ok so. now we have nationwide outrage in the u.s. with mass protests in dozens of cities against dick with all of george zimmerman a florida neighborhood watch volunteer who was charged with murdering an armed black teenager. russian opposition activist alexander mommy's bail the day after of being had a five year jail term for investment in a trial that's captivated the world's media. over this week turkey is accused of letting israel use a military base to launch a reason air strike on 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

a sworn in and despite the violence. it is one pm in moscow this is r t with me maureen and joshua welcome to the program now crowds of protesters have been gathering in cities all over the u.s. where he sings 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's ruling has been widely branded as racist granted account 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 of some places like the salmon and you don't protest for in violence demonstrators to rocks at passing cars 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 a white 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 in self-defense laws

these people see a clash between the law and justice that's 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 but you see the faces of these people outraged. well president obama appealed for calm speaking at a white house press conference on friday but he also signaled his sympathy with the protesters and gave his personal perspective on their racial aspects to the case trayvon martin could have been me. thirty five years ago there are very few african-american men in this country who have near the experience of being followed when they were shopping in department store that includes me. there are 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. by the demonstrators are unwilling to give up their cause this by those words from the president and the u.s. attorney general are doing a review of the self-defense laws which allows him or man to walk free celebrities as well as the parents of trayvon martin are leading the movement and university of minnesota professor elisa attended their 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 the justice system in this country is racialized from the moment of impact police arrest more people hold. 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 or given in terms of their population so we already have all that data and the disc 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 are tracking those nationwide rallies over on our website r.t. dot com there you can see all the best pictures and video footage and the social media reaction. and for you on the program resisting estero to agree corker is going to nationwide strike and take to the streets for mass rallies but failed to stop their government slashing yet more jobs own report from athens is on its way. also all feuds are we not in northern ireland as loyalists refuse to stop their protest until they are granted permission for a highly controversial parade route passing through a sectarian flashpoint that's coming out. now russian

opposition activist and taker option campaigner allocative ali 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 deserving of has been following what's been dubbed one of russia's most controversial trials in years. five and four years in prison alexina vining to that if it's ever spent of the 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 critical 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 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 going to 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 there an 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 to request a friend of i need an officer if until their verdict comes into effect immediately 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 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 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 detention before being. at least from this courthouse 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 just 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 the hope still corruption and trying to make a 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 run from moscow city where he can give as 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 that'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 cause it rushes 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 yet alexina viney 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 then from the american state as wiki leaks showed it not so long ago it even goes quite central russian. now we've got in-depth coverage on a story over on our website also online. 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 the airport troubles in northern mexico travelers queuing up to board your flights found themselves need in the water after a flash flood reached the terminal building 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 team source earlier this week has been rejected by the turkish government which also condemned any media mention of it they allege israeli attack was an attack 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 may rockets struck a warehouse at the capital's international airport allegedly stockpiling surface to air missiles on all occasions the attacks were justified as operations to wipe out a rainy and missiles bound for hezbollah in lebanon the story in a middle east expert mark almond believes israel's motives go far beyond blocking weapons supplies to the group. israel has an interest in pretty helpful getting the weapons but the broader context is not just syria but also we are 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 lotion islamic country and it's also borders iran and it could be a conduit for a potential strike into iran through its own aspace that would make it much more difficult to detect something coming from israel i would say the israelis worry that missiles sent from iran to hezbollah vala syria could be used as a revenge attack if they were to move the much discussed preemptive strikes trying to reign in fifths of the trees where the by themselves or with the hope 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 iran from a completely different direction the risk is that with a toast he's heard he will be held responsible and turkey could be drawn into

a conflict and this is going to. destabilize inside turkey. so despite their recent unfriendly rather turkey and israel remain united against a common enemy biasa government in syria at our feet up all we're looking at the reaction within turkey and across the arab world. a wave of ultra nationalist violence in the u.k. thousands of police are deployed to keep a far right protest under wraps and that's coming up after the break. some of these traditional chili lines they've been bred into bill passed down from generation. this is a total destruction of the culture of new mexico i tell. i mean this this is not going to impact asylum in mexico whatever happens here. we're eating out to about

six in the in the open in the eighty's in all the organiser or. the engineer cops why do you think this country is full of obese and sick people because we have a crappy food system. choose your language. make it with oh if. someone. chooses to use that consumes you can. choose to opinions that degrade to. choose to stories that impart the. truth be access to. welcome back this is our now egypt see more violent clashes at street protests

around the country this week dragging on a political stand off on saturday the army blocked a huge march by morsy supporters on the republican guard headquarters where maddy believed the deposed president mohamed morsy is being held and that's a day after three people were killed in clashes between rival crowds of demonstrators in the city of months were deadly street battles in towns of five is a senior u.s. official to visit egypt for the first time since the military to cold war 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 morse's muslim brotherhood his last movement has rejected the cabinet and its supporters are vowing to continue mass protests egyptian constitutional aspirants he says 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 provision 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 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 just reforming the constitution without having the brotherhood involved what the ruling authority 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 lead in that direction just regrettable. now the greek government is pressing ahead with the sterett he having approved more. sector job cuts struggling to please its international lenders and that's despite a massive general strike and sauza in strong rallies bringing public services to

a standstill earlier this week to secure its next bailout tranche asons 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 up to sawzall workers are being fired in greece every day recent surveys by the helen except to stickles already show since two thousand and nine unemployment has skyrocketed from a little over nine percent and to almost twenty seven percent and greece's g.d.p. has plunged but only a hundred billion euros artistic 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 what they're supposed police public transport drivers and others have all got on strike and gathered at the country's parliament in athens to fight for their jobs it does the beginning they have in mind to destroy their public service agrees to meet the cheers 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 to handle three graduates are able to find a job there's a rise of drug addicts and the food was including those with a for education and decades worth of work experience with the general feeling on the street is that. 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 indication

in the public sector for the state for the first time 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 you organisation say not going to back down until the troika and brussels especially realise that 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 ones three and the two british citizens and one russian have died in a helicopter accident in russia's far north the margins the service the sad bad the u.k. citizens were tourists who were in the more manske region on a fishing trip by helicopter owned by a private company brought them to the location and then crashed after a failed takeoff killing the three people on the ground it's believed the pilot survived and he had reportedly planned to cancel the fly due to bad weather.

meanwhile in northern ireland progress unionists have vowed to stage weekly protest in belfast until we are allowed to hold a parade passing through a crucial sectarian flashpoint separating loyalists 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 u.k. to keep things under control dozens were injured and over eighty arrests were made political commentator john white says that the marginalization that loyalist communities have suffered does not justify their provocative behavior. or certainly there's marginalization within some of these communities people or. any benefits from that peace but on the other hand why should nationalist catholic community be forced to endure this and your project three circuitry and research them for just

what it is for me home state so yes well but there are social economic problems with the communities that show me no justification for trying to foment violence and lawlessness as she played on national security to be judged over the. six computer people who are in the british or the north i mean the underlying concurrence of action of not of the world's population the great. revolutionary corollary to that view that the only part of the twentieth century that should be true and has was a con of overreaction and suddenly you've been proven right but there's been no proper trim is about the child over to school there was a responsible for a maternity home for the kids and straight for that it's an island of our state in the country and. meanwhile over in england police were also called up in droves as a far right protest spiraled into full line clashes between police and i factions

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 islam is a shoot 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 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 shiite areas as locals emerged after the daily ramadan fast the rather down attacks have so far claimed over five hundred lives. germany's 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 a huge volume of online traffic coming out of germany by 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 added snowden is now awaiting russia's approval of his temporary asylum request the fugitive american intelligence leaker could now be granted refuge for one year for now though he remains stuck in the transit zone of a moscow airport where his men for over three weeks now if snowden gets the paperwork he'll finally be able to leave the airport and jordan most of the rights of any russian citizen it is unclear of how long he'll remain in the country however 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. interests but swinish pirate party member

a male your daughter believes snowden was actually trying to strengthen democracy in his homeland democracy is a 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 see that we've seen 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 being able to. develop as democratic human beings and participate meaningfully in such a process and so countries that previously is not best preserved always from the risk of not to be building up to democratic values. and while snowden has been scrambling to avoid prosecution the trial of a fellow whistleblower is nearing its sand in the u.s. the closing arguments in the trial of bradley manning could come as soon as friday

is facing wife in prison and the army private is accused of aiding the enemy and handing over thousands of classified military documents to wiki leaks for the details of the ongoing case here's our it is liz 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'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 these secrets include iraq and afghanistan war logs and videos of air strikes one ton of obaid 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 be organized 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 our team. and

in just a few minutes here in our city will look out the corporate interest behind a controversial world of genetically modified food. 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 call made in mexico to blow your neighbors off well that's ok because it's a generic copy no no sane person would allow generic drug producers to have no liability for their product but that's just my opinion. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems. you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear see some other part of it and realize that everything you. are

is a big. controlling the seeds is not some abstraction whoever provides the world seeds controls the world's food supply arlington steel vanity fair. for the first time corporations are patenting products that are self replicating uncontrollable and irretrievable.