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in america especially when a guilty verdict is already at large and media single mother casey anthony was cleared of murdering her two year old daughter the sweet but it's done nothing to sway public opinion that's been spurred on by t.v. newspapers associate churkin reports. innocent until proven guilty it's a whole mark principle of the american justice system legally after shoved aside from the vigor of some of the arrests young african black and brown subjects being sat down in the street and an obsessive kind of way fifty shots sixty shots laying on our stomach in our back as we run or as we watch or flee to beating suspects into offenses in cases of entrapment entrapment is not legal entrapment is getting someone to do something that they would normally do to perp walks that parade
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suspects in handcuffs for the world to see. to a media frenzy devouring some cases and not others i finally did before that i see it as guilty until proven guilty in these cases government is changing the laws sam and is a former white collar convict who knows the criminal justice system discrepancies inside and out i have more on the road two years covering up my crimes. when i decided to cooperate with the head it took the feds two more years to me now a teacher he says media coverage also affects the jury pool they see the image of a guy in handcuffs and see an image of a person being arrested they see the image of a person doing the perp walk and they're fact just like everybody else. so are you presumed guilty from the get go and how much of a role does the media play if you're accused of of the most crime it's going to be in huge headlines on page one when you're exonerated it's on page twenty seven
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below the fold two column inches and your neighbors somehow didn't manage to catch it that day so everyone still thinks you're a child molester not guilty take the not guilty verdict in the casey anthony murder case involving her two year old daughter the court of public opinion remains split from the court of justice all thanks to nonstop media coverage of the case for the past three years she's. crazy and i think it's great they have except i get it but from the media assume she was going to go. in the case of former i.m.f. head dominique strauss kahn the media satisfied their gluttonous taste with extreme passion only for the case to crumble i think there should be a. media outlets are required to play your exoneration up as big and as long as your accusation this is rarely the case as dubious practices in the criminal justice system spread so does the finger pointing and questioning the future of
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human rights in the us where as we go in as americans and since the one news oh and i'm like oh. this is getting now going this is really getting ugly the principles that the u.s. once prided itself in our kind of fire suspects are having to fight their battles publicly the minute they are arrested and attempts to prove their innocence underlining that the discrepancies in the u.s. criminal justice system are alive and kicking and citric in our party in iraq. the march towards a reborn egypt has slowed to a cruel now the interim leaders have been sent the strongest message yet and they're not doing enough with tens of thousands turning out the biggest protest and months demonstrators are filled tahrir square in cairo and other cities and with that the interim government is dragging its heels on forms demanded and they toppled president mubarak gyptian is also frustrated at the sluggish pace of prosecuting senior officials and police officers who are accused of being tentative
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and he's a rising them who still needs knowledge international relations professor mark omened. trouble change. the expectations that the fall of mubarak could be followed by a change of regime hasn't really come about with barak and his family and closest cronies have been imprisoned or accused will go on trial next month of all sorts of crimes against the people and against the interests of country but of course field marshal tantawi and the other members of the military ruling council for his appointees to a great extent across egypt people they will see that their local boss the local head of the biggest ration has changed so there's a sense that the old regime was decapitated but minus mubarak it's still in power ironically one of the big reasons for the revolution people's economic discontent social this contentious it out on employment and so on actually the process of getting rid of mubarak has made in the short term the economy worse and i do think
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really there's an easy answer to egypt's economic problems because global oil prices global food prices and so on are rising and egypt is essentially a importer. well a few minutes george is a cloak and dagger conundrum. spate of spies every turn down targeting high profile photographers it's pretty hard you know. it's snooping. and in it to win it india's enterprising you thought turning small business is big profits. the media mogul owner of britain's best selling newspaper is due to arrive in london to deal with the fallout of the phone hacking scandal at the news of the world one hundred sixty eight year old paper has been closed by rupert murdoch his last edition will be on sunday well earlier the tabloids former editor was released on bail the colson was the the world's editor
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when it eventually intercepted phone calls from murder victims and dead soldiers found his way to went on to become the prime minister's media who denies knowing about the hacking to other people. former war correspondent arrested. her millions to inquiries into the ethics and practices of the british press public outrage against the paper's actions up to this week. have accessed the missing teenager in town it was later found that radio host jon bonet used to work for the news of the world sister paper says britain's media is too tied into the political elite. many of us were calling for a full public inquiry led by a judge and cameron i was being dragged through this position he's now willing to let it happen six truly embarrassing for him is part of what's called the chipping condom set which is a rural part of britain he lives down there at the weekend rebecca brooks lives down there certain columnist lived down there and the whole set you're gonna make
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socially that set was a different set when labor in power would try but all of it is true cosy and too comfortable if you don't have a real democracy. you have to have a separation between the press surely. the political establishment and the government of the day you also need to have separation between the judiciary and those two areas in britain and the united kingdom they have become too close over the last thirteen or fourteen years and i believe that last may no ordinary people in britain their views have not really been represented either in the newspapers or in the political arena last bad for democracy so david cameron should start investigating himself as far as i'm concerned and one would your employer a man who's already had to resign over phone hacking allegations why would you take him to the heart of government where he could have access to top secret dossier as an information it's a sorry sorry day let me tell you not just for the british press but for british
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democracy. two hundred people have been killed in a series of explosions that shook the turkmenistan city of a down call of media sources report the blasts happened i mean this past the government continues to claim it was due to fire with materials r t contact to the editor of a human rights website in turkmenistan and gave us more details. it was started with a blast that was followed by a series of explosions panic spread among people immediately as people didn't know what was going on the government's reaction came too late only eight hours after the explosion and the first military and emergency vehicle start coming to abu down from the capital we know the blast occurred to ammunition the fire hasn't been extinguished yet there's one more depo which can potentially blow up an. official say the explosions were caused by fireworks materials but there's enough evidence to prove it was ammunition around two hundred people are believed to have died half
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of them are soldiers others are civilians many of them are children it's difficult to say how many people have been injured how many apartment buildings schools and shops lie in ruins and there are cases of looting. but. the website chronicles of turkmenistan also reports of the total media that help the country state charlie selling entertainment programs instead of news bulletins meanwhile police are being ordered to detain anyone who tries to take pictures or mobile phone footage of the affected area and other website tells of crowds of children wandering the streets of their parents many there can't contact their families and friends because of disruptions to telephone lines a cabinet health emergency meeting on the situation that gave no details whatsoever style has long been a very secretive state internet was banned until recently. with several thousand dollars a month. if georgia's authorities are to be believed there are
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secret agents that king around every corner just days off the jailing of nine people for espionage for russia a group of high profile photographers have been that by special services they're accused of spying for foreign state and it's not clear which one. catherine delves into what's behind george's suspicions that have been that i still spy with my little lie george is continuing its for of encounter espionage campaign and this time around the people in the spotlight are those who usually stay behind the scenes for photo journalists have been detained including the president's personal photographer and employees of the associated press and the european press agency the a.p. photographer was later released without charge but the other three remain in custody. they may supply but i have met with my client he's got injuries to his face at the moment he still hasn't been charged with anything and we waiting on the
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prosecutors to file the case and to question and formally charge my client. so for a georgian authorities haven't specified exactly who they believe these journalists were spying for their previous spying allegations however have mostly been aimed at russia for saakashvili writes no it was the continuation of war and there are certain hysteria this is the main basis for. the most opposed and mean obviously ways that why he's here in power because the slot machine a second terror which we were in to solve an unsettling he's going through it all he's there and got up there with a nation for a number of your compeers why george. can't really live. in the power you always bundle of. dependence of the. no
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but he's going to. washington agents or says. he recently hysteria began with yet another alleged spy story last year thirteen people were detained and accused of being spies on russia's payroll earlier this week nine of them were found guilty and sentenced to between eleven and fourteen years behind bars but what lies behind this frenzied espionage clampdown. the judges are so quick to stick a spy label on to anyone i guess is just a level of democracy and that has been noticed not just by russia but by various key international organizations like the u.n. . even so it seems international disbelief and numerous arrests and convictions are not enough to put the paranoia of georgian officials to arrest george isn't terry a minister claims that there are more alleged spies out there and that he knows
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exactly who they are where they are and what they're doing home while official the b.b.c. hails these efforts and many seem to be of the opinion that it's just plain wishful thinking. that's what is r r t. drawing the law in internet. it happens more often to women. who have a pride to. high profile sex scandals dominating . the resident is a new york last best one to the attention. found in russia close up religious diokno and city we discover how to succeed in the good mood where. with a population of more than a billion and a growing economy the opportunities are there for india's enterprising entrepreneurs and it's young people who are seizing the initiative by turning their
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passions into profits preassure reports they have got an eye on that culture as much as cataclysm. downstairs in a dusty basement in delhi's okla neighborhood you'll find twenty six year old pitbull kamar this is one of several of its manufacturing sites it's small and weak but it's one of the offices kamar uses to make sporting equipment including tents he's also working to mastermind a sports curriculum for hundreds of schools around india in an attempt to build an empire that he hopes will change the sporting culture in his country forever there was no gap in the market there was you know no or very few quality offerings as far as the sports industry as a whole was concerned so. it's are there for the whole industry and right now he's the number one guy in india doing it in the short time his company has been around its profits have increased two hundred percent per month and he's been named
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one of the top ten young entrepreneurs in the country it's a massive undertaking especially in a country where studies have always been prioritized over sports but kamar is part of a growing movement of young people who believe that they can change cultural mentalities and implement new ideas in their country we have so many graduates coming over engineering and are going to do it every year even if a small percentage of them decide to go you know i don't think that on companies it's going to produce and we're already written isn't that entrepreneurship is becoming a hot field for young people in india while many of the parents of the students on india's college campuses government medicine engineering a stable and prestigious the younger generation is being innovation as key to the future according to the indian government the number of small and medium enterprises in this country is rising by fifteen percent. while their peers in the west are struggling to find jobs during this financial crisis many leaders are
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encouraging their youth to continue to focus on innovation despite the unstable times we know what it takes to compete for the job. and industries of our time we need to out innovate out educate and outbuild the rest of the world. it's a person some believe could shift the power dynamics in the world. as far as those one goes what he would prove himself in india and many new startups . succeeding in the global stage kumar and his fellow entrepreneurs it meant that starting a venture can be stressful but they try to focus on the positives they believe it has for themselves and their country making a difference. you believed in something you thought this is this is what doesn't exist and i want to do something about it creating new jobs for their people while addressing their countries meet preassure either r t new delhi india. more
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news for you this hour now there's a new country on the web that south sudan is now an independent state after decades of bloody civil war celebrations began at midnight with music and dancing in the streets so many christine you just spoke. of which left on a huff that u.n. troops to these two disputed holding area. almost half a million people have taken to the streets of the syrian city demanding present assad steps down the schoolteacher's plan to show his its of support on time listen to this which is strongly condemned seen in the thirty's while the u.s. has some serious and receiving reports from diplomats from the test case from america. former american first lady betty
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ford has died at the age of ninety three she was that we do of president gerald ford and founded the renowned drug and alcohol rehab center which bore the name ford who is considered one of the most visible first ladies in america should be buried in michigan alongside a husband he was married to for almost sixteen years. the space shuttle atlantis blasted off point florida on its historic final journey marking the end of the thirty year for the program. charts the bad weather the maiden voyage but in the end just you know what's left the earth just a minute late just a mission and deliver supplies to the international space station when it returns at length this the other team shuttles will touch muslims like this one. there are some accusations which if they might be proved false can still prove fatal to your reputation as a form of f.g. from those to his cost online talk show host laurie oftenest asked people in new
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york what this means for people's definition when things go too far. the sexual assault cases of d s k angelina stands are getting a lot of coverage in the news do you think it's right for women or men to report any sexual encounters they feel uncomfortable with this week let's talk about that if she feels that she's been violated i think reporting is the best idea and how that plays out you know that that's how that plays out the reporting is should be a woman's instinct at what point does it cross over to consent or just for attention. yeah it's a it's a tough line between those two people with just two people it's impossible i think women should not get in situations i think there are lots of times that we put ourselves in situations and we have a messenger insiders that says get out of there and sometimes we don't listen to that message. says says no or she says no it's
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a no no is it the same for women as for man one hundred percent so why do we treat it more as a woman's a show because it happens more often to women. but men have a pride to go serve up big brother so don't bother. about money rich girl rich and poor guys for. so is this just another way for women to get rich. so do you think it's fair that the law generally tends to side with women. and i think it's impossible to really say what's fair what's not at this point again like ari ari the is of what's fair changed so much i think in general my inclination is to say yes it is because women have for the most part of been the victims for so many years that you almost have to side more with them in order to make it equal it's like affirmative action in a way like you have to do something to make things better so that they're not always the victims no matter how you feel about the lines of sexual assault the
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bottom line is that the rule no means no will always be a good one to follow. well there is more of new york's thoughts online at r.t. dot com. is there day. israel for stopping activists to get aid to gaza some two hundred people from flying in and. around the spine space company to put the camera to the international space station and how much it will be able to zoom in. we get to the city for the country next in russia close up.
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where traveling at two thousand east of moscow to the colgan region and southern siberia it's one of the many areas where a ton of villages are becoming ghost towns young people move to the cities and the older generation get fewer in number. one place where the residents have a good reason to stay so the boy went to find out what it is here we are in the village of chast. and for the past ten or fifteen years its population has been steadily increasing here is the reason why. it's monday morning and the xander a former prison guard is it work testing the incoming employees for alcohol. if they're over the limit there is a choice to be cited for a no show and lose thirty percent of them on celery or job three kilometers and be docked ten percent of that month's wage those who do the testing every morning
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regardless of gender or position within the country people know they could be caught but they will see it on their paycheck and that's a strong incentive not to drink you know working week. inforced alcohol abstinence is the idea of this man alexander able to cough is the director of the still six plank and likes to extend his influence as far as possible a man of big ideas very epitome of micro-management for the past fifteen years he's been preaching to his employees how to make good sausages and how to live a good life. while he is a must it's the quality of the product that gave you this job in the first place and it's the quality that determines whether you'll keep it after firing dozens of workers for showing up drunk at work xander started laughing his employees on the harms of all the whole three times a day during with breaks you got the holy roman emperor charlemagne said the drunk for the first time should be beaten with a stick those court for the second time should be beaten and probably. should be
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hanged as a former boxer he's not shy about exercising his rule with an aryan face has built his version of the iron curtain around his plan with dozens of video cameras around the facility employees have no chance to circumvent the law of big brother on the outside and no longer the issue. there is a very rigid and those people find it hard to comply but those who don't play by alexander's rules don't work here. alexander's drive to set the rules of the game doesn't and within his plan the only corporate tax payer in the village are four thousand people he's taken on a very wide notion of social responsibility using the plants profits he paved only local roads renovated the school and built the church and while he agrees that modesty is a virtue of his fondness of giving guidance and advice is evident wherever he goes
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in you are it doesn't matter that you come from a village what matters most is to get a good education thank god we've got good teachers and behave well in school is that clear. but this approach has divided villagers the majority believe alexander is a blessing or a minority and primarily doe's who he's fired and not as impressed. as the old saying goes one man's meat is another man's poison not everybody in this village appreciates alexander philosophy but he's tenacity in spreading it around some people call him a control freak others to resort to more agricultural language his opponents also include some local officials who believe that alexander has too much power that infringes on their own authority the bill xander accuses them of not doing enough for the people when i asked him whether he'd like to run for office he's a response was a resounding no because if you're blessed i think the whole purpose of power is to
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create to make life around you better and in this regard i have all the power that i need as for the iron fist i think every successful activity requires discipline strict discipline and it starts with me instead of waiting for somebody to come and do something i do it myself i may offend other people but sooner or later they'll understand that i was doing it for the wrong good. many historians make the case that russians prefer authoritarian leaders and the tackling the deep problems of alcohol addiction and will isolation need street discipline and total control good or bad which is in the legs under some cases it seems to have proved efficient on a boycott r t the village of chastise the area we're going to region. shortly the story of the czech villages and it's so off the military might of the
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