or tilma kind of a mission marco resort hotels to some. resorts much. closer to home a car riviera. cintra hotel macau. tbilisi accuses three georgian photojournalists including president personal photographer of spying for russia. video called skeptics inside the country say their government is on a good chance trying to drum up. the few minutes. over reports that at least two hundred people have been killed in the blast and an arms depot. to take charge of the phone hacking crisis that's threatening to engulf his media

empire. seven o'clock in the morning in russia's capital last go on this is r.t. and we're certainly glad to have you with us three georgian photojournalists including president personal photographer have been charged with spying for russia after being arrested on thursday our correspondent peter all of our 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 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 enough video confession he is in

the case it's one of those three that 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 would charge this comes after their personal hard drives were seized and 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 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 the russians are the only people that think that russia has jumped the gun a few times on labeling people spies. to go with the georgians or. anyone i guess is just. a murderer and that has been noticed not just by russia but

various key international organizations like the u.n. last year we saw thirteen people arrested on espionage charges now nine of those were found guilty just last week and hundred pound sentences ranging between eleven years and fourteen years now in georgia or itself there has been. an outcry against this we're hearing from a georgian 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 businessmen then it was politicians scientists and gals in utah get all this which is journalists do it your position say that saakashvili is trying to use these the spy saugus us he would stoop to try and put himself across as a hero in school political points you are. you were. you

are always very clear that you are. and you want to go. it is going to fall in the us it will seem right because it's very really the entire russian he's never. worry slightly but i was there just personally by. and they say that anybody runs the risk of having themselves labeled a spy and having their reputation brought it drug through the mud like that should they stand up against saakashvili. critter all of the reporting for us there now george's opposition leader. told r.t. the evidence your thirty's are claiming they've got could have been obtained under pressure. it's not a special case one surgeon who always on the wrist is giving such kind of explanation they specially had to take into account that he was not the only archie's wife too and they had

a very small child why but her being released on thursday. was the week the program mentioned so of course it's quite difficult for me to say one hundred percent what is behind us said. situations i'd enjoy a good time to time we are receiving. these condors have no real legal outcomes and we never saw any kind of real that human patients that government you think through right now government decide to irish journalist she's surprised too political because the government we are trying to control everybody and i think until now we didn't even want to be there. was some of it something. like the kind of autonomy problem when you have problems with social and health care when you have a problem and we. mentary a rule of law and the rights of people when you love your country twenty percent to thirty thirty because they feel i'm a good question but it is possible action you should find somebody who will be

guilty you never see which is going into country because very old believe me and they see. this quite easy to do a good russian and everything. wrong to the country leaked research and so separately to creating these i kind of they knew me and trying to leak everybody who they gave him a loyalty to the regime and we fighting for real democracy in this country she's trying to repercussions. it's feared that around two hundred people may have been killed in a series of explosions that shook the city of amadan in turkmenistan some local reports say the blast happened at a munitions depot though 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 the destruction can telephone

a special government commission has reportedly now been set up to investigate the incident on the scene has long been a secretive state with the internet banned until just recently r.t. contacted the editor of human rights website in turkmenistan who gave us this latest information. written in russian 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 it's certainly more than two hundred people and many died in hospital there isn't about dan i'm 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 i'm happy as they would like the president to announce a state of mourning or express his condolences it seems that there are forty sons

willing to admit that there are casualties but 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 for witnesses many servicemen who were guarding those warehouse died in the fire. you're with r t coming up later this hour guilty until proven innocent. does the front page of coverage of u.s. criminal cases money the waters of the justice system. to report on concerns that many trials are being prejudiced plus. from passion to profession find out how young indian entrepreneurs are turning their bright ideas into. the owner of the news of the world rupert murdoch is due to fly into 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 invalid and he calls in a former editor of the paper who has also served as the prime minister's media chief the tabloids a former royal correspondent was also arrested both men were later released on bail though 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 the sunday following the announcement it's close john gaunt who used to work for one of mozart's newspapers says media and the political circles in the u.k. are too close to base closed down the news the world so up to five hundred people have lost their jobs i'm mostly people we're 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 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 both the labor government are in control before and now david cameron the conservatives being true 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 real democracy you have to have a separation between the press. yes 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's made no ordinary people in britain their views have not really been 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 six through me embarrassing for him

because the former editor of the news of the world andy cosen of course became his press secretary and why would your employer a man who's already had to resign over phone hacking why would you take him to the heart of government where he could about access the 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 you could have your say on that story on our website right now and argued on car in our latest poll today we're asking is shutting down the news of the world the right 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 tabloids on investment in the british media fourteen percent of the viewers think it's the wrong decision and but the papers current staff shouldn't be punished and the least popular answer is that the news of the world has been made a scapegoat while you're online you can also check out some other stories that

we're covering including. america's copyright clampdown with tough new restrictions for downloading and showing films and music plus. the sky isn't not the limit we tracked the marathon voyage of the olympic torch from earth to space and back as russia prepares for the two thousand and fourteen winter games . can. be factors from syria's 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 that their superior officers gave the command to fire on 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 damascus 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 r.t. this country will not tolerate any foreign interference in its affairs. and in syria's 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 about it meaning we would advise them not to syria is the key to the balance of the middle east any mention of the suggestion for israel would drive this region to destroy the western countries are well aware of this but nevertheless they keep hating arabs and syria in particular what is about little start looking out of israeli conflict because of our chief wants of success and our progress on the reform struggle for under the

leadership of president bashar al assad what happened in syria today expected to scrub like an epidemic across other our countries in order to weaken now israel and the west to impose their civilization a supremacy of values the mindset i want us i very carefully call it signals the west wants them especially the youth of recent events and i must say that in truth they do not wish as well. and you can watch out for interview with syria's deputy foreign minister on our t.v. throughout sunday. the 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 has been at the center of heated debate for years and is our she's an associate you're 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 shots laying on our stomach in our back as we run or as we walk 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 parade suspects 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 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 of the most crime it's going to be

in huge headlines on page one when you exonerated it's on page twenty seven below the fold to column inches and your neighbors somehow didn't manage to catch it that they serve it when still thinks you're a child molester take the market verdict in the casey anthony murder case involving her two year old daughter a 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 radiation they get it from the media it's been through the guilty in the case of former i.m.f. head dominic stress can the media satisfied their life mistakes with extreme passion only for the case to crumble i think there should be a. media outlets are required to play your exoneration 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 and since one years old i'm like well. this is getting now going this is really good luck with the principles that he wants once prided itself in our line of fire suspects are having support their battles publicly the minute they are arrested and attempts to prove their innocence underlining the discrepancies in the u.s. criminal justice system are alive and kicking the citron out party in iraq. and still the calm of this hour heading east. we take you on a tour of a quarter beyond that region in southern siberia a place where the entrepreneur is singlehandedly fighting for sobriety and a better life style plus. we're messing about on the river just outside moscow but why mine a wet suit to find out in just a few minutes. taking a look at some bad news is making headlines around the world for you right now

a seven point one earthquake has struck off the north east coast of japan prompting a tsunami warning is stricken the fukushima nuclear power plant has been evacuated as a precaution in march an earthquake and tsunami left up to twenty three thousand dead or missing and triggered the ongoing nuclear crisis at the plant. 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 had not yet reached an agreement on their borders natural resources or the status of their citizens clashes over disputed territories are still continuing in some areas. pro palestinian activists have clashed with security forces in two separate incidents in the west bank some of the protesters holed stones at israeli soldiers who responded to the several arrests earlier about one hundred propellants tinian

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 promise in part form for entrepreneurship good young indian businessmen have to rely on their creativity and innovation to find new ways of making profit or he's a pushover reports 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 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 quality offerings as hard 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'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 always been prioritized over sports but kamar is part of a 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 people you know i don't think it's going to. be all or even a single entrepreneurship is becoming a hot field for young people in india while many of the parents of the students on india's college campuses viewed government medicine engineering as people and prestigious the younger generation it's 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 rest of the world. it's a pursuit some believe could shift the power dynamics in the world and that is short of our next. part as far as you know vision was one of those who are going to prove themselves in india and the new startups there will be a really good chance of succeeding in the global stage kumar his fellow 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 their 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 trust in their countries needs preassure either r.t. new delhi india. and now it's time for a russia closer team to take you on a journey two thousand kilometers east of moscow. welcome to the could of done region located at the very tip of southern side area it's home to mountains and untouched landscapes are the natural beauty of course a gun is not appealing to many of its own residents entire villages are becoming ghost towns as young people move to the city's archies oksana boyko managed to find one place though where the residents have a good reason to stay she's taking us they're next. here we are in the village of

chast. grande region and for the past santa fifteen years its population has been steadily increasing here's the reason why it's monday morning and alexander a former prison guard is it work testing the incoming employees for alcohol. is there over the limit there is a choice to discard it for a no show and lose thirty percent of them on salary or job three kilometers and be docked ten percent of that months of wage. we do the testing every morning regardless of gender or position within the company. on their paycheck and that's a strong incentive not to working week. enforced alcohol abstinence is the idea of this man alexander able to cough is the director of the still such bunk and likes to extend his influence as far as possible and i have big ideas to give the very

epitome of micro-management put it past fifteen years he's been preaching to his employees how to make good sausages and how to live a good life. is a must it's the quality of the product in the first place and it's the germans whether you. watch after firing dozens of workers for showing up drunk at work xander started laughter at his employees on the harms of all kohol three times a day during with breaks you probably. drunk for the first time should be beaten with a stick those core 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 of dozens of media cameras around the facility employees have no chance to circumvent the law of big brother on the outside there are no longer the issue. there is

a very rigid and most people find it hard to comply but those who don't play by alexander his rules 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 has taken on a very wide notion of social responsibility using the planet's profits he paved a local roads renovated a school and built a church and while he agrees that modesty is a virtue of its partners of giving guidance and advice is evident whatever he goes in you are it doesn't matter that you come from a village what matters most is to get a good education thank god we've got good teachers and behave well in 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 are not as impressed. as the old saying

goes one man's meat is another man's poison not everybody in this village appreciates the xander philosophy and he's seen nothing in spreading it around some people call him a control freak others resort to more agricultural language his opponents also include some local officials who believe their lives under 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. 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. and. 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 who will understand that i was doing it for the wrong good many

historians made the case that russians prefer authoritarian leaders and attack minded deep problems of alcohol addiction and rural isolation need street discipline and total control good or bad in the xander space it seems to have true efficient axon avoid artsy village of. oregon region 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 at the annual marine fair where one of the sailors can buy or sell used vessels artie's it . works for a wetsuit for about four. 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 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

strike out and maybe to buy folks like me behind me looking at a price tag of about half a million euros i'm done but inside no expense spared we had a look around some of these bikes and on and inside they really are on the look surest sign a second time the people in the mission and people they've come here to relax on the flanks they come here to drink cocktails in the sun and to watch the photon people be active people they've committed to take part in a lot of the competitions there the sporting events wakeboarding the surfing competitions i'm a 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. car so i can see how much fun can i have in the north up in russia i'm going to go on the boat now i'm going out to comply marco rubio.

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