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chin's flocked to tahrir square protesting against the interim government which they say stole their revolution for democracy and freedom. a fatal paper cuts for the news of the world britain's best selling newspaper killed off by its own toxic tabloid tactics the prime minister is launching a full inquiry into its phone hacking. israel on high alert as pro palestinian activists want their gaza flotilla for. turning to air travel after ships are held in port in greece. dozens of demonstrators prevented from reaching its goals in a post one hundred small stop to give you a good cities i'm pleased to join me in a few moments point nine days. two

pm in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story thousands of angry protesters have started gathering in cairo's tahrir square unhappy that the revolutions goals are not being achieved egyptian activists have been calling for a million people to gather there the former president's trials pending next month but as our teams are nice and now a reports egyptians believe his 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 god. we've got through the book so that the mubarak's dictatorship is still 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. take them to prison yes now they're being read in violence they want to kill the revolution the school that goes on the first thing he's known simply as uncle posting here in egypt a social network or with a twitter army of some thirty thousand followers the military trials of 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. that when he fell down because it's over everything is going to be fine and the country alone cleaned up. but this is not. the too. early in the week protesters began setting up camp here on top three or 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 top career across egypt and get rid of all but little people like myself have been arguing for taking the high due to the fact they can hire you to the universities the king to have to the world police's meaning that in every single word police we have an egypt that is amenable no one ever 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 the end 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 bend 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. in libya rebel forces have advanced on a key road south of tripoli as they battle their way toward the capital meanwhile u.s. lawmakers are continuing to bankroll the libya campaign despite repeated complaints that it's not sanctioned by congress dr franklin lamb from americans concern for middle east peace says nato airstrikes are only uniting people further under khadafi. the bombing needlessly puts the population edge it increases anxiety and anger if they do is trying to weaken the regime it seems to me that as history teaches us with the obama population it's often that you die behind the government of the day. 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 they don't lose is 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 that the feeling is that they've got to do something the only thing they can do possibly to achieve a victory is either assassinate. some of his circle already to add to do that they might have to come on the ground and they do who's joined the side of promoting the rebels against the government again a clear violation of nine hundred seventy three. commentary from franklin lamb from the group americans concern for middle east peace with his views on nato's actions in libya. during today's other top story britain's politicians have failed to stop

the country's best selling newspaper from resorting to phone to hacking the phones of murder victims and dead soldiers families david cameron rounded on the news of the world which is being shut down by its billionaire owner rupert murdoch this weekend following a massive public backlash one hundred sixty eight year old sunday tabloid became embroiled in claims of phone call interception furious action reaction and gathered pace this week when it emerged the paper may have access the voice mail of missing teenager milly dowler who was later found murdered it's thought some of her parents' desperate messages were white possibly giving false hope that she was still alive and colson the paper's former editor and most recently prime minister cameron's press spokesman faces arrest later on friday media analyst phil rees tells r.t. the scandal is likely to sound the death knell for politicians cozying up to murdoch's newspapers but says the mobiles empire will survive. 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 that 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 that i think and there was a for 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 rupert murdoch has a very finely tuned business brain 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 bad but i tell you the most important thing bill 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. stay with us here on r t still to come a final step in nasa history the site gloomy weather of a shuttle atlantis set to lift off on the pleats last ever flight but while thousands wait for the momentous launch for others it's the end of an era and possibly their livelihoods. and a premier remakes a top russian d.j. hopes his version of lot of your putin's blueberry hill will be a future club classic. before we get to that massive explosions in the turkmenistan city of abidjan have reportedly left half its population without electricity gas and water the government statement says they were caused by

fireworks materials that were firework materials and that no one was injured local media sources claim the situation is far worse saying witnesses are reporting fatalities and injuries there's also reports of looting and nearby buildings are being heavily damaged with broken windows and shattered glass telephone lines have been disrupted leaving distressed relatives elsewhere unable to contact family and friends military and emergency vehicles have been dispatched to the scene from the capital following an emergency cabinet session chaired by the president there is still a little official information though on what exactly happened. hundreds of pro palestinian activists are trying to reach blockaded gaza by air after several ships among an aid flotilla were forced to dock in greece they're headed for a television largest international airport from europe and the u.s. but around up israeli security is there waiting for them or he's paula slee or is live at the durian airport with more she joins us now hello paula so really tough security for the activists who say their mission is

a peaceful one does it appear that these measures are actually necessary. well we're talking here of some six hundred israeli police and security officers both inside and outside ben gurion international airport and certainly at this stage it does seem a little excessive when you bear in mind that almost all the activists have been prevented from actually reaching the safe port now we are talking with a number of high profiled left wing israeli activists by telephone and they're telling us that they've been warned by the israeli police that if they sit in the airport they will be arrested i have spoken with the israeli police approached us and micky rosenfeld and he tonight this he said that they're welcome to come but that if they cause trouble then they'll be arrested the israeli police have the names of three hundred and forty cheap passengers intending to participate in the so-called flight teller which is really an attempt to draw attention to the people of palestine we know that of those three hundred forty two already two hundred have been stopped from boarding planes in european cities but that means that another

one hundred and forty two are on their way here and we expect them to arrive in the coming hours these radio farda teasing did give names of these passengers to foreign airlines they said that it was the airlines responsibility to make sure that these passengers did not fly to israel and that if in fact they do the airlines will need to actually send them back home and cover the costs of doing that. and we've seen several attempts to get supplies into gaza most of them a failed is there a chance that this campaign will actually reach its destination. well it's ironic because the whole attempt obvious lie i tell you it's really to attention to the palestinian people in the situation of one and a half million gazans who are living in one of the most densely populated areas on earth he is made you'll probably teasing the israeli police and security by doing so much attention on this a team to only actually hoping to be activists in food or drink they goals and just be a lot of criticism here in the israeli media they say that these radio parties are acting almost as if they preparing for a war not for demonstration journalists including on t.v.

have been receiving instead of press releases almost military sounding updates with intelligence reports intelligence assessments and this is in line with the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying that these activists will be dealt with accordingly now we keeping track online there is a huge buzz particularly on twitter we know from twitter feeds that all of the german passengers except for one has been able to board flights we also know that there is a call for people to boycott those airlines that are actually participating with the israeli authorities and again you need to remember that demonstrators and activists were never under the illusion that they would actually reach gaza they say that the goal is to do attention to the plight of the palestinian people so sixty in respect of the goal they seem to have been successful. parties policy are alive at israel's ben gurion airport thanks for that report. stay with us here on r t still to come we explore a russian medical marvel that still improving lives. sure it's not

a big door to your guy it's like expect to be. a doctor's discovery about helping generations of patients walk tall again it's coming your way in russia close up if you may. first though nasa's final shuttle flight is expected later on friday with atlanta studio launch although bad weather may keep it grounded a little longer that want to turn though up to a million spectators who are waiting to watch the shuttle program's last ever launch but as artie's got into qian reports what will be an for an unforgettable moment for some may be painful for others. empty shells 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 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 going on welfare left and right food stamps anthony chris a fully spent twenty three years with the shuttle launch team as an engineer with a plan to splice for is 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 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 have 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 for each launch gradually led to the cancellation of the program 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 the 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 is kind of sad because i've already seen a lot of my friends go in nobody's there being 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 going to check out. let's launch now into cyberspace and see what's online for you at our t dot com europe calls for urban credit agencies as moody's causes misery overrating portugal lies junk propelling it towards a second bailout. and click are you to travel for more of these stunning pictures of a giants sandstorm moving through arizona which blanketed a wide area plunging it into a dusty darkness see it all for yourself. the

news today violence flared up. these are the images. from the streets of canada. ration to rule the day. now to some other stories making headlines across the globe syria is accusing washington of interfering in its affairs after the u.s. ambassador to the country visited the flashpoint city of hama robert ford traveled 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 have fled the country fearing violence by security forces. america's most senior military officer says pakistan's government was behind the killing of a journalist who wrote about its navy's links to al qaida so he. should zod was

abducted near his home in may his body was found two days later at the time pakistan's powerful intelligence service the i.s.i. was accused of the murder but admiral mike mullen said that couldn't be confirmed pakistan rejects the allegation calling the u.s. claims extremely irresponsible. yemen's president made his first t.v. appearance since being severely injured in a bomb attack on his palace last month. ali abdullah saleh suffered burns to his face and hands said he'd undergone more than eight successful operations he's recovering in saudi arabia and his address aired on state television satellite called for dialogue to resolve the months of unarrest that's left hundreds dead during protests demanding that he step down. russia has been renowned for its world leading scientists and inventors over the years and today we explore one doctor's medical marvel.

taking you now to the kurgan region in southern siberia in the one nine hundred fifty s. became the center of soviet orthopedics when a surgeon there invented a revolutionary method of bone restructuring sixty years later his breakthrough breakthrough is still being used to help people overcome disabilities artie's oksana boyko reports. 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 i use the rocket for example it was designed back in the sixty's the design hasn't changed that much yet do these 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 elizabeth frame or 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 a limp lengthening our next story is about bad. for both of them it's about walking tall if you're old into his legging left leg and twenty seven year old japanese engineers with lagging self-confidence and if intrigue didn't choose his predicament very much did turn centimeters shorter than the average. because of some employers refused to hire me one of them told me directly 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 be coveted seven centimeters 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 of really lazareff in the nineteen fifties these frames for 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 reshape arms and legs and people who thought they were crippled for life be sent to the other patients shattered bones and in many cases the. shattered lives in main goal when professing result of design his first frame using bicycle parts sixty years later as his invention is increasingly being used to help people who are eager to fracture their legs to become a few centimeters taller than the ultimate goal is still the same fixing somebodies lives both literally and figuratively about a third of patients admitted to the result 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 novikov who operated on many of them sas it usually comes down to man's pride some of the first patient to turn to us with

a leg length i mean a quest to meet his fifteen centimeters to be still want to surgery because his partner has to than him we'd 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 women allowed their prey here but the expensive but in russia the entire course costs about one tenth of the similar package in the united states. financial considerations were one of the reasons that brought peace washington state to western siberia if his main motive for the surgery had to do with how he fared auditors in america advertised as one seventy five i was one sixty seven or one sixty eight in so eight centimeters would have brought me right to our very nice i just wanted to be average for women height isn't so important

you know i think girl can be short and it's not a big deal i think a guy is like expected to be taller just before the operation most this matter a russian girl who found he's a regional hype why didn't deering if he still would want to have had the surgery adding seven more centimeters to he self-confidence she took told me the whole time you're crazy you're normal you're perfect. so now or so they call you so what a compliment for somebody who's used to falling short of his own expectations sound like an artsy region. finally in this news blog we have heard prime minister putin current a tune now his recent rendition of blueberry hill could dominate the dance for.

the. russian d.j. has remakes the premier's performance of the song and it's already getting a fair bit of radio play last year putting revealed his musical side we took to the stage a star studded charity concert in st petersburg to perform the fats domino classic in english the video attracted two million hits on you tube and this inspired d.j. smash to remake school vocals in hopes the player will use it as a ring tone for his phone. and it's time to hear what's playing in the business world you'll use joining us with all the business news after a short break. on the fall guy. little pilot the international sanctions as to their takes place in paris on july ninth and tenth. beslan collections by russian designers the most

beautiful they're just of central russia. this is again i live in fear children fashion show slums like presiding over the festival. fashion festival. this is. hello and a very warm welcome time for your business update russia's budget gap is likely to widen that chair thus despite windfall all revenues prime minister says it will double to three point seven percent the gap will be filled with domestic and international lows and by selling state assets how will the reserve fund accumulating oil revenues will be left uncapped instead the government will increase tax pressure on the gas industry russia's finance minister explains challenges his two faces one handling the state's growing appetite for spending. you see we're bridge experts and the experts tell you that given our high oil

dependence it makes more sense to raise taxes and he called the budget deficit by doing so he would not increase the risk for the whole economy but try that for a set of cleanest trees here raising taxes for in our case giving golden state spending we have balance to do and between the business and the state. russia is looking for a baby for pumping what it comes to supply and gas to china gas from now wants advance payment for its future energy delivers the better mr newspaper says it could make up to forty billion dollars but gazprom offering a discount in exchange but it's being seen as another obstacle of a long running energy talks both parties are to. create a new study yes supply contracts but come to agree on the price. let's all have a look at the market's. second week of gains and speculation that fuel supplies are sufficient to meet the boost in consumption from of economic recovery investors also of course was ahead of weak u.s. jobs report for insight into the pace of economic recovery of the world's biggest

oil. and european indices the flat the sour the footsies down slightly and the german debt says up to three tenths of a percent market players are keeping an eye on the u.s. non-farm payrolls and unemployment rate at twelve thirty g.m.t. . and here in russia they are just in the minds of supplies after thursday's rally which saw both indices close their lodges day and again in two months investors here are also looking forward to digest key data from the us why it's not had a look at some of the individual show moves on the my six week courage is weighing on energy majors with down around a third of a percent bucking the trend produces. more than one percent on hard gold prices. down more than half a percent holding news nudists the rating of the bank for the newly acquired bank of moscow will see another story yesterday with future be on the rise despite a full consequence and this is debt risk would be from the takeover of bank of

moscow. so we have time for now you are today during the last someone else more business stories here on r.t. and let me remind me let me remind you can find more on our website that's our two dot com slash business. first tree removal keg.