a little more freedom for in of all me the russian opposition blogger is released with travel restrictions before his appeal is heard a day after being handcuffed in court. u.s. whistleblower bradley manning faces the very real prospect of a life behind bars after age judge refuses to drop the charge against him of aiding the enemy. israel reels over an imminent easy you financial blockade effectively cutting off settlements built on palestinian land from any sort of european union funding. and is of economic desperation wasn't enough for beleaguered spain the crowds have poured into the streets over elevations revelations of mass corruption at the top of the ruling party.

so good to have you with us this evening i'm lucy calf and of course you're watching our t.v. well moving on to our top story anti-corruption blogger alexei navalny has been released at least for now this after he had been handcuffed in court and taking to preliminary detention not only was sentenced to five years in prison for embezzlement but prosecutors have insisted that he shouldn't be locked up until his appeal has been heard our days are in a political reports from outside of the courthouse. well diversification has made an appeal to the court following yesterday's verdict guilty to both of ali and his codefendant put it sort of 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 of the prosecution has later filed an appeal saying that this measure of preliminary confinement was too strict in this particular case and has asked the violent and officer to be released from custody which is exactly what happened after a short court hearing again in tallinn of europe now both dividing up its arabs 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 debate and they must go mayoral elections was initially planned but the problem with that is that i don't know by these election campaign manager says that they will proceed as planned. that he is not so certain about his electoral campaign nevertheless he is going to make the final announcement on the up exactly what he's going to do what his future plans are after he rides in moscow on saturday morning washington has accused moscow of suppressing dissent in civil society in the wake of nepal nice sentencing

while the e.u. claims it's very concerned over the rule of law and russia john long island from the institute of democracy and cooperation in paris says that today's release demonstrates the opposite. what i want to say about the release is that it is surely the proof that the western idea that this trial is political is false because if the court were and the prosecutor were under the control of dhimmitude it as the western press caricature is this this trial then. then it is clear that he would not have been released on appeal because between now and his appeal he cannot run for moscow city mayor he cannot give as many interviews as he likes it's an absolute publicist a godsend for him it doesn't remove him from politics at all it's the absolute ideal solution for him in a sense because it gives him maximum publicist he and it enables him to carry on politics so this release if you like is the proof that the trial is not being is

not telephone justice small group seven of only a supporters continued their protest against his tail sentence in central moscow on friday that appeals in comparison with a rally that was held straight after that verdict was announced i did enter farmer brings us the latest reaction from the all scamp. 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 the new valley's 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 monish 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 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 the valley 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 valleys camp is that they have asked his supporters not to demonstrate over the weekend in light of his release. political analyst dimitri babbitts told us that now all these political career as unlikely to lead to great heights that's despite the visible support for him on moscow's streets i don't

think they have he stands a chance of winning in moscow or not because of their authority parian nature or the russian regime but because his program is not very different from some balance problem differences. and b. you know i think that when the western press depicts not only you know in rosy colors 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 the secret of his success is that he's a very average young russian and are 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 knows that you

have in moscow and in other russian cities. of course if you've missed any of our coverage you can catch up at our two dot com also there are live updates and the best pictures from the protests against the verdict you can also check out our correspondents twitter feed there keeping an eye on all the latest news from around the world. a u.s. judge has ruled that bradley manning must face a charge of aiding the enemy a decision that could mean the whistleblower may spend the rest of his life behind bars in prison the defense had argued manning sensitive trove of classified information to wiki leaks to spark reform and debate artie's list wall has been following the case it is the most serious charge of a private first class for he 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 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 be 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 diplomatically really what the truth is. the u.s. government isn't only coming down hard on bradley manning it is also squarely targeted at another secret leaker the former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden now he of course blew the lid off america's secret surveillance activities and is currently stranded in a moscow airport transit zone but it turns out that it may be that only one party only one of the two leakers has the american public sympathy as a washington correspondent. explains. 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 insiders like program under which government employees which 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 on 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 right 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 whistleblowers 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 virtually to proceed to walk out of the rand corporation with the gospel documents all in a hotel room for seventy two hours and so there's a documents on a lot of here bradley manning had are going to. blow the computer. you know presumably did something similar it's just wanting to leave documents and move it in or out of a person or there's 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.

governments were crimes abroad. perhaps not surprisingly many generates more sympathy abroad been at home but one can argue that americans are more sympathetic to snowden because these revelations are about their rights their civil liberties so big care more. iraqis rights they apparently care less. now the u.s. government is responding to the popular outrage saying that it will use security measures intended for nuclear weapons this to safeguard sensitive data and includes a so-called two man rule meaning that it will take two people to enter each server room so that nobody can gain access by themselves data will also be stored in facilities scattered across the u.s. and encryption will be overhauled it's all part of washington's drive to prevent leaks like the surveillance revelations of edward snowden. coming up for you striking support for the syrian rebels as the opposition gets caught between a science forces and the growing threat of al qaeda extremists the u.s.

president has the options for military intervention laid out before him. and the threat of fresh clashes looms in northern ireland unionists leaders in belfast appeal for calm after the authorities assigned to limit their conditional on local radio void a repeat of the past two weeks why it's that's coming up straight ahead of. i doubt very seriously that obama is sincere when he says snowden should come home and stand trial. could you take three. three. three. three. three. three blow video for your media project a free media dog r t v dot com. syria and reversed momentum rebels

are now killing one another in alienating the people they claim they're fighting for the assad regime has regained lost ground and is on the offensive in the meantime western powers are showing we looked into to provide arms to the rebels is it now time to consider a process to stop the violence and talk peace. making good on decades. rhetoric the e.u. is cutting off funding to firms funds and social projects in israeli settlements built illegally on palestinian lands the move had taken israel by surprise

officials describing the move as brutal and an earthquake that will have serious consequences now our middle east reporter paul asli or has been reporting from one of those affected areas. 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 he 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 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 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 need 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 a 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 town 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 aerial settlement west bank the e.u. and other international powers are pushing israel to a step to a palestinian state within the one nine hundred sixty seven borders but over the decades more than half a million israeli settlers have made their homes in the occupied territories as you can see on the map right here many of these settlements as well as the lands of their on are now claimed by israel as its own let's get more now on the use latest

move with a shabby she is an award winning writer and journalist on the middle east rachel i want to focus on the timing care why do you think the e.u. chose to make this decision right now. well i don't think it's a sudden decision from the u.s. as you know it's a very bureaucratic organization so this wouldn't have been something that came about suddenly but it is the result of a growing sense of frustration with israel constantly flouting international law as far as illegal settlements in the occupied west bank and east jerusalem that kind of frustration has been mounting over the past year and in particular. with the especially right wing government that israel has is probably the most pro settler government that it's about how it so i think it's in the face of various measures

from the israeli government to show up salute and intransigent oversight of the settlements and in fact a desire to expand the settlement project that has caused the e.u. to to finally react in this way and i'm curious whether you think there could be any sort of unintended consequences here i mean we've heard from israeli politicians they are they seem to be sort of digging in deeper with tit for tat threats do you think this move by the e.u. could actually have negative consequences for the palestinians. it's hard to imagine that actually i mean most palestinians seem to be reporting it as a political and a moral victory if only for the i mean it's unlikely that the actual financial cost to israel of this shift in guidelines will be that huge but was what it has done is just set a precedent whereby the european union has said it's ok to principles with lol it's ok to say we oppose israel's occupation of the palestinian territories and to

inflict penalties and consequences if israel complete continues to flout that international law now but is is kind of a precedent setting move that could in fact have great positive consequences for the palestinians as the international community might start to follow suit on a more sort of independent nation by nation basis but do you think that israel is really going to be actually abandoning its settlements especially given the makeup of the government as you heard earlier pointed out i mean don't you think that it might take what exactly would it take i guess if not just cutting grounds. well this is just the beginning as you rightly point out i mean the israeli settlement project is israel's biggest project its greatest national project is what it comes to be defined by it is certainly the biggest investment in israel most of the israeli economy is somehow diverted in one way or another into the

settlements project so of course it's going to take more than this sort of limb and every move from the e.u. to change that but it is very significant that nonetheless and very briefly in terms of peace negotiations between the palestinians and israel in terms of the fractures within the palestinians themselves do you think that this poses some sort of a danger or an obstacle to negotiations. that's something that the various israeli officials of our own actually warned about in the pulse we can voicing their opposition to this move they have said that it somehow jeopardizes the peace process and you know this leaves are the same officials that a week ago kind of dismissing. john kerry's attempts to revive peace talks between israelis and palestinians so i don't see it as something illegal is being very careful to insist that it in no way is designed to undermine the continuing efforts

to get the two sides to the negotiating table albeit that you know what actually happens at the negotiating table and how effective a tool that is remains to be seen well certainly does our rachel shabby award winning writer and author and journalist thank you for being in there. in spain thousands of people have clashed with police in thirty cities outraged over revelations of corruption within the ruling people's party and now they're demanding that the prime minister quits after claims that he and other party members received over eight million euros of bribes right now spain is gripped by its worst economic crisis in decades partly madrid financial trader phil felix moreno believes that it will be tough for reform to survive these protests. well it goes very deep and very high to the top basically what people are really curious about is that we've seen austerity and cuts for the people but not for the politicians spain is one of the countries of the highest number of politicians per

population ratio in europe we have. as phillip's between one hundred thousand two hundred thousand politicians actually drawing a salary from the eight people furious that governments families businesses everyone has to cut back but the government has just raised taxes so i do believe he would have a chance to survive this if the economy was improving but unfortunately it's not unemployment is not going down the latest numbers to see two thousand and thirteen growth in spain negative one point three to one point five. there's still putting off recovery till two thousand and fourteen two thousand and fifteen so i don't think raju will survive this i think he will say bye for now i don't see any movement before the general election months from now. washington has plans ready for supporting syrian rebels with military force and the president is reportedly

considering whether to use them but this was revealed by barack obama's top military adviser ask you spoke before the u.s. senate this is as the free syrian army has raised an alarm over al qaeda as alleged plans to create a terrorist state in the north of the country extremists reportedly plan to use the land captured by the rebels pushing out the more. opposition and seizing its weapons and oil smuggling routes world affairs journalists believes the terrorist threat may be a pretext for the rebels to secure western intervention. it's interesting you know when president assad was warning about al-qaeda in syria from twenty eleven although he was dismissed by the west you 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 are those who get more were dismissed as the colleges for a sad ologist 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 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 control unless we do that 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 training so the good guys the moderate rebels were not too late committed terrible crimes and terrible terrorist atrocities search i think it's a kind of talks to be intercepted that there are bad rebels that his election to do in syria next year twenty four thousand there's no excuse for anybody to be using violence now to achieve little change in syria democratic elections are available to people so i think the f.s.a. this is a desperate last chance that really. northern ireland irish eunice are lashing out at the authorities decision to again ban a new parade following street riots that sparked sparked by a similar limitation last week the orange order plans to march along the street and belfast what separates the literally rival loyalist and nationalist let's communities artists are first looks into the current instability as well as its history. but first there's a city of flashpoints and interfaces still to

a large extent very much divided along sectarian lines with loyalist and republican communities living right next door to each other and in times of tension it's all too easy for 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 so we've come to gain a different perspective on what's happening in belfast. the titanic's and the odyssey arena and the waterfront who welcome to moe's in belfast but as well as taking in the sights along the more glamorous waterfront regeneration area visit is a rule say given a guided to through northern ireland's past troubles at the tool to avoid certain parts of the normal to reach bringing us sharply back to the here and now to the belfast that in the days following the twelfth of july or in jewel to unionise

parade has once again been plagued by scenes of violence. these tourists they finance the main unafraid i first came here in one thousand nine hundred one and of the time it was a very difficult period to because i remember it was that time of hunger strikers so we used to going to town and we were checked so now to see that there is these peace process in you know the narrative there things have changed so much i'm going to become such an attractive place to be seen i think it is i mustn't be the elected you know it was the right thing might be highly likely late and the impact is far reaching is estimated to last years rioting a big issue is how many days the union flag can fly because business is in belfast millions in the trade this time around the riots sparked by a decision not to let loyalists great pass 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 have this time of year. to try says. you know very welcome development the drug has agreed to. all party talks. very thorny issues of. the peace building here for a number of years saturday looks like belfast next week passed another controversial ruling by the parades commission and the parade and yet more potential for another outbreak of series riots a certain honesty. and time for a brief world update and we begin in egypt where tens of thousands of supporters of president mohamed morsi are gathering and the mass in the capital to demand his

weekend statement the muslim brotherhood had called for huge demonstrations across egypt after friday prayers morsy is opponents also. planned protests raising fears of violence between the two camps almost one hundred people have been killed since the president was forced out just over two weeks ago. police have clashed with hundreds of environmental campaigners in china's southern province the violence erupted as officers moved in with a group of tongs to disperse the rally against the government's plan to build a trash incinerator protestors for the construction will worsen pollution in the area and the two health problems problems. they stay with us up next is the snowden saga and its potential freezing affect on us russian relations and so because the latest interview program.

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 of 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 that will not have any accountability i cannot wrap my head around the logic of only punishing the creator of a product and great to community 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. 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 drug producers to have no liability for their product but that's just my opinion. alan welcome to sophie and colonel clam syfy shevardnadze and even today we can't get past snowden edward snowden has intentionally or unintentionally but the relationship between russia and the united.