the russian anti-corruption blogger alexina vonnie could get a last minute reprieve a day after being sentenced to five years in jail for embezzlement the court is considering granting a temporary release pending and he's appealed you're looking at live pictures right now. and a life sentence looms for u.s. army private bradley manning after a judge uphold a charge that he aided the enemy in leaking classified documents but washington faces an uphill struggle and its war on whistleblowers. and the e.u. puts a dampener on israel's settlement expansion plans new cooperation guidelines make the occupied territories ineligible for future funding.

eleven am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshie now we've seen a volley of russian anti-corruption campaign or convicted yesterday of defrauding a state company is back in court prosecutors who earlier succeeded in having him sentenced to five years in jail are now asking that the volley be released pending appeal the judges are expected to announce their decision any minute now while i'm now joined live to talk about this by reno gold was outside the court in the town of kiruv and andrew farmer in sandro in moscow. so the first question to you because you are in the town were in a volley first heard his verdict and sentence yesterday so what's the latest from

the courtroom that you are hearing. what we're literally on the edge of the seats here because the we know that the judge has just returned from deliberation the entire appeal process has taken only ten minutes and instead now taking about forty minutes it's taken the judge forty minutes to decide. whether or not it will be released on the condition that he along with his accomplice if it's at a do not leave the country now this is so significantly less time it's a good it's taken to court to make that to make this possible decision that it took the judge yesterday to read the verdicts were read were there for more than three hours was reading one hundred feet verdict and five. found at the defendant's not violent it's investment of some sixteen million rubles that's about half a million dollars by conducting an elaborate embezzlement scheme involving a state owned timber company yes. immediately after that he was arrested right in

the court room and taken to a preliminary detention and just hours afterwards at the same prosecutor who was actually at the trial of. me has made an appeal to the court that now by the end of the term be released until they are. until their verdict actually takes hold and becomes effective and that hasn't happened yet in fact that the defense still has ten days to appeal the verdict and the main motivation that the prosecution has stated for their appeal to the court is that now finally is registered as a candidate to run in moscow's mayoral elections in september and the arrest his current arrest is in keeping his campaign progress. that is the situation that we're looking at right now it's somewhat confusing as a lot of people have. noted considering the fact that election camp has actually said that not by me beforehand before the verdict was read has said that if he's found guilty indeed he is going to withdraw his candidacy but he hasn't done so yet

so we're still waiting for the we're still waiting for the judge to decide whether the body be released and if that is the case that he could very well continue on with his run for the top job in moscow i just want to remind our viewers that you are looking at live pictures there coming out of the courthouse in the town of care where we are at the moment and as we are awaiting the judge's decision now let's ask andrew farmer and yesterday's verdict of course sparked a mass protest by evolve as supporters how big were they and what was the authorities response just a few a few hours after his conviction several founders and his supporters turned back into the streets of moscow to protest they say that the trial was politically motivated organizers claim seven thousand people were that well though the police put the figure somewhere around three thousand originally they had intended to

demonstrate that militia night square will though they didn't have permission from the authorities to do this or the police prevented them from doing so however crowds were around to gather around its perimeter near the kremlin and also the state duma police say it was pretty much a peaceful demonstration and although two hundred people that's the figure we're hearing at the moment were arrested both of those were arrested because they were obstructing the busy highway around that area during the rush hour period there were similar scenes also in simply just good but it is wrong to say this was a picture across the whole of russia. misson of only gained his fame really from his anticorruption blogging and that's where most people follow him only social media network sites and particularly two years ago he came to croman. during the mass demonstrations of the parliamentary elections high with a poll has shown that across russia only ten percent of people are actually

following his case and although he's a figurehead for the opposition it is also worth noting he's not a leader of any in fact he was banned from the broken party for sixteen nationalistic. or enter thanks very much indeed for this and go thank you for your obviates from the town of akira for we're just getting a live picture as they are and we're hearing that scene of ali and he's co-defendants both earlier sentenced to jail time have now been released at least temporarily they are now subject to travel bans while their appeal is in process and as a corruption blogger and a vocal critic of ali was convicted of a half a million dollars from a state and surprise the verdict has sparked massive sanction protests in moscow and several other cities where you are looking at live pictures earlier and right

now after this. was announced after the hearing that took place in the town here of. a volley has been released pending his appeal after. he was jailed for embezzlement yesterday in the town of kirkuk. and also we are hearing the very latest information that the volley will be taking place in the merrill elections in moscow so this is the very latest information that we get here on r t there's a live pictures from the courthouse in the town of here if we're. seeing a volley of russian protest was a. jailed yesterday he heard his verdict and he's sentenced to five years in prison but today he was released pending his appeal.

and now i'll be seeing of ali is subject to a travel ban but he has also announced that he will take part in the mayoral elections that are to take place later. what's now staying was those pictures that we're showing from the courthouse and the town of care of right now you're looking at alec seeing a volley. addressing the people there and the members of the media and to his right we see his wife there well this is of course breaking news on our t.v. were in of ali and his co-defendants earlier sentenced to jail time have now been released this releases temper of course pending your appeal and now they're subject to travel bans while the european force is in process here's some background into corruption blogger and a vocal kremlin critic now vali was convicted of embezzling half

a million dollars from a state underpriced the verdict has sparked mass on sanctions protests in moscow and several other cities. now will be of course getting more information to you as we receive it but for now and of ali is conviction has drawn instant criticism from western governments washington condemned the ruling as suppression of civil society in russia was that opinion largely at code by e.u. officials however british legal expert and blogger alexander macoris who's been following going to vali trial told us that outsiders are jumping to conclusions without looking at the details of the case. as far as i could see. the charges made out the facts were set out clearly and this can absolve me just give

them an opportunity to cross-examine witnesses to respond to the evidence and i think if you look at the evidence and i think a lot of the people who question the fairness of the trial have not. but i think if you do look at the area you would decide that he was probably convicted well that's exactly the problem what one gets with the feeling people who have already made up their minds before the case even started and before the trial even started simply following their own opinions which they formed in advance of the crown prosecution service here takes the view that in a case of theft which is what this basically is of our property worth more than one hundred twenty five thousand pounds the first time offender who pleads guilty it's between three and six years five years is exactly in line with that. well rapid developments here of course and we can now talk to our correspondent who

is outside the courthouse in care were evolving the scene of ali has just been released at least temporarily you were to tell us more. well literally just when i say just when i stopped talking that's when we got the news that he has been released we're expecting a violent along with but that it's enough to pass through the doors that you will be you that you could probably see behind me any moment now of course they have already been released from of their arrest immediately in the courthouse right after the judges have announced that they are free to go under a travel ban and we have already heard from the head of the values election campaign is going to participate in the mayor's election that is coming and it's coming up in september it may be left or she was released the filing of course to a street a street when straight to his wife you leave was also there gave her a hug and of course addressing everybody and there they are right now people are

applauding oh they're there they are exiting the courthouse at this particular moment. but we're expecting that he's probably going to make their store short speech right now. but yes he is as i said he is. the head of his election template said that nobody is going to run for the campaign so he is probably going to head back to moscow either today or perhaps tomorrow of course we don't know any of his plans for the immediate future at the moment but a lot of been dividing his supporters obviously are extremely happy that this is how prince. got about two months to prepare for the elections for the post of the moscow mayor. there first you can start deliberating now what it means for now finally if he is going to be elected to the d. the in the in the early elections. i'm just going to allow myself to kind of ponder

that question for a moment if he's going to actually win the elections what is going to happen to his . way with that with the fact that he has been found guilty the court has ruled that he is guilty of embezzlement charges whether or not they're going to change how whether it's going to actually affect his political career in the future. definitely a clear cut point at this point because having. i haven't been actually found guilty he will not be able to run for any top notch top job political polls like the president for example because there have been some who have been saying to me is quite ambitious in that regard and aiming for one of the top was in russian politics but again there are some who believe that actually this this this entire event surrounding the trial of alexina filing has actually played a good role for him in terms of helping the cause the p.r.

campaign so to speak i mean he is literally now an enormously well known person not just in a russia but obviously in the west he has been portrayed as a sort of a poster boy for the russian opposition which although remaining somewhat disunited . picked him as one of the top people who could be who could be who could be serving as sort of a figurehead for the opposition what is going to happen now that is one of the main questions that we are where they were replying to us now. probably not the only ones just we've got questions we're probably will find out later what's going to happen and what steps will be but right now we know that he has been released temporarily for spending he has appeal with some travel restrictions and also announced that he's going to continue with his mayoral campaign we're going to go thank you so much. bring us the sub date and earlier we're looking at live pictures

from the courthouse in the town of careful we of course bring you more on the developments from there and in the meantime a london based russia analysts martin mccauley says that for manny in the west an avanti trial is just a pretext to criticise the kremlin if something like this comes up it's very easy then to take a stick to the russian state of the russian government and say that they're behaving like the communists they haven't really improve they haven't really moved to democracy through to goal of market economy and so on so therefore there's a there's a prejudice there's a lovely. in the west we turn to russia to the only way that russia could never come to is he's busy sharing that the law is not to pay that the contract is really comfortable and that person is good the democracy is in fact practice and so this is a long long hard road and one that more analysis and opinion on the issue on our

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prospects are a looking bleak for the u.s. military was lower bradley manning a judge has refused to drop the charge against him aiding the enemy that means the army private who turned over thousands of classified documents to wiki leaks could spend the rest of his life behind bars with no chance of parole liz wahl has been following the case. it is the most serious charge of a private first class faces so that means he still faces the possibility of life without parole now the court took a look at the testimony and evidence we've heard so far throughout this case and found that there is enough evidence to move forward with this charge this charge of aiding the enemy prosecution has cited manning's job as an intelligence analyst they say that as an intelligence analysts he should have known that by leaking these documents to the n.c.

secret secrecy website wiki leaks that al qaeda osama bin laden and al qaeda affiliates were going to see this information and now the defense has insisted and has maintained that bradley manning and no way intended to aid the enemy they say that he is a whistleblower and that he leaked these documents in an effort to expose wrongdoing to spark a public debate what is going on in the wars abroad diplomatically really what the truth is right now trial is wrapping up just a matter of time now before we will hear closing arguments and ultimately it will be one person the judge in this case that will deliver the verdict and bradley manning is not the only whistleblower feeling the pressure from the u.s. government the latest is of course former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden who blew the lid on america's secret surveillance activities and is currently stranded in the transit zone of the moscow airport and as are he's going to check on the reports that two cases are part of

a wider movement for transparency that it may be impossible for washington to stop . the u.s. government's relentless crackdown on whistleblowers is sort of designed to scare the whistleblowers of the future but we see that bradley manning's fate has not scared edward snowden for example so despite the crackdown whistleblowers keep coming forward with revelations about the government's wrongdoings as they see them so the u.s. government decided that punishment is perhaps not enough in the wake of bradley manning's leaks the government came up with the so-called inside us like program under which government employees with clearances are basically instructed to snitch on each other so employees have to judge their colleagues behavior and determine whether they might might become a whistleblower you can imagine how many baseless and discriminatory investigations the program could trigger critics argue that the obama administration is using mccarthy methods to go after whistleblowers on top of that you have journalists who sources in the government have dried up the justice department has shown that to track down and on all the rice source they can see quickly seized during this

communications records as was the case with a.p. germany's so but this new era of with simple lowers spoke with them for next who's been writing extensively on the bradley manning case take a listen you know for forgetting to leave the pentagon papers he had to walk out of the record preaching the gospel documents all of the notes so who really seventy two hours and. hours of documents on a lot of bradley manning underground or not loading look at here. you know presumably did something so we were just running scared of the documents and we were the editor of a president of secrecy and a person who in this these two sources are bound to collide it's interesting poll show that the majority of americans think of edward snowden as a whistle blower not a traitor whereas the majority of americans think bradley manning is a traitor to a certain extent the public support for this or that whistleblower depends on the

subject of their revelations bradley manning revealed the us governments were crimes abroad. not surprisingly many generates more sympathy abroad then at home but one can argue that americans are more sympathetic to snowden because these revelations are about their rights their civil liberties so they care more when it's iraqis rights they apparently care less. the european union has cut off funding to disputed is really occupied territories in the west bank and east jerusalem that's part of a pressure on israel to keep inside its original borders before their expansion in nine hundred sixty seven the decision will affect more than a half a million of settlers and has caused an angry reaction from tel aviv but europe says it's merely formalized a position that have been stated many times before are just policy or now reports. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is furious with this new european

union directive and a number of leading israeli officials have called it an earthquake what it states is that in any future agreements between israel and the european union the needs to be an exclusion clause referring to settlements in the west bank and east jerusalem now i'm standing in the israeli settlement of aureole behind me is the university that was founded thirty one years ago and which today has a student population of fourteen thousand degrees that awarded here are recognized by the israeli higher council for education but this latest move by the european union is bad news not only for settlements like this one but also for universities like the one you see behind me what it states is that they needs to be a prohibit on all grants scholarships prizes and money that is awarded and less there is this exclusion cause now it is estimated that this will affect some forty percent of israeli institutions including large corporations and banks that have been direct ties with the settlements palestinians and their allies have

congratulated and welcomed this move saying that it is an important political and cultural boycott on the settlement movement but these raids are angry particularly the right wing elements in the ten yahoos government who say that they're now going to step up their cause to end any kind of gestures for resumption of peace talks with the palestinians placea r.t. in the ariel settlement west bank although further a discussion on this we're now joined live by professor of international law john de garde thank you so much sir for joining us here on r.t. to discuss this well it's almost taken a century after the territories were occupied for europe to spring into action why now. well i think until pretty recently it has been accepted that israel borders with the borders of nine hundred sixty seven but in recent times israel has started to contest at the net very clear the response of missed it in yahoo to these

european union guidelines because he has stated that we do not accept any external dictates on our borders and that is the reason why i think. the e.u. has made to stick around i think the other reason is the average obvious situations that the university of real repute if you rightly pointed out this is going to be the institution that could be mainly affected because it really does mean that research grants and prizes that right now the winds have gone to the university of mario will not be completed well in light of these developments i would likely to see a confrontation between israel and the e.u. on this issue how do you think the situation will develop there i don't think that israel can afford to confront the e.u. because it is really depended on the e.u.

not weakly and politically but i do think it puts the israeli come to be who could position because it has to declare on ana that the into question is not. within the west bank east jerusalem who gaza and that will be very difficult for israel it's much easier when it comes to neighboring settlement goods to do or to lie and say that it would goods do not come from a settlement now are you could be necessary for the israeli government to get clear on on in terms of the guidelines that the in two d. is not a settlement ok do you think that being in this awkward situation as you have described it israel will be sort of forced to soften its stance on the expansion. i don't think it can afford to do that because politically the israeli cabinet. is divided on the issue at least to don't seem to be moving in the direction of

a de facto annexation of the bank so i think it's a very difficult situation for israel to. declare it not at the time that john kerry is attempting to restart settlement talks that it is confined to its nine hundred sixty seven borders and that's the crunch really. ok netanyahu has said that the new rules violate existing agreements so does that mean that we're likely to see some sort of a clash here between the e.u. and israel on this issue and my sense of the e.u. agreements is that they have no record no israel. sovereignty over. the areas. you know which man who used to release from gaza

so i do not accept that there will be a violation of existing agreements. ok that was john de garde professor of international law thanks so much sir for sharing your views with us here on our teeth and crossed uk is up next. if you want is something truly baffling the u.s. supreme court has ruled that generic drug makers cannot be sued for bad reactions to their products only the original branded creators of the drugs can the court's decision was five to four overturning a multimillion dollar award for a woman who was horribly wounded by taking a medication which gave her toxic epidermal necrosis which is basically the equivalent of getting third degree burns all over her body and of course after

winning the case mutual pharmaceutical company is demanding their millions of dollars back from the woman who they naturally blame for having side effects from the medicine they made themselves remember this is not just a ruling about one drug but a ruling about all generic drugs which are eighty percent of the u.s. market all of them will not have any accountability i cannot wrap my head around the logic of only punishing the creator of a product and granting immunity to anyone that later reproduces said product i mean would any sane person say that if you shoot a person with a colt forty five pistol that is a crime but if you use a copycat call made in mexico to blow your neighbors off well that's ok because it's a generic copy no no sane person would allow generic drug producers to have no liability for their product but that's just my opinion.