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