find out on r t. i we have nationwide outrage in the us with mass protests in dozens of cities the gans think with all of george zimmerman a florida neighborhood watch volunteer who was charged with murdering an unarmed black teenager. russian opposition activist alex is bailed a day after being handed a five year jail term for embezzling in a trial that's captivated the world's media. and also this week turkey is accused of letting israel use a military base to launch a recent air strike in syria that information coming from our sources but ankara denies the allegation. and backers of egypt's ousted president mohamed morsi clashed with opponents at mass rallies while a new cabinet is sworn in and despite the violence.

this is actually coming to life from the russian capital i'm marina joshing welcome to the program crowds of protesters have been gathering in cities all over the u.s. voicing their fury over the recent acquittal of george zimmerman he was cleared of murder over the shooting of unarmed black teenager trayvon martin in florida last year the court's ruling has been widely branded as racist and he's going to count has more. we've seen protests in dozens of cities in the u.s. throughout the week following the verdict in the george zimmerman case people took to the streets demonstrating at courthouses and police stations throughout the country demanding justice for trayvon martin the seventeen year old black man who was shot dead by a neighborhood watch volunteer dozens of people were arrested most of the arrests were made on charges of a lawful a sampling in some places like the san benito protest for and violent demonstrators

who were rocks and passing cars the president america's first black president spoke from the heart on friday when he recalled some of the instances when he had been booked upon with suspicion for no apparent reason just because he's black but the president also tried to put out the fire of protest by basically saying as much as you don't like the verdict don't blame the jury and the judge blamed the existing law for many many americans too many many americans were following the zimmerman trial it's obvious that racial disparities in the application of criminal laws in america remain all these people think had trayvon martin being white he would have been alive even president obama thinks of the civil rights activists here it's obvious that george zimmerman followed trayvon martin because he was black the seventeen year old trayvon martin was walking home in his own neighborhood with a pack of skittles can his in his pocket having done nothing wrong the jury apparently found that although it was a bad judgment on the part of george zimmerman to pursue the young man but when the to confront each other zimmerman acted in self-defense the fact of the matter is

that under florida's stand your ground law the defense doesn't even have to prove that their client is an angel it's enough to prove reasonable doubt that the defendant acted in self-defense and they're free to go so in this case you have a clash of different issues great civil rights vigilantes guns and self-defense laws these people see a clash between the law and justice a very recent example also in the state of florida black woman the mother of the week was sentenced to twenty years in jail because she fired a bullet at a wall to scare off her abusive husband. nobody was injured and the woman is in jail for twenty years while george zimmerman walks free but you see the faces of these people outraged and president obama also said that he could easily have been in trayvon martin's position thirty five years ago meanwhile university of minnesota professor elisa albert who was among those protesting in her state told us that to the case reflects a deep racial bias in the u.s. legal system. all that data shows the justice system in this country is racial from

the moment of impact police arrest more people older and white people. are convicted in greater numbers they serve sentences that are longer and there are greater numbers of people who are in prisons in the united states are given in terms of their population so we already have all that data and that this we see as a continuation of. this man has been acquitted so now it's time for our government to hear our voice. also i had for you resisting a sterile greek workers walk out on a nationwide strike and take to the streets for mass rallies but failed to stop their government slashing yet more jobs our report from athens is on its way. and also i have for you all feuds are reunited in northern ireland as loyalists refuse

to stop their protest until they are granted permission for a highly controversial parade route passing through sectarian flashpoint and that's coming out. of russian opposition activist an anti-corruption campaign or alexina volley was sentenced to five years in jail for embezzlement on thursday but released on bail the next day after a surprise request from prosecutors are due to renegotiate who has been following what's been dubbed the rushes one of the most controversial trials in years but you for me will do the work you five and four years in prison with it if it's a risk and. for setting up a dummy corporation and defrauding a state owned timber company to the tune of half a million dollars the judge insisted the verdict was not politically motivated but foreign media the blogger supporters and opposition activists declared otherwise one gets the feeling that people have already made up their minds before the case even started before the trial even started and they're not actually looking at the facts of the case or of the way the trial was actually conducted but simply

following their own opinions which they formed in advance what kind of comments is that someone like mr valma should not be prosecuted on this kind of charge because he is a famous opposition personality now that seems to me to put things completely the wrong way round dozens of people in moscow's many years in the square a stone's throw from the kremlin indignant at the verdict calling it unfair and immense police presence and if east of panic and social media for a while it looked like the situation could escalate. but there was a curveball from the prosecutor's office a request to me enough to serve until their verdict comes into effect deeming their immediate arrest and preliminary detention to stick to measure spokesman said there was nothing unusual about the trial or the prosecutor's appeal stressing that the president cannot and does not influence the court decisions and that those

convicted should carry out their punishment as prescribed by the judge and his blog novelist said that he was ready for a long term preliminary confines and ordering books from the library and battling mosquitoes and his self but he spent less than twenty four hours and attention before being released from this court house straight into the arms of his supporters eager for his campaign to continue so who is the self appointed opposition figurehead who's running for mayor of moscow a lawyer by profession not only spent the better part of the last few years flirting with nationalistic movements as well as leading a popular blog exposing large scale corruption and trying to make. foray into politics his trial the verdict and the surrounding media frenzy may have been closer to that goal he can according to your earlier report run from moscow city mayor he can give us many interviews as he likes it's an absolute public city godsend for him it doesn't remove him from politics at all it's the absolute ideal solution for him in a sense and it's been referred to abroad as russia's mandela moment perhaps too

bold a claim the b.b.c. has the state run their british broadcasting corporation calls it russia's mandela and they've been running stories all day just as previously you know bill keller the executive editor of the new york times used the lord to this man you know novell me you already outlined his nationalist views here in this country we have laws against incitement you have the semitism incitement to neo nazi ism which of course this man has flirted with repeatedly although he may not be major household name in russia yet alexina valley seems to have some serious support abroad he is paid by or has been paid by the united states of america when he set up a democratic alternative party a year or two ago it received money from the n.e.p. the n.e.t.'s the national endowment for democracy funded by the us congress that was the main organization funding the orange revolution in ukraine back in two thousand and four novell nice party received money from the american state as wiki

leaks showed not so long ago it even goes quite keen of central russian. and we've got in-depth coverage on that story over on our website also online for you today. and exploding a wheelchair at a stable man causes havoc at thinking international airport after detonating a hole named bomb but injuring only himself at r.t. dot com to find out what was behind the desperate at. hand say with airport troubles in northern mexico travelers queuing up to board. their flights found themselves in the high end water after the last one breached the terminal building you can find all the pictures on our emotions page at our team dot com. israel has reportedly used a turkish military base to launch an attack on syria that information revealed by our sources earlier this week has been rejected by the turkish government which

also can damp any media mention of it the alleged israeli attack was on the talkie an early july targeting a russian made anti-ship missile battery which syria received two years ago this is the fourth unconfirmed israeli attack on syria in recent months a military compound outside the massacres was bombed from the air twice in january and may rockets struck a warehouse at the capital's international airport allegedly containing surface to surface missiles on all occasions the attacks were justified as operations to wipe out a rainy and missiles bound for has in lebanon my colleague wrong as the shape spoke to journalist manteo us and writer who has extensively covered the conflict in syria and he said turkey remains israel's key ally in the region no matter what's happened between them this point of the critics of the prime minister in the in the past years especially in the with turkey is still a very important ally and maybe maybe the most important and i hope he's right in

the region what's more important for turkey than getting rid of assad or keeping on good terms with the rest of the regional players turkey is we have to remember a very very important nato member and turkey knows that it is. they talk turkey is now providing the military bases for the nato patriot rocket system which are directed against syria so turkey knows how to make its own let me tell it new autumn and dream of being the leading power in the region and with its role playing in the nato when the nato is. very aggressive and is a very aggressive military especially the united states but what do you think of such cooperation between some of the syrian government's toughest rivals in the region mean now for the assad regime well i don't think that this is a huge change for all the general situation because. what's supporting in the past

the so-called rebels in this what the media claim it is a civil war but isn't the reality since a long time a proxy war we have right now militants from more than twenty five nations fighting in syria against the syrian government and of course east road was supporting the rebels they were they were they follow arms and weaponry from. the revenue side and turkey also is supporting in a strong way the rebels on syrian soil. so despite their recent unfriendly rather it turkey and israel remain united against a common enemy the us a government in syria we are looking at the likely reaction within turkey and across the arab world as anger is involvement in those strikes me as confirmed. a wave of ultra nationalist violence in the u.k. thousands of police are deployed to keep the far right protest underway apps and

that's coming up after the break here on our to. exactly what happened i don't know 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. innocent people 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. edge of see more violent clashes at street protests with throughout the country this week dragging on the political standoff on saturday the army blocked a huge march by morsy supporters on the republican guard headquarters where manning believe the deposed president mohamed morsy is being held that's a day after three people were killed in clashes between rival crowds of demonstrators in the city and sorra deadly street battles intensified as a senior u.s. official visited egypt for the first time since the military took over at least seven people were killed and hundreds of protesters detained on tuesday the

country's interim leaders swore in a new cabinet excluding members of morse's muslim brotherhood the islamist movement has rejected the cabinet and its supporters are vowing to continue a mass protest gyptian. he says there'll be no calm in the country unless all parties are involved in the political process. if the brotherhood doesn't participate in the transition process or the vision of the constitution what it would mean is that this new constitution that's going to come out of this process will only represent the liberal and conservative sides of society and won't represents the islamist side of the population so it would mean that it won't represent a cross-section of egyptian society and therefore will not reject a missy for a long time to come and what it would mean is it will just end up going from one crisis to another for another period of time instead of this group forming the constitution without having the brotherhood involved what the ruling authorities

should do is that they should really engage in a national dialogue to try to decide what the future of this country should look like and try to get as many major or he's involved as possible and try to get their agreement and this current trajectory will not meet in that direction just brutal now the greek government is pressing ahead with this geraghty having approved more public sector job cuts struggling to please its international lenders and that's despite a massive general strike and thousand strong rallies bringing public services to a standstill earlier this week to secure its next bailout tranche athens will have to redeploy or x. twenty five thousand civil servants. under a bill passed earlier this week around four thousand employees state employees will lose their jobs by the and of this year are up to a thousand workers are being fired in greece every day and recent surveys by the who i think sophistical authority show now since two thousand and nine unemployment unemployment has skyrocketed the country from

a little over nine percent almost twenty seven percent and greece's g.d.p. has plunged but almost one hundred billion euros are going off has been on the streets of athens talking to the protesters. protected by law since the nineteenth century public workers are still considered to be the foundation of the greek economy but its creditors have demanded that the government cuts up to twenty five thousand public jobs before the end of this year otherwise greece is not going to get its latest financial aid package worth over six billion euros so doctors teachers security guards when you suppose police public transport drivers and others have all got on strike and gathered at the country's parliament and happens to fight for their jobs it's just the beginning they have in mind to destroy every public service in greece need teachers we need people in the health sector schecter we need people for the. garbage for everything past six years the greek

economy has been in recession on the one it is at twenty seven percent but there are many of those who do work officially but haven't seen their salaries in months if you had all three graduates are able to find a job there's a rise of drug addicts and the firm was including those with a fired a shot and decades worth of work experience but the general feeling on the street is not only the government which is to blame for the situation we have people in the grown men in the private sector people in the gromit now independent in the public sector for the state for the first time show that we is needed is a new policy you policy not only in greece but new policy in the european union a new policy in the eurozone no matter what happens next labor unions like you organisation say it's not going to back down until the troika and brussels especially realizes it's not only about adding or subtracting numbers but about the real lives for real people you've got to start off are cheap athens greece is a fro u.k.

loyalist held a rally in northern ireland after belfast authorities denied permission to march through an area separating the rival unionists and nationalist communities a minute having a security presence. the parade passed relatively peacefully with no repeat of the recent may have orange order supporters have vowed to return to the same spot every saturday until they are allowed to march on their traditional route it's already refusal to approve the parade route resulted in five nights of rioting with additional police drafted in from across the u.k. dozens were injured and several arrests were made christian science monitor is island correspondent jason walsh sas local authorities have been taken by surprise by the extent of the unrest but there are. six number of. what i think the women's expecting were. going to be going on.

it's a bit of. form for any of them to know. for the. local but with americans i think you are. bearing the brunt richard branson anyone with the. rights to your border should really have a right to freedom or someone. who want to march and people won't be. the order of more. meanwhile over in england police were also cold up in droves this far right brought us into full long clashes between police and anti-fascist groups in birmingham at least fifteen people were arrested during the demonstration organized by the english defense league in their drive against what they call the islamization of their country over a thousand police were called in to keep the peace but it's already say they can

ban these gatherings despite the surge in violence since the horrific killing of a british soldier in london in may. at least sixty five. five people have been killed in a string of coordinated bombings in at around iraq's capital another one hundred ninety people were injured so over thirteen bombs went off in baghdad the attacks targeted mainly bustling shiite areas as locals emerge after their daily around the down fast ramadan attacks have so far claimed over five hundred lives. germany's dare spigelman magazine claims that the country's security services have been eagerly helping the u.s. in its global surveillance operations publication alleges that the national security agency's x. keyscore program was used to collect a huge volume of online traffic coming out of germany but german chancellor angela merkel earlier said she only found out about the n.s.a.

snooping practices by the media. and the man who blew the lid on those surveillance operations at risk noted is now awaiting russia's approval of his temporary asylum request the fugitive american intelligence leader could then be granted refuge for one year for now though he remains stuck in the transit zone of the moscow airport where he's been for over three weeks now one snowden gets the paperwork he'll finally be able to leave the airport and will enjoy most of the rights of any russian citizen it is unclear how long he'll remain in the country though to be allowed to stay in russia and the fugitive acts and as a contractor had to agree not to release any more leaks that could harm the u.s. government but jim kill it from the open rides were hopes he'll resume releasing materials as soon as he can. hope it doesn't mean that he has to not talk about what the united states have been up to in broad policy terms i mean he's

been very careful not to threaten individual peroration is not to expose particular agents or to make claims which would result in people safety being compromised rather he's been talking about the broad programs that the united states and the u.k. have been dealing with he says he's got a lot of material and i certainly hope he has more to tell us it does seem that way to completely change the debate right now and it's very important not to bait keeps happening i think a lot of things are happening in the wake of that there were at least two legal actions being launched in the u.k. on the back of what he's revealed expect will be more in the u.s. a big tech companies a challenging on the basis of their own free speech and also to clear the names of i was been going on so there is a lot to happen whether or not he's got more material to give but i really would like to see whether he has got more to say and i hope he does. so if russia does

prove to be just a stopover for snowden he could soon be heading to latin america several countries there are willing to extend a helping hand to the thirty year old so let's see where exactly he could end up. well glenn greenwald the investigative reporter who broke the snowden leaks story thinks venezuela is the best option believe is also among the front runners especially after the grounding of its president's plane in europe caused such anger . the next stop could be nicaragua it says it's willing to grant asylum after receiving an application from edward snowden and aqua door is another option despite the u.s. urging it not to provide refuge for snowden as it did for we can expound julian astonish and while snowden's been scrambling to avoid prosecution the trial of a fellow whistleblower is nearing its sound in the u.s. the closing arguments in the trial of bradley manning could come as soon as friday and he's facing life in prison the army private is accused of aiding the enemy in

handing over thousands of classified military documents to weaken makes for the details of the ongoing case here's our wall. private first class bradley manning faces several charges twenty one total the most serious of which is aiding the enemy the other charges range from computer fraud to theft of government property and asked be a knowledge if convicted of that most serious charge manning could spend his life behind bars without the possibility of parole even if he is not convicted of aiding the enemy the remaining charges amount to one hundred fifty four years behind bars this week the judge could have dropped that aiding the enemy charge but she decided not to manning already spent some serious time in prison about three years before his trial even began now the trial is in its final stages we should hear closing arguments next week that it's up to the judge and this court martialled to decide

the verdict now this comes at a time of great debate over whistleblowers in the country many see manning as a hero but his opponents see him as a traitor for exposing government secrets the secrets include iraq and afghanistan war logs and videos of air strikes one ton of obey detainee assessments and diplomatic cables many activists believe the outcome of manning's marcel could set an example for future whistleblowers a glaring example for this is n.s.a. leaker edward snowden many points of manning's pretty. heavyhanded charges as an example of what's to come for snowden should he set foot in the us leading up to the trial and during the trial there have been several demonstrations in support of manning the next major one being organized by manning support network is set for july twenty seventh and step the international day of action for bradley manning the group is calling for protests in several cities throughout the u.s. and abroad here in fort meade maryland liz wahl r.t.

. and up next on our team examining whether traditional police interrogation techniques do more harm than good 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 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 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 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. i know 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 called dalia that husbands just being killed they want to gauge her reactions as they suspect she may have hired a hitman to murder a spouse. like oh ok i'll try to cut. back. with a camera. in fact no killing has taken place and the police have made up the story to try and confuse done. what they want is a confession and a few hours later she will be charged with attempted murder in this case it was the cross-examination of dalia that led to the truth and then eased the way to her prosecution. among the police the interrogation process is consider.