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egyptians could take to square again what they call the new phase of the revolution after expectations from their previous uprising. cracking kills off britain's biggest selling newspaper as rupert murdoch hits the shops the news of the world amid fears of a phone snooping. israel braces for hundreds of activists descending by plane off the aid flotilla ships were blocked routes. that are you watching from moscow welcome to the program. gyptian activists are

calling for a million people to converge on top of square later on friday saying the revolution's goals have not been achieved high ranking officials of the previous mubarak regime have been charged with organizing attacks on civilians while the former president's trial is pending next month but as the so no way reports gyptian is believe the regime's legacy is still very much alive. their revolution was hijacked and they want it back egypt's uprising might have ousted president mubarak but to them he's far from gone. we go through the. ship is alive and well the taste of freedom was short lived the military is in full power mass media is being choked and oppression still rampant worse than before i think they werent catching activists as much as they are doing now. to prison

i guess now they're being really violent they want to kill the revolutionaries still there in the first place he's known simply as uncle cost him here in egypt a social network or with a twitter army of some thirty thousand followers the military throws off civilians have to stop immediately immediately this is you know one of the major demands we're putting forward one of many demands including transparent trials for the fallen regime and the purging of corrupt officials unfortunate for the people. they had this kind of revenge with mubarak that when he fell down because it's over everything is going to be fine and the country is. cleaned up. but this is not. the too. early in the week protesters began setting up camp here on top career for what they're calling the next phase of the revolution but this time they don't just want hundreds of thousands to come here they want to take the top career

across egypt and get rid of all but little people like myself have been arguing for taking you to the factories they can hire you to the universities seeking to have you to the work places meaning that in every single word police we have in egypt because i mean you know what i was never interested in politics in till january she was shot with twenty three pellets by riot police twenty of which are still in her like the pain is finally gone but her perseverance is not the barrier of fear is gone. and she will continue to fight to be and i want every every egyptian citizen to be treated as a human being every protester has their own vision of the egypt they're fighting for some want to constitution then free elections others think the new laws should follow the vote but one thing that brings them all together is that this egypt is

not the end and he said no way are cheap. but in libya rebel forces have advanced on a key road south of tripoli as they battle their way towards the capital meanwhile u.s. lawmakers are continuing to bankroll the big campaign despite repeated complaints that it's not sanctioned by congress but dr franklin lamb from americans concerned for middle east peace says nato is bombing is only uniting people under gadhafi. the bombing needlessly puts the population. it increases anxiety and anger if they do is trying to weaken the regime it seems to me that history teaches us what the obama population. from the. behind the government of the day and rather than breaking the connection between the people and the leadership it seems to increase it was a mistake obama election may be on the line cannot afford a defeat and the victory comes like it's supposed to be ousted saddam and osama

you've gotta kill the bad guy so it looks to us like it's now a game of targeting the leadership otherwise nato ruses if nato loses the consequences are enormous there's enormous trillion dollar financial consequences for those members of the nato countries who are seen as aggressors and invaders here so the feeling is that they've got to do something the only thing they can do possibly to achieve a victory is either assassinate cut off some of the circle order to end to do that they might have to come on the ground nato has joined the side of promoting the rebels against the government again a clear violation of nine hundred seventy three. i was dr franklin lamb from the group americans concerned for middle east peace his views on latest actions in libya. now britain's best selling newspapers closing the pink dolphin the phone

hacking scandal it's a blow to billionaire owner who. has used the world's profits help to drive the dominant news corp the one hundred sixty eight year old sunday tabloid became roldan claims that the phone calls of thousands of crime victims and dead soldiers families have been intercepted he's also he's a lawyer emmett in london. it started off relatively. really with just we understood the news of the world had been allegedly hacking into the phones of celebrities and politicians and to be honest no one in this country really cared about that very much we we all think that 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 version of the newspaper 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 are deliberately hacked into the telephone of a missing girl milly dowler who was later found had been murdered we also now know that allegedly senior police officers had been brought by the news of the world to tickle some criminal investigations and other confidential information which of course a crime there are two things that we should take away from this for 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 rupert murdoch said 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. while the british government is promising at least one inquiry into the allegations against the news of the world media analyst told r.t. that the scandal is a lot for some no politicians whose you know tomatoes newspapers but so is the.

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 find on the next day you find the prime minister reading the sun looking like an idiot saying well the sun got me elected i mean so you've got this the meaning of british democracy is that missing of democracy really which the murdoch press was at the heart of but i think there was a for 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 but i think of the action that the rupert murdoch took shows that they'll be more revelations supergroup member rupert 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 all that 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. while they're still ahead in the program a georgia brings down the shutters on photographers. and it's been our lives it's

feared the presence of framings and spies to bolster his regime. broken. sure it's not a big deal if your guy is like expect to be over. in russia close up a doctor's discovery that's been helping generations of patients torn again that's on the way here and. hundreds of pro palestinian activists are trying to reach blockaded gaza by air after several ships among an aid to their were forced to dock in greece heading for the largest international airport from europe and the u.s. but ramped up israeli security is waiting for them to sneer is there for us. this is the focal point with proper course of today friday some six hundred activists will be arriving on fifty different ways to show this course for the palestinian people they'll be converging here at israel's largest airport pingree an international but the israelis are paid out five it must be at least five to six

hundred for the security offices and the israeli media is reporting that the police have the names of more than three hundred activists but the police are refusing to either confirm or deny this now the activists say that the action which has been dubbed a slight as opposed to the fifth and which has been held up in greece where some ten ships are being with us permission by athens to sell to gaza these activists are saying that they want to highlight the plight of people not only in gaza but across the west bank and the palestinian territories they said that their action is nonviolent they said that they will be open to feel sorry to hear that they intend to travel to the palestinian territories and that the proper course of the next week they have a number of activities that they will be participating in it will be interesting to see how the israeli authorities here at the airport deal with this because traditionally when people fly into israel and admit that they're going to be participating in profile a scene in activities they can be dealt a very harsh throat very often being deported also in this country already five

french and belgian activists have been detained and deported from israel the israelis are dubbing these people for the guns and troublemakers these way the prime minister benjamin netanyahu in these latest to grace said that they will be dealt with as they need to be dealt with in six agave that gaza is a north understands but is being held captive by the hamas leadership the must of course being an organization that is well the gods as terrorist policy ought to think through an international television. well now susan historic a final space shuttle mission you have to wait a bit longer with bad weather threatening to do even the launch won't deter. a million spectators who are expected to watch atlantis commence the fleet's on voyage as aunties in that you can of course what will be an unforgettable moment the some painful for others. empty shelves of what was once florida's thriving space coast. up to ten thousand people

will be out of a job as soon as the last shuttle makes its final voyage back to earth home to many of the kennedy space center workers rock which is on the verge of becoming a ghost town without the space program or pretty much nothing i mean this is what you know because the beach is built on the space program you know just a lot of people are going to be out of jobs sorry to be out of homes people are welfare left and right food stamps and city chris a fully spent twenty three years with the shuttle launch team as an engineer with a plan to splicing there for its final mission it means the end of his career with nasa and the beginning of uncertainty a year ago he started looking for a new job to no avail i have applied for jobs and so far i haven't gotten any concrete responses there's not that many jobs out there for sure the u.s. scrapped its shuttle program and now wants the private sector to come up with ways

to get astronauts to space several companies are working on new vehicles but it's not clear when they'll be able to deliver them one thing is certain though they'll be able to hire only a fraction of the skilled space industry workers will be out of work soon this is the first shuttle ever it never made it to space but it was going to put tests before the columbia shuttle first launch into space in nineteen eighty one a total of five shuttles had been used for space missions since that two of them were lost in tragic accidents a nine hundred eighty six and in two thousand and three those lawsuits and the skyrocketing price per each launch gradually led to the cancellation of the pie. but critics say it's hard to estimate the losses that the end of the shuttle program will bring about both for the space industry and the people involved i think it's a really bad thing for the united states to lose this skilled workforce it's going to be difficult to rebuild it for years the shuttle has been the only vehicle that

could ferry crew and a massive load of cargo to space officials say one of the reasons the program was scrapped is that it's safer and cheaper to send cargo and people separately something that russia for example has been doing for many years but whatever the reasons for scrapping the thirty year old program for those who devoted their lives to it is the end of their dream job it's kind of sad because i've already seen a lot of my friends go and nobody's they'll be more people that are probably may never see again it also means the end of a once vibrant scientific community that's grown up around the shuttle got a shotgun. well that's looking to cyberspace now and see what's have been the dot com today europe's a call to the credit agencies and these things is israel going to portugal it's junk propelling it towards a second bailout. plan after an alien encounter his opponent leading

astronomer says just decades away welcoming the tea and i think addictions. for high profile photographers have been arrested in georgia accused of espionage for foreign state among those detained by the president's personal snap as well as an employee from the european press photo agency the photographers deny the allegations they arrests came nine other people with jailed for up to fourteen is spying for russia georgian opposition spy claims they are intended to whip up styria to boost present socrates control. for suckers through writes novels the continuation of. this is the main basis for. donors to and main i would be lying he she appeared in power

because the issue is second care which we were. going through all her. explanation for european partners why georgia democratic country why. do you always. keep the interest of georgia and. he's going to get. the russian agents or since i do know. more well they sound for you now syria is accusing washington of interfering it's a fair comparison placidity country. the flashpoint city of hama brought forward travel to the city where protesters are facing a security crackdown after weeks of anti-government demonstrations tanks remain outside the area where more than twenty people were shot dead in recent days thousands of people fled the country fearing violence by security forces.

yemen's president has made his first t.v. appearance since being severely injured in a bomb attack on his palace last month adding up to the sunday you suffered burns to his face and hands said he had undergone eight successful operations covering saudi arabia in his address aired on state t.v. a call for dialogue to result in months of unrest has left hundreds dead protests demanding he steps down. has been renowned for its world leading scientists and inventors over the years well today we explore one doctor's medical marvel. yes we'll take you to the region which lies between the urals and siberia in the nineteen fifties it became the center of the pics when the. revolution about the

restructuring was two years into his breakthrough is still being used to help people overcome their disabilities. the soviet union and russia gave the world many great inventions and what special about them is that the technology behind the snow house is often very simple darry basic yet they remain in service for many many decades take this they use a rocket for example it was designed back in this sixty's the design hasn't changed that much to this day it remains the most reliable and actually at this point of time the only means of transporting humans to the international space station but today we want to introduce you to another great invention of which proved just as durable and this is the frame of the. it was first designed back in the fifty's but it still remains the main orthopedic technique for treating bone fractures all

sorts of deformities and injuries as well as for. our next story is about bad. for both of them it's about walking tall eight year old into garrett he's lagging left leg and twenty seven year old japanese engineer with liking self-confidence and intrigue didn't choose his predicament very much did in japan the average height for a man is one hundred ninety two centimeters on ten centimeters shorter because of that some employers refused to hire me one of them even told me directly that i was too short to deal with the clients could you just already spend three months in this hospital and plans to stay for another four to add the coveted seven. santa maters to his stature it may seem like a tall order but the actual surgery is fairly simple though painful invented by the famed soviet orthopedic is give really bizarre of in the nineteen fifties these frames were initially used to treat fractures in deformities by cutting bones and slowly pulling them up for their for stimulating tissue regeneration it was out of

was able to receive arms and legs and people who thought they were crippled for life piecing together patients shattered bones in their shattered lives or when professing lazaro designed his first frame using bicycle parts sixty years later his invention is increasingly being used to help people who are eager to fracture their legs to become a few centimeters taller in the ultimate goal is still the same fixing somebodies lives both literally and figuratively about a third of patients admitted she was out of center now days seeking series three focus magic reasons most of them are men and most are not what you would call vertically challenged professor novick of who operated on many of them sas it usually comes down to a man's pride. the first patient to turn to us with a leg length quest to meet his fifteen centimeters to do still want

a surgery because his partner has to than him we like to say that we need to break their legs in order to fix their head maybe nothing wrong with them from an orthopedic point of view but there is something psychological that prevents them from living their lives fully being happy and we fix it like lengthening surgeries are banned in many countries and even the will out there pressure here but really expensive in russia the entire course costs eleven thousand dollars about one tenth of the similar package in the united states. financial considerations were one of the reasons that brought this washington state native to western siberia if his main motive for the surgery had to do with how he fared auditors in america advertises one seventy five hours one sixty seven or one sixty eight and so on eight centimeters would probably write the average thirty one of the average for women height isn't so important you know i think girl can be sure it's not

a big deal i think the guy is like expected to be taller just before the operation most mad a russian girl who found he's a regional hide quite in dealing yet he still want to have a day surgery adding seven more centimeters to his self-confidence she told me the whole time you're crazy you're normal you're perfect. so now or should i call you so what a compliment for somebody who's used to falling short of his own expectations of sound like an artsy korg on the region. but more russian exploration later when martin entries takes us to the country's cultural capital some petersburg past it's time for business update where you.

hello that's right time for your business update russia's budget gap is likely to widen next year despite a win for oil revenues from mr bush and says it will double just three point seven percent the gap will be filled with domestic and international lows and by southern state assets however the reserve fund accumulating all revenues will be left uncapped instead the government will increase tax pressure on the gas industry russia's finance but a six by his challengers his team faces one handling of the state's growing appetite for spending. many experts will tell you that given our high oil dependence it makes more sense to raise taxes and cut the budget deficit by doing so you would not increase the risk for the whole economy but rather for a set of industries here raising taxes for in our case giving golden state spending we have balanced the burden between the business and the state. let's have a look at the markets now oil prices on the decrease as the market awaits the u.s.

jobs report for insider into the pace of economic recovery will do girls because the world could see what cuts off to shop gains a day earlier brant to a huge a three week high on thursday as u.s. data on jobless claims and retail sales cavemen stronger than expected. as a rallying on friday helped by the gains on wall street that's in the wake of a report showing employment above costs in japan exposures on the rise on low again make this a month to mean gayness with the suzuki motor up more than two percent resource and energy shares us by strong oil prices in hong kong chinese stocks are stuck between gains and losses and caution ahead of the june inflation think that's and two hours ahead to the opening bell in moscow they are chasin my six climbed around two percent on thursday propped up by high oil prices record high oil prices help set another record for the russian indices it's just daily gain for both russian markets. to international companies have interviewed some of the country's business

elite about the trends and prospects of doing business in russia u.b.s. and come to encourage a range of business sectors including banking financial services and telecommunications born of course for brings us the highlights of the findings. business family and wealth that's what it all comes down to forty percent see new opportunities in russia from increase consumer demand and fallout from economic turmoil but fifty six percent are more interested in international ventures the market has grown here certain companies have expanded their operations and they need now to find further places to deploy capital that's number one secondly for reasons of diversification i think people have learned in the crisis that you need to be present in different places to be able to weather more difficult times three i think it's a function of the new thinking going on here more and more people are spending time in the west are more western educated certainly the second generation research

shows that russians have been or is are not impressed by the current business environment here they said there's not enough encouragement for innovation from fledgling companies as we know here in russia not everyone has their wealth from the bottom up some have become beneficiaries of that wealth but out before any economy to be successful to be and to thrive then you need to have an involvement a landscape that is conducive and is supportive. of entrepreneurs and the next the next all of business. but russian business men need to work on is long term personal wealth plans for a five don't even have one and those i do see real estate as a safe harbor but yet again they are more interested in international property and if given the right price tag nine out of ten would sell their business in the heartbeats. during the course of our reporting. business bulletin for this hour all

be back with more business stories in just under an hours time so stay with us for that.