why you should. only. breaking news here on our t.v. russian anti-corruption blogger all excited of all new 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 embezzlement. a life sentence looms for u.s. army private bradley manning after a judge of hold a charge that he aided the enemy and releasing classified documents but washington faces an uphill battle for its efforts to crack down on leaks. and the e.u. puts a damper on israel's settlement expansion plans as new cooperation guidelines and block the occupied territories from future funding.

thanks for joining in this hour we've got live news and analysis for you i do see catherine of and of course you're watching our t.v. we begin with our breaking news story anti-corruption blogger alexei navalny along with his codefendant both sentenced yesterday to jail time have been released at least temporarily and they're now subject to travel bans while their appeals are in process. who has been following the court hearing and cure of andrew farmer in central moscow have been keeping us up to date on the latest developments. both violinists are found guilty on charges of the best moments in the amount of roughly sixteen million rubles that's about half a million dollars they were often taken into custody in court right after the verdict was read and it took the judge around three hours to read the hundred page document for the prosecution has later filed an appeal saying that this measure a preliminary confinement was too strict in this particular case and has asked the violent and officer have to be released from custody which is exactly what happened

after a short court hearing again in tallinn and. now both the violent and sarah are not to leave the country both of them are on their way to moscow and that means that nobody is now essentially free to which is to fade and they must go mayoral elections was initially planned but the problem. election campaign manager says that they will perceive this but now biden himself has said that that he is not so certain about his electoral campaign nevertheless that he is going to make the final announcement on the up exactly what is going to do what the speech or plans are after here. on saturday morning thanks very much for. 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 on the santa spark mass protest so. what can we expect today anything major expected today well

the latest news simmering we have from the families can visit they have asked his supporters not to carry out demonstrations that had been planned over the weekend in light of his release of course yesterday just hours after his conviction found isms 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. 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 current 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 only 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 night she lied are actually following the case that perhaps not just put things in perspective but the news we have from the van these counties that they have announced his support is to demonstrate over the weekend in light of his release earlier political analyst dmitri babich also shared his views on the evolving trial and the man behind the public image don't think that he stands a chance of winning in moscow not because of their authoritarian nature or the russian regime but because he's program is not very different from some balanced

program differences that there can be you know and i think that when the western press depicts not only you know in roles because as a lever oh and a humanist and all these things it's a simplification because he has been expelled from the liberal 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 interprete know so that you have in more school and in other russian cities now all this conviction has drawn in some criticism from western governments washington has condemned the ruling as a suppression of civil society in russia with that opinion largely echoed by e.u.

officials however british legal expert and blogger alexander mccurry who's been following the trial had told us that outsiders seem to be jumping to conclusions without actually looking at the details of that case. far as i could see. the charges made out the facts were set out really an issue involving who's going to. cross-examine you 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 if you do look at the future that you would decide that he was probably convicted well that's exactly the problem what one gets with 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 we've got more now says an opinion on the issue on our web site that's our dot com also there for you updates as well as the most striking images from the protests against the verdict of course don't forget to check out our correspondents twitter feeds for all the latest on this and other stories. right seems. first rate. and i think the trick. on our reporters with. the.

prospects are looking bleak for the u.s. military whistleblower bradley manning a judge has refused to drop the charges against him of aiding the enemy now this means that 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 wall 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 ladin 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 and to basically to spark a public debate of what is going on in the wars abroad and diplomatically really what the truth is. and bradley manning isn't the only whistleblower feeling the pressure from the us 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 a moscow airport and are going to if you can reports the two cases are part of a wider movement for transparency that 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 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. journalists so but this new era of with simple lowers we spoke with them for nix who's been writing extensively on the bradley manning case take a listen you know for forgetting it was brutally to undergo a procedure to walk out of the red corp in the hospital documents a little bit of a. seventy two hours and. hours of documents on

a lot of beer belly being underground. here. you know presumably did something similar just whinings you to the documents and it was a bit of a president secrecy and a president who just 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 reviewed the u.s. government's war crimes abroad. not surprisingly many generates more sympathy abroad then at home but one can argue that americans are more sympathetic to snowden because he's revelations are about their rights their civil liberties so they care more when it's iraq is right they apparently care less.

after the break we'll take a look at the new source of tension between israel and the european union to stay with us. zachary what happened that day i don't know but if i killed. piers later is when i got arrested for for a crime i did not do. we have numerous cases where police officers lie about polygraph results you get innocent people to confess the police officers don't beat people anymore i mean it just doesn't happen really you know 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 and 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 the european union has cut off funding to all israeli entities that operate in the disputed areas of the west bank and east jerusalem now this is part of e.u. pressure on israel to keep inside is original borders before their expansion in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven this is and will affect more than half a million israeli settlers and has provoked an angry reaction from tel aviv but europe says that it is merely formalized a position that had been stated many times before arty's policy or has more now.

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 there needs to be a pretty big on all grants scholarships prizes and money that is awarded and unless there is this exclusion cause now it is estimated that this will affect some fifty

percent of the israeli institutions including large corporations and banks that have 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 stairs and 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 i'll discuss this further we're joined by a member of the european parliament paul murphy and the jerusalem post chief political correspondent hofmann gentlemen thank you for taking the time to speak with us up paul i want to begin with you the european union never officially approved of the israeli settlements but has also never taken action real genuine action before why now do you think. i think primarily it's

a reflection of pressure from below in europe where by many many people are fed up with what is in reality the on go and complicity of the european union with the oppression of the public opinions where on the one hand you have crocodile tears about the palestinians well then fundamentally you have supporters including more me politically forty israeli astonishment and so the pressure simply has become too much for the european commission and so that introduced these guidelines it will be both to significant pressure continue to be built and applied to see that the guidelines are actually implemented in such a way that has an effect and if they are meant to fully and to an effect can be worked probably hundreds of millions of euro on a yearly basis not being transferred to israeli institutions involved in the occupation but above all i think it has a political significance and because of all of that pressure from below i mean it's

it's a step forward and i would say it has to go significantly further and it's not good enough settlement goads could still enter into the european markets that should be about as adamant goes but it's also not good enough that even while they're doing this there is still an operating of relations between the european union and israel happening well if you want to let i am sorry for interrupting i do want to weigh in here i mean we've heard from prime minister netanyahu he says that he will not effectively what he calls external dictates on on the situation he won't let what he described as israeli settlers being harmed but do you feel that israel really has a choice here is this genuine pressure and can israel effectively afford to lose these funds. absolutely not israel wants to cooperate with europe israel realizes the important role that europe can play and that's why it's so important that europe would be smart with the money and all the other influence that they. and not take steps that distance peace there was something in

your report that wasn't entirely accurate when they said that the right was primarily upset by this decision israel actually i think the left was more upset the people who want there to be a peace process the people who want there to be two states for two peoples for israel's own good and see unilateral steps like this from europe that make it so much harder to achieve peace but i'm curious staying with you with mr netanyahu saying that he refuses to accept external pressure on the borders i mean isn't that in some ways perhaps a declaration of preemptive declaration of not necessarily wanting to negotiate but in a peaceful solution. well what's going on right now as we speak is that john kerry is on his way to ramallah to try to beg the palestinians to come to the negotiating table which the americans have been doing for five years well israel has been at the table waiting for them this is in israel that it's very hard for israel to give up the biblical. yet because you want there to be people.

who want to see an end to the conflict willing to do it and now the palestinians are hardening their positions they're saying you know we have europe on our side why should we give in to john kerry so already right now as we speak attempts to make there be peace in the middle east are much harder because of mistakes made by a european bureaucrat who is obviously uninformed as to how much harm he's causing the palestinian people paul do you agree with that perspective what's your reaction to that i don't agree that's a look at what is the role of the settlements in a situation where settlements are clearly an obstacle and a conscious obstacle what is really a starvation to the east to the creation of a viable palestinian state if i had a massive expansion of settlements over the past twelve years a doubling of settlers in the occupied territories but in particular in the last year an expansion of settlements around through is really designed to cordon off

east through them from the west rest of the west by to try to make a viable palestinian state impossible and so you know you can't have genuine peace talks on the basis of what we're going to maintain our settlements we're going to maintain the occupation we're going to maintain the blockade on gaza and the point is that the removal of all this out of them is absolutely necessary in terms of any basis for a viable palestinian state and that's why it's correct to have a focus on the absence of. paul staying with these this is racing in. these areas for the palestinians isn't necessarily a stable one there's a lot of political turmoil are the palestinians in a position to be a reliable negotiating partner at this point. well there's one i'm at a point is i think the israeli capitalist establishment is not a reliable negotiating partner there will be no real peace as long as the establishment in israel remains in power they have to be massively challenged

county through a massive movement of statins from below which there is debate angels you've seen significant protesting the ticket movements the potential to redevelop a struggle along the lines of the first intifada that's the kind of thing that is necessary so much a movement could it go with the genuine israeli left with working people and young people who don't benefit from the oppression of the palestinians overthrow the cowardice establishment of israel and struggle for and genuine peace which can only build the negotiators here have to be ordinary working people israeli people palestinian people not the representatives of the elites backed up with us backed up by the e.u. and. i do want to get back to you i mean israel doesn't someways seem to be paying a heavy price at least politically in terms of its ties with the u.s. and the e.u. for expansion settlement expansion beyond the green line do you think that this is a price that's worth it for for israel to play and pay in order to gain this

territory. look the fate of what will remain part of israel or what would become part of a palestinian state will be decided in negotiations one side or an x. turn all sides getting involved in dictating in advance where the border is going to be isn't going to help anyone and now we are ready know that the jewish neighborhoods in jerusalem are going to be part of israel forever settlement blocks heart of israel forever perhaps saying that israel shouldn't build in far flung areas that will be part of a palestinian state make sense of what europe has done here is drawn the line arbitrarily and now where seven hundred thousand people live and that's really hard and that's unfair and so you have in elected israeli government despite what the gentleman from the european parliament says we have a moderate parliament that we elected that has fifty nine seats out of one hundred twenty on the left very evenly distributed these people want there to be two states

for two peoples and the very fact that the european parliament member would rather see uprisings intifadas and war and death it's just really really unfortunate we should have democracy and it's time for europe to stop undermining democracy and allow there to be peace and stop taking actions against peace that would result in thousands of palestinians being unemployed losing their livelihood democracy peace yes war uprisings and death no and paul very briefly we're almost out of time you have about thirty seconds i want to get a chance to respond there there is war there's death there's poverty there's a question and it's caused by the actions of the israeli government against the palestinians in gaza against the palestinians within the borders of sixty seven against the palestinians. within the west bank the only resolution is on the basis of such a struggle that's the way justice can actually be to be taken that's not an action

against peace is that action for peace and the idea you just i mean aggressive acts . is not what has happened here the aggressive act is the expansion of settlements the rabi part is the you know home well because that's what an aggressive act is taking place here well gentlemen i think the discussion here really symbolizes just how difficult it is to move forward in this in this case thank you so much parliament member paul murphy and the jerusalem post chief political correspondent gil hoffman thank you both. washington is considering whether to use military force in syria and this was revealed by a u.s. army general during a senate testimony who said that the options for a military intervention were in fact already on the table now this is as 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 meanwhile journalist neil clark believes that the syrian opposition will use the al qaeda threat in

a bid to secure 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 it was scaremongering etc 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 were dismissed as the colleges for a sad quality of 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 george w. bush a strategy free syrian army is very keen to get western intervention i think they're now change their strategy their second look al qaeda going to take a lesson 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 themselves in the good moderate rebels but not too late because of terrible crimes and terrible terrorist atrocities so it's i think it's a kind of faux division to say that there are bad rebels that his election to do 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 democratic elections are available to people so i think the f.s.a. this is a sort of desperate last chance really. you say with our teeth coming out as our report on the controversial interrogation techniques being used by us police forces there watching our team. 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 brand 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 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 video might be shocking but it's simply a ploy used by u.s.

police offices. filming with their own cameras they inform this woman. just being killed they want to gauge her reactions as they suspect she may have hired a hitman to murder a spouse. like or. killed. now that. in fact no killing has taken place and the police have made up the story to try and confuse. they want. and a few hours later she will be charged with attempted murder in this case it was the cross-examination that led to the truth and then eased the way to her prosecution. among the police the interrogation process is considered a key element of the investigation where everything might fall into place which

explains why in the united states this method of investigation has been pushed to its very limits more than anywhere else in the world how does the interrogation take place is it an exact science can you tell when the suspect is lying and can you trust the confessions. in the united states everything is aimed at making the suspect crack from the architecture of the interrogation room it's a small room that disorientate suspects and allows for physical proximity. but doesn't work tiffany pawson son has definite views on this kind of police procedure. after a robust session in the interrogation room she confessed to killing her best friend

on the fifteenth of april one thousand nine hundred ninety seven tiffany received a life sentence the memory is of when she stepped into the interrogation room. into a dentist's office and he smelled the smell and hear it and you just know it's going to be a very unpleasant situation. it's kind of like walking into that except there's not going to be any needle to numb anything you walk in there and it smells of fear it smells of the way you pick up that lingering energy of people in there before of the depression of the enzyte he of everything is just like the atmosphere just clings to it and they said sure in there it's psychological. at the time tiffany was twenty three years old and

a prostitute she's familiar with the police and their tactics but this time she's not being picked up for soliciting but for a murder in which all the clues seem to point to her to make a confess the police will use the oldest trick in the book the good cop bad cop routine i remember the one explicitly well madden and he was tall approximately sixty to sixty four dark complected overbearing he wore in jeans a lot polo shirts and had a very cocky attitude. the other one is kind of blurry my memory of him is blurry i think he played the good cop bad was the bad cop. introducing sergeant almost seven feet tall in his socks years of experience and not the kind of cop that's easily fooled. about his tough questioning methods it's

his whole mark. there is a certain amount of. acting we're being. we're doing interviews and especially when you're in that role as far as a good cop bad cop so for the most part one is consoling caring you know almost. even putting off the other detective to the suspect saying you know he's he's a very mean guy he's a bad guy or whatever the case is trying to get closer with the suspect so hopefully this is suspect confides and quote unquote good cop. to phonies tof him for three days how constant learning drives the interrogators to destruction. she makes up stories about her movements shifts the blame onto others and dismisses the evidence that the police don't give up. you get defensive and

when you get defensive the detectives team to jump on that why are you defensive and do you think you need only innocent people in your tourney you thinking in terms of i say yes i need an attorney then you're saying oh you're guilty so you need an attorney is that what you're saying so it's very. it's very difficult the last interview kind of switched where i was very direct i was very accusatory and i even stormed out of the room once again some theater if you will to try to create a better atmosphere for the other detective he was very tall and very over you all the time overbearing and i can remember trying to like get in my chair you know and be like i'm sick of this my r.v. be this far away from my face and i go. and i just start saying anything else i could say. to me claims she acted in self-defense but

it's an admission that. she never told the truth. now that was that was basically the sum of it she never told the truth and even then they and so i've never told the truth. tiffany played down her part in the murder the fact she doesn't break down under the questioning of an experienced policeman shows the limitations of the good cop bad cop method. so a far less theatrical technique is being adopted that has found favor with many american police. it's an approach of tenant doleman fervently supports in july two thousand and six and murder rocks the usually quiet town of dover new hampshire laura

perkins is shot dead by have a star the woman with whom she lives from the start of the study claims it was self-defense off to lure a sniper in the leg left town i'm told and is put in charge of the questioning. look for aether stoner laura perkins lived in that the downstairs apartment had or had two children laura had basically an adopted child from a previous relationship that sometimes stay with her there two on the night in question they'd been arguing since three four o'clock in the afternoon until two morning just constant arguing while constantly drinking everybody knew that had their head shot laura the question was always going to be what are the circumstances was this a case of an abused woman protecting herself or was this a case of an angry woman killing a girl for. other students interrogation begins at six in the morning just a few hours off to the murder left on a dome and takes has

a stone to the room set aside for the purpose a cold stock room which meets police standards. so this is the interview room that we spoke to the stone that morning heather was seated here. our camera was behind this this window right here. today behind bars seven years on with short hair and looking tired she's barely recognizable. admitting she had not acted in self-defense. remarkably video of the interrogation was made available something that in most european countries would be unthinkable. has lied to the police about acting in self-defense.

the police patiently let's have a present her version of events. if she was born for a couple reasons one she really had an obligation to provide an explanation as to why her girlfriend is dead on the floor so she has a motivation to tell us something even if it's a lie she is mortician to talk to us she's vulnerable because she's tired she's vulnerable because she's emotional can really is upset that this happened she's not a stone cold killer by any any stretch. i don't really know what i was trying to do what i was lying. pat i mean part of me thought that. they'd believe me and part of me said no they won't the police believe there

are certain facts that don't add up they then turn to a proven tactic of gaining the trust of the suspect softening her up by taking advantage of one of the vices cigarettes. is. it. if you get it you know but. if. you do it will. you get it. she was surprised she was surprised that we were going to smoke because it's a no smoking building in a no smoking facility well whatever you know you're one of them welcome a small container if you're going to talk to us about this part of that just occurred i'm going to let you smoke and they let us smoke in return for information

. however tries to evade the questions something that intrigues the police. can. we. couldn't really explain where she was and where heather was i would excuse me where laura was during this whole violent struggle that apparently ensued so they were skeptical they're also skeptical because the injuries she had were minor scratches to a leg not stab wounds or big slashes but just minor cuts to the way. heather claims laura made these wounds when she stabbed her. in fact it's a story suggested by joyce a friend she called just off to the shooting joyce also helps have

a change the location of the crime to add weight to her assertion she acted in self defense. put rings on him punched me in the face and then i cut my leg. we thought that would. get me so i wouldn't go to jail. i would rather ask questions for people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on r.t. question more. choose

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actually posted. here. the police want to force heavy into providing the exact details something they know full well is a nightmare for those who are lying face ok sure sat. it out like this. just to get shit like. this and ceased. it's all so emotional that i couldn't even really grasp their questions or even answer them i was trying to but i was lying at first so they knew this so they were trying to get it out of me and i was. the sole motional that. even their questions were like spanish to me. they should c.n.n.

just saying. this is going to do it. very steering to. see this is. the fact that she's tired probably made it easier for us because it was it's hard to keep up a lie it's very easy to tell the truth over and over and over again the tell the truth is the truth you just tell the story about what happened if it's the truth all you have to do is tell the truth over and over if you tell lies you have to work to tell lies you have to work to construct something that didn't happen. but after two hours of questioning the detectives know they're getting nowhere and move on to plan b. they put in the joyce is the friend who suggested the self-defense ploy has confessed to everything. detective watkins and says listen george is.