visit. israel. effectively. into the streets over revelations of mass corruption. of the ruling party. simmering tension around george zimmerman.

this is. with us today. released. off the. preliminary detention. to five years prison for embezzlement but prosecutors insisted he shouldn't be locked up until his appeal has been. reports from the court. well diversification has made an appeal to the court following yesterday's verdict guilty to both of ali and his codefendant. on charges of the best moment in the amount of roughly sixteen million rubles that's about half

a million dollars they were 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 filed an appeal saying that this measure of preliminary confinement was too strict in this particular case. and officers have to be released from custody which is exactly what happened after a short court hearing again in. europe. 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 participate in the mayoral elections was initially planned but the problem with that is that these election campaign manager says that they will perceive. that he is not so certain about his electoral pain nevertheless he is going to make the final announcement of exactly what he's going

to do what his future plans are after he arrives in moscow on saturday morning. he's going to write that now in the meantime washington is accusing moscow of suppressing it to send in civil society of course in the wake of the sentencing about while the e.u. says it's very concerned over the rule of law in russia. from the institute of democracy and cooperation in paris he believes today's release demonstrates. but 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 hooted as the western press caricature as 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 from moscow city matter which he can give us many interviews as he likes it's an absolute publicist

a godsend for him it doesn't remove him from politics a tool it's the absolute ideal solution for him in a sentence because it gives him maximum public city 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. now president putin's spokesman says that the judge's ruling and then of on the case it should be respected and two more in the kremlin reaction now from artie's able to come off. according to the score for the president is fully aware of the criminal case involving. the but as of you leader of the country has no official right for an opinion about it in order not to apply any pressure on the judge except for respecting any decision made by the court need to discuss was also asked whether there was a possibility that could be granted amnesty by the president and the secretary said that according to the legal procedure the opposition will go first has to admit his

guilt and obviously hasn't been doing so throughout this entire time he has been pleading not guilty and claiming that this is a political case which has been fabricated because of his corruption activities and criticism of the authorities now they needed to score false. rally the unauthorized improvised a rally which took place in the center of moscow late on thursday and said that it was a violation of the russian law and he hoped that it would not reoccur in the future a small group of now when his supporters did gather in moscow again on friday but compared to the numbers of people who took to the streets thursday evening this is a very small amount that has been a reaction from the team to the fact that he was released on appeal. applauded the fact but at the same time thursday the team and nobody himself were calling for his supporters to take to the streets in protest and now they're calling on everyone to

follow the letter of the law and not take part in any unauthorized rallies and just to remind you on thursday from three to seven thousand people gathered in moscow. for a few hours. on authorized a rally which did result in around two hundred. made by the police it is needed to say that throughout most of the rally the police was trying to just keep the protesters the streets in order not to block traffic and there were several attempts to do so. and political analyst she told us that political career is unlikely to reach any great heights despite visible support on the streets of moscow. 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 balance

problem differences there can be you know and i think that when the western press depicts not only you know in roles that 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 is 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 moscow and in other russian cities. of course if you missed any of our coverage you can always catch up with r.t. dot com also there live updates on the best pictures from the protests against the verdict and also check out our correspondents on twitter they are keeping

a close eye on all the latest news from all around the world. but on to another well watched court case so this time in the united states u.s. whistleblower bradley manning faces a very real prospect of a life behind bars after a judge refuses to drop the charge against him of aiding the enemy that is just ahead for you here on r.t. . but for the meantime on the program of making good on decades of rhetoric the e.u. is cutting off funding to firms and social projects in israeli settlements built illegally on palestinian land or the move certainly took israel by surprise officials describing the move as a brutal and an earthquake that will have serious consequences middle east correspondent paula slayer as she reports from one of the 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 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 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 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 forty 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 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 policy. in the ariel settlement west bank. now the e.u. and other international powers are pushing israel to accept the palestinian state or within the nine hundred sixty seven borders but over the decades more than a half a million israeli settlers have made their homes in occupied territories in fact many of these settlements on the lands that are on the now claimed by israel as its own and i shall be an award winning writer and journalist on the middle east she says that the real value of the e.u.'s move is it actually sets a precedent. it's unlikely that the actual financial cost to israel of this shifting guidelines will be that huge but was what it has done is that set

a precedent whereby the european union has said it's ok to back our principles with law it's ok to say we oppose israel's occupation of the palestinian territories and to inflict penalties and consequences if israel can continues to flout that international law 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 it's probably the most pro settler government that it's ever had. this is r t and things are certainly hotting up this friday night in egypt thousands of holders of the post president mohamed morsi square off against the army which is showing no signs of backing down.

but for the meantime here on r t in spain thousands of people have clashed with police in thirty cities outraged over revelations of corruption within the ruling people's party they're demanding 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 and madrid financial trade out felix marino believes it will be tough for money and not wholly to try and survive these protests. well it goes deep in very high to the top basically what people are really furious 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 all of us as village between one hundred thousand two hundred thousand politicians actually drawing a salary from this eight so people are furious that governments families businesses

everyone has to cut back but the government hasn't it 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 still see two thousand and thirteen growth in spain negative one point three to one point five they still they're 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 survive for now i do see any movement before the german elections in the months from now are many top stories on the website right now including of the world's largest genetically modified seed corporation it's retreating from europe on some. giving up trying to get approval for six new crop. of resistance to modified food are those details right now on the website. the motor city story it's bankruptcy for america's

foremost symbol of manufacturing might as detroit more than a billion dollars of debt that is also. why it's a quarter past the hour the f.b.i. and the u.s. justice department of told florida police not to give back the gun to george zimmerman he was acquitted last week after shooting unarmed black teenager trayvon martin and the court ruled zimmerman did act in self-defense but the department of justice is holding on to his gun and other evidence and with the prospect of a federal civil rights investigation as humans acquittal spot several days of outrage all across america where thousands are clearing it was racial discrimination just a bit earlier in the program i spoke to king daughter of one of the most prominent civil rights activists of the twentieth century martin luther king jr all about the role the racial debate in this case. when you think about.

the fact that had this been a white american a white young man i doubt very seriously george zimmerman would have reacted so so swiftly in this situation i think he probably would have thought about it twice because the fact of the matter is in america. you know i mean it's almost like a secret that there are certain people that you have to be careful with and there are other people there them the value of their life is not the same. so you know i believe that it could have been racial profiling a situation just by some of the language that george zimmerman was using on the nine one one calls and things with. how do you think a case like this would have been dealt with. your father martin luther king jr was a lawyer if you think much has changed since then a lot of things have changed in america so we can't say nothing has changed i just think we're still contending with just laws and more importantly laws that

disproportionately affect african-americans and african-american males. more than any other group of people in america and so you know these kind of issues were very prevalent in my father's time oftentimes you would have all white juries in most times when there's a black victim in this case and when i mean by victim is the one who did. nine times out of ten back in the sixty's or should i say ten times out of ten. that person would have walked just as george zimmerman zimmerman walked in this particular situation or just a moment when our report on the islamic revolution taking shape in egypt and a look at a century of jail time facing bradley manning that more often. 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. well for the. science technology innovation called a least a melon minutes from around rush hour we've got the future covered.

thank you for joining us here on our show in moscow what's in egypt now where tens of thousands of supporters of the ousted president morsi protesting across the country to demand his reinstatement in cairo the army has reportedly blocked thousands of demonstrators from marching on the presidential guard house and more than fifty protesters was shot almost two weeks ago morse's opponents also plan protests raising fears of violence between the two camps and with me now a journalist and africa specialist lawrence freeman joining us live here on the program good to see you today opposition protests also planned the army saying it will step in if violence breaks out do you think we're poised to see more clashes

later or what else the situation now is that the muslim brotherhood has to make a decision whether they're going to be part of the process moving forward with these nine month agenda for a constitution parliamentarian elections presidential elections or is the muslim brotherhood going to be violent and disruptive in which case the situation will be very difficult and the military may move in again so the choice right now is with the muslim brotherhood they had the freedom to demonstrate their party has not been disbanded but they have to decide do they want to be part of an inclusive process for the future or not as you say i suppose of a final decision a not of the muslim brotherhood as you mentioned though again that the interim president has said that he will fight quote a battle for security is that perhaps a thinly veiled threat against the supporters of the ousted president do you think . well clearly the case that the interim president who is this

a very in george and a number of other civilians have filled out the other positions of the cabinet they have a perspective that the door is open to the muslim brotherhood if the brotherhood continues to go in a via if it goes in a brown direction yes i think then the military and the government behind the military will move to keep security this no forget the muslim brotherhood it has a large support in egypt there's no question about it it doesn't have the whole country supporting it there's a lot of people somewhere between twenty and thirty million who demonstrated on june thirtieth against a muslim brotherhood so there's a lot of people who don't think that they should be the exclusive rules of the country so the way is open but you have to begin to work in the proper direction that the biggest question that egypt is going to face is going to be the economy the economy is in ruins and they need to have a massive economic development program for food production and infrastructure and

water and energy and this is not yet on the agenda and i think this has to be primary for the current and future government as you say the economic issue certainly is a big one but many saying it's actually being ignored in a lot of the media attention with this is there or is there a peaceful way to get this all solved to you talk about the muslim brotherhood having to make a decision here it's already vowing to stay in the streets until morsi is reinstated how kind you move forward you bring in the economy tell us about. well it's a very dire situation i mean prior to the overthrow of mubarak i mean egypt was importing about seven million metric tons of wheat per year i mean the their economy was not sufficient to feed their own population obviously over the last two years the situation has deteriorated the gulf countries given a large amount of money but the problem is this is not going to be solved by the free trade market place is going to have to be credit given for serious development

of energy production hopefully nuclear energy water management food production and people then will have a future the more the problems in egypt is that the young people in egypt don't see a future for the for themselves and their children and their families so unless this economic vision for the future is put forward this problem is not easily solved and that's something that is of great concern to anyone who really follows the situation closely it also is a question of what the muslim brotherhood will do if they continue on the path that they're on right now there will be more conflicts and this is a makes the situation very serious and very dangerous for the entire region here and also you are certainly seeing poise for potentially more conflict in the capital there in egypt and kyra possibly to rere square as well of course a journalist in africa specialist lawrence freeman thanks for joining us here on out to you today and thank you. could have you with us or

a nazi today us judge has ruled that bradley manning must face the charge of aiding the enemy a decision that means the whistleblower could spend the rest of his life behind prison walls or the defense had argued manning sent the trove of classified information to wiki leaks to spark reform and debate following the case for us as well. it is the most serious charge of a private first class faces so that means he still faces the possibility of life without parole now the court took a look at the testimony and evidence we've heard so far throughout this case and found that there is enough evidence to move forward with this charge this charge of aiding the enemy prosecution has cited manning's job as an intelligence analyst they say that as an intelligence analysts he should have known that by leaking these documents to the n.c. secret secrecy website wiki leaks that al qaeda osama bin laden and al qaeda affiliates were going to see this information and now the defense has insisted and

has maintained that bradley manning and no way intended to aid the enemy they say that he is a whistleblower and that he leaked these documents in an effort to expose wrongdoing and to basically to spark a public debate what is going on in the wars abroad diplomatically really what the true because. the u.s. government isn't coming down hard on bradley manning it's also squarely targeted at a secret former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden of course little for american surveillance activities still currently stranded in the moscow airport but only one of the american public sympathy is a washington correspondent going to experience. 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 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 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 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 forgive us brutally to proceed to walk out of the rand

corporation with our school documents. seventy two hours and so this is a series of documents on a lot of bradley manning underground and. here. you know presumably did something similar. to the documents and it was the editor of a president of secrecy and a president who understands two sources are bound to lie 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. perhaps 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. now the u.s. government is responding to the popular outrage saying it will use security measures intended for nuclear weapons to safeguard sensitive data or the data will be stored in facilities scattered across america and encryption and will be overhauled it's all part of washington's drive to prevent leaks like the surveillance revelations of edward snowden. well let's get into the world of finance here and ultimately debunking the biggest myths and fallacies prime interest in just a second. you want to hear 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 of 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 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 drug producers to have no liability for their product but that's just my opinion. that afternoon and welcome to prime interest i'm harry i'm going in above english it's today's headline. i don't understand gold and yet that's what our beloved fed chairman act. told congress today maybe that's why germany wants three hundred tons of it back that one of the goals of the fed is holding on its behalf we have just one word for you finance minister. tungsten but don't worry chairman bernanke he assured the s. and p. five hundred know it all time highs that the monetary q.e. stimulus will continue until the economy can stand on its own feet.