protests in paris. femin uses the nudity in another context, not a seductive context where we re supposed to be nice and pretty and try to sell the project. now we don t sell project. we speak out loud and sell an idea. i am half naked but not an object. i m not here for your pleasure. i m here to deliver my own message. in august, 2012, a solo act of defiance in the ukrainian capital of kiev gets ina in very hot water. it s a protest against the trial of the russian punk rock group, pussy riot, arrested earlier that year. they did an action in the church. they were dancing and singing songs against the ideas of the dictator. so we came the 17th of august and i chainsawed this eight-meter cross.
looking at it. but $10 million actually went to this lab basically for these results. sort of because these results are promising. that s a lot of money. well, we ll definitely follow up on the program, see where the money goes and how they re going to sort of redirect the research. it ll be interesting to see what happens. thank you so much. thank you, kyra. you bet. well, coming up, the russian punk rock group pussy riot released. so is putin launching a pr campaign, or is this real change in russia? we ll explore that. 1ñp
silverman, omar. ford, terry gordon and jesse williams lost their lives when their helicopter crashed on tuesday. five of the six soldiers trained together and were based in kansas. it s the largest loss of life in afghanistan in nearly six months. the russian president touched on a number of hot button topics in his news conference. it it resembles one of apple s keynote addresses. this instance 1300 journalists were in attendance jock keeg for position to ask him a question. putin defended his opinion of the lgbt community and eased criticism of his record on human rights saying he will release one of his fiercest critics behind bars for a decade. he will also pardon a group of green peace protesters and two members of the all female punk rock group. he also brushed aside questions on edward snowden saying he s
dozens more are arrested, tortured or kidnapped including nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel who in december, 2012, is taken hostage with his crew. five days later, they escape to safety. engel and his colleagues are part of a small group of courageous journalists risking their lives to report from syria. some of the most extraordinary images are being captured by manny, an independent french photographer and filmmaker. manny uses a fake name in order to protect his identity. before becoming a journalist, i used to teach kids in primary schools in paris. as a young man, manny also teaches in syria where he travels to study arabic. i started going to syria quite early in my life. when he decides to switch careers and become a journalist, the syrian conflict beckons. when these movements happened in the arab world, i thought, okay, this is something that is really important that is happening.
femin realizes it needs media attention to help publicize its ideas as widely as possible. julie is another member of femin. we are maybe feminism 2.0. we are using technology to spread our message. and we are bringing a photographer, a video maker, during actions. femin s founders are originally moved to act because of ukraine s thriving sex trade which is estimated to involve more than 50,000 women and girls. the main target at the beginning was sex industry that is treating women as sex slaves. it s still one of the main cliche about women from eastern europe, that all of them are prostitutes. we were talking about all these kind of things. in the beginning, questions about what is the position of woman today? and we started to scream more and more. we became radical feminists. members of the group begin to realize the more provocatively they dress and undress, the more