right. now. the boiling pot racial emotions run high across the u.s. with mass protests and dozens of cities after the killer of a black teen walks free. convicted bailed but russian opposition activists alexina vonnie awaiting his appeal against a five year prison term for stealing half a million dollars. turkey let's israel use one of its bases for recent attack on syria according to an r t source but monterrey denies the claims. the trial of u.s. army private bradley manning drawing to a close as prosecutors refuse to drop the most serious charge of aiding the enemy which could lead the whistleblower in prison for life.

ten pm in moscow i'm at treasure bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news thousands have been gathering all week across cities in america to protest the acquittal of george zimmerman this after a jury found him not guilty of murder when he shot dead unarmed black teenager trayvon martin the ruling set off a nationwide debate on racial hatred as our washington correspondent guy reports. same program 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 down by a neighborhood watch volunteer dozens of people were arrested most of the arrests were made on charges of a lawful the families from places like examiner and you know protests turned

violent demonstrators the rocks the 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 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 every 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 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 a 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 but you see the faces of these people outraged demonstrators say they're not willing to back down as trayvon martin's parents are joined by celebrities in leading the movement i profile back in giving added momentum to the rallies like this one in new york u.s. attorney general holder is urging a review of self-defense laws while the justice department really launched 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 the case example high's olin during racial discrimination in the us. the fact that it had this been white american

a white young man i doubt very seriously george zimmerman would have reacted so so swiftly in this situation i think he 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 big. 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 or should i say ten times out of ten. that person would have walked george zimmerman zimmerman walked in this particular situation

plenty more click away on our t. dot com regarding the justice for trayvon campaign some of the best pictures of the nationwide rallies video footage social media reaction all lined up for you there. it was a fast moving week for russian opposition activist an anti corruption blogger alexina vali sentenced to five years in prison for a better thursday than baled 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. the former works are five and four years in prison alexina vining to that if it's ever spent on tea 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 main 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 as you put in spokesman said there was nothing unusual about the trial or the prosecutor's appeal stressing that the president can not and does not influence the court decision and that those convicted should carry out their punishment as prescribed by the judge and his blog of all is said that he was ready for a long term political fine and ordering books from the library and battling mosquitoes and himself 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 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 the popular blog exposing the hoax scale 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 run from moscow city mayor he can give us many interviews as he likes it's an absolute publish city god send 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 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

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 not so long ago it even goes quite central russian russia analyst martin my colleague says than of any case in his view proves that cold war attitudes are still alive. if something like this comes up it's very easy then to take a stick to the russian state to the russian government and say that they are behaving like the communists they haven't really improve they haven't really moved to democracy rule of little liberal market economy and so on so therefore there's a there's a prejudice there's a lovely lovely in the west we turn to russia the only way that russia could never come to is he's busy showing that they're low is not

a paper that the country 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. israel's allegedly used a turkish military base to launch a strike on syria the information coming from an r.t. source this week on chorus strenuously denies any involvement its claim israel's latest attack against syria happened july fifth targeting a russian made battery of antiship missiles our middle east correspondent policy or 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 launched a strike on syria from turkey now the reports are back 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 that 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 onset as to why turkey would work with israel to launch an attack against syria policy r.t. on the israeli syrian border. take a look at previous israeli air raids on syrian territory only confirmed by anonymous sources in israel a military compound outside damascus bombarded twice in january in may rocket struck a warehouse in the capital's airport allegedly containing surface to surface missiles on all occasions attacks explainers operations to wipe out iranian missile missiles thought to be bound for hezbollah in lebanon a journalist meanwhile oxon a writer who's covered the civil war in syria says israel took

a side in the conflict before the strikes i don't think that this is a huge change for all the general situation because. what's supporting in the past the so-called rebels in this what the media claim it is the civil war isn't the reality it's a long time a proxy war we have right now militants from more than twenty five nations fighting in syria against the syrian government and of course east road was supporting the rebels they were they were they fall and arms and weaponry from. the revenue side and turkey also is supporting in a strong way the rebels on syrian soil. coming up the axe wins again on jobs in greece in a few minutes we'll take a look at how the government's trying to appease troika lenders by making thousands more unemployed. and egypt begins to work its constitution after another week of deadly strike between backers and opponents of opposed islamize president mohamed

morsi details and footage from the heart of the unrest after a short break. apple for example much of its manufacturing is done in the united states so i don't see why the american senators would be so concerned about it paying or not paying taxes because ultimately it's not going to get any share of that and that's happening already and of course we're gong to be here about how do you share the tax is provided there are tax is a problem today there's nothing to share because we have agreed to this regime where these companies don't pay tax.

thanks for staying with us quarter past the hour the german magazine claims the country's security services were actively taking part in u.s. global surveillance operations the report and go alleges both domestic and foreign intelligence services were use. in one of the n.s.a.'s programs for their operations chancellor although merkel denied previous knowledge of the 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 the n.s.a. whistleblower himself awaiting russia's decision on whether to grant him temporary

asylum snowden who exposed the u.s. global spy program plus the secret surveillance operations of a number of european states has been holed up in the transit zone of the moscow airport for more than three weeks he needs a necessary paperwork from moscow to be able to travel to one of the latin american the states that have offered him asylum to be allowed to remain on russian soil the thirty year old had to agree to stop for a week so i could harm the u.s. where he's now wanted for espionage jim kelly from the open rights group though hope snowden will find a way 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 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 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 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 well snowden goes out of his way to avoid washington's prosecutor. in the weeks long trial of fellow whistleblower bradley manning is nearing its end the army private arrested back in may two thousand and ten admits leaking thousands of classified documents to wiki leaks he insists he didn't a the enemy the main charge against him that could land him behind bars for life or he's lose walter reports. 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 this is n.s.a. leaker edward snowden many points of manning's pretrial treatment and heavy handed charges as an example of what's to come for snowden should he set foot in the u.s. leading up to the trial and during the trial there have been several demonstrations in support of manning the next major one being organized by manning support network is set for july twenty seventh it's up the international day of action for bradley manning the group is calling for protests in several cities throughout the u.s. and abroad and here in fort meade maryland live all our team. attorney and peace activist kevin zeese says prosecuting manning on aiding the enemy charges undermines the whistleblowing movement as well as freedom of the press. this is

a very abusive charge and inappropriate charge and it's very unusual a really raises the stakes are for was the blowers especially in the national security arena because in the enemy in the past has meant that you had to have the intent to aid the enemy not just the knowledge that you could be in the and that's a very big difference normally this kind of in the enemy would means on really becoming a traitor and and working with the enemy of the united states not somebody releasing material to the media as not just a risk to whistleblowers it's a risk to the media to journalists to reporters now a reporter writes a story. criticizing the media or point points out of the military or points out some faults in the military some mistakes of them making in this a team the enemy and so i think it's a really raises lots of questions not just for was a lord but for journalists in the twenty first century when we're also connected by

the internet anything that's written on a blog can be perceived as a in the enemy so there's a great risk for freedom of speech and freedom of press for the future. at dorothy dot com for more on the stories we're covering on the air also you can find out how the world heritage was green park on australia's coast so we became a target for bombs and inadvertently dropped from u.s. fighter jets plus. a story behind in the cafe where the staff and gas dresses german soldiers it was open for two years before sparking any outcry. reef workers are dealt another blow wednesday with the government approving more public a massive public sector layoffs to please its international lenders twenty five thousand civil servants could face the axe in order to secure the next part of the country's bailout measures pushed through pushed through despite a general strike and huge rallies that brought services to a halt this week under a bill passed by parliament at least four thousand state workers will lose their

jobs by the end of the year up to one thousand employees being fired in greece every day according to surveys by the hellenic statistical authority since two thousand and nine unemployment skyrocketed from a little more than nine percent to more than twenty seven percent and greeks economic outputs plunged by almost one hundred billion euros or. more. protected by law since the nineteenth century public workers are still considered to be the foundation of the greek economy but its creditors some 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 when you spoke police public transport drivers and others have all gone on strike and gathered at the country's problem and a nap and to fight for their jobs it does the beginning they have in mind to destroy every public service in greece we need teachers we need people in the

health sector sector we need people for the. garbage fun 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 at fish we would 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 fine job creation and decades worth of work experience with the general feeling on the streets it's not only the government which is to blame for the situation we have people in the private sector people in the room with no independent in the public sector for the for the first time so that we is 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 organizations say it's 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 party athens greece turning now to some of the day's other top stories to british citizens one russian died in a helicopter accident in russia's north and merges the services say the u.k. citizens were tourists who are in the mormon screen on a fishing trip the helicopter owned by a private company dropped them off at their destination and crashed after it failed to take off killing the three people on the ground it's not the pilot survived he reportedly plan to cancel the flight because of bad weather. iraq's capital has seen another round of bombings leaving more than seventy dead and nearly two hundred injured over the weekend the latest attacks struck in baghdad early sunday following a string of sunset targeting mainly shiite areas as locals emerge after the day's ramadan fast nationwide attacks claimed more than five hundred lives this month alone as the country struggles to contain its worst outbreak of sectarian violence

in the past six years. belgium has a new king fifty three year old prince felipe took to the throne after his father albert the second abdicated because of poor health thousands lined the streets to celebrate the new king whose role is largely ceremonial because belgium is a constitutional monarchy royals called for unity among the belgian people the country has been born a drawing of political instability and divisions between the flemish and french speaking populace their. legal experts in egypt have started work on amending the country's constitution which was suspended by the military when islamist president mohamed morsi was pushed out of power the past week seen ongoing violence and nationwide street protests by supporters of the state leader at least ten died in the unrest by today the country's interim president swore in a new cabinet excluding members of morrissey's muslim brotherhood is the most movement rejected the new ministers and its supporters are vowing to go ahead with mass protests gyptian journalist shahira amin says excluding the group will 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 one nine single 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 protest is. that column that we're all waiting here we had to say they will launch. a holy war to defend islam and this will have very serious implications. coming up next talks on a boyko takes a look at the weaknesses of the developed economies could prove a blessing for developing countries stay with us for that.

or remember those old wacky communist countries who constantly boost their numbers to make themselves feel better or who cares if stores are in the end 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 a sense 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 effective getting lots of likes doesn't mean you are actually reaching people instead of paying for them why not you know get them naturally barb. pretty interesting honest content on a regular basis oh wait that takes effort and honesty yeah you know what just keep wasting the tax dollars but there's just.

hello and welcome to worlds apart from europe and america have been the locomotives of the global economy for more than five decades but as they struggle to emerge from the crisis the question is whether they're and the rest of the world should assist down with their recovery or use that witness to get chaps and get it had to discuss that i'm now i'm joined by jose and calgary and the secretary general of the organisation for economic co-operation and development mr grier thank you very much for your time what is your response to this question.