since flocked to tahrir square to protest against the interim government which they say stole their revolution for freedom and democracy. a fatal paper for the news of the world britain's best selling newspaper is killed off by its own toxic tabloid tactics its former editor who became the prime minister's press spokesman is arrested. israel on high alert as pro palestinian activists swap their gaza aid flotilla for a fly turning to air travel copter their ships are held in greece. dozens of protesters prevented from reaching israel's. one hundred small stop planes. i'm pleased to join me in a few moments from will. business rushes to widen this year despite all revenues more in twenty minutes.

three pm in moscow very good to have you with us here on r t our top. dorie 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 are teas a nice and now way is in takhar square we'll have a live report from her in a little bit. first though the former editor of britain's news of the world tabloid has been arrested over a phone hacking scandal and colson went on to be the prime minister's press spokesman but worked at the paper one is alleged to have intercepted phone calls from murder victims and dead soldiers families one hundred sixty year old paper will print its final edition sunday tabloids being axed by rupert murdoch following the increasingly damaging allegations

a furious reaction gathered pace of this week when it emerged that the paper may have accessed the voicemail of a 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 media analyst phil reeves tells arky the scandal is likely to sound the death knell of our politicians cozying up to murdoch's newspapers but says the mobiles empire will stand. i think something changed this week you know for decades british prime ministers have been on the needs 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 wanted and then you'd find in the next day you'd 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 demeaning of british democracy if the diminishing of democracy really which the murdoch press was at the top of it but i think it was there for a silence as well because important people needed the murdoch press and they

couldn't be 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 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 but i tell you the most important thing bill in my view is that the political class had 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 going to bad. massive explosions in turkmenistan city of abu dehn have reportedly left half its population without utilities electricity gas and running water the government statement says they were caused by firework materials and that no one was injured but local media sources claim the situation is far

worse saying witnesses are reporting fatalities and injuries there's also reports of looting in nearby buildings being heavily damaged with windows broken glass shattered telephone lines have been disrupted leaving distress 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 meeting chaired by the president there is still a little official information though on what actually happened. are right we have our t's and use in our way of life for us in cairo's tahrir square where the protesters are now gathering. hello and so can we expect another wave of revolt to hit egypt. well it really depends where you ask here of course the protesters think they're going to be fighting to the end the way it all played out of course back in the winter was that some eight hundred people ended up getting killed and some seven thousand injured nationwide and really they say that

their revolution was still good because none of the changes had actually happened in fact some people are saying that they think it's even worse now that will barak is gone that is more oppression let's media freedom and that's why they're coming back to tough here and that's the chanting that we're going to be hearing today i'm just going to step out of the site to let you take a look at what's happening on the square i'm really bad at visibly counting numbers but it does look like there is i would say at least one hundred thousand people here if not more there to take you don't feel that means we came back to top three are also we the people demand the defeat of the regime and that's something we're going to be hearing throughout the day i have to say one of the most interesting things that i've seen this morning is that there's really. no police here there's no security it's all civilians making sure in fact that police don't make their way to onto the scene where civilians are doing security checks i was frisked by a woman who was very serious found my make up she found my makeup brushes you

probably have my i phone five it's was very skeptical of why i was coming here and then which i realize i was unarmed when she fired me started hitting me with joy so when people realize that people are really coming to the square not to go violence not to bother them it's about their voices being heard they're quite happy quite welcoming and i'm going to move here is rather joyous was my father was a bit of tension the muslim brotherhood for the first time is taking part in these protests and some people don't like that because originally back in the winter they were against it now more and more political parties religious groups hard taking part in it said up to a million people could come out to talk clear to say what they want to do what they're saying is to take back their revolution. 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 books of the mubarak's

dictatorship is still alive and when 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 and i think they werent catching activists as much as they are doing now and take them to prison yes now they're being read in violence they want to kill they're going to shut the schools in 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 civilians have to stop immediately immediately this is you know one of the major demands we're putting forward one of many demands including. parent trials for the fallen regime and the purging of corrupt officials unfortunate for the people who. 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 is. cleaned up. but this. early in the week protesters began setting up camp here on top we're 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 career across egypt and get rid of all but little people like myself have been arguing for taking to the factories to the universities seeking to have to the work places meaning that. we have an egypt that is 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

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 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. stay with us here on our to you still ahead a final step and history by gloomy weather atlantis is set to lift off on the last ever shuttle flight along thousands wait for the momentous launch rather than the end of an era and possibly you know a lot of the. premier remakes the top russian d.j.

hope to the person of lavender putins blueberry hill will be a future classic. for. the crowds of pro palestinian activists have been blocked in european airports they're trying to head for a television a mission to ease the gaza blockade some have made it through carrying signs calling for a free palestine but have met with an angry reaction from israeli passengers in the arrivals hall party's policy or has more from israel's ben gurion airport. 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 sepulcher now we are talking with a number of high profile 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 spokesperson micky rosenfeld and he denied this he said that they're welcome to come but that if

they caused trouble then they'll be arrested the israeli police have the names of three hundred and forty two passengers intending to participate in the so-called fry tellus which is really an attempt to draw attention to the people of palestine we know that all 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 forty two are on their way here and we expect them to arrive in the coming hours these making authority as did give names of these passengers to foreign airlines they say that it was the airlines responsibility to make sure that these passengers did not fly to israel that if in fact they do the airlines will need to actually send them back home and cover the costs of doing that the whole attempt of this try to live is really to draw 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 the israeli authorities and the israeli police and security by doing so much attention on this attempt to only actually hoping the activists in furthering the

goals and there's been a lot of criticism here in the israeli media they say that the israeli authorities are acting almost as if they preparing for a war not for a demonstration journalists including r.t. have been receiving instead of press releases almost military sounding updates with intelligence reports intelligence assessments and this is in line with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying that these activists will be dealt with accordingly now with keeping track on long. mind is a huge buzz particularly on twitter we know from twitter feeds that only german passengers except for one has been able to board flights we also know that there is a. 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 god that they say that the goal is to draw attention to the plight of the palestinian people so sickie in respect of the goal they seem to have been successful nasa's final shuttle flights

are expected later friday with atlantis due to lift off although bad weather may keep it grounded a little longer that want to turn up to a million spectators waiting to watch the shuttle program's last ever launch but artie's got its chickie on reports what will be 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 because the beach was built on the space program you know just a lot of you are going to be out of jobs are you me 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 splicing offer 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 will 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 the two of them were lost them tragic accidents a nine hundred eighty six and in two thousand and three those lawsuits and the

skyrocketing price for each launch gradually lead to the castle ation 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 this skilled workforce it's going to be difficult to rebuild it for years the shuttle has been the only vehicle that could very 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 in there because 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 going to

shut down. it's launch into cyberspace now and see what's waiting for you at our t dot com europe calls for credit agencies as movies causes misery overrating portugal propelling it towards a second ballot. and click on our youtube channel for more of these stunning pictures of a giant step sandstorm blowing through our blanketing a wide area into the dark so you can see it all for yourself. the news today. these are the images. from the streets of canada. for a show to rule the day. turning

out of 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 went to the city where protesters are facing a security crackdown after weeks of anti-government protests tanks remain outside the area where more than twenty people were shot dead recent days thousands of people fled the country fearing violence by security forces. america's most senior military officers says pakistan's government was behind the killing of a journalist who written about its navy's links to al qaeda saleem shahzad was abducted near his home in may his body was found two days later at the time pakistan's powerful intelligence service 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 abdul a sollie suffered burns to his face and hands and had undergone more than eight successful operation he's recovering in saudi arabia in his address aired on state television called for a dialogue to resolve the months about the arrest that's left hundreds dead during protests demanding that he step down. russia's been right now and for its world leading scientists and inventors over the years today we take a look at one doctor's medical marvel. our close up trip takes us now to the cordon region in southern siberia in the one nine hundred fifty s. it became the center of soviet orthopedics when a surgeon there invented a revolutionary method of bone restructuring sixty years later his breakthrough still being used to help people overcome disabilities artie's oksana boyko reports . the soviet union and russia give 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 rocket for example it was designed back in the sixty's the design hasn't changed that much to these day it's 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 a limp lengthening our next story is about bad. for both of them it's about walking tall eight year old into his leg in left leg and twenty seven year old japanese

engineer with lagging self-confidence and intrigue on didn't choose his predicament very much did. because of some employers refuse 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 the 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 bizarre if in the nineteen fifties these frames were initially used to treat fractures in deformities by cutting bones and slowly pulling them up for their four stimulating tissue regeneration it was out of was able to receive arms and legs and people who thought they were crippled for life be sent to the other patients and in many cases the. shattered lives was the main goal

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 than the ultimate goal is still the same fixing somebody is live both literally and figuratively about a third of patients admitted to be it was out of center nowadays seeking surgery for 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 man's pride. the first patient he turned to us with a leg length to me request to meet his fifteen centimeters to be still want to surgery because his partner was too 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 when allowed their press 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 this washington state native to western siberia if his main motive for the surgery had to do with how he fared in the 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 hide 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 i sound like an artsy on the region. finally in this news block we've heard prime minister vladimir putin occur in a tune now his recent rendition of blueberry hill could be a hit on the dance for. popular russian deejays 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 when he took to the stage at a star studded charity concert in st petersburg performing the fats domino classic

in english the video attracted two million views on you tube and it was this that inspired d.j. smash to remake spoons vocals who hopes the premier will use that as a ring tone for his fall. as southern sudan counts down the hours to its first appearance on the world map we debate whether the country will struggle to make its mark its coming your way in cross talk that's coming your way after the business update stay with us your art. hello there is time for your business update freshers budget gap is likely to widen the next year despite windfall or revenues prime minister says it will double to three point seven percent the gap will be filled with domestic and international woes and by selling state assets how will the reserve fund accommodating world revenues will be left and kept instead the government will increase tax pressure on the gas industry russia's finest better so explains challenges his team faces one

hundred the states growing appetite for spending. could. any expert tell you that given our high oil dependence it makes more sense to raise taxes and guard the budget deficit by doing so you would not increase the risk for the whole economy but rather for a set of the industry theories in texas for in our case giving golden state spending we have balance to do in between the business and the state. rushes looking for pay before pumping what it comes to supplying gas to china gas from now wants advance payment for its future energy deliveries the head of mr newspaper says it could make up to forty billion dollars with gas from offering a discount in exchange but it serves been seen as another obstacle in the long running energy talks both parties are trying to create a new thirty year supply contract but can't agree on the price. central banks around the world have pulled six hundred thirty five tons of gold from the

buy for international settlements last year that's the largest withdrawal in more than a decade it's a shopper also as banks have been doing to the cause of those so-called bank of central banks central banks hold wrong thirty thousand tonnes and of for giuliani in reserve and maybe and many of them landed out low demand for gold in the past decade as driving interest rates on it to record lows traders say some central banks may have decided not to lend gold at all. so i have a quick check on the markets oil has bad a second week of gains and speculation that fuel supplies us a patient to meet the post in consumption from the economic recovery. investors are also of course as the head of review has dropped support for insight into the pace of economic recovery of the world's biggest oil consumer. and here in europe european indices are flat the footsie is into positive territory and the german dax is up about four chancel percent market players are keeping an eye on the u.s.

non-farm payrolls and unemployment rate. just a few minutes. and here in russia they are just in the it's a plateau after thousands rally which saw both indices post their largest daily gave in to the markets investors here are also looking forward to digest new data from the u.s. let's have a check on some of the individual show moves on the why is that squeak of crude is weighing on energy majors of course they're down point one percent these fees down more than harvard percent following news moody's has cut the rating for the newly acquired bank of moscow. another story yesterday with b. to be on the rise despite the forecast from some analysts its debt risk would be higher from the takeover of bank of moscow bucking the trend is several style economies sub point seven percent the south. that. the business board in my court corrina me to come we'll bring you more in else time so set stay with us for that.

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