various key international organizations like the u.s. lost two people arrested on espionage charges now nine of those were found guilty just last week and hunted down sentences ranging between eleven years and full. itself. against this we're hearing. of what they say. to be a witch hunt going on against anybody who opposes because saakashvili they say that to start off it was businessmen. politicians scientists in utah get this which journalists should say. is trying to use these spy saugus as it would stoop to try and put himself across as a hero in school political points you are. using. you are very very you are moving into lot of group or group that is going to group to

control the world. because those who truly do not really the entire russian t.v. never produce or criticize the words life were. and they say that anybody runs the risk of having themselves labeled a spotlight and having their reputation brought the drug through the mud like that should they stand up against saakashvili or his peter oliver reporting for us there now sticking with the story opposition leader. told our t.v. evidence the authorities are claiming they've got could have been obtained under pressure. it's not just education one person who always on the right has is giving such kind of explanations they specially we had to take into account that she was arrested not only himself but his wife too and they have a very small child to live but have been released after three. weeks with

a group mentioned so of course it's like this before me to say one hundred percent what is behind us that bad situations i'd enjoy a good time to time with everything had candles but these condos had no real legal outcomes and we never saw any kind of real human patients that government you think right now government decided to read journalist she's terrified to go to court because the government we're trying to control everybody and everything until now we didn't just keep even one that we didn't. know what some of the existing refused to really see when you have a kind of mix up with the side when you have problems with social and health care when you have a problem we. mentary a rule of law and the rights of the people when you lost your country twenty percent to thirty thirty because of the old and they get caught then but it is responsible like you should find somebody who will be guilty in everything which is wrong in the country big very old police pull technique and basically it's just

quite easy to explain just russians and me and everything would be wrong to keep the country linked with russian so suck us recreating please i cannot say i mean me and trying to delete everybody who's they gave him a lawyer gave he's a regime and who is fighting for real democracy in this country he's trying to link was russian. it's a fear and that around two hundred people may have been killed in a series of explosions that shook the city of a down in turkmenistan some local reports say the blast happened at a munitions depot though the government continues to claim it was a fireworks factory state officials have not confirmed any casualties the affected area is close to the public and police are stopping anyone from filming or taking pictures many people can't contact their family or friends because of the disruption to telephone lines a special government commission has reportedly now been set up to investigate the

incident turkmenistan has long been a very secretive state with the internet banned until recently our team contacted the editor of human rights website in turkmenistan who gave us his latest information. but it didn't match your question starting from yesterday people began returning to the town fires 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 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 common in some remote regions people aren't aware of what's happened as they have no internet access some of perhaps unhappy as they would like the president to announce a state of mourning or express his condolences it seems that their forties 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 hot weather frankly speaking it's hard for me to tell therefore i won't be drawing any conclusions as four witnesses many servicemen who were guarding those warehouses died in the fire. and you are with r t coming up later this hour guilty until proven innocent does the front page of coverage of u.s. criminal cases that may. the waters of the justice system we report on concerns that many trials are being prejudiced plus. the owner of the news of the world rupert murdoch is due to fly into london to confront the crisis at his troubled british tabloid police are now investigating the deletion of millions of e-mails that were potentially valuable evidence in the phone hacking scandal the paper is accused of snooping on the phone messages of politicians celebrities and victims of crime a number of arrests were made on friday including about of andy coulson

a former editor of the paper who has also served as the prime minister's money to the chief the tabloids a former royal correspondent was also arrested both men were later released on bail the prime minister has announced a two independent public inquiries as a result of the scandal meanwhile news of the world staff are preparing for its final edition this sunday following the announcement it's too close john gaunt who used to work for one of murdoch's newspapers says media and political circles in the u.k. are too close. they've closed down the news the world so up to five hundred people have lost their jobs and most of these people were not all known to use the world when these allegations of hacking happened because what's going to happen now is the free press in the united kingdom which is something we really pride ourselves on there's a real danger now we're going to get overregulation by the government as a direct result of this of part of its behavior by some journalists on the news of the world and also is

a major problem because i think that successive governments in britain but the labor government are in control before and now david cameron the conservatives have been too damn close to rupert murdoch and other newspaper proprietors but all of that is too cozy and you're comfortable if you don't have a real democracy you have to have a separation between the press surely i mean daily the political establishment. and the governments of the day you also need to have separation between the judiciary in those two areas in britain and the united kingdom they have become too close over the last thirteen or fourteen years and i believe that last month no ordinary people in britain their views i'm not really being represented either in the newspapers or in the political arena that's bad for democracy so david cameron should stop investigating him as far as i'm concerned six trini embarrassing for him because the former editor of the news of the world and the cold front of course became his press secretary i was would your employer

a man who's already had to resign over the phone 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 now you can have your say on that story on our website r t v dot com in our latest poll today we're asking is shutting down the news of the world the right decision the vast majority are agreeing that rupert murdoch's media dominance should be finished almost a quarter also say yes but for the reason the such tabloids are an embarrassment to the british media and the least popular answer is that it's the wrong decision and that the papers shouldn't be punished and that the news of the world has been made a scapegoat. and while you're online you can also check out some other stories we're covering including america's copyright clampdown with tough new restrictions for downloading and sharing films and music plus. the sky is not the

limit we track the marathon the voyage of the olympic torch from earth to space and back as russia prepares for the two thousand and fourteen winter games. defectors from syria's security forces say they were given shoot to kill orders by their superiors when dealing with protesters human rights watch has published interviews with former soldiers and members of the security agencies involved in government crackdowns meanwhile tens of thousands took part in a rally in the city of hama on friday calling for president bashar al assad to step down at least thirteen people were killed and mass demonstration is really about to be in aldershot is according to activists tanks were deployed in crackdowns on

protesters only more than fourteen hundred people have been killed since anti-government protests began in march today is the deputy foreign minister has told r.t. that any interference in the country's affairs would and in disaster. is serious position has been clearly articulated and the global community is aware of the military force in syria hands so even if the west is thinking of going to benin we would advise them not to syria is the key to the balance of at least any meddling with the symptoms for those who drive this region to destroy the western countries are going to glare of this but nevertheless they keep hating arabs and syria in particular what is of our political stand again i was really kind of late because of our chief wants of success progress on the reform struggle to under the leadership of president bashar al assad what happened in syria today expected to spread like an epidemic across other our countries in order to weaken israel in the

west to impose their civilization supremacy values the mindset on us i very carefully and all of the signals west wants from especially view of recent times and i must say that in truth they do not wish us well. and you can watch that full interview with syria's deputy foreign minister on r t throughout sunday. the u.s. media has come under fire for its reporting of a number of high profile criminal trials because of a single mother casey anthony acquitted of murdering her two year old child earlier this week has been at the center of heated debate for years and is artie's honest i see a trick in the reports there are concerns that public opinion is unduly swayed by the headlines rather than evidence. innocent until proven guilty it's a whole mark principle of the american justice system illegally often 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 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 suspect in handcuffs for the world to see. to a media frenzy devouring some cases and not others i finally did before the. guilty until proven guilty case. 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 famous 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 to 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 until 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 she. is crazy and i think it's great the average family did it with 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 gluckman stays 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 on as americans i'm sitting one years old and i'm like. this is getting now going this is really getting ugly the

principles that the u.s. once prided itself in our fire suspects are 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 and since it turned out partying in new york and still to come of this hour heading east. we take you on a tour of the coridon region in southern siberia a place where an entrepreneur is singlehandedly fighting for sobriety and a better lifestyle plus. we're messing about on the river just outside moscow but why am i in a wet suit to find out just a few minutes. to take a look at some world headlines for you right now. south sudan has become the world's newest nation following separation from the north thousands of people have taken part in massive celebrations in the city of juba the capital of the new state

however the two separated countries have not yet reached an agreement on their borders natural resources or the status of their citizens clashes over disputed territories still continue in some areas. pro palestinian activists have clashed with security forces in two separate incidents in the west bank some of the protesters hurled stones at israeli soldiers who responded with several arrests earlier about one hundred pro palestinian campaigners clashed with security forces at a major israeli checkpoint calling for the return of refugees to israel. to malaysia now where police fired tear gas and arrested up to sixteen hundred versts as thousands gathered across the capital kuala lumpur those detained included several senior opposition officials the protest which was the country's biggest political rally in years was the culmination of weeks of pressure on the prime minister demanding electoral reform. ahead of national polls expected next year the national

front has been in power for almost six decades and there are growing calls for change. no matter what position you hold in society there are some accusations that could ruin your reputation forever even if they might be proved false mud sticks and the allegations i'm cells can be enough to destroy careers or harshness to our own resident in new york asks people 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 oh man a boss it's 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 flirtation. 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 more she says no it's a no is it the same for women as for man one hundred percent. so why do we treat it more as a woman's issue because it happens more often to women. but men have a pride to go so we got a sold out by their. money rich get rich in a poor dance form. 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 or what's not at this point again like ari ari dia's 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. and now it's time for our russia close to take you on a journey two thousand kilometers east of moscow.

welcome to the region located at the very tip of southern siberia it's home to mountains and untouched landscapes but the natural beauty of it is not appealing to many of its residents entire villages are becoming ghost towns as young people move to the city. to find one place where the residents have a good reason to stay she's taking us there next. here we are in the village of chast. 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 former prison guard is it work testing the incoming employees alcohol. is there over the limit there is a choice to be started 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 that would do the testing every

morning regardless of gender or position within. the could be that they will see it on their paycheck and that's a strong incentive not to drink the new working week. enforcement alcohol abstinence is the idea of this man alexander go to cause he's the director of the plan and likes to extend his influence as possible a man of big ideas very iffy to me of micromanagement due to the past fifteen years he's been preaching to employees how to make good sausages and how to live a good life. is a must it's the quality of the product. first place in its terms whether you keep. firing dozens of workers for showing up drunk at work xander started not. on the harms of all three times a day during the break you. drank for the first

time should be beaten with a stick those court for the second. 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 johnson's a video cameras around the facility employees have no chance to circumvent the law of big brother on the off side on the longer the issue. there is a very rigid people find it hard to comply but those who don't. work 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 is taking on a very wide notion of social responsibility using the plant's profits he paved the 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. you come from a village. to get a good education thank god we've got the 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 primarily doe's who he's fired and not as a. 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 been nasty to me in spreading it around some people call him a control freak others to resort to more agricultural language his opponents also include some local officials who believe that alexander has too much power that infringes on their own authority that will exonerate them off 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 and just because you're blessed i think purpose of the power is to

create to make life around people better and on this regard i have all the power. 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 and 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 who do bad but in the xander space it seems to have proved efficient in the boycott r t the village of just those who are gone the region well little bit closer to the capital water sports enthusiasts are flocking to the outskirts of moscow to bag a bargain or two as we can yachts and speed boats are changing hands at the annual

marine fair where one of the sailors can buy or sell used vessels artie's tom barton swapped his work suit for a wetsuit to find out more. 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 it's this event today the 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 times they're here to look at to try out and maybe to buy folks like me behind me looking at a price tag of about half a million euros i'm dull but inside no expense spared we had a look around some of these blokes and on indian side they really are on the look surest sign a second time and people in the leisure the people they've come here to relax on the flanks they've come here to drink cocktails in the sun and to watch the photon people be active people they've come here to take part in

a lot of the competitions here the sporting events wakeboarding surfing competitions and they've come to try and show that you can have a lot of fun and be active in the water and i'm here to try and show that too by doing this. by trying to show how much fun you can have in the book is russia i'm going to go on the boat now i'm going to have a good time myself cheerio. oh tom arts and entertainment plus sports are coming up that's how the next half hour looks right here at a.

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with mike's cause or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to cause a report. from broadcasting live direct from the heart of russia's capital moscow this is our team certainly grandad with us of the top headline. tbilisi accuses three georgian a photo journalists including a president saakashvili his personal photographer of spying for russia and it's alleged that the men. possessed secret information and have now been charged with espionage after reportedly confessing on video. officials remain tight lipped over reports that at least two hundred people have been killed in a blast at an arms depot in the city of ramadan human rights groups say electricity and water supplies have also been disrupted. and rupert murdoch heads to the u.k.

to take charge of the phone hacking crisis that's threatening to engulf his media empire the scandal has reached the highest levels of government and for former editor prime minister david cameron was arrested on friday. now. we continue our journey around russia. steps out of the capital and takes us on a tour of the country's second city st petersburg. hello and welcome to the program summer is the perfect time to visit russia a long weekend here in st petersburg is a must the former capital is bursting full of history and culture

a certain join me as we visit major logs and take part in various fun filled activities and we start off here at the spectacular site isaac's cathedral originally the city's main church and the largest cathedral in russia it was built between eight hundred eighteen and eight hundred fifty eight french born architect months around almost two centuries later the gilded dome of sin isaac still dominates the skyline of st petersburg a trip to the top provides excellent views of the city coming from the russian capital moscow out team travelled by the fast subsume train network the journey takes four hours and costs around three thousand five hundred rubles that's roughly one hundred twenty five dollars way you can see here the location of the city situated to the northwest of russia in the eighteenth century it was piece of the great stream to create a window to your with a vast canal network press taking architecture and palaces that were built to rival that who are paying counterparts this vision was well achieved just come here from

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