arrested on thursday fulfill a photojournalist one of them is now being released without charge turns out she is the wife of one of the three photojournalists that are being held in custody now of those story one works for the european press agency one is a personal photographer for president because saakashvili and another was attached to the georgian foreign ministry now all three were a pool of photojournalists were touched too because saakashvili they would have worked very closely with him and with his government though to all of those we're hearing that the the photojournalist from the european press agency and the. the personal photographer to be called saakashvili have confessed according to the georgian side on video to two espionage into having passed information to moscow now the journalist the photojournalist who works as the representative of the foreign ministry is apparently on a hunger strike denying any charges against him now the georgia authorities say

they searched the personal belongings of the hard drives of those that were detained and found detailed maps of the presidential residence and presidential compound and also they found a detailed schedule of the whereabouts of georgian president mikheil saakashvili so they those three are being held until they will face a closed doors trial in september. and russia often plays the role of the bad guy in georgian politics what's moscow's 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 mikheil saakashvili no they deny that they they have any involvement with these people and say that the georgians of being very quick to label east people spies without much evidence. respond to go with judges are so quick to stick a spy label on to him. i guess it's just

a level of democracy and it has been noticed not just by russia but by various key international organizations like the un more mature 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 well just last year we saw thirteen people arrested on charges of espionage and last week nineteen of those with charged with having passed information to moscow know they received senses between eleven and fourteen years this is provoked some reaction in the georgian meijer in the georgian opposition media a newspaper there today saying that what it sees as a witch hunt is currently 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 journalists are being targeted in this what they see as

a witch hunt by the georgian opposition themselves suggesting that. really is out to school point as it were politically by jumping in as the savior who. tracks 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 being a spy. person who is criticizing. regime all of them just beginning for me it's a very serious place we have russia friendly. to train. people and if you have a different point of view if you are supporters of a position as you have. a very high risk to lose their job to find finding drugs or ogg on so. this is

a typical soviet country modernized i call it modernized soviet union no bullshit which is the rulings right now in my country. there were georgia charges three photojournalists with espionage saying that they passed information to moscow. artie's peter all of our 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 dahlan 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 aggression starting from yesterday people began returning to the town fires have been 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 done are no longer in the state of panic but some are still looking for their family members and i can't say that the situation is calm in some remote regions people aren't aware of what's happened as they have no internet access some of perhaps unhappy as the would like the president to announce a state of mourning or express his condolences it seems that their thirty's 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 hold whether frankly speaking it's hard for me to toe therefore i

won't be drawing any conclusions as witnesses many servicemen who were guarding those will house us died in the fire. stay with us here are coming up later this hour guilty until proven innocent does page cover us criminal cases money 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 the crisis at the trouble 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 andy course and a former editor of the paper who also served as the prime minister's media chief the tabloids former royal correspondent was also arrested of 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 following 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 are calling for a full public inquiry led by a judge and cameron has been dragged into 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 at the weekend rebecca brooks lives down there certain columnist lived down there and there's a whole set you can to make socially that set was a different set when labor in power with tony 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 is 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 last bad for democracy so david cameron should start investigating himself as far as i'm concerned i want would you employ 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. you can have your say on that story on our website dot com in our latest online poll today we're asking you is shutting down news of the world the right decision thirty six percent say yes tabloids 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 musical world has been made a scapegoat. to stick with r.t. dot com also online a catwalk turns into a cat fight in central russia when a model. bumps into her colleague. and watch our interview with the daughter of charlie chaplin who talks about the ups 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's 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 that they're not doing enough with tens of thousands turning out for the biggest protests in months egyptians are also frustrated at the slow pace of prosecuting senior officials and police officers who are accused of brutality during february's uprising professor malkuth 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 hoped. the expectations that the full of mubarak could be followed by a change of regime hasn't really come about with barak and his family and closest cruize have be imprisoned or accused to. go on trial next month of all sorts of crimes against the people and against the interests of country but of course field marshal tantawi of the all the members of the military ruling council with his appointees to great extent across egypt people do see that their local boss the local head of the bin astray she has changed so there's a sense that the old regime was decapitated but minus mubarak it's still in power

ironically one of the big reasons for the revolution people's economic discontent social this contentious it were taken about unemployment and so on 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 and so on are rising and egypt is essentially important u.s. media has come under fire for its reporting of a number of high profile criminal trials as are his 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 subjects being sat down in the street and an obsessive kind of way fifty shots sixty sets laying

on our stomach 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 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 a media frenzy devouring some cases and not others i finally did before that i see it as guilty until proven guilty in these cases government is changing the laws sam and is a former white collar convict who knows the criminal justice systems discrepancies inside and out i have while on the road to yours. covering up my crimes when i decided to cooperate with the head it took the feds 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 warfare 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 the most 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 not guilty take the not guilty verdict in the casey anthony murder case involving her two year old daughter the court of public opinion remains split from the court of justice all thanks to nonstop media coverage of the case for the past three years. it's crazy and i think it's great they have been chipped and they did it but from the media assume she was going to go. in the case of former i.m.f. head dominique strauss kahn the media satisfied their gluttonous taste with extreme

passion only for the case to crumble i think there should be a. media outlets are required to play your exoneration up as big and as long as your accusation this is rarely the case as dubious practices in the criminal justice system spread so does the finger pointing and questioning the future of human rights in the us where as we go in as americans i'm fifty one years old and i'm like oh. this is getting now going this is really getting ugly the principles that the u.s. once prided itself on are your fire suspects having to fight their battles publicly from the minute they are arrested and attempts to prove their innocence underlining that the discrepancies in the u.s. criminal justice system are alive and kicking in this in turn out to be on. still to come this hour the resident asks people in new york about the law on a rape and when things go too far. this is

a. good signal that the same for women and for man 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 kuala lumpur 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. and 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 fin 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. time now for our russia close up to take you on a journey two thousand kilometers east of moscow. welcome to the core guyana 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 in fact entire villages are becoming ghost towns as people move to cities are these acts on a boycott are managed by one place where residents have a good reason to stay here we are in the village of chast. or grande region and for the past to an hour 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 my 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 drink if you knew working week. enforce the 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 very epitome 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 it is a must it's the quality of the product that gave you this job in the first place and it's the quality that determines whether you'll keep it which after firing dozens of workers for showing up drunk at work xander started lateran his employees on the harms of all the hall three times a day during the breaks you got the holy roman emperor charlemagne said the drunk for the first time should be beaten with a stick those court for the second time should need beaten in public. should be hanged 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 with dozens of video cameras around the facility employees have no chance to circumvent the law of big brother on the outside and no longer the issue. there is a very rigid and 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 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 at 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 on not as impressed. as the old saying goes one man's meat is another man's poison not everybody in this village appreciates the xander philosophy that he's tenacity in spreading it around some people call him a control freak others resort to more agricultural language his opponents also include some local officials who believe that alexander has too much power that infringes on their own authority the bill xander accuses them of not doing enough for the people when i 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 purpose of power is to create to make life around you better and in this regard i have all the power that i need that's for the. 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 their own good. many historians make the case that russians prefer authoritarian leaders and that 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 while as you can see this little village has really become an and general growth for the entire region attracting dozens and even hundreds of people from all other settlements bigger cities and even now the countries we are now joined by your going schwing join businessman who works for a danish company trading in mid cultures thank you for your time you're going as far as i understand the majority of your business in russia centered on moscow and st petersburg big you see. here we are in the middle. no warning in siberia what

are your initial impressions so far i'm very impressed the first time. in the village really on the countryside it looks really like a fifty sixty. something like this i know that you had a chance to get to know xander the big boss here and he's very charismatic person who cares not only about the quality of products but about the lifestyle of . employees. i'm sure your. alcohol. 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 leave your lives i mean this is certainly an intrusion on somebody's privacy what do you think about that that's true and the first time the first time i was really very impressed but it's

a very nice to. push the people in this direction and to improve fear infrastructure and to support the people and 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 proved false mud sticks and the allegations them selves can be enough to destroy careers. are resident in new york i asked people what they think about the thorny issue of the law on sex crimes. the sexual assault cases of d s k angelina sons 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 first time travel leave and the second rule is all men abbasids until proven otherwise if she feels that she's been violated i think reporting is

the best idea and how that plays out you know that that's how that plays out the reporting is should be a woman's instinct at what point does it cross over to consent or just for taishan . yeah it's a it's a tough line between those two people with just two people it's impossible i think women should not get in situations i think there are lots of times that we put ourselves in situations and we have a messenger insiders that says get out of there and sometimes we don't listen to that message one says no or she says no it's a no no is it the same for women as for man one hundred percent. so why do we treat it more as a woman is a shame because it happens more often to women. but men have a pride to go sort of a hold of. the bar money rich girl rich and poor guys for. so is this just another way for women to get rich. so do you think it's fair that the law

generally tends to side with women. and i think it's impossible to really say what's fair what's not at this point again like ari ari is of what's fair 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 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. stay with us coming up moscow outsports entering top of our top stories stay with us.

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guilt but skeptics say it's part of the government's agenda to. hysteria. it's feared hundreds of people have been killed in the. confusion as state officials say there were no fatalities human rights groups were reported that. blew up but the government says it was a. british tabloid accused of hacking into. expected to deal with the crisis before the. last edition goes to print with the number of arrests already made the hundred sixty year old newspaper is now facing claims that it's meddled with evidence. and coming up we continue our journey around russia as martin andrews takes us on a tour of st petersburg that's coming your way.