what turns advanced science in the eye catching products they don't understand. he's got the fall of russian invaders to broaden and their big breakthrough. spotlight on story line technology update here. we. cover. fresh arrests over the u.k.'s phone hacking scandal rocked rupert murdoch's already shaken leader and part of public fury over 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 calls for the u.s. to cut spending and threats of the country's credit rating might be downgraded if lawmakers fail to raise america's debt ceiling that says more e.u. states plunge 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 in the investigation into sunday's pleasure cruise of disaster divers continue to retrieve bodies from the volga river with the death toll nell standing at one hundred thirty. good to have you with this is our news and comment from around the world this is r.t. live in moscow with twenty four hours a day with a rapid change of heart rupert murdoch and his son james have now confirmed they will give evidence to a parliamentary committee investigating the u.k. phone hacking scandal this comes hot on the heels of earlier reports that the decline the summons it's alleged that several of murdoch's newspapers were engaged in rampant voicemail hacking and bribed senior officials and authorities law and it reports the media mogul's retaught 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 the 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 and 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. markets 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 of murdered children a saintly 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 who were bribed by journalists for to parts on sensitive investigations private lives were made public now we've got. to be somehow came into gordon brown's private life you have to so you have to sort of wonder what else is in of course it's not i mean it's not just. what we call

blanket these are people ploy to show you information from what should be private sources medical records and tax records it's taken thirty years for 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 ne see t.v. cameras per person than anywhere else in the world i've counted just in this small car park so preston'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 pry lower and it's artsy. the eurozone debt crisis now focuses on italy where the senate has approved tough new austerity measures packages separate the final 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 help and if one is both on and portugal having their ratings downgraded to junk status getting a serious blow to the bailout ridden euro bloc which struggles to prop up its weakest economies writer and editor patrick young says that its nice public will perhaps protest budget cuts at least as fervently as the greeks. who will be one significant difference between the people who take to the streets between greece and italy and greece at least thank goodness the taxi drivers don't go on strike where is nuclei expected almost everybody is going to end up on traken it's going to be absolutely chaotic the only way they can slip this through is perhaps because we do have a slow and lead in time until the cost 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 school reason are well i mean he's a wounded animal it is point in time and in some ways i think he's going to be 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 eurozone economy something like that it will be good for serious heavy hitter as everybody who. never bought a designer italian car and all those are tied in engineering and it all to me 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 marial draggy 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 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 chiklis the difficult 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 in are definitely to the

east and everyone fortunately expect a crisis because the endemic the contingent seems to be spreading and we have new political leadership seeming to do with. 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 for the first time in over ten years and says there's a risk the u.s. could fail to resolve the deadlock and 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 you know and the state already has been downgraded in the world markets every hour not the only person who knows that the united states is the largest debtor nation in the history of the world look at the barrel you have the u.s. dollar is down fairly significantly over the pair's be years they have to increase again ceiling. there's no question about it out there a 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 if it is to get the budget ceiling paris 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. and as the global crisis sweeping through your reaches italy makes kaiser and stacy herbert discuss how its national gold reserves not make it a target for financial prospects as well that's in the report coming your way in about twenty minutes from now but here is a brief preview. italy's got actual gold at the i.m.f. and people who support the i.m.f. the terrorists as i mentioned my parent 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. you know.

as divers continue to treat bodies from the volga river the number of victims after the pleasure cruise and sinking on sunday has risen to one hundred thirteen the vessels captain was also among the dead his body reportedly found on the grange meanwhile more details emerge of procedural violations that could have contributed to the tragedy the bulgaria's crew reportedly understated the passengers on board to obtain permission from river controllers to set sail number to be just twenty instead of two hundred russia's prime minister putin is visiting and paid tribute to the rescue operation and said that those whose negligence and greed led to the disaster was much artie from barton ports and 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 in

yakima she is the owner of the company that rentable daria for what would be its final voyage also give us a short he is a state expert on shipping and some time 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 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 boulder area 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 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 of people who were alive from the rubble that was floating around people were in panic when we rescued them in a state of shock with some suffering from other traumas they were all covered in oil

field that was leaking from the sunken ship it was a terrifying picture of the. captain of the arabella also added his own views to those of those two other captains he was in the vicinity as they were and he gave his own views on the public fury and the experts saying well maybe it was they didn't do such an awful thing let's hear what he had to say about that. when we were approaching the position of the tragedy almost at the same time as it could be cargo ship i don't know why you didn't stop it we can try to do you know sort of what we can do it wouldn't let him but as we approached the site it's presence can only handle the risk you want to ration 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 that and we've got more on the web site including footage of the recovery operation still on the way down the volga river looking into all teeth called for the first time to count. news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule today.

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a big splash in the world of high tech business what turns events science into i-ching products to understand. is this guy he followed russian leaders to easy bidders abroad and their big break through back the sunlight on store unsettling updates here live we've got the future covered. russia or is less disagreement with the u.s. on the libyan crisis than with some european countries that's the view of foreign minister sergei lavrov often talks with the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton is going to congress has more now from our washington bureau and. with regards to leave here both russia and the us have the view that colonel could up the dowd and that leaves 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 moscow sees the actions of the allied forces the 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 present our side of moscow sees it as sees it as the wrong attitude russia says it says the wrong message to the syrian opposition party them to believe that if they were the main insistent in the situation kids getting critical of the west will come to help them the way it is happening in libya mr lavrov said it's unacceptable that the opposition would resort to violence agitating peaceful protesters into engaging in armed clashes and the fact that we turning them into a carcass of the police and security forces take a listen to the. diplomacy exists not to condemn and score political points

diplomacy exists to solve problems and make it condemnation without proposing any solution 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 tripos in to condemn anyone or until 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 plan but they are going ahead with a new plan for many. the larger offset question is 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. but to read more about the agreements reached during surgery and of course visit to washington you cannot go on to our web site r.t. dot com that's alongside other news videos and blogs is a taste of what's online right now if you should log on you can find out why a monument to the first man in space yuri gagarin has been unveiled right in the very heart of london also. a fugitive for freedom. and the other most people run away to this it is not like the trio escaped from one of president kennedy monkey parents got together to get away from them not a joke it's true find out about their daring bid to break loose at r.t. dot com. but wave of criticism is gathering momentum is right over a new bill that helped move the boycott of israel and jewish settlements on occupied palestinian territory opposition parties have called the lore an attempt by we can government to silence the people peace movement has petitioned the

supreme court against a bill prime minister netanyahu faced a stormy session in the knesset on wednesday he was himself forced to defend the law some members walked out in protest the legislation imposes fines on boycott organizers and allow settlers to sue them for compensation committee from the boycott divestment and sanctions movement and another says the bill will only make the pro palestinian faction stronger. control 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 east jerusalem as well as gaza so a country committing such violations of international law i am not for basic human rights cannot call itself a democracy professor illand party the israeli historian maybe had

a trade when he said israel is a herrin for which is a democracy only for the master. but for everyone 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 well because the occupation continues apartheid continues there i look refugee rights continues to listen to me and have no choice but to continue to resist to continue the struggle . now a brief look at a couple of other international headlines at this stage the dental world update victims of the three coordinated bombings in mumbai are being laid to rest at least seventeen were killed when glass struck three downtown locations during the evening rush hour police said the attacks were well prepared and equipped with sophisticated explosive devices vesting it is admit they have no immediate suspects but they say that all terror groups are being considered. a suicide bombers attacked a memorial service for the assassinated half brother of afghan president hamid

karzai at least four people are reported killed in the blast that rocked the mosque including a top cleric and they are two explosions shook the city of kandahar during a funeral ceremony for a midwife because i believe his brother was shot twice by his family friend and long time head of security on tuesday. egypt's ousted president hosni mubarak has reportedly told interrogators that he didn't order the crackdown protesters jury febreze uprising that's after the country's ruling military council announced it will 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 writing that passed in the form of. the pentagon as a reporter you're preparing to launch a new strategy to defend itself against cyber attacks this comes as a media campaign warns against the threat of hacking by al qaeda well in a pub an hour from now we speak to security software mogul guinea kaspersky he says

it's the so-called amateur activists who pose the biggest threat. sometimes some of the. bad guys who were for money years are less dangerous than others in the war just for fun or by protests and it's even more dangerous because they are getting more experienced and more free because the bigger reasons for tourists employ these forces i am afraid that in the future of cyber terrorism. will. kidnap or force them. that is to be i mean away virtually on our team a matter of minutes from now in the meantime the business up there is next with marina. hello and welcome to business here in r.t. thank you for joining us. haven assets such as gold are seen every new america over

fears the u.s. could lose its top notch credit rating movies investors services thrive and then today only grade the country it's a political deadlock over raising the state's debt ceiling although still seen as unlikely by many analysts a downgrade could cause mayhem in the markets. many investment funds etc must only invest in aaa so therefore a lot of them will have to invest of their investments in u.s. treasuries and put. pressure on the downside on the treasuries the yields would go up become more expensive so it's already money from what is a. pretty cool deficit situation at 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 fuck you fuck even for these people to contemplate and therefore i would probably suggest that they know will come to an

agreement both sides will have to give way a little bit but so they'll come to an agreement in the end. well let's take a look at the markets now and gold is straining at a record high as investors look for a place to park cash silver is doing even better it's almost one point three percent but it's still somewhere short of the record it's a couple of months ago. let's take a look at what's happening over the american markets wall street is in the red this hour the spiral course of a three month low for douglas by the fed's applications conoco phillips is leading the gains among energy stocks after announcing plans to spin off its refining units and on the losing side the shares of hotel chain marionettes international fell by over eight percent after its that there were innings with the below expectations. european markets close then the red but lloyds banking group was up over three percent bucking the trend in london and in frankfurt metro a.g.n.

cormorants down about three and four percent respectively carmakers b.m.w. v.w. and diallo were pretty strong go. and hear a rush of markets close on the positive notes on bargain hunting and this fight concerns over it that's in europe and the u.s. there. really see big numbers there as you can see now let's take a look at some individual movers on the my sacks of gas from last almost one percent the spike announced in a deal where they are w e n will have more of that for you in just a moment as burbank was positive five point four percent and telecoms telecom first rebounded from a bad start to the day but ended the session and there at that point seven percent and over all the days straight to the squire as nervous and then. the situation in europe was over in goods is to know the people were going to happen. they were the good people. in other countries new europe

a euro zone the stress in the u.s. you have the situation where you know the. agencies could be serving the review which is also quite worrying of the commodity to growth through the strong. russian. basically. no opinion from prudence for most of the swimming pool of the russian shares boy whom institutional phones. russia's biggest companies plug n n c europe's power generating sector gas from and germany's are w e r to create a joint venture with plants across the continents earlier there are spiegel magazine reports that the russian gas on our plate could become a key stakeholder in our they'll be investing as much as fourteen billion dollars r w e needs cash as it seeks to develop new sources of energy and that's where the

german government decided to abandon nuclear power. all doubts all the business news for now the headlines are next with. wealthy british style. is not on the side of the money.

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