privacy on a staggering industrial scale notes 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 peers to be some hacking into gordon brown's private life you have to so you have to start to wonder what else is in and of course it's not only it's not just going back it's now 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 him lower and it r.t. london. so what will the scandal mean for the global media and. it looks like a proper police investigation for the first time into this it could well mean that we see the rupert murdoch's empire in britain crumbling collapsing which work on the issue with the u.k. based investigative journalist tony gosling check out our website r.t. dot com for the full interview with. moody's rating agency threatens to review america's triple. a credit score for

a downgrade that's the first time in over ten years and says there's a risk the u.s. could fail to resolve the deadlock in its budget negotiations but even if the package is approved it's unlucky to offer a solution to america's debt that's according to investor and co-founder of the quantum fund jim rogers you know and the states already has been downgraded in the world markets every i'm not the only person who knows that the united states is the largest debtor nation in the history of the world look at the value of the u.s. dollar is down fairly significantly over the past few years they have to increase the debt ceiling for the moment there's no question about that their choice though for the future is they've got to take an axe you know they've got to take a chain saw to government spending and do something about it they're not going to do that they might announce they're going to do it for this to get the budget ceiling passed but it's not going to have any effect everybody sees that washington is not going to solve this problem and more and more people are looking for

something to replace the u.s. dollars. at the same time the euro zone debt crisis now focuses on italy as its senate is set to vote on tough austerity measures it comes amid concerns that italy the euro zone's largest economy may become the next to ask for help and it was both hard and portugal having their ratings downgraded to junk status or serious blow to the bailout ridden euro bloc which struggles to prop up its weakest economies u.k. any people not all told r.t. that these latest developments prove the single currency union simply does not work . this was always about politics it was not about economics the idea that you could have a commie in the mediterranean in line with economies like germany fast growing economies like germany was never going to work the only way to get out of this mess is for those countries to go back on to the international court and see the value growth moving. into exports going in at the moment they can't reduce their debt 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 lisbon even though because we see the people out on the streets in athens 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 big issue now facing the european union is this really 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 only 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. and that plagued sweeping the e.u. spreads to italy max keiser and stacy herbert discussed whether the country's gold reserves might make it an even bigger target in the cars reporter coming your way later today but for now here's a preview. of that. gold at the i.m.f.

and the people who support the i.m.f. the terrorists as i mentioned like eric cantor they are helping to facilitate the thieving of that twenty four hundred tons of gold because that is meaningful they need that gold because of course is the i.m.f. going to get the airport landing fees from naples or sicily. now. live from moscow and are still to come for you in the program a wave of outrage in israel. the israeli government is managed in fact to really encourage the very possibility for advancing the peace process people take to the streets as the government pushed through a bill that outlaws speaking out against jewish settlements on occupied palestinian territory and. victims of mumbai's terror attacks and laid to rest we look into who

is a behind the blasts that killed at least seventeen. russia has a less disagreement with the u.s. on the libyan crisis than with some european countries that's the view will foreign minister left off after talks with the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton. brings us more from our bureau in washington. with regards to leave both russia and the u.s. have the view that colonel gadhafi must step down and that the leaders should be able to choose their future leader it's the path towards those aims that moscow and washington disagree on the world russia criticizes the scope of the into the foreign intervention in libya possible 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 russia 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 question says it sends the wrong message to the syrian opposition prompting them to believe that if they were remain insistent and 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 to deploy. diplomacy exists not to condemn and score political points diplomacy exists to solve problems and naked condemnation without proposing any solution won't leaders to any breakthrough neither in syria nor in any other place is a good example of how we are dealing with the situation in yemen no one's tripos into

condemning anyone or a doctor un security council resolution supporting one or another sign everyone is . down and hold negotiations dance a responsible approach that we hope will prevail america's missile defense plans is one of the most irritating issues in the relations between the two countries president obama has scrapped the bush administration missile defense plans but they're going ahead with a new plan for many. said russians need for him 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. to read more about the agreements reached during a visit to washington. that's all to talk about alongside lots of other news radio so here's a taste of mine for you right now. a monument to the first man in space. to

write in the very heart of london. in the russian city of kaliningrad after a runaway boa constrictor finds its way home. and it slipped away in the first place. with the 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 especially with nuclear weapons on hair trigger a lot. of the victims to use it as a threat or as an actual event but you know if you keep spinning a trillion dollars a year on weapons of eventually you're going to blow everybody up you you know people are dying from these weapons but until we actually see if people don't wake

up to nuclear weapons or a bill. that represents all of the firepower of the second world war this second. is the equivalent firepower of the world's nuclear arsenal today. wealthy british.

markets. why not what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger the no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into. a quarter past the hour here in moscow you without a dime is continue to retrieve bodies from the volga river the number confirmed dead after the pleasure cruise was sinking on sunday has now risen to one hundred thirteen meanwhile yet more details emerge of procedural violations that could have contributed to the tragedy the crew reportedly stated the number of the passengers on board. controllers to set sail claiming the number on board is to be just twenty instead of two hundred. now joins us live from the disaster site now and yet more arrests more revelations on the investigation does seem to be picking up pace that

we any closer to a single explanation do you know. well not yet roy but as you say the first arrests have been made in this is starting to move beyond just a disaster recovery operation which people that have been arrested so far. she is the owner of the company that rents it for what would be. it's final voyage also. sure of he is a state expert on shipping and some time before that voyage he said that the bulgarian was fit to sail and so perhaps was negligent in that decision you also mentioned how the ball garri or when it was leaving port it's standard procedure for the ships to to say to ports how many passengers they're carrying as a number of checks before a ship leaves for any voyage and officials at the port were told that the ship was carrying twenty people instead of two hundred it was made to carry one hundred

forty people twenty means it's nearly empty two hundred means it's absolutely bulging and so that if it did if they'd been honest and said they had two hundred people on board it's very likely they wouldn't have been allowed to leave port. what about what about the ongoing search for the bodies of those who are still missing. divers are still working in teams in our in our out in a on a platform out in the river over the sunken bulgaria it's now estimated there are around a dozen bodies left to be recovered divers have explored most of the ship now there might be some places left where bodies could be but it is possible that some of those bodies may know may not be in the ship they may be in the water around the ship and in a worst case scenario currents may have carried some of the bodies up to two hundred kilometers downstream so they may have to increase their search area for some of those bodies but there's also been revelations added to the to the case of

the of the bowl garia and was particularly concerning to ships just after the sinking but passed by and didn't pick a single person up there's been massive public fury over this and that space has recently been perhaps somewhat. by the views of some experts saying that actually these two ships that arrived with people in the water and in the oil slick around them they weren't passenger ships they were barges and it would have actually been very difficult for them to pick people up and they may have actually hindered the third ship the arabella which came and did start to pick people up we earlier spoke to the captain in an exclusive interview the captain of the arabella saying what he found when his ship arrived at the scene of the disaster. it happened really fast five to ten minutes after we heard the distress call as we

approached it was hard to distinguish in the dark water of people who were alive from the rubble that was floating around people were in panic when we rescued them in a state of shock some suffering from other traumas they were all covered in oil fuel that was leaking from the sunken ship it was a terrifying picture i have to say. the captain of the arabella also added his own views to those of those two other captains he was in the vicinity as they were and he gave his own views on the public fury and the experts saying well maybe it was they didn't do such an awful thing let's hear what he had to say about that. and we were approaching the position of the tragedy almost at the same time as a heavy cargo ship i don't know why he didn't stop maybe he tried to but the inertia of heavy cargo wouldn't let him but as we approached the site its presence could only hamper the rescue operation i asked him to proceed and not waste time.

so there is very mixed feelings now about the role of these two ships the rescue operation will shortly if they can recover the rest of these bodies be moving into its next phase and that is for two ships specially equipped to try and raise the sunken bowl garia and then it will be known hopefully in a proper investigation can start as to why this ship sank and sank so fast causing so much tragedy artist on their reporting from russia's republic of product out of stand thank you very much. well we've got more on our website including the full interview with the captain who was a ship and crew who helped save over eighty people from the sunken cruiser log on to our combat first hand account there's also footage of the underwater recovery operation still underway in the volga river. a wave of criticism is gathering momentum in israel over a new bill that outlaws the boycott of jewish settlements on occupied palestinian

territory opposition parties have called the law an attempt by government to silence the people one peace movement has a petition but supreme court against the bill prime minister netanyahu faced a stormy session in the knesset on wednesday as he was himself forced to defend a law some member state are protesting. legislation imposes fines on boycott organizers and allow settlers to sue them for compensation that has pushed the already distant possibility of peace talks with the palestinians even further but that's the view of. a spokesperson for the solidarity movement. obviously this is not only an anti democratic law but it also shows that in a sense in a very deep sense the settlements already lost a large part of their digital raised both in the international community and in israel because that is the only that is the only reason why you need to sanction. such petitions as the boycott petitions by your current regime in israel is not

really interested in promoting a very big peace accord with the palestinians this move is not only in the other bashing. of the chances. to reach a peace accord but also. in a certain sense to a very strong step forward diligent always being with the israeli peace that is fighting for the advantage that we should put. without the life from moscow it's good to have your company today let's take a moment to check out some other international headlines for you know a suicide bomber has attacked the memorial service for the assassinated a half brother of afghan president hamid karzai four people were killed in the blast that rocked the mosque including a top cleric a day earlier two explosions shook the city of kandahar during the funeral ceremony for. they believe his brother was shot twice by a family friend and longtime head of security on tuesday. egypt's ruling military council has announced it will fire hundreds of police officers implicated in the

killing of protesters in february the interim government also announced that elections should rule for september will be delayed meanwhile protests carry on for the seventh day running into rear square the epicenter of the original uprising that ousted president hosni mubarak. well the victims of the three coordinated bombings are being laid to rest in mumbai at least seventeen were killed when blasts struck three locations in downtown mumbai during the evening rush hour no one's yet claimed responsibility for the attacks though investigators say all terror groups are being probed initial reports suggest the most likely culprit is the indian mujahideen and that could mean the attacks were organized from this according to our. investigations editor with the help that we can eat magazine in mumbai. where we know what do you know share do we will go on tell more do you know a lot of new york. because of this group. this group basically

has really financial support because the border pakistan's i.s.i. has you know telling his group i do. but you know you don't. really. get on a mission which is you know you can do six eleven let's get it was you know during this film or do you get a deal the last seventy years there have been you know stipulated to mention something. you have been dating. secretly i don't think pakistan and a lot of them become begging to be on and then you're learning. the basics back in pakistan and getting really been killed by them and your plan to go to strike if you've got a mission. in pakistan. or i tell you without me i'll be back to update you on our top stories in just a few minutes here but first it's the business news with america.

hello and welcome to a business here on artsy thank you for joining us now precious metals are enjoying and other strong session as investors look for a safe haven from the storm brewing in the world's biggest economies gold this posting fresh record highs and seen as a traditional store value it's being driven by concerns over the u.s. that situation and the prospect the federal reserve will print more dollars when i last senior trader are you t.x. capital believes there is no limit to the current rally. it did look like a few weeks ago the price of gold was going to come in lower but you're starting to see increased eurozone concerns increased inflationary concerns the prospect of more quantitative easing more stimulus spending from the from the federal reserve we thought that that finished at the end of june now in the last couple of days or so there's an increased likelihood the federal reserve could start to print more money and that is going to go to two areas it's going to go to gold and into

equities are most likely gold at the moment so obviously sixteen hundred dollars would be an obvious level for gold to hit and then you start to see some profit being so you can off the table but then you could push through that and there's no ceiling you could carry on going to see a hundred eighteen hundred dollars. and that's take a look at the markets now or oil is next after two days of gains we're still see worries over the debt situation in the u.s. with some fear in the world's biggest economy will face a period of stagnation. and let's take a look at what's happening in europe the markets there are trading in negative territory that's driven by the overall uncertainty over that problem spells anything. you ass lloyds banking group has put on two percent bucking the trend in london and in frankfurt metro a.g. and commerce bank are down one point five percent while carmakers b.m.w. v.w. and daimler are strong. and in the overall show markets are mixed this hour coming

back from stronger fall soon after the opening let's take a look at some individual movers on the my sax energy shares are coming back with gas from losing almost point eight percent this burbank is also lower in the hearing point four percent telecom story and frost telecom it's. trading at scene in the past couple of months it's also down almost point nine percent as. springs. yes it's ready to declare a war on russia's cash driven society it wants companies and people to switch to electronic payment methods the bank claims the high portion of cash in the economy is halting growth cause of the country to lose up to one point one percent of g.d.p. this for a bank suggests paying all salaries and pensions into bank accounts instead of handing over a movable bills it also wants the government to offer tax incentives for non cash

payments. now ratings agencies like s. and p. and moody's have become the subject of vicious attacks from politicians across europe the agencies claim to give and depend on assessment of the credit worthiness of countries but they have been blamed for helping cause the crisis by stirring up alarm however some analysts suggest this means they're doing a good job. the ratings agencies quite justifiably came in for a lot of criticism during the global financial crisis we're accused of being overoptimistic they were taking some fairly generous assumptions about ability to repay that was sometimes overlooking some fairly fatal flaws in some derivative structures and it's fair to say i think most reasonable people would agree that perhaps the ratings agencies did contribute to the global financial crisis however i think there's been a notable improvement in standards over the course of the last two or three years

in the fight that the ratings agencies now are actually getting so much criticism from european finance ministers probably suggest they're doing the job rather well . and that's all there is a snooze for now join us for another update in about fifteen minutes in the meantime stay tuned for the headlines with henri.

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a disaster on the folder. continue efforts to find still missing. global money looking for new ways to make computer systems secure. your security software mogul you have. his views on the issue of you is right now. 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 no because we are great far from these people the keeper of a good distance. calls it working with cyber police departments and different

cultures so we know these are the bad guys from our 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 in the grown internet forums and we see we understand this people from the drill to the door from their from the crime from the cyber crime which with treason by court which would freeze by us the two sticks romantic to the computers actually where abortion in this world but we are not in touch with a well who are this people when you think about it are those just lunatics or is this a well organized criminal society or will in the past there were just gets to.