diplomacy is on the side of peace. a u.s. navy seal accused of multiple boer crimes including a brutal murder in a combat zone is acquitted by a military court as a key witness claims responsibility for the killing. of. the turtles in tel aviv burn cars and throw petrol bombs after an israeli ethiopian teenager is shot dead by an off duty police officer. a tel of true stock of pfizer has revealed the forty's day lawyers who died of a deep sea vessels fire in northwest russia gave up their lives to save their colleagues. and supporters of julian a stange react with anger to a british foreign office promotional video about a free speech conference calling to defend the freedom of the press and.

hello and welcome you watching r.t. international broadcasting to you live from moscow only care. now 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 edward gallagher's trial once again raises questions over pentagon conduct overseas help more pain has more details. 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 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 i 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 key had been given immunity so he cannot be charged for this killing now when the verdict came in the family and legal team of eddie gallagher was triumphant huge victory huge we all to gallagher's huge victory for justice with skilling like to finally been betrayed after being terrorized by the government my husband bought for for 2 decades in the war on terror he's proud every major enemy of the united states he was a right to said 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 i 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 but 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 and mentions gallegos case is polarizing us opinion with some in the military community especially supportive of

the navy seal and earlier we heard from veteran and author captain raja held he was also at the center of a pentagon probe off the claims of questionable treatment towards enemy combatants . i think it a 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 doesn't make sense.

violence has flared up in tel aviv during a rally and on of an ethiopian israeli teenager who was shot dead by an off duty police officer. you. know. that 100. thousands took to the streets in what appears to have been a spontaneous demonstration some clashed with the riot police and pounds the rubbish bins on fire the officer who shot the teenager said he felt his life was in danger after you started throwing rocks at him the teenagers family has demanded an

immediate investigation the therapeutic community in israel often described mistreatment at the hands of the all star seized a spokesperson for israel's police described what happened. there were a number of suspects that were. in a 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 in 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 busy is that the bullet struck the floor and then unfortunately struck one of the men who was taken to hospital in serious condition and rating being 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 is dependent since

the funeral which is unfortunate again i'm large scale riots in and around almost all of the made to drum things 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 $140.00 the most recent incident has taken both union unity unity 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. every week navy officers sacrifice that life saving colleagues and the civilian experts on board when they deep sea vessel quote fire on monday our senior correspondent my ghastly i visit the city of my manske close to where the tragedy occurred at my eyes what's the mood like in this city today. well to be honest with you it

is it is gloomy it's in the. city. russians especially are very sensitive to disasters at sea in this this was a catastrophe food. sale as high ranked as professionals career offices killed in this in this blaze abroad the deep sea scientific research vessel that could file under sea in the barents sea just off the coast of movements and you'll be hard pressed to find a family here in moments the city of 300000 people without a relative who is a sailor who is. in the russian navy so you know really hits close to home just behind us is a commemorative service held earlier today the names and ranks of all the officers have been published 7 of them captains strunk one of the senior officer

positions in the russian navy we've had condolences pouring in from all over the world even the pope has expressed his condolences to all those who who died who suffered in this. unfortunate accident may the prime minister of the u.k. also sent her condolences. really was a painful a very painful experience for the entire city for all of russia churches across the country have welcomed people laying flowers you know offering offering their condolences nevertheless we've we've learned a few details about what happened exactly this research vessel was conducting research studying the hijras fear in russian territorial waters off the coast of. the bad sea when a fire began and one of the compartments the crew apparently acted heroically when

the fire began they evacuated an industry representative a civilian who was abroad they'd shut the hatch behind him and continued to fight the fire. people died apparently from as fixation from from the gases. it is because it. acted heroically in a critical situation from a compartment that was engulfed in fire they pursed the vacuity to disability industry representatives and then close the hatch behind him to prevent the fire from spreading throughout with what of. the chief of russia's navy has taken the investigation into his hands he's in charge of it in 2 weeks he should offer a report as to what happened who's responsible and what will what will come of it lad me a putin is keeping up to date nevertheless some some some details about the incident

are being kept under wraps this was a top secret military scientific research vessel so some some details we won't be able to find out jus to it being a matter of state security. thank you for the state out that's mark gasnier speaking to us live from the month thank you. julian assange supporters have mocked britain's foreign office for posting a video demanding freedom of the press across the world ahead of a conference on free speech. with the rest of this current examination we're doing tonight. 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 daughtry one of the premier journalists about time who came up with this complain take action to free his son jeff you mean it the fan 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 a spouse by jeremy hunt the foreign secretary and the conservative leadership party candidate as well as amal clearly the human rights lawyer who in the past has represented julian a song though this is rather ironic because it's come on 48 birthday of julian assange and it is not in his home town where his father lives there have been

celebrations and the ration is often with leaks founder of course mixed feelings. overjoyed and in a distressed. constant. toward . the end of. all those 9 years the jump ship summer so far into there were basically going back to that extradition claim by sweden for alleged sexual assault all the way back to 2. 12 and 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 protest 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 for 50 weeks and also waiting for that for us extradition hearing that will take place in february next year. or so and has summons the chinese ambassador as the bilateral dispute grows over the response to the hong kong protests here's artie's a different ski 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 we urge feel for to is not to use what happened as a pretext for oppression 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 their export license is all but items such as c.s. gas and riot gear and grenades have been banned china as a result of those protests that china is period 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 didn't legally 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 colonial era delusions that some of this into what the spokesperson for the chinese foreign ministry had to say seems that he still indulged in the post illusion of 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 hong kong and issues with it even though when the film was a british colony for a very long time there were no elections held that was jeremy hunt the foreign secretary gave this response to that. message the chinese government good rule actions between countries are based on mutual respect and on ring 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 i in 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. in astrakhan

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 and warning you may find the following images disturbing officials of 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 devival government hasn't commented on the allegation. but meanwhile british m.p.'s are debating what to do with frozen funds in the accounts of ousted libyan leader muammar gaddafi hala boyko has more. if you run a business say one of these offices or shop before 2011 then your landlord what do you mean one colonel gaddafi he like to be known as the king of kings and his big 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 in portland house on london's oxford street the 2011 un 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 did 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 and now some british politicians want that tax revenue to be put to good use the deputy

head of the of the nihilists deano he priority has urged the prime minister to use those 17000000 pounds in taxes collected from libyan assets in the u.k. to compensate the victims of libyan backed ira terrorism the prime minister will be aware be to be the long standing problem for justice and compensation by victims shows the libyans from sure. terrorism in northern ireland to throughout the u.k. . have been compensated by the libyan authorities but the u.k. should not that's unlikely say the. x. the reason why this is horrible around the other is much more of the mess that the 3rd ever gets and what's more about the relationship between the conservative party . and the timing of this is just that it's being done because the libyan government is in the midst of a. civil war. and the interests of that money remember the symbols of

the question all this raises is when the libyan money well finally returned to the people of libya the countries 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. europe and the u.s. is that money has to be where it's limited absolutely want to be liquidated it would cause a massive where there in global markets we're just taking that money out of the global. because especially in what does this mean you're this there's yes there is this place and difficulties. with the world it's something you. do the result will be and that's. what they're about libya because. both literally thousands of other global markets where there is a moment it's

a very convenient that maybe not that it's a very convenient for the money and what the. european muslim bank. parliament has elected its new president davidson solely of the socialist and democrat faction but i mean he's have yet to approve results or juncos successor as european commission chief leaders propose german defense minister ursula von vonda lay and she will now need the backing of a majority of the $751.00 i mean she is known as a federalist supporting the creation of a single united states of europe sovereign nation and an e.u. army she would become the 1st woman to head the commission which has helped her win support but not everyone is sold on her candidacy especially as leaders certainly scrap the established nomination system requiring her to have formal backing of a party group. on the line is our weakest minister that's apparently enough to become commission president o'sullivan's alone is unacceptable as head of the e.u.

commission for social democrats we cannot simply throw the top candidate principle overboard because the results of the election did not suit some heads of government leaders have also put forward a new head of the e.u. council who will take over from donald tusk they voted for belgium prime minister sharon's michel however this pick also doesn't sit well with many in the european parliament their party any piece are particularly angry as michel openly mocks britain's departure from the bloc commenting on the van the lions nomination as european commission chief and german army p. maximilian crowd told us his country woman has a track record of failure. all established parties promised the earlies qualified politicians. and what they are now doing is a big if. the most important position in the 2 minister who failed in germany and who needs just

a position to get her out of fire in domestic politics in every position she hold in germany she failed but i do believe that she will succeed. gets an even tougher and even more important and more difficult position she got her offices in germany because she is connected into the party establishment of a good americans for us from democrat union she's just a typical politician out of the system without having any record of successes. giant ny kazakhs special act special edition sneakers commemorating u.s. independence day reportedly have a complaint that the flag printed on the shoes comes from the era of slavery trying to explain. a quick disclaimer before i begin i'm sorry of my local or my store you offend someone these days you never know thank god i'm not a fashion designer whoever buys their stuff or even just comes across their designs may get mad at something and

a few creative ideas being ruined the whole business nike came up with a special sneaker series for the 4th of july featuring what's known as the betsy ross flag it's just an early design of the u.s. flag and probably the holiday is a great occasion to remember a bit of national history but in the universe of national football league i can call and cabernet nike can sell footwear that features a symbol that was used in the times of slavery he got in touch with the brand bosses and forced them to scrap and some thought he did a great job others were like what good luck making i have certainly purchased my last pair. mikey is an absolute disgrace i didn't know colin copernic was the barometer of offense thanks for sharing over an only tweets by him from here on out pernik is now in charge of nike's production it's a shoe company for god's sake just a little earlier nike had to get rid of another collection intended for china this

time the problem was that the designer brand behind the shoe look had shown support for hong kong protestors online hell yeah these political subtleties do matter better not play with fire nike bosses thought you'd think this lady though wouldn't really look back at what problems so one far away had with her ideas think it is me. not see you need one. ok even kim carr dashi and i had to tweak the name of her lingerie line up she originally called comodo kim oh no get it but the japanese got furious with this wordplay mrs cardassian west even got an official letter from the mayor of a city in japan asking her to mind her branding language back to sports where the

giants anita's too had to pull one of their designs from a shoe collection to honor black history month the problem was it was all white who makes no wise shoes so the brain bloody history month i didn't think a swing and in me said didas for your information try consulting with actual black people 1st i hear they are all over the country this is just the tip of the iceberg gucci ones got in trouble because of black sweaters with big lips offended someone with key chains that look like black people cathy perry prost the line with shoes resembling a black face i mean. really your product may end up annoying anyone which is for instance i'm not messing with you so for a drop there starter which kid parfum box after being scolded by a witch community all cases requires some damage control again our respect everyone's feelings but aren't the offended going a bit too far

a bit too often. in france hundreds of rural schools are about to close forever that's despite promises by president mccrone to keep them open and he was responding to demands by the yellow vest protest movement takes a closer look at the issue. it's been 2 months since french president emanuel kwan promised that no more schools would close in a period of what if we should not have closings of schools or hospitals without mayors accord until the end of my presidential term and yet now more than 350 rural schools are closing their doors and people in communities like this one a furious it's terrible that schools are closing in rural areas because for the education and well being of children small establishment are much better than big schools for kids to go somewhere to learn should not be tied to if i have a place to go or not i think it is but it would be

a bad decision to close those schools even if there are not enough students all numbers on the couple and we need schools to educate the next generation with our future with our schools we can move on it's the foundation of everything if these schools close there will be fewer and fewer children and families in the villages and villages who will die out that's why it's very important to keep schools open to make them attractive so more families will bring their kids there to be fair the french president hasn't gone back on his word he did say local authorities would have the final say the police officer what he says is that the promise will be kept 100 percent mr mcmahon said that they will not close any schools without agreement from local mayors and this is exactly what we are doing but who's behind the push for local municipalities to do this i am surprised that the mayors are in favor of the closure of a school this is the only social fabric that remains for villages from which have gradually disappeared post offices shops where the school closes it is

heartbreaking for citizens and elected officials critics point out the government toys finding elected officials who agree to close schools some mayors have had time to work on their closure project but others have done it under duress so how do you get the mayor's views in some cases they're told anyway there will be. teachers in front of your students so regroup while it may not make direct financial sense for schools to remain open when the classrooms are not full it hardly encourages families to move to the rural areas and address the growing demographic crisis in the regions when a. school is closing i do believe that it is very it's like a heart attack you know because you are just. raising really in a way that you have the feeling that give village is dying.