thank you so much. that. the boiling pot racial emotions run high across the u.s. with mass protests in dozens of cities after the killer of a black teenager walks free. convicted of bail but russian opposition activist alexei in the volumnia waits appeal against a five year prison term for stealing half a million dollars. egypt begins reworking its constitution after another week of deadly strife between backers and opponents of deposed islamize president mohamed morsi. and turkey let's israel use one of its military bases for a recent attack against syria according to an r.t. source on her firmly denies the claim.

thanks for staying with us here on. good to have you with us it's eight pm in moscow thousands have been gathering all week in cities across the u.s. to protest the acquittal of george zimmerman this after a jury found him not guilty of murder when he shot dead an arm black teenager trayvon martin the ruling set off a nationwide debate on racial hatred as our washington correspondent reports. 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 struck dead by a neighborhood watch volunteer dozens of people were arrested most of the arrests were made on charges of a lawful the families some places like examiner and you know protests turned violent demonstrators the rocks the passing cars so 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 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 experience of walking across the street and hearing the locks click on the doors of cars. that happens to me at least before of the son of 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. great civil rights vigilantes guns and self-defense laws these people

see a clash between the law and just a very recent example also in the state of florida black woman a 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 walked free but you see the faces of the people outraged. demonstrators don't seem willing to back down as trayvon parents are joined by celebrities and leading the movement for high profile backing is giving added momentum to the rallies like this one in new york u.s. attorney general is urging a review of self-defense laws while the justice department relaunched a probe into the murder to see if civil rights charges could be filed against zimmerman or he spoke with martin luther king jr's daughter bernice who told us that the case exemplifies lingering racial discrimination in the u.s. . the fact that had this been a white american

a white young man i doubt very seriously george zimmerman would have reacted so so swiftly in this situation i think you probably would have thought about it twice a lot of things have changed in america so we can't say nothing has changed i just think we're still contending with just laws and more importantly laws that disproportionately affect african-americans and african-american males. more than any other. group of people in america and so you know these kind of issues were very prevalent in my father's time oftentimes you would have all white juries in most times when there is a black victim in. this case and what i mean by victim is the one who did. nine times out of ten back in the sixty's it was seen as a ten times out of ten. that person would have walked george zimmerman zimmerman walked in this particular situation there's plenty more on our website. regarding

the justice for trayvon campaign we've got some of the best pictures of the nationwide rallies video footage and social media reaction all lined up for you a click away. turning now to these other top stories a fast moving week for russian opposition activists and ending corruption blogger alexina vali said this to five years in prison for embezzlement on thursday then bailed out a few hours later to the cheers of thousands of protesters denouncing the verdict. has been following what's been called one of russia's most controversial trials in yours. if you're a former worker five and four years in prison alexina vining to that it's a risk 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 some of the 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 all 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 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 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 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 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. but first and now he spent the better part of the last few years flirting with nationalistic movements as well as leading the 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 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 because 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 the

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 then from the american state as wiki leaks showed not so long ago it even goes quite keen of central russian will stay with us here on r t still to come on the program joint surveillance new reports emerging that germany not only knew of washington squabbles spy program but also took advantage of it just weeks after chancellor merkel lashed out at the us britain practices expert analysis and if you minutes. but first work students start on amending egypt's constitution that was suspended by the military when islam as president mohamed morsy was overthrown the past week seen ongoing violence amid nationwide street protests by the supporters of the ousted leader at least ten died in an arrest by tuesday the country's interim

president swore in new cabinet excluding members of morsi the muslim brotherhood the islamist movement rejected the new ministers and its supporters are vowing to go ahead with protests egyptian journalist shahira amin says excluding the group won't do much to improve the country's political climate. i think that is a fatal mistake excluding any political faction from the transitional political process is a fatal mistake people were complaining that morsi was in the state and now they doing exactly the same keeping the islamists sidelined hoping to push them back underground just a short while ago there was a very brutal crackdown on pro morsi protest is outside the parliament we're already hearing jihadi groups say they will launch. a holy war to defend islam this will have very serious implications. northern ireland's

old wounds refusing to heal loyalist protest until they're allowed their traditional march through a nationalist wash point in belfast details still to come. first. and i think.

thanks for staying with us twelve minutes past the hour israel allegedly used a turkish military base to launch a strike on syria information coming from an r.t. source this week on korea strenuously denying any involvement its claim israel's latest attack happened against syria happened july fifth targeting a russian made battery of anti ship missiles our middle east correspondent paula sneer has been following the developments. 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 been ekta 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 hezbollah 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. it deteriorated off to be futile attempt back in may two thousand and ten in which nine turkish activists were killed and that was an attempt to bring humanitarian aid to the people of gaza back in march the israeli prime minister apologized to the to 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 as to why turkey would work with israel to launch an attack against syria. on the israeli syrian border. let's take

a look at the previous israeli air raids on syrian territory which only confirmed by anonymous sources in israel a military combat outside damascus bombarded twice in january and may rockets also striking a warehouse of the capital's international airport allegedly containing surface to air missiles there on all occasions the attacks were explained as operations to wipe out iranian missiles to be bound for hezbollah in lebanon on this story to middle east expert mark things israel's motives may go beyond blocking weapons from reaching the group. israel has an interest in preventing hezbollah getting the weapons but the broader context is not just syria but also iran and i think that's what turkey is cotton mill could place because turkey is a historical military ally of israel with a lot of cooperation between the turkish military and israelis but it also is a largely slamming country and it 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 for the iranians to detect something coming from israel as say the israelis worry that missiles sent from iran to hezbollah vod syria could be used as a revenge attack if they want to build the much discussed preemptive strike to 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 iran from a completely different direction the risk is that with a turkey's turkey will be held responsible and turkey could be drawn into a conflict and this is i think the pleats destabilize inside turkey. click on more on the stories we're covering here on the air also you can find about how will. suddenly be. inadvertently dropped by u.s. .

soldiers. a click away. america's most wanted man edward snowden awaiting russia's decision on whether or not to grant him temporary asylum the former cia employee who exposed the u.s. global spy program as well as a secret surveillance operations of a number of european countries has been holed up in the transit zone of. he needs the necessary paperwork from moscow to be able to travel to one of the latin

american countries that have offered him asylum to be allowed to remain on russian soil the thirty year old had to agree to stop any further weeks that could harm the united states where he's now wanted for espionage jim keller from the open rights group though hope stone will find a way to his gravelly to continue his revelations. i hope it doesn't mean that he has to not talk about what the united states have been up to in broad policy terms i mean he's been very careful not to threaten individual peroration is not to expose particular agents or to make claims which would result in people safety being compromised rather he's been talking about the broad programs that the united states and the u.k. have been dealing with he says he's got a lot of material and i certainly hope he has more to tell us it does seem that way aides completely change the debate right now and it's very important not to bait keeps happening i think a lot of things are happening in the wake of that there were at least two legal

actions being launched in the u.k. on the back of what he's revealed i expect will be more in the usa the tech companies are challenging on the basis of their own free speech and also to clear the names of i will be going on so there is a lot to happen whether or not he's got more material to give but i really would like to see whether he has got more to say and i hope he does. a german magazine claims the country's security services have been actively taking part in the u.s. global surveillance operations to report an eagle alleges that both domestic and foreign intelligence services had been using one of the n.s.a.'s programs for their own operations chancellor angela merkel denied any previous knowledge of u.s. spy tactics saying she first learned about them a few the media snowden revealed weeks ago that washington's keeping europe and especially germany under close watch snowden goes over to his way to avoid it washington's prosecution the weeks long trial of fellow whistleblower bradley manning is nearing its end the army private arrested in may two thousand and ten

admits to leaking thousands of classified military documents to wiki leaks he insists he did not aid the enemy the main charge against him that could land him in jail for life or lose wall has the details. 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 notch 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 martial 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 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 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 port meade maryland live all our team. turning now to some of the day's top stories two british citizens and one russian died in a helicopter accident in russia's north emergencies or. this is say the u.k. citizens were tourists who are in the mormon screen on a fishing trip that copter owned by a private company dropped them off at their destination and crashed after a failed takeoff killing three people on the ground it's believed the pilot survived he reportedly plan to cancel the flight due to bad weather. the capital of iraq has seen another round of bombings that left more than seventy dead and nearly two hundred injured over the weekend latest attack struck in baghdad early sunday following a string of sunset blasts many targeting shiite areas as locals and merged after the day's ramadan fast nationwide attacks play more than five hundred lives this month alone as iraq struggles to contain the worst outbreak of sectarian violence it seems the us six years. belgium has

a new king fifty three year old prince philip has taken the throne after his father albert the second abdicated because of poor health thousands lined the streets to celebrate their new monarch which was a largely ceremonial role because belgium is a constitutional monarchy royals called for unity among the belgians the country's been pulling by law no political instability and deep divisions between the flemish and french speaking population. athol right protest in central england spiraled into full on clashes with police two thousand supporters of the english defense league board out onto the streets of the ethnically diverse city of birmingham to rally against what they call britain's islamization more than one thousand officers drafted in to control the march and the muslim feelings have grown in the u.k. since soldier lee rigby was butchered to death in london by suspected extremists in may. dust hasn't settled in northern ireland where thousands of probity she unionists vowed approaches weekly in belfast until prohibition is restored for them

to stage a march that passes through a key nationalist part of the city the disruption had started last week and will locals blah blah the traditional orange parade route for fear of clashes sparking five nights of on the rest with additional police forces having to be brought in from across the u.k. dozens of activists and police officers wounded seventy eight people arrested political commentator john white says the community's social division and economic issues are no grounds for violence. well certainly there's marginalization been. some of these within their communities well people bore him but we don't want to see any benefits from the peace but on the other hand why should the nationalist catholic community be forced to endure this and your progeny tree old tree and research them for just what it is an enormous state so yes while there are social economic problems within each communities that certainly no justification for trying to form a violence and lawlessness as we've seen the international community of age though believe there are island six countries are occupied and removal british or north of

i mean the underlying current course of action enough of the world's population again. revolutionary james coralie predicted that their only part of the twentieth century that partition would lead to in his words a combo of the action and sadly the proven night but there's no pot to chip in is about the child over to school in your zone and it's responsible for a military conflicts and strike for that it's an island of power stay in the kashmir. thank you for staying with us here on our t.v. just to remind you of our top stories the zimmerman case in the united states voluntary trial in russia gyptian instability as a draft its new constitution and the. drama going on about if israel did launch a mission from there will be covering all this and more so stay with us here on our team coming up next that would chilling report about concerns over genetically

modified foods stay with us throughout the day as we continue wrapping up the week's news. or remember those old wacky communist countries who constantly boost their numbers to make themselves feel better or who cares if stores are empty and this 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 of tax dollars but wait maybe i'm being too pessimistic perhaps it

worked and really helped spread the message of the u.s. state department effectively wellness victor 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 affected getting lots of likes doesn't mean you are actually reaching people and sort of paying for that why not you know get the 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 our tax dollars but that's just happened.

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.

genetically engineered pollen carried by wind insects bacteria viruses and humans has inadvertently traveled the globe. scientists in laboratories and corporate spokespeople would have americans believe that pollen from flowering plants in the open environment can be controlled farmers hay fever sufferers and anyone who observes the chaotic natural world would disagree. tonight a look into the world of genetically modified organisms through the lens of new mexico's iconic chili pepper. at the plant genetic engineering laboratory on the campus of new mexico state university in las crucis scientists are developing a genetically engineered chili pepper. genetically engineering the new mexico chili pepper has stirred controversy because it is a culture.