across the globe saturday with as many as two million voicing anger at the corporation people marched in dozens of countries with activists accusing the biotech of suffocating small farmers out of business and pushing hazardous genetically modified crops to the market while many are angry the legal protection the firm gets in a number of nations thanks to its extensive lobbying efforts monsanto would self maintains its products improve agriculture and conserve resources or he's honest has more from new york. throughout the world and in dozens of cities across the

united states weekends of action against monsanto takes place were in the heart of the protests in the big apple where hundreds of people have been marching through the streets of the city demanding that monsanto put an end to its action the corporate giant the biotech global giant has been very controversial it's existed for over a century accused of genetically engineered and genetically modified food culture and food accused of turning a blind eye on the health consequences of the food that it produces and also of immense lobbying powers that it has in washington d.c. for one piece of sleeping in the same bed really with politicians blocking any kind of legislation that would make life for money now months santillan more difficult and promoting and pushing through legislation that protects the rights of this biotech giant these companies are manipulating the food chain to their own

advantage for monetary gain there's a few people making a lot of money and we deserve to have better than that there may be no. way to fully tackle the senate and even vote with monsanto mud santo and the government are one we have a supreme court justice who is a lawyer for the month sent to corp how much independence do we have really in our government all of these people that have come out onto the streets according to our estimates throughout the world it's hundreds of thousands of people protesting this weekend and now global marches against monsanto what they're demanding is a liebling obviate most and also demanding further scientific research into genetically engineered genetically modified products and food and what they're hoping is that these big corporations such as monsanto at least begin to have less power and the voice of the people is heard that legislators begin to understand

what it is that people want especially in the united states where any kind of significant legislation against monsanto has traditionally been blocked by legislators they see churkin r.t. new york on thursday president obama ordered a review of the justice department's investigations of the associated press and fox news the government says it seized journalist records over concerned about leaking of classified security data this comes amid what seen as washington's intensified prosecution of whistleblowers are more important i reports. he's the australian wiki leaks founder holed up in the ecuadorian embassy on u.k. soil and across the atlantic members of the american press corps are learning what it feels like to receive the julian a songe treatment the justice department subpoenaed and obtained the telephone records of the associated press over a two month period without any notice i think about the harm done to the a.p. here you know object of interest to intimidate people who talk to reporters the department of justice wasn't just targeting the associated press apparently it also

went after fox news reporter our very own james rosen what you've got here is a situation where somehow now journalism has been criminalized dozens of journalists have been secretly investigated by the justice department for reporting on national security issues government officials secretly obtained reporters' phone logs and personal e-mails trying to find out who leaked classified information to the press even if you side with this president over those of us in the media who challenge him in his administration it is important to remember the precedent these action set going forward perhaps when it's not your guy in the white house the guy currently residing in the white house has prosecuted more whistleblowers under the espionage act than all other administrations combined and now experts say u.s. news outlets are being persecuted just like wiki leaks has been the obama administration has really taken the executive branch powers have been kim

a dating the free press from under the bush administration and exponentially multiplied them addressing the nation this week the us president said journalists should not be at legal risk for doing their jobs but leakers will pay the price i believe we must keep information secret that protects our operations and our people in the field. to do so we must enforce consequences for those who break the law and breach their commitment to protect classified information however some think the lines are becoming increasingly blurred this is the first time. you know national security has been used to get reporters i mean that really is frightening to try to name because it's usually used to get linkers so if the bombing ministration or loses justice department thinks that they can use criminal laws to get journalists because they're coconspirators i mean honestly that's one of the worst things i've

come across and all the years i've been doing this the new yorker magazine has pulled a page from wiki leaks to protect those who want to share something the u.s. government doesn't want revealed it launched an open source dropbox where people can send leaked documents and messages without their identities ever being known the underlying code for strongbox was co-created by our assess inventor and open source activist aaron swartz he committed suicide in january at the age of twenty six while facing a federal trial and thirty five years in prison u.s. prosecutors were targeting swartz for downloading millions of online academic articles journalists are employed with the responsibility of informing the public and holding a lectern officials accountable the first amendment of the constitution protects press freedom but all one has to do is look at recent events to know that doesn't always happen reporting from new york marina portnoy r.t.

. fears the conflict in syria could be spilling into neighboring countries have once again been stoked in the latest cross border violence a rocket was apparently fired from lebanon toward israel this is hours earlier five people were injured when two shells landed in a hezbollah controlled area of beirut unclear who was behind that attack but it has emerged that it did come from within lebanon's own borders this comes just a day after the militant group reiterated its support for the assad regime the free syrian army has officially denied any involvement middle east expert ali risk though says the rebels public statements can't be trusted because as a group they're too divided some members of the free syrian army deny that however there was one official who said that hezbollah you know its activity will lead to repercussions that would target but you were in the northern city of tripoli and beirut's international airport and that perhaps is that in the case of that some of these opposition groups some of these syrian opposition groups are indeed involved

in what happened you have to remember that the free syrian army is in to the one block so if one spokesman denies that it might very well be that another opposition group which also use of the title the free syrian army could have been involved and one of the rockets even landed near a church and it lies on the border between southern beirut and the christian district so obviously this is not an attack on a husband or. institution it's a clearly an act of terrorism against the innocent civilians on and habited area and so i think it just goes to show you the nature of these groups who we are dealing with. reports emerge in the u.k. claiming russia is playing it safe when it comes to defense and when it comes to defense sales to syria moscow halting a deal to sell advanced and here craft missiles to damascus that are worth up to a billion dollars out of fear they could fall into the wrong hands head to our website for more on the aborted deal. and in japan people rally outside

a south korean newspaper's offices aggregate comments it made about the atomic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki find out what infuriated infuriated them so much at r.t. dot com. u.s. president barack obama delivered a major speech on the future of america's counter terror operations this week he pressed for more transparency in drone strikes but defended the program calling it just a necessary is after washington says four american citizens have been killed in targeted attacks since two thousand and nine author and activist david swanson believes the drone program leaves too many unanswered questions he claims that he is going to further limit his murder by drone program including applying these arbitrary criteria met in secret by himself to his own satisfaction to non americans at least in certain countries countries other than afghanistan and

yet he's not provided publicly any documentation of the claims he's made thus far i mean if he if he would rather have captured ardmore a lockie why did he not indict him with with any criminal charges or provide any evidence to anyone that he was guilty of any criminal acts this is this is not transparency and if these reforms and limitations are needed on this program then what of the conduct of this program here too for is it not as criminal an abusive as it appears. president obama also renewed his pledge to close the guantanamo bay detention center promising to lift his own freeze on transferring detainees to yemen this is the hunger strike at the facility reaches its one hundred eleventh day more than one hundred prisoners currently protesting against indefinite detention and alleged inhumane treatment as many have still not been charged one former guard at the prison says one ton of most perience was deeply unsettling some

of the some of the tactics that i saw practice in guantanamo i just never really want to wish to relive again omar carter and a number of other detainees they were privileged to something we called the frequent flyer program where we would essentially move them every two hours whether removing them from camp delta camp echo or moving them from bravo block to charlie block be it a little move or a big idea is that every two hours they would be moved and they wouldn't be able to sleep this was essentially thought to wear down their psyche and make them more. probable to give up information during interrogation the only reason the detainees are being force fed is that the the u.s. military or rather the powers that be are scared that these men have enough conviction to to literally starve to death and they know that if these men do starve to death it will make the us look bad in the global perspective as it stands right now they we have so many millions of dollars of taxpayer money in one hundred

but if you just devoted another four hundred fifty million i think that's just perfect evidence right there there's no intention to close that one where the. taking a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe police used tear gas to disperse one hundred fifty thousand protesters an anti-gay marriage rally in the french capital demonstrators angry at the country's new same sex marriage an adoption act that came into force a week ago they claim president a law is prioritizing the issue over the economy france now the ninth country in europe to legalize gay marriage. more than sixty people arrested after a violent clashes at a techno music protest parade in the swiss capital burned more than twenty pulleys were injured while officers used water cannons and tear gas on anti-capitalist group known as the black bloc clashes broke out when protesters tried to tear down temporary barricades blocking parliament. and u.s. secretary of state john kerry's put his weight behind

a four billion dollars plan to develop the palestinian economy he claim investment program would also benefit israel and jordan but didn't specify where the money would come from according to his report the plan will cut unemployment and raise the average wage by up to forty percent perry has been trying to revive the stalled peace process but hasn't made any tangible progress so far. well that's it for me a mattress and you farmer will be around at the thirty minute mark to bring you more news but first a look at the world of gadgets and gizmos in technology update stay with us here on r.t. . they

played in a family jazz band together. hi jacked a plane together. lots of them from music to tara. twenty five years on questions still remain. just bad hi jack.

hello and welcome to technology update despite our five senses not everything is

quite what meets the eye this episode looks to shed some light on devices they give us a glimpse i was hiding just out of sight. remember the earth was the center of the universe until copernicus and galileo came along man's origins were unknown before darwin changed everything and the notion that there was something smaller than an atom was nearly unthinkable until ernest rutherford. even today the quest to gaze beneath the surface just goes on and on. recently we took a peek through the glass walls of school close hypercube where many of russia's incoming innovators had gathered to attend the annual prize award ceremony the competition sifted through roughly fifteen hundred clever ideas all looking to come home with one of the five top honors winners were crowned for the top i.t. project the leading innovation for helping society as well as a trio for best idea project and production ready invention but in addition to the award ceremony there was plenty of other innovation minded activity going on the

previous finalists and runners up were also invited to show off the latest developments on their path to full fledged startup land a few government officials are on hand to get an up close and personal view of the country's leading young minds and while the winners may have taken home to glory one of the top competitors from a past study can price. in the time since the competition these developers have turned their so-called electronic nose into a nascent business.