denial over the highly sensitive report that. during a recent neighboring syria. the killer of a black teenager walks free with. protests nationwide. we didn't. wait. any blame over the snowden. fugitive whistleblower. because of washington's actions.

the world's top headlines live from moscow this is the with me a very warm welcome to you today turkey has. reported based on information from a reliable source claiming israel used a turkish military base to launch of recent on syria also condemned the media for even mentioning the report of the latest now on this from middle east correspondent paula. the turkish foreign minister is saying to quote him it is absolutely wrong and he's accused of spreading the story of an act of betrayal he said that turkey will never be a partner nor a part of such attacks and that the ones who claim this one to damage turkey's power and reputation he slammed the turkish media for even mentioning the report now we approached the israeli defense forces for a second time asking them to comment their reply was that the response has not changed since the earlier on so and that is that they refused to comment on the

issue we never got a reply from the prime minister's office there we just received an e-mail response to our request saying that they will not be participating in our broadcast we also never got a reply from the foreign affairs ministry a reminder of what we actually know at this stage a reliable source told r.t. that israel used a turkish military base to help stage the recent air strike on the syrian city of latakia now what we know is that it was a pre-dawn attack it happened in early july the tukey is a key syrian ports not far from a russian base they were civil servant troops who were reportedly killed and wounded in that attack the r.t. sources tell us that israeli planes left that military base in turkey and approached the taqiyya from the sea and this was to make sure that they were not inside syrian airspace or that they could not become a legitimate target of the syrian air force what is important is that the attack

originated on the turkish side of the border and revelations that turkey may in fact be copulating with israel against an arab country would indeed be for lack of a better word highly inconvenient for turkey itself and for its nato allies including the united states you need to remember that turkey positions itself as a key power player and a regional why of all of israel it's also interesting to note that the global mainstream media hasn't largely ignored the r.t. report its continued focus and its intent attention instead on the conflict. and the controversy surrounding the whole question of the use of chemical weapons here in israel the report did receive a little coverage not that much but certainly across the board just about every israeli analyst an expert that we approached to comment on this story declined to give his or her viewpoint. now if proven true turkish cooperation with israel would

land right in the middle of the crossfire between its people and its arab neighbors and the cost of damage control could prove too high for the turkish government as are his party boy reports from istanbul. use that tactic could be collaborating with the israeli government to attack an arab neighbor could badly damaged the government of prime minister read out of the un there will be protests because there are protests going on here in turkey against the government and does this on the except of the for the turkish people so distorts the message. to new first as i think the turkish people are. not in the least they look for people rights their country road to independence and this this means that. you have become puppets of. some states and. therefore

this is even enough to be in there so that's where the turkish foreign minister has been quick to dismiss the reports saying that they have no basis in reality critics disagree and say the government may need to get ready for some damage control turkey in israel work together a lot and it's entirely plausible that they would work together turkey didn't even retaliate after nine civilians were killed by israeli commandos and if you look at her the ones track record with the usa it's even more believable he's a puppet of the usa but this is a scandal for the turkish people so of course the government is denying everything . turkey's worries are still rule from two thousand and ten when an aid flotilla heading for gaza was stormed by israeli commandos they boarded a humanitarian aid ship and killed mind turkish civilians and with the prostitute weeks marks by anti-government protests here in. these latest alleged revelations

about cooperation between israel and turkey could present even more problems for the government ali boy care oxy assemble. so it has a long running history of cooperation with israel and both countries are united in their opposition towards that of the syrian government and that's according to middle east affairs analyst. we have an underlying strategic alliance that continues to exercise its effect and far turkey was the first islamic state to recognize israel in mind being forty nine and nineteen ninety six there was a free trade agreement and throughout the last few decades there was very heavy involvement in terms of military security and political cooperation the fact that this witness is somewhat of. the last two three years should not

overshadow the fact that corporation continues between the two countries over the last few months in all four of both there's the eighty's and the turks have been supporting the free syrian army against the syrian regime so as far as that goes we can see where this is coming from. and i just a few minutes away here on the program when i see the grim reality of a life of addiction we report from pakistan a country where our correspondent discovered people are in checked drugs openly in the street and feel they have little else to do in that line. but for now civil rights leaders in america are vowing more protests over the acquittal of neighborhood watch guard george zimmerman who shot dead an unarmed black teenager last year issues of racial hatred are again at the forefront people have been left outraged across the country with police trying to calm the anger on the streets.

reports from new york. new yorkers are now back on the streets for a second day to take justice for trayvon rallies to protest in illinois even says they're outraged with anger for doing the view of the george zimmerman we all know that more than eight hundred thousand people have signed their name put some shame that was put forth by you and the a.c.l.u. calling you for the u.s. justice department to open it up prosecution against george zimmerman on civil rights charges. as as we see the the anger and the outrage is still boiling from coast to coast seems like now that the that this verdict has been rendered it feels like it's open season like we all have a target on our back not just from the police so we're not just worried about the police now have to worry about some crazy races person killing us and claiming self-defense you know i think it strikes home because here in new york even though

it's such a diverse city we still you know see that kind of racism and discrimination on a day to day basis there's a heavy police presence right now so mounting by the way is. so far the demonstrators have spilled out of the union square park and are walking through. park and of course they are surrounded by police officers out on the street let's head over there and just show us a police officer is going on motorcycles and police officers on what's clearly a guy the crowd is very aggravated an incredible injustice and now in the camera like everyone around i like a black man ok thank you heidi thank you actually got after me the waiting day and i think just kind of late getting it was more than just a black or white thing it's not just because i was a little black boy it's it's it's that the sickness here in america you know which you know it gets to decide who it's dangerous and who's not following three hours

in the policing feet demonstrators were still walking through new york city demanding justice and dozens of police officers by their side as sporting reporting from new york marina point i.r.t. . george zimmerman that may have walked free from the court but u.s. attorney general eric holder has reaffirmed the justice department is now the timing with a civil charges could be filed against him now of a professor charles rosen from stetson university in florida he believes the chances of prosecuting zimmerman. if they're going to get him back in court again is going to be difficult to do because the civil rights law requires that he be a state actor and there's no indication that he was an employee of the state government during that time frame the other option would be to charge it has a crime under the shepards act the problem there is that we just don't have evidence that it was a hate crime motivated if there had been that evidence it would have been presented

in the state trial that just concluded the families have that ability to bring a wrongful death claim against mr zimmerman they could force him to testify but the problem will be that mr zimmerman probably doesn't have much in the way of assets so they would wind up spending a great deal of money for very little result there wrote to the ease with which you can not only purchase a weapon but then use that weapon to defend yourself in the state of florida in approximately twenty other states is really what led to this tragedy. i know you hear a lot see we talked to lisa albrecht social activist and professor from the university of minnesota she thinks the entire american legal system is racially biased from the top to the bottom. all that data shows just system in this country is racial from the moment of impact police arrest more people older and white people.

are convicted in greater numbers they serve sentences that are longer and there are greater numbers of people who are in prison in the united states given in terms of their population so you already have all that data and that this we see as a continuation of. this man has been acquitted so now it's time for our government to hear our voice that's why i live in minneapolis in the state of minnesota we will have two thousand people in downtown minnesota in front of a court to share our concerns about these issues. and you can always i log on to our website for more details on live updates on the ongoing protests now sweeping the u.s. over the death of trayvon martin all this on a much more at dotcom this hour. for the meantime here on the program be a former n.s.a. and cia contractor edward snowden will leave moscow as soon as he can according to

russia's president vladimir putin snowden has been holed up in the transit zone of sheremetyevo airport just outside the capital now for more than three weeks and the latest from artie's andrew farmer the tone was that there is no end in sight to this edward snowden's arguing that america should take a large amount of responsibility for that now despite three days ago edward snowden saying that he was going to apply for political asylum in russia russia has yet to receive an official application of mr putin went on to say that regarding the situation with the whistleblower the situation is unclear but what was very clear was that he said russia was not to blame is edward snowden now went is his fourth week in the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport this is what he said. i'm not sure. we didn't invite edward snowden and russia wasn't his final destination anyway he was in transit but as soon as he began his journey his route

was revealed in our us partners effectively blocked for their flight they even made other countries afraid of taking him no one wants to so he ended up blocked on our territory you. know to remain stuck in a basically in a state of legal legal legal limbo here around you but what about further leaks of classified data any more to come do we know well if you go by what said just on friday when he held that press conference at sheremetyevo airport we should not expect the leak simply because he said he was prepared to accept russia's precondition for asylum and that was he would not damage the u.s. but it is clear he has plenty of information up his sleeve and that was the comment made by the journalists who broke this story on the guardian newspaper. he's in possession of literally thousands of documents that contain very specific blueprints that would allow somebody who read to know exactly how the n.s.a.

does what it does which would in turn allow their by their surveillance or to replicate it and that's what i was talking about that he has basically the instruction manual for how the n.s.a. is built no doubt the the u.s. would be worried into herring that we also know that. snowden does not intend to stay in russia permanently he hopes to use any asylum granted here as part of a why didn't plan to then travel to latin america where he has in principle been granted asylum from venezuela bolivia and mickey regular but at the moment we think that the ball is in snowden's caught mr putin also made that clear because when he was asked what would happen next he actually said how should i know this is his fate up to him to take the next step but as we heard earlier mr putin also took the opportunity to make sure everybody knew that russia was not to blame for the fact that edward snowden remains trapped here in russia and more disturbing surveillance

revelations to come in the program here on r t a for example u.k. police use counter-terrorism laws to confiscate mobile phones from travelers trying to cross the border those details just ahead for you here in the program. greece bracing itself for a third standstill this year we talk to a member of one of the general strikes organizing labor unions after a very quickly. talking about language but i will only react to situations i have read the reports for. the no i will leave the state department comment on your. security is on the job. know. they go no more weasel workers when you say to direct question he prepared for

a chase when you know you should be ready for a. freedom of speech and let down the freedom to. look right close to. the first tree limb and i would think that your. reporters twitter. and instagram. could be on the list. welcome to the program here or not see travelers on their way to britain and why want to leave their farms at home it's now been revealed they could be seen browse through by police amazingly enough it's all totally legal to us or australia has

the story. this is one of the most visited countries in the world and right behind me one of the busiest airports but one many travelers may not know one till they actually get to where you can airport or any other port of entry is the fact the police can actually use anti a counterterrorism laws to take more vile phones from anybody they want to and go through that private data download and store them now this kind of information would include a call history contacts photos who the person may have been communicating with through texts or e-mails although not the actual content of the messages now there doesn't even have to be any reasonable suspicion for a police officer to take a mobile phone and keep the information for quote unquote as long as necessary at the u.k. telegraph reports that up to sixty thousand people a year are stopped and examined as they enter or return to the u.k. though we did get in touch with the scotland yard and they sent us this statement that they said that under the terrorism act of two thousand

a person may be detained and questioned for up to nine hours to determine if that individual is a person concerned in the commission preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism they also refuted that the use of such powers are proportional and appropriate and that they are if they have oversight by independent reviewers of you case anti terror laws whatever reviews that are being conducted have highlighted the broader nature of such powers and there have been calls for more safeguards to prevent any abuse of power now we spoke with the freedom association to discuss more on the issue in a democracy the starting line really should be that a private individual has a right to privacy if that right is being sued by the state that must be because there's a good reason to do it so is it too for sure is it's in public interest. is it is it being done through. the entry oversight these questions have to be asked

and that's why that is the line that we need to look out for to just to say we're going to glean information for anybody and hold it for as long as the police deem necessary really isn't acceptable. the website we go here at the. lots of stories updated every hour on the hour. jailed in germany for passing on top secret data well more than twenty years may be exchanged for another agent you can read all the details of the cold war style spy swap between moscow and. captain america iron man. students have a right to their controversial billboard with the former nazi leader surrounded by cartoon superheroes those details on the web site right now. twenty minutes past the hour moscow time greece right now bracing itself for a general strike this year mass rallies being planned in athens at

a standstill comes as greek lawmakers are set to start a two day long debate over new cuts demanded by international creditors. reports from just outside the greek. public sector still. a major part of this economy these jobs are protected by the constitution since the end of the nineteenth century and now greece's creditors detroit guard demanding from the government to cut them they're talking about up to twenty five thousand jobs which have to be reduced before the end of this year and if they see that if the government doesn't do that to then there's not going to get the latest financial package what around six point one billion euros throughout this four week there have been various protest rallies taking place in athens with all types of civil workers taking to the streets from teachers to municipal police but now we're talking about a general strike and for more on this i'm joined by. police from the civil

service configuration one of the organizations which organized this strike so mr x. in our case thank you very much for joining me how big of a strike should we expect today are you there today it's a general strike that means that both private sector and public sector but dissipated in this reaction against all these new measures since we were talking now about the new another new package during the three years this is not the first strike to take place and far from the first demonstration either but so far in general nothing's changed much so do you think there may be may be other ways to improve the situation and what's the tactic of the waiver unions going to have to say first of all that we are for three years now on the street trying to explain to everybody to the government or to do to the lenders that there is not an effective policy we are facing all these musicians but at the same time we can see the

economy reducing more poverty more and more and dramatically rising off growing. people in that the same time when did the society needs more welfare state we're losing it's day by day we have to change this policy and the government it's time to say stop with all these measures and we hope that this is that they will vote in the parliament about a new plan which leads to more austerity cincinnatus thank you very much for your time this was. from the civil servants confederation of greece one of the two main unions organizing this general strike today in these. decades of war in afghanistan have brought many consequences including the onset of the world's biggest heroin industry with the amount of land on the opium cultivation constantly on the rise it's also affecting neighboring pakistan where it's now easier sometimes to get

high and get fed you may find some images in lucy catherine office report to stop. an ambulance rushes to caracas largest more than other body is brought in to be identified there's no shortage of ways to die in the city target killings bomb blasts and drugs. i was hoping not to find his father here he's been searching karachi for more than two weeks as a last resort he checked this morning but amid the portraits of the dead a grim discovery and a familiar face of delicious father was addicted to heroin for almost a decade now he's another one of the drugs casualties. but i don't know where they are going to be hard to break the news to my mother but this is what happened and we have to face it there will be tears at home tonight the tears that abdullah believes could have been prevented he says his father tried to quit several times but in pakistan there are few treatment centers and plenty of temptation by just

telling me that i could stand has been flooded with heroin it's easy to get that it's even sold out in the open the police do nothing because they're also involved and just a few blocks away under. world in broad daylight these heroin addicts don't even bother hiding their habit it's thought that pakistan has more than four million drug addicts but fewer than eighty dedicated we have clinics. health care these young people may be in short supply there is no shortage of heroin on the problem they may be a problem solving problems but they share one thing in common what you observed in london or moscow and heroin that deadly. afghanistan is the world's largest producer of opium heroine's main ingredient and it accounts for ninety percent of the global supply roughly forty percent of it is smuggled through pakistan it's a multi-billion dollar industry fueled by years of war and instability opium production is up for the third year in a row and is predicted to grow even further and once nato leaves in twenty fourteen

there are fears that the floodgates will open for the spread of the deadly harvest you are going to get rid of this wall of their school i suppose but you'll be inviting end of the war which would be very difficult. to win. and there could be the wall of drugs pakistani security experts want nato forces to take heed they have gone drug trade is the elephant in the room the biggest challenge was fox on his face to face that in all honesty and twenty fourteen post for troll strategy drugs has been left out by the united states nato and other european partners as an issue which is not to be considered. the port of karachi a key drug smuggling exit point the city is flooded with cheap pair one which addicts here say is easier to buy than a healthy meal and near a busy highway this hole in the wall serves as a makeshift heroin takeout window money goes in and drugs are pushed out into eager waiting hands. i tell myself that i'll stop using this drug for the sake of my

children that's what i'm thinking about but i can't help myself because my body needs it and the heroine's easy to get. to easy it seems pakistanis get through an estimated one point two billion dollars worth of heroin each year but ross excess just a dollar fifty is enough to get him high. if it's spreading now it's going to my heart straight to the heart from the heroin heartland of ghana stan a casualty of the poison spreading from the war zone next door you see caffein of karachi just a moment or the kaiser report. or remember those old wacky communist countries who constantly boost their numbers to make themselves feel better oh who cares if stores aren't the end this piece of

paper i have one hundred thousand tons of potatoes that is good enough for me well now we're in a new age of technology but the same lying to make yourself feel good is still going strong it just moved over to the capitals world the u.s. state department's bureau of international information programs has spent six hundred thirty thousand dollars on facebook advertising campaigns to get fans a sense of the government is out there to buy likes oh what a fantastic use of tax dollars but wait maybe i'm being too pessimistic perhaps it worked and really helped spread the message of the us state department effectively well inspector general's report says that since the advertising campaign started twenty eleven there has been a dramatic increase in users liking state department sites but the problem is that only two percent of them actually use the sites so you get what you pay for a big bag of likes but if you hard core fans probably the most shocking example is a vision of america group in farsi made for a rainy and which has gotten over four hundred twenty thousand members but only one percent of them is actually in iran where facebook advertising doesn't even exist

that's effective getting lots of likes doesn't mean you are actually reaching people instead of paying for them why not you know get them naturally by by providing interesting honest content on a regular basis oh wait that takes effort and honesty yeah you know what just keep wasting our tax dollars but that's just my opinion.