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thousands of protesters frustrated with the rate of reform filled up cairo's tahrir square and other cities across the country to voice their anger against egypt's interim government we've got the latest for you tonight also. from fla to the flight to learn approach palestinian activists want their ships for planes to reach guards and now after a convoy of humanitarian vessels was halted in greek. dozens of activists interrogated in international court only one manages to sit we speak to them in just a few moments. to one zero and lift plus the final blastoff the last of a launch of atlantis marks the end of the u.s. space shuttle program the end of an era. in business

russia wants to increase its annual crude oil production to five hundred or nine million tons but the country's refinery capacity needs urgent modernization turn me for a full business bullets twenty minutes from now. hello this is our team and it's ten pm here in moscow and our top story for you thousands of people have been protesting in egypt's tahrir square all day and into the night now to voice their anger at the interim government over the country sluggish rate of reform demonstrators want to keep up the pressure for change on the interim is on the country's interim military rulers undersea former regime officials brought to trial with the latest artes in this an hour from cairo. thousands of protesters are back on top of me or they're calling it the second phase of the room vote

because they say their freedom was short lived then they got rid of mubarak you know they're like making a mistake but now egypt is the way it was two or january so a little bit little official little mubarak so many new larks either it was the one thing them running the country i do you. know i still remember two years think back to when the revolution was born and now they want to take to the universities and they want to take back we are going to the factories to the places that make things easier it's really good we don't know how many people was going to stay suddenly they're going to stay current it takes real changes coming here in egypt was existing there was no security no i mean here i mean it's people. who don't check he was doing security risk justice has died it's got that coffee read so people here are going to keep on fighting see the egypt that i have always think they can work out of different political parties we just don't see the old one different

things but i think they can come together on the fact that. not the not the reason they begin to change is they're going to keep coming back. pretty. hard. but if you want to follow all the very latest from egypt you can follow in this and now his latest twitter updates to all the details on the breaking developments there from tahrir square she's got eyewitness accounts and fresh updates on those protests today and tonight we're going to twitter you can find us an. underscore called. hundreds of protesters tonight of us have been blocked by israel in their attempts to reach gaza by air dozens were detained for questioning in tel aviv on the arrival of the majority were prevented from even reaching tel aviv and european airports just last week a humanitarian flotilla with hundreds of. pain is bound for gaza was stopped from leaving a greek port triggering this fresh attempt to ease a blockade party's policy is ben-gurion airport where she spoke the only activists

believed to cross the israeli border. dozens of activists are being interrogated as i speak to you here at ben-gurion 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 the bank of an international now have it me back to latif of the palestine solidarity 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 as i spoke on the phone they said the heavies were coming in and they were about to be interrogated i actually think i literally slipped through the net just mean as far as i can tell there is only one of us there are forty or fifty people waiting hoping not to be deported likely to be deported and this is me so it is up to me to

be their voice and to put forward the point 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 i don't know why netanyahu wants to whip people's passions up the whole time as if we were a threat i mean look at me look at me i'm a british woman i can deeply about peace and justice i care deeply about a just peace but both sides we all do and term and yet netanyahu sees us as a threat he says us as a threat to the legitimization of israel how can we be a threat and yet he whips up the israelis he gets scared the poor in all over the airport he gets the british police the french police to stop activists coming out we never plan to. demonstrate we always planned to be here and be here for this day and surely the the cultural activities of the palestinians you west bank and to

with the israelis as well do you have it and it's true as far as we can tell that is the only activist who 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 they're surrounding the area and yet she has managed to come through and talk to c.n.n. r.t. schizo makes but analysis of the protests in egypt from professor mark old who smokes what university thanks for being with us professor tonight so yet again a witnessing the protesters back on tahrir square what is it just five months now since the revolution do they have real cause to be so disappointed in your view in the way things have turned out. well i think they may be over optimistic about how things will turn out but clearly there are very big difficulties in egypt the economy has spiral downwards this inflation things are being made worse by for instance the e.u. has ban on vegetable exports because of the fear of. strong egyptian products but

more generally the expectations that the fall of mubarak will be followed by a change of regime hasn't really come about in effect mubarak and his family and closest cronies have been imprisoned or accused or will go on trial next month of all sorts of crimes against the people and against the interests of country but of course field marshal tantawi of the other members of the military ruling council with his appointees to great extent across egypt people don't see that their local boss the local head of ministration has changed so there's a sense that the old regime was decapitated but minus mubarak it's still in power so how big is the gap between what people want and what they're actually going to end up with. well the great problem is that in many ways the revolution comes about because. people are very discontented have reasons for profound economic discontents but it the process the revolution causes so much disruption that we see

tourists stay away from egypt that kills a lot of business we see people worried about investing there because they wonder who's going to be in power in a few months time so ironically one of the big reasons for the revolution people's economic discontent social discontent irritation about unemployment and so on actually the process of getting rid of mubarak has made in the short term the economy worse and i do think really there's an easy answer to egypt's economic problems because global oil prices global food prices and so on are rising and egypt is a centrally important professor your view about the old regime should former president hosni mubarak and his former regime officials be prosecuted as the people are demanding. well it the question is why everybody may be subject to judicial review all their actions may be subject to being put on trial whether they will have a fair trial in the current atmosphere of course must be seriously doubted and there is obviously

a sense i think that the former comrades in arms of the bar in charge of the government have in a sense tried to throw away mubarak and his family in order to throw a bone to the popular discontent and whether the ordinary population of egypt will be satisfied simply with seeing the former president and his sons perhaps put on trial and punished possibly punished very severely even with the death penalty is not so clear revolutions have a habit of spiraling out of control once you begin a purge of the society words that stop after all if mubarak is allowed to defend himself he may point the finger at people who are now in power still in office who he knows quite a lot about from his time when he was in charge and let's talk about these events that were seen tonight we're looking at over your shoulder there the muslim brotherhood which many consider a radical islamist movement also we're playing a part in the mass demonstrations how significant is their involvement. well this is i think it's perhaps the most important political group because we hear about

people like professor elvira die about our muso and so on as people who might want to be president of egypt but they don't have a party political base a mass movement the muslim brotherhood may have been illegal and underground for decades but it's a powerful organization it has quite a lot of local support it's also been playing a very clever game i think recently of reaching out to the american embassy to american potential investors saying we are moderate muslims we are in favor of the market economy where not like they are tollers in iran and so they're trying to remove one potential foreign obstacle to coming to power. whether they will necessarily be able to muster the votes if there is anything like a properly conducted free and fair election must be open to question on the other hand they all the group that his best organized what is least tainted by association with the old regime what is likely to come out of these elections in september you think. well i think the likelihood is probably that we will see

a lot of. small groups competing not really been able to operate across the whole country affectively because they don't have the resources the money the local activists and probably the muslim brotherhood and possibly. something that grows out of the old ruling party will be the two main contenders in practice and the muslim brotherhood may therefore have a good chance of winning even if its total share of the vote compared to the population of egypt isn't hugely high if it's the best organized minority twenty five thirty percent of real supporters it could yet do very well first mark almond joining us tonight thanks very much. thank you. ok you stay with us still to come this stop the press the latest twist in britain's phone hacking scandal that's already seen its biggest selling papers shut down now its former editor has been arrested but it's obvious i'm about that little bit later. next though georgia claims a group of high profile photographers detained in the capital tbilisi have been

spying for a foreign state the arrest comes nine other people were jailed for up to fourteen years for espionage for moscow his country in a zone over explains what's behind georgia's spy saga. and it's been that i still spy with my little lie george is continuing its for of encounter espionage campaign and this time around the people in the spotlight are those who usually stay behind the scenes for photo journalists have been detained including the president's personal photographer and employees of the associated press and the european press agency the a.p. photographer was later released without charge but the other three remaining custody. either may supply but i have met with my client he's got injuries to his face at the moment he still hasn't been charged with anything and we waiting on the prosecutors to file the case and to question and formally charge my client. so for a georgian authorities haven't specified exactly who they believe these journalists

were spying for their previous spying allegations however have mostly been aimed at russia for suckers surely writes novels the continuation of war and there are certain hysteria this is the main basis for he don't most polls and. why he should care. a power because of the second term which we were and are into solving encircling he is going through almost his term and he doesn't care where the explanation for in european partners why georgia so-called democratic country why they were doing. power and you always bugged the. independence of georgia. but he brought me against. russian agents or since. the recent hysteria began with yet another alleged spy story last year thirteen

people were detained and accused of being spies on russia's payroll earlier this week nine of them were found guilty and sentenced to. between eleven and fourteen years behind bars but what lies behind this frenzied espionage clampdown. the judges are so quick to stick a spy label on to anyone i guess is just a level of democracy and that has been noticed not just by russia but by various key international organizations like the un. even so it seems international disbelief and numerous arrests and convictions are not enough to put the paranoia of georgian officials to rest georgism terry a minister claims that there are more alleged spies out there and that he knows exactly who they are where they are and what they're doing while official the b.b.c. haoles these efforts many seem to be of the opinion that is just plain wishful

thinking. katharine's r i t moscow. to the u.k. now big story there were a former editor of the news of the world's been arrested in connection with the phone hacking scandal of the country's biggest selling newspaper its former royal correspondent also been arrested on suspicion of bribing police and the furious prompted the prime minister to announce two inquiries into the ethics and practices of the british press the one hundred sixty eight year old papers accused of hacking into the phones and emails of fellows of the targets including murder and terror victims dead soldiers as well as politicians it's owner rupert murdoch's news international announced the paper is set to close after this sunday's edition spring into the equation here john go on to a radio show on the sun website these in birmingham for tonight jungle we're going to even thanks. my prime minister david cameron's promise tells me this independent inquiry into practice is a newspaper who've already seen two arrests in connection with the hacking is this

just the tip of the iceberg. i think it probably is and of course many of us are calling for a full public inquiry led by a judge and cameron has been dragged into this position he's now willing to let it happen six truly embarrassing for him because the former editor of the news of the world andy cosen of course became his press secretary he had to resign release first hacking allegations came out and now of course we found out the news the world actually hacking into dead soldiers families phones and also a little girl who went missing called milly dowler who was eventually found murdered they hacked into her phone messages and deleted certain messages to keep on listening and getting new messages this is absolutely horrified the british public and now obviously we're getting a criminal investigation and a full public inquiry will talk about the british prime minister in a minute if we will but let's talk about rebecca brooks the news the world chief executive of news international she's been called to resign on by

a lot of people but she was but yes they wasn't she wasn't she by rupert murdoch now let's just want to claw back here she was the editor of the news of the world when some of that alleged hacking took place why is she still in her job. prion maine let me tell you i believe she should go rebecca is an irish woman she actually gave me a job as a columnist on the sun she was the editor of the news the world before that and as you say that's where these hacking incidents and emanate from her excuse is that she was on holiday when they hacked into this missing girl's telephone which surely if you're the editor of the biggest selling newspaper usual was have the finger on the polls and the book fundamentally has to stop with you but rupert murdoch is back you know at the moment i personally believe the reason he's backing her is because that draws the flack away from his son now a certain je was murdoch is meant to be taking over the whole of news corp when rupert moves on on the passes away or indeed retires if he ever does retire i

believe that rebecca has been left there as a lightning come down and also of course what's happened is now she hasn't resigned but they've closed down the news the world and so we're up to five hundred people have lost their jobs i'm mostly people we're not all going to use the world when these allegations of hacking happened however she was in my humble opinion she should go and she should go now and also james murdoch he asked to also look at his conscience and perhaps he should step down as well because what's going to happen now is the free press in the united kingdom which is something we really pride ourselves on there's a real danger now we're going to go over regulation by the government as a direct result of this a broader and behavior by some journalists on the news of the world we're also hearing it wasn't only journalists involved also allegations of corruption and bribery at the metropolitan gas force are you surprised by that. i am surprised by

that initial remarkable story they reckon there's been brown paper bags full of up to twenty thousand pounds at a time being given over at fast food restaurants to detectives who have been giving information on certain again horrific crimes now of course if there are policemen or police women doing this they should be fully investigated before the courts and if found guilty sent to prison you go to careful though not to tar all police officers with this corruption allegation just like we can't all journalists on the tabloid newspapers as if they're hacking into dead people's telephones of course but there is a real problem here and also is a major problem because i think that successive governments in britain both the labor government are in control before and now david cameron the conservatives have been too damn close while rupert murdoch this is what i want i ask you prior to this exact want to bring up next john the prime minister's promises that no stone will go on turning the investigation into ethics over the british press but what about his handling of the affair that the wisdom of employing and the holes in the

media guru we've been arrested and his friendship with brooks we've just talked about. yeah but he's part of what's called the chipping condom set which is a rural part of britain he lives down there at the weekend rebecca brooks lives down there cern colonist lives down there and there's a whole set you can to make socially that said it was a different set when labor in power would totally blair but all of it is too cosy and too comfortable if you don't have a real democracy you have to have a separation between the press surely and indeed the political establishment and the government of the day you also need to have separation between the judiciary and those two areas in britain and the united kingdom they've become too close over the last thirteen or fourteen years and i believe that last may no ordinary people in britain their views have not really been represented either in the newspapers or in the political arena that's bad for democracy so david cameron should start

investigating himself that's far as i'm concerned and one would your employer a man who's already had to resign over phone hacking allegations why would you take him to the heart of government where he could have access to top secret dossier as an information it's a sorry sorry day let me tell you not just for the british press but for british democracy and as you say john a lot of questions still unanswered tonight as the yeah yeah goes on john go on for the radio host on the side web site talking to us from birmingham thank you thank you. the mouse's final shuttle flights blasted off with up to a million spectators witnessing the historic launch it is the one hundred fifth one hundred thirty fifth mission on the thirty year history of america's space shuttle program experts have warned of a high chance that alone should be delayed by bad weather but in the end the astronauts did leave earth with a delay of only about a man as if he's gonna cheat you can report suspected it was also of course a poignant moment devoted a lot of this whole process right. 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 the beach is built on the space program you know just a lot of you are going to be out of jobs are you me out people are going on 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 splice thing 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 got any concrete response as 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 soon this is the first shuttle ever it never made it to space but it was used put this before the columbia shuttle first launch into space in nineteen eighty one a total. five shuttles had been used for space missions since that two of them were last thing tragic accidents a 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 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 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 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 our t. . intake minustah recovery efforts are underway after a series of explosions at a factory in the city of up and down toward nearby buildings that reportedly the mission's depo although officials say the blasts were to follow its factory well

cording to local media reports they've been up to two hundred casualties it's not clear if anyone has been killed but this is so that i mean issued from the burning depos scattered on the streets and some of its reach neighboring towns large sections of the city lost power water supplies and since been restored security is tight with police patrolling the streets. twenty five minutes past ten moscow time sports news and had to run some head for the next thirty minutes let's check out the business headlines. it's twenty five past ten pm here in moscow welcome to business russia has increased its annual crude oil production forecast to five hundred and nine million tons however the quality of russian all products is still very low the country needs to modernize its refinery capacity and prime minister putin is going to make sure it will happen. prime minister was obviously unsatisfied that rush of the world's biggest oil producer has such

a weak refighting industry he says it's still as it was fifty years ago demand for high quality fuel in russia grows at double digit rates annually however refining has been called by there in volumes or in quality experts say legislation russian made it more profitable for oil producers to explore crude oil low quality oil products but now putin says the measures to reverse the trend will be taken. when you do we need to closely monitor the implementation of the modernization of plans by the oil companies and if he don't meet their obligations this state will have the right to apply sanctions including the seizure of unreasonably of change. just to remind you in may of russia banned the export of high quality fuel the country was facing gasoline shortage domestically as producers chose to export more cashing in on the high oil prices now with the russian economy picking up and

growing even faster than expected demand for high quality fuel is expected to grow at more than ten per cent annually and the prime minister made it absolutely clear producers will have to invest billions of dollars to more than ours their refining capacity and. let's have a look at the markets now crude oil dropped pairing a second weekly gain through trees fell as much as two point three percent brant crude fell ninety nine cents and likes we've lost two dollars forty six u.s. stocks are trading lower at midday that's up to the government said businesses added fewer jobs in june and over a year of course created only eighteen thousand jobs last month a fraction of what economists expected for doubt hopes for a quick rebound after the economy slump this spring. here in russia stocks have raised games and had their biggest loss and more than a month as or draw. they are testing the miser's both balls point nine percent

energy mages his biggest losers on both the forces now let's have a look at some individual shambles on the minus six we see look. down half a percent from down one point nine percent banking stocks also finished lowers over two percent. and russia has a biggest retail group that is revenue by fifty one percent in the first half of the year the company says the seven point eight billion dollars come from strong sales and consolidation from the recently acquired. that's the business update for this but don't forget you can always log on to our website dot com slash business to find more business stories that thanks to watch.