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on the. video on demand. for you. tonight on r t in the latest chapter of the georgian spy sar here high profile photographers are in the spotlight as the police accuses them of working for moscow . while georgia claims the video called fish in skeptics inside the country say their government is only trying to drum up until russia hysteria more not in a few minutes. it's true hundreds of people have been killed in a blast in turkmenistan but there's confusion a state official saying there were no fatalities. and murdoch's crumbling empire the owner of the british tabloid accused of hacking into the phones of
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murder victims is rushing to london to take charge of the escalating prices as police make arrests. this is r t welcome. here this saturday night in moscow having zero in on 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 the three men have now been charged with spying after being arrested on thursday our correspondent peter all of us following the story for us. initially there were four photojournalists arrested on thursday one of those has now been released without charge over the three that remain in custody are all pool reporters meaning that they had very close quarters contact with the president of georgia because saakashvili we are hearing this one of those who are is in custody has confessed on
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video to having been a spy to be sending information to moscow and in that video confession he is in the case it's one of those three are in custody now with regard to the third member of the team he's believed to be on a hunger strike denying any charges against him now the reason they were charged this comes after their their personal hard drives we see stuns detailed maps of the presidential compound and presidential goings on the the the daily schedule all of mikheil saakashvili was found on that hard drive this resulted in the charges being leveled against them no they will remain in custody until september when they will face a closed doors trial but russia is accused of being a little quick on the truth when it comes to labeling people spies they say that there isn't enough evidence to link these people to to moscow and says that the russians aren't the only people that think that russia has jumped the gun
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a few times on labeling people spies. anyone i guess is just. by russia various key international organizations like the u.n. move last year we saw thirteen people arrested on espionage charges now nine of those were found guilty just last week and hunted down sentences ranging between eleven years and fourteen years now in torture itself there has been. an outcry against this we're hearing from a georgian daily newspaper they say of what they determine to be determined to be a witch hunt going on against him. anybody who opposes because saakashvili they say that the salt off it was businessman that it was politicians and scientists in utah get all this which is journalists do it your position say saakashvili is trying to use these these spy saugus as it would stoop to try and put himself across as
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a hero in school political points you are or are certainly. you are. you are. he wanted to. bet is no simple. words because those it. into a russian who's never just. criticize the areas like my. space and they say this anybody who runs the risk of having themselves labeled as spite and having a bad reputation brought a drug through the mud like that should they stand up against saakashvili. correspond paper all over they were george's opposition needed an approach a nazi told us about tavi evidence the authorities are claiming they've got could have been obtained under pressure. it's not the size cage one person who always. he's giving french kind of explanation they specially we had to take into account
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that she was not the only parties wife too and they have a very small child wife but have been released out busy. with the week program mentioned are difficult for me to say one hundred percent what is behind of that. situation enjoy a good time to time we are receiving such scandals these condos have no real legal outcomes and we never saw any kind of real that human patients that government is paying right now government decided to hire a journalist she's quite symbolical because governments are trying just to control everybody and everything until now we didn't even know one of the did. the words government thing. going to have autonomy problems when you have problems with social and health care when you have a problem with. mentary a rule of law and the rights of people when you love your country twenty percent to
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thirty thirty. i'm a good question but it is responsibility you should find somebody who will be in everything we confront in the country because the old police. just quite easy to play russian and unique and everything would be wrong to keep the country russian so separate she creating things i cannot say you need. trying to link everybody who is against him or against the regime and we fighting for real democracy in this country she is trying to sleep with russian. as for the run two hundred people could have been killed in a series of explosions that shook the city of up or down in turkmenistan some local reports say the blast happened. although the government continues to claim it was a fireworks factory state officials haven't confirmed any casualties the affected areas cordoned off and closed for entry police are being ordered to detain anyone who tries to take pictures or mobile phone footage of the site many people can't
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contact their families and friends because the destruction of telephone lines the special governmental commission has reportedly been set up best a gate explosion turkmenistan has long been a very secretive state with the internet banned until recently r.t. contacted the editor of human rights website in turkmenistan and gave information. to the russian russia starting from yesterday people began returning to the town for you to have been put up to the local snow 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 and 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 aren't aware of what's happened as they have no internet access some are unhappy as they would like the president to announce
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a state of mourning or express his condolences it seems that there are forty sons willing to admit that there are casualties there's no official theory as to the causes of the explosion and usually there was an opinion that if i happened because of a very hot weather frankly speaking it's hard for me to tell therefore i won't be drawing any conclusions as for witnesses many servicemen who were guarding those warehouse died in the fire. it was later this hour for you guilty until proven innocent does the front page coverage of u.s. criminal cases muddying the waters of the justice system we will report on concerns . many trials of the prejudice that's coming out shortly for you also find out how young indian businessmen are looking to inspire and innovate as they forge a path away from the country's longstanding culture. the owner of the news the world rupert murdoch is due to fly in to london to confront the crisis of this troubled british tabloid police and investigating the deletion of millions of
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e-mails that were potentially valuable evidence of the phone hacking scandal their papers accuse of snooping on the phone messages of politicians celebrities and victims of crime a number of arrests were made on friday including that of andy cools and a former editor of the paper was also served as the prime minister's media chief the tabloids former royal correspondent was honest arrested both men were later released on bail the prime minister's announced two independent public inquiries as a result of the scandal this is news of the world staff are preparing for its final edition this sunday following the announcement it's to close let's go to john gaunt who used to work for one of murdoch's newspapers he told 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 into this position he's now willing to let it happen six three million virus are in for at least part of what's called the chipping can don't separate into a rural part of britain he lives down there at the weekend regretted brooks lives down there cern colonist lives down there and the whole set you can to make
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socially that set was a different set when labor in power which only blair got 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 last may not all unary people in britain their views have not really been represented either in the newspapers or in the political arena laughs but for democracy so david cameron should start investigating himself as far as i'm concerned and why 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 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
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democracy. where you can have your say on that story on our website r t dot com in our latest polling today we're asking is shutting down the news the world right decision what you think about it over half of you so far said yes this is right decision because you think rupert murdoch's media government should be handed eighteen percent as you can see on the chart there also say yes but for the reason that such tabloids are an embarrassment to the british media eighteen percent of you believing the news of the world was made a scapegoat and ten percent think of wrong decision to pay for current staff should be punished also online while you've heard tonight a couple turns into a cat. fights in central russia off they go when our model trips up and bumps into world partly i think. and watch our interview with the daughter of charlie chaplin who talks about the ups and downs of life as an actor.
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the us media has come under fire for its reporting of a number of high profile criminal trials to be the case of a single mother casey anthony acquitted of murdering her two year old child earlier this week but at the center of heated debate for years that is that is aniston see a check of the reports next there are concerns that public opinions on julie 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. 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 breeding suspects into
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offenses in cases of entrapment entrapment is not illegal 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 had 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 a penis it's going to be a huge headlines on page one when you exonerated it's on page twenty seven below the fold to column which is your neighbor somehow didn't manage to catch it that day surgery 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 the court of public opinion remains split from a court of justice all thanks to nonstarter media coverage of the case for the past
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three years. i think it's great if you can't really get it from the media is going to go. in the case of former i.m.f. head dominique strauss kahn the media satisfy their likeness taste stream passion only for the case to crumble i think there should be a. new 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 call in as americans also it's why news oh and i'm like well. this is getting that going this is really good the principles that the u.s. wants prided itself in our fire suspects of having to fight their battles publicly the minute they are arrested in attempts to prove their innocence underlining the discrepancies in the u.s.
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criminal justice system are alive and kicking the citric out party we are. still to come this hour heading east we take you to the cool gallery in southern siberia place from entrepreneur singer fighting for his sobriety and better lifestyle more that later and then also this too. with messing about on the river just outside moscow why am i in a wetsuit to find out in just a few minutes. indeed we will next hour with a population of over a billion india is a promising platform for entrepreneurship but young indian businessmen have to rely on the creativity and innovation to find new ways of making profit as artie's pretty strict. 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 weak but it's one of the offices kamar uses to make sporting equipment including tents
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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 all things as far as the boards the industry as a whole was concerned so. it's are there for the whole industry and right now he's the number one guy in india doing it in the short time his company's 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 even if
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a small percentage of them because i you know i don't think it's going to produce. 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 and engineering as able 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 percent. while their peers in the west are struggling to find jobs during this financial crisis many leaders are encouraging their youth to continue to focus on innovation despite the unstable times we know what it takes to compete for the jobs and industries of our time. we need to out innovate out educate and outbuild the rest of the world thank it's a person somebody it could shift the power dynamics in the world. in.
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those going to those who are able to prove themselves in india and remain startups are really really good chance of succeeding in the global stage kumaran a spell entrepreneur is admit 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. you believed in something you thought they'd look at this is this is what doesn't exist and i want to do something about it creating new jobs for their people while i dressed in their countries mean it's preassure either r t new delhi india. also making headlines so sudan has become the world's newest nation following separation from the north thousands of people are taking part in massive massive sort of break ins in the city of juba the capital of a new state however the two separated countries have not yet reached an agreement on their borders natural resources all the status of the citizens clashes of disputes still continue some areas in
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a lazy police fired tear gas and rested up to sixteen hundred activists thousands gathered across the capital column was detained including several senior opposition officials a protest which is the country's biggest political rally in years was the culmination of weeks of pressure on the prime minister to form head of national polls expected next year the national front spinning power from the six decades now and growing calls. japan's prime there has announced that it will take up to twenty years to clean up after the fukushima nuclear disaster it is the first time the government's given an indication of how long the operation may take emergency measures are continuing as they try to shut down the reactors to prevent further radiation leaks the fukushima plant reactors went into meltdown when they were hit by the earthquake and tsunami and march thousands of people have left the area and the facility over safety. time now to take you around russia again closer. to take you on
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a journey that's two thousand kilometers east of moscow we go. and we welcome you to the could go on region there is a map located at the very tip of southern siberia the mountains untouched landscapes of the battle beauty of not so appealing to many of its residents in fact entire villages becoming ghost towns as young people. things are done a boy devoted to find one place where the residents have a good reason to stay is taken with them. here we are in the village of castor. grande region and put it 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 casting the incoming employees for alcohol.
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if they're all going to limit there is a choice to be started for a no show and lose thirty percent of them on salary i jumped three kilometers and be docked tamper sound 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 the paycheck and that's a strong incentive not to drink. weak. enforced alcohol abstinence is the idea of these man alexander to cause is the director of the still such plan and lives to extend his influence as far as possible and out of big ideas he had the 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 the quality is a must it's the quality of the product they give you this job in the first choice
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and it's the quality that determines whether you will keep after firing dozens of workers for showing up drunk at work lives understudied laughter in his employees on the harms of all the whole three times a day during breaks you heard the holy roman emperor charlemagne so drunk for the first time should be beaten with a stick and those called for the second time should be beaten in public court for the third time should be heard and as a former boxer he's not shy about exercising his rule with an r in face and has built his version of the iron curtain around his plan with dozens of video cameras around the facility employees have no chance to circumvent the law of big brother on the outside there are no longer the. although there is a very rigid and most people find it hard to comply but those who don't believe 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
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thousand people has taken on a very wide notion of social responsibility using the plants profits he made a local roads renovated a school and will pick church and while he agrees that modesty is a virtue it's fungus of giving guidance and advice is evident whatever he goes in you are but it doesn't matter that you come from a village what matters most is to get a good education then good we've got a good teachers and behave we'll leave 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 that everybody in this village appreciates the exalted philosophy and he's too nasty in spreading it around some people call him a control freak others to resort to more agricultural language his opponents also
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include some local officials who believe their goal xander 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. 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 that's fully are influenced i think every successful activity requires discipline strict discipline and it starts with me instead of weeding for somebody to come and do something myself i mean people. understand that i was doing it for the wrong good. many historians made the keys that russians prefer authoritarian leaders and tackling to deep problems that alcohol addiction and rural isolation need street discipline and total control good or bad in alexander's case it seems to have
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proved efficient at sonny boy r t the village of. oregon region one character next sports enthusiasts are flocking to the outskirts of bosco to buy a good bargain to this week your some speedboats are changing hands of the annual marine fair where one of the sales of bio so used wessels tom foreman swapped his work so for a wetsuit. if you're thinking about russia you're probably thinking about an awful lot of land but there's also an awful lot of water here and is this event today world on the outskirts of moscow which is trying to show all the fun you could have around the water in russia there are three types of people who come to this event today first of all the look surest types they're here to look at to try out and maybe to buy books like. we're looking at a price tag of about half a million euros and up but inside no expense spared we had a look around some of these folks and on in the inside they really are on the jury
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is sunlight second time and people here allegedly people they've come here to relax on the banks they've come here to drink cocktails in the sun and to watch the first time people be active people they've committed to take part in a lot of the competitions here the sporting events wakeboarding the surfing competitions and they've come to try and show that you can have a lot of fun and be active in the water i'm here to try and show that too by doing this. while travelling can show up a good can happen in the hope that it will shine i'm going to go on the boat now i'm going up to try myself clear.
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slightly less than graceful i know you did say just over a quarter of now with your saturday night sports update discover who will be leading the way to forty one british grand prix tomorrow also is out since a time when coming up. so next time for looks inside here on our team from moscow with me kevin out. on.
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