breaking news here in our a russian anti-corruption blogger only seen a volley walks free at least temporarily has been released with travel restrictions pending his appeal a day after being sentenced to five years in jail for investment. a life sentence looms for u.s. army private bradley manning after a judge up holds a charge that he aided the enemy in leaking classified documents by washington faces an uphill struggle in its war on whistleblowers. and the e.u. puts a damper on israel's settlement expansion plans new cooperation guidelines to make the occupied territories an eligible for future funding.

this interview coming to you live from moscow i'm maria joshie welcome to the program now we begin with breaking news this hour anti-corruption blogger alex in a volley and his cold a fan of both sentenced yesterday to jail time have been released at least temporarily and they are now subject to travel bans while they are appeals are in process i'm now joined life by going to go who's outside the court in kiro. farmer who is in central moscow for us well first off you've been following the hearing from the very beginning so can you describe exactly what happened there. well diversification has made an appeal to the court following yesterday's verdict guilty to both of ali and his codefendant but if it's sort of stating that in fact the court has chosen a. preventative measure to see fear for this particular crime which is the economic

nature embezzlement. and when dividing up the tariff we're actually arrested in the courthouse immediately after the judge has finished a reading the verdict actually shouldn't have done so so essentially the prosecution in this case has been wrecked in the error made by the judge the both the divine me and if it's a work. were found guilty of them doesn't mean charges the court has stated to. me along with the fifth set i've developed this elaborate scheme where i sit on instructions from the new has organized it into intermediary company which then started working away with the. with the local state owned kit of this timber company and it has inflicted the it has inflicted damage in the amount of sixteen million rubles that's roughly half a million dollars value was given

a five year a five year prison sentence if it's ever was given a four year prison sentence of course now they have been released so they're not says suppose so leave moscow. to their or their lawyers still have time to make an appeal for the reversal off the verdict in fact they have roughly just over a week to do that and if that is indeed the case then dividing actually stands a chance at running for the moscow mayor is in the moscow mirrors election and the head of the violence election campaign has already said that they are planning to go ahead with that but not by me himself has said that he is going to continue his pain but he's not yet certain in all what type of fashion he is going to do that so nobody of course is is officially on the ballot for the moscow mayoral elections and now that he has been released and he's expected to arrive in moscow on saturday morning where a lot of people are hoping that he will make a statement regarding. the events that have been transpiring here in kiev as well

as his plans for the run in moscow's mayoral elections are that she will make that announcement on saturday mediately after he gets off the train in one of the train stations in moscow. thanks for this us now our turn to andrew farmer who is in moscow for us an andrew yesterday's a verdict of course sparked a mass protest by in awhile the supporters anything major expected today what are you hearing. well yes i mean if you're talking about today to start with. protests have been planned over the weekend by the opposition but it's still unclear to what extent that will happen given the fact that turnaround he has now been released albeit temporarily but there's go back to what happened yesterday just a few hours after his conviction fantasies of his supporters did take to the streets of moscow to protest. organizers say around three to seven thousand sorry people took part the police say it's near at three thousand they had planned

regionally to demonstrate admission a square but they did not have official permission from the authorities so police stopped them from doing so however crowds were allowed to gather around its perimeter pretty close to the kremlin and also pretty close to the state duma there were similar scenes in st petersburg but it is wrong to say this is a picture across the whole of russia in the valley does have huge support on falling on the internet particularly on social media networks in fact he made his name and gained his fame from his anti corruption blogs particularly two years ago during the protests after the parliamentary elections but a recent poll has shown that only ten percent of people across russia are actually following his case so that gives you an idea perhaps of overall about his popularity we're not quite sure as we say what will happen later today or over the

weekend protests perhaps more like the ones we have seen yesterday are planned but as i say the extent to which that will happen is unclear given that not only has just been released. all right we're going to leave you guys for an hour. here a fan of our in moscow thank you so much for bringing us those updates on the situation as running then of on the case and to further discuss the latest developments. joined in the studio by. my political analyst dmitri bothers me to rethink it so much for joining us here well such a turnaround wasn't surprised in a volley himself on either prosecutors or press for in a violent release he's released now temporarily pending appeal what's behind this but i think that the western press and a lot of russians basically they have sort of a simplified image of the russian political system they still think that just like in the old soviet union if a decision is taken somewhere at the top then all the actual itself powerful feel

it and you can change anything in reality there are many groups in the russian elite and they have been pushing these. things including navona case in different directions i'm sure that there was no agreement between various branches of power on what to do with the botany and i'm sure that the moscow macedonian will soon see when he asked the date because to collect signatures for a novel in its candidacy so you know there are pushes in different directions and here we have some really for now bonnie common from a source that i would say no western journalist on oil position activist would suspect from the prosecutor's office well you know many actually saying colluding and obama's supporters that this happened due to a mass protest how much of this is true and do you think this point of view is justified oh i don't think so because you know it happened so quickly you know the

protests did not yet really start you know when we've had this announcement and i think that there were a lot of fact us including the international reaction which is sometimes just too emotional you know the b.b.c. called him another nelson mandela i think this is certain then exaggeration but certainly i think there were many factors that pushed in that direction ok. well things are developing very rapidly as we all can see and it'll be interesting to see what we happening in the next in the immediate future of course vali hasn't decided yet whether he will run for mayor or not although the head of his election campaign says he will so in case he does make this decision to go ahead does he stand a chance well i don't think that he stands a chance of winning in moscow not because of their authoritarian nature or the russian regime but because his program is military different from some bandits

program if you look at the main ideas you know like making everything that extraordinary and basically switching to that market methods all of ronnie and corny and. not only in that sense is in the comic liberal just like civilian and he's. differences that there can be you know i think that when the western press depicts not only as you know in all of the callers i said libero and humanist and all these things it's a simplification because he has been expelled from the liberal yabloko party for nationalists deviations i think that the secret of his success is that he's a very average young russian and. not squeaky clean maybe you know a little nationalistic. striving for economic freedom so i think that he has some support but of course it's not massive support it's not millions of people

he's just an interesting young man just like many young going to printers that you have in moscow and in other russian cities ok well certainly we don't have a crystal ball now we don't know what's going to be happening next but all the interesting to watch the developments as they say we're going to bob thank you very much for your analysis that was political analyst talking to us here on our t.v. on the volley case and just remind of the scene of ali has been released temporarily pending his appeal and we follow all the very latest developments for you here on our team. well about this conviction has drawn instant criticism from western governments washington condemn the ruling as suppression of civil society in russia was that opinion largely acco by e.u. officials however british legal expert and blogger alexander macoris who's been following that a volley 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 mr navarro he was given 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 you do look at the entrance you would decide that he was probably convicted well that's exactly the problem what one gets to see the feelie 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 the case of theft which is what this basically is of. 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. all we've got more analysis and

opinion on the issue on our website r.t. dot com also there live updates and the best pictures from the protests against the verdict and don't forget to check out our correspondents twitter feeds for all the latest on this and the other stories we cover. right from the street. first street view and i think the jury. on our reporters with their. instrument. to be in the. prospects are looking bleak for the u.s. military new whistleblower bradley manning a judge has refused to drop the charge against him aiding the enemy means the army private who turn over thousands of classified documents to wiki leaks could spend

the rest of his life behind bars with no chance of parole has been following the case it is the most serious charge of the 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 and 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 authorities going to check on their reports the 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 as 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 us government decided that punishment is perhaps not enough in the wake of bradley manning's lease 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 each and 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 about this new era of whistleblowers we spoke with them for nix who's been writing extensively on the bradley manning case take a listen you know forgetting it was brutally to proceed to walk out of the raid corporation in the hospital documents. seventy two hours and.

hours of documents on a lot of bradley manning hundred. seater. 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 lie it's interesting poll show that the majority of americans think of edward snowden as a whistleblower 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 u.s. government's were crimes abroad. not surprisingly many generates more sympathy abroad than at home but one can argue that americans are more sympathetic to snowden because his revelations are about their rights their civil liberties so they care more when it's some iraqis rights they apparently care less

why after the break we'll take a look at a new source of tension between israel and the european union so stay with us for that. i doubt very seriously that obama is sincere when he says snowden should come home and stand trial. in. the news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images group world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operations are all day.

i would rather as questions for people who visit our instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on our t.v. question more. welcome back this is our team and the european union has cut off funding to disputed israeli occupied territories in the west bank and east jerusalem that's part of e.u. pressure on israel to keep inside its original borders before their expansion in nine hundred sixty seven the decision will affect more than half a million of settlers and has caused an angry reaction from tel aviv but europe

south as it's merely formalized opposition have been state of manny times before our disposal here has more. 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 our real 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 pretty big 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 thirty percent of israeli institutions including large corporations and banks that have in 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 policy r.t. in the ariel settlement west bank now professor of international law or john the guard believes or israel does not have a strong bargaining position at the moment. well i think until pretty recently to has been accepted that is row borders with the borders of nine hundred sixty seven but in recent times israel has george to continue i don't think that israel can

afford to own property you could. be depended on the e.u. economically and politically you could be a nuisance free for the ready to go to get clear on on in terms of the guidelines. is not a settled politically the israeli cabinet. is divided on the issue of peace to don't seem to be moving in the direction of a photo an extension of the road which break. i think is a very difficult situation for israel to. do clearly not at the time that john kerry is attempting to reach toward settlement talks. it is confined to its nineteen sixty seven borders and no to the french really. take a look at some other stories from around the world and egyptian capital has seen yet another mass rally by supporters of the hour suppressing the hama morsi

denouncing the newly formed government the rally in cairo followed a televised speech given by interim president adly mansour or who said the recent hours for of the muslim brotherhood cannot be reversed more protests are expected to sweep the country was egypt's military already issuing a stern warning against islamist factions seeking to stir up the unrest. spain is the largest cities have been hit by a wave of overnight protests in madrid police clashed with protesters and several were injured on both sides tensions also flared up in barcelona angry crowds demanded the prime minister mari our hallways step down following accusations that he received secret cash payments from a slush fund in two thousand and eleven the allegations come at a time of public frustration. over soaring unemployment and severe austerity cuts. police in the u.k. have launched an investigation after one of the two men accused of fatally stabbing

soldier lee rigby outside the barracks in may was attacked in prison several officers were reportedly called in to help after michael began acting violently and it was injured during the subsequent brawl in the prisons high security wing of a lodge and his accomplice are expected to stand trial on of amber the teens in a case that triggered outrage and a series of protests across britain. and staying with the u.k. more than six hundred people many of them pensioners have died due to a heat wave over the last nine days officials issued a level three alert after scorching temperatures on wednesday reaching thirty two degrees celsius in two thousand and three stream heat that affected large parts of europe caused the deaths of two thousand british citizens now washington is considering whether to use military force in syria that was revealed by a u.s. army general joining a senate testimony who said the options for

a military intervention are already on the table that's asked syria faces the prospect of terrorist forces gaining overwhelming control over the country's north of cairo for early plans to create its own state near the border with turkey forcing rival rebel groups out journalist believes the syrian opposition will use the threat in a desperate bid to secure a western intervention. it's interesting that when president assad was warning about al-qaeda in syria from twenty eleven of which he was dismissed by the west you scaremongering it's true he was saying that al qaeda was coming to her in syria and now we're hearing this from the f.s.a. it was interesting isn't it that those of those who did want this would have were dismissed as the book ologist. the syrian government now the west has got to wake up to what's really going on and that i think having said that it's very important joint strategy in armies very keen to get western intervention there now change their strategy they're saying look al-qaeda are going to take unless you do meet and help us. and i think now they're lost and say look you've got to help us out

and to try to put. the moderate rebels were not too late because terrible crimes are terrible terrorist atrocities so it's i think it's a kind of faux division to say that there are bad rebels the fact is elections are due in syria next year twenty fourteen there's no excuse for anybody to be using violence now to achieve beautiful change in syria get across to elections are available to people so i think the epicenter this is a sort of desperate last chance for the. situation in syria has been under the spotlight and crosstalk and can watch the full show later today but here is a preview. if you are a science group. on the other side the russians the iranians it would be better to get this to a bargaining table stop arming the rebels so that assad would continue maybe getting the momentum on the battlefield and feel as though he is in control enough to come so the talks if he is in control of those talks and there are no perfect

preconditions for him to go. that is you know that would be there the best scenario on that side but the united states wants to see him go so i mean it is a huge mess you know it's all from your point of view why should have to be all about just one man that's ridiculous it's got a lot in harvest. one way to look at this peter perhaps one way to look at this perhaps one way to look at this is not to look at syrians as assad's people of the opposition's people as outsiders it is just for a moment look at them all as syrians if the stalemate continues what we call a stalemate as of this war is frozen between two sides what happens as more syrians die so to place the emphasis on assad's exit is to prolong this war.

and up next here in our could the snowden saga rail obama's planned visit to moscow that's under discussion and so if you go in just a few minutes. 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 grab the community to anyone that later reproduces said product i mean would any sane person say that if you shoot a person with a coke forty five pistol that is a crime but if you use a copycat call made in mexico to blow your neighbor's it off well that's ok because it's a generic copy no no sane person would allow drug producers to have no liability for their product but that's just my opinion.

alan welcome to sophie and co plants of the shevardnadze and even today we can't get past snowden and what snowden has intentionally or unintentionally but the relationship between russia and the united states on ice the fact is that whistleblower weighs on russian territory and is asking for an asylum while the united states is demanding his immediate arrest and extradition in the current load of uncertainty and chill in it between the two states what is really at risk. a legacy of glory. u.s. ties are continuously tested never more so than. this squabble over snowden has fuels the crossfire well presidents seek to preserve partnership and.