it was. a week of nationwide outrage in the united states with 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 alexei navalny is bail today after being given a five year jail term for embezzlement in a closely watched trial that has sparked mass rallies and his support on the streets of moscow. also this week turkey is accused of letting israel use a military base to launch a recent air strike on syria unconfirmed reports but ankara denies that allegation . and backers of egypt's ousted president mohamed morsi clashed with opponents at this rally is that while a new interim government are sworn in despite the on the rest.

thanks for joining in the salary or watching the weekly with me to see catherine of well crowds of protesters have been gathering in cities all across the united states to voice their anger over the recent acquittal of george zimmerman he was cleared of murder over the shooting of an unarmed black teenager trayvon martin in florida last year that court ruling has been described by some as being racially motivated. and 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 the salmon and you don't protest for in violent demonstrators who rocks a passing car 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 that 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 the seventeen year old trayvon martin the block people in his own neighborhood with a pack of skittles candy is 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 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 faces of these people outraged. president obama had appealed for calm speaking at a white house press conference on friday and now he also signaled his sympathy with the protesters and gave a personal perspective on the case. a 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. and they're 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. the protesters are not willing to give up their cost despite the u.s. attorney general urging a review of the self-defense laws which had allowed mr zimmerman to walk free celebrities as well as the parents of trayvon martin are leading the movement university of minnesota professor lisa albrecht attended a rally in her state and she told r.t. that the case exposes deep discrimination within the justice system. all the gaiters justice system in this country is racial from the moment of impact police arrest more people. who. are convicted in greater numbers the. sentences that are longer and there are greater numbers of people who are in prison and united states are given in terms of their population so you don't 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 words. of course we're tracking those nationwide rallies over on our web site r t dot com over there you can see all of the best pictures and video footage as well as the social media we actually had for you in a program resisting austerity in greek workers go on a nationwide strike and take to the streets for mass rallies but of course they do fail so far to stop their government from slashing more jobs our special report on athens that's coming up on its way also. old feuds are leave knighted in northern ireland as loyalists refuse to stop their protests until they are granted permission for a highly controversial parade route passing through a sectarian flashpoint do stay with us for more details on that. russian opposition activist an anti-corruption campaign or alexei navalny was sentenced to five years in jail for embezzlement on thursday but released on bail

the following dale farm pardon me after a surprise request from prosecutors are easily i mean it has been. following what has been seen as one of russia's most controversial trials in years between former workers are 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 critical and a convict at the conviction means that he won't be able to stand for mayor of moscow he says name someone 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 the 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 calling it unfair and immense police presence and a feast 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 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 decision and that those convicted should carry out their punishment as prescribed by the judge and his blog novelis

said that he was ready for a long term preliminary confinement were. books from the library and that list tito's and his self but he 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 sense of pointed opposition figurehead who's running for mayor of moscow a lawyer by profession know you 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 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 narcissism 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 novell nice party received money then from the american state as wiki leaks showed

it not so long ago it even goes quite central direction but that end. coverage on the story on our website at r.t. dot com also on there for you a wheelchair user has detonated a homemade bomb and international airport injuring nobody but himself apparently this to draw attention to a brutal police attack that had left him disabled and overcharging dot com to find out more about the incident also on there for you in northern mexico travelers queuing up to board their flights found themselves kneedeep in water after a flash flood breached the terminal building all the pictures in are in motion a page at r.t. dot com. israel has allegedly used a turkish military base to launch an attack on syria and i don't get that information coming from our sources earlier this week has been denied strongly by the turkish government our middle east correspondent polis lear has more details. there was a lot of talk and uncertainty in the region this week after our sources revealed

that we have information that is well launched a strike on syria from turkey now the reports are believed to be connected to a strike back in early july on the syrian city of latakia if accurate this would be the fourth time in recent months that tel aviv has launched an attack against syria the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has neither denied nor confirmed these allegations he simply says that israel's policy is not to allow the transfer of dangerous weapons to hizbollah and other so-called terrorist organizations and that this is a policy that the country will not deviate from that and now who also saying that every time something happens in the middle east israel is to blame the turks for their side have denied the allegations the turkish foreign minister saying that turkey will never be a part of nor a partner to such attacks he also said that the allegations were aimed at destroying turkey's power and reputation what is interesting is that relations

between turkey and israel are at an all time low they deteriorated after the for tiller attempt back in late two thousand and ten in which nine turkish activists were killed and there was an attempt to bring humanitarian aid to the people of gaza back in march the israeli prime minister apologized to the turks for that incident and what is happening now is that real questions are being asked about the sincerity of that apology there are also questions being asked as to why would turkey ally itself with its arch enemy in the region israel to launch an attack against another muslim country now it's no secret that turkey has spoken out against the regime of bashar assad in syria but this certainly is not a sufficient enough onset as to why turkey would work with israel to launch an attack against syria policy r.t. on the supreme israeli. in borda. wave of an ultra nationalist violence in the

united kingdom thousands of police are deployed to keep a far right protest under control that story coming up for you after the break. i would rather as questions for people in busy she's appalled instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on r.t. question more. wealthy british soil the sun. is not on the.

market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to cause a report on. egypt to see more violent clashes at street protests throughout the country this entire week dragging on the political standoff on saturday the army had blocked a march by morsy supporters on the republican guard headquarters there and this is where many believe the deposed president mohamed morsy is being held at the moment and this was a day after three people were killed in clashes between rival crowds of demonstrators in the city of long sora deadly street battles intensified as a senior u.s. . official visited egypt for the first time since the military had taken over at

least seven people were killed and hundreds of protesters detained on tuesday the country's interim leader sworn in a new captain and it excluded members of morsi as muslim brotherhood now that infamous movement has rejected the new government and its supporters are vowing to continue their mass protests egyptian constitutional experts i.e. ali says that 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 revision 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 and won't represent the is on the 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 go 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 just reforming the constitution without having the brotherhood involved with

a really good for you should do is that they should review each 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 and also go and try to get their agreement and this current trajectory in that direction just brutal but the greek government is pressing ahead a with austerity how they can prove to more public sector job cuts struggling to please us international lenders now this is despite a massive general strike and thousands of people strong rallies bringing public services to a standstill earlier this week now in order to secure its next bailout athens will have to redeploy or x. twenty five thousand civil servants now under a bill that was passed earlier this week around four thousand state employees will lose their jobs by the end of the year up to one thousand workers are currently being fired in greece every single day recent surveys by the. hellenic statistical authority show that those of us to take part in the statistics now since two

thousand and nine unemployment has skyrocketed from a little over nine percent to almost twenty percent percent and greece's g.d.p. has plunged by almost one hundred billion euros r.t.d. ego piskun else 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 they're supposed police public transport drivers and others have all got on strike and gathered at the country's president in athens to fight for their jobs it's just the beginning they have in mind to destroy every public service in greece you need teachers we need people in the health sector schecter we need people for the. garbage

for everything the 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 aren't 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 is not only the government which is to blame for the situation we have people in the private sector people in the growing with no indication in the public sector for the for the first time show that we need to use a new policy you policy not only in greece but in the european union a new policy in the eurozone no matter what happens next labor unions like you have organization saying i'm not going to back down until the troika and brussels especially realize that it's not only about adding or something. back to the numbers but about the real lives with real people you look at all forty eight.

weeks. two british citizens and one russian have died in a helicopter accident in russia's north emergency services said that the u.k. citizens were tourists who were in more. screech on a fishing trip now the helicopter owned by a private company dropped them off at their destination and then crashed this after a failed takeoff killing the three people on the ground it's believed that the pilot had survived he had reportedly planned to cancel that flight due to bad weather. meanwhile in northern ireland probe mists have vowed to stage weekly protest in belfast until they're allowed to hold a parade up passing through a crucial sectarian flashpoint separating 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 had 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 that the marginalization that loyalist communities have suffered doesn't justify their full vocative behavior. which only those marginalization within somebody within their communities people who are. going to benefit from that peace but on the other hand why should nationalist catholic community be forced to do if there's no hard to treat old circuitry and reset them which is what it is an enormous state so yes well there are social economic problems with the communities that certainly no justification for trying to form a violence and lawlessness as we've seen an international community of age there will be we are over sixty and people are all people i remember british or more of them i mean the underlying concurrence of action enough of the world's population the great irish revolutionary jim's corollary to that if you get there early part of the twentieth century that petition would lead to in his words

a con of overreaction and suddenly he's been proven right but there's no proper trim is about the child over to school there was a responsible for a maternity home for the right for that it's an island or powers that are in the country or. meanwhile in england police were also called up in droves as far right protesters spiraled into one clashes between police and 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 is the musician of their country over a thousand police officers will called in to keep the peace but the authorities say that they can't advance such gatherings this despite a surge in violence since the horrific killing of a british soldier in london back 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 their daily ramadan

fast the ramadan attacks have so far claimed over five hundred lives. germany's der spiegel magazine claims that the country's security services have been eagerly helping the u.s. in 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 the chancellor angela merkel earlier said that she only found out about the n.s.a. snooping practices through social media. and the man who blew the lid off those on those surveillance operations edward snowden is currently 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 he's been located for over three weeks now if not in does get the paperwork he'll finally be able to leave the airport and enjoy most of the rights of any russian citizen and it's unclear how long he'll actually were made in

the country to be allowed to stay here the former n.s.a. contractor had to agree not to release any more leaks that could harm u.s. interests between the pirate party member. believes that snowden was actually trying to strengthen democracy in his homeland. is a form of governance but i think what you can tell from mr snowden's it's not just the election process right but you also that we've seen values like human rights to dignity and sanctity of a person's private lives and the importance also granting people a private life in order to use the participate in a democratic process so produce is one of the preconditions for us being able to. develop democratic human beings and participate meaningfully in such a process and so countries their previous best preserved always from the risk of to me be building up to democratic values very wrote while snowden has been scrambling

to avoid prosecution the trial of a fellow whistleblower is nearing its end in the united states the closing arguments in the trial of bradley manning could come as soon as friday there he is facing life in prison the army private is accused of aiding the enemy and handing over thousands of classified military documents to wiki leaks for the details of this ongoing case here is our tease 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 us 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 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. in just a few minutes we'll look at the corporate interests behind the controversial world of genetically modified food you're watching. 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 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.

privately it's to allow all the crops to drink poison. herbicide. eighty five percent of all the g.m. crops are sold with the herbicide that it's designed not to die from. so road up ready soil is designed not to dump it from around the purpose of genetic engineering is on the coat tail of conventional and dust fuel agriculture that is characterized by the proliferation of agro chemicals fertilizers pesticides herbicides fungicides all of these chemicals have. costs

in on energy production they have cost in environmental cleanup this is self-propagating genetic pollution we have no technology today to fully clean up the damage maybe we will in the future but we're not feeding the products of good food science to the entire market wasted and release even to be viable where they can never be recall. any scientists who tells you they know that g m o's are safe and not to worry about it is either ignorant of the history of science or is deliberately lying nobody knows what the long term effects will be geneticists dr david suzuki genetically engineered foods go through a rigorous review before they are approved the review includes analysis of the trams plant versus its parent and there's a standard that you have to be called so.