and london because of the whopping revolution in one thousand nine hundred six but now it's clear that success came with a heavy price tag morality murdoch's journalist kept the ratings high by violating and exploiting the vulnerable they hacked the private voice mails of families of dead soldiers and of murdered children assigned me we've seen criminality and invasion of privacy on a staggering industrial scale not even the rich and powerful could escape then chancellor gordon brown's baby was splashed over the front page of the sun his illness a sick headline royal family phones were hacked the scandal even goes right to the heart of the police force senior police officers were bribed by journalists for tipoffs on sensitive investigations private lives were made public and now we've got. to be some hacking into gordon brown's private life you

have to so you have to stop what else is in of course is the heart of it it's not just. the use of what we call blanket these are people. information what should be private sources like medical records tax records it's taken thirty years for the worst fears about the british press to come true but come true they have murdoch may own successful newspapers in an ailing market but their papers which have lost their greatest asset the public's trust the u.k. has more c.c.t.v. cameras per person than anywhere else in the world i've counted eight just in this small car park so britain's always know big brother is watching but the question now is what's big brother watching for and more importantly who's trying to bribe. r.t. london. and you're watching r t live from moscow still have for you this hour europe's struggle to keep the euro flow takes another hit as the world's seventh largest

economy wakes up to the reality it's still in debt. and tension rises in the israeli parliament as the prime minister a new self has to step up and defend an anti boy which supports settlement products but has been by critics as an affront to human rights. the fate of the twenty four people from the sunken pleasure boat the bulgaria is still in the divers will conduct the final search of the vessel today as out of the one hundred thirty believe drowned only one hundred five bodies have been found sunday strategy tragedy is russia's worst ever boating disaster cross-like to respond to barton who is of the site is following the story for us there tom a difficult operation and not the easiest of conditions tell us what's going on how the search is going on what's happening where you are. well known or they have been

sending out teams of divers time in and time out going back out to the platform in the middle of the volga and those divers have been searching for for days now for the for the bodies of the people inside the sunken bowl garia they've gone into most of the rooms now if not all of them down in the ship they are still trying to find twenty four of the bodies that they say are as yet unaccounted for they may still be inside the ship they may be outside the ship and some of their worst fears may be that the currents when the ship sank may have carried those bodies as far as two hundred kilometers downstream that would be a worst case scenario but they may have to extend the search for those bodies a long way downstream if they can't find them on the ship the divers have been working in teams going down with some divers in heavier gear going to clear

obstacles in the path inside the ship tables and chairs of fallen over any wreckage that may have been caused when the ship hit the bottom of the river bed and then following divers have been taking the bodies up to the surface that is a long and complex operation and but this they say will be one of their final attempts they're hoping to try and finish that operation and try and find these last twenty four bodies by around midday today there's also been developments with the ongoing investigations into this case a lady called. who is the owner of the company that rented the bulgarian to take it on this pleasure cruise has been arrested she's been arrested because she rented the ship and it's thought that she may well have known how poor the condition of the ship was and so as part of these ongoing investigations as to into why the ship was on the river in the first place why it was. allowed to sail in

such terrible conditions she has been detained so has another expert in the in the region of perm and he was reported to have allowed the ship to leave perm some time ago to carry on sailing we've heard about the growing list of problems that the ship was suffering. one of the engines on the ship was reportedly repeatedly breaking down on the day that it sank staff warned the captain about that there was also reportedly an electricity generator that failed so that no s.o.s. message could be given so that no tannoy instructions could be given to people to help them evacuate we've also heard that emergency exits were blocked and that a former captain of the ship who was who lost his job for warning former owners about the state of the ship had said that the ship was technically dead as long ago as two thousand and seven so this list of complaints just keeps growing and now the

first arrests in these criminal cases are being made. all right tom thanks very much indeed for bringing us this update reporting there from the republic of tatarstan. and we've got more on russia's worst boating accident on our web site of course log on to our common white exclusive food is by diverse searching the ship rack on the bottom of the volga and an interview with a former captain of the doomed ship who says it was in no condition to sail long before the sinking. to other stories now here in our russia has proposed a new step by step strategy towards iran nuclear program the idea is to just making the limits of concessions to tehran if it goes along with the demands of the international community the statement comes after talks between the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton and russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov

during his visit to washington the two also touched upon the maybe a new campaign with lavrov saying russia has less disagreement on the matter with the u.s. than with some european countries but to count records bilateral issues still face certain difficulties. with regards to leave both russia and the u.s. have the view that colonel gadhafi must step down and that leaves should be able to choose their future leader it's the path towards those aims that moscow and washington disagree on the means if you will russia criticizes the scope of the into the foreign intervention in libya also sees the actions of the allied forces forces there as a violation of the un mandate minister lavrov said the resolution is being wrongly interpreted as anyone can do whatever they want for a minister was also asked about why it is blocking a u. and they should have to condemn the syrian president assad he said the attitude of

the west is exclusively about exerting pressure on one of the parties namely the syrian government and president all side of moscow sees it as sees it as the wrong attitude russia says it sends the wrong message to the syrian opposition prompting them to believe that if they were remain insistent in the situation keeps getting critical the west will come to help them the way it is happening in libya mr lavrov said it's unacceptable that the opposition resort to violence agitating peaceful protesters into engaging in armed clashes and effectively turning them into targets for the police and security forces take a listen i'm going to deploy. diplomacy exists not to condemn and school political points diplomacy. exists to solve problems and naked condemnation without proposing any solution to any breakthrough neither in syria nor in any other place in the store is a good example of how we are dealing with the situation in yemen no one's tripos into condemning anyone or adult the u.n. security council resolution supporting one or another signed everyone is. down on

hold negotiations dance a responsible approach that we hope will prevail well on bilateral issues there have been some agreements and disagreements as usual but top diplomats mainly focused on agreements both pointed out the positive and constructive mode in which the cooperation between the two countries is going on many issues in the last few years russian the us of which the landmark deal on arms reduction and the deepen cooperation on afghanistan that have gone forward in preparations for russia's accession into the world trade organization the obama administration is all for it and hillary clinton has once again stressed the american leadership support for russia joining the w t o also they have signed the long awaited agreement on adoption after scores of horrible incidents involving russian children mistreated by their adoptive parents in a number of cases murdered by them to stress the need for an agreement and a better oversight over how the adopted children are treated in their families and

the deal finally came through the points in vision there included bad on independent adoption adoptions will only be conducted via licensed agencies also the agreement states that all foster children from russia will retain their russian citizenship until they reach legal adulthood that it's very important as the agreement states that applicable laws from both countries will be used to add adoption related trials up until recently the americans did not want to hear anything about taking russian laws into account now as for disagreements america's missile defense plans is one of the most irritating issues in the relations between the two countries you could sense that both foreign minister ally. robin secretary of state clinton preferred not to go into details and talk much about disagreements but nevertheless we know that there has been discussions behind closed doors president obama has scrapped the bush administration missile defense plans but they're going ahead with a new plan for miss the lab rob said russians need for legally binding guarantees

that the project will not threaten russia's security washington has made reassuring statements before but moscow needs to have it on paper so there is an understanding among the russians that words are good but words in a legally binding document are better but again no specific comment on that yet. reporting there well we here live for you twenty four seven but for even more news and videos just go to our website r.t. dot com here's a taste of what's going on right now. find out why i am monuments to the first man in space to you where you daryn will be on the field friday the very heart of london. and it's a happy ending for an escape constrictor which brought fear when i was last in russia city of kaliningrad log on to our to learn how the two metre long snake slipped away in the first place.

a currency crisis gripping that has taken a turn for the worse as italy's spurred by a string of ruinous market downturns begins to debate emergency spending cuts at two trillion dollars the world seventh largest economy has been struggling to remain competitive since joining the euro zone but its debt has spiraled out of control a fact overlooked by many in the more pressing problems in the e.u. it follows the downgrade of violence dads to junk status serious blow to the euro zone. the bailout red block labor is to prop up its weakest economies u.k. i am a p.c. paul of the tel told r.t. the latest developments prove the single currency union is simply not working. this was always about politics it was not about economics the idea that you could have a column in the mediterranean in line with economies like germany fast growing economies

like germany was never going to where the only way to get out of this mess is for those countries to go back home to their national currencies to devalue moving. into exports going in at the moment they come with you because they couldn't see these are controlled by frankfurt they're controlled by the european central bank they're not controlled by athens or lisburn or even the people out on the streets in athens and i just wonder how long it will be before the people are also in the streets in rome and in lisbon until this thing is contagious this thing will move right across the continent specifically in the mediterranean and the bigger issue you know facing the european union is this really is the third largest economy in the eurozone largest economy in the world i think the eurozone can actually cope with greece and portugal the smaller economies but it's italy goes the whole thing could cave in because if italy goes it's all these economies intertwined with spain

and of spain and italy go then we are in serious trouble the euro is inextricably to the whole project and it's linked to the european union if the eurozone goes quite frankly you can see this whole thing breaking go up that is why they're so desperate to keep it that's why this whole desperate to say that we in the u.k. a federal bailout the only way for these countries to survive is to break out of this prison which is the auto zone and as the e.u. struggles to preserve the euro and bring its runaway debt under control our teams max kaiser and stacy herbert discuss whether italy's gold reserves might be making it a target a kaiser report is coming your way at seven thirty g.m.t. but here's a preview. twenty four hundred times ago. the second biggest position in the euro zone and that's the mother lode but i think that's been the target all along the green the ireland portugal those are side shows there are little micro-cap countries not much of a deal there but italy's got actual gold that the i.m.f.

and the people who support the i.m.f. the terrorists as i mentioned like eric cantor they're helping to facilitate the thieving of that twenty four hundred tons of gold because that is meaningful. it was a turbulent session and the israeli parliament as a prime minister himself had to defend a new bill outlawing consumer boycotts of products from settlements on occupied palestinian territory the law imposes fines and boycott organizers and allow settlers to sue them for compensation opponents have called it a blow to israeli democracy and freedom it's one peace movement called as petitions to the high court against the law adam heller spokesman for the movement israel is forfeiting chance for peace with palestine by enacting the bill.

doesn't really severely the freedom of speech we the go the settlements you go people. can be completely a danger to the future will freeze. any chance of peace between us and the police unions and we have been calling upon these early probably since one thousand nine hundred seven and you see in the supermarkets which comes from do so because. he's making them stronger. you made the move could to make sure to explain. citizens explicit what. was the. really big. in the making. where we have to do this. but it is a very very good for anybody who kills about the future. you want to argue live

from moscow let's now take a look at some other stories from around the world a twenty seven day prison uprising in venezuela has ended after the national guard negotiated control of the facility back from inmates standoff at the jail again after thousands of troops stormed a prison unit and weapons search days after a bloody ride action sparked gun fights between troops and inmates leaving one prisoner and two soldiers dead as well as twenty one that in a twitter message president congratulated the stories for bringing a chance to the standoff. thousands are protesting in the egyptian capital cairo for the six day running demanding the removal of the military council and threatening to expand their sit in to other cities demonstrators are also calling for the president hosni mubarak and his aides to face prosecution for the killing of hundreds of protesters during the uprising in february the military has a warrant for a task there is against using violence but said it wouldn't try to stop the rally.

he's twenty one people were killed and dozens injured after three coordinated bombings hit in the city of mumbai the blasts happened during rush hour in the country's busy financial center police suspect that islam is a group indian mujahideen is behind the explosions it's the worst terror attack in the country since the two thousand and eight mumbai. from the telco weekly magazine shared his opinion on who he believes is responsible. well you know with a. little more do a lot of. you are being formed because of this group. this group basically has logically financial support or because the border pakistan's i.s.i. has been known to his group. but you likely got support from glasgow but the nation which is behind you can be six eleven less fit to be bought has been no

chewing this term or do you feel the last seven hundred years there have been poor i didn't notice trickle in financial support have been created. secretly a high dose in pakistan and a lot of them to come back into india and then the remaining catch. all the deformed or even. the bosses back in pakistan and getting them to include them and plan to get a strike he got a mission. in pakistan. the us is within reach of defeating al qaida and eliminating ten to twenty top militants will cripple the group for good that was the statement from the new us defense chief leon panetta and his military contributor he's getting who shall believe the shell's banana's taken to the post with a clear vision of the threats facing the us. for every pentagon observer there reasons always a special moment when the result change of guard at the puzzle palace as the

pentagon is widely known in a narrow circle of professionals so it was the particular event. has reincarnating in his new capacity as the military chief during his first interview in his new capacity he pointed to the troika all of them multiple challenges to the united states national security emanating from pakistan yemen and somalia he is clear cut vision deserves full support both within and outside the united states it was just a pity that some of the u.s. media commissariat try to spoiled his new vision when after the meeting we have to count as i own financial misspelt the number off residual forces that are supposed to stay in afghanistan after the deadline instead of ankle biting the us secretary of defense and i would better pay attention to the subtle discrepancy

would be to be in the new pentagon vision so clearly outlined by lone pine manor on the one side and on the other who preach once priscilla acted by a proud man himself as the first destination place to announce his new vision is nowhere in between pakistan yemen and somalia. well time now for a business of dates with dimitri stay with us. you know warm welcome to business our ratings agencies like standard and poor's and moody's have become the subject of vicious attacks from politicians across europe they're being accused of bias and being alarmist however nick parsons from national bank from the national australia bank believes the claims are not justified what they are doing is taking into account a broader range of factors than simply debts and the immediate ability of

a country to repay it for example japan has got a debt to g.d.p. ratio of more than two hundred percent but the ratings agencies are rather happy to live with that because of the number is significantly higher than greece for example but the ratings agencies say two things first of all japan is a developed economy and it will over time create tax revenues and also it's got a very high level of savings so therefore it's able to finance its debt through internal sources so i do it is necessarily bias but i can understand that sometimes it can seem a little unfair but i think that unfairness itself and that charge that somehow the ratings agencies are not doing well actually i think it rather shows that they're doing the job. or let's take a look at the markets now oil is trading near a four day high after signs of rising through demand in the u.s. countered speculation that the world's biggest consumer may face a credit downgrade by the agency put the u.s.

under review for raising downgrades as talks to raise its a fourteen point three trillion dollar debt limit store of light sweet and brant decline around thirty five cents at this hour. to stock markets and across asia markets are trading in the red following a moody's for to lower the u.s. credit rating as we mentioned. stocks are pressured as an increase in risk aversion pushed the u.s. dollar below the seventy nine again the per dollar threshold exporters are the biggest losers with the nintendo dropping more than one and a half the cent to sheeba more than one percent in hong kong financials are also understanding pressure bank of china is losing almost two percent in china construction bank is dropping one percent. two hours ahead of the opening bell here in moscow russian markets finished wednesday's trading session on a positive note we'll be all tears up one percent my sex problems but russian

equities are struggling for direction of the last couple of sessions on the one hand problems with the western debt keeping investors they are on the other i will prices are making stocks attractive. capital doesn't believe risk appetite will grow in the coming weeks. going forward of the course of the next few weeks it's difficult to imagine that the investors facing such difficult head wind see in the west would put on a lot of more risk and obviously russia being an emerging market it's hard to imagine that with this in mind that we would head higher generally with feel that towards the end of the summer of the russian market we remain in the eight hundred two thousand range for the artists index we're now roughly in the middle of that range and i think the next couple of weeks it will first head towards a lower bound before c. is seen a bounce. back in fifty minutes time miles you then join me again. with

the end of the boer war and the going away of the soviet union many people thought that nuclear weapons disappeared. the risk is not zero that something might be going off by mistake specialist sounds of the nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert . others of the difference to use it as

a threat all as an actual weapon you know if you keep spinning a trillion dollars a year on weapons of venture you're going to blow everybody up you can you know people are dying from these weapons but until we actually see it people don't make up new flu weapons or build the new features. that represents all the firepower of the second world war and this second sound is the equivalent firepower of the world's nuclear arsenal today. in india all these available in the move go hard on the joints the hoto the violence the gateway hoto the grand imperial trying to torch western coast coromandel new kind of let's go to. well she was there to see don't it to go on

publicly and rather said the colonel was her job as a retreat. welcome back you're watching live from moscow these are the top stories divers are said to make a final attempt to find twenty four victims of russia's pleasure cruise or disaster who are still missing while police make their first arrest detaining the owner of the company that rented out the bulgaria and the person who certified it safe to sail. and to washington where at talks between russia's foreign minister and the u.s. secretary of state sergey lavrov proposes a new step by step strategy towards iran that may bring it back to the negotiating table over its nuclear program. rupert murdoch's media empire abandons its bid to take over britain so largest settle i broadcast there's a frenzy over

a newspaper hacking consumes politicians and police. as hacking attacks go global many are looking for ways to secure their computer systems next starts he talks to security software mogul is getting a spare ski who shares his views on the acute issue. thank you very much for being with us today so i was just wondering did you or do you personally know someone who is directly personally involved in cyber crime. fortunately in the hall because we are great far from these people that keep our way to a good distance are about are we are was it working with cyber police departments and different cultures so we know the bad guys from all contacts and police

and are also from news. fortunately the cyber police forces globally that they're doing their job better and better your body you're so the a more professional and the i think that i hope they were able to handle the situation so all we see these people from the news are we see these people are in on the ground the internet forums are we see when they stand this people from the job they do from their from the crime from the cyber crime which with treason by money for school to which with varies by statistics romantic to the computers actually where abortion in this world but we are not in touch with the well who are the people when you think about it are those just lunatics or is it well organized criminal society or will in the past there were just do you still need us there cyber windles which many tourists are.