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now it's a shutting down evidence in britain's biggest selling newspaper snooped on the phones of murder victims spells the end for the news of the world. you had a credit rating agencies after downgrade of. world markets panicking over a fifth bailout and the knock on effect elsewhere. high profile photographers are arrested in georgia suspected of spying after nine others are convicted on the same charge the countries of excuse me countries opposition says the government is muzzling the press cover up its own problems.

broadcasting live direct from the heart of moscow this is r t certainly glad to have you with us billionaire media mogul rupert murdoch is pulling the plug on britain's biggest selling newspaper the news of the world the decision to stop the presses for good came after a phone hacking scandal engulfing the tabloid in a storm of public outrage and revulsion the papers accused of hacking into the phones of murder victims dead soldiers families and bribing police for help detectives leading what's now a huge criminal investigation say more than four thousand people could have been targeted with the british government promising an inquiry laura emmet reports from london. it started off relatively. really with just we understood the news of the world had been allegedly hacking into the phones all celebrities and politicians and to be honest no one in this country really cared about that very much we we all think celebrities and politicians are sort of fair game as far as that kind of thing is concerned but then of course it escalated when

it was alleged that the sunday of the newspaper had tucked in to the telephones of relatives of soldiers killed in combat and also that those caught up in the two thousand and five london bombings the most shocking thing really for a lot of people in the first thing that was revealed was that news of the world journalists to diligently hacked into the telephone of missing milly dowler who was later found had been we also now know that allegedly seamy a police officers had been wrongly by the news of the world to to post on criminal investigations and other confidential information which the full a crime and there are two things that we should take away from this from now one of them is surely this kind of action couldn't have taken place without an ok from the very highest level and in fact i spoke to someone today who knew the editor of the current editor of the news of the world said to her you have to keep this paper in high circulation around four million copies

a day and you have to do it by any means possible so it's almost like he was giving the green light to that from the very beginning we don't know that of course and also is this an isolated incident is tapping attacking something that goes on throughout news corp and is it an isolated incident within news corp or all the other newspapers in fact in the u.k. who engage in that kinds of those kinds of behavior those are the questions we should be asking. him it reporting for us there no media analyst and author phil reese told scandal is likely to spell the end of arrangement through which police and politicians depended on coverage by murdoch's newspapers but the paper's closure will have little effect on his mood. empire i think something changed this week you know for decades british prime ministers have been on their knees to the to the murdoch press because they knew that when the sun which is his main daily newspaper here in britain when the sun supported a british politician running for prime ministership you know they won it and then you'd find on the next day you'd find that prime minister reading the sun looking

like an idiot saying well the sun got me elected i mean so you've got this demeaning of british democracy is diminishing of democracy really which the murdoch press with that but after that i think and that was after a silence as well because important people needed the murdoch press and they couldn't be there they couldn't attack it because of that and i think a line was crossed i think of the action that you know that rupert murdoch took shows that they'll be more revelations the program member revered murdoch has a very finely tuned business brain and in my view this was a business decision he has a lot of things going on now one of them is to purchase the largest satellite network in britain called b. sky b. and that decision is about to be approved by the government that was in jeopardy i think he felt that as a businessman he had to sacrifice the news of the world because it in terms of the whole news international it's a tiny part of or back in terms of his global empire the amount of profits it brings yes it was profitable but he can sacrifice that very easily and furthermore

he could maybe in a year have a sunday sun the sun is the daily newspaper that he's very successful at and reopen something like that but i tell you the most important thing in my view is that the political cast have been sucking up to rupert murdoch for so many years including prime minister david cameron he now has to stand back and say no i can't do it anymore it's gone too bad you are with r t you still to come in the program greece detained for the last of the vote started to blockaded gaza while the un is expected to publish a long awaited report on israel's deadly assault on last year's flotilla also. this is inexcusable it's careless this is negligence it's criminal anger at nato campaign in libya is growing with criticism its comment too high a price of stalemate and civilian deaths and. european politicians have lashed out at a rating agency moody's after it unexpectedly downgraded portugal's government debt

to junk status germany's finance minister has already threatened to limit the influence of the agencies after the surprise move spread panic and more uncertainty about the euro zone's financial stability and lists now say portugal might need a second to bail out on top of the seventy eight billion euro rescue package the country received in may there are growing fears that the shock waves could spread to ireland and to spain and italy it comes as germany use the biggest economy debates the very legality of the bailouts but writer and editor patrick young says the rating agencies should have downgraded portugal and greece much earlier at a time when it was possible to find a cure. the european union to three years ago said the problem with credit ratings were that their their ratings couldn't be trusted then all of a sudden when they actually come up with plausible ratings against the european union suddenly the finance ministers such as mr showable are saying that oh these

are discrete small companies because actually they're trying to get at the truth but actually one of the biggest things that they got wrong was the fact that they weren't being pragmatic enough when it came to the debt and the debt problems of the european union not there being almost and suddenly the politicians want to shut them up no realistically i think the question the ratings agencies must ask themselves because they were told here was why they didn't get better rates against a couple of years ago when it was absolutely clear to a large number of us that the european union hundred really significant problems and they were caught up in the wave of euphoria that was going on at that stage and actually the e.u. itself how it's been dragging its feet for. over problems in portugal and greece and the difficulty therefore is that the e.u. hasn't acted fast enough and hasn't tried to cure the situation and i think greece well you know what i mean everyone ultimately gets fed up with someone who just keeps passing the begging bowl back in their fears with comprehensibly doing something to try and help the situation and i think that it would be

a very very neat thing if greece were willing to sell their gold reserves because at least that would choose some willing to write their economy to deal with their taxation problems and to do with the fundamental problem of the public services. anti russian hysteria that's how georgia's opposition has described thursday's arrest of four people suspected of spying among them leading photographers including the president's personal snapper this comes after nine russians and georgians were handed a lengthy prison sentences for anti-government activity earlier this week i t z got a piece going off reports on what might be behind the arrests. the arrests started to late on wednesday and went on until early thursday and some really high profile photographers have been detained including the personal photographer off president mikheil saakashvili the official photographer off the georgian foreign ministry and according to the words this man has gone on a hunger strike in protest to his detention also photographer from the european

press agency was detained as well and one from the associated press although we did receive word that he was released after having been questions via relatives of the detained see that they could be charged with espionage their homes have been searched their computers and cameras have been seized and now human rights groups in georgia say that this is a direct violation of the freedom of press and are demanding their immediate release on wednesday nine people were found guilty by georgian off gaudi's of being part of a spy ring and supplying secret information to the russian intelligence service and they were given some really heavy jail sentences ranging from eleven to fourteen years of imprisonment the longest one was given to a russian citizen to really go who is believed to by the georgian authorities to be the head of all for this spy ring and also its connection with the russian intelligence service but

a lawyer say that this man is grieving the ill and his relatives say that they can't even picture him being a spy and because this man was horribly used i'm all the. but in general various spying scandals and controversy. these are not new in georgia they've been happening quite often since president saakashvili came to power one of the biggest scandals was probably a few years ago when georgian authorities announced that he vented a coup at one of the country's military pieces but the opposition says these are probably city stones being conducted by the stories to divert the public's attention away from our real economic and political problems and they do exist was just remember the recent violence clashes between anti-government protesters and police in d.c. as you go to going off reporting for us there are now sticking with this story one of georgia's main opposition leaders says the arrests are

a way for the country's president to hang on to his job. for suckers surely writes no it was the continuation of. the. poor please don't wish to pose to. reason with the right he she. the power because it's the start she was secondary which we. need certainty and he's going through all the accused. for either of your competence is why i joined her to lie. your way explanation bunds to. keep. but he's going to get. an agent source and. still had for you this hour why seeing the light could be deathly. pilots of

a passenger ally now arriving from istanbul were dazzled by paul full green light aimed at the aircraft by someone on the ground but nothing but. time for at that accident occurred. russia's foreign minister has slammed nato for its cynical actions in libya in an interview with russian t.v. sergey lavrov said that the alliance is tactic of bombing the country until colonel gadhafi steps down has inflicted too many unjustified civilian deaths artie's appear all over has been following what lavrov had to say. we heard from a very vocal of today really criticizing what he sees as the essential mission creep of going outside intervention into the libyan situation now he. is between what's happening in libya the bombing of the former yugoslavia and fight

saying that the bombing campaign by nato against colonel gadhafi has actually gone on far longer than the bombing campaign that was conducted against the former yugoslavia. it's obvious that as a cynical matter we hear from the western capitals that the bombing should go on until gadhafi backs off but the human cost of these political statements very high . well it wasn't just libya that was on the agenda. to speak about he also brought up syria he did say this he was concerned that the focus seems to be wholly on the assad government and how to get rid of. this isn't acceptable that the opposition should resort to violence provoking peaceful protesters to join acts of violence and therefore making them a target for police or security forces a message that russia has been wanting to put across has been that they want to hear voices not violence to try and come to peace in the middle east and in north

africa as well. the libyan deputy foreign minister has accused nato of intensifying air strikes in the country claiming it's a final phase of the alliances campaign but he says it's civilians who are suffering from nato air raids dr franklin lamb director of americans concerned for middle east peace in tripoli said that even centers for children with disabilities are being targeted. i can give you five examples one is the down's syndrome children center which was completely demolished by bombs that serves over five hundred thousand children around this country their headquarters was bombed as you know secondly as you know the killing of eleven shakes up in who were on a peace mission they were bombed the micro bus that was bombed two weeks ago that killed nine people know they are hitting civilians we had

a report this afternoon from a fellow from human rights watch who estimated that for every one military person who that was supposedly a casualty there were ten civilians is not excusable however many collateral damage arguments we have with the kind of precision weaponry and the laser targeting this is inexcusable it's careless is negligent it's criminal i spent the last week visiting neighborhood committees think of them as neighborhood watch over a million have been armed i've seen women some as old as in their sixty's a one woman under seventy training i think we're going to see a popular militia popular army. emerge from the neighborhoods if there's an invasion a french ship a bound for gaza with aid has been stopped in crete it comes as the un is due to report on last year's israeli raid on a human terry and a flotilla which killed nine turkish activists the report has been held back

because of the round between israel and turkey which follow the attack neither side can agree on the wording of an apology as a pilot slayer explains. well at the heart of the dispute is the whole question of an apology and here is the bill is insisting that tel aviv apologize for its role in the brains so far the israelis have refused to do this the israeli foreign minister particular avigdor lieberman insisting that israel will not apologize because you must leave because the israelis off fearful that it will open the floodgates for a whole photos of legal claims to be made against the jewish state instead israel says it will express its were great for the loss of life now for the last few days almost round the clock israeli and turkish representatives have been meeting in new york to try and hammer out some kind of agreement that is acceptable to both sides we understand that the sticking point is over the wording of the document now no doubt both sides want to reach some kind of agreement prior to the u.n. issuing this report because it will help in terms of the conciliation it will be

much harder for every conciliation to be made after the report is issued but we do understand at this stage is that the view is that the u.n. report says that the blockade is not illegal but it does criticize israel for excessive use of force and you need to remember that that excessive use of force lift nine turkish citizens on board the largest ship them of the mamma did athens has imposed a blanket ban preventing any ship from sitting sail if it plans to sail to gaza what we do know is that one of the ships the french both which is called the dignity that has some eighty twelve people on board it's a sail used to date wednesday but today when a stop to refueling crete there it was stopped by the greek all pharmacies and now the ship known as the audacity of hope its american captain was earlier detained the charges were that he was in danger and the safety of passengers he has been released but that is not necessarily a good sign that all because another ship the canadian ship that is known as the he met that ship did sit sail it's also been forced to return to greece and made all

the passengers and all the crew on board have been detained at the same time there is something happening next. include a flight and that is an expectation of some six hundred activists from fifty european destinations flying into israel just. to find a nice if you can well imagine. these maybe place is reporting that they have the names of some three hundred people who plan to fly in the israeli police are not confirming that but they will be. on the court where people plan to show the support not only for the people of gaza and palestinians in general. reporting there now we have more on the stories that we are covering here at r.t. dot com here's a quick look at what's there for you right now. dug himself out of a grave to take revenge on the man who tried to kill him. and

caused huge traffic jams on one of moscow's busiest roads as drivers rushed to pick up a fake money more on that our. airliners are at their most a vulnerable during takeoff and landing and now there's an increasing threat from the ground with a beam of light. reports on the police for the hooligans with laser pointers which blind pilots at the worst possible moment. there it becomes clear proof that the dazzle of a laser in the eye can be a major distraction for food bill or christian or a knowledge of mount and missed shots but the consequences could be catastrophic if some want to stop get it while flying an aircraft with hundreds of passengers on

board and blinding powerless by laser beams has become an increasing musa's in russia over fifty attacks registered since the beginning of the year the latest incident was that the small port when the pilots of a tupolev passenger allied arriving from istanbul were does old by popple green light aimed at the aircraft by someone on the ground just minutes later and not that probably. but i think what but yet it's only a matter of time before a deadly accident occurs to me we were going to during landing just a hundred meters above the ground when we were only a kilometer away from the runway as a result we were in danger of losing control the crew was dazzled in a catastrophe could have happened. in the worst case scenario pilots can land automatically but not full as props can land on autopilot and even if they do those

in the cold feet need to remain in control and be able to see. the effect of a laser beam on a pilot can be compared to that of lightning it blinds you. potentially lethal laser guns imported from china can be bought in russia for as little as a hundred dollars firing a laser beam as far as five kilometers they can burn through paper and even plastic . in the u.s. sales of such devices are banned russian legislators are also considering outlawing them and toughening punishment for this offense though some are shining a spotlight on the police calling for more action the question was in court everyone's waiting for new laws so there's no excuse for police and action on the ground our current legislation is good enough is allows for the arrest and imprisonment of such fools for up to ten years in prison as of now there has been only one arrest in russia for intentionally targeting an aircraft with

a liaison with this suspect still under investigation attempting to down a plane by other means would be classed as terrorism public concern in russia is rising about the potentially equally serious waste from laser lots and their high tech hooliganism it's been a great show of art it's. in a moment it's asteroids extra terrestrials and you have photos with a leading russian astronomer who tells us if the truth is really out there. thank. you.

thank you very much for being with us today that you have promised that i'm twenty years time you will have discovered life on other planets are we actually talking about al. since or merely some bacteria we're talking lifeforms of course one particular form such life is a separate question of course where there is life and intelligence and civilization are a possibility but discovery of life is of primary importance in what form. of the sun what i'm going to tell you is a paradox the form will definitely be well known to us in my opinion and i believe experts generally agree on this life and intelligence should they exist elsewhere at all should be highly human like as a scientist would you guarantee one hundred percent that we will discover life yes

and i will explain why you see there is this rational if not purely scientific outlook on the universe a process can either bigger or if there is at least one similar occurrence of then it is a regular phenomenon for some time scientists believe that the solar system is something unique but nowadays we find that most stars how the planets are in the furthermore the formation of planets is an inevitable process that occurs when a giant molecular cloud forms into a star about a thousand planets located around different stars have been discovered to this date over five hundred stars are known to have planets a million planets are projected to be discovered within the next ten years with moreover some of the recently discovered planets not only resemble the earth by composition but also seem to have. an oxygen necessarily indicates the presence of life of a comprise the time the earth runs out of its resources and they will definitely be

depleted someday perhaps in a few billion years do you think there is a chance that humankind will be able to inhabit other planets like we have with you if you will see what you're talking about i'm not an expert on this although i do have a feeling that life is generally organized in such a way of that any species exists for a certain limited period of time it is highly possible humans are no exception but the primary destination for human can i say. it will be the movie but i might not live long enough to see this but you definitely will as it will happen within the next twenty to twenty five years three global powers of the united states the european union and china are already competing for set up the first lunar observatory and hence the first colony on the moon therefore do you believe in aliens when we will but in what sense do i believe they have visited us of that and their existence. if there was intelligence and a civilization outside earth then we would call that civilization extraterrestrial

but the term is used quite differently by the public to refer to phenomena that we supposedly observed here on earth that i do not believe in one of the u.s.s.r. was the only country in its day to host a grand experiment the general staff issued an order to various units under the defense ministries command to report any unidentified flying objects they were called on identified atmosphere phenomena about them the program was called up of the net it was divided into two parts the defense ministries net looking at what might be traces of new types of weaponry in the oven and it's the so-called a n and looked for phenomena previously unknown to human kind for more than twenty years people across one sixth of the earth's territory even move them out as we had a latrine stationed outside the u.s.s.r. at certain points all those people monitored the skies for u.f.o.s. every single day they detected approximately one thousand out of unusual phenomena

only two of which may have been explained this day for the rest were either manmade or natural some of them were amazing you would not believe me if i told you about some of the things that were found people didn't know such things could happen airplanes abandoned by pilots who flew on for days a missile was wanted tempted by passed a passenger jet by a mere two meters we saw something of the sort later on in ukraine i believe it has been proven quite. convincingly that extra terrestrials never visited us we recently spoke to jill tarter who works with seti and she told us that the valley and sue indeed exist to their civilization should be much older and more advanced than ours and she said ellen's was not contact us but there is a joke we have in the fact that extra terrestrials and not contacting us proves that they exist and they're smart but seriously we know that there is no speed faster than the speed of light it takes light from the star closest to earth for years to reach us would it would take us centuries to devise

a means of transportation and that would allow us to travel this distance we know for a fact now that the star closest to us is devoid of life the next star the glee as a is twenty light years away it would take us. to think of a way to get that physical star travel is impossible that's my belief it's good we would have to revise the whole science of physics miracles do not happen and sometimes. you're.