protests erupt in no more than one hundred cities across america after the killer of an unarmed black teenager walks free from court. convicted and jailed a prominent russian opposition activist. has sentenced to five years in jail for embezzle meant freedom pending an appeal. and one hand washing the other an r t source says israel used a turkish military base to carry out an air strike on syria allegations that have been denied. reports emerge that germany's intelligence service. the n.s.a. and its surveillance. program. and

broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our recapping the week's top stories with the weekly. thousands have been gathering all week in cities across america to protest against the equivalent of george zimmerman this after a jury found him not guilty of murder in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager trayvon martin the ruling set off a nationwide debate on racial hatred from washington artie's going to has the story . we've seen protests in dozens of cities in the u.s. throughout the week following the verdict in the george zimmerman case people took to the streets demonstrating at courthouses and police stations throughout the country demanding justice for trayvon martin the seventeen year old black man who was shot dead by a neighborhood watch volunteer dozens of people were arrested most of the arrests

were made on charges of a lawful a sampling in some places like examiner and you know protests turned violent demonstrators to rocks at passing cars too 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 movie experience of being followed when they were shopping at target store that includes me. and there are very few african-american men who have every experience of walking across the street and hearing. on the doors of course. 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 if they're not reasonable doubt that the defendant acted in

self-defense and they're free to go so in this case you have a clash of. civil rights vigilantes 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 basis of the people outraged. parties going to the protests against the court's ruling have been gaining steam and attracting high profile names to the cause it has a broad additional spotlight and momentum to the rallies like this one in new york now the u.s. attorney general is urging a review of the state self-defense laws while the justice department has really launched a probe into the murder to see if racial profiling played a role in the crime or he spoke to martin luther king jr. who told us that the case

illustrates lingering that 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 the 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 and 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 or should i say ten times out of ten. that person would have walked this is george zimmerman zimmerman walked in this particular situation well there's always plenty more for you on our dot com regarding the justice for trayvon campaign we've got some of the best pictures of the nationwide rallies video footage and social media reaction that lined up for you there all that just a click away on our web site now russian anti-corruption campaigner and opposition activist alexy was sentenced on thursday for five years in prison for stealing a half a million dollars but a day later he was freed on bail much to the delight of his supporters after prosecutors insisted on his release before his appeal is heard has been following the case. former workers are five and four years in prison alexina vining to that if it's ever spent all day 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 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 a friend of i need an officer for until their verdict comes into effect the 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 novelist said that he was ready for a long term preliminary counseling meant ordering books from the library and battling mosquitoes and his self but he spent less than. 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 something pointed opposition figurehead who's running for mayor of moscow

a lawyer by profession now that he 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 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 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 to have you 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 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 russian and so become very sour in germany reports emerge accusing the country's intelligent. working hand in hand with american surveillance programs spiegel alleges that the n.s.a. provided its sister service in berlin with software to aid in the collection of

private data of ordinary germans will have more on that later in the program. israel has reportedly used a turkish military base for a recent attack on syria that's according to an r.t. source who provided the information earlier in the week. strongly denies the allegations condemning even the mention of it by the media the alleged air strike on syrian city of latakia took place in early july and is believed to have targeted a russian made a battery of anti-ship missiles our middle east correspondent has been following developments. 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 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 bayside 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 may 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 onset as to why turkey would work with israel to launch an attack against syria policy r.t. on the israeli syrian border. let's track the previous israeli air raids on syrian territory which have not yet been confirmed by officials in israel a military compound just outside of damascus was bombarded twice in january and in may rockets also struck a warehouse at the capital's international airport allegedly containing surface to surface missiles on all occasions the attacks were explained as operations to wipe out iranian missiles thought to be bound for hezbollah in lebanon historian and

middle east expert mark allman believes israel's motives go beyond preventing 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 we are wrong and i think that's what tucky is cool to know 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 low sleeze army 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 to arrange to detect something coming from israel i don't see the israelis worried that missiles sent from iran to hezbollah vos syria could be used as a revenge attack if they want to move the much discussed preemptive strike out here and if so the trees where 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 a diversion from a completely different direction the risk is that with a territory will be held responsible and turkey could be drawn into a conflict that this is going to. destabilize inside turkey. meanwhile britain's prime minister david cameron appears to be softening his rhetoric on the syrian conflict in a b.b.c. interview he said he still fully supports the opposition but it did that there is too much extremism among the rebels it signals quite a change from november two thousand and eleven about half a year after the syrian conflict erupted back then mr cameron called on the international community to engage more closely with the syrian rebels he upped his appeals for more aid to the following year saying the syrian regime must be put under pressure fast forward to a year and the rhetoric slightly changes he was still vehemently anti assad but not

so sure anymore that arms shipments were the only way forward this brings us to the present with the syrian government advancing on rebel militias the official opposition calling failing to unite and mr cameron describing the situation as a stalemate political analyst party explained earlier what could have been behind the u.k. leaders shifting position situation is complicated i told him he will have difficulty getting. through but. because there is quite a lot of. after iraq to put this coalition partners the liberal democrats aside remarks are all i'm sure to do we have been very public opinion is not. wrong you just being realized in the west that. how much surance that from western governments that. only the good guys will get in terms of

lives but that's not the case on the ground and so the arabia is where you want to talk about the rise of fundamentalism in syria because jordan and some of the white cloaks the minute the united states britain indistinctly. are helping the syrian rebels that has not stopped. we're heading into a short break now but still to come on our team more bad news for greek workers athens bends over backwards to please its international lenders at the cost of tens of thousands of public sector jobs we have the full story here in just a couple minutes. some of these traditional chili lines they've been bred and developed and passed down from generation to. this is

a total destruction of the culture in mexico i tell you what i mean this this is not going to impact a swelling in mexico whatever happens here we're going to have the whole world now we're eating out about it in the in the open in the you know all the ordinance or. genetically engineered crops why do you think this country is full of obese and sick people because we have a crappy food system. choose your language. we can't with oh if you're going to kill some of the. choose the news good consensus you can. choose the opinions that you think a great tool. to use to stories could impact your life choose the access to.

and live from moscow this is our t.v. glad to have you back with us germany's foremost a news magazine claims the country's security services have been working hand in hand with the n.s.a. to spy on ordinary citizens their spiegel alleges software provided by the n.s.a. was used by both domestic and foreign intelligence agencies the latest revelations that run contrary to the merkel's outrage over the revelations she has denied any previous knowledge of the u.s. spying edward snowden revealed weeks ago that washington's a keeping europe and especially germany under close watch but news the german intelligence is a willing participant is bound to send shock waves through the country says and it must sean a whistleblower and a former m i five agent we have a situation in germany where because of their historic experiences with the stop in world war two in the stars in east germany they put in place

a very strong cast on constitution to protect people from invasion that they're pretty pink spied on and this is what the germans have for decades taken for granted they have certain legal protections and we've seen this time and again when other european like lots of try to be imposed on germany where you know things like kind of facial recognition data or google face at facebook have been banned in germany and yet the b.m.d. and the the two intelligence agencies in germany have been doing this sort of spying so i think the hypocrisy it's quite astounding and it's a great deal of anger and questions rightly to how much the german government you know that what was going on. and you can always head online for more stories and the latest updates here's a taste of what we have lined up for you right now things got a little shaky in new zealand a six point five magnitude earthquake rattled quite a few residents in a remote archipelago but fortunately no one was seriously hurt you can find the

full video on our youtube channel plus. australia's great barrier grief had american warplanes mistakenly dropped an unarmed of bomb on the world heritage site go to our web site r t dot com to find out how the pilots got it so wrong. greek workers were dealt another blow on wednesday with the government approving more massive public sector cuts in order to keep the economy afloat on bailout cash injections athens laid off twenty five thousand to civil servants the measures were pushed through despite a general strike and huge rallies which brought services to a halt under a bill passed by parliament at least four thousand state employees will lose their jobs by the end of the year up to one thousand workers are being fired in greece every day according to surveys by a statistical authority since two thousand and nine unemployment has skyrocketed

from a little over nine percent to almost twenty seven percent and greece's economic output has plunged by almost one hundred billion euros artie's you've got a piece going off as a story for us. 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 you spoke 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 sector we need people for the. garbage but of anything the past six years the greek economy has been in

recession unemployment is at twenty seven percent but the 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 the fire station 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 in the broadmead now in the public sector for the state for the first time show that we need to use 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 that it's not only about adding or subtracting numbers but about the real lives for real people you've got to start off forty eight happens greece

to british tourists on a fishing holiday and their interpreter have been killed in a helicopter accident in northern russia the three died just after getting off of the french made chopper when it suddenly overturn. and on takeoff while the pilot survived authorities are investigating but suspect that either pilot error or strong winds on the landing zone could be to blame the tour company that organized the trip frequently flies people into the area on luxury fishing tours the time for a look now at some other headlines making news around the world this hour. baghdad has seen another round of bombings leaving over seventy people dead and two hundred injured over the weekend the latest attacks struck the iraqi capital early on sunday following a string of sunset blasts targeting mainly shia areas as locals emerged after the days of ramadan fast nationwide attacks have a claimed over five hundred lives this month alone as the country struggles to

contain the worst outbreak of sectarian violence in in sixty years. at least seven people have been hurt after a huge oil pipeline exploded near mexico city those injured were mostly police and firefighters responding to the resulting fire the blast is believed to have been triggered by an illegal attempt to tap in the pipe for fuel. one thousand soldiers have been killed in gun battles with rebels in colombia the defense ministry says twelve militants were captured during two separate attacks on the army unit this comes despite both of the government and the rebels engaging in peace talks in cuba for the past seven months fark has been fighting the government for almost half a century now. in egypt a group of legal experts have started work drafting the new constitution that will amend the previous charter which was penned mostly by an islamist panel that's as the country is still gripped by mass rallies after president morsi was ousted

earlier this month. now in the last seven days ten people were killed during protests that brought the monthly death toll to over one hundred the political deadlock and the street chaos has apparently encouraged militants to ramp up their attacks on the sinai peninsula the most recent such assaults left at least five people dead on tuesday the interim president smorgon a new cabinet which has no minister linked to the muslim brotherhood is the most rushed to denounce the move and called on their supporters to press ahead with their protest egypt and journalist. i mean is certain that excluding of the brotherhood from the political process will not bring peace to egypt. 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 one thing 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. well just after the break a chilling report on the concerns about genetically modified food stay with us for the.

talk with your many times about the absurd things going on all around us like kids being thrown out of school because they have a gun that you. bubbles are various people getting punished for their tweets and facebook posts it's all really abstract it's hard to truly get angry over until you see the results or playing a stupid video game just carter sarcastically said to someone who called him crazy oh yeah i'm real messed up in the head i'm going to go shoot a bunch of kids at school l.o.l. j.k. and for this bit of sarcasm he spent quite some time awaiting trial in a texas prison not only that according to his father he was being attacked brutally on many occasions leading to bowl to pull concussions and black eyes and in the end he had to be thrown into solitary confinement for his own good you see this is the ugly reality of those who follow the bad side of political correctness you know i don't talk about these stories just for fun the main thing that i'd like to say is that it wasn't for some anonymous coward in canada turning him into the authorities for doing absolutely nothing this young man would not have to live with the memory and possible injuries from numerous assaults to the anonymous canadian who turned

him in i sarcastically wish you a horrible fate but you probably get me arrested for it so just say that it's people like you who allow tyranny to exist but that's just my opinion. 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 peppers. at the plant genetic engineering laboratory on the campus of new mexico state university in las cruces scientists are developing a genetically engineered chili pepper. genetically engineering the new my.