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in prison plus 1,000 years for the man who abducted three young women | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
in Ohio. Ariel Castro apologises to his victims. He pleaded to have | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
brought -- several hundred kinds including kidnap, rape and | :00:30. | :00:39. | |
aggravated murder. I am not a monster, I am a normal person will | :00:39. | :00:49. | |
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stop I am just sick. Edward Snowden slips out of Moscow airport after | :00:49. | :00:59. | |
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being granted asylum in Russia. Also coming up: Robert Mugabe's | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
challenger for President. Morgan Tsvangarai called Zimbabwe's | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
election a huge farce amid claims of vote rigging. Uruguay is set to | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
become the first country in the world to legalise marijuana. Will it | :01:08. | :01:18. | |
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reduce drug-trafficking or simply create a nation of drug users? | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
A US judge has given a sentence of life imprisonment without the | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
possibility of parole to Ariel Castro, the man who has admitted | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
holding three women captive in his house in the city of Cleveland for | :01:30. | :01:40. | |
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almost a decade. The court heard he has put his victims through a life | :01:40. | :01:46. | |
of hell. He had pleaded guilty to more than 900 cans including | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
kidnapping, rape and the aggravated murder of an unborn child. As he | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
addressed the court, he apologised for his actions. | :01:54. | :02:04. | |
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I am truly sorry to the family, to Michelle and Amanda. You guys know | :02:07. | :02:17. | |
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what went on in that film. I ask God to forgive me. I asked my family and | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
I apologise to my family also for putting them through all of this. I | :02:26. | :02:36. | |
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want to apologise to the state of a high old, the city of Cleveland. I | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
just want to apologise to everyone who were touched by the events but I | :02:42. | :02:49. | |
do also want to let you know that there was harmony in that home. | :02:49. | :02:56. | |
There was harmony at home, I was a good person. I never had a record | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
and I hope that people find it in their hearts to forgive me. | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
One of the women abducted by Ariel Castro gave a moving account of her | :03:03. | :03:13. | |
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ordeal in court. I would like to tell you what those 11 years were | :03:15. | :03:22. | |
like for me. I mist my son every day. I wondered if I was ever going | :03:22. | :03:32. | |
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to see him again. He was only 2.5 years old. I look inside my heart | :03:38. | :03:46. | |
and I see my son. I cried every night, I was so alone. I worried | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
about what would happen to me and the other girls every day. The day | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
is never got shorter. The days turned into nights and night turned | :03:57. | :04:07. | |
into days. The years turned into an eternity. I knew nobody cared about | :04:07. | :04:17. | |
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me. He told me that my family didn't care. Chris Smith was the most | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
traumatic day because I never got to spend with my son. -- Christmas. | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
Nobody should ever have to go through what I went through, not | :04:28. | :04:38. | |
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even my worst enemy. My team-mate never let me fall and I never let | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
her fall. She nursed me back to health when I was dying from his | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
abuse. My friendship with her was the only thing that was good out of | :04:47. | :04:57. | |
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this situation. We said some day we would make it out alive, and we did. | :05:03. | :05:11. | |
Our correspondent joins us now from Washington. It is all very | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
distressing when you listen to what Michelle Knight was saying in court | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
and we also heard from Ariel Castro. The judge gave a very direct | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
consideration and give his sentence, so tell us what the judge | :05:24. | :05:32. | |
said? The judge was very unmoved by Ariel Castro 's please. He made a | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
long speech in which he apologised to his victims but blamed everybody | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
else for his predicament and said, I am not a violent man, I am just | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
sick. The judge had very little patience for that. He thoroughly | :05:44. | :05:51. | |
went through each kind and explained to him what he was a sex offender. | :05:51. | :05:58. | |
He gave him 1,000 years plus life, no possibility of parole and now | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
contact with the daughter he fathered. When Michelle Knight gave | :06:02. | :06:09. | |
that moving account, what was the demeanour of Ariel Castro as he | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
heard one of his victims speak? Ariel Castro was instructed not to | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
look at her. His demeanour throughout the entire sentencing | :06:19. | :06:25. | |
hearing was one that was almost aloof. He was kicking his feet, he | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
was fidgeting in his seat and when he had to talk, he seemed | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
non-apologetic at all. When this name to Amanda Berry, he didn't | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
necessarily make a scene but he later implied that because nobody | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
mist her, it was not a real problem that he took in the first place. | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
There was a real lack of connection between the crimes he committed and | :06:49. | :06:58. | |
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his apparent remorse. 5.5 weeks in transit and Edward | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
Snowden has finally been allowed to leave Moscow airport. He was given | :07:07. | :07:13. | |
one-year asylum in the country and is currently in a secret location. | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
He thanked the Russians for granting him asylum and criticised the USA | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
for not respecting domestic or international law. He is wanted in | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
the US for leaking classified information about US surveillance | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
programmes. We will look at what the indications are for US and Russia | :07:29. | :07:38. | |
relations. Edward Snowden has been stuck in the | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
transit zone of this Moscow airport for 5.5 weeks, having arrived here | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
from Hong Kong in June. Camera crews and photographers have been | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
desperately trying to get a games of the former intelligence contract. | :07:51. | :07:58. | |
Today, he left the airport and detected. He has been granted | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
temporary asylum in Russia. His lawyer showed the relevant documents | :08:03. | :08:10. | |
to journalists and gave his thoughts on what would happen now. As for his | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
place of residence, he can choose that himself, he can stay in a hotel | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
or flat. Given he is the most wanted person on, we will have to look at | :08:18. | :08:26. | |
security arrangements. The US has charged him with leaking security | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
details and the affair has caused diplomatic ructions around the | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
world, upsetting the United States has allies and a traditional | :08:32. | :08:39. | |
enemies. Since then, he has received offers of asylum from Venezuela, | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
Nicaragua and Bolivia. He says he wants to visit those countries but | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
his US passport has been revoked, making travel to Latin America | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
impossible. His father, in an interview broadcast on Russian TV | :08:53. | :09:00. | |
yesterday, said he would advise his son to stay put. I feel Russia has | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
the strength and resolve and conviction to protect my son, to | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
keep him out of the reach of those who would wish harm. That is why I | :09:08. | :09:15. | |
would stay in Russia and that is what I hope he will do. This latest | :09:15. | :09:24. | |
move by Russia both can -- make more diplomatic tensions. The Prime | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
Minister -- the President may even my cot meetings with President Putin | :09:29. | :09:38. | |
in September. What are the implications for US and Russia | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
relations? Andrew Kurchins is director and senior fellow at the | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
Russia and Eurasia Programme at the CSIS, the Centre for Strategic and | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
International Studies. Is he big enough to be a big problem between | :09:50. | :09:57. | |
the US and Russia? It is big enough to be a considerable problem between | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
the two countries and even the fact that the President Obama | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
administration is considering cancelling the meeting in Saint | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
Petersburg next month is significant. I think it is | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
worthwhile looking at the options that Edward Snowden had coming out | :10:15. | :10:22. | |
of the transit zone. One option was that he would be extradited directly | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
by the Russians to the United States. Frankie, I don't think | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
anybody considered that a realistic option and if we turned the tables | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
and imagined if the Russian equivalent had arrived with a | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
treasure trove of secrets and intelligence, it is unlikely that he | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
would be extradited back to the Russian Federation. Another scenario | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
would have Edward Snowden going to a third country. That is a worse | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
option than the one we have now. Why? If he goes to a third country, | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
the current -- likelihood that this information will be disseminated | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
further and wider is all the greater. It leaves us with the may | :11:07. | :11:15. | |
be best case realistic option that was available for Edward Snowden in | :11:15. | :11:21. | |
terms of the United States. The upside right now is that US | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
authorities and citizens including his family have the opportunity to | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
talk directly with him. He will have the chance to get a clear | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
understanding of what he would face if he were to return to the United | :11:31. | :11:39. | |
States. How worried you think the US is that he might make more | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
revelations about US surveillance programmes and would it be in the | :11:43. | :11:53. | |
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Russians interests to have him say more? I think it is a legitimate | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
concern upon the US authorities that Edward Snowden could make further | :11:58. | :12:07. | |
revelation that could be damaging to US security interests. I don't think | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
President Putin wants Edward Snowden to disseminate the information any | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
further to other countries, that devalues the information the | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
Russians and Chinese have already gleaned from Edward Snowden. There | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
may be information that would be embarrassing to the Russian | :12:23. | :12:31. | |
Federation if Edward Snowden were to reveal it. To some extent, it may | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
sound unconventional but there is some shared common interest between | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
the United States and the Russians that Edward Snowden be kept under | :12:39. | :12:48. | |
tight wraps and I think we can assume that a trader of state | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
secrets is not the kind of person that President Putin looks upon with | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
fondness. Do you think in a few months time, he will slip out of | :12:58. | :13:05. | |
Russia and everyone will forget about him briefly? Slip quietly? | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
Probably not. If he makes the decision that he can return to the | :13:10. | :13:16. | |
United States. It is a long shot but not beyond the realm of possibility | :13:16. | :13:26. | |
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and the Russians would be likely to him go. A court hearing in Italy has | :13:31. | :13:38. | |
upheld. Mr Silvio Berlusconi faces has arrested instead of going to | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
jail. Let us remind ourselves of the case. Silvio Berlusconi was | :13:44. | :13:50. | |
convicted in October 2012 of tax fraud, reading to his firm. He was | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
given a four-year sentence, reduced to one year. In May 24 team, an | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
appeals court reinstated the original four-year sentence. Today's | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
outcome is the result of his final appeal against that conviction. Let | :14:05. | :14:14. | |
us get more on this from our correspondent in Rome. Is this what | :14:14. | :14:21. | |
everybody was expecting? A day of rising tension as you can imagine, | :14:21. | :14:28. | |
half of Italy transfixed out this court case. Silvio Berlusconi has | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
been the most influential politician in this country for the better part | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
of 20 years. Prime Minister three times and yet, as you say, the | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
appeal Court judges have upheld the verdict against him. They decided he | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
was indeed will of systematic tax evasion and that he should serve a | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
prison sentence. It is not quite as dramatic as it sounds because as you | :14:50. | :14:58. | |
said, the system here is lenient on men in their 70s like Mr Berlusconi. | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
He is much more likely to injure some humiliation like house arrest | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
or committee service but make no mistake, this has been a devastating | :15:06. | :15:13. | |
verdict for him. There is no appeal from here, this will be permanently | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
part of his record and he will certainly see this as one of the | :15:16. | :15:22. | |
darkest days in his extraordinary political career. It has come to an | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
end, it would seem. Is that going to cause problems for Italy | :15:27. | :15:36. | |
politically? He is of course a very influential figure? It is very | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
important to say that there was another punishment that could have | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
been handed down to him here this evening. There was in that court | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
verdict, a measure to bar him from public office but that has not been | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
enforced. The appeal Court judges were not happy with that aspect of | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
the verdict and they say that it will now have two go back to the | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
lower court to be re-examined so effectively, he is not being barred | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
from public office. If he had been, there would have been political | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
ructions. You would have expected him to fight that verdict in every | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
way that he could and he could have challenged it in the highest house | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
of the Italian parliament but as I say, that barred from public office | :16:20. | :16:30. | |
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is not been in force to stop it would have to be re-examined. | :16:36. | :16:45. | |
you for bringing those that. To Zimbabwe now. President Robert | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
Mugabe's ZANU-PF party says it has won the hotly contested presidential | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
election, even though votes are still being counted. One independent | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
group of election observers says voting was seriously compromised | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
because of 2 million people may have been unable to vote in areas where | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
support for Robert Mugabe's rival Morgan Tsvangirai is strong. | :17:08. | :17:18. | |
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President Robert Mugabe's supporters are strong. This has been a huge | :17:21. | :17:28. | |
force. It has been marred by legal violations which affect the | :17:28. | :17:38. | |
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legitimacy of this outcome. This is what he's complaining about. Footage | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
allegedly showing supporters of Robert Mugabe being brought in to | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
vote illegally. Based on the empirical reports from observers, | :17:48. | :17:55. | |
the credibility of the 2013 elections seriously compromised by a | :17:55. | :18:02. | |
systematic effort to disenfranchise up to 1 million voters. Five years | :18:02. | :18:11. | |
ago, Zimbabwe's election ended in chaos. A power-sharing government | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
followed. President Robert Mugabe always kept a tight grip on security | :18:17. | :18:27. | |
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forces. With the economy stabilised, his campaign to seize control of | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
businesses was popular. Today, Robert Mugabe and his party could be | :18:30. | :18:40. | |
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heading for a landslide, stolen or otherwise. Simba and Saint Barbie" | :18:43. | :18:49. | |
neighbours seem unlikely to challenge the result - - Zimbabwe's | :18:49. | :18:55. | |
neighbours seem unlikely to challenge the result. | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
Do you think these allegations about vote rigging will be enough to | :19:00. | :19:10. | |
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invalidate the election poster Mark I don't think so. - - do you think | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
these allegations about vote rigging will be enough to invalidate the | :19:14. | :19:23. | |
elections? I do not think so. I think these allegations should be | :19:23. | :19:33. | |
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investigated, but at the end of the day, if the election is ratified, I | :19:38. | :19:47. | |
think that will very much be it. We might have two parallel track. Going | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
forward, you will probably find a new government will be put into | :19:52. | :20:02. | |
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place fairly soon. If more than strangler I - - if Morgan Tsvangirai | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
says these elections are a bit of faith farce, it will be a come-down | :20:09. | :20:19. | |
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for him to say, all right. I think it is a friend scenario here. - - I | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
think it is a different scenario here. If the election is ratified, | :20:28. | :20:38. | |
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the MDC may contested, but there will be a another government. If it | :20:47. | :20:57. | |
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is a ZANU-PF, there will not be that much pressure to include MDC | :20:59. | :21:09. | |
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members. I think the pressure will be more on the MDC. If the group of | :21:15. | :21:21. | |
southern African nations say these elections were fed by and large - - | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
fair by and large, what positions is up at the international community | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
in? It puts the cat among the pigeons in the international | :21:31. | :21:41. | |
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community. They either go along with the African poster if - - | :21:44. | :21:51. | |
perspective, or the international community say they do not see the | :21:51. | :21:58. | |
elections as being credible. Then we would be back to the disconnect, | :21:58. | :22:05. | |
like before 2008. We have had more than a decade of that. Is it your | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
guess that the MDC will contest the result? It is hard to say. I imagine | :22:11. | :22:19. | |
they will. I think it will be important for the electoral | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
commission to take the challenges seriously. I do not hit changing | :22:22. | :22:28. | |
actual outcome. Thank you very much. | :22:28. | :22:34. | |
And Uruguay is on course to become the first country in the world to | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
legalise marijuana. A bill has been approved by the lower house of | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
parliament and is expected to be passed by the Senate. It means | :22:42. | :22:43. | |
Uruguay will have stage when authorities regulating the | :22:43. | :22:50. | |
production, distribution and sale of marijuana. President Josey Mojica's | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
government backs the law, and says it will undermine the legal drug | :22:53. | :23:00. | |
market by taking a profit from the dealers. What does this mean for | :23:00. | :23:06. | |
Latin America? Will other countries follow and how will Washington | :23:06. | :23:13. | |
respond? Peter Hakim is Emeritus President of the Inter-American | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
Dialogue, a US centre for policy analysis on the Americas. He joins | :23:16. | :23:24. | |
me from Washington. Are you require a kind of experiment for the rest of | :23:24. | :23:34. | |
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Latin America? ? - - are Uruguay kind of experiment? The US started | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
the experimentation when the states of Washington and Colorado legalise | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
the recreational use of marijuana. There are still a lot of questions. | :23:47. | :23:53. | |
Some will be answered by Uruguay. Other countries are clearly | :23:53. | :24:03. | |
interested in finding new ways of eating drug addiction, and criminal | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
violence - - new ways of beating drug addiction and criminal | :24:07. | :24:17. | |
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violence. It is not marijuana people are worried about, really. It is | :24:25. | :24:33. | |
more heroin and cocaine and harder drugs, isn't it? Oh, absolutely. | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
There is a question about whether marijuana is a significant factor in | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
violence. Prohibition against marijuana have caused a lot of grief | :24:43. | :24:52. | |
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for young people, people who are courts and in trouble with the law. | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
Prisons are filled up in the United States by people who have been | :24:58. | :25:06. | |
involved with drugs. It is an immense cost. Maybe Uruguay will | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
provide the beginning of the different approach to drugs, an | :25:09. | :25:16. | |
approach that legalises but at the same time helps health services and | :25:16. | :25:26. | |
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community services. Overall, the objective in some ways is to not | :25:30. | :25:38. | |
simply eliminate the drug, but to eliminate the primary violence | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
associated. You think the United States and Latin America CI two I on | :25:44. | :25:52. | |
this issue - - do you think the United States and Latin America see | :25:52. | :26:02. | |
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I to I on this? It is not working for Latin America. You see crime and | :26:04. | :26:14. | |
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violence at high levels. The United States seems to have it struck Rob | :26:20. | :26:27. | |
under control - - the United States seems to have it drug problem under | :26:27. | :26:37. | |
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