a week of 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 a black teenager. russian opposition activist only seen a volley is baled a day after being handed a five year jail term for investment 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 in syria that information coming from our sources but ankara denies the allegation. and backers of egypt's ousted president mohamed morsy clash with opponents at mass rallies while the new cabinet to sworn in

despite the violence. this is r.t. coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshie 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 and 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 are just 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 the samplings some places like examiner and you don't protest for in violent demonstrators the rocks of passing cars for many many americans we're following to 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 a white to civil rights activist 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 re 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 a mother of three 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 walked free so you see the basis of these people outrage. president obama peeled for a call speaking at a white house press conference on friday but he also signaled his sympathy with the protesters and gave his personal perspective on the racial aspect to the case of trayvon martin could have been me. thirty five years ago there are very few african-american men in this country who have no the experience of being followed when they were shopping in department store. that includes me in there for very very few african-american men who have never experience of walking across the

street and hearing the locks click on the doors of cars. that happens to me at least before i was a senator. why the demonstrators aren't willing to give up their cars despite those words from the president and the u.s. attorney general urging a review of the self-defense laws which allows a remand to walk free celebrities as well as the parents of trayvon martin are leading the movement university of minnesota professor brecht tan of the rally in her state and she told us that the case reflects a deep racial bias in the u.s. legal system. all that data shows just system in this country is racialized from the moment of impact police arrest more people hold or. are convicted in greater numbers they serve sentences that are longer and there are greater numbers of people in prisons in the united states are given in terms of

their population so we already have all 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 voices. and we're tracking those nationwide rallies over on our website r t dot com very good to see all the best pictures and video footage and the social media reaction. it has for you in the program resisting us staring greek workers don't want to nationwide strike and take to the streets for mass rallies but fail to stop their government slashing more jobs reports from athens is on its way. also old feuds are weak not in northern ireland as loyalists refused to stop their protests until they were granted permission for a highly controversial parade route passing through sectarian flashpoint that's coming up. russian opposition activist an anti-corruption

campaign are always saying of ali was sentenced to five years in jail for embezzlement on thursday but released on bail the next day after a surprise request from prosecute. are just ready to go has been following what's been dubbed one of russia's most car rachele trials in years former workers five and four years in prison alexina vining to that if it's ever spent on t.v. 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 predicted and a convert to the conviction means that he won't be able to stand for mayor of moscow says the embezzlement charges brought against him politically motivated an outspoken critic of the russian president vladimir putin has been sentenced to five years in prison 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 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 main 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 a friend of i me enough to serve until their verdict comes into effect in their immediate arrest a preliminary detention to stick to measure as you put in spokesman said there was nothing unusual about the trial or the prosecutor's 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 of allah so that he was ready. for a long term problem they were confined and ordering books from the library and that list tito's and his self but they spent less than twenty four hours in detention 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 now when 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 a foreign 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 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 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 neo nazis ism which of course this man has flirted with repeatedly although he may not be major household name in russia it. 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 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 the valleys party received money from the american state as wiki leaks showed it not so long ago it even goes quite to. of central russia. and we've got in-depth coverage on that story over in our web site also on line for you today. a wheelchair user has detonated a homemade bomb at beijing international airport injuring no one but himself apparently to draw attention to a brutal police attack that left him disabled had to r.t. dot com to find out more about the incident. and stay with airport troubles in northern mexico travelers queuing up to board their flights found themselves kneedeep and water after a flash flood breached the terminal building you can find all the pictures on our in motion page at r.t. dot com. israel has reportedly used a turkish military base to launch an attack on syria that information revealed by

our tease sources earlier this week has been rejected by the turkish government which also can damned any media mention of it the alleged israeli attack was in 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 a masochist was bombed from the air twice in january and may rockets struck a warehouse at the capital's international airport allegedly stockpiling surface to surface missiles on all occasions the attacks were justified as operations to wipe out the radian missiles bound for housefull law and eleven m. historian and middle east expert mark almond believes israel's motives go far beyond blocking weapons supplies to the group. it sort of has an interest in promoting hasbro getting the weapons but the broader context is not just syria but

also we're wrong and i think that's what turkey is cool to know could place because turkey is a historical military ally of israel with a lot of cooperation between the turkish military in the israelis but it also is a lovely islamic country and it also borders iran and it could be a conduit for a potential strike into iran through its own aspace it would make it much more difficult for the iranians to detect something coming from israel i don't see the israelis worry that missiles sent from iran to hezbollah vos syria could be used as a revenge attack if they were to move the much discussed preemptive strikes try and knock out iranian nuclear facilities with the by themselves or with the help of the americans israel may find it quite useful for turkey to be thought to be an active ally in its operations against syria and potentially against iran so that even if the israelis have plans perhaps to strike a different from a completely different direction the risk is that with a toast he's hurt he will be held responsible and turkey could be drawn into

a conflict and this is something that deeply destabilizing inside turkey. so despite their recent unfriendly ratter in turkey and israel remain united against a common enemy the also the government in syria i don't you know can we are looking out there reaction within turkey and across the arab world. a wave of ultranationalist violence in the u.k. thousands of police are deployed to keep a far right protest under a lapse and that's coming up after the break. oh oh music is our job the army our destiny these soldiers don't know what real arms look like but it didn't take them a single shot to come. the world.

china and korea try to imitate them america and europe cry bravo absolutely amazing amazing. meanwhile back in russia military artists are losing their grip on the audience. of young people especially soldiers they seem to me to differently from. the russian musical army has been fighting for eighty five years now with state t.v. with the times and we don't know the younger audience is up to date as the time comes to give up the fight and defeat. an r.t. . welcome back this is r.t. it had seen more violent clashes at street protests 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 that oppose president mohamed morsy is being held and that's the day after three people were killed in clashes between rival crowds of demonstrators in the city of men saurabh deadly street battles intensified as a senior u.s. official visit it 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 is swore in a new cabinet excluding members of morsy as muslim brotherhood islamist movement has rejected the cabinet and its supporters are vowing to continue a mass protest egyptian constitutional expert he says there will 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 side 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 project in the sea for a long time to come and what it would mean is that it will just end up going from one crisis to another for another period of time instead of despair forming the constitution without having the brotherhood involved with 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 parties involved as possible and try to get their agreement and this current trajectory will not meet in that direction just incredible. the greek government is pressing ahead with a sturdy having approved more public sector job cuts struggling to please its international lenders and best aspire to a massive general strike and sauza strong rallies bringing public services to

a standstill earlier this week to secure its next bailout tranche assonance will have to redeploy or x. twenty five thousand civil servants under a bill passed earlier this week around four sounds and 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 according to recent surveys by the helen and statistical authority show. since two thousand and nine unemployment has skyrocketed from a little over nine percent to almost twenty seven percent and greece's g.d.p. has plunged by almost one hundred billion euros are going off has been on the streets of athens talking to protesters protected by war since the nineteenth century public workers are still considered. three 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 we say is not going to

get its latest financial aid package worth over six billion euros so doctors teachers security guards were supposed 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 we 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 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 are able to find a job there's a rise of drug addicts and the firm was including those with a fired patient and decades worth of work experience but the general feeling on the street it's not only the government which is to blame for the situation we have

people and grown men in the private sector people on the ground with no independent in the public sector for the state for the first time so that we each 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 my friends greeks meanwhile in northern ireland prober it is unionists have vowed to stage weekly protests in belfast until they are allowed to hold a parade passing through a crucial sectarian flashpoint separating the loyalist and nationalist communities thousands of demonstrators gathered for the latest rally on saturday. which passed relatively peacefully it all flared up last weekend when the authorities refused to approve the parade route sparking five nights of rioting with additional police

drafted in from across the u.k. to keep things under control dozens were injured and over eighty arrests were made political commentator john white says the marginalization that loyalist communities have suffered does not justify their provocative behavior. or generally those marginalization within some of these communities people or. any benefits from the peace but on the other hand why should nationalist catholic community be forced to endure this kind of your project three circuitry and research them for just what it is for me home state so yes well there are social economic problems within each communities but certainly no justification for trying to form a violence and lawlessness as we've seen an international community of the age there will be for the other six term future occupied removal british borders of i mean the underlying current course of action in the part of the world is

partition the great height of revolutionary james coralie predicted that they're only part of the twentieth century that petition to lead to in his words a column of overreaction and suddenly he's been proven right but there's been no protection is about the child over to school there was a responsible for a material called for that's right for that it's an island of power starting for kashmir. meanwhile over in england police were also called up in droves as a far right protest spiraled into full on clashes between police and anti-fascist groups and burning out 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 by the authorities say they can ban these gatherings despite a surgeon vile. and 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 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 shiite areas as locals emerge after their daily ramadan fast of ramadan attacks have so far claimed over five hundred lives. and germany's der 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 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 via the media. and the man who blew the lid on those surveillance operations edward 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 remain stuck in the transit zone of a moscow airport were he 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 how long he'll remain and the country however to be allowed to stay in russia for mannus a contract there have to agree not to release any more leaks that could harm u.s. interests but swedish pirate party member a million years thought or believe snowden was actually trying to strengthen democracy in his homeland. form of governance but i think what you can tell from mr snowden's. excuse that it's not just the election process right but you also that we've seen values like human rights dignity and sanctity of a person's private lives and the importance also of granting people a private life in order to use to be participate in

a democratic process so previous is one of the preconditions for us being 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 very robe and while snow has been scrambling to avoid prosecution the trial of a 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 table as well. 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 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 these 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 nice guy 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 live all our team. well news just in here on r t reports say at least three people including two british citizens have died. in a helicopter accident in north russia a local police source said the privately owned helicopter try to takeoff in the more manske region than crashed killing several people on the ground it's believed the pilot survived and the crew reportedly contacted air traffic control air

earlier asking to cancel the flight due to bad weather. up next hour a poor a town of people who served their country using musical instruments instead of weapons. or remember those old wacky communist countries who constantly boost their numbers to make themselves feel better or who cares if stores are indians piece of paper a one hundred thousand tons of potatoes that is good enough for me well now we are in a new age of technology but the same lying to make yourself feel good is still going strong it just moved over to the capitals world the u.s. state department's bureau of international information programs has spent six hundred thirty thousand dollars on facebook advertising campaigns to get fans and

such of the government is out there to buy likes oh what a fantastic use tax dollars but wait maybe i'm being too pessimistic perhaps it worked and really helped spread the message of the us state department effectively well inspector general's report says that since the advertising campaign started twenty eleven there has been a dramatic increase in users liking state department sites but the problem is that only two percent of them actually use the sites so you get what you pay for a big bag of likes but if you hard core fans probably the most shocking example is a vision of america group in farsi made for a rainy and which has gotten over four hundred twenty thousand members but only one percent of them is actually in iran where facebook advertising doesn't even exist that's effective getting lots of likes doesn't mean you are actually reaching people instead of paying for them why not you know get them naturally bar by providing interesting honest content on a regular basis oh wait that takes effort and honesty yeah you know what just keep wasting a tax. well

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