india she's available in the movie going to join the hotel's a movie that's the case we go to the grand imperial trilogy the george west coast coromandel you can go with her tell her to sit down to go and. read this in the kennel was her job as a retreat. fresh arrests over the u.k. phone hacking scandal broke rupert murdoch's already shaken media and part public fury of the case challenges the future of britain's newspaper industry. they've got to take an act you know they've got to take a chainsaw to government spending and do something about it. because for the u.s. to cut spending and threats of the country's credit rating might be downgraded if your makers fail to raise america's debt ceiling more states plunged deeper into economic crisis plus. initial investigations into the sinking of the belgariad point to negligence and that the tragedy could have been avoided. the first arrest

made an investigation into sunday's pleasure cruise a disaster as divers continue to treat bodies from above all the river with the death toll now standing at one hundred thirty. been using comment from around the world this is r.t. live in moscow twenty four hours a day good to have you with us this hour with a rapid change of heart rupert murdoch and his son james have now reportedly confirmed they will give evidence to a parliamentary committee investigating and u.k.'s phone hacking scandal this comes hot on the heels of earlier reports that they declined the summons it's alleged that several of murdoch's newspapers were engaged in rampant voicemail facking and bribed senior officials and this and it reports the media moguls read the top rise over the decades was littered with red flags warning of what was to come. rupert

murdoch's push to expand in british media has come to a halt public and political rage overthrown hacking sports news corp to drop its bid 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 nine hundred eighty one that's when he went on a media spending spree and bought amongst others the world renowned times newspaper news international has been playing a toxic part of our public 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 journalist kept ratings high by violating and exploiting the vulnerable they hacked the private voice mails of families of dead soldiers and murdered children a sign flee 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 somehow. gordon brown's private life you have to search you have to stop wonder what else is in of course it's not only it's not just plonk you. what we

call bloggers these are people to show you promotion from what should be private sources like. it's taken thirty years for the worst fears about the british press to come true 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'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 grow your edits artsy blogs and. well to discuss the scandal and its repercussions on our joined live by ron he's director of new york based television producer deep dish t.v. thanks very much indeed for joining us here on r.t.

. certainly now that the full scale of the scale of this come to light many people will be wondering about the timing of this murdoch's bid to take over britain's largest satellite broadcaster is now collapsed do you think that could have been the hidden agenda all along. well you know it's hard to say exactly what the competition and clashing nowadays are between the various media enterprises in britain or here in the united states for that matter but you know there has been a tremendous tendency towards concentration of all of the media and if you were in fewer hands in munich we look at the united states with the political communications commission has been giving a.t.t.n. where i used you know tremendous powers to combine with some of the smaller carriers the same thing for the television broadcast murdoch was very influential in the united states in having the federal communications commission put inside

wrote the rules and regulations that invented that kind of media consolidation where one enterprise put on the newspapers and the television stations in one sitting but i think the deeper question here is not just about the sleeves of media which include well known for many many years i think you just said good thirty years you know and we're up with it with this least a character i guess is the british tabloids but i would make an analogy it goes much deeper than just the competition between various media and parents and if you look at nearly worthless runs on a daily battle the way that some of his competitors you know it seriously is the few that control everything playing for more control but i think more deeply is can make an analogy i think an international scale between what happens in takeovers so the united states and britain took over iraq and who do they bring the

power who they employ they employ with the most guns and i think that same thing has happened in the tabloids where we have an immense power in the ensign murdoch and a few of the other errands and who. they hired paper wrote well they are not painting every journalist with russia but certainly if you look at all murder whether it's on television where you got paid verbal what sasson swiper riley and hannity and united states i don't win or britain. it's a whole culture of power and control and deception or an agenda and that again i think. both written in the united states and very much closer to that purpose it's interesting it let's talk about the global implications here you talk about the sleaze of british media because this goes beyond britain doesn't it it's also there are implications then the usa and australia are you saying that this is

just a part of on the hand journalism that was. supposedly reportedly part of the murdoch empire not other media organizations also to blame you saying the others are not blameless and this sort of way of gaining personal information from people in this underhand journalism isn't being practiced elsewhere awful couldn't this just be the tip of the os because the demands on generally small delighted just the same well i'm sure it's i'm sure it's actually the same we know in country after country i mean look weird to a lot of the girls get their information we get it not just from reading people's garbage or were hacking their telephones we get it from leaks from within government police forces now in the united states and. you had scandal after scandal police organisations impled creating. villian groups where there are peace activists or or any number of social movement that constantly

get infiltrated by the police and then stories are leaked to the press about road complain that all nature of them's organizations or threat posed to national security and the media whether it's the new york times in new york those were the los angeles times reports and stories as if they're actually true i give say the same thing happens in russia same thing happens in france and same thing happens in germany now because there are what give them it honest we orders and newspapers that attempt to you know who i quote fair and balanced reporting but in general i think that saying brothers being guitar murdoch certainly used on almost any media that paul and a lot of what's happening could it send shock waves through the media world and we . see those of us who could be targeted who have a politician celebrities could now be thinking my life's going to be safe and how

or perhaps could this cut tel press freedom which after all many journalists do not want to see happen. well big question of press freedom is is a tricky question and yes on some level i suppose it could but look what is this press freedom we talk about today in in the united states there are over a thousand prisoners on hunger in california. san francisco chronicle were concerned would not sleep for the most part. it's probably criminal enterprise right means everybody knows the prison conditions in the united states and tremendously over crowded now now is that it's now song i mean sneeze and we were soon. after a great prisoners get better conditions for their lives. as a criminal enterprise. you know if the president of freedom or presley has be

examined much more closely than we can write anything we want we question is does the press actually attempt to kill truth or not and is it loud. and i think goes and we can see questions very interesting here we have to say thanks so much for joining us live there in new york thank you. other news now the debt crisis now focuses on its heavy where the senate has approved tough new austerity measures the package is set to receive fun and 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 offer a helping hand if the portugal having their ratings downgraded to junk status even a serious blow to the europe bloc which struggles to prop up its weakest economies writer and editor at pacha eon says the response of the italian public to the new we couldn't in greece. who will be one significant difference between the people

who take to the streets between greece and italy and how do you start a greece at least thank goodness. attacks don't go on strike where 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 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 handling 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 eurozone economy something like it will it is a serious heavy hitter as everybody who's ever bought a designer italian brand or an italian car and all those are in engineering know 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 haven't a talian 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 knows the solvency of soccer is no longer to be taken for granted in other words at this point in time any possible shock and to clear the difficulty years but all of the large economies along side most of the small ones have all borrowed too much money there are big problems in western europe the havens to be are definitely to the east everyone not on fortunately expect further to the crisis because the academic the contagion seems to be spreading and we have new political leadership seeming to deal with the . and as the global debt crisis sweeping through europe reaches italy max kaiser and stacey herbert discuss how its national gold reserves not make it a target for financial perspectives that's in the cards report coming away in the next hour before that here's a quick 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 feeding 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. the same credit rating agency that's part fresh panic in the e.u. now threatens to review america's aaa credit score for a downgrade and that's for the first time in over ten years it says there's a risk the u.s. could fail to resolve the deadlock in its budget negotiations well for more on that are now joined by matt small freezer senior analyst at green crest capital joining us live now in new york the chairman of the federal reserve is war that if the u.s. fails to meet the august second deadline it would be disastrous what disastrous but

what will it actually mean for the u.s. economy. well less than three weeks from today the u.s. government will have reached a worst kind of case scenario in terms of a budgetary impasse between the congress and the president we have a lot of obstinance we've had bunch of deals that were announced rumored speculated on and then fell through and as i sit here and talk to you now we're less than three weeks away from the federal government reaching the limit fourteen point three trillion or fourteen point three thousand billion dollars in total that the united states without an act of congress an act we've done sixty times in the past by the way to raise the debt ceiling the u.s. government would be severely constrained what it can spend money on because at the present rate the budget deficit being where it is the united states is borrowing about forty four cents of every dollar that our government spends says more about politics one finance because after all america's been running on bet for years can

it just carry on the same way it's done. well i mean i think america's been running on debt for years this is a disaster in the making and i would like in this situation here to a cancerous tumor inside a body there's no better time to cut the cancerous tumor out as quickly as you possibly can that said the u.s. government has been running on debt for many many years and we've been raising the budget the total debt ceiling for many many years as a budget issue and we've successfully had deals struck it has become the political norm in the united states that whatever party is in the white house has to ask to raise the debt ceiling it's always been raised in the past the party that's not in the white house that's out of power screams and yells for three or four days at most usually about how the government spending too much and should live within its means the debt ceiling demand gets raised and it's business as usual that's been the case for thirty years but as you say it's time to face is turned on but in what way can america now start to reduce its debt and i you see any signs that the government's trying to do this. but we are seeing signs of debate certainly many

people are trying to make a career being at least perceived by the public as those who are going to decrease the total debt and the deficit we do need that to be done we haven't seen any deal be struck so no one's actually doing that at the present time and in the last few years we've seen major agreements to extend huge tax cuts which of course decrease the revenue of the federal government and increase and do large expensive new spending programs which of course increase the total spending so we have lots of people kind of claiming that particular crown that there are big debt reduction focus people but we don't see much actual action there and because the u.s. government is spending about forty four cents more than it's collecting in tax revenue if we don't come to a deal by the second of august for the first time since one thousand seventeen cents a russian revolution we have the possibility of seeing our debt grab downgraded and moody's actually issued a two part warning one part is something has to be done immediately for the near

term looming debt crisis without reaching the total debt ceiling but even more than that moody's says they still might downgrade the united states if they don't see a resolution to the debt ceiling and be more importantly real movement to contain the out of control budget deficits and therefore out of control growing debt and that movement so you can tell you that out growing national debt surely require tax increases and also cuts in social spending something the american people really won't have an appetite for we're not we've seen what's been going on in greece for example and there are. well the american people of course like every people given any choice anywhere in the world always say they don't want to spend more taxes and they also don't want to see spending get cut that said i think the american people probably ultimately as they usually do have a much more realistic approach to this than some of their elected leadership so we have one side in the congress right now that's a sided no increase in revenue is acceptable i don't know other side that has

decided that not raising revenue is unacceptable and so we've reached an embarrassing impasse that has dragged on for weeks longer than it should and is the reason that we're going to see tim geithner our treasury secretary come out with dire warnings later this afternoon that we've seen benjamin bernanke the the head of the fed we've seen the u.s. chamber of commerce the business roundtable and a growing chorus of foreign and domestic voices urging congress and the white house to stop riling already strained global markets with a political impasse and that's something we're to ask you before we finish moody's now they have been criticized downgrading vulnerable european economies heavily criticized by the european authorities and now all this agency has turned its guns on the u.s. economy after all this is a u.s. organization is it not so why do you think in the likes of it perhaps upset all those people are funding it was something that six hundred eighty eight million dollars last year why should it now be turning its guns against america in the hands that feed it. well i do think that moody's fitch and stared and poor's

the three large rating agencies all of which are u.s. based and in fact based here here in new york city have come under increasing scrutiny over the last several years and they came in for the probably the most overt harsh criticism i've ever seen and i think the most anyone's ever seen out of the e.c.b. are the european central bank when they downgraded portugal several notches despite the assurances from the i.m.f. and the e.c.b. that howard was coming and there was the specter raised that they were biased against non-u.s. . these movies has made various issuances before about problems in the united states they fired some shots across the bow and i think they were under both political pressure as well as economic pressure on the honest fundamentals here to show that they will also hold the united states to the same standard that they're getting much more live for holding portugal and ireland and greece to the media these days sitting in a way to justify their existence where they could actually threaten struggling

economies just fine and. it's a difficult position that the rating agencies are in as well they're yelled out and screamed out for not doing their job they don't downgrade countries and the countries that performs poorly on the other hand if you do downgrade a country what it means is a huge black eye in the p.r. space it also means of these countries have a harder time borrowing less money and paying more for the privilege which very rarely helps them turn a corner or write the course now it's really good to talk to you thanks so much for joining us live there maxwell senior analyst at green crest capital in new york thanks. as divers continue to retrieve bodies from the volga river the number of victims after the pleasure cruise is sinking on sunday has risen to one hundred thirteen this was captain was also among the dead his body reportedly found on the bridge meanwhile more details emerge of procedural violations that could have contributed to the president and his crew reportedly understated the passengers on

board to take permission from river controllers to set sail in a number to be just twenty instead of two hundred which is prime minister putin has visited khazan and paid tribute to the rescue operation and said that those whose negligence and greed led to the disaster must be punished but he talked about reports on how the investigation is proceeding. 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 straight line in iraq she is the owner of the company that rentable galleria for what would be its final voyage also give us sure he is a state expert on shipping and sometime before that voyage he said that the bulgaria 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 garcia it's now estimated there

are around a dozen bought. these are 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 ball carrier and particularly concerning two ships just after the sinking passed by and didn't pick a single person up there's been a 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 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 people who were alive from the rubble that was floating around 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. because it's an of the arabella also 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 tragically almost at the same time as

a heavy cargo ship and i don't know why he didn't start. maybe trying to measure the inertia of heavy cargo would let him but as we approached the side its presence could only hamper the rescue work ration ulanoff 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 sank so fast causing so much tragedy to talk about reporting there and we've got more on our web site including footage of the recovery operation still underway on the volga river you can log on to our t.v. dot com for the first hand account. hungry for the full story we've got it for us the biggest issues get the human voice face to face

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opposition parties have called the law an attempt by weaken government to silence the people the peace movement has petitioned the supreme court against a group prime minister netanyahu faced a stormy session knesset on wednesday where he himself was forced to defend them when sudden members walked out in protest the legislation imposes fines on boycott organizes and allows settlers to sue them for compensation. from the boycott divestment and sanctions movement in ramallah says the bill will only make the palestinian action stronger. because there 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 as long as it continues with its occupation of the west bank including his troops alone as well as guys or so a country committing such violations of international law and of basic human rights

cannot call itself a democracy professor hill and poppy those three historia maybe had a traitor when he said israel is a heaven for which is a democracy only for the master class not for everyone but if anything israel is going it's really pushing first forward in digging the grave of its occupation and apartheid as long as palestinian rights are not respected by israel as long as the occupation continues apartheid continues then i look like you do right continuous palestinians have no choice but to continue to resist to continue to struggle. to bring such a state for the moment i'll be back with a look at our main news stories in a couple minutes from now stay with us live here in moscow this is r.t. .

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