sarah ferguson wanted to do something about it and campaign. to do that, she won a credibility. she wanted to see the situation firsthand. she bravely agreed to join me and the undercover team to remain here and revisit some of those orphanages. she also went to turkey, another country that would like to become part of the eu. one of the conditions is to improve its human-rights record. but we found were abhorred conditions for thousands of disabled turkish children who had been placed where -- placed there by their parents. >> a team of medical workers in mexico were caught on camera trying to rush aid donor heart for a transplant. it did not go according to plan. >> this was done unusually tense journey. they have precious cargo on board. on this journey across the country, on a private jet. they went towards the clinic where the life of a 20-year-old woman waits for the arrival. then, a helicopter. this was with heart stopping accuracy. they don't have far to go. how could such a carefully planned journey go so wrong? the vital organ is brought back up and then worry damage m

we introduce you to this teacher, sarah ferguson on the ed show last week. she's a teacher from chester-upland school district in pennsylvania who volunteered to work for free when the school district ran out of money and the state refused to help. sarah ferguson is with us here in studio tonight along -- i just have to tell you, it's an honor to have you here. i was so moved tonight when i saw you at the state of the union, because it's a story that really had to get out. how did you you get there tonight? how did this happen? >> thank you so much. it really was you. it was this show, it was the attention that we got from so many people all across the country who know that it won't stop with chester-upland. if we don't stop it, there will be other school districts right behind us. so you brought attention to what was going on and it got results for us. >> the president tonight, when he was talking about teachers, about the sacrifices they make. how important is that, do you think? >> very important, the fact that i was in that box as a representative for my

. >>> coming up, sarah ferguson in trouble again with the -- what the duchess of york did that could land her in a turkish prison. >> and the golden globe goes to -- >> and the hollywood award season is well underway. a look at some of the winners at tonight's golden globes. and at 11:30, a new shake up in the race are to president. a gop contender is expected to pull out of the race tomorrow. >> speaking of tomorrow, i am meteorologist leigh glaser. the winds are spec expected to die down. look for a cool day tomorrow, and then after that at the end of the workweek the rain returns. we will look at that details accu-weather seven-day forecast c >> closed captioning brought to >> closed captioning brought to >>> several celebrations today marked what would have been they 3rd birthday of dr -- the 83rd birthday of dr. martin luther king, junior. voices of children filled oakland's paramount theater as they paid tribute to the slain civil rights leader. it was called "in the name of love" and it is always held during the mlk holiday. the glide ensemble dedicated the service to the dr.

. >>> overseas to that new headline involving sarah ferguson. the government of turkey is now leveling serious charges guns ferguson and some are now warning her not to travel or risk being extradited. abc's kelly cobiella is in london. >> reporter: the duchess of york is in trouble again and sarah ferguson could end up in a turkish prison because of it. this is what caused a stir. a 2008 british documentary called "duchess and daughters." their secret mission. fergie went undercover with a hidden camera and her princess daughters to bring attention alleged abuse in turkish orphanages. we've hidden the children's faces but the original show did not. prosecutors in turkey have charged the 52-year-old duchess and producer with breaking the law in acquiring footage and violating privacy. crimes that could get them 22 years in a turkish jail. >> we just felt that the world really needed to know what was going on inside turkish institutions and the only way we could do that would be to trespass and to secretly film. >> reporter: hidden cameras have g

three years ago, sarah ferguson put on a black wig and snuck into an orphanage with her daughter, eugeney. some left alone on the floor all day. now, a court in turkey is filing charges against fergie and the filmmakers for violating the privacy of children. a conviction could mean up to 22 years in prison. >> britain doesn't have an extradition policy with turkey, but the turks are pressing scotland yard to help build a case against the duchess. >> reporter: fergie hasn't commented on the charges, but friends say she will be furious. >> sarah will be upset, outraged that the turkish authorities could blame her for something that they had done. >> reporter: this isn't the first time a videotape has landed the duchess in trouble. in 2010, a british tabloid caught her on tape, taking bribes in exchange for access to her former husband, prince andrew. but this time, the british press is siding with fergie, portraying her as a humanitarian and a mother, trying to do the right thing. >>> a british interior ministry source says there is no chance that they will be indicted. >>> a winter classic

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and the governor trying to his agenda across that he got defeated in november. >> sarah ferguson, why have you decided to work without pay? and also your fellow teachers? >> well, what happened or does not happens within classrooms across america determines the course of students lives, and ultimately, it will determine the course of our whole society. we decided to be there as professionals to instruct our students because this is about more than dollars and cents. this is about the course and direction that these young people's lives will take. >> how long are you willing to do this and your colleagues? what is the conversation? >> the conversation is that we're in this for the long haul. we're willing to do this as long as we can, we've gotten tremendous support from our surrounding area, from our unions, and we intend to be here just as long as we can we're in it for the long haul. >> linda, what happens if they want to shut down the school district? could it come to that or is it up to the teachers to keep this thing going, working for nothing? >> it's basically up to the teacher

sarah ferguson is accused of violating the privacy of five children. her spokesman has refused to comment. when a fruit seller in tunisia set himself on fire just over a year ago, he sparked a change in the arab world. ewert think that it would be a desperate single act. there are statistics suggesting that he triggered a trend. despite the overthrow of the hated regime and the advent of democracy, two nations continue to set themselves of light. >> in the last 12 months, at least 130 people have set themselves on fire in tunisia. last january, he poured petrol over himself and let a match. he survived and is being treated here in the capital. he told me that he deliberately copied the actions. the market trader who sells the information began the tunisian revolution a year ago. unlike him, he did not become a folk hero and he bitterly regret what he has done. i was jobless and desperate. the whole country seem to be on fire. i set myself on fire, too. i destroyed myself psychologically and physically. i also destroyed my family. in the last week along

ferguson is accused of going against the law in acquiring footage and by late in the privacy of five children. drugs and death are painfully late in mexico. for the fifth year running, the number of deaths attributed to the drug war has increased. u.s. figures say 13,000 people were killed between january and september of last year. that takes the total number to more than 27,000. >> the statistics confirm what many mexicans have suspected for some time, for a fifth consecutive year, mexico has experienced a rise in drug- related murders. almost 13,000 people were killed in the first nine months of last year. that is up 11.4% from the same time in 2010. conflicts between the powerful drug cartels battling for control of the lucrative smuggling lanes in the u.s. see many committees caught up in the fighting and thousands of mexicans dead. a very small proportion of those murders are never brought to trial, many are never even investigated. while the numbers are large, the government has suspended its military strategy -- has defended its military strategy. the rise was the slowest sin

abc's kelly cobiella has more. >> reporter: sarah ferguson could end up in a turkish prison. this is what caused such a stir. a 2008 british documentary called "duchess and daughters: their secret mission." fergie went undercover with a hidden camera and her princess daughters to bring attention to alleged abuse in turkish orphanages. >> every day like this? >> reporter: we've hidden the children's faces. but the original show did not. prosecutors in turkey have now charged the 52-year-old duchess and a producer with breaking the law in acquiring footage and violating privacy, crimes that could get them 22 years in a turkish jail. >> we just felt that the world really needed to know what was going on inside turkish institutions and the only way we could do that would be to trespass and to secretly film. >> reporter: hidden cameras have gotten fergie in trouble before. in 2010 she was caught on tape trying to sell access to her ex-husband prince andrew. with these new charges the jetsetting duchess is reportedly afraid to leave great britain. and with good reason. >> it will b

now, more from london. >> the duchess of york is in trouble again, and sarah ferguson could end up in a turkish prison because of it. this is what caused such a stir, a 2008 british documentary called "duchess and daughters, their see secret mission." fergie went undercover with a hidden camera and her princess daughters to bring to light abuse in turkish orphanages. we have hidden the children's faces, but the original show did not. prosecutors in turkey have charged the 52-year-old duchess and a producer with breaking the law in acquiring footage and violating privacy. crimes that could get them 22 years in a turkish jail. >> we just felts the world really needed to know what was going in turkish institutions, and the only way we could do that is to trespass and secretly film. >> hidden cameras have gotten fergie in trouble before. she was caught on tape trying to sell access to her ex-husband, prince andrew. with these new charges the jet setting duchess is reportedly afraid to leave great britain, and with good reason. >> it will be very risky for her to travel outside of the uk e

and sarah ferguson, a math teacher whose pennsylvania school faced bankruptcy. but she vowed to keep on teaching without pay. >>> and george stephanopoulos and i and the full abc news political team will be bringing you live coverage of the state of the union tonight, at 9:00 p.m. eastern, 6:00 pacific. we hope you will join us then. and a reminder on thursday morning, i'll sit down with the president, his first network interview, as the countdown from the state of the union to the election begins. >>> and today, an outpouring on the penn state campus, as mourners pay tribute to legendary football coach, joe paterno, who ended his career amid questions about his handling of an alleged sex abuse scandal. today, his son, jay paterno, talked to our sister network, espn, about his father's dying wish. abc's dan harris has that story. >> reporter: the line of mourners a quarter of a mile long today here at this place that's always considered itself less a state university than a state of mind. and where joe paterno was the mythic embodiment of the motto, "success wit

sarah ferguson has more from damascus. how do you stop the fractured country from falling at a country where some cities now is then below was a where the economy's on its knees and which children at being shot states on the streets. it's a question everybody desperately trying to find an answer to you right now nobody knows what's going to happen so i'm a cooling fan minute she incidentally and this is a cooling diet of the city and case is not isolated to. mention that mention the west and i mention that mention. everybody has on interests a russian foreign minister thank a lot for a refund that most would not authorize a u.n. visit. lucian unfolding military intervention has struck a resident chord with the main opposition in the country. we refuse on principle any type of military foreign intervention because it threatens the freedom of his own country. damascus has promised to push through reforms including parliamentary elections later this year to some hair that's simply not enough. this could have been done in the

civilians rebels and government forces sarah ferguson international from damascus. saying they get by heading hey it's said it's from the gulf states leave the airport mission in complete leaving behind a country in a deepening crisis it's never going to be easy they were going to. walk right from the word gay the missions prefer problematic the opposition accused them on it is of being too closely aligned with. government the government's now accused of being part of a foreign conspiracy and they will it just tickle complains to the observers seemed l. equipped on the ground and they were concerned that they were simply too few numbers to undertake such a major task but if things were bad at the beginning now they seem even worse following in saudi arabia's footsteps all the gulf states withdrew their observers after damascus rejected their recent proposal that included president assad cede power to a deputy and form a unity government was interesting that these countries is very interested in democracy and they have nothing this is the most interesting this is som

ferguson. joined the observers as they visited a town near the syrian capital damascus now controlled by opposition forces. but the arab league observers delegation is in car at the moment presenting their findings that despite the arab league observers mission mandate having finished you can see they continue to travel around the country to look at what's going on been seen as further evidence by some people that this mission is to continue possibly for another month one of the observers i spoke to earlier off camera when i asked whether they would be staying here longer whether the mission would be extended he said it looked like it would be this is the area that you see the so-called free syrian army take control of and in the past few days a temporary cease fire between the government forces and free syrian army sweeping into the city to see what's been happening certainly it's an area extremely divided on one side you've got the government in control the other side the free syrian army the

ferguson on the ground with the latest. with the sounds of gunfire. yes the face tests from the streets and the increasing. international opinions britain needs to lead the way in making sure we tighten the sanctions the travel bans the asset freezes on syria can become. the syrian case has developed as every side wants to push away the responsibility to another tossing the ball back and forth. in the last few days the situation has become so unstable the finding people willing to talk quite know his present difficulties. we've had tanks entering in firing and just where we've had six people who've died we travel to the suburbs where some of the clashes have breaking out to try to get a clearer picture of what had been happening here in the last few days in one of the suburbs of damascus at the moment now we were traveling to a suburb called and we thought it was a friday. but we just received a phone call telling us that it's not safe to travel at the moment with the situation. to show you really that you simply don't know

ferguson in the city standing by for us right now. so hello to you there are fears the syrian conflict is beginning to resemble what happened in libya and with its. uncompromising promise from the opposition it seems to becoming even more closer to reality. yeah i mean certainly you vented a nice face of the conflict here in the country you've got a civil conflict on your hands is just seeming to ramp up all the time i will say little comments like the ones that have been made by one of the senior opposition figures in the syrian national council and not going to help the situation at all he said that the assad with his family would be killed in syria that they would be killed like he does say that they left no room for a peaceful solution now i mean that's going to be a huge blow to the opposition remember the opposition in this country a region he started this movement calling for a peaceful solution but you've seen over the ten months the calls for reform change to calls for the president to step down and now it's very common on th

where sarah ferguson also posting updates on line you can follow her blog at r.t. dot com for first hand accounts of the situation in syria. well the arab league remains split over recent proposal by qatar to send troops into syria but this is the move could ingo the entire region asia times correspondent pepe escobar says the arab league is not made to pointed by democracy in syria as a group itself mostly consists of oppressive monarchies. don't forget that all these regimes are doctor sees that the local populations have no possibility at all for that sickle expression some of them their own populations like in the keys of the rate seventy percent shiite population they're treated as second rate citizens and now we have the persian gulf monarchies trying to teach the world lessons on the mockers like the home sink the whole scheme is sampson literally absolute it starts with so can we imagine if we had what we seen in syria inside easter saudi arabia for it's. obviously no cause for democracy no calls for deposing the government like qatar is a nowadays imagine

ferguson damascus reports the syrian conflict is beginning to resemble libya. we're seeing an increasingly civil conflict evidence really by the violence has broken out for the past couple of days really. was not being housed by the statement by one of the members of the made up position body of the syrian national council high somalia head said that assad and his family would be killed like gadhafi now certainly that's going to fuel the fears on both sides really there's going to be retaliation and revenge attacks coming in this teacher and certainly that is a genuine fear amongst the people here you're seeing a very polarized country right now and the dividing lines are really being too on you know here at the moment there's really a you're either for oh you're against people really that moderate middle ground now is being squeezed all the time and very concerning because the calls for dialogue to seem to have been completely overshadowed by this very very strong aggressive rhetoric this conflict is just getting bloodier and bloodier more and more violent wit

sarah ferguson helping you stay right up to date with the latest developments in syria by her twitter stream where you can find her first hand reports from across the country and also boring news and analysis on our team's general twitter blog. the ongoing tips for tat conflict between iran and the west has now officially reached the airwaves after britain revote the license of press t.v. iran's english language news channel efficiency reasons given by the u.k.'s top media watchdog including a number of broken agreements and and i'm paid to find it a press t.v. says it's being silenced in a clear example of censorship alleges it's been targeted oh ever since is negatively cover the costs associated with the british royal wedding as well as last year's london riots so rees the u.k. based author and media analyst believes this is only the next logical step in isolating the islamic republic. but if this had been separated from geopolitics there is no what this would not have happened and some other kind of sanctions would have been would have been made and the deal would have been struck

that's now get the latest from sarah ferguson is in the syrian capital damascus syria why exactly did moscow criticize the suspension of the mission. well the sense really that this decision to hold the mission was going to inflame an already externally volatile situation and unfortunately really today that's exactly what we've seen happen now minister lavrov was speaking on his tour of asia pacific countries and what he said about it was that he didn't really understand why such a useful tool was used in this way and now we've seen the observer mission start and eventually grounds to a halt they never really recovered after that decision last week for the gulf states when they withdrew their monitors now their decision they said was because they felt the mission had failed to hold the syrian government to its pledge to end the violence that was there is a lot of truth and that certainly we've been with the observers for a lot of their excursions they've had many many issues along the way but really there is a sense that this was a very essential tool could have done some good and it

and sarah ferguson currently on a trip to various parts of syria sending updates on the latest developments in the country via her twitter stream you can check it out at r.t. underscore com her most recent post from the town of zabadani in the southwest of the country the scene of heavy fighting sara says there's a right now when are you using cease fire they're out of the town under government control by the opposition she also says locals seem very worried that the violence could it erupt again. its. capital zagreb police have clashed with protesters trying to pull down the flag ahead of the country's membership referendum sunday recent surveys suggest forty percent of the population are against joining the patrick young from investment advisory firm devi advisors says it's easy to understand because currents can see their neighbors in the bloc facing hard times. the key consideration here is that when we look at the crew ition referendum there's been barely one and p. in the entire parliament who's actually been turning round of publicly saying anything against the e.u. itself so the fac

ferguson witnessed the worsening crisis in greece in two thousand and eleven and reports from athens on what's been a turbulent year with an uncertain want to head. well it's just been such a challenging year for the people here in the country because if we pull about that this year that the bailout that that very big stacks of it now in real terms of the people hit us that kill us all if we get that tax like it's really affected so many people here in the country every household felt the brunt of this the scene and you love the famous springing up here in the country even here this evening the results that are very clear you can see lots of people out of the sea leaving rough on the streets tonight so many different people stand up to that discontent and so many young people it's all that you were speaking to buttin fifteen these are very nice if they did very well educated people that are happening to grapple with extremely big issues and they're you know doing their part c. turning out into the states and really making us who we evaluate the way we fools about the usa and europe a

ferguson latest for us now from the syrian capital damascus. the sense really from moscow that this decision to hold the mission was going to inflame an already very volatile situation and unfortunately as seems to be exactly what we've seen happening here now foreign minister sergei lavrov was speaking today on his tour of the asia pacific countries and he said that he didn't understand why such a useful tool had been treated in this way we've seen the observer mission start and eventually grounds to hold they never really recovered after that decision last week so the goal stays when they withdrew their monitors now their decision they said was because they felt the mission had failed to hold the syrian government to its pledge and the violence and it was a surprising decision that's how the foreign minister described it because at exactly the same time that the gulf states made that decision the decision would also be made to extend the mission so just that a very very crucial time with the situation in the country rather than making this mi

ferguson reports from syria those caught in the middle of the conflict are living a life of fear. it's been less than a month since we were last in homes in that time the situation's become even more dangerous and the pressure on the people living here shows i suspect were people numbers that at the end of having the tragic death of foreign journalist children here in homs recently served as yet another remind the harrowing the precarious situation the people in the city are in the way to go but. that's you know what. they are going to tell because i'm waiting for that are you moved why do kids from this school in the hot air you know what i was living. area. of you well this is not your normal life it's our land it's our home syria ok we cannot we we don't want to leave our homes we don't want to leave our schools we just want to leave peacefully people think telling us that the sky is to leave their homes across the city water shortages food shortages power cuts are extremely common winces here and it's hard for some people to even heat their homes survival here in the city of h

ferguson now reports it's unclear whether it will be enough to stop the continuing conflict . streams of people leave the syrian prison into the arms of waiting family and friends. kissing loved ones who haven't been seen for many months prison is delighted i'm relieved to have been given back their freedom here this prison on the outskirts of damascus these are the prisoners they've been selected for at least. you can see the signing on this is being overseen by some of the arab league observers who have been here this is part of the amnesty by president assad but of course for everyone he's not being released from detention questions being asked about the why they were detained in the first place. i've been in prison for four months i was accused of weakening national security i didn't protest they brought me here by mistake the honesty is a good step i just hope it includes everyone. i had some weapons i had inherited from my grandfather and was accused of bearing illegal weapons i've been here three months when people heard about the amnesty they were ecstatic they never t