thank you thank you it was. a u.s. navy seal accused of multiple bore crimes including a brutal murder in a combat zone is acquitted by a military court a key witness claims responsibility for the killing. of testers in tel aviv burned cars and drove petrol bombs after an israeli ethiopian teenager is shot dead by an off duty police officer. i tell a true sacrifice it's revealed the 14 sailors who died in a deep sea vessel fire in northwest russia and gave up their lives to save their colleagues. and supporters of julie the sons react with anger to the

british foreign office promotional video of bounds of free speech conference calling to defend the freedom of the facts. hello and welcome you watching r.t. international with me mccarron our top story this hour a military court has cleared and navy seal that you said multiple war crimes of all key charges as well as the controversial nature of his acquittal edward gallegos trial once again raises questions over pentagon conduct overseas collect more pin has the 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'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 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 it was stealing like we're finally been betrayed after being terrorized by the government that my husband bought for for 2 decades the war on terror the spot 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 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. mentions gallagher was found

guilty of posing for a photo with a corpse and just a few hours ago he was sentenced to 4 months of confinement he's already served double that time though in the form of pretrial detention the navy seals and both his rank and pay reduced veteran and author captain launching hail who we heard from earlier believes that edward gallagher deserves admiration. i think it a gallery 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 joining a rally in honor of an ethiopian israeli teenager who was shot dead by an off duty police officer. you. know. that. was. thousands took to the streets in what appears to have been

a spontaneous demonstration some clashed with riot police and of us that calls and rubbish bins on fire the officer who shot the teenager said he felt his life was in danger after you started throwing rocks that have the teenagers family has demanded an immediate investigation the the european community in israel often describes mistreatment at the hands of all flora's he's a spokesperson for israel's police describe what happened. there. a number of suspects that were involved in a fight in a local park a police officer who was 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 being in 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 $114.00 of them was 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. every week navy officers sacrificed their lives saving colleagues and a civilian expert on board when that deep sea vessel called fire on monday our

senior correspondent my guess you have is in the city of moments close to where the tragedy. the atmosphere here in the city of moments because gloomy it's in the air it's in people's faces the expressions you'll be hard pressed to find a family here and more months without relatives of a sailor in the navy so the strategy has struck everyone personally it has really affected people here over russia there are commemorative services being held in churches all over russia people expressing their condolences laying flowers we've had condolences pouring in internationally the pope has expressed his sincere condolences to those that died in this incident those that suffered in this unfortunate incident to raise it may the prime minister of u.k. of the u.k. expressed her condolences as well what was especially striking about this unfortunate incident was that out of the 1414 sailors who died 7 of them of

captains 2 of them heroes of the russian federation all professionals all high ranking decorated veterans of the navy we've learned about the incident itself as well it happened aboard a military deep sea scientific research vessel it was out in the barents sea off the coast of mormons conducting scientific research in the hydras field when a fire broke out and one of the compartments the crew acted professionally story they began fighting the flames they evacuated a civilian industry representative that was on board shut the hatch behind him in order to prevent the fire from spreading and consuming the rest of the submersible perhaps killing their colleagues the other crew members that survived and unfortunately they got the fire under control but they perished juta asphyxiation.

the submarine acted heroically in a critical situation from a compartment that was engulfed in fire they 1st evacuated to see. bill in an industry representative then close the hatch behind him to prevent the fire from spreading throughout the deepwater vessel the head of russia's navy is now personally in charge of carrying out an investigation of the last 2 weeks and establish what happened how it happened and who was responsible the 14 sailors who acted heroically who wrote glee in order to save their colleagues and the vessel itself the submersible will be presented to the state on as vladimir putin is being kept up to date on the investigation itself and the state has promised to support all the support it can offer to the relatives of those who perished in this unfortunate tragedy. but somehow sometimes the chinese ambassador as the bilateral dispute grows over their response to the hong kong protests has artie shaw 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 point called let's have a look 1st of all of what jeremy hunt had to say previously about this we feel for to this 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 that export licenses of items such as c.s. gas and riot gear and grenades have been banned china as a result of those protests that china is fear are seeing that the u.k. has waded into a soul 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 colonial era delusions that some of this into what the spokesperson for the chinese foreign ministry had to say it seems that he still indulged in the post illusion of british columnists 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 the people you know when the phone call was british colony a very long time they would know who i lectured and held that well jeremy hunt the foreign secretary gave this response to that. message to chinese government good relations between countries

a 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 that to the one country 2 systems agreements that was something that was signed when hong kong was handed back to the chinese and it gives the are you into more 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. when it does this father now with our guest former u.s. diplomat jim it's just just a great to have you on the program with us and china has accused person of that kolo many a lot steered towards hong kong does beijing have a point here. well i think i surely think there's an element of wounded sovereignty with the british criticism but the chinese want to make it clear this is sovereign chinese territory yes there are rules there are special to hong kong i don't. want

to go power which was wiped out and i don't think mr hunt really answer because did not you still hold elections when they ran hong kong they're really not a good position to criticize i think that's the sting to it from a chinese shark i china's foreign ministry spokesman said in response to jeremy hunt's remark that hong kong is under the bed british will did not even have the right to protest was your reaction to that. well i guess i can't really tell you what exactly the rules were back at that time but i suspect there's probably some some church that i can't help but notice saying we're not just talking about protesting we're talking and going in and seizing wife or worse by mob violence a legislative chamber you know i don't recall mr hunt talking about the yellow vest protesters in france was far as i know have never stormed the. french parliament and and are being subject of great repression i don't hear him calling about

addressing the root causes there i think when we look at disorders like there's you you wonder sometimes where is the dividing line between what is a protester and being being repressed by the authorities as opposed to what are really inviolate attacks on government institution and then with 40 spaced with how much counterforce to use. yeah eyes during the hunts is of course one of the 2 top candidates for time answer in the u.k. the other by stones and he's also spoken out in favor of the hong kong protest as how much of the u.k. is outspoken as they say she could be domestic politics today or i'm sure there's some of that that there's a little grandstanding for the british electorate showing you're a strong leader strongly supporter of human rights i don't is that some of the british media as well want to draw parallels between hong kong and for example the revolt against. bashar assad in syria in 2011 which of course was presented in the western media as peaceful when of course it was anything but so i

think that kind of thing certainly is going to add to the sense that the reasons that the chinese here one perfect kind of thought. so time is on past there has been some end of what might be a things response speed you think. i think their short answer is none of your business and keep your mouth shut and mind your own affairs i think it's a pretty simple thing from a chinese point of view it's sovereign chinese territory the british are in no position to criticize this is grandstanding this is meddling in trying to use politics and i think there is a wider agenda here for example the upcoming elections in taiwan and next year that this could help to discredit the more favorable for beijing candidate in that election so clearly there are a lot of things that way here i'm in jackass former u.s. diplomat thank you for your time thank you. but a spot has about to between supporters of wiki leaks founder julian assange on the

british foreign office i'll bring you all the details on that and more days after this short break. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected . so when you want to be president i'm sure. most want to be rich. but you'd like to be press which is what the 43 in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the why. should. georgia public especially younger generation i got fed up with that i was sort of pissed because i will sort of just they failed was

a democratic reforms they are very risky. economic reforms as well and when so russian code is sitting in a chair all day with parliament german parliament of georgia he made people simply mad to know because everyone realizes that this government has failed with everything and now they allowed some russian combest to take seed took care of the problem and where george anybody independence was actually declared. welcome back julie in us songs the forces have mocks britain's foreign office for posting a video demanding freedom of the press across the well ahead of a conference on free speech. with the graphic of this current examination the internet.

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 the 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 a son jeff 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 48th birthday of julian assange and in the in his home town where his father lives there have been celebrations and commemorations off the wiki leaks founder of course mixed feeling for. the overjoyed. with the stress. of 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. the e.u. parliament has elected its new president italy's davidson's solely of the socialist down democrat faction but i me pays have yet to approve drug lord young because except for as european commission chief e.u. leaders propose german defense minister live on the lie and she will now need the backing of a majority of the $751.00 m.e.p. she's known as a federalist supporting the creation of a single united states of europe sovereign nation under 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 suddenly scrap the established nomination system requiring her to have formal backing of a party group. from there alone 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've opted for belgium prime minister charles michel however this pick also doesn't sit well with many in the european parliament breaks that party m.e.p. is are particularly angry. as michelle openly mocked britain's departure from the blog commenting on vander lyons your nomination is european commission chief german m.e.p. maximillian kraut told us his country woman has a track record of failure. all established parties promised only

send qualified put 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 and i do believe that she will succeed when they get vinge when she 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 strong democratic union she's just a typical politician out of the system without having any record of successes. donald trump jr has criticized night scrapping special edition sneakers commemorating u.s. independence day and sportswear giants reportedly responded to complaints that the

flag printed on the shoes comes from the era of slavery r.t.c. loop or trying to explain. a quick disclaimer before i begin i'm sorry if 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 may ruin 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 capper nick nike can't 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 but 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 protesters 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 and 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 get it but the japanese got furious with this word 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 sportswear giants at the end as 2 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 do think esswein enemies to date for your information try consulting with actual black people friends i hear they are all over the country this is just the tip of the iceberg good chain ones got in trouble because of black sweaters with big lips offended someone with key chains that look like black people cathy perry crossed 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 the set for a drop there starter which kid parfum box after being scolded by a witch community all cases required some damage control again i respect everyone's feelings but aren't the offended going a bit too far a bit too often thanks for teasing r.t. international my colleague taylor will be with you at the top of the hour with all the natives had line. i think. i. got.

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