face to face with the news makers. trial by new as we look at what happens in the u.s. when a jury says not guilty but the media thinks differently. egypt's demonstration deja vu protesters back in tahrir square angry is slow reforms and corruption following february's uprising. reports of widespread deaths and devastation from blasts in turkmenistan but an elusive government disguises it as a harmless firework incident.

two pm in moscow i match president good to have you with us here on r t our top story you'd think being found innocent of an alleged crime would be the end of the courtroom nightmare but that's not when the media's been showing guilty throughout american 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 are he's honest churkin the reports. innocent until proven guilty it's a whole mark principle of the american justice system legally shoved aside from the vigor of some of the arrests young african black and brown subjects being sat down in the street in an obsessive kind of way fifty shots sixty sites laying on our stomachs in our back as we run or as we walk will flee to beating fast backs into offenses in cases of entrapment entrapment is not legal in. raglan is getting

someone to do something that they would normally do to perp walks that parade 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 our government is changing the laws sam and is a former white car convict who knows the criminal justice system's discrepancies inside and out i have no idea of the role two years. were not by crimes. well i decided with the words. to war years. now teacher he says media coverage also affects the jury pool we see an image of a guy in handcuffs we see an image of a person being arrested they see the image of a person doing the perp walk and therefore just like everybody else. so are you presumed guilty from the get go and how much of

a rule does the media play if you're accused of a penis it's going to be in huge headlines on page one when you exonerated it's on page twenty seven below the fold to column inches and your neighbor somehow didn't manage to catch it the server would 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 in a court of public opinion i mean split from a court of justice all thanks to nonstop media coverage of the case for the past three years. it's crazy they think it's baby except they get it from the media is going through is going to go to in the case of former i.m.f. head germany extra's con the media satisfy 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 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 why is we call in as americans and since the new zone unlike. this is getting now going this is really getting ugly the principles that the u.s. once prided itself in are going to fire suspects having to fight their battles publicly the minute they are arrests and attempts to prove their innocence underlining the discrepancies in the u.s. criminal justice system are alive and kicking the citron out right to me on. the march towards a new reborn egypt has slowed to a crawl now the interim leaders have been sent the strongest message yet are not doing enough with tens of thousands turning out for the biggest protest in months demonstrators filled tahrir square in cairo and gathered in other cities angry that the interim government is dragging its heels on the reforms demanded when they toppled president mubarak egyptians are also frustrated at the sluggish pace of prosecuting senior officials and police officers accused of brutality during

february's uprising for them barak strato still looms large international relations professor mark harmon says the revolution may have brought more trouble than 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 bruni's 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 on the other members of the military ruling council with his appointees to great extent across egypt people they would see that the local boss the local head of the 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 of the revolution people's economic discontent is social this contentious it was a charade of employment and so actually the process of getting rid of mubarak has

made in the short term the economy worse i don't think 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 an important. so to come here in the program it is to win it we take you to india where enterprising young people are turning small businesses into big profits. first though georgia says it's convinced a group of high profile photo journalists were spying for russia europe includes the president's personal photo again all are under arrest they are accused of passing secret information to russia russian special services and will face court in september but i prefer to have the finger of suspicion pointed out last year thirteen people were detained accused of being spies on russia's payroll earlier this week nine of them were found guilty and sentenced up to fourteen years behind bars. with the billionaire owner of britain's best selling newspaper is due to arrive in london to deal with the fallout from the phone hacking scandal at the

news of the world rupert murdoch is closing one hundred sixty eight year old paper it's the last edition will be published on sunday earlier the tabloids former editor andy colson was released on bail he was out the paper when it allegedly intercepted a phone call as for murder victims and dead soldiers' families and later went on to become the prime minister's media he denies knowing about the two other people were also arrested as public opinion turned against the paper of prime minister cameron promised inquiries into press ethics and practices john gone who used to work for the news of the world sister paper says britain's media is too close to 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 condom set which is a rural parts of britain he lives down there the weekend regrets of brooks lives and their son colin nish lives down there and the whole set you can't to make

socially that set was a different set when labor in power which i would need but all of that is too cozy and too comfortable if you don't have a real democracy you have to have a separation between the press surely and indeed. 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 that's made no ordinary people in britain their views have not really be represented either in the newspapers or in the political arena last bad for democracy so david cameron should start investigating him seventh as far as i'm concerned i one would your employer a man who's already had to resign over phone hacking allegations why would you take into the hearts of government where he could about access to top secrets garcias and information it's a sorry sorry day let me tell you not just for the british press but for british

democracy. two hundred people may have been killed in a series of explosions that shook the term in turkmenistan city about it on local media sources report the blasts happened at and i mean ition depot but the government continues to claim it was due to firework materials or he contacted the editor of the human rights website in turkmenistan who gave us more details. it was started with a blast that was followed by a series of explosions near the town extruded one people immediately as people didn't know what was going on the government's reaction came too late only eight hours after the explosions and the first military and emergency vehicles start coming to travel down from the capital we know the blast occurred to any nation to use the fine hasn't been extinguished it is one which contention. officials say the explosions were caused by firework materials but that's enough evidence to prove it was ammunition but around two hundred people are believed to have died half of them 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 schultz lie in ruins and the recluses of looting. but the website chronicles of turkmenistan also reports of a total media blackout the country's state travel is showing 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 websites talks of crowds of children wandering the streets looking for their parents many people can't contact families and friends because of disruption followed why the cabinet held an emergency meeting on the situation but gave no further details turkmenistan has a wrong history of being a secretive state with internet bad until recently. still to come drawing a line in intimate we. the public is more often to women. who have a private look at us older brother. with high profile sex scandals dominating front

page news the resident in new york asks how best to tackle the unwanted attention. and in russia close up a city migration causes villages to die out we discover how to succeed even in the middle of nowhere. with a population of more than a billion and a growing economy opportunities are there for india's enterprising entrepreneurs its young people who are seizing the initiative by turning their passions into profits as artie's priya sridhar reports they've got an eye on their culture as much as capitalism. downstairs in a dusty basement in jelly's neighborhood you'll find twenty six year old people kamar this is one of several of its 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. 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. every year even if a small percentage of them. you know. will really remember 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 in. stories of our time read out innovate out educate and outbuild the rest of the world. it's a pursuit that some believe could shift the power dynamics in the world and. in. india will be. those one of those who are going to prove themselves in india and the new startups. of succeeding kumar this fellow entrepreneur is it meant that

starting a venture can be stressed but they try to focus on the positives they believe it has for themselves and their country making a difference and you you believe in something you thought this is this is what. doesn't exist and i want to do something about creating new jobs for their people addressed in their countries mean it's either archie new delhi india korea now to some other stories making headlines across the globe or as a new country on the world map south sudan is now an independent state after decades of bloody civil war thousands have gathered to celebrate in the city of juba which is the new now the crop of the local and foreign dignitaries are currently attending an independence ceremony. south sudan is a mainly christian region and struggled through the years of conflict with the muslim north of one and a half million people. a lesion is the biggest political demonstration in years has led to more than six hundred people being arrested in the capital the opposition

rally was the culmination of weeks of pressure on the prime minister for electoral reforms head of national polls expected next year police to use tear gas to disperse the crowd saying the protest was illegal the national front has been in power for almost six decades and there are growing calls for change. almost half a million people have taken to the streets of the syrian city of homs demanding president assad step down the protest was filmed during a visit by the french and u.s. ambassadors which was strongly condemned by sea. and authorities meanwhile the u.s. has summoned syria's ambassador after getting reports that the country's diplomats are filming people protesting peacefully in america. former u.s. first lady betty ford has died at age ninety three she was the widow of president gerald ford and founded the renowned drug and alcohol rehab center that bears her name ford was considered one of the most visible first ladies in america should be buried in michigan alongside her husband whom she was married for almost sixty

years. pakistani police and karate have been ordered to shoot on sight after three days of clashes there left eighty people dead the violence that brought the city to a standstill is blamed on armed gangs or his military contributor says stabilizing pakistan is the key to bringing peace to the region. here comes 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 again if the need right now has nothing to do be a surgeon or a d. surgeon american forces on the ground when afghanistan really needs right now he's a wake up call and it's the only way to re-unite all tribes and all factions the only way to save afghanistan from narco chaos he is to come down to the top level negotiations with the pakistani military and to read employ their

american ground forces from afghanistan to southern part of pakistan along their thank you stand in the end border and to lead the pakistani volunteer corps to change their position within our students that. are sort of accusations that even if true or false can still proof able to one's reputation as former i.m.f. chief knows to its cost online talk show host laurie harford asked people in new york what this means for people's definition of when things go too far. the sexual assault cases d s k angelina's dons are getting a lot of coverage and then is do you think it's right for women or men to report anything actually encounter they feel uncomfortable with this week let's talk about that if you feel 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 that

should be a woman's instinct at what point does it cross over to you could see that or just flirtation. yes it's a tough line between those two people but it's 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 in situations. we have a messenger inside us that says get out of there and sometimes we don't listen to that message. says no. it's a no if it has been for women and for man one hundred percent. so why do we treat it more as a woman session because of happens more often to women. who have a pride to go. about money rich the rich and poor gets more. good that's just another way for women to get rich. so do you think it's fair that the laws generally tend to fight with women. and i think it's impossible to really

say what's fair or what's not at this point again like ari ari is the right spirit change 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 always 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 line that's that's a les pauls the bottom line is that the rule no means no will always be a good one to follow. and your company more on line and r t dot com here's what's a click away right now. anger at israel for stopping i could basically just efforts to get aid to blockaded gaza as the country bars some two hundred people from flying into televisa and ports others. a cosmic camera for the space station is

tatted up plans to map every inch of the planet with high resolution results zoom into r.t. dot com for our video report. working in the countryside can be a breath of fresh air as we discover in today's edition of russia close up. we're taking you two thousand kilometers east of moscow to the court in a region in southern siberia one of the many areas where entire villages are becoming ghost towns as young people move to cities and the older generation get your number but there's one place where residents have good reason to stay or he starts unavoidable finds out where. here we are in the village of cast. or ground region for the past 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 and flurries for alcohol. if they're over the limit there is a choice to be started for a no show and lose thirty percent of them on salary i joked three kilometers and be docked ten percent of that month's wage because we didn't sustain every morning regardless of gender or position within the company it could be that he will see only a paycheck and that's a strong incentive not to treat you working week. and of course alcohol abstinence is the idea of these man alexander will take off is the director of the still search plan and lives to extend his influence as far as possible and i have big ideas to give 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. that while he is a must it's the quality of the product of his job in the first place and it's the

quality of the terms whether you keep it after parring dozens of workers for showing up drunk at work well xander started lateran his employees on the harms of alcohol three times a day during breaks. the holy roman emperor charlemagne so the drunk for the first time should be beaten with a stick and those called for the second time should be beaten in public. time should be heard and as a former boxer he's not shy about exercising his rule with an r in face has built his version of the iron curtain around his plan of dozens of video cameras around the facility employees have no chance to circumvent the law of big brother on the outside i'm no longer the issue here. although the rules are very rigid and most people find it hard to comply but those who don't believe alexander is rules don't work here. alexander strive to set the rules of the game doesn't and within his

plan the only corporate taxpayer in the village of four thousand people he's taking on a very wide notion of social responsibility using the plants profits he gave a local roads renovated a school and built a church and while he agrees that modesty is a virtue of his fungus of giving guidance and advice is evident wherever he goes in you are 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 the ledgers the majority believe alexander is a blessing or a minority and primarily those who he's fired and not as impressed as the old saying goes one man's meat is another man's poison that everybody in this village appreciates alexander philosophy and he's a nasty 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 their lives under has too much power that infringes on their own authority but the xander accuses them of not doing enough for the people when i ask him whether he'd like to run for office he's response was a resounding no because if 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. 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 mean the people would sooner or later they'll understand what i was doing it for the wrong good. many historians made bikies that russians prefer authoritarian leaders and 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 well as you can see this has really become an and general growth for the entire region attracting dozens and even hundreds of people from other settlements bigger cities and even other countries we are now joined by your going schwing drawn businessman who works for a danish company trading in cultures thank you for a time you're going to as far as i understand the majority of your business in russia is centered on moscow and st petersburg you see. here we are in the middle. no worry in siberia what are your initial impressions so far i'm very impressed the both these villagers it's my first time to be in russia and in a village really on the countryside it looks really like let's say fifty six figure speaking german something something like this i know that if you had a chance to get to know xander the boss the big boss here and he's a very charismatic person who cares not only about the quality of his products bad

about the lifestyle of his. employees and. i'm sure you were present at these alcohol lecture and the lecture on the harms of alcohol and smoking and i think for many western people this is a sort of strange concept that somebody your boss would not share your on how you should leave your lives i mean this is certainly an intrusion and somebody has privacy what do you think of god that's true and i for the first time and seeing the first time i was also really very impressed but it's a very nice tool to treat and push the people in this direction and put improve your infrastructure and to support the people and for better life it's a very very good idea. and surely we continue our journey around russia as martin andrews takes us to

around st petersburg coming your way after our top stories stay with us.

twenty years ago the largest country in the certificates it looks. see. must have been a picture i'm going to speak janet you and where did it take. the close up genius be to the republic of north the situation where the area is occupied by nature preserve. this time for our cheap goes to the region where men flock from all over the world to add a few centimeters to their self-confidence where young families are not hesitant about having a senior citizen in their family and where one man's utopia turns into a real village of the shining sun welcome to the cool gum region if russia close up

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