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sometimes. markets weiner scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy because the reports on our. georges latest cloak and dagger case closed the focus on photographers accused of spying for russia but a skeptical public says their government is on a witch. trial by news we look at what happens in the u.s. when a jury says not guilty but the media thinks different. before it's a widespread deaths in devastation from blasts in turkmenistan but in a loose of government disguises it as a harmless prior work incident. three
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pm in moscow i matras are going to have you with us here on r t our top story georgia says it's convinced that a group of high profile photojournalists were spying for russia the group includes the president's personal thoughts hog and all are under arrest for more we're joined by our team is peter all flow peter so what exactly are the photographers being accused if you will we saw a school generalists arrested on thursday we've now seen to date it's three of those have been charged with espionage with a bit of they've been accused of passing information through tbilisi to moscow now one of those that one of those has been released a woman the wife of one of the three who remain in custody has been released without charge but the these three photojournalists who remain in custody as you said one of them being the the private photographer the personal photographer all of the presidents because saakashvili another one being a photojournalist a touch to the foreign ministry of chile they are hot that could. belonging search
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their hard drives checked and from not storage authorities say they were trees detailed plans of the. the presidential compound presidential administration compound in tbilisi also a detailed schedule over the whereabouts of. schedule for president because saakashvili so it's only paces of this information what they say they found that they were with those three photojournalists will remain in custody until september when a behind closed doors trial will take place. this is something we've seen before in georgia where they've accused their own citizens of being spies tell us more about that that's right last year we saw thirteen people rounded up and arrested and just last week nineteen of those were handed down sentences ranging between eleven and fourteen years for espionage no from the russian side who of course being accused of having me spies operating in georgia they'll fall from happy they see they think
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that the georgians are being heavy handed when it comes to labeling people spice. peaceful new people would. anyone think uses just a level of democracy and it has been. a risky. move. but it's not just the russian foreign ministry we heard speaking to a spokesperson there who of believe this no georgian daily newspaper who is opposed to saakashvili government today released an article suggesting what they see is a way which is taking place in the country against those who oppose saakashvili they have said previously added being businessmen politicians and scientists now the take should all thought which seems to have focused on journalists in their opinion the right artist peter are on top of that story for us in moscow thanks for that report. turned out in. as other top story you'd think being found innocent of
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an alleged crime would mean the end of a courtroom nightmare but not when the media has been shouting guilty throughout us single mother casey anthony was cleared of murdering her two year old daughter this week but it's done little to sway public opinion that's been spurred by t.v. in newspapers or he's honest 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. sat down in the street and an obsessive kind of way fifty shots sixty sets laying on our stomach in our back as we ride or as we walk or flee to reading 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 suspects in handcuffs for the world to see. to
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a media frenzy devouring some cases and not others i find a need to be thought of as guilty until proven guilty in these cases government is changing the laws so are you presumed guilty from the get go and how much of a role does the media play if you're accused of it he missed 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 neighbors somehow didn't manage to catch it the server would 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 a court of justice all thanks to nonstop media coverage of the case for the past three years. maybe it's made me happy kim i get it from the media assume she was going to go green in the case of former i.m.f. bedroom and extra scar on the media satisfy their gluttonous taste with extreme
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passion only for the case to crumble i think there should be a media outlet 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 where as we call it as americans and since the one years old and i . this is getting now going this is really getting ugly the principals that the last ones prided itself in are either 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 citric in our party we are still to come in it to win it we take you to india where enterprise young people are turning small businesses into big profits. but first the march toward
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a reborn egypt has slowed to a crawl now interim leaders have said the strongest message yet that they're not doing enough with tens of thousands turning out for the biggest protests in demonstrators filled tahrir square in cairo and gathered in other cities i read the interim government's dragging its heels on the reforms demanded when they toppled president mubarak gyptian are also frustrated at the slow pace of prosecuting senior officials and police officers accused of brutality during february as uprising put them in the dark shadow still looms large international relations professor not on and 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 and his family and closest cruize have to be 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 time trial we have the members of the military ruling council with his appointees
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to great extent across egypt people they will see that their local courts the local head of the biggest ration has changed so the 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 consensus it was a sure unemployment and so actually the process of getting rid of mubarak has made in the short term the economy worse how do things. 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 caught up. to one hundred people may have been killed in a series of explosions that shook the turkmenistan city of abidjan local media reports the blast happened and i mean asian people though the government continues to claim it was because of fireworks party card any editor of the human rights website in turkmenistan who gave us more details. it was started with
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a blast that was followed by a series of explosions at the town exploded on people immediately because 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 the down from the capital we knew the blast occurred at two ammunition depots and fire hasn't been extinguished yet there is one which can potentially blow up. officials 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 soldiers others are civilians many of them are children it's difficult to say how many people have been injured many apartment buildings schools and shops lying in ruins and there are cases of looting. the website chronicles of turkmenistan also reports about a total media blackout the country stayed channels showing entertainment programs instead of news bulletins meanwhile police are water to detain anyone who tries to take pictures or mobile phone footage of the affected area another website talks of
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crowds of children watering the streets searching for their parents many can't contact family and friends because of disrupted phone lines the cabinet held an emergency meeting on the situation but gave no details turkmenistan has long been a very secretive state with internet bad until recently. still to carlow drawing a line in intimately as on. the problems more of them to women. bride to be the good. with high profile sex scandals dominating front pages the resident in new york best unwanted attention. and in russia city migration causes villages to die out discover how to succeed even in the middle of nowhere. but first 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
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hundred sixty year old paper its last edition will be printed sunday earlier the tabloids former editor andy cole saying was released on bail he was out the paper what it allegedly intercepted phone calls from murder victims and dead soldiers families who later went on to become the prime minister's media aide he denies knowing about the hacking two other people were also arrested as public opinion is turned against the paper prime minister cameron has promised inquiries into press ethics and practices john gotti 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 are calling for a full public inquiry led by cameron has been dragged through this position he's now willing to let it happen six trini embarrassing for him he's part of what's called the chipping condom set which is a rural parts of britain he lives down there at the weekend rebecca brooks lives down there son colin nish lived down there was
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a whole set you kind of make socially that said it was a different set when labor in power which i would need good all over 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 that's made. ordinary people in britain their views have no really be represented in the newspapers or in the political arena last spot for democracy so david cameron should suffer investigate himself as far as i'm concerned i want would you employ a man who's already had three zinah of the 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
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democracy. the population of more than a billion and a growing economy opportunities are there for india's enterprising entrepreneurs and it's young people who are taking the initiative by turning their passions into profits preassure to reports they've got an eye on our culture as well as capitalism. downstairs in a dusty basement in jelly's okla neighborhood you'll find twenty six year old people 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 taps 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 a gap in the market there was the you know. quality offerings as far as this sports industry as a whole was concerned so. it's are there for the whole industry and right now
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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 the 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 or. going to do it every year. for a small percentage of them because. you know. it's going to. be already written isn't going to 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 vehicle and prestigious the younger generation is being innovation as key to the future according to the indian government the number of small and medium
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enterprises in this country is rising by fifteen per cent. while their peers in the us are struggling to find jobs during this financial crisis many leaders are encouraging their youth to continue to focus on innovation despite the on seattle times we know what it takes to compete for the jobs in. histories of our time we need to 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 it is short of art in. india. as far as you know vision who is going to produce what he would prove himself in india and the new startups. kumar and his fellow entrepreneurs admit 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 and you say you believe in something you don't get this is this is war
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as doesn't exist and i want to do something about it creating new jobs for their people while i trust in their countries needs preassure either r t new delhi india . during those and other stories making headlines across the globe there is a new country on the world map south sudan is now an independent state after decades of bloody civil war thousands are gathered to celebrate in the city of joy which is now the capital local and foreign dignitaries have been attending an independent ceremony at the muzzle there so sudan is a mainly christian region and struggled through years of conflict with the muslim north which left one and a half million people day. malaysia's biggest political demonstration in years has led to more than six hundred people are arrested in the capital the opposition rally was the culmination of weeks of pressure on the prime minister for electoral reforms that of national polls are expected next year police used tear gas to disperse crowds saying the protest was illegal the national front has been in power
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for almost six decades and there are growing calls for change. almost half a million people are taking to the streets in the syrian city of hama demanding president assad step down protest was filmed during a visit by the french and u.s. ambassadors that was strongly condemned by syrian authorities. meanwhile the u.s. has some in 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 the age of ninety three she was the widow of president gerald ford and found that there were now a drug and alcohol rehab clinic that bears her name or it was considered one of those invisible first ladies in the u.s. to be buried in michigan allowed inside her husband for whom she was married for almost sixty years. pakistani police and paracho you have been ordered to shoot on sight after three days of clashes there left eighty people dead but the islands that brought the city to
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a standstill is blamed on armed gangs or he's military contributor says stabilizing pakistan is a key to bringing peace to the region. here comes the new plan for the new u.s. policy for pakistan and afghanistan and when it comes to peace and security in afghanistan you have to think about pakistan what afghanistan needs right now has nothing to do with surging or the surging 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 the tribes and all the factions the only way to save afghanistan from narco pass he is to come down to the top level negotiations be the pakistani military to read employ the bulk of american ground forces from afghanistan to southern part of pakistan along their pakistan india and border and to lead the pakistani volunteer corps continued
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their position within our students that. there are some accusations that even if true or false can still prove fatal to a reputation for i.m.f. chief knows to his detriment. people in new york what this means for people's definition of when things go too far. is that cases of d.m.k. and silliness dons are getting a lot of coverage than it is do you think it's right for women or men to report anything actually encountered a feeling comfortable 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 words. yeah it's a it's a tough line between those two people with just two people it's impossible i think
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women should not get in situations i think there are lots of times that we put ourselves in situations and we have a messenger inside as that says get out of there and sometimes we don't listen to that message. she says no it's a no is the best thing for women and 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 to do so. whether. it's about money richard original poor girls 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 fight with women. and i think it's impossible to really say what's fair what's not at this point again we carry ari. so much i think in
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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 specialist tells the bottom line is that the rule no means no will always be a good one to follow and. you can find plenty more at our tea dot com here's what else is a click away right now anger at israel for stopping after this latest efforts to get aid to blockaded gaza as a car some two hundred people from flying in to tell the and of course of. a cosmic camera for the space station is scattered up plans to match every inch of the planet with high resolution results to me to argue for our video for. working in the countryside can be
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a breath of fresh air as we discovered today's russia closer. say we bring you two thousand kilometers east of moscow to the core guyana 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 fewer in number but the one place where residents have good reason to stay are things outside of work are reports. here we are in the village of caste. or grand reach or for the past santa 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.
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is there over the limit there is a choice to be started for a no show and lose thirty percent of them on salary i've got three kilometers and be docked ten percent of that month's wage those who do the testing every morning regardless of gender or position within the company could be but they will see it on their paycheck and that's a strong incentive not to drink you can week. and forced alcohol abstinence is the idea of these man alexander able to cough is the director of the still such plan and likes to extend his influence as far as possible and one of big ideas the dairy 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. the folly is a must it's the quality of the product they gave you this job in the first place and it's the quality that the germans were you. which after firing dozens of workers for showing up drunk at work lives understudied laughter in his employees
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on the harms of alcohol three times a day during the breaks you heard the holy roman emperor charlemagne so drunk for the first time should be beaten with a stick those called for the second time should be beaten in public schools for the third time should be hanged as a former boxer he's not shy about exercising his rule with an r in first 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 thoughts are no longer the issue. of the day the rules are very rigid and most people find it hard to comply but those who don't play about alexander's 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 has taken on a very wide notion of social responsibility using their clients' profits he paid
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a local roads renovated a school and built a church and while he agrees that modesty is a virtue it's fungus of giving guidance and advice is evident wherever he goes in you are what it doesn't matter that you come from a village what matters most is to get a good education think good we've got a good teachers and behave well that school is that clear. but this approach has divided villagers the majority believe alexander is a blessing and minority primarily those who he's fired are 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 it's a nasty in spreading it around some people call him a control freak others resort to more agricultural language he's a con and also include some local officials who believe that alexander has too much power that infringes on their own authority but the xander accuses them of not
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doing enough for the people run i asked him whether he'd like to run for office he's response was a resounding no. 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 me and found other people. will understand that i was doing it for the wrong good. many historians made the keys 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 alexandria case it seems to have proved efficient at santa boycott art see the village of. oregon region.
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first creamy removal cold of a clear cutting. second explosives are used to blast to go deeper than the fears. heard the remains are removed by machinery. finally the fundamental choice is because the judge in valley feel. hungry for the full story we've got it first the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers. wealthy british scientists i'm told some of us not on the right. mark. it's why not scandal and. find out what's really happening to the global
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economy in the kinds of reports on our. coast. has been in the year in iraq as a military journalist i saw some of the ways to go in the old u.s. contractors there's kind of wasting their time trying to get killed for you. are and. i thought all was willing to do stuff to be about five hundred miles a day which is the about twenty seven days in new killings of publicising people in the.
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