intercontinental hanoi. sure. sedona suite. kerrville hotels. in the thirty's available in the resort and spa. tbilisi accusers three georgian photojournalists including president personal photographer. video called. inside the country say their government is olympic trying to unseat russia is still . the few minutes time. remain tight lipped over reports two hundred people have been killed in a arms depot. and rupert murdoch heads to the u.k. to take charge of the phone hacking crisis that's threatening to engulf his media

empire. live from the heart of moscow this is r.t. certainly glad to have you with us i'm john thomas let's take a look at your top stories three georgian photojournalists including president saakashvili as a personal photographer have been charged with spying for russia after being arrested on thursday our correspondent peter oliver reports. initially there were four photojournalist 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 a very close quarters contact with the president of georgia mikheil saakashvili we are hearing this one of those who are is in custody has confessed on video to having been a spy to be sending information to moscow and in not video confession he is in the

case it's one of those three that 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 no the reason they would charge this comes after their personal hard drives were seized guns detailed maps of the presidential compound and presidential goings on the the the daily schedule of mikheil saakashvili was found on that hard drive this resulted in the charges being leveled against them now 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 own the only people that think that russia has jumped the gun a few times on labeling people spice the spaniard to go with the judges are so quick to stick by label onto anyone i guess is just

a level of democracy and that has been noticed not just by russia but various key international organizations like the u.n. lost to schools this seen people arrested on s.b. no charges no nine of those were found guilty just last week and hunted down sentences ranging between eleven years and pulcini has been torture itself has been . an outcry against this we're hearing from a georgian daily newspaper. of what they tend to be determined to be a rich going on against anybody who. poses because saakashvili they say that the salt off it was businessmen bet it was politicians scientists and in utah get this which is journalists say should say that saakashvili 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 the most interesting lot of the group agree it is going to control to some right because those who treat the practice really is in play russian he's never produced. the worst right way but he was there during periods personally by. and they say this anybody runs the risk of having themselves labeled as spite and having their reputation brought the drug through the mud like that should they stand up against saakashvili creator all of our reporting there for our georgia's opposition leader you know burjanadze told our t.v. evidence the authorities are claiming that they got could have been obtained under pressure. it's not the first case one person who always on the wrist he's giving such kind of explanation they specially had to take into account that she was not the only wife to and they have a very small child why but her being released after three. weeks before

mentioned so of course it's quite difficult for me to say one hundred percent what is behind a fed watches a situation but i've seen george's fine time we are receiving such handles these condos have no real legal outcomes and we never saw any kind of real it's human patients that government you think right now government use to read generally she's terrified to go to court because the government is trying to control everybody and everything until now we didn't succeed even one of the did. the work government thing you're really going to have autonomy problems inside when you have problems with social and health care when you have a problem and we are mentally. and the right people when you lost your country twenty percent to thirty thirty because i made a car somebody is responsible and you should find somebody who will be in

everything we can from the country because the old police and basically just quite easy to explain this russian and you need and everything would be wrong to the country leastways russian so separately to creating peace i kind of said you need. trying to link everybody who is against you more against he's a regime and quick spiking for you christine this country she's trying so because russian. it's clear that around two hundred people may have been killed in a series of explosions that shook the city of other than in turkmenistan some are 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 closed to the public and police are stopping anyone from filming or taking pictures many people can't contact their families or friends because of disruption of a problem on 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 contacted be editor of a human rights website in turkmenistan who gave us his latest information. that in russia russia 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 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'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 are perhaps unhappy as they are good like the president to announce a state of mourning or express his condolences it seems that their cortizone willing to admit that there are casualties there's no official theory as to the

causes of the explosion usually there was an opinion that the fire happened because it was very hot weather frankly speaking it's hard for me to tell therefore i won't be growing in a conclusion as for witnesses many servicemen who were guarding those warehouse first died in the fire. and you are with r t coming up later this hour guilty until proven innocent. does the front page coverage of u.s. criminal cases muddy the waters of the justice system. we report on concerns that many trials are being prejudiced. the owner of the news of the world rupert murdoch is due to fly in to london to confront the crisis and 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 that of also

a former editor of the paper who has also served as the prime minister's media chief the tabloids a former world correspondent was also arrested both men were later released on bail the prime minister has announced 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 gotti 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 only used 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 power of behavior by some journalists on the news of the

world and also is a major problem because i think that successive governments in britain both the labor government threw 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 of the press surely and indeed 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 ordinary people in britain their views and nor really be represented either in the newspapers or in the political arena that's bad for democracy so david cameron should start investigating himself as far as i'm concerned it's extremely embarrassing for him because the former editor of the news of the world andy cosen of course became his

press secretary i was would your employer a man who's already had three resign over phone hacking why would you take him to the heart of government when you could about 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 and now you can have your say on that story on our website r.t. dot com in our latest poll today we're asking is shutting down the news of the world the one decision more than half of you agree that rupert murdoch's media dominance should be finished sixteen percent also say yes but for the reason that such conflicts are an embarrassment to the british media fourteen percent of the viewers think it's the wrong decision and that the paper's current staff should not be punished and if the least popular answer is 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 of the marathon voyage of the olympic torch from earth to space and back as russia prepares for the two thousand and fourteen which again. please. defectors from syria's a security forces that were deployed to quell demonstrations against president assad say they were ordered to shoot to kill in interviews released by human rights watch they claim their superior officers gave the command to fire on the protesters meanwhile unrest continues to grow hundreds of thousands took to the streets in the city of amara on friday activists say at least fifteen people were killed and more than two hundred arrests have been made anti-government

demonstrations across the country this comes as damascus accuse a u.s. envoy of inciting violence and something that washington strongly denies more than fourteen hundred people have been killed since anti-government protests began in march but as syria's deputy foreign foreign minister told r.t. his country will not tolerate any foreign interference in its affairs. 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 eating we would advise them not to syria is the key to the balance at least with any meddling with the simplest thing as we drive this rejection of dishonesty the western countries are well aware of this but nevertheless they keep hating arabs and syria in particular what is of our political stand looking out of israeli conflict because of our chiefs of success and our progress on the reform struggle through under the leadership of president nationalists and what happened in syria for an expected to spread like an epidemic across other our countries in order to weaken now israel in

the west will pose their civilization supremacy of values that reminds us of very carefully all of the signals west wants them especially when you have a recent times and i must say that's a truth they do not wish as well. and you can watch out for interview with syria's deputy foreign minister on r.t. throughout sunday. u.s. media has come under fire for its reporting of a number of high profile criminal trials a case of a single mother casey anthony acquitted of murdering her two year old child earlier this week hasn't been at the center of heated debate for years and is archie's anastasio going to 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 legally after shoved aside

from the vigor of some of the arrests young african black and brown subjects being sat down in history in an obsessive kind of way fifty shots sixty sat's laying on our stomach in our back as we ride or as we flee to breeding suspects into offenses in cases of entrapment entrapment is not legal entrapment is getting someone to do something that they would normally do to poor poor at parade suspects in handcuffs for the world to see. to a media frenzy devouring some cases and not others i find immediately before the. guilty until proven guilty in these cases government is changing the laws so are you presumed guilty from the get go and how much of a role does the media play if you're accused of it a mistrial 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 they serve 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 a court of justice all thanks to nonstop media coverage of the case for the past three years she's guilty. as brazen and i think it's great except they did it with from the media assume she was going to go free in the case of former i.m.f. head dominic stress con that he is satisfied very much stays with a screen passion only for the case to crumble i think there should be all the media outlets are required to play your exoneration up as big and as long as your accusation this is rarely the case as do these 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 i'm fifty one years old i'm like

. this is getting now going this is really getting ugly the principles that he was once prided itself in are under fire suspects are having to fight their battles publicly from the minute they are arrest and it seems to prove their innocence underlining the discrepancies in the u.s. criminal justice system are alive and kicking the citron out marty we are still to come at this hour heading east. take you on a tour of the quarter gun region in the southern siberia a place where an entrepreneur is singlehandedly fighting for sobriety and a better lifestyle plus. when messing about on the rivers just outside moscow the boy in a wet suit your point out it's just a dream and it's. also world news in brief for you 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. called 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 pro palestinian campaigners clashed with security forces at a major israeli checkpoint calling for the return of refugees to israel. and 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 themselves 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 encounter 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 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 consider it just for patient . yes so 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 inside us 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. who have a pride to go so. whether. it's about money richard original borders for. good this 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's fair to so much a being in general my inclination is to say yes it is because women for the most part is 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. and now it's time for our russia 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 of the natural beauty of corrigan is not appealing to many of its residents entire villages are becoming ghost towns as young people move to the cities or he's a kind of boy girl managed to find one place though where the residents have a good reason to stay she's taking us there next. year we are in the village of chast. and for the past santa fifteen years its population has been

steadily increasing here is the reason why it's monday morning and alexander former prison guard is exploring testing the incoming employees for alcohol. so they're also doing this there's a choice to be started for a no show and lose thirty percent of their month's salary just three kilometers and be docked ten percent of that months wage those who do the testing every morning regardless of gender or position with. it 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 guilty cause he's the director of the still such bunker and lives to extend his influence as far as possible and i have big ideas to give the very epitome of micro-management past fifteen years he's been preaching to his

employees how to lead sausages and how to live a good life. while he is a must it's the quality of the product of first place and it's the germans whether you keep washed up are in dozens of workers for showing up drunk at work let's understand it mattering his employees on the harms of offical three times a day during breaks. for the first time should be beaten with a stick 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 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 issue. of the day there is a very rigid and most people find it hard to comply with those who don't play by

alexander's rules don't work here. and some just drive to set the rules of the game doesn't and within his plan the only corporate tax payer in the village of four thousand people is taking on a very wide notion of social responsibility using the client's profits he paid to the local roads renovated the school and built the church and while he agrees that modesty is a virtue its promise of giving guidance and advice is evident wherever he goes in you are doesn't matter that you come from a village. thank god we've got cheaters 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 because who he's fired and not as impressed. as the old saying goes one man's meat is another man's poison not everybody in this village

appreciate alexander philosophy and it's enough it's not in spreading it around some people call him a control freak others three so it's a more accurate cultural language his opponents also include some local officials who believe that alexander has too much power that infringes on their own authority but alexander 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 purpose of power is to create to make life around you better and in this regard i have all the power that i need as. i think every successful activity requires discipline strict discipline and it starts with me instead weeding for somebody to come and do something i do it myself i may offend other people. will understand that i was doing it for the wrong good many historians made the russians prefer authoritarian leaders and attack on the deep

problems of alcohol addiction and rural isolation need street discipline and total control. in the xander space it seems to have proved efficient axon avoid the village of. oregon region water sports enthusiasts are flocking to the outskirts of moscow to bag a bargain or two this weekend yachts and a speedboat are changing hands of the annual marine fair where one of the sailors can buy or sell used vessels tom burton swapped his work 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 we have 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 looks surest types they're here to look at to try out and maybe to buy books like behind 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 boats and on indian side they really are on the look surest sign a second time and people here are literally people they've come here to relax on the flanks they've come here to drink cocktails in the sun and to watch the first time people be active people they've come here 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 world so i'm here to try and show that by doing this. for fun i can show you how much fun you can have in the water in russia i'm going to go on the boat now i'm going up to try myself clear.

oh tom i'm glad that the boat was there to pick him up now moscow's historic red square was packed with motor fans on saturday to see off the teams on the two thousand and eleven silk way rally crews from twenty five countries are taking part in the four thousand quantitive challenge that's part of the punishing dakar series the racers on the moscow sochi leg are due to finish on july sixteenth with the winner picking up a three hundred thousand dollars book. arts and entertainment all sports are coming up that's how the next half hour looks right here on our team. it's.

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