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this is a key tonight moscow wants more involved one city investigating how old adopted russian child died while the u.s. still awaits the autopsy results nearly a month the boy's tragic that. greece grinds to a hole to the other nationwide stoppage with labor unions and yet another strike in protest over those crippling austerity measures. the majority of british people do not trust their countries journalists only politicians for the worst partly in a nationwide poll we asked why. very good evening to you central moscow is kevin i would head tonight just after eleven pm as it is our top story the russian vesta gators want an active role in
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the u.s. probe into the death of that young boy adopted by an american family it's almost a month since three year old maxime cushman died russian officials believe he was fatally abused by as adoptive american mother but u.s. authorities say they're still waiting for autopsy results. it is in the family's hometown in texas where this tragedy unfolded russian officials are outraged yet another case of a death of a russian child living in 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 me and 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 voicemail it says if you're a reporter or news agency we have no comment now according to russian officials the investigate. in that they're conducting they're saying allegedly was the mother of
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the child that was behind his 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 sky it's a premium in adults a drug that is sold by prescription in the united states we do know that the younger brother of much sodium 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 we get these kind of this particular kind of calls for service every day. somebody has had a heart attack we don't put pressure on the we have a child that's been injured in an a.t.v. we don't put a pressure a shot on unless we start suspecting that something may be out of the ordinary. it
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wasn't a little bit later that we started getting some suspicions of what was going on and that all developed from talking to the parents the people that lived there it just took a little more time for us to develop. 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. after county texas. meantime the children here in moscow says russia has the right to demand the return of the other child who is adopted by the american family if it's proved they caused the death of his brother spoke to really post from the foundation against child trafficking who told me the u.s. adoption system supervision. just assertion is it's their national competitions i
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mean the us is at state level the comfort zones so it's not the u.s. state department can use in the spirit this is adults and children actually said like any other children in the u.s. like children love of their parents and so the state level cannot interfere of the children in russia who are in danger of the homes are in in in child protection in supervised care supervised by or by by shelter from officials in the space and wanted child abduction and up to your regular giffords out of private family and it's basically like any other child and so there's nobody supervising and there's nobody just enough audience and equally postproduction with force will be a mighty central russia they're just rock the boat either due to the parents or i believe in a child's adoption agency to do something and learn to speak but fortunately for us they say anything to be critical about production from her school work for their
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children work with the parents and work towards reintegration into the family. with traffic halted school shut north spittles desperately understaffed labor unions in greece are barking on yet another twenty four hour strike over the country's crippling austerity around forty thousand people have marched in athens and angered spending cuts some tax hikes but they say there were some clashes but no arrests or injuries labor unions are demanding the government gets rid of the bailout agreement which requires further severe austerity measures the e.u. struck a deal empowering the european commission to verify the budgets of the blocs members were plenty filmmaker others said just to follow says greece those turning into a dead 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 some don't forget that one year ago we had nothing like the prankster and after the election we have
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a government that promise to read negotiate but never did something beyond lean first in riot police and in unconstitutional. and we both more spirit in 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 which 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 big financial institutions managed to survive big this crisis and i'm talking all the countries like argentina or iceland who didn't follow any of the proposals of the big financial institutions or the you or the governments. the u.k.
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is normally renowned for its quality press and higher tauriel standards but a survey shows journalists are among the most trustworthy people in britain now let's take a look at what the source mori poll found that we go before your very eyes right even members of parliament did better the journalists with at least a quarter of the british public trust and never tell the truth as you see the figures they're bankers seventy five percent didn't trust bankers were journalists though they didn't suffer well the nearly up where the bankers were seventy two percent politicians well i guess politicians are always on the receiving end of it their credibility is never great amongst the public sadly for them they're coming they're at seventy seven percent low spoke to were totally goals that he's an investigative journalist himself he told me that it's not the reporters who are to blame but the media bosses it's not the fault of journalists because the people actually control the media really are not the journalists themselves journalists are hired fired by the managers and boy bosses vaal papers the senior staff
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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 if you are a few hands in these owners are basically using their outlets to push peddle their own political line and 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 and you've got wife and kids to feed ok right so generally just standing vote for this people feel that media is all too frequently lying to them standing by 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
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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 the moment we've got the chairman of the b.b.c.'s 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 he should have people of 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 come out but nobody is actually being sacked for that. only goes up after the break the print to really could give us a hand scientists on the verge of developing machine to reproduce living tissue but there are concerns there for now over cloning we've got a full story on the way you can stay with.
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russia's ready to host talks between the syrian rebels and the government with indications that the situation is moving out of its debt and that optimism from the foreign minister sergei lavrov who is due to meet his syrian counterpart indeed on monday with the opposition leader also expected to visit the russian capital too although it's not quite know when that's going to happen you go to place going off . earlier the leader of the syrian opposition for the first time said that they're really 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
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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 you apply equal pressure on them in order to begin a political process in syria don't you dare we knew that it wasn't until recently that there were those who discouraged the opposition from participating in dialogue with the regime which is that this far as i understand now the situation is changing and so it's important that this readiness of the syrian opposition 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 i don't use the 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. now if you needed
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to how would you ensure your allies in the future will seems one way is to educate them in your own country while they you know there are a fair few potential foreign leaders currently in america's education system getting insight from luminaries including former secretary of state hillary clinton she's just signed on incidentally with a public speaking agency is going to get you can has been finding out that it is a strategy that seems to be bearing fruit. the u.s. is investing in potential for invaders by educating them in america convinced that back in their home countries when the time comes most of them will side with u.s. interests impair our future generations of political leaders who've had a positive american experience and they are more likely to be global partners leave us mahmoud jibril could be one example having studied in the u.s. he went on to become the head of libya's transition government he's now the leader of one of the country's biggest political parties there's little doubt which country he would favor when it comes to dividing lucrative oil deals in the future
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u.s. foreign service officers had their eye on him even before the revolution broke out a leaked diplomatic cable from november two thousand and nine written by the u.s. ambassador to libya gene credits described mr jebreal as quote a serious interlocutor who quote unquote gets the u.s. perspective and of course mr gibril is not the only one who gets the u.s. perspective i'm not going to measure how many kids were really just on a program but i'm going to do is look at where they are five years later and you know what ninety two percent of the people who go on u.s. government exchanges go on to work in civil society positions in the parliament or in an n g o sariah took a two year course in public diplomacy in two thousand and six at the university of south in california in this particular program this was every single lecture has a state department member that's. so you know that you're not really learning
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public relations that you. had to implement. the u.s. trade and development agency an offshoot of the state department's usa id claims that what they call aid is actually investment agencies deputy director says every one dollar they invest they get eight dollars back in u.s. exports america's officials maintain that it's hard to overestimate the benefits of investing in public diplomacy the investment i do not call it spending it's an investment it's absolutely an investment and there's a return on investment. and it's very hard to quantify that return completely but i can tell you that you could quantify it in troops but you don't have to send somewhere so i never pursued a career with the training. it was interfering in other countries i mean i may not be fond of the government in iran but i think it's not that easy and i was sitting
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. lecturers and people saying how do we think the market i'd be undermined that. says to me it was a real challenge to see the program through as you age it was their lives definitely that the soviet union we thank in two thousand and seven when i was in the program they had already started the post africa diplomacy is good business as has been made clear by the state department time and time again getting four in leaders and their advice serious to think in english and to subsequently favor the united states and their policy is much cheaper and bombing their country so the state department will certainly be more forceful in their efforts at exercising some power in washington i'm going to check on. if you have small foia news these days this is for everything we'll tell you online tonight there's one for you to post some post more weeks as well in the right at home to keep your own mind spirit
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alive if you have more. question be fought out more online also this front says worrying a rise in attacks on jews as well we're up to speed on one up more than fifty eight percent and in the wake of last two shootings since news which targeted soldiers and civilians got a good report their. high fuel prices have been a burden for many consumers but he was working in the industry now say it is holding world the world but from a coverage making it worse of the sanctions on iran and the ongoing uncertainty in the middle east more than two thousand key players from the old and gas industry then and i try to thrash out the problems and try to find solutions in london so to 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
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buzz around sanctions on iran dominated the talks these sanctions were supposed to bring iran to the negation table with a neat clear program that for some 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 for the reigning queen still in demand in asia with the u.k.'s problem with millions of homes 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 some industry insiders to find out what they think is the good the private companies then sort of carrying out political decisions are having very tough economic as they 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
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companies have to get on with business technology business commercial business right now always the way with iran oil being used as a political weapon i would use that sort of phrase i mean i think it's always the case that as those years go by governments around the world seppala says on trade and other things become part of the company's job is to acquire the best technology the best commerce to comply with 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 all 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 peak 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. the potential rising prices thank you very much for joining us thank you sir. so first press freedom has
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become one of the key roadblocks to turkey's e.u. membership a journalist rights watchdog reports that the country has become the world's number one media prison these days many reporters are detained under anti-terrorism laws being held without charge for prolonged periods of time the details of what is a ridiculous but now. it's because of people like medium shinier that turkey who is the number one spot in the world for the number of journalists and. medium was arrested and held for two hundred days he's charged up to me in classified documents and in something government officials he says it was because he published a book investigating the death of another journalist which a nerve the government officials to. 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 and their audience will also fall silent that's the main reason behind the imprisonment of journalists
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it's not just journalists you get put in jail doctors students labor union leaders schools of people being thrown in jail in turkey. his words are backed by research from the committee for protection of journalists which blame turkey their cake was for journalists were 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 reformed in order for turkey to stop conflating terrorism with journalism turkish officials promised last november a proposal to parliament that laws be changed. to improve the treatment of journalists at the time the country's news agencies quoted the turkish deputy prime minister who responded to the c.b.d. report for us the number is not important we are greatly saddened even by one
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journalist being jailed for their rights and drawings journalism activities most jail reporters have been incarcerated over their legit connection to organic on a deeply secret anti government organisation most of whose members have never been identified and which exists many believe only in official papers turkish journalists say affiliation with again a con is just one of many clever ways the government gets away with locking them up they know these. developments say this. press cart there harken up to qualify as journalists. that's of course a primitive reply. which befits well there'd be a prime minister who said the people. because germans are you right because i know them had prescott's journalism is a rather popular career choice for young people in turkey the country boasts us
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these papers and a plethora of to be channels but in the current circumstances every report could end up being a one way ticket to jail. because i teach journalism in a university the 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 disagreement it's a popular career and a lot of dangerous one this c.p.g. says to use it this is used all the registry to powers not just to 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 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 like the police can accuse me of anything being a member of a terror group for example someone can send them an anonymous letter mail use it as evidence and back behind bars. in turkey it even goes i t.
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other world news headlines starting with the ongoing violence in syria then a footballer there's been killed today and several other players injured after a mortar bomb at the stadium in damascus two shells landed in the sports facility in the center of the city where a home space team were training at the time they only had to water has exploded near the presidential palace in the syrian capital causing damage but no casualties . france's far right leader has been to britain but a less the more welcome marine le pen was invited to cambridge university to a debate about the e.u. and french politics place clashed with around two hundred fascist demonstrators outside the venue the pan is so often criticized in france for abuse came third in last year's presidential election and has been a euro in pay for nearly a decade. well gary is entire government has resigned after a series of nationwide protests reached its peak of public anger it was initially i was soaring in this city prices an austerity measures bare then it led to an anti government twist prime minister of the e.u.'s poorest country as it is said he
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could not stay in power amid such violence saying quote every drop of blood is a shameful. these days are computer printers that can bring us really vivid color photo quality nothing new there but what about one which prints human organs well it is in development now and scientists working on it think it will prove a watershed moment for medicine although fears of human cloning could make so-called people printing to sell his art his middle point nine. 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
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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
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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. whoa so much to think of or could be the future though couldn't it now in a few minutes but to the present the people of l.z. it was late edition across the obama table tonight to whether u.s. drone strikes are here to stay.

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