morality murdoch's journalist kept the ratings high my violating and exploiting the vulnerable they hacked the private voice mails of families of dead soldiers and of murdered children a centrally 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 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 and of course it's the heart of the it's not just. the use of what we call blanket these are people to 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. and i want my purse scandal mean for the global and murdoch media empire. and it looks like a proper police investigation for the first time into this it could well mean that we see rupert murdoch's empire in britain. crumbling collapsing we spoke on the

issue with the u.k. based investigative journalist tony gosling you can check out our website on t.v. dot com about a full interview with. moody's rating agency threatens to review america's aaa credit score for a downgrade the first time in over ten years and says that there's a risk the u.s. could fail to resolve the deadlock in its budget negotiations and even if the package is approved it unlikely to offer a solution to america's debt that's according to investor and co-founder of the quantum fund jim rogers. you know understates 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 again ceiling for the moment there's no question about that their choice though for the future is they've got to take an x.

no they've got to take a change so 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. and at the same time the eurozone debt crisis now focuses on italy as its senate is set to vote on tough austerity measures and comes amid concerns that italy euro zone's third largest economy may become the next to ask for a helping hand in follows both island and portugal having their rating is downgraded to junk status dealing a serious blow to the bailout ridden euro bloc which struggles to prop up its weakest economies u.k. m.e.p. paul nuttall told r.t. that these latest developments prove the single currency union simply isn't working . this was always about politics it was not about economics the idea that you could have a commies 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 home to the international court and see the value growth moving. exports going in at the moment they can't use 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 top of the people out on the streets in athens and i just wonder how long it will be before the people out in the streets in rome and in lisbon and talk about 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 is just economy in the world i think the eurozone can actually cope with greece and portugal the smaller economies if italy goes the whole thing could cave in because if italy goes italy's economy intertwined with spain's and of spain and italy go then we are in serious trouble. all right or

maybe as part of the hour here in moscow you with our two divers continue to retrieve bodies from the volga river the number of confirmed dead after the pleasure cruise of sinking on sunday has risen to one hundred and thirteen meanwhile yet more details emerge of procedural violations that could have contributed to the tragedy the bulgaria's crew reportedly under stated the number of the passengers on board to obtain permission from river controllers to set sail they claim the number on board was just twenty instead of two hundred. brings us more from the disaster site. but a first arrests have been made and this is starting to move beyond just a disaster recovery operation for two people that have been arrested so far. she is the owner of the company that rented the bulgaria for what would be its final voyage also. he is a state expert on shipping and sometime before that voyage he said that the area

was fit to sail and so perhaps was negligent in that decision divers are still working in teams in our in our out in a on a platform out in the river over the sunken 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 there's also been revelations added 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 tempered by the views of some experts. 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 in did start to pick people up we earlier spoke to the captain in 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 and people were in panic when we rescued them in a state of shock but 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. 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. when we were approaching the position of the tragedy almost at the same time as a heavy cargo ship and i don't know why he didn't stop to maybe try to get the inertia of heavy cargo wouldn't let him but as we approached the site its presence could only hamper the rescue want to ration him to proceed and not waste time so there's 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 this sunken 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. we've got more on this story on our

web site including footage of the recovery operation still. underway in the volga river log on to r.t. dot com for the first hand account. of. a wave of criticism is gathering momentum in israel over a new bill that allows the boycott of israel and jewish settlements on occupied palestinian territory opposition parties have called the law an attempt by a weaken the government to silence the people one peace movement has petitioned the supreme court against the bill prime minister netanyahu meantime faced a stormy session in the knesset on wednesday as he was himself to defend the law to stage a protest walkout the legislation imposes fines on a boycott organizers and allow settlers to sue them for compensation now let's discuss this further in detail with omar bought a guzzi from the boycott divestment and sanctions movement. and i thank you for joining us today let's start with the law itself what do you think is motivated the government to an inactive now in the way it has was the

motivation. i think the main motivation is the palestinian civil society global campaign for boycott divestment and sanctions it's starting to hurt in a very effective way it's. beyond the left it's reaching the mainstream especially in the west in south africa and brazil and other countries and this is starting to look like south africa moment so they are really alarmed about this nonviolent peaceful type of resistance that they have not yet developed sufficient weapons to counter and that's a very strong comparison i bring in south africa into the picture here considering its history but your organization is campaigning for the economic cultural and academic boycott of israel how can you continue now that the new law makes your activities illegal. well if you're not sure that's not very accurate the law does not make our activities illegal just almost deliberately mises in a way that it allows institutions companies to do. other boycott activists who are

supporting this as long as palestinian rights are not respected by israel as long as the occupation continues apartheid continues then i look refugee rights continues palestinians have no choice but to continue to resist to continue to struggle and with this global campaign of b.d.s. with the massive support we've gained and the cultural economic academic and other fields there is no reason to stop and if anything israel is going it's really pushing fast forward in digging the grave of its occupation and apartheid this law will increase the reach of b.d.s. into the liberal mainstream in the west are not addressed part of you or your campaign here you're also calling for a comprehensive military embargo on israel do you expect a fresh offensive now on palestinian territory. no one knows what to expect with this fanatic right wing leadership in israel really no one knows what to expect if

they are taking such draconian measures against this most fundamental peaceful type of resistance no one can guess what this leadership can do but the main thing about the military embargo is that it's a minimal requirement for all those states that supposedly support peace based on justice in our region at the very least they should stop sending weapons they should stop buying weapons from israel they should stop all military research with israeli universities because they know israel is using those weapons using this research to commit war crimes and grave violations of international law so that basic obligation legal as well as moral and political obligation for states around the world to at least impose a military embargo on israel a full embargo on israel by now when it comes to this new boycott bill critics call call it. democratic when ben benjamin netanyahu said last night in the knesset that it doesn't taint israeli democracy otherwise he wouldn't have approved it how do

you respond to that. when we're in. i know it's not exactly the reference when we talk about democracy israel has never been a democracy and can never be a democracy so long as it's an apartheid state so long as it has tens or flaws discriminating between its jewish or non jewish citizens so long as it denies palestinian millions of palestinian refugees the right to return home and sort out as it continues with its occupation of the west bank including his troops alone as well as gaza so a country committing such violations of international law of basic human rights cannot call itself a democracy professor. historian maybe that's right when he said. for which is a democracy only for the master class not for everyone. from the boycott divestment and sanctions movement in ramallah thank you. thank you. russia has less disagreement with the u.s. on the libyan crisis than with some european countries the view of foreign minister

sergei lavrov after talks with the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton is going to 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. your world 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 minister laugh it off 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 this as sees it as the wrong attitude russia says it sends the wrong message to the syrian operas.

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 if actively turning them into a carcass 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 make it condemnation without proposing any solution won't lead us to any breakthrough neither in syria nor in any other place there is a good example of how we are all dealing with the situation in yemen no one's trip a reason to condemn anyone or adult the u.n. security council resolution supporting one or another sign everyone is urging the chief scientist to see 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 plan but they are going ahead with a new plan for minutes the level of 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. let's check out some international news for you in brief this hour here on a suicide bomber has attacked the memorial service for the assassinated half brother of president hamid karzai four people were killed in the blast that rocked the mosque including a top cleric a day earlier two explosions that shook the city of kandahar during the funeral ceremony for. the leader's brother was shot twice by his family friend but longtime head of security on tuesday. egypt's ousted president hosni mubarak has reportedly

told him a target to be given the order of credit. protesters during february's uprising that's after the country's ruling military council announced it will fire hundreds of police officers in the killing of almost one thousand demonstrators meanwhile protests carry on for the seventh day running in tahrir square the epicenter of the original uprising that ousted the former president. well victims of the three coordinated bombings are being laid to rest in mumbai at least seventeen were killed when blasts struck three locations downtown during the evening rush hour no one has yet claimed responsibility for the attacks though investigators say all the 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 abroad this according to. investigations editor with the to help weekly magazine in mumbai . shared do we will go on film or do a lot of good muslim you. want because of this group i got this group basically

has logically financial support because the border. side as we know to his group. decides. to let you go from. nation which you can do six eleven let's get it done it was you know during this time or do you feel the last seventy two years there have been providing logistical interventions up there have been. exceedingly high dose in pakistan and a lot of them come back into india and then do you think. he means. the bosses back in pakistan or india you have been killed by them and you plan to get a strike if you got a nation. in pakistan. without a lot from moscow a recap of the headlines coming your way shortly but in just a few of the next next gig is the business with marine.

those undeveloped. little pellets the international sanctions has to do takes place in paris on july ninth and tenth. the best live introductions by russian designers in the most beautiful virgin city of central russia. business events live in fear children's fund. slums like the presiding over the festival. fashion festival doing business. hello and welcome to business here on our t.v. thank you for joining us now markets around the world are coming under renewed pressure over fears the u.s. could lose its top notch credit rating moody's investor service is threatening to downgrade the u.s.

due to political deadlock over raising the state's debt ceiling well joining me now to discuss the issue is simon denham c.e.o. of london capital group hello simon thank you so much for joining us now just for a second let's just imagine a political solution has not been found in two weeks or so even three cities in the ratings agencies will cut the u.s. . i mean we're obviously on downgrade watch at the moment with with one of the agencies i would expect the other two to put them on to a downgrade to watch as well but i'd be very surprised very surprised indeed if they if they actually did downgrade them. but if they did what would be the consequences of a downgrade for the markets. down would be very very grim indeed many investment. many investment funds etc must only invest in aaa so therefore a lot of them would have to divest of their investments in u.s.

treasuries and that would put a solid. pressure to the downside on the treasury's yields would go up become more expensive for the united states to borrow money from what is a pretty pretty poor deficit situation at the moment so so yes it would be it would be quite grim and would harm the u.s. is the prospects for g.d.p. growth in the future but what point do you become so heavy that a solution becomes even impossible to find. there's lots of arguments between both sides and democrats and the republicans and it's really it's almost humorous looking at it from the outside it's sort of two people with with nothing in their hands playing poker and trying to bluff each other. in in reality the us is is obviously a very wealthy nation they are reasonably low tax the top tax environment and therefore they presumably could raise taxes and and and put downward pressure on

their or on their overall debt situation i would expect that to be the long term play of this of this situation they'll they'll as i say they will play bluff with each other until the last minute we've been here before and the markets will become more and more tense but i would expect them to actually come to an agreement in the last minute. so. based on what you said you do get them pression that american politicians have lost all grip on reality. now know they have the most and most senators are nearly all senators of perfectly reasonable people they do not get to where they are without being reasonably competent people yes some of them are playing to their constituents especially some of the right wing ones where the idea of government spending is anathema but in the end the consequences of a default by the united states are far too far even for these people to contemplate and therefore i would i would probably suggest that the north will come to an

agreement both sides will have to give way a little bit but they'll come to an agreement in the end. but what do you think it will take to come to that agreement. so could you say that what do you think it will take to come to that agreements. i would probably see the the spending plans of the democrats to be slightly to curtail and the republicans to give way on some of the tax the tax credits to the wealthy that's not not an enormous move on both sides it is amazing that they seem to dog huge trenches over what are quite minor points so i would expect them to sort of to come to an agreement at some point whether the agreement actually comes into effect is another matter i would we would probably find situation where they'll agree to the to an increase in the debt ceiling but the the mechanics of of actually curtailing the curtailing the spending or increasing the tax revenue to take

a bit longer to come to come to fruition and from an investor's point of view where can they find a safe place to park cash right now. probably turning it into cash and putting in a bank account in switzerland australia. obviously the totally safe areas are. yes to two to most investors in reality the chances of that being some serious teeth pulled out of the u.s. or out of europe are probably quite low simply because the politicians realized that eventually they're going to have to make some no city decisions that are going to concoct the man on the street at this point in time they're still trying to go backwards and forwards to try and find some way that it isn't going to impact on their electorate. in the future we know that they're going to have to make some nasty decisions it's just how long between now and that point. simon denham c.e.o. of london capital group thank you very much thank you well unfortunately that's all

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a letter to the socialist see don't need to go and proclaim rosa said the colonel was her job as a treat. now at five thirty pm here in the russian capital and without saying a quick summary now about top headlines here and a fresh arrests over the u.k.'s phone hacking scandal rocked rupert murdoch's already shaken empire but the media mogul himself pressed into facing difficult questions meanwhile public fury over the case challenges the future of britain's newspaper industry. calling for the u.s. to cut spending and threats the country's credit rating could be downgraded if lawmakers fail to raise america's debt ceiling as more e.u. states plunging deeper into economic crisis with italy becoming the latest country to possible staring us. and one hundred thirteen bodies have now been recovered

from the water after sunday's a pleasure cruise disaster. continue efforts to find around twenty still missing. and those are the headlines here and i'll go off to the prime minister about the severe economic crisis that's hit. rather recently spotlight is now. my guest on the program is. since spring is in the grip of a severe financial crisis is the government to devalue the currency russia has rescued by securing a loan from the. needs to stabilize his

finances how far it is to go to save its ailing economy today our guest on the show is here to also this question he is the prime minister. cling to official reports inflation. forty percent by the end of the year trying to get rid of a national currency the russians are buying up and putting exchange operations at temporary prohibited by the state the dramatic by the russian. undertaken two months ago hasn't stopped the process collation. helped secure a three billion dollar bailout loan from. the community of hong. kong up to a billion dollars from the international monetary fund.