nine pm wednesday night tonight moscow once more involvement in investigating how an adopted russian child died while the u.s. still awaits the autopsy results nearly a month after the voice tragic death. greece grinds to a halt in another nationwide stoppage with labor unions and bucking on yet another strike in protest over crippling austerity measures. and press prison a reporter's rights group says turkey is the world leader in jailing journalists with its media crackdown undermining the country's eve membership us.

a low good evening live from moscow is kevin owen here at r.t. tonight very good to have you company our top story russian investigators want an active role in the u.s. probe into the death of a young boy adopted by an american family it's almost a month now since three year old might seem mean died russian officials believe he was fatally abused by his adoptive american mother but u.s. authorities say they're still waiting for autopsy results and a sissy churkin is in the family's hometown in texas where the tragedy happened. russian officials are outraged at yet another case of a death of a russian child living an adoptive family in the united states we're standing outside the home of alan and laura shadow parents two three year old max shadow known in russia as mean the three year old boy after suffering severe bruises to his legs head and internal organs had died in january this year just a few weeks after his third birthday right now his parents are not making any statements if you call their voice mail it says if you're

a reporter or news agency we have no comment now according to russian officials the investigation that they're conducting they're saying allegedly was the mother of the child that was behind this death they're saying not only was the child severely bruised but had also been fed for a long time anti-psychotic drugs meant to treat skype's of free media in adults a drug that is sold by prescription in the united states we do know that the younger brother of much steam t.d.o. continues living with the family here at the county sheriff's office an investigation is currently ongoing in cooperation with russian officials and local child protection services on the afternoon of january twenty first the local police department had received a call from a local hospital emergency room while a police officer was on his way there the three year old boy had already died unfortunately. this particular kind of calls for. every day. somebody has had a heart attack we don't put pressure. we have

a child that's been injured in an a.t.v. we don't put a pressure unless we start suspecting that something may be out of the ordinary. it wasn't a little bit later that we started getting some suspicions of what was going on and then all developed from talking to the parents the people that lived there it just took a little more time for us to develop. we'll run currently an autopsy is underway. and the police is not really releasing any further details in terms of what they can tell us about this case what we do know is according to them the autopsy results may come any time from a month from now tell us that there are no suspects in this case as of yet and no arrests have been made and party after county texas. children's in moscow russia has a right now to demand the return of the of a child who was adopted by the american family if it's proved that caused the death

of his brother a foot or only post from the foundation against child trafficking which told me the u.s. adoption system like supervision. joke assertion is a national company i mean the u.s. is at state level the company so it's not the u.s. state department in the fear. of children actually just like any other children in the u.s. like children of their parents and so the state level view of the children in russia who are in are in in child protection supervised care. fired by rights out there from officials from the save for the child adoption and basically if it's out of five family it's like any other child and so there's nobody supervising it there's nobody not for you anything you post adoption we force. russia very. i don't view the parents by the.

adoption agency. and i love to. say anything about you know one has to work for their children work with the current and work towards reintegration into the family. press freedom has become one of the key roadblocks to turkey's eve membership a journalist rights watchdog report says that the country has become the world's number one media prison these days many reporters are detained under anti-terrorism laws and the being held without charge for prolonged periods of time artie's really in that was got the details. it's because of people like me that turkey who was the number one spot in the world for the number of journalists and. medium was arrested and held for two hundred days his charge opting in classified documents and insulting government officials he suspects it was because he published a book investigating the death of another journalist which unnerved government officials. the main reason the government arrests journalists just to stifle voices

of disagreement the best way to do that is to silence the journalists who speak out against the government then their audience will also fall silent that's the main reason behind the imprisonment of journalists it's not just journalists you get put in jail doctors students labor union leaders the risk of people being thrown in jail in turkey. his words are backed by research from the committee for protection of journalists which blamed turkey's or cake laws for journalists for writing anything their thirty's might consider on turkish on par with terrorists the problem with press freedom in turkey stands mainly from the legal framework it has to be reformed and it has to be fundamentally reform in order for turkey to stop conflating terrorism with journalism turkish officials promised last november

and proposal to parliament that laws be changed to improve the treatment of journalists at the time the country's news agency is quoted the turkish deputy prime minister who responded to this report for us the number is not important we are greatly saddened even by one journalist being jailed for their rights in drawings journalism activities jail reporters have been incarcerated over their legit connection to again a con a deeply secret anti government organisation most of whose members have never been identified and which exist many believe only in official papers turkish. say affiliation with a unicon is just one of many clever ways the government gets away with locking them up. the government says. just carte enough to qualify as journalists. and that's of course a primitive reply. which befits well there'd be

a prime minister who said the people. because germans are prison right because i know them had prescott's journalism is a rather popular career choice for young people in turkey the country boasts numerous years papers and a plethora of to the channels but in the current circumstances every reports could end up being a one way ticket to jail. because i teach journalism in a university families of my students tell them go learn journalism but don't become journalists still a lot of young people feel it's a good way to express their view on the government the disagreement it's a popular career but a dangerous one this c.p.g. says turkish officials used all their latest latest powers not just incarcerate journalists but also scare them from reporting anything the government doesn't like a tactic that won't deter people like nadine is because as you go there's no fear my trial continues i may be out of jail but i'm still facing

a fifteen year term and in turkey anything can happen when the police can accuse me of anything but being a member of a terror group for example someone can send them an anonymous letter nail used as evidence and i'll be back behind bars. in turkey. i t. . the day the media's also focus a bit later as well as return to britain as journalists in a few minutes and come up our late second from bottom in a poll about who are the public trusts will austin the wife paper the press no longer makes just a few. the next one. traffic halted school shuttered hospitals desperately understaffed labor unions in greece are embarking on yet another twenty four hour strike over the country's crippling austerity around forty thousand people have marched in athens and anger at spending cuts and tax hikes they say there were some clashes but no arrests or injuries maybe it is a demanding that the government gets rid of that bailout agreement which requires further severe austerity measures i think time the e.u.

has struck a deal empowering the european commission to verify the budgets all the clocks members that we spoke to a documentary filmmaker out is how far no he says greece is turning into debt office. when you have huge dead leg one that greece and other countries of the european very very are facing if you start losing levels of democracy and i'm afraid that's how and don't forget that one year ago we had not only the brackets there and after the election we have a government that promised to renegotiate the dead but never did something beyond lean first in right police and in unconstitutional. and we always more spirit the country i'm afraid that we are. becoming a third world country not only as far as the economies closer but also as far as democracy is switzerland europe was one of the major players that destroyed the

greek economy by forcing business through the measures only countries that said that we we not follow the orders of the i.m.f. for the big financial institutions miners who survived the this crisis and i don't mean our countries like argentina or iceland who didn't know any of the proposals of the big financial institutions or the or the governments. i feel prices hitting pockets for soul around the globe with the root causes ranging from the rest of middle east to recession that's why the movers and shakers them from the world's energy sector are in london to try to find a way out of it trying to thrash it out a bit we with it more on that later also the printer that could really give you a hand right after this break coming up the scientists on the verge of developing a machine to reproduce living tissue it's what about the cloning concerns to.

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again now over seventy percent of people in britain it seems do not trust the country's journalists even members of parliament did better according to a nationwide poll of the politicians did come out worse let's hope we can trust our next guest that it was from january inside he's investigative journalist tony goes like he's in london hello tell me you've got a trustworthy face i hope only twenty one percent of people in this ipsos mori poll apparently trust generous to tell the truth in britain how do you feel about that and as a journalist yourself. well i think the first thing i'll say is this probably expect me to say this is not the fault of journalists because the people actually control

the media really are not the journalists themselves journalists are hired and fired by the managers and boy bosses vaal papers the senior staff well it is actually and it's the owners as well i mean it's been one of the byproducts of the financial crisis has been very handy for some because the it's been become much much easier to hire and fire journalists and so what's happening is the media is concentrating in the fewer and fewer hands and these owners are basically using their outlets to push peddle their own political line i mean there this is this is the case right across the western world now and that of course plays into the hands of the rich the super rich the millionaires the people who can afford to buy these newspapers for example they don't make a profit many papers know the independent which is actually one of the exceptions quite a good paper here in britain was bought for a pound and i would suggest that actually the i which they depended produce is a very very good paper the trouble is that that is not the only outlet the general

trend is the other way it's towards the managers and the editors the owners the only ship really sort of rupert murdoch people like this the park between zero and the telegraph empire they pushing their own line and their hiring of foreign journalists very easily it's very difficult to tell the truth the idea being basically if you're a journalist like me you know don't rock the boat you might end up on the dole you know you've got wife and kids to feed ok right so generally just stunning but for this people feel that media is all too frequently lying to them study but as you see it in britain is that a fair assessment or is it overblown. well i think it's overblown to say they're lying it's just that we're not told the entire truth i mean for example in denmark about ten years ago one of the news presenters was actually sacked for being on the news and saying at the end of the news that is what we decided to tell you tonight as a bit of a joke but you know there is a lot that isn't being said in our media i mean the b.b.c.

is losing its credibility slowly ever since really the one nine hundred ninety s. because of the way it's been being managed not through the fall of the journalist but i mean for example at the moment we've got the chairman of the b.b.c. is chris patten he's a former senior conservative cabinet minister you know he's coming from a very specific point of view i mean i don't really think you should have people with that political persuasion or any x. you know senior politicians running the b.b.c. and of course the results being things like the savile scandal of coming out but nobody is actually being sacked for that and so there's a kind of feeling of you know this this reduces the morale in the belief you had what i guess is that but a few heads on the block i guess sort of more to come but i mean one of the big blow was your choice or resign the director general actually really resigned he wasn't sacked you know if you look at the way he was paid off that wasn't he wasn't sacked because they were afraid but those are staff at newsnight always motherhood after involved have left they've been moved around this is trouble it's like shifting the deck deck chairs on the titanic at the senior management level they

need to be some new blood i think younger blood in some of these senior management jobs and what often happens is if someone is very good on the air as a journalist they're not actually managed to do the job they get promoted into the senior management positions so i think what we need to do is get rid of some of these high tier management that the journalists just get on and do their job so we've got more time of fred's lot more i'd like to ask you but thanks ever so much with other lied to the gods of investigative journalist. thanks kevin. russia is ready to host talks between the syrian rebels and the government with indications that the situation is moving out of it said dead and that optimism is from foreign minister sergei lavrov is due to be to syrian counterpart on monday with the opposition leader also expected to visit the russian capital although it's not known wet more on this than for months he got his cut off earlier the leader of the syrian opposition for the first time has said that they're ready to negotiate with the government but only on condition that the release one hundred sixty

thousand prisoners will be claimed have been jailed because of their political you know the government on its head and said that it's ready to talk but without any preconditions or clearly there are still major sticking points including the fate of president assad but russia's foreign minister says that there is room for potential progress now moscow has been saying that it's not taking sides in this conflict but is calling on the international community to require that you apply equal pressure on them in order to begin a political process in syria don't you there's new evidence until recently that there were those who discouraged the opposition from participating in dialogue with the regime that was far as i understand now the situation is changing and so it's important that this readiness of the syrian opposition's leadership will be met with the government's response that they are willing to do the same in the meantime of the situation in syria continues to deteriorate and on tuesday russian emergencies ministry's plane evacuated around one hundred russian and c.i.s. citizens and there's also speculation that several russian navy ships have been

sent to the mediterranean to assist possible further evacuations i feel prices have been a burden for many consumers but even those now working in the industry say it's holding the world back from recovery making it worse of the sanctions on iran and the ongoing uncertainty in the middle east more than two thousand key players from the oil and gas industry and thrashing out the problems and solutions hopefully in london sarah first been hearing from the experts. thousands of oil and gas professionals from around the world have gathered here in london for the annual international petroleum week listened to talks from senior industry figures last year and the buzz around sanctions on iran dominated the talks these sanctions were supposed to bring iran to the negotiating table over their need clear program that the sun and the sanctions could have come at a worse time a loss of production in south sudan in yemen in the north sea and now in syria has

been driving prices higher the reigning queen is still in demand in asia with the u.k.'s problem with millions of home struggling with fuel poverty being echoed all across the european union right now is it the european consumer has been hardest hit by these sanctions we've been speaking to some industry insiders to find out what they think obviously you've got the private companies then sort of carrying out political decisions are having very tough economic or would he say today looks like the oil and gas companies sort of in bed with the government i don't i don't see that we are taught i think the politicians around the world have to make the decisions companies have to get on with business technology business commercial business right now always stay with that with iran oil being used as a political weapon and i would use that sort of phrase i mean i think it's always the case as years go by governments around the world seppala says on trade and other things become part of the company's job is to apply the best technology in

the best commerce to comply with whatever the environment is at the time to get the best deal for can seem is ultimately ultimately that's the job yes it can seem is it saying right now they're getting oil prices through the roof of the best think yes you're right on the best thing we can do is invest so i unfortunately the age of easy or oil and cheap oil i think is past but we're finding more oil the technology is getting better and better what we've got to do is to ensure it doesn't beat on the best thing that we can do is to get the technology. deployed get the best work practices get the financing and get additional oil production because that's the best thing the companies can do to dampen say it right the potential rising prices thank you very much joining us thank you sir sanctions on iran have reduced its hold exports of course and investors will keenly watch next week's nuclear talks the signs of a shift deep seated tensions remain in the west would suspect a round of developing atomic weapons back in two thousand and seven the white house came close to launching military action against iran but then was stopped by the national intelligence report saying iran had halted its covert program and we spoke

to his author let's take a listen to the judgments that we made was that it was a political decision to halt the weaponization portions of its program or continued to fizzle material fizzle material was the pacing element. that the. at the time required to go from physical material. we did it was shorter than the fissile material. but they'd halted it. for. terminology we used was because of international scrutiny and pressure but that center was a political decision it was a matter of a technical problem. or a change in geo political situation they still lived in a tough neighborhood. that they could turn this program back on again at any time and we also said in that release part we weren't sure we would know if they turned

their back on. if you'd like to see more of that you can you watch the full interview with the former chief of the u.s. national intelligence council at six forty five pm g.m.t. just a bit later tonight here on out. now if you've got a smartphone your new there's an app despite everything we tell you online tonight though there's one for you to post some tweets some post-mortem tweets and why it begs a question but it's there a carb add on to twitter to keep your online spirit alive long after you've mortally logged off and also reports to the whole the does the mysteriously drop its charges of a secret cia prisons where al qaeda suspects allegedly detained and tortured the background to the long running story we've got the latest on it our teeth. there are computer printers that can bring your favorite color and even photo

quality no news there but how about one which prints human organs it is in development now and scientists working on it think it will prove a watershed moment for medicine although of course fears over human cloning could make so-called people printing are to sell as report nigher explains. major universities corporate laboratories and biomedical engineers are printing experimental heart valves need cartilage is bone implants kidney cells and even healing tissue now three d. bio printing essentially squirts ink of the living cells to build up to shoot structure eventually biomedical engineer is hoped to print out taylor tissue suitable for surgery and entire organs that can be used in transplants experts say that ideally they would like to create organs for those that are on lists waiting for organs and possibly you know in life circumstances in dire life

circumstances so pioneers of this bio printing believe it will be a huge benefit to to the public and to the medical community could essentially use photographs of you and then create a three d. image of you which is quite scary because with these three d. printing we don't know how far will go how far will develop and to know that a stranger can find a piece of your hair or your cigarette but if you smoke or a glass that you drank out of or even a few pictures of you and create a three d. facial structure of you is is a bit terrifying i mean forget about surveillance and privacy issues knowing that a stranger could do something like that view it doesn't mean it doesn't keep a sense of calm within the public and this is just the start of it who knows how it will develop five years from now maybe a person can be cloned or

a parent person can be replicated between their photographs between the hair and their d.n.a. and between them and also add to that the virtual identity that most people have created for themselves online through social media through uses of skype through e-mail essentially there's a footprint of someone everywhere be through your hair or your activity online and that could essentially be duplicated with all this new software and technology that's pioneering right now. some of the world news stories starting with the ongoing violence in syria a footballer's being killed that day and several other players injured after a mortar bomb its stadium in damascus two shells landed in the sports facility in the center of the city but a home's based team was training at the time just a day earlier two mortars exploded near the presidential palace in the syrian capital causing damage but no casualties then. france's foreign leaders speaking to britain but got a less the more welcome marie le pen was invited to cambridge university to debate

the e.u. and french politics police clashed with around two hundred fascist demonstrators that was then the pan use of produce in france came third in last year's presidential election and has been a euro m.p. for nearly a decade. well gary's entire government has resigned after a series of nationwide protests reached its peak public anger was initially over soaring electricity prices and the sterett images but later took an anti government twist prime minister of the country said he could not stay in power amid such violence saying every drop of blood is a shameful. great programs one of the few tonight peter viles cross-talk wait in the wings ready to get on the air talking tonight about whether u.s. drone strikes are here to stay it's next.