vali. llewellyn, too. >> the main argument of the book is where focusing on problems of crises, front.budget domestic agenda by the president. we have decided as we focus at home we're going to reduce our attention on the war. --is is the most obvious where in the case of the middle east where, as it turns out, there is a need for greater american attention and global leadership because of the arab spring. we are at an interesting time in our global presence, where the signal we are sending to the world is that we do not want to lead frontally. we do not want to be the one that comes in and shows the direction and global challenges. we actually actively would like to reduce the importance of the middle east in our global thinking and reduce its importance in global politics. >> that is a bad thing. >> largely because i do not think the world is ready for the united states unilaterally deciding to withdraw.and the shape of the crises, the opportunities in the middle east are too momentous an

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force is in process here's some background into corruption blogger and a vocal kremlin critic now vali was convicted of embezzling half a million dollars from a state underpriced the verdict has sparked mass on sanctions protests in moscow and several other cities. now will be of course getting more information to you as we receive it but for now and of ali is conviction has drawn instant criticism from western governments washington condemned the ruling as suppression of civil society in russia was that opinion largely at code by e.u. officials however british legal expert and blogger alexander macoris who's been following going to vali trial told us that outsiders are jumping to conclusions without looking at the details of the case. as far as i could see. the charges made out the facts were set out clearly and this can absolve me just give them an opportunity to cross-examine witnesses to respond to the evidence and i think if you look at the evidence and i think a lot of the people who question the fairness of the trial have not. but i think if you do look at the area you would dec

data bailed but russian opposition activist alexina vali awaits his appeal against a five year prison term for stealing half a million dollars. egypt start reworking its constitution after another week of deadly strife between backers and opponents of deposed islam as president mohammed morsi. turkey israel used one of its military bases for a recent attack against syria according to an r.t. source but denies the claims. nine pm in moscow bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news thousands have been gathering all week in cities across the u.s. to protest the acquittal of george zimmerman after a jury found him not guilty of murder when he shot dead on arm black teenager trayvon martin the ruling set off a nationwide debate on racial hatred as a washington correspondent. for. 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

russian anti-corruption blogger alexina vali could get a last minute reprieve a day after being sentenced to five years in jail for embarrassment the court is considering granting a temporary release pending and he's appealed you're looking at live pictures right now. and a life sentence looms for u.s. army private bradley manning after a judge uphold a charge that he ate of the enemy in leaking classified documents but washington faces an uphill struggle and its war on whistleblowers. and the e.u. puts a damper on israel's settlement expansion plans new cooperation guidelines make the occupied territories ineligible for future funding.

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stories a fast moving week for russian opposition activists and ending corruption blogger alexina vali said this to five years in prison for embezzlement on thursday then bailed out a few hours later to the cheers of thousands of protesters denouncing the verdict. has been following what's been called one of russia's most controversial trials in yours. if you're a former worker five and four years in prison alexina vining to that it's a risk 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 some of the 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

convicted and a bailed out of prominent russian opposition activist alexina vali is sentenced to five years in jail for embezzlement but is freed to pending an appeal. and one hand washing the other and our two source says israel used a turkish military base to carry out an air strike on syria allegations that have been denied by an encore. plus reports emerge that germany's intelligence service is eagerly helped the n.s.a. and its surveillance that's the spy berlin's.

campaigning for office as moscow's mayor and earlier voiced his presidential ambitions once again vali god a five year span that santa and this is the latest that we have for you for now you are looking at live pictures earlier from the courthouse in clear off of. this was . and is a coming up here on r t a look at the partial corporate interests behind genetically modified food that's right after the break to stay with us. you want is something truly baffling the u.s. supreme court has ruled that generic drug makers cannot be sued for bad reactions to their products only the original bridge creators of the drugs can the court's decision was five to four overturning a multimillion dollar award for a woman who was horribly wounded by taking a medication which gave her toxic epidermal necrosis which is basically the equivalent of getting third degree burns all over her body and of course after winning the case of mutual pharmaceutical company is demanding their millions of dollars back from the. woman who they naturally blame for having side effects from the medicine they made themselves

russian court is set to deliver a verdict in the next few hours in the high profile trial of aleksey and vali a leading opposition figure and blogger the man best known for his crusade against corruption is himself accused of embezzling meant and spaces up to six years behind bars well arty's. joins us now more outside the courthouse irina hi there so tell us a bit more about the atmosphere outside the courthouse right now. well a lot of the obviously this case is getting a lot of attention from not just russian media but foreign media as well and journalists have actually been camping out in front of the courthouse for the last twenty four hours there's even a waiting list running we stopped by here at night when we just arrived through the town and other worry about ten people camped out on the on the bird right in the can from the courthouse than just literally sleeping there at the courthouse has itself hasn't opened yet we are expecting that vitaliy to arrive any moment now and of course all eyes are on what's going to happen inside the courthouse there's not enough space for all journal

breaking news here in our to your russian anti-corruption campaign ali sina vali sentenced to five years in jail for embezzlement after a court found him guilty of a scheme to defraud a state company out of half a million dollars. voiding the chaos of conflict it is said to be drawing up plans for its own islam a state carved out of the ruins of war torn syria's north with control over oil revenue and arms routes and competition is launched and britain for the best roadmap to leave the european union following the government's promise to hold a referendum on whether the u.k. should remain a member. and what you are going to live from the russian capital on marina joshie welcome to the program and first to our breaking news story just out we're aleksey in a volley of best known for his campaign against official corruption has been sentenced to five years behind bars are cesar english who has been following the proceedings and joins us live now from outside the courthouse in fear of what's been the reaction so far from where you are. well people how well those who were here when the violen

right andrea thanks very much indeed for this update and for keeping us up to date on this and now vali is conviction has drawn instant criticism from western governments washington can down the ruling as suppression of civil society in russia with that opinion largely at code by e.u. officials however british legal expert and blogger alexander america who's been following that of all the trial told us that outsiders are jumping to conclusions without looking at the details of the case. as far as i could see. the charges made out the facts were set out clearly and it's going to probably just given an opportunity to cross-examine witnesses to respond to the evidence and i think if you look at the evidence and i think a lot of people who question the fairness of the trial have not yet but i think if you do look at the area you would decide that he was probably convicted well that's exactly what one gets with the theme the people who have already made up their minds before the case even started and before the trial it started simply following their own opinions which they formed in advance

see and it'll be interesting to see what we happening in the next in the immediate future of course vali hasn't decided yet whether he will run for mayor or not although the head of his election campaign says he will so in case he does make this decision to go ahead does he stand a chance well i don't think that he stands a chance of winning in moscow not because of their authoritarian nature or the russian regime but because his program is military different from some bandits program if you look at the main ideas you know like making everything that extraordinary and basically switching to that market methods all of ronnie and corny and. not only in that sense is in the comic liberal just like civilian and he's. differences that there can be you know i think that when the western press depicts not only as you know in all of the callers i said libero and humanist and all these things it's a simplification because he has been expelled from the liberal yabloko party for nationalists deviations i think that the secret of his success is that he's a very average young russian and. not squeaky

it was also a fast moving week for a russian opposition activist an anti corruption blogger alexina vali sentenced to five years in prison for embezzlement on thursday bailed out a few hours later to the cheers of thousands of protesters denouncing the verdict against him artie's arena has been following what's been called one of russia's most controversial trials in yours. former workers are five and four years in prison alexina vining to that if it's a risk 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 th

russian anti-corruption blogger ali sina vali sentenced to five years in jail for embezzlement but can walk free pending appeal after prosecutors asked for his temporary release and a surprise move. and of the eight you puts a dampener on israel's settlement expansion plans new cooperation guidelines make the occupied territories knowledgeable for future funding. this is r.t. coming to you live from the russian capital i'm marina joshie welcome to the program. now prospects are looking bleak for the u.s. military whistleblower bradley manning a judge has refused to drop the charge against him aiding the enemy that means the army private who turned over thousands of classified documents to wiki leaks could spend the rest of us live behind bars was no chance of parole has been following the case it is the most serious charge of the private first class faces so that means he still faces the possibility of life without parole now the court took a look at the testimony and evidence we've heard so far throughout this case and found that there is enough evidence to move forward with this char

brand of politics that he's selling them and that's because what is often on presented in the west is vali holds what could be considered in the west as quite extreme ethnic nationalist racist zina phobic views of what is could be considered an extreme right including gun rights advocacy and the like well reaction to the sentences being global instantaneous the e.u. seems to think the prosecution did a poor job with a block spokesman questioning the validity of the evidence against me the u.s. ambassador to russia went further saying he sees politics driving the conviction russia mccauley told us that the valley case proves that cold war era attitude to the west still alive. if something like this comes up it's very easy then to take a stick to the russian state and russian government to say that they're behaving like the communists they haven't really improved they haven't really moved to democracy the rule of law liberal market economy and so on so therefore there's a there there is a prejudice there is a lovely lovely in the west which and the russian the only way that russia can overco

russian anti-corruption blogger ali sina vali sentenced to five years in jail for embezzlement but canwalk free pending appeal after prosecutors asked for his temporary release and a surprise move. and of the puts a dampener on israel's settlement expansion plans new cooperation guidelines make the occupied territories knowledgeable for future funding.

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well now vali was going to run for the post of moscow's mayor in fact that he just put his name officially on the ballot yesterday but now we're getting the latest news from lvalues election campaign they are saying that his candidacy has been automatically withdrawn that was the shooting that he made right before the verdict if he is convicted and sentenced to prison term that he's going to withdraw his candidacy to get of course the final word remains with himself and also we have to hear from the lawyers who have ten ten days to. to make an appeal to court all right both of you thank you so much for keeping us up to date arena in the city of care of and in the center of moscow well social researcher mark sloboda from moscow state university says that what the media usually forgets while hailing of all these anti put in drive is his hardline nationalist past i think that russia are actually paying attention to some of the particulars of the case and they are assume no you're with me of all me is a political figure in quite a different way than he is conceived of in the west and the west

keep them bad but it won't jeopardize them because they're already very bad well you touched on how vali is the national support described in in countries outside of russia what do you think makes him so appealing to westerners but i like what babbage just said i mean i think it was a western a story well because he is paid by or has been paid by the united states of america when he set up a democratic alternative party a year or two ago it received money from the ne d. the ne d. is the national endowment for democracy which is the big regime change operation 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 americans to. showed it not so long ago and he has put forward in the western media because he's role is to discredit the russian political system as a whole that's the role that's the political role which develop the plates is to keep in everyone's mind at the forefront of everyone's mind the idea that the russian political system is a corrupt or storage area

russian anti-corruption campaigner and opposition activist alexina vali was sentenced on thursday for five years in prison for stealing 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 he didn't a good guy has been following that case which for me on these works are five and four years in prison alexina vining to that if it's ever spent on tea for setting up a dummy corporation and defrauding a state owned timber company to the tune of half a million dollars the judge insisted the verdict was not politically motivated but foreign media the blogger supporters and opposition activists declared otherwise critical and a convict at the conviction means that he won't be able to stand for mayor of moscow he 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 bef

russian opposition activist ali sina vali is bail the day after being handed a five year jail term for embezzlement in a trial that's captivated the world's media. also this week turkey is accused of letting israel use a military base to launch a recent air strike on syria that information coming from our sources but ankara denies the allegations. and backers of egypt's ousted president mohamed morsi clashed with opponents add mass rallies while a new cabinet is sworn in and despite the violence. i want to moscow this is r.t. and i'm marina joshie welcome to the program and crowds of protesters have been gathering in cities all over the u.s. voicing their fury over the recent acquittal of george zimmerman that he was cleared of murder over the shooting of unarmed black teenager trayvon martin in florida last year the court ruling has been widely branded as racist. as more. 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 co

critical and a convert to the conviction means that he won't be able to stand for mayor of moscow vali 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 and before the trial even started and they're not actually looking at the facts of the case or 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 going to charge because he is a famous opposition personality now that seems to me to put things completely the wrong way round thousands of people in moscow's main years in a square a stone's throw from the kremlin indignant at the verdict calling it unfair and immense police presence and if east of panic on social media for awhile it looked like the situation could escalate. but there was a curveball from the prosecutor's office

brand of politics that he's selling them and that's because what is often un presented in the west is vali holds what could be considered in the west as quite extreme ethnic nationalist racist zina phobic views of what is could be considered an extreme right including gun rights advocacy and the like. well reaction has been coming in for the sentencing it's been global near instantaneous indeed the e.u. seems to think the prosecution did a poor job with a block spokesman questioning the validity of the evidence against the valmy the u.s. ambassador for instance to russia went further saying he sees politics driving the conviction here let's get some more thoughts on the worldwide reaction but i would first appear to have it she's director for the center for governance and public management in canada thank you very much for being with us is the verdict being condemned because it's unfair all because novelli is an opposition figure what do you think. i belief that you have to separate the two feelings from the stuff well and is the question whether or not he did something. and no food in his

. >> reporter: valis says flight attendants drill right down to the block exits and malfunctioning exit slides on asiana214. >> if we have a blocked exit we redirect to others. that's exactly what they did. they redirected passengers to other usable exits. >> reporter: two of the flight attendants were ejected from the plane. >> i heard the sign for evacuate. so i put the evacuation protocall in place. >> reporter: our flight attendant may have offered insight into why evacuation ramps opened. if the doors were ajarred open while the plane crashed there may have been nowhere else to deploy but the cabin. christien kafton, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> as the asiana flight came in low and slow, the crew of a cockpit on united plane had a front row seat. they watched the ordeal unfold. after the crash the united pilots radioed the tower about survivors. >> we see people, they're alive and they're walking around. >> people are just walking outside the airplane right now? >> yes, some people looks like are stumblin >> reporter: a posting on a pilot's forum as someone identified himself as a pilo

. >> reporter: valis says flight attendants drill right down to the block exits and malfunctioning exit slides on asiana214. >> if we have a blocked exit we redirect to others. that's exactly what they did. they redirected passengers to other usable exits. >> reporter: two of the flight attendants were ejected from the plane. >> i heard the sign for evacuate. so i put the evacuation protocall in place. >> reporter: our flight attendant may have offered insight into why evacuation ramps opened. if the doors were ajarred open while the plane crashed there may have been nowhere else to deploy but the cabin. christien kafton, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> as the asiana flight came in low and slow, the crew of a cockpit on united plane had a front row seat. they watched the ordeal unfold. after the crash the united pilots radioed the tower about survivors. >> we see people, they're alive and they're walking around. >> people are just walking outside the airplane right now? >> yes, some people looks like are stumbling. >> reporter: a posting on a pilot's forum as someone identified himself as a pi

russian anti-corruption blogger ali sina vali could get a last minute reprieve a day after being sentenced to five years in jail for embezzlement the court is now set to consider granting a temporary really nice pending appeal right now you're looking at live pictures from the courthouse. a life sentence looms for u.s. army private bradley manning after a judge uphold a charge that he ate of the enemy in leaking classified documents but washington faces an uphill struggle and its war on whistleblowers. and the e.u. puts a damper there on israel selman expansion plans new cooperation guidelines make the occupied territories it eligible for future funding. in moscow you are watching r t thanks for joining us and welcome to the program i've seen a volley a russian anti-corruption campaign or a convicted yesterday of defrauding a state company is back in court prosecutors who earlier succeeded in having him sentenced to five years in jail are now asking that the volley be released pending appeal hearing has just started artes and a foreman joins us now live for more on this so andrew what can