that success came with a heavy price tag morality murdoch's journalist kept to ratings high by 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 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 him lower and it r.t. london. so 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 u.k. based investigative journalist tony guzzling and you can check out our website r.t. dot com for that interview in full. the eurozone debt crisis now focuses on italy where the senate has approved tough new austerity measures a package is set to receive fun of approval in the country's lower house on friday it comes amid concerns that italy the euro zone's third largest economy may become the next to ask for a helping hand on as both are in the portugal having their ratings downgraded to junk status dealing a serious blows going to bail out in the euro extra greece to prop up its weakest economies writer editor patrick young says the response of the italian public to budget cuts will be not weaker than in greece. 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

whereas in italy 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 due to many of the reasons most of 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 that 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 and a half percent of the entire euro zone economy something like but it will give it a serious heavy hitter as everybody who's ever bought a designer italian brand or an italian car and all those are tied in engineering those 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 of the moment and he himself knows those sold him sleep of sovereign states is no longer to be taken for granted in other words at this point in time any possible shock could take place the difficulty is that all of the large economies along side most of the small ones have all their own too much money there are big problems in western europe the havens to be in are definitely to the east everyone martin fortunately expect further surprises because the academic the contingent seems to be spreading and we have no political leadership so we need to do with. the same credit rating agency that spark fresh panic in the e.u. now threatens to review america's aaa credit score for a downgrade that's for 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 and even if the package is approved it's unlikely to offer a solution to america's debt that's according to investor and co-founder of the

quantum fund jim rogers the united 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 chainsaw 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 as the global debt crisis sweeping through europe reaches italy in mexico stacey herbert discussed how its national gold reserves might make it a target for financial perspective that's in the report coming your way a little later today but here's

a brief preview for you. italy's got 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. as divers continue to retrieve bodies from the volga river the number confirmed dead after the pleasure cruise the sinking on sunday has risen to one hundred thirteen including the vessels captain meanwhile yet more details emerge of procedural violations that could have contributed to the tragedy he will carry his crew reportedly understated the number of the passengers on board to permission from river controllers to set sail claiming the number on board to be just twenty

instead of two hundred ortiz tom barton 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. she is the owner of the company that rented the ball daria 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 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 there's also been revelations added to the case of the of the bulgarian 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 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 an exclusive interview the captain of the arabella saying what he found when his ship arrived at the scene of the disaster i want to

get a little bit of it happened really fast where you have five 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 and people were in panic when we rescued them were going to state of shock exam 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. because 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 we're almost at the same time as every cargo ship i don't know why he didn't stop maybe try to get the inertia of heavy cargo wouldn't let him but as we approached the side its presence could only hamper the risk you want to ration out and 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 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. reporting there that we've got more on our website including footage of the recovery operation still underway there in the volga river you can log on to our team home for the first hand. russia has less disagreement with the u.s. on the libyan crisis than with some european countries that's the view of foreign minister sergei lavrov after talks with the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton. brings us now from our washington bureau. 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 foreign minister lavrov 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 russia 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 if actively turning them into targets for the police and security forces take a listen we're going 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 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 adult 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 plans but they're going ahead with a new plan for men. said russians need a firm 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. well to read more about the agreements reached visit to washington you can. cite all the news videos is a taste of what's on at the moment should you log on. to the first man in space. has been unveiled right in the very heart of london also. fugitives for freedom. and. most people run away to the circus but some likely someone depressive third among the parents got together to get away from it all you find out about their daring bid to break loose. dot com.

with the end of the war and going the way 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 alert. to use it. all as an actual weapon you know if you keep spending a trillion dollars a year on weapons of eventually you're going to blow everybody up you know people are dying from these weapons but until we actually see it people don't wake up to nuclear weapons or a bill you. know that represents all of the firepower of the second world war and this second sound is the equivalent firepower of the world's nuclear arsenal today.

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the criticism is gathering the mental in israel over a new bill that outlaws the boycott of israel and jewish settlements on occupied palestinian territory opposition parties are called in nor an attempt by a weakened government to silence the people one peace movement has petitioned the supreme court against the bill prime minister netanyahu faced a stormy session in the knesset on wednesday where he was himself forced to defend the law staged a protest walkout illustration imposes fines on boycott organizers and allow settlers to sue them for compensation. from the boycott divestment and sanctions movement in ramallah says the bill will only make the pro palestinian action stronger. 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 a non 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 is true 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 had to try to win he said israel is ahead in four which is a democracy only for the master class for everyone if anything israel is going it's really pushing fast forward in digging the grave of its occupation and apartheid because long as palestinian rights are not respected by israel as long as the occupation continues apartheid continues then i look refugee rights continuous palestinians have no choice but to continue to resist to continue to struggle. no time to have a quick look at some other international headlines at this stage of the day in our world update victims of the three coordinated bombings in mumbai are being laid to rest at least seventeen were killed when a blast struck three downtown locations during the rush hour but he said the

attacks were well prepared and equipped with sophisticated explosive devices investigators admit they have no immediate suspects but say that terror groups are being considered. suicide bombers attacked a memorial service for the assassinated half brother of afghan president hamid karzai four people were killed in the blast rocked the mosque including a top cleric a day earlier two explosions shook the city of kandahar during the funeral ceremony for me because i believe his brother was shot twice by his family friend and longtime head of security on tuesday but. egypt's ousted president hosni mubarak has reportedly told interrogators that he didn't order the crackdown on protesters during febreze uprising that's after the country's ruling 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 lasted for president.

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 just over ten minutes will be speaking to security software mogul cast. ski he says it's these so-called amateur activists who pose the biggest threat. sometimes the world. where guys do for money is less dangerous than others and just for fun or like protest and it's even more dangerous because they are getting more experienced more free because the police is to risk to employ these forces i am afraid that in the future of cyber terrorism. will. kidnap or force them. will be back to recap our top stories in just a few minutes and that interview will be after that first though time for the

latest business news with marina. hello i know a welcome to business here in r.t. thank you for joining us now safe haven assets such as gold are searing new demand over fears the u.s. could lose its top notch credit rating moody's investor services are threatening to downgrade the country due to political deadlock over raise in the states that ceiling although still seen as unlikely by many analysts a downgrade could become may have for the markets. 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 so the downside on the treasury's yields would go up become more expensive for the united states to borrow money from what is really a pretty pretty poor deficit situation of the moment so it would be quite grim and

would harm the u.s. is a prospect for g.d.p. growth in the future but in the end the consequences of a default by the united states far too far even for these people to contemplate and therefore i would probably suggest that they know it 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. let's take a look at the markets now gold is stretching out a record high as investors look for a place to park cash silver is there an even better it's up three percent but it's still some way short of the record that set a couple of months ago. you know over wall street's we're seeing mixed in the seas there were reports of a three month low for jobless benefits applications but at the same time the federal reserve chairman ben bernanke he has squashed hopes of a fresh stimulus for the u.s. economy conoco phillips is leading the gains among energy stocks after announcing

plans to spin off its refining unit on the losing side of the shares of the it's now a chain marriott international fell by eight percent after itself third quarter earnings were below expectations and european markets closed and what we saw it was not the end this is where in the red lloyds banking group was put on over three percent bucking the trend in london and frankfurt metro a.g.d. and commerce bank were down about three percent carmakers b.m.w. and dime or worse. and here are rochelle markets. close on the positive results on bargain hunters they and the spider concerns over that in europe and the u.s. though with an see big numbers there let's take a look at some individual movers on the my sachs gas from last almost one percent despite announced the deal with r w e u but will have more of that as just a moment the sperm bank was positive at a point four percent and telecoms giant ross telecom first rebounded from

a bad start to the day and the session in the red point seven percent and overall the dates for the scribed as nervous and things. the situation in europe was over in the. is still over the people were both woods going to happen to italy they were the world potential impact on those countries new europe the euro zone the stress in the u.s. you have the situation where you know the. agency is where you are sort of in the review which is also quite worrying for the commodity to grow through really strong . in. the basically. no opinion for. three months for most of a slowing of the russian shares boy whom institutional forms. russia's biggest companies supply going into europe's power generating sector

a gasper arm and germany's are w e r to create a joint venture with plants across the continent earlier spiegel magazine reports of the russian gas monopoly could become a key stakeholder in r. w. investing as much as fourteen billion dollars. cash as it seeks to develop new sources of energy and that's after the german government decided to abandon nuclear power. while that's all the business news we have for you right now join us for another update in about fifteen minutes in the meantime stay tuned for the headlines with bill.

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i could have you with this is our ticket which is live from the russian capital twenty four hours a day top stories at this hour fresh from the u.k. phone hacking scandal rupert murdoch's already shaken empire and the media mogul himself pressed into facing a difficult questions meanwhile public fury over the case challenges the future of britain's newspaper industry. calls for the u.s. to cut spending and threats of the country's credit rating could be downgraded if lawmakers fail to raise america's debt ceiling that's a more plunge deeper into economic crisis with this really becoming the latest country to pass posterity measures. one hundred thirteen bodies have now been recovered from the water after sunday's pleasure cruise of disaster on the volga

river while divers continue efforts to find around twenty still missing. we'll be back with another update from fifteen minutes from now many thomas hacking attacks go global many are looking for new ways to make computer systems safe artie talks to security software mogul kaspersky who shares his views on the issue and that interview is up next. 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 her waiting a good distance. calls are working with the police departments and different cultures

so we know all these bad guys from our contacts and police and also from news. fortunately the cyber police forces are globally there they are 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 are we see when the standards people from their job they do from there 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 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.