it's. breaking news here in r t a russian anti-corruption blogger only seen a volley walks free at least temporarily has been released with travel restrictions banning he's appealed the day after being sentenced to five years in jail for embezzlement. a life sentence looms for u.s. army private bradley manning after a judge uphold the charge that he aided the enemy in leaking classified documents but washington faces an uphill struggle in its war on whistleblowers. and the e.u. put down there on israel's settlement expansion plans as new cooperation guidelines blog the occupied territories from future funding.

as one pm of the russian capital you're watching r t will begin with breaking news this hour and a corruption blogger volley and he was killed a phantom both sentenced yesterday to jail time have been released at least temporarily they are now subject to travel bans while they are appeals are in process i'm now joined live. outside the court in here of and under a farmer in central moscow well hello welcome to both of you a first we go to. you've been following this case from the very beginning can you describe how exactly what happened there today. well. enough etc for actually your hands cuffed and taken out of court yesterday after their verdict was read and then the prosecution was deemed the preventative measure of preliminary confinement to be too strict in this particular case. in the end in

relation to their crime which is of economic nature of course and so the prosecution has appealed to court asking for the release of both defendants from their detention which is exactly what happened after the have arrived into a different court essentially just down the street from the first one but also still unclear of the both were tried on charges of a woman. accused of essential masterminding in the labyrinth scheme which caused damages of roughly sixteen million rubles that's about half a million dollars. they both were sentenced both were given prison terms of course they both have the sort of course are free to leave here of but they're not to leave moscow they have to travel beyond imposed on by they walked out of this courthouse. thanking his supporters there was a crowd of them gathered here he is going to head to moscow now he is now

able to continue this campaign for the moscow mayor election which is to seek place in september but although the head of the violence election committee has said they are ready to go ahead as planned himself has said that he hasn't yet decided on this final plans for the campaign so we have to hear. from him. all right thanks very much for this and that was an update from the town of carefulness now across to moscow where andrew farming is was the latest where andrew ito yesterday the verdict in the sand sparked mass protest so. what can we expect today anything major expected today well the latest news in the end we have from the valleys camp is that they have almost his supporters not to carry demonstrations that had been planned over the weekend and on to his room. lisa of

course yesterday just hours after the new values conviction thousands of his supporters did did turn out on to the streets of moscow to protest they said that the trial was politically motivated organizers claim that seven thousand people turned up police say the figure was nearer three thousand they had originally intended to demonstrate nice square but they did not have official permission from the authorities had the police prevented them from doing so however crowds were allowed to gather on its perimeter very close close to the kremlin and also the state duma overall it did pass peacefully has to be said even though police made two hundred arrests they do say the bulk of those were made because people were obstructing the highway they were standing at a busy intersection during rush hour in moscow last night similar scenes were repeated incent petersburg but it is also fair to say this was not the picture across the whole of russia novelli does have very strong support on the internet

and on social media networks that's where he made his name particularly as an anti corruption blogger two years ago during the mass protest after the parliamentary elections but a poll has come out to say that only ten percent of russians nationwide are actually following the case or perhaps that does put things in perspective but the news we have from the valley's camp is that they have asked his supporters not to demonstrate over the weekend in light of his release all right andrew and irina thank you so much for these updates every farmer in moscow and they're going to tell of well earlier i discussed the bali trial and the man behind a public image with political analyst dmitri body. 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 not very different from some balanced program differences there can be. and i think that when the western press

depicts not only you know in order to cause us to leave or oh and humanist and all these things it's a simplification because he has been expelled from the liberal party for nationalists deviations i think 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 interpreted or so that you have in mosque or and in other russian cities on of his conviction has drawn instant criticism from western governments washington can dam 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 mercury's who's been

following that involve the 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 to develop he was given an opportunity to cross-examine to respond to the evidence and i think if you look at the evidence and i think a lot of 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 what one gets this feeley people who have already made up their minds before the case even started in the full dryly. simply following their own opinions which they informed in advance 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. got more allison opinion on the issue now website or t. dot com also there are a live updates and the best pictures from the protests against the verdict well don't forget to check out our correspondence twitter feeds for all the latest on this and the other stories that we cover. right see. first book. and i think that you're. on our reporters were very. instrumental. in the. prospects are looking bleak for the u.s.

military whistleblower bradley manning a judge has refused to drop the charge against him of aiding the enemy 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 list will has been following the case it is the most serious charge of a private first class free says 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 empty 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. bradley manning is not the only whistleblower feeling the pressure from the u.s. government to 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 as he is going to 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 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 lease the government came up with the so-called inside a flight 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 the course message 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 stores they can see quickly seized during this communications records as was the case with a.p. germany's so but 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 never forget it was virtually to undergo

a procedure to walk out of the rand corporation with possible documents all over and over. seventy two hours and. hours of documents on a protocol here bradley manning had a. blue computer. you know presumably did something similar just wanting to go to the documents and it was the editor of a. 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 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 he's where relations are about their rights their civil liberties

so they care more when it's iraq is right they apparently care less. and after the break we'll take a look at a new source of tension between israel and the european union stay with us. exactly what happened there i don't know but i killed. piers lakers when i got arrested for. a crime i did not do. we have numerous cases where police officers lie about polygraph results. people to consent to the police officers don't beat people anymore i mean it just doesn't happen really. in the course of interrogation why because there's been this is like meant no because the psychological techniques are more effective in obtaining confessions than physical abuse they were taking they could do what they wanted

they can say what they wanted and there was no evidence of what they did or what they said. welcome back this is r.t. the european union has cut off funding to disputed israeli occupied territories in the west bank and is dreadful and that's part of e.u. pressure on israel to keep inside its original borders before their expansion in at nine hundred sixty seven the decision will affect more than half

a million of settlers and has caused an angry reaction from tel aviv by europe's as it's merely formalized a position that had been stated many times before parties boss leader reports these ready 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 him all 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 good bishop on all grants scholarships prizes and money that is awarded and unless there is this exclusion clause now it is estimated that this will affect some fifty percent of the 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. government who say that they're now going to step up the cause to end any kind of gestures for resumption of peace talks with the palestinians policy r.t. in the aerial settlement west bank fessor of international law john the guard believes israel does not have a strong bargaining position at the moment. well i think until pretty recently it has been accepted that these road borders with the borders of nine hundred sixty seven but in recent times israel has george continues to i don't think that israel

can afford. it because it is too big to do in the e.u. economically and politically you could be a nuisance free for would be. to get clear on on in terms of because don's. 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 break so i think it's a very difficult situation for israel to. really know it at the time that john kerry is attempting to restart settlement talks. is confined to its nine hundred sixty seven borders and that the french really. take a look at some other stories from around the world egyptian capital has seen yet

another mass rally by supporters of the ousted president mohamed morsi denouncing the newly formed government there were really in cairo followed a televised speech given by interim president adly mansour or who said the recent overthrow of the muslim brotherhood cannot be reversed more protests are expected to sweep the country with egyptian military already issuing a stern warning against islamist factions seeking to stir up the empress. spain's largest cities have been hit by a wave of overnight protest 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. step down following accusations that he received secret cash payments from a slush fund in twenty eleven the allegations coming. 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 brutally murdering soldier lee rigby on a london street in may was attacked in prison several officers were reportedly called in to help after michael at the bellagio got into a fight into the prisons high security wing and lost two teeth out of a lodger and his accomplice are expected to stand trial on of emory teens and a broad daylight killing in two months ago triggered public outrage and street protests across britain. staying with the u.k. more than six hundred people many of them through pensioners have died due to hate waves 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 extreme 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 and 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 all that says syria faces the prospect of terrorist forces gaining overwhelming control over the country's north al-qaeda reportedly plans to create its own state near the border with turkey forcing rival rebel groups out there listening 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 overs he was dismissed by the west you scaremongering or 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 were half were dismissed as the book ologist gross out of all of us the syrian government now the west has got a wake up to what's really going on and so i think having said that it's very important journalist on the f.s.a. strategy free syrian army is very keen to get western intervention i think they're

now change their strategy and they're saying look al qaeda going to take and unless we do need and help out the f.s.a. a lot and i think now they're lost and say look you've got to help us out and to try to put the good guys the moderate rebels but not too late because terrible crimes terrible terrorist atrocities so it's i think it's a kind of faux division to say that they're bad rebels that he's elections if you're in syria next year twenty four you know there's no excuse for anybody to be using violence now to achieve beautiful change in syria going across to elections are available to people so i think the f.s.a. this is a sort of desperate last chance that really now the situation in syria has been under the spotlight in our debate show cross-talk can watch the full show later today but here's a preview. if you are assad's group on the other side the russians the iranians it would be better to get this to a bargaining to. able stop arming the rebels so that side would continue maybe

getting that momentum on the battlefield and feel as though he is in control enough to come to 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 it have to be all about just one. that's ridiculous it's got a lot and you have this one way to look at this piece or 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 all syrians if the stalemate continues what we call the stalemate of this war is frozen between two sides what happens as more syrians die so to place the emphasis on assad's exist is to prolong this war.

we. in northern ireland authorities have angered unionists by rejecting their plan for a parade following recent street riots the orange order was to march along a route in belfast separating a rival loyalist and nationalist communities r.t. sarah ferguson has the details but first there's a city of glass going in to pay this bill so long as it's then very much divided along sectarian lines with loyalist and republican communities living right next door to each other and in times of tension is the violence to break out as we've seen in recent days but away from that night i'm writing and it's a completely different story that we. come to gain a different perspective on what's happening in belfast. the

titanic's and the odyssey arena and the waterfront welcome to moe's in belfast but as well as taking in the sights along the more glamorous was the front regeneration area because it is a rule say given a guided tour through northern ireland's past troubles at the two to avoid certain parts of the normal tour it bringing us sharply back to the here and now to the belfast that in the days following the twelfth of july or in july to unionise parade because once again being plagued by scenes of violence these tourists they finance the main unafraid i first came here in one thousand nine hundred one of the time it was a very difficult period because i remember it was the time of the hunger strikers so we used to going to town and we were checked so now i just see that there is

this peace process in you know the narrative there things have changed so much and verified has become such an attractive place to be seen i think it is i must be the latest you know it was the right thing might be highly likely like the impact is far reaching is estimated to last years writing a big issue with how many days the union flag can fly coast businesses in belfast millions in lost trade this time round the riots sparked by a decision not to let loyalists break past the nationalist area with the arrival of the former us government peace envoy richard haass to chair all party talks it's take that a new route can be stated to keep the peace process progressing every year that we had the time of year. to try. you know very welcome development of the dredger tossers agreed to. old. already know some of the very thorny

issues that of. the peace building here for a number of years that's a day lives like bell. the cat nothing controversial ruling by the parades commission and the parade yet move potential with nothing great to meet rice. and coming out our reports on the kind of interrogation techniques. stay with us. 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 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.

the crime is that of viola manville a seventy four year old woman found dead on the twenty ninth of november one thousand nine hundred eighty eight along this dirt track. dozens of suspects will be questioned and will be released including frank stirling seen in this photograph . two years later detectives trained by reed reopen the case and are convinced frank is guilty. a few years earlier his brother had been sentenced to prison for raping viola manning and frank stirling is thought to have wanted revenge. the police are relentless and press sterling until he cracks the eleventh of july one thousand nine hundred ninety one and exhausted frank sterling admits to the mudda his confession is recorded.

many years later the murder of a four year old girl is arrested he confesses to the murder of viola manning and traces of his d.n.a. confirm the fact. frank sterling is released on the twenty eighth of april two thousand and ten after serving nineteen years now age fifty four frank has become frail and anxious and finds it hard to talk about his feelings. april twenty eighth two thousand and ten the day i get released. that you're above it. and whether you remember freedom. for frank sterling obtained his freedom largely due to the vigorous efforts of his lawyer donald thompson under the war where the question remains why did he ever confess to a crime he never committed. and beat people anymore i mean it just doesn't happen.