to the. good guys. but our. u.s. navy seal accused of multiple war crimes including a brutal murder in a combat zone is acquitted by a military court as a key witness claims responsibility for the killing. was. the. protesters in tel aviv burn cars and throw petrol bombs off to an israeli ethiopian teenager is shot dead by an off duty police officer. tell of true sacrifice it's revealed the 14 sailors who died in a deep sea vessel fire in northwest russia gave up their lives to save colleagues. and supporters of julian assange react with anger to

a british foreign office promotional video about a free speech conference calling to defend the freedom of the press. low and welcome you watching r.t. 1 international with me great to have you with us our top story a military court has cleared a navy seal accused of multiple war crimes of all key charges as well as the controversial nature of his acquittal that would gallegos trial once again raises questions over pentagon conduct overseas more pain has more. the military court in san diego has acquitted gallagher on 6 out of the 7 charges that he faced involving the killing of civilians he was convicted on a charge of posing for a photograph with a corpse which is a violation of the rules however of the maximum sentence for such a violation is only 4 months in prison and he's served 9 months in pretrial

detention so at this point he is indeed a free man now it appears that his acquittal was essentially hinged on the testimony of a of a navy seal medic who testified that he himself was responsible for the killing of the the ice still fighter who was captured the teenager that he himself was responsible for this this fighters death and that it wasn't any gallagher now it's interesting to note that this navy seal he had been given immunity so he cannot be charged for this killing now when the verdict came in the family and legal team of any gallagher was triumphant the huge victory huge we call to gallagher's huge victory for justice it was stealing like for finally been defeated after being terrorized by the government that my husband bought for for 2 decades in the war on terror he's proud every major enemy of the united states here they write this and

noble individual and his name has been smeared in flanders in track through the mud now it's important to note that it was any gallagher's own platoon members in the navy seals who turned him in saying that he had shot civilians and that he had posted a photo on social media of the corpse with himself holding the head of the still fighter and holding up his knife saying got him with my knife however he has been acquitted and at this point we've seen donald trump tweeting out in support of any gallagher saying his wonderful wife andre and his family entire family you have been through much together. glad i could help that's us president donald trump however there have been many voices on social media that have seemingly accused eddie gallagher of being guilty of these crimes and said he is a war criminal saying that his acquittal is a bit of a disgrace and hurts the image of the united states around the world so quite a bit of a mixed reaction on social media to the acquittal as caleb mentioned gallegos case

is polarizing u.s. opinion with some in the military community especially supportive of the navy seal and earlier we heard from veteran until the captain want to help he was also not be sent to have a pentagon probe after claims of questionable treatment and become a sense. thank you gallery because he's a hero not just to the united states and united states military but to the world because he's over there fighting isis which is an enemy that very few countries are willing to put forth troops and resources to can to fight themselves so he basically is being charged with premeditated murder for an isis fighter in my mind and i'm i'm just a simple man here but that sounds like an oxymoron that you would send a navy seal to go fight isis which is a cancer upon humanity yes or humans but they've made themselves to be monsters and so they should be treated as such and so when you say that you're going to charge

someone with premeditated murder of isis in a combat zone little own a navy seal i just think that's completely contradictory it doesn't make any sense . violence has flared up in tel aviv during a rally in honor of an ethiopian israeli teenager who was shot dead fined often to police officer. god. was. my god it was. thousands took to the streets in what appears to have been a spontaneous demonstration and clashed with riot police and other such calls and rubbish bins on fire the officer who shot the teenagers that he felt his life

within was in danger after you started throwing rocks at him the teenagers family has demanded an immediate investigation the therapy and community as well often describes mistreatment at the hands of all far as he's a spokesperson for israel's police describe what happened. there were a number of suspects that were involved in. fight in a local park a police officer who is in plain clothes he approached those individuals and requested to see their id what happened was is the situation developed and they started throwing stones at him he was hit and struck by stones and he felt that he was in a life threatening situation he responded by drawing his weapon firing to the floor and what we know is that the bullet struck the floor and then unfortunately struck one of the men who was taken to hospital in serious condition and then later in the evening passed away since the burial of the individual that was unfortunately killed number one there's an investigation taking place as to what happened and

number 2 the israeli national police are dealing and focusing with what has developed since the funeral which is unfortunate again a large scale riots in and around almost all of the major junctions across israel protesters attacked civilians police offices throwing petrol bombs as well as burning vehicles well just over 3 years ago there was a similar incident and it took months almost 2 years in order to rebuild the trust and this is 140 the most recent incident has taken both ethiopian community as well as the israeli police to a level in an area which we didn't want to reach it's obviously going to take time but we're focusing on the period that we're in at the moment which is dealing with the protests calming the situation down. navy officers sacrificed their lives to save a civilian experts and colleagues on board when they did see vestal find monday in russia's northwest it was done i've joined me earlier to tell me more about the heroic actions i'm looking at the list right now and basically we have their names

we have the ranks of their duties we know what some of them were tasked with like the tenant an old medic among the dead and really looking at this list of names and each and every single one of them has several several medals or order. is that they had been awarded with during their service so these are professionals the women and their. service has been noted and awarded multiple times and i mean and what they did on board of that submersible well they just proved they proved what they were worth because the 1st person that they rescued was a civilian and we don't know much about who that civilian is we don't even know officially was it a he or is it he she but basically they shoved that civilian evacuated that civilian from the section that caught fire and then the seal the door the seal

behind him staying in that section to the fire and so they did they fought for the vessel to stay afloat the food for the vessel to stay operational and they paid the highest cost the riz and the defense russia's defense ministers their usual group who did not do well he used some very strong words when talking about what those people did it is better to put the word. acted heroically in a critical situation. that was engulfed 1st the disability industry representatives growth that had to behind him to the fire from spreading throughout the. now this tragedy it has hit hard for all of russia but some have been hit hard with it apart from obviously relatives and friends basically that whole northern area of russia that. pretty much families they share

a personal connection to russia's navy at least in one way or another they have friends family who serve in russia's navy not on that particular submersible but in general it's like a big brotherhood or sisterhood the depends on the way you look at it and so i mean all major. russian port cities naval cities they've seen commemorations they have seen vigils like for instance it's more months for the city of mormon's can the north of us stop all far in russia's far south st petersburg this is where the submersible is alleged to have come from moscow in the russian capital as well sort of vigils the words of support have been pouring in from abroad as well from pope francis to prime minister's reason may they have offered their condolences to the families to russia essentially now what is going on right now there is a special commission form that has been tasked with investigating what happened on

board what caused the fire basically what happened after the after that fire broke out it does lead by russia's unable and so the next trove of official information we should expect from the findings and maybe even the verdict of that commission. just days after a trade war truce with china the white house is picking a new trade fight by threatening fresh tariffs on the e.u. the list includes $89.00 products worth $4000000000.00 including whiskey from around europe cheese and sausage is this is how the u.s. trade representative announced the news the office of the u.s. trade representative is soon to public comment supplemental list of products that could potentially be subject to additional deity's however both u.s. and european companies are criticizing the transatlantic trade war. this is not creating a healthy environment for working toward

a negotiated solution would routes of industries on both sides of the atlantic to arrive in a lose lose situation with strong group whose the inclusion of distilled products in the proposed deletion at least us companies from farmers to suppliers to retailers are already been negatively impacted by the imposition of pretty literally tariffs additional derose will only inflict harm. let's go live now to report but 1st joe d'ambrosio chief executive of finance experts x. ray global welcome to the program sir now the atheist seems to be fine with us tariffs on china but it isn't too happy to be facing them is it no. they're not happy at all and this new your old of a nonstarter if actually really really makes it very evident how worried should we be about this new escalation by the us. oh well you know how i might say there is

nothing new under the sun this stance from from the us administration has been going on for more than the one the hols when it comes to to europe and arab us in particular you know when as soon as the w t o made some statement that would support us u.s. claims there mediately came out with it a very strong statement themselves also because they were actually in the immediate aftermath of a very big timmy's by boeing and what happened with the 77 max so. you know our bus is a direct competitor of boeing and now we have this new announcement right after it seems like another glitch very good each has been found into the operational software of the 7 to 7 max and that will entail probably some other billions from loss for mauling and i would also say that it goes into wider. on let's say

busy you know why their strategy for us also because the u.s. has been very upset on some alleged ruly behavior by europe referring to the announcement of the specialist b.v. to comment some sanctions from from the u.s. on the run them talking about things that the insects so you know it's why the strategy and it's always the same how effective it would be i don't know and we've mentioned bowing out if he's found to be hit really hard by the prospect of a new trade will. whoa again a new trade war that as mentioned by by your by your speakers before it's actually going to go to our everybody we already saw and i've been mentioning this many times during last year a big impact on the level of global demand which has been dropping very hard and it

was the major engine of the synchronized with all the growth that we have to experience so far so this new round also using posed on some kind of products that really can be almost destroyed from from from a trade war because we're talking about about cheese for the approve the produced in you need to the arm have the vans that we have not really linked to to the production which is something completely different it's a industrial heavy industrial product so they could be serious i guess about how d.m. brazier as accessory global thank you for your time sir thank you for having me. julian assange supporters have mocked britain's foreign a face full posting a video demanding freedom of the press the cross the well to head off a conference on free speech. down with the rest of this current examination which the linking of.

the promotional video that you've just seen has been posted on the foreign offices twitter feed and it's to promote the upcoming conference on press freedom the irony is that amongst all of that for the emphasis on freedom of speech and freedom for the press there's no mention anywhere of julian assange which was something that wasn't lost on his supporters who said plenty of things below on that twitter feed you have to believe in freedom before you write about it today julian assange just birthday wish him a happy day in your prison this is hilarious considering you're currently doughtery one of the premier journalists about who came up with this complain take action to free his son joe if you mean it the family media freedom well as well as that promotional video the foreign office also had on its twitter feed videos about imprisoned journalists and also called for people to follow the hash tag defend media freedom of course which is very much just passed by jeremy hunt the foreign

secretary and the conservative leadership party candidate as well as amal clooney the human rights lawyer who in the past has represented julian a song though this is rather ironic because it's come on the $48.00 birthday of julian assange and in love in his hometown where his father lives there have been celebrations and collaboration's off that with the leaks founder of course mixed feeling for. the overjoyed. with the stress. constant. court to win over. all those 9 years that jump ship some are so far into there were basically going back to that extradition claim by sweden for alleged sexual assault all the way back to. 12 in those years in the meantime julian assange has been fighting to clear his name also to fight extradition he's also fighting extradition to the united states and that's

that's in relation to chelsea manning and all those alleged war crimes that were very exposed by her in the leaks that were provided to wiki leaks and so while the u.k. is preparing for this conference on media freedom in melbourne they're having this party but also this sort of commemorations with julian assange and also protests in the meantime the 48 year old himself is spending his birthday in belmarsh prison instead london because he is in breach of his belt conditions that's what they imprisoned him for 50 weeks and also waiting for that for us extradition hearing that will take place in february next year. and i strike on a migrant detention center in the libyan capital tripoli has killed 44 people and injured more than 130 that's according to the u.n. mission in the country a warning you may find the following images disturbing officials at the targeted center allege the strike was ordered by opposition general khalifa haftar he launched an offensive to wrest control of the capital in early april the rival

government hasn't commented on the allegation. and meanwhile british m.p.'s are debating what to do with frozen funds in the accounts of ousted libyan leader moammar gadhafi has the details. if you run a business say one of these offices or shop before 2011 then your landlord what are you being one colonel gaddafi he like to be known as the king of kings and his piggy bank reflected that before his downfall and death in 2011 exactly as libyan investment authority had amassed some 12000000000 pounds worth of assets in the u.k. alone among them is portland house on london's oxford street the 2011 u.n. backed libyan intervention came with a un backed libyan asset freeze 2 that meant that any libyan accounts in the u.k.

were frozen and according to a report by a government committee the u.k. tax man could be scooping tax from those frozen assets the government said make good that its own $17000000.00 pounds in tax on the frozen libyan assets in the process 3 years h.-m. revenue and customs that the tax man here won't reveal any more than mt a now some british politicians want that tax revenue to be put to good use the deputy head of northern ireland priority has urged the prime minister to use those 17000000 pounds in taxes collected from libyan assets in the u.k. to compensate victims of libyan backed ira terrorism the prime minister will be aware of. the the long standing problem for justice and compensation by victims shows the libyans from sure. terrorism in northern ireland did throughout

the u.k. u.s. citizens have been compensated by libyan authorities but the u.k. should not that's unlikely say the. x the reason why this is where the other is much more of the mess that political affairs are getting what's more about the relationship between the conservative party. and the party and this is just it is being done because the libyan government is in the midst of a. civil war. and the interest of that money even for the symbols of the question all this raises is when the libyan money well finally returned to the people of libya the country is in a state of civil war and its rival governments haven't requested the funds back in april libya's house of representatives called on the international community not to release any libyan assets abroad until a unified government is formed this u.s.

news report is from 2011 the u.s. treasury department has $37000000000.00 worth of funds that were accessible to more market off his regime frozen. in the united states the u.s. government is holding this money but does not control what it has to release the funds back to the newlib libyan government when the government requests it and the you want to prove that and a treasury spokeswoman says they are working with libya's transitional council and the state department to do just that that was 8 years ago they're still working on it right now it's hard to see when the situation in libya will be safe enough for the money to be returned without the risk of it being misappropriated by rival governing factions but in the meantime all those frozen assets are breathing life and liquidity into banks in the u.k. . and the u.s.

is that money will still be where it's limited absolutely going to be liquidated it would cool a massive where there in global markets we're just taking that money out of the global. i mean there is especially more want to especially in europe especially mysteriously but it's facing difficulties with drugs because the lives of over 7 years i came across as a result of again sort of seeing your liquidated macdermott libya because more pressure him but. it overturned its own sort which is where the global markets were i think this is the moment it's a very convenient that they do not sense that there isn't a very convenient for that money and what the. european investment bank. percent house them and the chinese ambassador as the bilateral dispute grows over the response to the hong kong protests. with that from london with more details. that summons of the chinese ambassador to the foreign office comes after he said

that relations between the u.k. and china had been damaged following comments by the foreign secretary jeremy hunt and others in regards 1 to those protests and not to the hong kong let's have a look 1st of all of what jeremy hunt had to say previously about this feel for to is not to use what happened as a pretext for repression but rather to understand the root causes of what happened which is a deep seated concern by people in hong kong for their basic freedoms are under attack well since then the u.k. government is also announced the export license is all items such as c.s. gas and riot gear and grenades have been banned china as a result of those protests that china is furious seeing that the u.k. has waded into a cell for an argument and the ambassador the johnnies ambassador to the u.k. said that those who would immediately occupied the hong kong parliament earlier this week should actually be condemned as break is that was also following beijing

accusing jeremy hunt the foreign secretary of having kalu neo era delusions that some of this into what the spokesperson for the chinese foreign ministry had to say it to me it seems that he still indulged in the polls delusional british colonists and this persisting with the bad habits of condescending in pointing fingers at other countries internal affairs. well they also went on to say it's hypocritical of the u.k. to talk about democracy in your home calling it issues with people when the phone call was british call in the very long time they would know a lecture held that well jeremy hunt the foreign secretary gave this response to that. message to chinese government good rule actions between countries a based on mutual respect and honoring the legally binding agreements between them that is the best way to preserve the great relationship between the u.k.

and china is talking about the reference there to the one country 2 systems agreement that was something that was signed when hong kong was handed back to the chinese and it gives the our human to move freedoms such as economic freedoms but what we're seeing at the moment is tensions between the u.k. and china are ratcheting up over those protests. just this father now with john mcternan political strategist welcome to the program good to have you with us at china know it's britain still trees hong kong lucky is colony how do you feel about that comment is there any truth to that i don't think so but you have to say hong kong must be the only place in the world where protesters see democracy would actually hold up the british flag as their own blumenthal there was very interesting that was there held up inside the legislative assembly chamber foreign secretary hunter and now calls for deescalation does he regret his inflammatory

remarks after these protests you think. well look i think jeremy hunt is trying to do 2 things at once he's trying to be the next tory prime minister which means he has to take a particular approach to china and britain internationally and he's also trying to be a foreign secretary where no one has any interest diplomatically in seeing any. temperature raised any and europe any action is taken rationally and i think that. think the clear that the chinese don't want to see force used at the moment against that was traitors there needs to be some way of using this so i think someone generally hunts are good for the british position to make you put a position to the tory party in the country and quite who's got the leadership of the tory party the mother florence johnson and partly to try to do his job as foreign secretary and find a way that both sides can talk to each other this person in china has got a very long relationship and that relationship will carry on whatever happens in

all of them i think on all sides people must hope that it ends in these this demonstration or was sort of reaction do you think we can expect from china after its ambassador has been summoned. well i think. there will be some anger privately on the part of the chinese to be summonsed it in any way but equally the chinese have us to spoke out quite quite strongly today on on the issue and so i think that the that tempers are being raised on both sides and the in the end both sides are going to have to find a way to stand away from each other without losing face do you think britain is in i told worried about worsening relations with beijing. i think britain's very worried about worsening relationship beijing not least because in post brics it britain what one expects to see is an increase in trade between britain and china and therefore we want really good relations between britain china so the best trade

deal the best kind of investment from chinese companies into britain and the best kind of exports investment from british companies into china and so i think the danger of the politics. being wrapped into trade is is a very real one for britain and britain's in a very weak position anyway in china since our economy is so small compared to the chinese economy and it's even we a weaker hand given that britain is leaving the european union where least the european union had a stronger parting on trade issues and from the issues on the 10 political strategist thank you for your time thank you. wednesday's hearing on journalist ski which has sparked a diplomatic incident between ukraine and russia has been postponed for 12 days but it was arrested last year by the ukrainian government there have been calls by journalists worldwide and even president putin to release him they know the case is politically motivated and he was simply carrying out his journalistic work yet

version ski faces up to 15 years in jail prosecutors were switched on the day of the hearing meaning they were not familiar with the case but since getting out schiavo has no plans to release him whatever the findings. i think what's happening right now shows only one thing no one on the side of the prosecution sincerely hears and not justice these people are only interested in one thing for me to stay behind for as long as possible. and people come and say we'll you today became prosecutors give us time to get acquainted with the rest 78 pages there are 26 volumes while 2 or 3 days and we'll decide no. thanks for joining us on r.t. we're back in 30 minutes with the latest.