socialism good to see don't need to go and. read this and the colonel was hotel to retreat. tbilisi accuses three georgian photojournalists including president saakashvili personal photographer of spying for russia. while georgia claims to have video called skeptics inside the country say their government is only trying to drum up until russia is still a love boy and a few minutes. turkmen officials remain tight lipped over reports that at least two hundred people have been killed in a blast at an arms depot. and rupert murdoch heads to the u.k. to take charge of the phone hacking crisis threatening to engulf his media empire.

and broadcasting live direct from the heart of moscow this is r t certainly glad to have you with us let's take a look at your top stories three georgian photojournalists including president personal photographer have been charged with spying for russia after being arrested on thursday our correspondent peter oliver reports. initially there were four photo journalist 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 is in custody has confessed on video to having been a spy to be sending information to moscow and enough video confession he is in the

case it's one of those three that in custody now with regards 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 received tons detailed mops 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 when 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 all the only people that think that russia has jumped the gun a few times on labeling people spies and whose phone you're to go. to speak. to anyone i guess is just

a level of democracy remember going there has been noticed not just by russia but various key international organizations like the u.n. last two we saw this scene people arrested on espinosa challenges no nine of those were found guilty just last week and hunted down sentences ranging between eleven years and fourteen years in torture itself. against this we're hearing from a daily newspaper. of what they tend to be determined to be a witch hunt going on against anybody who. poses because saakashvili they say that to start off it was business man bet it with politicians scientists and dolls in utah get out this week journalists do it your position say that saakashvili is trying to use the spy saugus as it would stoop to try and put himself across as a hero in school political points you are or are certainly you are. you

are very clear you are moving into lot of the group who couldn't be anybody's going to screw to control people to see it will seem right because those who treat their profits really it into a russian news network were just. as they were his life were. and they say this anybody runs the risk of having themselves labeled as spite and having their reputation brought a drug through the mud like that should they stand up against saakashvili. or all of our reporting for us there george's opposition leader nino burjanadze told r.t. the evidence the authorities are claiming they've got could have been obtained under pressure. it's not the size case the one person who always done the right edged he's giving such kind of explanation they actually had to take into account that she was not the only thing that archie's wife too and they have a very small child why i have been released now for three. weeks the photographer

mentioned to be quite difficult for me to say one hundred percent what is behind a bad situations i enjoy a good kind of time we are receiving such candles based on real time no real legal outcomes and we never saw any kind of real human patients that government you think right now government besides two hundred journalists she's reporting political because the government we're trying to control everybody and i think until now we didn't even one and we didn't. know what government something you're really going to have economic problems you cite when you have problems with social and health care when you have a problem. and the right for the people when you love your country twenty percent to thirty thirty because the i'm a good question but if it's possible that you should find somebody who will never

think we can get the country think the very old police will pick me. just quite easy to rangers russian and everything working round the country searching those suckers really creating things i cannot say to me and trying to lead everybody who is against seymour a good season regime and fighting for real democracy in this country she is constantly question. it is feared that around two hundred people may have been killed in a series of explosions that shook the city of arba down in turkmenistan some local reports say the blast happened at a munitions depot so the government continues to claim it was at 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 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 just recently contacted the editor of a human rights website in turkmenistan who gave us this latest information. but it is actually the russia starting from yesterday people began returning to the town fires have been put up to the locals you know 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 a 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 are perhaps unhappy as they would like the president to announce a state of mourning or express his condolences it seems that their forty sons willing to meet at the right casualties there's no official theory as to the causes

of the explosion usually 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 witnesses many servicemen who were guarding those warehouse died in the fire. and you are with r t coming up later this hour guilty until proven innocent because the front page coverage of the u.s. criminal case is muddied the waters of the justice system. report on concerns that many trials are being predators plus. from passion to profession find out how young indian entrepreneurs are turning their bright idea to. the owner of the news of the world rupert murdoch is due to fly in to london to confront the crisis at his trouble the 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 any olsen a former editor of the paper who has also served as the prime minister's media chinese the tabloids a former world correspondent was also arrested both men were later released on bail the prime minister has announced two independent publicly inquiries as a result of the scandal meanwhile news of the world staff are preparing for its final edition the sunday following would be announcement it's a close john gone through support for one of murdoch's newspapers says media and political circles in the u.k. are too close. to pay for close down the news the world so up to five hundred people have lost their jobs and mostly people were not only is 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 song journalists on the news of the world and also is a major problem because i think that successive governments in britain perth the labor government are in control before and now david cameron the conservatives have been down close to rupert murdoch and other newspaper proprietors but all of that is too cozy and too comfortable if you don't have a clue. 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 in 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 but not ordinary people in britain their views have not really been represented other 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 six crimi embarrassing for him because the former editor of the news of the world andy cosen of course became his press secretary under one would you employ a man who's already had three zoid over phone hacking why would you take into the heart of government where you could about access to top secret dossier as an information it's a sorry sorry day let me tell you not just the british press but for british democracy and of course you can have your say on that story on our website on t. dot com in our latest poll today we're asking is the news of the world the right decision more than half of you agree that rupert murdoch's media dominance should be finished sixty percent also say yes but for the reason that such tabloids are an embarrassment to the british media fourteen percent of the viewers think it's the wrong decision altogether and that the paper's current staff should not be punished and of the least popular answer is that the news of the world has been made the

scapegoat. while you're online also check out some other stories we're covering including america's copyright clampdown with tough new restrictions for downloading and showing films and music plus. the stuff is not the limit tracking the marathon voyage of the olympic torch from earth to space and back as russia prepares for the two thousand and fourteen winter games. thank. you. defectors from syria's security forces that were deployed to quell demonstrations against president assad say they were ordered to shoot to kill in interviews are 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

hama on friday activists say at least fifteen people were killed and more than two hundred arrested and made anti-government demonstrations across the country this comes as the mask has accused a u.s. envoy of inciting violence in hama 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 minister told us this country will not tolerate any foreign interference in its affairs. and in 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 the intervening we would advise them not to syria is the key to the balance in the middle east with any meddling with the sentencing phase he would drive israel judging it's a mistake the most and countries are well aware of this but nevertheless they keep hating arabs and syria in particular what is of our political standard and i was really conflict because of our chiefs of success and our progress on the reform

struggle from under the leadership of president bush to understand what happened in syria for an expected to spread like an epidemic across other our countries in order to weaken rapidly the now israel and the west coast our civilization supremacy and values the mindset of us i very carefully when all of the signals the west wants from especially when you have a recent events and i must say that's a truth i do not wish as well. and you can watch that for 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 the case 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 archie's 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. 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. entrapment is getting someone to do something that they would normally do to perp walks that read suspects in handcuffs for the world to see. to a media frenzy devouring some cases and not others if i believe it before i see it as guilty until proven guilty in these cases the 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 being in a scrum it's going to be

a huge headlines on each one when you're exonerated it's on page twenty seven below the full two column inches and your neighbor somehow didn't manage to catch it that the server would still thinks you're a child molester tick 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 a 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 the extent they did it with from the media is going to go green. in the case of former i.m.f. head dominic strauss kahn that he is satisfied their likeness faced with extreme passion 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 go on as americans i'm sixty one years old and i'm like. this is getting well going this is really good lovely the principles that he was once prided itself in our fire suspects are having to fight their battles publicly from the minute they are arrest and a chance to prove their innocence underlining the discrepancies in the u.s. criminal justice system are alive and kicking is the citron out parts of new york and still to come this hour heading east. we take you on a true of the done 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 road just outside moscow for one morning a wetsuit to find out just a few minutes. also world news in brief for you. south

sudan has it 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 a 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. propellants tony and activists have clashed with security forces in two separate incidents in the west bank some of the protesters hurled stones at israeli soldiers and responded with several arrests earlier about one hundred pro callous to me and campaigners clashed with security forces at a major israeli checkpoint calling for the return of refugees to israel. with a population of over a billion people india is a promising platform for entrepreneurship but young indian businessmen have to rely on their creativity and innovation to find new ways of making profit archies

appreciator reports. downstairs in a dusty basement in jelly's koechlin neighborhood you'll find twenty six year old people kamar this is one of several of its manufacturing sites it's small and weak but it's one of the offices kamar uses to make sporting equipment including tats 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 of. all things as far as the sports industry as a whole was concerned so. it's. the whole industry and right now he's the number one guy in india doing it in the short time his company has 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 study always been prioritized over sports but kamar is 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 over engineering and are going to do it every year. for a small percentage of this i go you know i don't think it's going to. be all or even 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 people in prestigious the younger generation think 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 us 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. weed out innovate out educate and outbuild rest of the world. it's a pursuit of some believe could shift the power dynamics in the world and it is short of art in the next ten years. as far as you know vision was one of those what are you going to prove himself in the mirror in the new startups how will be a really good chance of succeeding in the global stage kumaran a skrull entrepreneurs admit that starting a venture can be stressful but they try to focus on the positives they believe it has for themselves and their country making a difference and you believe in something you thought this is and this is what doesn't exist and i want to do something about creating new jobs for their people while expressing their country's means preassure either party new delhi india. and now it's time for our russia close to take you on

a journey two thousand kilometers east of moscow. welcome to the quarter gone region of located at the very tip of southern siberia it's home to mountains and untouched landscapes but the natural beauty of could've gone is not appealing to many of its residents entire villages are becoming ghost towns as young people move to the cities are from a boycott remark managed to find one place though where the residents have a good reason to stay she's taking this next. here we are in the village of chastise syria in oregon region and for the past ten or 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.

and their other delimit there is a choice to be started for a no show and lose thirty percent of their month's salary are just three kilometers and be docked ten percent of that month's wage. but we do the testing every morning regardless of gender or position within the community because they will see it on their paycheck and that's a strong incentive not to drink if you knew working week. and of course the alcohol abstinence is the idea of this man alexander go to coffee is the director of the still thinks punk unlatched extent influence as far as possible and out of big ideas very epitome of micromanagement which for the past fifteen years he's been preaching to his employees how to get sausages how to live a good life. while he is a must it's the quality of the product the first place and it's the germans whether you keep. the firing dozens of workers for showing up drunk at work xander started

nattering on the harms of all the hall three times a day during the breaks. or charlemagne's drunk for the first time should be beaten with a stick those core for the second. time should be hanged as a former boxer he's not shy about exercising his rule with an r. and this has built his version of the iron curtain around his pint of 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 nation's there is a very rigid and those people find it hard to comply but those who don't play by alexander's rules are here. alexander's drive to set the rules of the game doesn't and that is his plan the only corporate taxpayer in the village of four thousand

people is taken on a very wide notion of social responsibility using the plants profits he gave 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 doesn't matter that you come from a village so what matters most. thank god we've got the teachers and behave well at school is that clear. the basic approach has divided villagers the majority believe alexander is a blessing or a minority ok marilee goes who he's fired i'm not as impressed. as the old saying goes one man's meat is another man's poison not everybody appreciates alexander 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

include some local officials who believe their goal is going to have too much power it infringes on their own authority and the xander accuses them of not doing enough or good people when i ask him what he'd like to run for office he's response was a resounding no just put your. purpose of power is to create to make a life around you 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 for somebody to come and do something i do it myself i may offend people who would sooner or later they'll understand that i was doing it for the wrong. many historians make the case that russians prefer a fairy terran leader and are tackling the deep problems of alcohol addiction and rural isolation needs to treat discipline and total control. in the xander scase it seems to have proved efficient at some of boycott art see the village of

chester's the area we're going to reach and. water sports enthusiasts are flocking to the outskirts of moscow to bag a bargain or two this weekend yachts and speed boats are changing hands of the annual marine fair where one of the sailors can buy or sell used vessels. his works for a wetsuit to find out more. if you're thinking about russia you go probably thinking about an awful lot of land but there's also an awful lot of water here and is 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 they first saw the looks surest types they're here to look at to try out and maybe to buy books like hygiene looking at a price tag of about half a million euros on top 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 second time the 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 and 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 so by doing this. last time i think you can see how much fun can have in the whole club in russia i'm going to go on the boat now i'm going to have to try myself cario. moscow's historic red square has packed with motor fans on saturday to see off the teams on the two thousand and eleven silk away rally cruisers from twenty five countries are taking part in the four thousand kilometer challenge that's part of

the punching the car 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 prize. and i'll be back with the recap of our top stories in just a few moments stay with us for that.