sentences ranging between eleven years and fourteen years in itself. and outcry against this we're hearing from a daily newspaper. of what they meant to be determined to be a witch hunt going on against anybody who opposes because saakashvili they say that to start off it was businessmen. politicians scientists and. journalists should say. he is trying to use the saugus us it would suit to try and put himself across as a hero in school political points you are. you are. you are. going to groups are probably wrong. because. really the entire russian he's never. criticised who or whose life. and they say that anybody

runs the risk of having themselves labelled a spotlight and having their reputation brought drug through the mud like that should they stand up against saakashvili. now georgia's opposition leader. told r.t. the 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 out there's a. ways to wait but the group i mentioned to of course it's quite difficult for me to say one hundred percent what is behind of that budget situation but i'd enjoy a good kind of time we are receiving a disgruntled base condo had no real legal outcomes and we never saw any kind of

real human patients that government be paying to right now government decided to irish journalist she said why symbolically because the government we are trying to control everybody and everything until now we didn't receive even one of you didn't . know what some of the something to really keep going to have a chronic problem inside 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 of thirty thirty because they yell and they get caught then but it is responsible action you should find somebody who will be guilty in everything we can go wrong in the country big very old political technique and. just quite easy to explain to us russian dolls and to me and everything would be wrong to the country linked with russian so suck us recreating please i cannot say mimi and trying to

delete everybody who is they gave him a lawyer gave he's a regime and who is fighting for real democracy in this country he is trying to link was russian. it's feared that around two hundred people may have been killed in a series of explosions that shook of the city of ahmed on 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 to telephone a special government commission has reportedly now been set up to investigate the incident treatment a stone 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. to the russian starting from yesterday people began returning to the town fires have been put out glocal so now 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 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 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 for witnesses many servicemen who were guarding

those warehouse died in the fire. you know with our team 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. we report on concerns that many trials are being prejudice plus. from passion to profession to find out how young indian entrepreneurs are turning their bright ideas and become. 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 valve and colson 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 its 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 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 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 both 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 too comfortable if you don't have a real democracy you have to have a separation between the press. surely 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 have become too close over the last thirteen or fourteen years and i believe the last meant 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 she 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 to resign over the phone hacking 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 and you can have your say on that story on our website right now at r.t. dot com 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 it was such a tomboy it's on embarrassment to the british media fourteen percent of the viewers think it's the wrong decision and that the paper's current staff shouldn't be punished and the least popular answer is that the news of the world has been made a scapegoat. you can also check out some other stories that we're covering including. america's copyright clampdown with tough new restrictions for downloading and sharing films and music plus. the sky isn't not the limit we track

a marathon 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 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 hamas 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. 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 about it meaning we would advise them not to syria is the key to the balance of at least any meddling with the same temperature as we drive this region to destroy western countries or one of their of this but nevertheless they keep hating arabs and syria in particular because of our political stand already arab israeli conflict because of our chief wants of success and of progress on the reform struggle through 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 a supremacy of values that reminds us of very carefully and all of the signals west

wants from us especially view of recent events 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 our t.v. throughout son back. 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. 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 illegally often shoved aside from the vigor of some of the arrests young african black and brown subjects being sat down in the street in an obsessive kind of way fifty shots sixty sets laying on

our stomach in our back as we ride or as we walk or 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 perp walks that 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 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 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 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. it's crazy and i think it's great maybe seven i did it with from the media assume she was going to be able to in the case of former i.m.f. head dominique strauss kahn the media satisfied their gluttonous 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 and since the one news oh and unlike. this is getting now going this is really getting ugly the principles that the u.s. wants prided itself in our fire suspects are having to fight their battles publicly

from the minute they are arrested in attempts to prove their innocence underlining the discrepancies in the u.s. criminal justice system are alive and kicking the citron out party new york. and still to come this hour heading east. we take you on a tour of the 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 a mind 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 the 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 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. 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 campaigners clash 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. reports. downstairs in a dusty basement in delhi's okla neighborhood you'll find twenty six year old pit bull 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 tents 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 no or very few quality offerings as far as the sports industry as a whole was concerned so. it's odd if you did 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 studies have 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 even if a small percentage of them decide to go you know i don't condone companies it's going to produce and we're already written isn't that 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 engineering a stable and prestigious the younger generation is being innovation as key to the future according to the indian government the number of small and medium enterprises in this country is rising by fifteen percent. while their peers in the west are struggling to find jobs during this financial crisis many leaders are encouraging their youth to continue to focus on innovation despite the unstable

times we know what it takes to compete for the jobs and industries of our time. we need to out innovate out educate and outbuild the rest of the world. it's a pursuit that some believe could shift the power dynamics in the world and it is short of art in next. as far as innovation goes on going to those who are going to prove themselves in india and the new startups how will be a really good chance of succeeding in the global stage kumar and 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 you you believed in something you thought they're good this is the this is what doesn't exist and i want to do something about it creating new jobs for their people while addressing their country's mean it's preassure either party new delhi india. and now it's time for a russia close team to take you on

a journey two thousand kilometers east of moscow. welcome to the original located at the very tip of southern siberia it's home to mountains and untouched landscapes but the natural beauty of quarter gone is it not appealing to many of its own residents entire villages are becoming ghost towns as young people move to the cities are. managed to find one place though where the residents have a good reason to stay she's taking us there and. here we are in the village of chast. grande 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.

if they're over the limit there is a choice to be cited 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 because we do the testing every morning regardless of gender or position within the company could be that they will see it on their paycheck and that's a strong incentive not to drink new working week. enforce the alcohol abstinence is the idea of this man alexander able to cough is the director of the still six plank and likes to extend his influence as far as possible a man of big ideas very epitome of micro-management for the 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 the first place and it's the quality of the

terms whether you keep it after firing dozens of workers for showing up drunk at work or xander started lateran his employees on the harms of all the hall three times a day during with breaks you. drank for the first time should be beaten with a stick those quarter 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 face 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 off side thefts and no longer the issue. there is a very rigid 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 tax payer in the village are four thousand

people he's taken on a very wide notion of social responsibility using the plants profits he paved 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 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 and primarily doe's 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 appreciates alexander philosophy and he did not succeed 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 xander 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 because if you're blessed i think the purpose of power is to create to make life around you better and in this regard i have all the power that i need that's for the 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 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 good or bad but in the xander space it seems to have proved efficient on

a boycott r t the village of syria who are gone the 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 want to be sailors can buy or sell used vessels are to. 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 look surest times they're here to look at the maybe to buy folks like you behind me we're looking at a price tag of about half a million euros and up but inside no expense spared we had a look around some of these boats and on indian side they really are on the look

surest sign second time of people near the leisure of the people they've come here to relax on the flanks and come here to drink cocktails in the sun and to watch the photon people the active people they come in to take part in a lot of the competitions have the sporting events wakeboarding the surfing competitions and they've come to try and show that you can have a lot of fun and be active in the water and i'm here to try and show that too by doing this. first time i can show you how much fun you can have in the whole club in russia i'm going to go to vote now i'm going to comply myself cheerio. but. i'll be back with a recap of the top stories in just a moment right here on our stay with us.

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