welcome back to the weekly here on our top stories of today and of the past week here on c.n.n. now the man in charge of the noise first of a terrorist attack admits responsibility for the bombing in the capital and the shooting rampage that followed the double atrocity claim he lives on friday meanwhile a special service for the victims has taken place in the capital's main because the royal family and prime minister was present at the ceremony. global economic recovery is at risk of crisis talks in the u.s.

collapse within the government this comes off of the e.u. tries a new lifeline for greece in the hope the cash will bring the euro back from the brink. and embattled a media mogul rupert murdoch racism sell for a legal battle in the u.s. hiking scandal is spreading beyond about empire with claims that the sunday mirror tabloid also infiltrated the voice messages of celebrities. plus the u.s. led coalition in afghanistan begins handing control over to local security forces and their reputations concerns about the future of the country the afghan army is known for recruiting and drug addicts and people with taliban connections. all right coming up next here on c.n.n. we investigate russia's prison system to see if it's capable of turning a criminal into a law abiding citizen that's in our special report right now. and

complains. yes the carriage. calls of life for the sake of my wife and kids. consciousnesses to one out of every four men in russia has served time in prison currently nearly nine hundred found inmates serving time in prison colonies most of them have committed serious crimes nobody so when you convict them to a currency to see a mix of the old penitentiary system and then you. initially the russian paint all system had inherited the legacy of stalin's notorious killers. but now it is going through a period for the likes of which have never been seen before. everyone here has to decide whether or not they're going to change their ways no edging toward needs to see that it's happening what kind of changes are already in place behind the barbed

wire and will modernization benefit both the inmates prison staff. court's convicted cover leon of masterminding the murder of a fellow businessman and sentenced him to seventeen years he has spent several months in one of moscow's investigative isolation wards now power is due to be transferred to a prison colony. face the world. spread their legs wide on. the next lesson makes it monday to re for a convert to be taken to a corrective institution location in the region weightlifter before. i knew for sure i'd like to be closer to home my kids could come and see me i'm going to try and get through this this means i want to keep my health and i don't want to be a burden to my family but most of all i don't want prison to destroy me i want to

remain who i am here. in the traverse the region one hundred kilometers from moscow another inmate is awaiting a decision that may change his life his name is andrei often asked if he ended up in prison on charges of fraud now that he has served one third of his term he has appealed to the administration to release him on parole the law makes his possible . group for inmates only on duty andrzej off in a sea of what is today false without a stranger's versus the new everything order yes that's going to have it a good deal of time is likely to pass between an inmate's request for parole and his release first the county's administrative commission must consider his case even if they turn his request down he may take his appeal to court but that means he will have a much slimmer chance of being granted parole. the time has come for me to rethink

my life and see where i'm headed. when i believe that i have reformed. that's what i've also. russia's federal penitentiary service is the government body that oversees the country's prisons and colonies a year ago it launched a program to resettle many of its in makes. one hundred fifty thousand convicts were relocated in line with a new law prohibiting fledgling inmates being housed together with hardened criminals and draft enough chevys serving a sentence in a colony of people with a history of several crimes. this is a high security prison colony in the urals two thousand kilometers east of moscow many of the inmates here

a murderous rapists and drug dealers every one of them has fallen foul of the law on several occasions before they know only too well how things are run in captivity . the show imagine how you enter the building. douglas around four hundred people around . you know what it's like. on face value this is just another colony but unlike others inmates here run the road theatre this time in prison stars have decided to open a new season with an adaptation of notes from the house of the dead a story by russia north a few other dostoyevsky he wrote it after a period of exile and hard labor in siberia. a fuse in the media each character in the book is a play by sorrow and disenchant we see this shattered lives this is the love this is what we want to convey to the audience because that the administration

encourages inmates to take part in the club's performances if they have artistic talents others can get emotionally involved with the characters on stage as they watch them from the floor. i. say what's all that racket. lugar's you are simply get to bed now. yes. rewards people can be hearty creatures sure you're used to shoot to kill or dance or anything. you know i think the best the true definition of a is you. these emotions

knights of given the roles of the nineteenth century convicts they do. there is a museum dedicated to dostoyevsky in the city of on the right to serve his prison term exhibits their feets the life of convicts under the czarist regime on display of shackles overcoats and ions that we used to raise faces. just to have skin describe his penal servitude as the most terrible years of his life. more than ten million inmates serve sentences and do like prison camps during stalin's repressions many were forced into slave labor of construction sites like inmates concluding those who had been put on political charges made to mine minerals and chop down trees soviet prison colonies were built in faraway places with harsh

climates talking about inmates rights was to goon that was his only since the end of the gulag system of reforms being possible. shrug the first step is to stop glorifying criminal culture question it is just stop repeated offenses if the second step is to try and rehabilitate those who serve their time and return them to normal society. it is morning in investigative isolation wards a few hours ago probably almost was told he would be taken to a penal colony. shortly before he was due to go he decided to visit the wards church it was built in a recent. should have put it here. turn around. to go back. what's that to go back. to full name probably all of.

leon often other inmates are driven across moscow in a special. liberated old. house of doubt they will be taken for a long journey in a train specially designed to transport convicts. number one. on the back then i guess. number one. complains oh no yes to the carriage. the compartment has no windows they're a boss instead of doors guards believe that too many precautions can never be taken on transporting dangerous criminals. three times

a day the passengers are given boiling water and packaged meals they're in for a one way trip to the destination is unknown. because you need the course material i get the feeling i'm on a ride to nowhere. i don't know where we are going these are. always a train is headed i've got no idea what will happen new years. the only thing that is on my mind is my family i'm on. this train has two hundred kilometers of journey ahead of me tomorrow possibly on the want to arrive at his new home. listen.

it's. just so. just such. a. welcome to the current civic splash in the world of heights in business questions in advance science into i get cheap products just don't understand calculus trophies is going to be full of russian invaders to keep your betters abroad and their big breakthrough back sunlight on stocks on technology update here on. the future coverage.

the next morning couple leon off gets into a special headed for a high security colony for first time.

first the enemy has taken to the quarantine room his inspectors have given prison issued clothes. which is uniform they emphasized he will forty three yes that's right ok. on off now has to meet the facilities cemetery conditions this includes a visit to the baba will probably. be less coached. in the past all inmates were shaved pulled nowadays this is no longer the case those behind bars are now even allowed to wear watches there are no restrictions on correspondents with relatives even. if you are over here folks working in what's called the industrial zone is enough work. the good thing about the place is that

the conditions aren't harsh. well. they're pretty much the same everywhere a little bit better in some places and worse on all those. many people because people can adapt to any conditions. we all know will spend a couple of weeks in the corn teen room. after that he will join other inmates living in a barracks. of the colony we all know will be offered the opportunity to learn a skill of his own choice. the moments it made me change is the quarantine room he becomes aware of a combination of. the old one and a new. new system is taking shape in line with prison reform speedier

theory does do a. little tight parikh's into. this will cut down on in numbers only to four or six inmates in each cell it's. soon after leon overrides the colony he's allowed to make his first phone call home his wife and children have been waiting a long time to hear from him. i love. you i want to tell you that i mean correctional colony ok. i'll send you a letter or you'll call later when they. might apply for parole sometime in the future. meanwhile andrea. to serving his time in another colony is already on today's crucial commission is

going to consider this case. very nervous. if they don't release you. don't know what i'm going to say to my family. i hope it'll be ok. the administration includes the colonies top brass and even the priest of the local church. they will consider whether andre often asked if his mended his ways and is ready to be his own master. the colonies chief warden as the commission chairman he poses very awkward questions to the inmate. see if parents will give you a flax and your wife will help you find a job for you where you go to do something on your own as soon as i was listening i think it's time you began providing for your parents and wife. the courts will make the final decision on whether or not under

a will be set free colonies administration concedes that inmates are fully aware of their rights and take a firm stand to defend them. we need to build dozens of new prisons video we have to install modern equipment to beef up security we have and we also have to iron out how sentences ought to be served and so as to be more pragmatic more qualified in your mission of the border. we have to reduce the enormous number of prisons and system as well all with boeing you know. this is a unique company for women in the urals it's also houses they young children all the convicted mothers and their kids live apart many of the little ones have been born behind bars. babies live in the facilities kindergarten until they're two years old while the mothers serve the terms they remain in the care of teachers and doctors. today the older children the visiting the many zoo in

the colony at the same time the mothers feed their babies and take them for a walk. this is a cue that my son can really is six months old he's such a child you know let's. some clothes on you so we can go for a walk. but i do. call in the staff both a playground for children in the courtyard. the barking of watched dogs can be heard even ham. it is then there were a few still he's by my side who are shelley old alone those nursing mothers haven't changed all the artists we do work because we have got no time for that you doing more research to be two years older than my terms here current student. alina hopes she will not need to tell her son that he grew up in a colony she would like the boy to have happy memories of friendly teachers rather

than bob wire. polly on off as one of the new arrivals headed for the high security colony in the to the region period make yourself comfortable with his joint other inmates after a quarantine period. alice been issued with bed linen chained to his bunk bed the. inmates tell him about life inside on the monday. puzzle how are you. going to stop people from now it's much better. because it's a world apart from how it used to be flown on for the various of the boys first turned up here things were pretty bad. of course here for the toilet and wash station where out in the courtyard for instance. one pleasure is easy enough. inmates walk about a barracks inhabited by some one hundred people powerful is going to spend many

years in the surroundings. this is the medical bay. and this is the closure of. the inmates working in the industrial zone leave their belongings here. for some it's a day off they watch t.v. read books or play backgammon in the lounge. and watch roller being made under a half an hour service here i'm ready to hear your decision about my possible role . and rafa nassif future now depends on the court ruling. judges will soon convene for a special session and economy. will come to the conclusion that inmate after nice year is ready for the rule because he's firmly on the way to being reformed so the rehabilitation is possible without it being

isolated from society. culture. twenty four hours later and rafa nassir will leave the colony a long awaited call home the first obstacle. course ruled in my favor as they should let me go tomorrow. for a solo fellow pearce course me all this time. i'm very happy and i know everything you're going through your book to make sure you get home safe and sound. under a is about to set off those many months of confinement and now behind him. to

tell you it's like a miracle. this is the first day of probably on off duty in the colony. all inmates here must do a job of one kind or another. has been assigned to the sewing workshop in mates make things ordered by various enterprises and get paid for that work. to improve twice there's no more than three seventy two. hours you do that each new office. and here you make the seed that's all your fruit what about the large do you don't need anything there therefore put you on the end. to do.

a teacher from a vocational school sit side by side with the owner of the inmate picks up the practical skills fairly quickly. but. medical bands of four cats and other pets who live record the ministration allows people to take the job of their choice. by ford making such things would be the easiest. path to his shift paavo returns to his barracks he will stay there for seventeen years and throughout that time all he will see from the window is a tall fence surrounded by barbed wire oh. no doubt he will reflect on his past and try to find a way to start his life anew. if

you while i look on my day. the times are sort of a throwback and archaic part of our lot. and it goes back to a time when people would write out of their forces in the wild west and pick up these future dates and current events of the sheriff for prosecution the one thing one company may know. when they go out there is cop weapons. and you have to hope that nothing bad can. put. forward facing killers and you gotta keep that in mind others the two million dollar bill for the rest. were not superheroes we can be killed to you know if they shoot me in the head i'm going to die. and. once you hunted run you'll

never go back to hunt anything else. twenty years ago in the largest country and it was too soon to police it because. if. one how did you try. to generate your. where did it take. mission free couldn't take should be free comes for charges free coming from and free. three stooges free. download free blog just plug in video for your media projects and free media gone to our t.v. dot com. wealthy

british style. market finance scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cause or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to cause

a report. in

india policies are made of the.