i'm alexander too but just as it says here. to the shop is tough. but people often help. fifty years ago classrooms in this school are equipped with the very latest in technology deaf and blind students took part in a huge scientific experiment meant to change the future for mankind soviet scientists wanted to prove that intelligence was not hereditary that with the brains endless potential any child regardless of nature could become a talented adult. but i never minded being part of the experiment. because it was i was ok about being a guinea pig. if science needed it. alexander sometimes visits his former head musta he's eighty three now and almost blind that his memory is failing he still remembers how his best pupil was hungry for knowledge. credits for pictures it was nice to talk to him it was easy to teach myside he loved to read and i remember a library was being renovated and we pulled the books in a shed. alexander often sat in there with a braille book one day he was in there well somebody along the door apparently they didn't realize he was there. it starts fr

this is a man who's ready to bring charges against god himself at the last judgment his name is alexander savor of he lives in a small apartment in moscow suburbs and at two o'clock every thursday afternoon he sits by his front door wearing a device around his neck the moment it vibrates and the lights turn red he knows a delivery has arrived and it's time to open the door. every week for many years korea has regularly delivered meals for alexander from a nearby restaurant he knows his client is blind and deaf but still tries to talk to him. although here are the bread rolls i leave them on the table that gave it so then the korea can't understand how anyone can live without hearing or sight he has no idea that this particular deaf and blind man unable even to cook a simple meal is more deserving of admiration pity not everyone has successfully achieved a ph d. and then become a professor of psychology fewer still who are deaf and blind alexander savor off is one of them the great accomplishment for anyone but truly remarkable for a man who lives in complete darkness and silence only able

at the they were to alexander's ex alexander assaf of an architect to. examine and alexander pleitgen an engineer. they met in the winter of one nine hundred ninety one. late one evening i opened the door of our house to find two slightly drunk men on the porch they were radiant with happiness and told me. we're going to restore the spa's monastery they spent the whole make discussing everything to be honest there was nothing there to restore. if you just want to know ready by spring in may of one thousand nine hundred one to be precise work. everything god gave me i received. at first he told me to keep a diary of the island then at one point he brought a camera and start filming or you know work on that. until i put it where it's meant to be. it was like a childish city full of adventure and delight. to land on the joke was to guard the building material. so when i talk to my father i used to ask him. why are you doing all of this is this going to be our island what is this place he would answer. i'm doing it for everybody. we're making nails to attach

at the they were to alexander's ex alexander assault of an architect to. examine and alexander pleitgen an engineer. they met in the winter of one nine hundred ninety one of their. late one evening i opened the door of our house to find one to slightly drunk men on the porch they were radiant with happiness and told me. we're going to restore this bus monastery they spent the whole make discussing everything to be honest there was nothing there to restore. it's. if you just want to know already by spring in may of ninety nine he wanted to be precise work. load of. everything god gave me i received. at first he told me to keep a diary of the island then at one point he brought a camera and said start filming or you will work on that. until i put it where it's meant to be. it was like a childish city full of adventure and delight. to land. close to god the building materials. when i talk to my father i used to ask him dad why are you doing all this is this going to be our island what is this place where he would answer. i'm doing it for everybody. we're maki

in college i got married to alexander. because we would go to spice company island for a honeymoon he wished we went there by boat the lake was perfectly calm and then i saw something incredible something that would be hanging in the air it was a miracle a real miracle one of the bell tower was almost completely destroyed the island was overgrown with raspberries and stinging nettle we didn't have a lot of things with us just a one person canvas tent a blanket a couple of jackets two mugs two spoons and a teapot that's all we had but it didn't matter to me. it was about something else. it was all about alexander all these that ended i can't quite remember i wasn't listening i just watched him. by that time we already had three children and alexander had a good job he was the head of a factory. i can't explain how it happened but at some point alexander quit his job he told us that he loved the factory and he did this without looking for a new job without thinking about the fact that he had a wife and three children. he did

alexander was safe from her husband but not from the law.ed, her stand your ground defense rejected and found guilty by a jury. marissa alexander's husband rico gray agreed to do an on camera interview with us to counter his wife's allegations. a few hours later he made the decision not to do the interview, claiming that going on camera would put his life in danger. later he september us an e-mail saying he would do an interview if he got paid, which cnn does no do. but he has already said quite a bit. during a deposition with the prosecutor from the office of state attorney angela corey, and a defense attorney for his wife, rico gray acknowledged hitting his wife in the past and said this about the shooting incident quote if my kids weren't there, i knew i probably would have tried to take gun from her. i probably would have put my hand on her. marissa alexander's attorney then asked the husband what he meant about putting his hand on her. rico gray responded "probably hit her. i got five baby mamas and i put my hands on every last one of t

alexander was safe from her husband but not from the law.he was arrested, her stand your ground defense rejected and found guilty by a jury. marissa alexander's husband rico gray agreed to do an on camera interview with us to counter his wife's allegations. a few hours later he made the decision not to do the interview, claiming that going on camera would put his life in danger. later he september us an e-mail saying he would do an interview if he got paid, which cnn does no do. but he has already said quite a bit. during a deposition with the prosecutor from the office of state attorney angela corey, and a defense attorney for his wife, rico gray acknowledged hitting his wife in the past and said this about the shooting incident quote if my kids weren't there, i knew i probably would have tried to take gun from her. i probably would have put my hand on her. marissa alexander's attorney then asked the husband what he meant about putting his hand on her. rico gray responded "probably hit her. i got five baby mamas and i put my hands on every

they say the jury was told that in order for alexander to claim self- defense she had to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that her husband was about to seriously harm her. but the burden, they say, was on the prosecution to prove she was guilty of aggravated assault. this case goes back to august 1-st 20-10 when alexander picked up a handgun and fired a warning shot into a wall after she says her husband rico gray strangled and threatened to kill her. she claimed self-defense. "had i not discharged my weapon at that point, i would not be here." before her last trial, marissa alexander tried to use florida's "stand your ground law" to argue she was immune from prosecution... but a judge rejected it saying her decision to go back into the house to confront her husband was not consistent with someone who feared for her safety. she won't get a new chance at immunity, but alexander's lawyer bruce zimet says his client will get a chance to be heard. "she's ecstatic; she can't wait to get back with her family and to be vindicated." i'm ed payne reporting. the office of the florida state attor

and a lawyer and gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want alexander if i go to you first in london. i'm sure you read president putin's op ed in the new york times how do you think the american president should react to it because if i may say in my opinion mr putin's op ed reflects a great deal of world opinion. i think it reflects majority world opinion if you go back to the g twenty summit it was quite interesting that the most powerful countries the countries of the majority population actually supported mr putin as to how mr obama should react the answer is he should welcome it whether he will of course is another matter but he should welcome it this is a way out of this crisis and one that suits mr obama as well doesn't it means that mr obama has got himself if he accepts this out of the very difficult situation that he put himself into ok mark so obama should call putin and thank him for the op ed giving him an exit from a position that he painted himself into agree or disagree. i don't know they should thank him for the bed but he should think

alexander was found guilty.jacksonville naacp wrote a letter to the trial judge saying marissa alexander may not have received justice because of her gender, race or ethnic status. some african-american news websites are saying the same thing, if she had been white, the stand your ground law would have been accepting and she wouldn't be facing 20 years in prison. >> i'm going to be honest with you. i'm a little uncomfortable answering that. >> reporter: for now she remains behind bars. she had a baby girl with rico gray. she only sees her in photographers. rico gray has custody. she is the criminal and doesn't have custody. >> this is the life i'm fighting for. this is my life! >> she has now been granted a new trial. but the stand your ground defense, that's still off the table? >> it's still off the table. what the appellate court said was during the trial, the jury was told that marissa alexander had to prove it was self-defense and they said that was wrong. it was up to the prosecution to prove that it wasn'

that's the way to move forward alexander first go ahead. so i completely agree i mean the point about international law is that it is in the interest of the united states to work with international law international law the international system of law that we have today is largely the creation of the united states an american jurists american lawyers american diplomats american politicians they basically set up the system everyone else has gone along with it because it's bad not an ideal system but it's a workable system and it is a system that actually works for the united states exactly for the reason it's the way you say whether internet you have to have. ok mark go ahead sedately go ahead mark i mean they're dirty international treaties against the use of chemical weapons that syria signed there's an international convention against genocide and what all the great powers discuss everything with security council there are a hundred thousand syrians dead last time i came on this program october twentieth eleven there were three thousand s

alexander was safe from her husband but not from the law.d her "stand your ground" rejected and found guilty by a jury. her husband rico gray agreed to do an on-camera interview to counter his wife's allegations but a few hours later he made the decision not to do the interview claiming going on camera would put his life in danger. later he sent an ini'm say he would do the i'm if he got paid which cnn does not do. he already said quite a bit. ricoh gray acknowledged hitting his wife in the past and said this about the shooting incident, quote, if my kids weren't there, i knew i probably would have tried to take the gun from her. i probably would have put my happened on her. marissa alexander's attorney then asked her husband what he meant about putting his hand on her and rico gray responded, probably hit her. i've got five baby mamas and i put my hands on every last one of them except for one. >> i believe that's exactly what he intended to do. and had i not discharged my weapon at that point, i would not be here. >> but later at a court h

there's a great development tonight for marissa alexander.hat story is coming up. >>> but first i want to the share the three awesomest things on the internet today. we begin a long time ago when the "star wars" movies were actually good. streck director j.j. abrams is set to direct the next installment of "star wars." the latest attempt to bring balance to the force is an animated open letter, outlining four simple rules to make "star wars" great. number one, the setting is the frontier, not the imperial senate or the halls of parliament. >> amidst smugglers and bounty hunters, "star wars" is a western. and it's set in the frontier. >> other rules from the superfan named prescott harvey, keep the future dirty, don't try to overexplain mystical platforms like the force. but the biggest new rule for abrams is this, "star wars" isn't cute. it's a rough and tumble universe out there. >> it's never cute or silly. it's not childproof. it's freaking "star wars"! and han always shoots first. >> thanks, prescott harvey. if the movie is good, a gratef

forward historically the only way civil wars have stopped is through some sort of a political solution alexander you know only this is a golden opportunity but it's a very small part of the whole thing because most of the people that have died in this horrific civil war have not died because of chemical weapons again a lot of people say this is a way for the americans they get their boots on the ground and then they'll change the course of action i'm sorry but that level of cynicism is present around the world. absolutely and entirely justifiably so now if i may say the essential thing about the syrian crisis is that there has to be a negotiated solution there is in fact a possible process already in existence it's been there for a long time there's the kofi annan plan and the suggestions for a geneva conference world has been preventing that process from going forward is the intransigent demand of the rebels that mr resign as a precondition for talks and the support that intransigent position gets from scientists powerful outsiders including certain members of the u.s. administration now who we

alexander died when he was only 33, and his monumental project could not sustain itself.ut the model of the greek state he exported of a civilized city in a barbarian landscape became the model for the greek city-states for the next 300 years. one such city was pergamum, built in what's now turkey in the second century b.c. pergamene rulers were neither democratic nor especially heroic, but they borrowed the heroic forms of alexander's time and of classical athens to express their ideals and values. but in their art, like carvings on the great altar of zeus, the pergamenes depicted the struggle between the gods, between the rational and the irrational, with a violence and passion that the classical athenians never permitted themselves. you can feel the drill ripping into that stone to create that writhing hair of the giants. you can feel the chisel cutting away to create feathers or skin or scales, muscles or drapery-- whatever. you can feel the rasp making those immense range of surface textures together with the polish, so here the sculptor is foregrounding his own tech

alexander was safe from her husband but not from the law. she was arrested. stand your ground defense rejected. and found guilty by a jury. her husband rico gray agreed to do an on camera interview with us to counter his wife's allegations but a few hours later, he made the decision not to do the interview, claiming that going on camera would put his life in danger. however, later he sent us an e-mail saying he would do an interview if he got paid, which cnn does not do. but he has already said quite a bit. during a deposition with the prosecutor from the office of state attorney angela corey and a defense attorney for his wife, rico gray acknowledged hitting his wife in the past and said this about the shooting incident. quote, if my kids weren't there, i knew i probably would have tried to take the gun from her. i probably would have put my hand on her. mr. alexander's attorney then asked the husband what he meant about putting his hand on her and he responded probably hit her. i got five baby mamas and i put my hands on every last one of them except for on

keith alexander who's the head of the n.s.a. and a west point graduate as am i. and of course there is the honor code you you know of but of course that supposed to apply efter you graduate as well and he lied to congress and i'm not saying that. others have said news reports have said that general alexander allied when answering a direct question by a u.s. senator about spying on american citizens and then when he got caught he wrote a letter back saying i made a mistake well there's no talk of a presidential pardon for mr snowden but there's no talk also about perjury charges against general alexander ok and you know case in point back in american history the f.b.i. you know when i was a kid growing up it was the t.v. show t.v. show with effort zimbalist jr and g.-man and all that well you know i just recently read the biography of j. edgar hoover and it was just nothing more than his personal private detective agency and the only reason he stayed in power until the day died literally was because he had dirt on everybody well

plus, a chance for justice in florida as marissa alexander gets a new trial. and the creator of the hit show "doc mcstuffins" is coming to nerdland. but first, "mhp" is on the air and i'm taking calls. >>> good morning. i'm melissa harris-perry and this is "wmhp," broadcasting live from nerdland. now, today, i am taking your calls about the affordable care act. now, late last night, house republicans took us another step closer to a government shutdown by voting for a one-year delay of the law. but that's not going to happen. the heart and soul of obama care launches this tuesday, october 1st. now, perhaps the gop just doesn't understand, after all, there is a lot that you need to know. so let's go to the phones. eric, who's our first caller? >> melissa, our first caller is jim from oklahoma. caller, you're on the air. >> caller: i think it's really important, and don't you agree, that people of this country have to know what this is really all about. this is socialized medicine. now, a lot of them didn't believe that. >> well, there is a reason a lot of them

keith alexander who's the head of the n.s.a. and a west point graduate as am i. and of course there is the honor code you you know of but of course that supposed to apply efter you graduate as well and he lied to congress and i'm not saying that. others have said news reports have said that general alexander allied when answering a direct question by a u.s. senator about spying on american citizens and then when he got caught he wrote a letter back saying i made a mistake well there's no talk of a presidential pardon for mr snowden but there's no talk also about perjury charges against general alexander ok and you know case in point back in american history the f.b.i. when i was a kid growing up it was the t.v. show t.v. show with effort zimbalist jr and g. man and all that well you know i just recently read the biography of j. edgar hoover and it was just nothing more than his personal private detective agency and the only reason he stayed in power until the day died literally was because he had dirt on every book well you know

while all smiles a fellow on ice hockey star alexander ovechkin becomes the first russian to carry the olympic torch to kickstart a record long relay for the salt two winter games. and fast track to russia's hottest to win the one prospect's against iraq and test the sochi circuit ahead of russia's first ever f one race next year. but let's start with football because it's been a bad week for the world's top player no messi as the barcelona forward picked up a thaw injury in the two know when it all maria after also appearing in court for the charges of talks fraud messy netted the open out in the wind to post his eight goal in six legal matches so far this campaign bossa have now won seven active seven club record start to the season messi is ruled out for up to three weeks but before that the twenty six year old argentinian and his father jorge were questioned by a spanish judge after allegedly evading taxes of more than five million dollars an accusation both men deny. it was a losing home debut for a world record signing gareth by a laugh to rail madrid lost to city rivals athletic

open from the sport however to man bulgaria levelled deep into for us half stoppage time thanks to alexander the call of the russians came out fired up in the second half and regained the lead within three minutes gap to normal hope netting his third of the complaint and just after an hour visit luke made sure of the points three one also scoring his third to ensure russia went top of their qualifying group. there's a long way to go we've played only three games i think defeat of where we're finished top will be decided in the last two fixtures we can sit in the last second of the first heard of so we were a bit nervous about that but we knew there was forty five minutes to go and had it all in our hands. russia kept their one hundred percent were occurred as they is to we want to win against them and they think you to go top of group two and now will travel to do so with a fifteen for their next encounter on sunday by the r.t.e. moscow. now at a sporting writing measure g.p. champion jorge lorenzo i won his second straight race at the sun marino grand prix to narrow the gap to standings lea