A free speech conference going to defend the freedom of press. A very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. 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 once again raises questions over pentagon conduct overseas we go live now to our to scale up and for more about philip is gallagher now a free man and whats been the reaction. Well the 40 year old special operations chief was acquitted in a military court in San Diego California on 6 out of the 7 charges he faced and he was acquitted for all charges of killing civilians and such he was only convicted of posing for a photograph with a corpse which is a violation of military rules for that the maximum sentence would be 4 months in prison however and hes already served 9 months of pretrial detention so essentially at this point he seems to be basically a free ma