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. data bailed but russian opposition activist alexina vali awaits his appeal against a five year prison term for stealing half a million dollars. egypt start reworking its constitution after another week of deadly strife between backers and opponents of deposed islam as president mohammed morsi. turkey israel used one of its military bases for a recent attack against syria according to an r.t. source but denies the claims.

nine pm in moscow bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news thousands have been gathering all week in cities across the u.s. to protest the acquittal of george zimmerman after a jury found him not guilty of murder when he shot dead on arm black teenager trayvon martin the ruling set off a nationwide debate on racial hatred as a washington correspondent. for. 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 samplings some places like examiner and you know protests turned violent demonstrators the 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 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 the experience of being followed when they were shopping in department stores. that includes me. 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 the sun and 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 are free to go so in this case you have a clash of different 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 walks free so you see the basis of these people outraged. demonstrators don't seem willing to back down as trayvon parents are joined by celebrities and leading the movement by high profile backing is giving added momentum to the rallies like this one here in new york u.s. attorney general eric holder urging the review of self-defense laws while the justice department launched a probe into the motor to see if civil rights charges could be filed against zimmerman or he spoke with martin luther king jr as daughter bernice who tells us the case exemplifies lingering racial discrimination. the fact that had this been a white american a white young man i doubt very seriously george zimmerman would have reacted the 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. is a black victim in this case and what i mean by victim is the one who ends up dead. nine times out of ten back in the sixty's and she has a ten times out of ten. that person would have walked this is george zimmerman was zimmerman walked in this particular situation. despite mass rallies legal expert charles rose from stetson university in florida i think the chances of prosecuting

george zimmerman again are relatively low if they're going to get him back in court again is going to be difficult to do because the civil rights law requires that you be a state actor and there's no indication that it was new chloe of the state government during that time frame the other option would be to charge it has a crime under the shepherds act the problem there is that we just don't have evidence that it was a crime motivated if there had been that evidence it would have been presented in the state trial that just concluded the families have a better ability to bring a wrongful death claim against mr zimmerman they could force him to testify but the problem will be that mr zimmerman probably doesn't have much in the way of assets so they would wind up spending a great deal of money for very little result the road to the ease with which you could not only purchase a weapon but then use that weapon to defend yourself in the state of florida in approximately twenty other states is really what led to this tragedy we have plenty

more a click away on our t. dot com regarding the just a for trayvon movement some of the best pictures of the nationwide rallies video footage and social media reaction on lined up for you that. it was also a fast moving week for a russian opposition activist an anti corruption blogger alexina vali sentenced to five years in prison for embezzlement thursday then bailed a few hours later to the cheers of thousands of protesters denouncing the verdict artie's arena glucose been following what's been called one of russia's most controversial trials for years. former workers are five and four years in prison for that if 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 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 kind of charge because he is a famous opposition personality now that seems to me to put things completely the wrong way round thousands of people in moscow's many years in a 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 their immediate arrest and preliminary detention to stick to measure what 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 bottle of ali so that he was ready for a long term preliminary confinement ordering books from the library and that must be those and his self but this spent less than twice. for 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 not only spent the better part of the last few years flirting with nationalistic movements as well as leading a popular blog exposing the hoax scale 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 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 ready 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. he 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 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 from the american state as wiki leaks showed it not so long ago it even goes quite central russian. russia analyst martin mccauley thinks that a volley case in his view proves that cold war era or cold war era attitudes are still very much alive if something like this comes up it's very easy then to take a stick to the russian state of the russian government and say that they're behaving like the communists they haven't really improved they have really moved to democracy the rule of law liberal market economy and so on so therefore there's a this there is a prejudice there is

a lovely lovely in the west we turn to russia the only way that russia can overcome that is he's busy showing that the law is not a place that the contract is really comfortable and that if you push this the good the democracy is in fact practice and so this is a long long hard road. more on the whistle blowing waiting game in a few moments here on our t.v. right now the world's most wanted man snowden is holding out for russia's verdict on his temporary asylum. but first legal experts in egypt have started to work amending the country's constitution that was suspended by the military when islamist leader mohamed morsi was overthrown the past week has seen ongoing violence amid nationwide street protests by supporters and opponents of the ousted leader at least ten people died in unrest by tuesday the country's interim president swore in

a new cabinet excluding members of morsy is muslim brotherhood movement rejected the new ministers and its supporters are vowing to go ahead with mass protests egyptian journalist shahira amin says excluding the group won't do much to improve the country's political climate. i think 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. still to come the

swings again on jobs in greece after the break we take a look at how the government's use its troika lenders making thousands more unemployed stay with us here on our. some of these traditional chili lines they've been bred into bill passed down from generation. this is a total destruction of the culture. this is not going to. happen here. in the in the world. why do you think this country is full of obese and sick people because we have a crappy food system.

download the official publication. choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television. how would your mobile device if you could watch on t.v. anytime anyway. thanks for staying with us fifteen minutes past the hour israel allegedly used a turkish military base to launch a strike on syria the information coming from an r.t. source this week as on strenuously denied any involvement its claim that israel's latest attack on syria happened on july fifth targeting a russian made battery of anti ship missiles our middle east correspondent paula sleeper has more. there was

a lot of talk and uncertainty in the region this week after our sources revealed that we have information that is will launch a strike on syria from turkey now the reports object to 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 fratello 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 is role 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 policy r.t. on the israeli syrian border. let's take

a look at previous israeli air raids on syrian territory which were only confirmed by anonymous sources in israel and military combat outside damascus bombarded twice in january and may rockets also struck a warehouse at the capital's at rational airport that allegedly contained surface to surface missiles on all occasions attacks explain is operations to wipe out iranian missiles thought to be bound for hezbollah in lebanon is story in the middle east expert mark allman though thinks israel's motives may go beyond blocking weapons from reaching the group israel has an interest in preventing hasbro getting the weapons but the broader context is not just syria but also a rom 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. is a country and it will to bulldoze the room 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 as say the israelis worry that

missiles sent from iran to hezbollah vos syria could be used as a revenge attack if they want to build the much discussed preemptive strike out of the rain to facilities where the by themselves would 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 terror he will be held responsible and turkey could be drawn into conflict and this is going to. destabilize inside turkey. greek workers dealt another blow wednesday with the government approving a more massive public sector layoff to please its international lenders twenty five thousand civil servants face the axe in order to secure the next part of a bailout measures pushed through despite a general strike in huge rallies that brought services to a halt this week under

a bill passed by parliament at least four thousand state employees will lose their jobs by years and up to a thousand workers being fired in greece every day according to surveys by the hellenic statistical authority since zero nine unemployment has skyrocketed from a little more than nine percent almost twenty seven percent greece's economic output has plunged by almost one hundred billion euros. has been speaking with the protesters in athens. 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 municipal police public transport drivers and others have all gone on strike and gathered at the country's problem in athens 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 we need people for the. garbage phone of anything 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 five hundred patients 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 employment 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 needed is a new policy new 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 have

organisations saying i'm not going to back down until the troika and brussels especially realize it's not only about adding or subtracting numbers but about the real lives for real people you've got to start off our feet athens greece had an r t dot com for more of the stories we're covering on the air also you can find out about how world heritage list green park managed i'm on the australian coast suddenly manish become a target for bombs inadvertently dropped by. u.s. fighter jets what's. the story behind the scene cafe where the staff and guests dressed as a german soldier i was open for two years before sparking any outward. from. washington'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 us global spy network as well as surveillance secret surveillance operations of a number of european countries holed up in a transit zone at a moscow airport for the better part of three weeks he needs to the necessary

paperwork from moscow to be able to travel to one of the latin american states that have offered him asylum to be allowed to remain on russian soil the thirty year old how do agree to stop any further leaks that could harm the u.s. where he is now wanted for espionage jamie killer from the open rights group hope snowden will find a way to continue his revelation. i hope it doesn't mean that he has to not talk about what the united states have been up to in broad policy to i mean he's been very careful not to threaten individual peroration is not to expose particular agents also make claims which would result in people safety being compromised rather he's been talking about the rules 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 aids completely change the debate right now it is 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 are expect will be more in the u.s. say the tech companies are challenging on the basis of their own free speech and also to clear the names of i will speak 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 and the reported letters of both domestic and foreign intelligence have been using one of the n.s.a.'s programs for their own operations chancellor angela merkel denied any previous knowledge of the u.s. spy tactics saying she first learned about them through the media and word snowden revealed weeks ago that washington is keeping europe especially germany under close watch while snowden goes out of his way to avoid washington's prosecution the weeks long trial of fellow whistleblower bradley manning nearing its end the army private

arrested back in may two thousand and ten admits leaking thousands of classified military documents to wiki leaks he insists he did indeed the enemy the main charge against him that could land him behind bars for life or lose 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 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 the secrets include iraq and afghanistan war logs and videos of air strikes one ton of obey detainee assessments and diplomatic cables many activists believe the outcome of manning's marcel could set an example for future whistleblowers a glaring example for 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 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. turned out of some of the day's other top stories to british citizens and one russian diagnose helicopter accident in nor russia's. earth emergency services say the u.k. citizens tourists who were in the mormon screeching on a fishing trip the helicopter owned by a private company dropped them off at their destination and crashed after a failed takeoff killing the three people who are on the ground thought the pilot survived he'd reportedly plan to cancel the flight due to bad weather. the capital of iraq has seen another round of bombings leaving more than seventy dead in nearly two hundred injured over the weekend the latest attacks struck in baghdad early sunday following a string of sunset last targeting mainly shiite areas as locals emerged after another day's ramadan fast nationwide attacks have claimed more than five hundred lives this month alone is iraq's struggles to contain the worst outbreak of sectarian violence it's seen in sixty years. belgium has

a new fifty three year old prince felipe has taken the throne after his father albert the second abdicated due to poor health thousands lined the street to celebrate celebrate their new king which is a largely ceremonial role because of belgians being a constitutional monarchy the royals called for unity among citizens of the country torn by drawing out political instability and divisions between the flemish and french speaking populations there. and up next an r t a chilling report that concerns about genetically modified food stay with us. if you want to hear something truly baffling the u.s. supreme court has ruled that generic drug makers cannot be sued for bad reactions

to their products only the original brand of 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. drugs which are eighty percent of the u.s. market all of that 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. we can't with oh if. you. choose to. choose the access. to the crops to drink poison. eighty five percent of all the g.m. crops are so the herbicide that it's not to die for. so brady soil is designed not to.