in india she's available in the movie going to join the hotel rooms a movie that's the great way to go to the grand imperial. torturously. you can a little child closely to see don't need to go and. read this in the kennel was her job as a retreat. pressure arrests over the u.k. the phone hacking scandal rocked rupert murdoch's already shaken media empire while public fury over the case challenges the future of britain's a newspaper industry. they've got to take a nap no they've got to take a chainsaw to government spending and do something about it calls for the u.s. to cut spending and a threat to the country's credit rating might be downgraded lawmakers fail to raise america's debt ceiling passes more you states deeper into economic crisis plus initial investigations into the sinking of the bulgarian point to negligence and that the tragedy could have been avoided the first arrests are made an

investigation into sunday's pleasure cruiser disaster as i was continue to retrieve bodies from the river the death toll now standing one hundred thirty. and on business russian markets and the day next after that war is in europe and the us but it's a good day for gold and we'll have. the minutes. worldwide news live from moscow city center this is r.t. i'm a recent show. chief executive of the disgraced news of the world will appear before a parliamentary committee on choose to answer questions i've got a phone hacking scandal. also summoned to appear with james murdoch saying he couldn't find time until early august and he's

a lawyer and reports in the media moguls that read top rise over the decades was littered with red flags warning an ugly scandal was to come. rupert murdoch's push to expand in british media has come to a halt public and political rage overthrown hacking the sports news corp to drop it speed to buy satellite broadcaster b. sky b. but some say he's already killed the british press and they were saying it as far back as one thousand nine hundred eighty one that's when he went on a media spending spree and bought amongst others the world renowned times newspaper and news international has been playing a toxic part of our part of life for so long but it worked under his ownership circulation just kept on rising in a market that killed authors and sky t.v. a loss making and obscure satellite network rocketed to become the biggest player in the u.k.'s pay t.v. market i do admire rupert murdoch because he's a risk taker when he bought the times and sunday times of london there are people

who will say that he saved the newspaper industry but now it's clear that success came with a heavy price tag morality murdoch's journalists kept the ratings high by violating and exploiting the vulnerable they hacked the private voice mails of families of dead soldiers and murdered children essentially 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 to parts on sensitive investigations private lives were made public now we've got. to be somehow to gordon brown's private life you have to start you have to stop

what else is in of course it's not only it's not just. blanket use of people ploy to information what should be private sources medical records tax records it's taken thirty years to the worst fears about the british press to come true but come true they have the 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 can see it just in this small car park so presidents always know big brother is watching but the question now is what's big brother watching for and more importantly who's trying to grow your edits hearty. and just what will this scandal mean for the global murdoch media empire 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 we spoke on the issue with investigative journalist tony gosling if you are check out our website dot com you can get the full interview. but eurozone debt crisis now focuses on italy where the senate has approved tough new austerity measures packages so to receive final approval in the country's lower house on friday it comes amid concerns that italy the euro zone's largest economy may become the next to ask for a helping hand it follows. having the rating was downgraded to junk it is not as serious. euro bloc which struggles for profits weakest part of its writer and editor patrick young says the response of the italian public to big budget cuts. there will be one significant difference between the people who take to the streets

between greece and italy and that is that in greece at least thank goodness the taxi drivers don't go on strike or is it glee i expect almost everybody is going to end up on strike and it's going to be absolutely chaotic the only way they can slip this through is perhaps because we do have this long lead in time until the cuts really start to make an impact in two thousand and thirteen but i think the problem is in the meantime a large amount of the sort of the leftist opposition in italy for see the fact that silvio berlusconi juta many of the reasons words which are outside of the direct fiscal reason are well i mean he's a wounded animal at this point in time and in some ways i think he's going to be finding it very difficult to hold his government together and this is really a crisis because i mean greece is only what two hundred percent of the entire euro zone economy something like that it will be give it a serious heavy hitter as everybody who's ever bought a designer italian or an italian car and all those are tied in engineering and it's ultimately going to be hugely difficult this is

a fundamental debt crisis across the whole euro zone and in fact what's incredible is we have an italian mario draghi who's going to be the next head of the european central bank he's coming into office at the moment and he himself notes the sold them seat of sovereign states is no longer to be taken for granted in other words at this point in time any possible shock could tip list it difficult years but all of the large economies along side most of the small ones have all the too much money there are big problems in western europe they haven to be in are definitely to the east and everyone martin fortunately expect further to surprise us because the academic contingent seems to be spreading and we have no political leadership seeming to do with it. and the same credit rating agency that sparked fresh panic in the e.u. now threatens to review america's aaa credit score for a downgrade that's the first time in over ten years it says that there's a risk the u.s. could fail to resolve the deadlock in a larger negotiations and even if a package is approved likely to offer

a solution to america's there that's according to investor and co-founder of the quantum fine jim rogers. you know and the state 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 so they have to increase it and ceiling for the moment there's no question about their choice though for the future is they've got to take an axe you know they've got to take a chainsaw to government spending and do something about it they're not going to do that though they might announce they're going to do it for this to get the budget ceiling passed put aside 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. dollar. plague sweeping the e.u. spreads to italy to use max keiser i understand you have discussed with other countries the gold reserves might make it an even bigger target but in the cards

a report coming your way in about twenty five minutes time but for now a quick preview. italy's actual gold at 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 they need that gold because of course is the i.m.f. going to get the airport landing fees from naples or sicily. now. well it's not only ten minutes past the hour here in moscow you without seen as divers continue to retrieve bodies from the volga river the number of confirmed dead after the pleasure cruiser is 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 that bulgaria's crew reportedly under stated the number

of the passengers on board to obtain permission from the river controllers to set sail they claim the number on board to be just twenty instead of two hundred eighty some bottom brings us the latest from the disaster site. the first arrests have been made and this is starting to move beyond just a disaster recovery operation the two people that have been arrested so far are state line in yakin or she is the owner of the company that rented the vulgarian for what would be its final voyage also give us sure he is a state's 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 bowl garra 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 bulgaria and particularly concerning two ships just after the sinking passed by and didn't pick a single person up there's been massive public fury over this and that's as has recently been perhaps somewhat tempered 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 in did start to pick people up we earlier spoke to the captain in exclusive interview but kept in all of the arabella

saying what he found when his ship arrived at the scene of the disaster. and relief of trying to ten minutes after we heard the distress call. as we approached it was hard to distinguish in the dark water people who were alive from the rubble that was floating around people were in a panic when we rescued them in a state of shock with some suffering from other traumas they were all covered in oil fuel that was leaking from a sunken ship it was a terrifying picture of the city. the captain of the arabella also added his own views so 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. we were approaching the position of the tragedy almost at the same time as it could be cargo ship i don't know why he didn't start to maybe try to do the inertia of the cargo wouldn't let him but as we approached the side its presence could only handle

the risk you want 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 bowl garia and then it will be known hopefully and proper investigation can start as to why this ship sank and sank so fast causing so much tragedy. you want our website including the recovery operation still under way. on to r.t. dot com for the first help. russia has less disagreement with the u.s. on the libyan crisis than with some european countries that's the view of foreign minister after talks with the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton. brings us more from our bureau in washington d.c. with regards to leave here both russia and the u.s.

have the view that colonel qaddafi must step down and should be able to choose their future leader if it's that path. that moscow and washington. we are. your world russia criticizes the scope of the into the foreign intervention in libya possible sees the actions of the allied forces forces they are a violation of the un mandate minister lavrov said the resolution is being wrongly interpreted as anyone can do whatever they want foreign minister lavrov was also asked about why russia is blocking a u. and they should have took a gamble 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 present our side of moscow sees it as sees it as the wrong attitude question says it says the wrong message to the syrian opposition party them to believe that if they 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 will resort to violence agitating peaceful protesters into engaging in armed clashes and if actively turning them into parties for the police and security forces take a listen i'm going to deploy. diplomacy exists not suit and score political points diplomacy exists to solve problems and you could 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 is proposing to condemn anyone or a doctor the u.n. security council resolution supporting one or another signs everyone is urging the two sides 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 but they are going ahead with a new plan for mina's the latter of the 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. the russians that words are good but words in a legally binding document are better. read more about the agreements reached out during a visit to washington just. seem to come alongside other news of blogs and videos. of the first man in space your we could. write in the very heart of london. fugitives full freedom. a most people run away. with this i'm likely trio as someone a depressive among. other things get away from it all find out about the break loose.

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live from moscow where it's now when nearly twenty minutes past seven in the evening a wave of criticism is gathering momentum in israel over a new bill that outlaws the boycott of israel and jewish settlements on occupied palestinian territory opposition parties. tempered by a weakened government to silence the people one peace movement has petitioned the supreme court against the bill and minister netanyahu faced a stormy session in the knesset on wednesday where he was himself forced to defend some members even staging a protest walkout the legislation imposes fines on boycott organizers and allow settlers to sue them for compensation. and the boycott divestment and sanctions movement in ramallah says the bill will only make the propellants union action stop . because 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 of flaws discriminating between its jewish citizens so long as it denies millions of palestinian refugees the right to return home and so long as it continues with its

occupation of the west bank including his troops as well as gaza so a country committing such violations of international law i know of basic human rights cannot. call itself a democracy professor ellen popular israeli historian maybe had it right when he said israel is that head in for which is a democracy only for the master class not for everyone and if anything israel is going it's really pushing fast forward in digging the grave of its occupation under apartheid 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. he would r.t. and in a few minutes maureen is here with the business news but for now let's check out some other international headlines from around the it's our victims of the three coordinated bombings in mumbai being laid to rest at least seventeen were killed

last struck three downtown locations during the evening rush hour what police say the attacks were well prepared by the explosive devices were quite sophisticated investigators admit they have no suspects but terror groups. a suicide bomber has a type of memorial service for the assassinated 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 a while he caught his eye put his brother was shot twice by his family friend and longtime head of security on tuesday. egypt's ousted president hosni mubarak has reportedly told interrogators that he didn't order the crackdown on protesters during february's across and that's after the country's ruling at a military council announced it will fire hundreds of police officers implicated in the killing of almost a thousand demonstrators meanwhile protests carry on for the seventh day running in tahrir square the epicenter of the original uprising that ousted the from the

president. well the pentagon is reportedly preparing to launch a new strategy to defend itself from cyber attacks this comes as a media campaign warns against the threat of hacking by al qaeda in just about an hour or so we're going to speak to the security software mogul but asleep he says it's the so-called fact that oppose the biggest threat. blames toward the books where the guys who were for money years are less dangerous than others and just for from or like protest and it's even more dangerous because they are getting more experienced and more free to the big called the hero police is for terrorists who employ these forces but i am afraid that in the future of cyber terrorism. will. kidnap or force there are. a lot us not all the news for now we've got the latest from the world of business

from reno that's coming your way next. hello and welcome to business here on our team thank you for joining us now safe haven assets such as gold are seen renewed demands over fears the u.s. could lose its top notch credit rating movies investor service is threatening to downgrade the country due to political deadlock over a raise in the states that ceiling although still seen as a likely by many analysts at downgrade could cause mayhem and the markets. many investment funds etc must only invest in aaa so therefore a lot of them will 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 to conduct a search for a money from what is really a pretty poor deficit situation of the moment so it would be quite grim and would

harm the u.s. is the prospects for g.d.p. growth in the future but in the end the consequences of a default by the united states so far too far even for these people to contemplate and therefore i would probably suggest that you know we'll come to an agreement both sides will have to give way a little bit but so they'll come to an agreement in the. second look at the markets now and gold is shutting at a record high as investors look for a place to park cash silver is doing even better it's up three percent but it's still some way short of the record it's sort of talking of months ago. street is seeing a mixed in the season after reports over three months low for jobless benefits obligations conoco phillips is leading the gains among energy stocks after an announcement plans to spin off its refining when that's on the losing side of the shares of hotel chain marriott international felt i was point eight percent after

it said there is water earnings will do the low expectations. and the european markets are about to close at the moment they are in the right bottomless banking group as are known all over the percent bucking the trend in london and frankfurt and metro a.t.m. point guards are down about three percent so while carmakers b.m.w. you and dime learn are strong. and here in russia markets close on a positive note on bargain hunting and that's the spot of concerns over debts in europe and the u.s. . though we didn't see big numbers there let's take a look at some individual movers on the my sags gas problem last point three percent despite announcing the deal with r w e we have more on that in just a moment but sperm bank was positive points seventy four percent and telecoms giant ross telecom has been valid for a bad start to the day and the session over

a one percent overall the day straight could be described as nervous and then. the situation in europe was over in the us is still over the people were going to happen. they were the world people. in other countries in europe the euro zone the stress in the u.s. you have the situation where you know the. agency is the u.s. serving the review which is also quite worrying of the commodity to roll through strong and then some of. the basically prudence and no opinion from prudence for most of the slowing of the russian shares going long gloomy institutional phones. russia's biggest companies plug in and see europe's power generating sector gas from enjoyment these are w e r to create

a joint venture with plants across the continents earlier there are spiegel magazine reports of the russian gas monopoly could become a key stakeholder in r. w. e. and the best thing is march as fourteen billion dollars r w e needs cash as it seeks to develop new sources of energy after the german government decided to abandon nuclear power. all about saw the business news for now and join us for other updates in about fifteen minutes in the meantime stating for the headlines for the fore. only.

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