well as a clubs full of the so-called hotel in the big building. mostly at ski creek in the city planet's medicine this is true and can in scheme we could switch it to look you can plug in. now so it's. thousands of protesters frustrated with the rate of reform are filling cairo's tahrir square and what's being dubbed a million man march protesting the interim government. from flotilla to fly to a lot of pro palestinian activists sweep their swap their ships for planes to reach gaza after a convoy of humanitarian vessels is halted new greets. the final launch of atlantis marks the end of the u.s. space shuttle program an end and the end of an era leaving potentially tens of thousands without.

seven pm in moscow i match president have you with us here on r t our top story thousands of people are protesting in egypt's tahrir square to voice their anger at the interim government over the country's sluggish rate of reform dubbed as a million man march the rallies expected to be the biggest demonstration since february's uprising protesters want to keep up pressure for a change on the country's interim military rulers and see former regime officials brought to trial or he's a nice and now way has more from cairo. the protesters are back on holiday or they're calling it the second phase of the revolt because they say their freedom was short lived then they got rid of mubarak and other high banking officials but now egypt will be the same way it was before january so we're told that little fishies little mubarak the minibar southers the moving them running the country because. people are still here big comeback the revolution was born and

now they want to take back here to the university so they want to take time here for the factories to build places and make changes where it's really needed we don't know how many people was going to stay some say they're going to stay because it takes a real changes to make you an easy thing there was no security. here it's people think a better check thank you very much risking justice has died it's way back i don't read so people here are going to keep on fighting until they see the egypt that was it began forty five different political parties with just two they all by different things think they can come together on the fact that this was not the was not the reason to get changes they're going to keep coming back to reporting from cairo and you know arts. for more on our egypt coverage you can follow

a niece's latest twitter updates she's got all the details on the breaking developments from tahrir square eyewitness accounts and fresh heartbeats on the demonstrations a lot on to our twitter and find us out party underscore. turning out of the u.k. where a former editor of the news of the world's been arrested in connection with a phone hacking scandal at the country's biggest selling newspaper papers former royal editor has also been arrested on suspicion of driving police scandals prompted the prime minister to announce two inquiries into the ethics and practices of the british press one hundred sixty year old paper is accused of hacking into the phones of thousands of targets including murder and terror victims dead soldiers and politicians its owner rupert murdoch's news international has announced the paper was close after this sunday's final edition and media analyst filreis tells r.t. although the scandal is a blow to the company it is strong enough to weather the storm. i think something

changed this week you know for decades british prime ministers have been only needs to the to the murdoch press because they knew that when the sun which is the main daily newspaper here in britain when the sun supported a british politician running for prime minister it's you know they want me and then you find them and next day you find the prime minister reading the sun looking like an angel the sun got me elected i mean you've got this good meaning of democracy it's missing a democracy really which the press and that that but i think and that was that there was 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 will because it in terms of the

whole news international it's a tiny part of it or back but i tell you the most important thing bill in my view is that the political class had been sucking up to rupert murdoch with 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 back. stay with us here on r t still to come this hour. without the space program or pretty much nothing i mean this is a play you know because he's just built on the space program you know it's a lot of people are going to get it so you can get. millions away to the final launch of the shuttle atlantis but for many the historic moment is bittersweet. first though georgia claims the high profile photographer was arrested in the capital tbilisi had been spying for a foreign state before detained are accused of providing information to another country to the detriment of georgia's interests among them is the president's for

personal photos as well as an employee for the european press photo agency a photographer as an ivy allegations there eskom is nine others were jailed for up to fourteen years for spying for moscow the russian foreign ministry says the police actions indicate the state of democracy and freedom of speech there meanwhile a member of the georgian opposition movement tells r.t. the spy claims are meant to foster anti moscow sentiment as a means of boosting president saakashvili to control. well it's not true to writes novels the. russian. see me for these are the most opposed and mean i'll be easy ways to write he should kid. power because these are not true and second care which really and to some of the unsettling he's going through it all with he's there and he got through the explanation for european competition why georgia is still. in

the only explanation. of georgia and he got with you it was we should but he's going to go and so will the russian agents or since i still i do know. now says final shuttle flight is going to blast off within the hour with up to a million spectators waiting to watch the historic launch its one hundred thirty fifth right the thirty year history of america's space shuttle program experts had warned of a high chance the launch would be delayed by bad weather but astronauts have now been given the green light as artie's got a cheeky honor of course it's also a poignant moment for those who have devoted their lives to the program. 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 luge is on the verge of becoming a ghost town without the space program or pretty much nothing i mean this is what you know cocoa beach is built on the space program you know just a lot of you are going to be starting out at homes if you're going on welfare left and right you chance anthony chris a fully spent twenty three years with the shuttle launch team as an engineer with a client is blasting our 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 charts 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 bill be able to deliver them one thing is certain though building 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 put test before the columbia shuttle first launch into space in nineteen eighty one a total of five shuttles have been used for space missions says that two of them were lost in traffic accidents in nine hundred eighty six and in two thousand and three those lawsuits and the skyrocketing price for each launch gradually latched 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 been for the united. 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 few of my friends go in there they'll be more people they're probably in may never see again it also means the end of a once vibrant scientific community that's grown up around the shuttle. hundreds of pro team activists are being blocked in their attempts to reach gaza by air as they try to defy israeli policies many are being stopped at european airports several have been deported as they arrived in tel aviv the move comes a week after a flotilla of a dozen ships bound for gaza was prevented from leaving the port in greece for more on this we go live to our keys parsley or. so paula some of the activists have made it through to ben gurion international airport what's the situation once they get there and what do we know about the whereabouts of the others. well that's sort of

activists are being interrogated as i speak to you here at big green international airport only a few have actually managed to trickle through and it's not quite clear how the israeli police and security have allowed them to go through because there are still hundreds of police and security officers both inside and outside being coming in international now happy hour to lot of the palestine sun a deputy campaign and she's one of the few people who's actually managed to come through you on the phone with the activists who are being interrogated here at the airport what are they telling you. this telling me that they were taken from passport control. they had already announced what they were doing that they were going to bethlehem to stay in the aida camp and taken to a separate holding berry as i spoke to him on the phone they said the heavies were coming in and they were about to be interrogated you flew in from england what kind of examinations what kind of checks did you have to undergo there some of phone number also interrogated by our own security but they were asked to know their

names and addresses they were asked where they were going and they were told that they were going to be left on the tarmac in bangor ian in forty degrees of heat this course would not be possible this would be a human rights violation so there was intimidation from england to the travelers coming to bangor into day how do you think you managed to get through i mean to to yourself go through any kind of intimidation no i didn't i actually think i literally slipped through the net just me as far as i can tell there is only one of us there are forty or fifty people waiting hoping not to be deported or likely to be deported and there is me so it is up to me to be their voice and to put forward the points of view especially of people in the u.k. but there are people from belgium and from france and scotland from all over the u.k. waiting to come through what is really the intention of your campaign is it to reach

. still is a prodigy to attention to the situation there it is partly what is actually put him as our first point and we really want to make a lot of visits in the west bank we've been invited and this is a big table tomorrow is a big day tomorrow the ninth of july is the tell you the u.n. resolution was passed which. made the wall illegal and i asked governments around the world to pressure israel not to pill this will as we all know the wall has gone up twice the height of the persian wall very many times longer and it is illegal so we're mocking the united nations there you know our governments are afraid to do anything about this and we're not the israeli security measures have been marks for being ridiculous are you surprised by the way it israelis have reacted to do you think it's some kind of psychological wall i don't know why netanyahu wants to whip people's passions up the whole time as if we were threat i mean look at me look at

me i'm a british woman i came to me about peace and justice i care deeply about just peace both sides we all do and term and yet netanyahu sees us as a threat he says us assess threats to the legitimization of israel how can we be a threat and yet he whips out these crazy kids carry the poor in all over the airport he gets the british police the french police to stop activists coming out we never come to demonstrate we always planned to be here and be here for this day and enjoy the the cultural activities of the palestinians on the west bank and truth with the israelis as well i think you have it and it's true as far as we can tell it is the only activists to have actually made it through to the arrivals hall here and as i'm speaking to you there must be dozens of security officers i'm looking at there surrounding the area and she has managed to come through and talk

to us here in r.t. . right is because we are a life for us a bangor international airport thank you much for the. from our perspective on this and the activist mission i'm joined by david harris executive director of the american jewish committee thanks very much for joining us here on r t so israel is gearing up for the arrival of these protestors and these activists what do you think is likely to happen when they reach the airport if any of them do when i think we're going to be stopped and they're going to be put back on planes and returned home with the mother is that it's well known these are provocateurs whose goal is that people should always israel and to promote the agenda of a terrorist group i'm going to now israel claims the campaign is trying to tarnish its image on the world state and stage and surely they have their perspective at the same time with the gaza blockade and the settlement expansion and the deaths of nine activists on the previous flotilla do you think they're not doing themselves perhaps many favors when it comes to their p.r. efforts well i think you're lumping together

a lot of things that have no context and if we had time we could provide the context but the simple fact the matter is that you could be facing a no win at the peace process between israelis and palestinians if the palestinians chose to sit at the table but they chose not to sit at the table in fact to the contrary the tools and to get into bed with from us a terrorist group that is. due to such by the united states and by the european union so we need to be clear about what the principle of circle to move the peace process forward is and that's the poles the refusal to sit down and talk face to face with israel a country that they're prepared to accept and recognize now on wednesday the israeli foreign minister run the palestinians not to pursue statehood in a u.n. vote that's planned for september saying that unilateral steps require unilateral responses what kind of response do you think israel is hinting at again first of all we need to understand that if the palestinians decide to move unilaterally they are violating both the spirit and the letter of previous agreements secondly they need to understand that it's not going to get them where they want to go even if

they get support in the u.n. from countries like venezuela and pakistan and north korea and the rest it's not going to. change anything on the ground the only thing that's could do is complicate the peace process further so for those who are truly interested in advancing the peace process as we have agency or for example the goal is to get the people back to the table and not to allow the un to become a diversion to increase palestinian expectations of what's going to happen only discover that nothing has changed on the ground if anything things got worse and president obama says if that goes to vote takes place the u.s. won't support it but what do you think will happen when the vote happens if it does kind of provoke before the u.n. well first of all of the rubble to president obama for having the principle of the courage to say this is not the right way to go and the united states is going to veto it abroad with the countries like germany and italy and the netherlands and others that have now come forward and said the exact same thing we want a two state agreement this is not the way to go and we're going to oppose it so if it tells these go forward the general assembly has no legal power it only has some

bold power but again if they go forward you know that really would be the door open to israel to consider its own unilateral options the peace process moves backward red those of us the united states and elsewhere want desperately to move that forward so what extent do you think israel can account on its support from the u.s. absolutely well first of all the president states agree clear his willingness to exercise the veto if necessary secondly the u.s. israel relationship today isn't strong as it's been a very long time and thirdly the speech by the prime minister of israel to the u.s. congress interrupted by thirty separate standing ovations i think reveals the fact that support for israel the united states comes from the right the left democrats republicans and it explains why america stands so strongly with instead a credit friend israel you know speaking regionally one of israel's security concerns is from iran and iran does have a nuclear program. do you think there could be

a conflict in the region because of this and to what extent do you think israel is ready to keep iran from gaining nuclear weaponry but first of all i hope there is no conflict no one wants to see. conflict secondly you want is not just an israel problem as any of the arab countries that surround iran as we have and we visit many of them you're on is first on the list in the wiki leaks proves that iran is first on the list so it's a problem for russia it's a problem for the arab world it's a problem for europe it's a problem for israel the us and europe of said we want to solve this problem it should be up to israel to solve the problem alone but israel will do what it has to do if it considers its existence in danger and when the iranian leader says i want to world without israel we saw when another person said it adolf hitler the world did not take him seriously israel takes the iranian leadership seriously we hope the rest of the world goes too far right david harris executor record the american jewish committee thank you very much for. i want it comes to cutting edge research it seems that russia is still a major player in our close up series coming up we explore one doctor's amazing

medical legacy. this time we bring you to the court in a region in southern so bierria middle of the twentieth century became a center for soviet orthopedics with a surgeon there developing a revolutionary method of bone restructuring decades later the breakthrough is still being used to help people overcome disabilities as artie's oksana boycott 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 very basic yet they remain in service for many many decades take this they use the rocket for example it was designed back in this thinks it is the design hasn't changed that much yet 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. it was first designed back in the fifty's but it's 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 that. could both of them it's about walking tall eight year old refuse legging left leg and twenty seven year old japanese engineer with lighting self-confidence and intrigue on didn't choose his predicament very much did turn centimeters shorter than the average height from an inch of ground because of some employers refuse to hire me one of them told me directly but 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 centimeters to his stature it may seem. like a tall order but the actual surgery is fairly simple though painful invented where this pain soviet orthopedic is giving you is there of a nine hundred fifty s. these frames for initially used to treat fractures in deformities by cutting bones and slowly pulling them up or therefore stimulating tissue regeneration elizabeth was able to rashied arms and legs and people who thought they were crippled for life recent to the other patients sharing bones in their shattered lives will go when professing the result of designs first brain using bicycle parts sixty years later his invention is increasingly being used to help people what he heard to fracture their legs to become a few centimeters taller than the ultimate goal is still the same thinks in some of his lies both literally and figuratively about a third of patients admitted to the it was out of center now days seeking surgery

for cosmetic reasons most of them are men and most are not what you would call vertical challenge professor not because of who operated on many of them sas it usually comes down to announce pride some of the first patients return to us with a leg length i mean request was two meters fifteen centimeters tall he still wanted surgery because his partner was to have them him we like to say that we need to break their legs in order to fix their mood may be nothing wrong with them for all for p.d. 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 there pressure here bitterly 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 they brought peace washington state native to western siberia it he's main motive for the surgery had to do with how he stared in the others in america the average height was one

seventy five i was born sixty seven or one sixty eight and so the one eight centimeters would have brought me very to our very uncertain what to be average for women hype isn't so important you know i think girl can be sure it's not a big deal i think a guy is like expected to be a plumber just before the operation no systematic a russian girl who found he's a regional hype why didn't deering if you still want to have the surgery adding seven thousand meters to he self-confidence she took told me the whole time you're crazy you're normal you're pretty cool so now if they call you is that what i compliment for somebody who's used to pull i'm sure with of his own expectations i sound like an artsy programmed region let's go live now to some pictures of the atlantis space shuttle it's the last ever liftoff from florida there you can see the copying lifted off. and soon we're going to see the last space shuttle mission

and as we've mentioned it's on it's going on it's one hundred thirty fifth space shuttle mission this job is to take by the supplies for the astronauts up to the international space station thousands of people have gathered near kennedy space center in anticipation of this final launch another was doubt over whether the weather would cooperate because there are some bad conditions there but it appears as though they're going to go ahead with a flight and the preparations continue throughout the morning now two million liters of fuel have been loaded into the shuttle's tanks for the last flight of the land base marks the end of the space shuttle era or nasa which is deciding to shut down the program in the private sector firms take over and find ways to get astronauts up into space there you can see the shuttle clock a minute twenty. and we're going to keep with these live pictures until the launch happens snow in suppression waters the circle program has been going on for about thirty years now and it's definitely an american tradition it's going to be. a hard

hit for a lot of people living in the local area like we've been reporting here on our team much of the local community is based around the shuttle program all the support staff need in order to get these miraculous machines off the ground and into space . for oxygen at night and fill in greenbelt or closed. he mutters forty seconds getting off to atlantis is computers at t. minus thirty one. united thirty five thirty three appropriately you're in the thirty second article about your. soon we will see you the shuttle begin to warm up for a lot sequencer. of the car because with this. now they stop the clock and they had talked earlier about some inclement weather that might be keeping the shuttle launch from happening per the old perhaps we could be seeing a dinner right here. at the right perfectly. there where

are they there with the crew right there ok but it was quite overt you can verify oh you are correct we are. and our our reckon we prepare a paper record. or we practice. at this kind of the crowds are waiting with bated breath to see whether it was luck or actually happen to be a slight delay because of the weather and because of the hazy conditions. ok you can buy that or retract it. from the word. but we program pretty all right and i think that it would be if you could currently have a requirement that you are prepared to go ok i pop rock record. per program all right very good idea to get the correct correct if you are right and listening in on the conversation between the shuttle and originators going

through if you ever go about it the more i think i want to complain. because we have it we're. all right guys. it's remarkable progress. every minute for. a great deal out but we want it we're ready to go all right very good point mark kirk with a clean up we're going to let everything go for all right now we are going to crocker momentarily as we've also been reporting averse will mark the end of the u.s. space shuttle program making the russian soyuz capsule getting leeway and getting out to the international space station something that's going to be a lifeline for the sas and now the countdown has resumed twenty five seconds to go

so we use program will be a lifeline for you says up until twenty other private firms within us come up with an alternative to the space shuttle program something that we've been reporting on . go for me there you see the main engines have been a warning up. so so. again it's up and burning two one zero and lift off the final lift off of it lands shoulders of the space shuttle america will continue the dream. granted. houston now controlling the flight of atlantis the space shuttle spreads its wings one final time for the start of a summer mental journey into history. twenty four seconds into the flight program complete atlantis now heads down wings level on the proper alignment for it's a definite ride order form.