i we have nationwide outrage in the us with mass protests in dozens of cities against the acquittal of george zimmerman a florida neighborhood watch volunteer who was charged with murdering an unarmed black teenager. russian opposition activist ali sina vali is bail the day after being handed a five year jail term for embezzlement in a trial that's captivated the world's media. also this week turkey is accused of letting israel use a military base to launch a recent air strike on syria that information coming from our sources but ankara denies the allegations. and backers of egypt's ousted president mohamed morsi clashed with opponents add mass rallies while

a new cabinet is sworn in and despite the violence. i want to moscow this is r.t. and i'm marina joshie welcome to the program and crowds of protesters have been gathering in cities all over the u.s. voicing their fury over the recent acquittal of george zimmerman that he was cleared of murder over the shooting of unarmed black teenager trayvon martin in florida last year the court ruling has been widely branded as racist. as 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 salmon and you don't protest for in violence demonstrators who walks in 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 existing laws 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 cement 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 in self-defense law 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 basis of the people outraged. well president obama also said that he could easily have been in trayvon martin's position thirty five years ago meanwhile university of minnesota professor lees alberta two was among those protesting in her state told

us that the case reflects a deep racial bias in the u.s. legal system. all the data shows just justice system in this country just racial right from the moment of impact police arrest more people. are convicted in greater numbers the. sentences that are longer and there are greater numbers of people who are in prison and the united states given in terms of their population so you don't have that data and this we see as a continuation of. this man has been acquitted so now it's time for our government to hear our voice. and we are tracking those nationwide rallies over on our web site r t v dot com and there you can see all the best pictures and video footage of the social media reaction. i had for you in the program

resisting a sterile greek workers go on nationwide strike and take to the streets for mass rallies but failed to stop their government slashing more jobs our report from athens is on its way. also old feuds are really not in northern ireland as loyalists refused to stop their protests until they are granted permission for a highly controversial parade route passing through a sectarian flashpoint that's coming out here in our. russian opposition activist and anti-corruption campaign or ali sina vania was sentenced to five years in. form battlement on thursday but released on bail the next day after a surprise request from prosecutors are his radio show as well following what's been dubbed one of russia's most controversial trials any years former works or five and four years in prison into that if it's a risk going to be 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 and 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 are simply following their own opinions which they formed in advance what kind of comments it 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 thousands 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 on 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 serve until their verdict comes into effect the immediate arrest and preliminary detention to stick to measure as you put in spokesman said there was nothing unusual about the trial who the prosecutors appeal stressing that the president can not 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 confinement ordering books from the library and battling mosquitoes and himself but he spent less than twenty four hours and detention before being released from this court house started. 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 now that he spent the better part of the last few years flirting with nationalistic movements as well as leading a popular blog exposing the hope still corruption and trying to make it for

a 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 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 it's been referred to abroad as russia's mandela moment perhaps too bold a claim the b.b.c. there's the state run there 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 to lord 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 near not 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 ne d. the ne d. is 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 nobel nice party received money from the american state as wiki leaks showed it not so long ago it even goes quite central russian always in-depth coverage on the story over in our website also online for you today how well terry user has detonated homemade their. valmai beijing international airport injuring no one but himself apparently to draw attention to a brutal police of tampa that left him disabled so had to our website r t dot com to find out more about the ins. and staying with airport troubles in northern mexico travelers queuing up to board their flights found themselves knee high in

water after a flash flood breached the terminal building you can find all the pictures on our in motion page article called. israel has reportedly used a turkish military base to launch an attack on syria that information review by our sources earlier this week has been rejected by the turkish government which also condemned any media mention of it the alleged israeli attack was on latakia in 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 damascus was bombed from the air twice in january and may rockets struck a warehouse ever capitols international airport allegedly containing surface to surface missiles on all occasions the attacks were justified as operations to wipe

out iranian missiles bound for has in lebanon my colleague worse as she spoke to journalist manteo us and writer who's 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 pint of the critics of prime minister in the in the past years especially in turkey is still a very important ally and maybe maybe the most important in the region what's more important for turkey then 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 acting also for the nato 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 to him on dream of being the leading power in the region and with

its role playing in the nato and the nato is. syria very aggressive and this it can vary a little syria 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 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 approx evil or 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 than israel remain united against a common enemy the awesome government in syria at r.t. dot com they're looking at the reaction within turkey and across the arab world. how ways of ultranationalist violence in the u.k. thousands of police are deployed to keep the far right protests under wraps that's coming up after the break here in our team. i've seen the perceptions across many times it doesn't matter if there's snow a heat wave or hail stones from people keep going i don't expect anything just one i told myself i keep on going as long as my heart told me to that's all i want to at the moment mickey i have said so mind she see i'm carrying these sayings on my

shoulders. do you want me to put a bandage here you know that's fine but a lot of people were so exhausted they could barely walk their feet hurt and some of them fainted we will bring you back to you three two wanted to keep going i don't know what tomorrow will bring. wealthy british style it's time to. go. to. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy is a report on our. welcome back here with our. more violent clashes and street protests throughout the country this week dragging on a political stand off on saturday the army blog the huge march by morsy supporters

on the republican guard headquarters where many believe the deposed president mohamed morsy is being held that's a day after or three people were killed in clashes between rival crowds of demonstrators in the city of months or a. 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 leader swore in a new cabinet excluding members of morsi is muslim brotherhood the islamist movement has rejected the cabinet and its supporters are vowing to continue mass protests egyptian journalists are here amin told my colleague lisa garvin of doubt shutting the group out was a dangerous. i think is a fatal mistake excluding any political faction from the transitional political process is a fatal mistake people were complaining the morsi was in one eyes in the state and

now they are doing exactly the same keeping the islamists sidelined hoping to push them back underground this will have very serious implications just a short while ago there was a very brutal crackdown on pro morsi protesters outside the parliament. and just last week fifty one pro receive protesters were gunned down by security forces we're already hearing jihadi groups say they will launch. a holy war to defend islam but at the same time the muslim brotherhood brotherhood of leadership had willingly boycotted the transition government had effectively removed itself from the transition do you believe that that was a mistake on the part of the as the mists yes they refused to take part in any negotiations unless morrisey is reinstated which of course there's

a very slim chance of that happening they are in denial and i think that their only chance is to take part in national with constellation talks because. other than that i don't see any solution to this crisis. well the greek government is pressing ahead with a sturdy having approved more public sector job cuts struggling to please its international lenders and that's despite a massive general strike and sauza 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 state employees will lose their jobs by the end of this year and up to a thousand workers are being fired in greece every day recent surveys by the helen statistical authority show well since two thousand and nine unemployment has

skyrocketed from a little of over ninety nine percent to almost twenty seven percent and greece's g.d.p. has plunged by almost a hundred billion euros our days of work is going off has been on the streets of athens talking to the protesters. protected by a 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 and when you're supposed police public transport drivers and others have all got on strike and gathered at the country's prevalent in athens to fight for their jobs it does the beginning they have in mind to destroy their public service in greece the neat features 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 unemployment is at twenty seven percent but there are many of those who do work officially but haven't seen their salaries in months to handle three graduates aren't able to find a job there's a rise of drug addicts and the third was including those with the fire education and decades worth of work experience for. 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 into the public sector for the state for the first time so that we need to use a new policy you policy not only in greece but new policy in the european union a new policy in the eurozone and i know what happens next labor unions like your participation say not going to back down until the troika and russell especially realize it's not only about adding or subtracting numbers but about the real lives like real people you've got to set up our table that wins three. thousands of.

the rally in northern ireland after belfast authorities denied permission to march through an area separating the rival loyalist and nationalist communities under a heavy security presence the parade passed relatively peacefully was no repeat of the recent mayhem orange order supporters have vowed to return to the same spot every saturday until they are allowed to march on the or traditional route their stories 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 over eighty arrests were made political commentator john white says that marginalization loyalist communities have suffered does not justify their proactive actions. well certainly there's marginalization within some of these within their communities people who are a either group to seek any benefits from the peace but on the other hand why should the nationalist catholic community be forced to endure this and your progeny three

old and recent for just what it is an enormous state so yes while there are social economic problems within each communities that sally no justification for trying to form a violence and lawlessness as we've seen an international community of age still believe there are islands there are six computer occupied and remember british formulas and i mean the underlying concurrence of action enough of the world is partition the great. revolutionary jeems corollary to victory that they're only part of the twentieth century that partition would lead to in his words a combo of the action and suddenly he's been proven right but there's no protection is about the child over to school in your zone and it's responsible for the material conflicts and stright for that it's an island a powerless that in a country of. meanwhile over in england police were also called up in droves as a far right protest spiraled into full long clashes between police and i fascist

groups in birmingham least fifteen people were arrested during the demonstration organized by the english defense league in their drive against what they call islam is ation of their country over a thousand police were called in to keep the peace but the authorities 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 people have been killed in a string of coordinated bombings in and around iraq's capital another one hundred ninety people were injured as over thirteen bombs went off in baghdad the attacks targeted mainly bustling shii areas as locals emerge after their daily ramadan fast ramadan attacks have so far claimed over five hundred lives. in germany is there spiegel magazine claims that the country's security services have been eagerly helping the u.s. and its global surveillance operations the publication alleges that the national security agency's x. keyscore program was used to collect the huge volume of online traffic coming out

of germany by its german chancellor angela merkel earlier said she only found out about the n.s.a. snooping practices via the media. the man who blew the lid on those surveillance operations outward snowden is now awaiting russia's approval of his temporary asylum request the fugitive american intelligence leaker could then be granted refuge for one year for now though he remains stuck in the transit zone of a moscow airport where has been for over three weeks now if snowden gets the paperwork he'll finally be able to leave the airport and enjoy most of the rights of any russian citizen it is unclear of how long he'll remain in the country though to be allowed to stay in russia the former n.s.a. contractor had to agree not to release any more leaks that could harm u.s. interest but a swedish pirates party member and his daughter believes snowden was actually

trying to strengthen democracy in his homeland. you see it's a form of just governance but i think what you can tell from mr snowden's. excuse that it's not just the election process right but he also believes in values like human rights to dignity and sanctity of a person's private lives and the importance also of granting people a private life in order to use the participate in a democratic process so previous is one of the preconditions for us to be able to. develop as democratic human beings and participate meaningfully in such a process and so countries p.v.c.'s not best preserved always from the risk of not may be building up to democratic values. and while snowden's been scrambling to avoid prosecution the trial of fellow whistleblower is nearing its and in the u.s. the closing arguments in the trial of bradley manning could come as soon as friday he's facing life in prison the army private is accused of aiding the enemy in

handing over thousands of classified military documents to wiki leaks 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 ass 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's 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 pretrial treatment and heavy handed charges as an example of what's to come for snowden should he set foot in the u.s. leading up to the trial and during the trial there have been several demonstrations in support of manning the next major one being more of a night by manning support network is set for july twenty seventh it's 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 live all artsy. next week

examine whether traditional police interrogation techniques do more harm than good . if 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 branded creators of the drugs can the court's decision was five to four overturning a multimillion dollar award for a woman who was horribly wounded by taking a medication which gave her toxic epidermal necrosis which is basically the equivalent of getting third degree burns all over her body and of course after winning the case mutual pharmaceutical company is demanding their millions of dollars back from the woman who they naturally blame for having side effects from

the medicine they made themselves remember this is not just a ruling about one drug but a ruling about all generic drugs which are eighty percent of the u.s. market all of them will not have any accountability i cannot wrap my head around the logic of only punishing the creator of a product and granting immunity to anyone that later reproduces said product i mean would any sane person say that if you shoot a person with a colt forty five pistol that is a crime but if you use a copycat made in mexico to blow your neighbor's 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. speak your language i mean some of the law in advance of. this program says documentaries in spanish what matters to you breaking news a little tune into the angles keep these stories.

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