no but still should image even if. the sea is libyan skies. historical who tells of its geek culture in the city. schools malls. may do as a good up until he strove for mr to become the hutto. latest chapter of the joys and spy saga high profile photographers in the spotlight as the police he uses them of working for moscow. russia accuses georgia of being too quick to drool when it comes to labeling people spice. it's feared hundreds of people have been killed in a blast in turkmenistan but there is confusion as state officials say there were no paid taliban. and a crumbling empire the owner of a british tabloid accused of hacking into tones of murder victims expected in london to deal with a crisis before the last edition goes to print. four

pm in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story the georgian government says high profile photographers arrested this week were linked to russian special services and passed on secret information to them if three men have now been charged with spying after being arrested thursday for more we go live to our correspondent peter all over following the story. peter so tell us more about the accusations that are made against these photos well they were just full of people arrested on thursday pull up photo journalists one of them has now been released without charge now it turns out she's life full of one of the three photojournalists that of being held in custody now of those three would slow the european press agency one is a personal photographer for president. saakashvili and another was attached to the

georgian foreign ministry now all three would pool. journalists were attached to it because saakashvili they would work very closely with him and with his government now two of those we are hearing that the the photo journalist from the european press agency and. the personal photographer to be called saakashvili has confessed according to the georgian side on video to air to espionage and to having passed information to moscow now the children in the photo journalist who works as the representative of the foreign ministry is occurring on hunger strike denying any charges against him now the georgia authorities say they searched the personal belongings and the hard drives over those that were detained and found detailed maps of the presidential residence and presidential compound and also they found a detailed stage will all the way rip out hole for georgian president mikheil saakashvili so they those three are being held until they will face

a closed doors trial in september. russia often plays the role of the bad guy in georgian politics what's not take on this you have to look at it from the russian side they're having the finger pointed out them of having spies in the pool reporters working as i say very closely with georgian president because saakashvili no they deny that they have been in both and with these people and say that the georgians are being very quick to label least people spies without much evidence. response team here people would judge. anyone i guess is just a little. bit and it has been noticed not just by russia but various key. person for the foreign ministry there suggesting that georgia had been a little quick to say that the people in custody were spies working for russia. and

we've seen something of a pattern here in georgia accusing its citizens and other people about being spies tell us more about that. just last year we saw thirteen people arrested on charges of espionage and last week nine of those which charged with having passed information to moscow though they received senses between eleven and fourteen years this is provoked some reaction in the georgian media in the georgian opposition media a newspaper there today saying what it sees as a witch hunt going on in the country they say that first off it was any business people that oppose the saakashvili government that it was politicians scientists and now journalists are being targeted in this what they see as a witch hunt by the georgian opposition themselves suggesting that because saakashvili is out to school point says they were politically by jumping in as the savior who catches a truck spy rings but they say it is anybody who opposes saakashvili runs the risk

of having their reputation tarnished and being brought down on charges of pincus. by. every person who is criticizing saakashvili he said regime all of them just beginning for me it's a very serious place. itself russia bramley you know we are just trading in the news of the people and if you have a different point of view if you are supposed to suffer a position you have huge increase very high risk he'll lose their job to find to find in your pockets drugs or god so this is a typical soviet country modernized i call it modernized soviet union. which is the ruling like now in my country. georgia charges three full two journalists with espionage saying that they passed information to moscow. or to peter over reporting

live for us in moscow thanks for that. it's fear that around two hundred people may have been killed in a series of explosions that shook the city of abidjan in turkmenistan some local reports say the blast happened at an ammunition depot though the government continues to claim it was a fireworks factory state officials have not confirmed any casualties meanwhile police are water to detain anyone who tries to take photos or mobile phone footage of the affected area many people can't contact family and friends because of disruption to phone lines the cabinet has held an emergency meeting on the situation but given no details turkmenistan has long been a very secretive state with the internet banned until recently r.t. contacted the editor of human rights website there who gave us the latest information. to the russian russia starting from yesterday people began returning to the town fires have been put up to the local so no helping soldiers to clean up according to reports the number of casualties and those who died because of injuries has reached nine hundred but we have to verify this information i cannot

guarantee its reliability but it's certainly more than two hundred people many died in hospital the residents of about dan are no longer in a state of panic but some are still looking for their family members and i can say that the situation is calm in some remote regions people aware of what's happened as they have no internet access some of perhaps unhappy as the good life the president to announce a state of mourning or express his condolences it seems that there for just aren't willing to admit that there are casualties there's no official theory as to the causes of the explosion initially there was an opinion that the fire happened because of very halts whether for entry speaking it's hard for me to tell therefore i'm going to draw any conclusions as witnesses many servicemen who were guarding those warehouses in the fire. stay with us here are coming up later this hour guilty till proven innocent does front page coverage of u.s. criminal cases muddy the waters of the criminal justice system we report on

concerns that trials might. incredulous. first though the owner of the news of the world rupert murdoch is due to fly to london to confront a crisis of a troubled british tabloid police are now investigating the deletion of millions of e-mails that were potentially valuable evidence in a phone hacking scandal the paper is accused of snooping on the phone messages of politicians celebrities and crime victims a number of arrests were made friday including that of any course in a former editor of the paper who also served as the prime minister's media changed tabloids former royal correspondent was also arrested and both men later released on bail the prime minister has announced to independent public inquiries as a result of the scandal meanwhile the news of the world staff is preparing for its final edition sunday farley announcement that it will close john gardner who used to work for one of murdoch's papers says the media and political circles in the u.k. are too close. 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 part of britain he lives down there at the weekend rebecca brooks lives down there soon colin is live down there i was a whole set yukon and rick socially that said it was a different set when labor in power would try to blair 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 that's made no ordinary people in britain their views have not really be represented either in the newspapers or in the political arena laughs but for democracy so david cameron should start to investigate instead of let's far as i'm concerned i'll go on would you employ

a man who's already had. to resign over the phone hacking allegations why would you take him to the heart of government where he could about access to top secrets and information if the sorry sorry that you let me tell you not just for the british press but the british democracy you could have your say on that story on our website r t dot com in our latest poll they were asking you is shutting down news of the world the right this is a thirty six percent say yes cowboys are an embarrassment to the british media twenty nine percent also say yes but for the reason that they think rupert murdoch's media dominance should be put to an end twenty one percent believe it's the wrong decision in the papers stop shouldn't be punished fourteen percent of the needs of the world has been made a scapegoat. stick with r.t. dot com also online a catwalk turns into a cat fight in central russia when a model and bumps into her colleague. and watch our interview with the

daughter of charlie chaplin who talks about the house and downs of life as an. egypt is slowly returning to normal after friday's demonstrations filled tahrir square in cairo and other cities there is huge public anger at the interim government that's dragging its heels on the reforms demanded when the people toppled president mubarak the interim leaders have been sent the strongest message yet but they're not doing enough with tens of thousands turning out for the biggest protests in months egyptians are also frustrated that the slow pace of prosecuting senior officials and police officers who are accused of the taliban during february uprising professor mulford mark almond from oxford university says the revolution

has only added to egypt's economic woes and has not. brought about the change that people had. the expectations that the fall of mubarak would be followed by a change of regime hasn't really come about and the barak and his family and closest crew nice have even 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 with his appointees to great extent across egypt people do see that the 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 is the social this contentious it was a show of unemployment and so actually the process of getting rid of mubarak has made in the short term the economy worse and i do think really there's an easy

answer to egypt's economic problems because global oil prices global food prices are rising and egypt is essentially imports the u.s. media has come under fire for its reporting of a number of high profile criminal trials sarkies honest r.c. churkin reports there are concerns that public opinion might be unduly swayed by the headlines rather than the evidence. 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. being sat down in the street and an obsessive kind of way fifty shots sixty sets laying on our stomachs in our back as we run or as we walk or flee to beating suspects into offenses in cases of entrapment entrapment is not legal in traveling is getting someone to do something that they would normally do to perp walks read suspects in

handcuffs for the world to see. to a media frenzy devouring some cases and not others a family and be thought of as guilty until proven guilty in these cases the government is changing the laws sam and tar is a former white collar convict and knows the criminal justice systems discrepancies inside and out i had while on the road two years probably not mike winds. when i decided to. read it took two more years. now a teacher he says media coverage also affects the jury pool they see an 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 therefore 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 penis it's going to be the 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 that day surgery would still thinks you're a child molester not guilty to 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 she's guilty of. treason and i think it's great that except they did it with from the media is when she was going to go to in the case of former i.m.f. head dominique strauss kahn the media satisfied their life in this case with extreme passion only for the case to crumble i think there should be a. few 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 u.s. where is we calling as americans i would say it's the one news oh and i'm like well . this is getting now going this is really good the principles that the u.s. once prided itself in our fire suspects from having to fight their battles publicly the minute they are arrested and attempts to prove their innocence underlining the discrepancies in the u.s. criminal justice system our lives completely miss it turned out hard to. still to come this hour the resident asks people in new york about the law on the rape and when things go to. one says mold she says little did some know it does the same for women and one hundred percent. turnout of some other stories making headlines across the globe south sudan has become the world's newest country following separation from the north thousands

have taken part in massive celebrations in the city of juba the capital of the new country but the two separated nations have not yet reached an agreement on borders natural resources or the status of their citizens clashes over disputed territories still continue in some areas. in malaysia police fired tear gas and arrested more than sixteen hundred activists as thousands gathered across the capital for those detained include several senior opposition officials the protest that was the country's biggest political rally in years was the culmination of weeks of pressure on the prime minister demanding electoral reforms ahead of next of national polls next year the national front has been in power for almost six decades and there are growing calls for change. italian appeals court has ordered prime minister silvio berlusconi's holding company to pay five hundred sixty million euros damages to a rival media company over bribery accusations back in one thousand nine hundred

one berlusconi's firm then invest paid a bribe to gain control of the biggest publishing company in italy which used to belong to its rival c.i.r. media group the takeover was approved by a judge who was later sentenced for corruption. prime now for russia close up to take you on a journey two thousand kilometers east of moscow. welcome to the core garner region located in southern siberia it's home to the mountains and untouched landscapes but the natural beauty of corrigan is not appealing to many of its residents and entire villages are becoming ghost towns as people move to cities or he's next on a boycott all managed by one place where residents have a good reason to stay. here we are in the village of cast. grand reacher and for the past santa fifteen years its population has been steadily

increasing here's the reason why it's monday morning and alexander a former prison guard is it's work testing the incoming employees for alcohol. so they're over the limit there is a choice to be started for no show and lose thirty percent of them on salary are job 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 cool but they will see it on their paycheck and that's a strong incentive not to dream working week. enforcement alcohol abstinence is the idea of this man alexander yield to cost is the director of the still such plan and likes to extend his influence as far as possible and i have big ideas to be a very it be to me of micromanagement 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 the first place and it's the quality that determines whether you'll keep it which after firing dozens of workers for showing up drunk at work xander started lecturing his employees on the harms of alcohol three times a day during breaks you got the holy roman emperor charlemagne said drunk for the first time should be beaten with a stick those court for the second time should be beaten and probably. should be hanged as a former boxer he's not shy about exercising his rule with an r in first and has built his version of the iron curtain around his plan the dozens of video cameras around the facility employees have no chance to circumvent the law of big brother on the outside there are no longer the issue. of the day there is a very rigid and most people find it hard to comply but those who don't play by

alexander's rules for here. alexander's drive 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 the plants profits he paid 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 whatever 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 villagers the majority believe alexander is a blessing or a minority and primarily those who he's fired are 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 and he's tenacity in spreading it around some people call him a control freak others to resort to more great cultural language his opponents also include some local officials who believe that alexander has too much power that infringes on their own authority that alexander 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. 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 they 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 and me offend other people. understand that i was doing it for the wrong good. many historians made the case that russians prefer authoritarian leaders and attack

minded the problems of alcohol addiction and rural isolation need street discipline and total control good or bad in the xander space it seems to have proved efficient well as you can see this little village has really become an aunt jane of growth for the entire region attracting dozens and even hundreds of people from all there are subtle minds bigger cities and even now the country we are now joined by european schwing drawn businessman who works for a danish company trading in many 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 begin to see. here we are in the middle. no worry in siberia what are your initial impressions so far i am very of. this is my first time. in the village really on the countryside it looks really like fifty sixty. some something like this i know you had

a chance to get to know xander 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. employees. i'm sure your. alcohol to 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 with you on how you should lead your lives i mean this is certainly an intrusion on somebody's privacy what do you think about that that's true the first time and. really very impressed but it's very nice to. push the people in this direction and who fear infrastructure and support the people who for better life it's a very very good idea. no matter what position you hold in society there are some accusations that reputation forever even if true false mud sticks and the

allegations themselves can be tough destroyed careers. our resident in new york ask people what they think about the thorny issue of sex crimes. the sexual assault cases of d s k angelina's fans 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 there are two rules this time trouble leave and the second rule is oh man a pasta till proven otherwise if she feels that she's been violated i think recording is the best idea and how that plays out you know that that's how that plays out but recording is should be a woman's instinct at what point does it cross over to consider just for taishan. yes so 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 one says no or she says no it's a no no zone is because they aim for women and for man one hundred percent. so why do we treat it more as a woman's issue because of happens more often to women. but men have a private also look at us older brother. it's about money rich village in the programs 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. and i think it's impossible to really say what's fair or what's not at this point again we carry our eight years of what it's fair to use and 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 lines of sexual assault the bottom line is that the rule no means no will always be a good one to follow. stay with us coming up moscow outsports entering top of our top stories stay with us. all the way.

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