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america's media as judge and jury the news outlets jeopardizing justice by sentencing suspects before they've even been to a courtroom. egypt's demonstration days are who the protesters are backing tucker square angry at sloth forms and corruption problems uprising. and reports of widespread deaths and devastation from the blasts in turkmenistan but an elusive government disguises it as a harmless firework incident. you're watching r.t. i'm carrie johnson and welcome to the program. being proved innocent in courts campaign into insignificance in america especially when

a guilty verdict is already at large in the media single mother casey anthony was cleared of murdering her two year old daughter this week but it's done nothing to sway public opinion that's been spurred on by t.v. and newspapers this is a churkin of. 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. entrapment is getting someone to do something that they would normally do to perp walks that parade suspects in handcarts for the world to see. to a media frenzy devouring some cases and not others i finally did before the seed.

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's discrepancies inside and out 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 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 a famous crime it's going to be in huge headlines on page one when you're exonerated it's on page twenty seven 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 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. it's crazy and i think it's made me happy and i did it but from the media since she was going to go to 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 all. 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 human rights in the us which is we call in as americans i'm sitting one years old and i'm like oh. this is getting

now going this is really good the principles that the u.s. once prided itself in our inner fire suspects are having to fight their battles publicly the minute they arrest and attempts to prove their innocence underlining that the discrepancies in the u.s. criminal justice system are alive and kicking and the citron at forty three on. the march towards a reborn egypt has slowed to a crawl now the interim leaders have been sent the strongest message yet that they're not doing enough with tens of thousands turning out the biggest protest in months demonstrators filled the tahrir square in cairo and gathered in other cities angry into government is dragging its heels on reforms demanded and toppled president back generations are also frustrated sluggish pace of prosecuting senior patients and police officers who are accused of eternity to a purpose of. them still knowledge international relations professor mark almond

says the revolution or troubling change. the expectations that the fall of mubarak could be followed by a change of regime hasn't really come about for 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 against the interests of country but of course field marshal tantawi and the other members of the military ruling council or his appointees to a great extent across egypt people they will see that their local boss the local head of a stray should be 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 is social this contentious issue of unemployment and so on actually the process of getting rid of mubarak has made in the short term the economy worse but i do think really there's an easy answer to egypt's economic problems because global. all

prices global food prices and so on are rising and egypt is a central importer. one of the few minutes on the program in georgia's cloak and dagger conundrum president saakashvili sees a spate of spies and we turn now targeting high profile photographers for espionage we ask whether this is not really snooping. and it's to do with it india's enterprising youth turning small businesses into big profits. the billion the owner of britain's best selling newspaper is due to arrive in london to deal with the fallout of the phone hacking scandal the news of the world murdoch is closing a one hundred sixty eight year old paper its last edition will be on sunday well you're the tabloids former editor and he calls it was released on bail he was at the paper when it eventually intercepted phone calls from the victims and dead soldiers from it. later went on to become the prime minister's media eight he

denies knowing about the hacking two other people were also arrested as public opinion turned against the paper prime minister cameron promised inquiries into press practices well john daunt who used to work for them used to roll sister paper says britain's meeting to tie dinner for the political elite. many of us were calling for a full public inquiry led by a judge and cameron has been dragged through this position he's now willing to let it happen six truly embarrassing for at least part of what's called the chipping candombe set which is a rural part of britain he lives down there at the weekend rebecca brooks lives down there cern columnist lived down there and the whole set you can to make socially that set was a different set when labor in power would try but all of it is too cozy 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've become too close over the last thirteen or fourteen years and i believe the last man the ordinary people in britain their views have not really been represented either in the newspapers or in the political arena that's bad for democracy so david cameron should start investigating himself as far as i'm concerned i want 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 democracy. moving on now two hundred people may have been killed in a series of explosions shook the turkmenistan city of local media sources report the blasts happened i mean this that the government continues to claim it was due

to firework materials. contacted the editor of human rights website in technique stan who gave us more details. it all 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 the first military an emergency vehicle start coming to a down from the capital we know the blast occurred at two ammunition the fire hasn't been extinguished yet there's one more depor which can potentially blow up. the fish will 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 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 the recuses of looting. on the web site chronicles of turkmenistan also reports of

a total media blackout the country's state channel is selling entertainment programs instead of news bulletins. are being ordered to detain anyone who tries to take pictures or mobile phone footage of the affected area another website tells of crowds of children wandering the streets looking for their parents many there can't contact their families and friends because of disruptions to telephone lines a cabinet meeting on the situation but gave no details whatsoever many star has long been a very secretive state the internet banned until recently. if georgia's authorities are to be believed there are secret agents around every corner just days after jailing nine people for espionage for russia a group of. high profile photographers happened to buy special services that are accused of spying for a foreign state that's not clear which one party's catalinas are over delves into what's behind george's suspicions and it's 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 remaining custody. either 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 prosecutors to file the case and to question him 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 soccer shruti writes novels the continuation of war and there are sure

and. this is the main basis for his don't was deposed and. why he should care. a power because the second care which we were into solving separately and he's going to do almost he's . got a few of the explanation for a number of your partners why georgia's so-called democratic country why. do you always mention abundance of. independence of georgia. but he brought me against. the russian agents or since feisal i do know. they. 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.s. . even so it seems international disbelief and numerous arrests and convictions are not enough to put the paranoia of georgian officials to rest georgia's interior minister claims that there are more alleged spies out there and that he knows exactly who they are where they are and what they're doing while official the b.b.c. haoles these efforts many seem to be of the opinion that it's just plain wishful thinking. katharine's r r t moscow. also to come on the program and join the live in intimate relations. it happens more often to women. who have

a pride to go serve a. high profile sex scandal dominating the front pages reston's is a new york to ask how best to tackle on wanted attention. and in russia close a city migration course is going to just die out you discover how to succeed even the middle of nowhere. where the population of more than a billion and a growing economy the opportunities are there for india's enterprising entrepreneurs and its young people who are seizing the initiative by turning their passions into profits. reports they have gotten on their culture as much as capitalism. in a dusty basement in jelly's okla neighborhood you'll find twenty six year old pitbull kamar this is one of several of his manufacturing sites it's small and bleak 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 odd if. 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 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 kumar as 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 it's going to produce a huge when you'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 is 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 per cent. while their peers in the west are struggling to find jobs during this financial crisis many leaders are encouraging their youth to continue to focus on innovation despite the unstable times we know what it takes to compete for the jobs and industries of our time we need. 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. in next.

as far as you know vision those going to those who are going to prove themselves in india and many new startups that will be a really good chance of succeeding in the global stage kumaran his fellow entrepreneur is 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 if you believe 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 mean it's preassure either r t new delhi india. or well these for you now the south. there's a new country on the world map. dependent state talked of decades of very simple some abrasions began at midnight. in the streets so many ways to go through music conflict. and. money and. the un only deployed troops to

the still disputed. almost half a million people have taken to the streets of the same city in a modern place and i sat down this protest was for them during a visit by the french and u.s. ambassadors which was strongly condemned by syrian authorities want to give us some of syria's ambassador to receiving reports of the country's diplomats filmy protesting thanks for the in america. former american the first lady betty ford has died at the age of ninety three she was that we did with president gerald ford and found that there were downed drug and alcohol rehab center which bore her name ford was considered one of the most a visible first ladies in america. she'll be buried in michigan alongside a husband she was married to for almost sixty is. pakistani police in karate have been ordered to shoot on sight of the three days of

clashes there eighty people dead the violence which brought the city to a standstill is blamed on known gangs militia contributors said stabilizing pakistan is key to bringing peace to the whole region here accounts the new plan for the new u.s. policy for pakistan and afghanistan when it comes to peace and security in afghanistan you have to think about pakistan afghanistan need right now has nothing to do with surging or d. surging american forces on the ground we're never going to stand really needs right now is a wake up call and it's the only way to re-unite all tribes and all other factions the only way to save afghanistan from narco couse is to conduct the top level negotiations with the pakistani military to read a ploy the american ground forces from afghanistan to soften part of

pakistan along their pakistani indian border and to lead the pakistani raunchier corps to their position within brush doing this stuff. now there are some accusations which even if they might be proved false can still prove fatal to your reputation as the former i.m.f. chief minister his cost online talk show host laurie half an ist i asked people in new york what this means for people's definition when things go too far. the sexual assault cases of d s k angelina sounds are getting a lot of coverage in the news do you think it's right for women or men to report anything actual encounter 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 but reporting is should be a woman's instinct at what point does it cross over to consider just forte should.

yeah it's a it's a tough line between those two people we're 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. or she says no it's a no is it the same for women as for man one hundred percent. so why do we treat it more as a woman's issue because it happens more often to women. who have a pride. about money rich get richer the poor gets for. good that's just another way for women to get rich. so do you think it's fair that the laws generally tend to side with women. i think it's impossible to really say

what's fair or what's at this point again like ari ari. 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 bottom line is that the rule no means no will always be a good one to follow as. well as more of your thoughts online and all to dot com and see what else is there fear not just a click away there's anger at israel for stopping activists latest efforts to get aid to blockaded gaza as a boss some two hundred people from flying to tell them to ports others. and the cosmic camera for the space station canada plans to that every inch of the planet

with high resolution results seeming to come from a new report. working in the countryside can be a breath of fresh air as we discover in today's russia close up next. but travelling at two thousand kilometers east of moscow kogan region in southern siberia it's one of the many areas where entire villages are becoming ghost towns as young people into the cities and the older generation get fewer in number but there's one place where the restaurants have a good reason to stay on a boycott went to find out what it was. here we are in the village of castor. grande region and for the past ten or fifteen years its population has been steadily increasing here is the reason why. it's monday morning and alexander

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 salary or joke three kilometers and be docked ten percent of that month's wage. we do the testing every morning regardless of gender or position within the company that could be. on their paycheck and that's a strong incentive not to drink working week. enforced alcohol abstinence is the idea of this man alexander able to cough is the director of the still such plan and likes to extend his influence as far as possible a man of big ideas to the 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 it is

a must it's the quality of the product to give you this job in the first place and it's the quality that determines whether you'll keep it after firing dozens of corker's for showing up drunk at work or xander started lateran his employees on the harms of alcor hall three times a day during with breaks. 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 in public court for the third time should be hanged as a former boxer he's not shy about exercising his rule with an r in face and 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 off side thefts and no longer the issue. with their rules are very rigid and most 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 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 a minority and primarily those who he's fired on 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 bill xander accuses them of not doing enough for the people when i ask him whether he'd like to run for office he's a response was a resounding no but you're blessed i think the whole purpose of power is to 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 rural isolation need street discipline and total control good

or bad in the xander scase it seems to have proved efficient boycott art see the village of chester syria on the region. but after the headlines in a few moments how the arab influx into europe further strained it small to cultural credentials whether russia faces a similar conundrum.