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. some hacking into gordon brown's private life you have to so you have to stop what else is in of course it's not only it's not just. what we call blanket these are people. information what should be private sources like better 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 britons 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 lower and it r.t. . the eurozone debt crisis now focuses on italy where the senate has approved tough new austerity measures the package is set to receive final approval in the country's lower house on friday it comes amid concerns that it's a leave the euro zone's third largest economy may become the next to ask for a helping hand in fellows both are in the portugal having their ratings downgraded to junk status dealing a serious blow to the. struggles to prop up its weakest economies roger and it is a punter young says that it's only as public will perhaps protest budget cuts at least as fervently as the greeks. there will be once a. no 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 where is nuclei expected 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 another is a titan engineering nose 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 atari and 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 sold and seat 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 but all of the large economies along side most of the small ones have all the road too much money there are big problems in western europe the havens to be in are definitely to the east and everyone must stop and fortunately expect further to the prices because the epidemic the contagion seems to be spreading and we have no political leadership seeming to do with the. the same credit rating agency that spot fresh panic in the e.u. now threatens to review america's aaa credit school for done great 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 max wolf and this to

green quest capital told me earlier that the current situation has long become a political norm in the u.s. 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 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 that said i think the american people will 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 the cited no increase in revenue is acceptable other side 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 the 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 as the global debt crisis sweeping through europe reaches italy max keiser and stacy herbert discuss how its national gold reserves might make it a target for financial perspective that's in the kaiser report coming away next hour but here's a brief preview. italy's actual goal that 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 of victims after the pleasure cruises sinking on sunday has risen to one hundred thirteen the vessels 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 tragedy his crew reportedly understated the passengers on board to obtain permission from river controllers to set sail claiming the number to be just twenty instead of two hundred russia's prime minister putin has visited and paid tribute to the rescue operation and said that those whose negligence greed led to the

disaster must be punished what is taught in 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 for two people that have been arrested so far. she is the owner of the company that rented double daria for what would be its final voyage also yakov. he is a state expert on shipping and sometime before that voyage he said that the boat daria 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 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 garia and was particularly concerning to ships just after the sinking but passed by and didn't pick a single person up there's been massive public fury over this and that 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 the captain of the arabella

saying what he found when his ship arrived at the scene of the disaster. it happened really fast trying to turn minute 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 in a state of shock with some suffering from other traumas they were all covered in oil fuel that was leaking from the sunken ship it was a terrifying picture i have to say. captain of the arabella also added his own views to those of those two other captains he was in the vicinity as they were and he gave his own views on the public fury and the experts saying well maybe it was they'd. do such an awful thing let's hear what he had to say about. the practice that we were approaching the position of the tragedy it was almost at the same time as a heavy cargo ship and i don't know why he didn't stop to maybe try to handle it but the inertia of heavy cargo wouldn't let him but as we approached the site its presence could only hamper the rescue worker ration and i asked him to proceed and

not waste time so there's very mixed feelings now about the role of these two ships the rescue operation will shortly if they can recover the rest of these bodies be moving into its next phase and that is for two ships specially equipped to try and raise the sunken 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. in reporting there we've got more on our website including footage of the recovery operation still underway there on the volga river you can log on to our teet dot com for the first hand account. welcome to the. what makes a big splash in the world of hi-tech business what turns it veered science into i

can't use products to understand. these these guys we follow russian invaders to use your meters abroad in their big breakthrough back home spotlight on stories on technology update here on our. we've got the future covered. more news today is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing up for a shelter all day. download the official anti application to your i pod touch from the i.q. zaps to. like on the good.

video on demand. an r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question on the dot com. or go to mission are going to take three months for chargers. arrangement free. free. free. download free blog to mediocre for your media projects for free media down to r t dot com. a wave of criticism is gathering momentum in israel every new bill that outlaws the boycott of israel and jewish settlements on occupied palestinian territory opposition parties have called the law an attempt by weaken government to silence

the people peace movement has petitioned the supreme court against the bill prime minister netanyahu faced a stormy session on the knesset in the knesset i should say on wednesday where he was himself forced to defend the law some members walked out in protest and legislation imposes fines on organizers and allow settlers to sue them for compensation i'm all about good t.v. from the boycott divestment and sanctions movement in ramallah says the bill will only make the pro palestinian action stronger. well 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 laws 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 his troops as well as gaza so a country committing such violations of international law and of basic human rights cannot call itself a democracy professor ellen poppy the israeli historian maybe had to try to when he

said israel is ahead in full 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 and apartheid as long as palestinian rights are not respected by israel as long as the occupation continues apartheid continues then i look at refugee rights continues palestinians have no choice but to continue to resist to continue to struggle. now time for a brief look at a couple of other international headlines this hour 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 evening rush hour police said the attacks were well prepared and equipped with sophisticated explosive devices investigators admit they have no immediate suspects but say that all terror groups are being considered. a suicide bombers attack the 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 a day earlier two explosions shook the city of kandahar during a funeral ceremony for ahmed wali karzai the leaders 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 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 one thousand demonstrators meanwhile protests carry on for the seventh day running into office where the epicenter of the original uprising else did the former president. well that brings up there for the moment i'll be back with some of our main news stories in about in just over ten minutes from now but in the meantime as hacking attacks go global many are looking for new ways to make computer systems safe latino talks to security software mogul conspiracy who shares

his views on this issue in the interview is up next here on r.t. . thank you very much for being with us today so i was just wondering do you personally know someone who was directly personally in crime. all.

right far from these people the keeper of a good distance. was it working with police departments and different cultures so. the bad guys from all contacts and police and or also from news who are this people when you think about it are those just. well organized criminal society are all in the past there were just there are cyber windles are which many. cyber attacks are and they are all why doses just for fun just to prove themselves. most of them to separate criminals of each other even by the development where all the dark. home computers or enterprises to still be information or have their hands on the systems to use there are these sort of for the networks and the unfortunate where the big profit from that. and to be honest.

and well and there are another group. of people who are behind all this at the ex we call them activists people who are here we're different motivation it's not money it's not perfect most of them they do it's like a protest just like that group that was revealed in the cases against wiki leaks i'm not sure it's yes because i understand those people used to hack into these master card recently apple i was wondering are these people who are idea driven more dangerous just than just hackers at it for money it's a good question and. i might for i'm afraid they would be. more dangerous because they're much more of this people are many of them their way to professional and sometimes with the books where the guys do for money these are less dangerous

than this dude just for fun or like protest and you see even more dangerous because they are getting more experienced and they are on the cover but the ideas and new ways to. stop internet services to damage their infrastructure. i am a free to the. big will be the. police is for terrorists to employ these forces i am afraid that in the future of cyber terrorism. will kidnap will force them. you know are there ways. design and to manage cyber terrorism attacks so i'm already is huge i'm afraid it's going to huge because we depend on it would depend on computers networks everything their own it's just

a computer. in cars in planes i mean industrial in the wider months until probation and everywhere and unfortunately not everything that works is designed in a secure way unfortunately it's possible. that these systems in different ways so all i'm afraid were not very dangerous world which is superman or dangerous in the us. i'm afraid that's going to be serious and that's bad news the good news he needs the governments for in that it understood that and i see that with the body a lot of attention to the problem and i see that you scully we're these questions and the you can start the. cure rate on the international level to frame deer for forbes so the only way to respond to a threat on that scale is with copper rating with governments exactly exactly

because that's what's the problem he's informational because the internet doesn't have borders and the money should scored also a bit of the process the nation aboard this was a speed of the input so the only way to disturb that the only way to make this world more secure more safe is international cooperation and what they see are seeing more and more reports of both. informational international meetings or news ations all projects that's a good news but the other side of the coin when it comes to government corporation with hackers or people who are creating or fighting virus is that last year for example. spritz concluded that a virus called sex not it was used to attack and destabilized a plant in iran it was actually produced with state support for example israel could be united states. or cyber wars between nations like a reality already and we don't know about that. we have just one incident and. have

this information from i personally have this information from two sources first of all first of all. money should support the virus itself and from the us because so the secret services or nuclear power plants people be don't report to me so then from the court you see that these services this is a very complicated a very sophisticated the money is yours. that's a very big project there was i think there was a group of high end experts to design that your business directly depends on cyber crime if one day cyber crime is completely eliminated would that put you out of business. well that's my year. but there's a very big dream. to have a big i read about the story cybercrime and the free will have. these but i will present. but i don't afraid about the business i think that will

find something else. another job or another industry and. maybe a different project because i still i still want to work. firstly thank you very much for this interview thank you. the news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images cobol has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operation to rule the day.

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because of the victims to use it as a threat all as an actual event but you know if you keep spending a trillion dollars a year on weapons of venture you're going to blow everybody up you you know people are dying from these weapons but until we actually see it people don't wake up to nuclear weapons or build the new. 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.

will be twenty four hours a day this is. from the russian capital top stories this hour a fresh arrest somebody who carries phone hacking scandal rocking rupert murdoch's already shaken media and 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 might be downgraded if lawmakers fail to raise. america's debt ceiling that's as more e.u. states plunge deep into economic crisis. and one hundred thirteen bodies have now been recovered from the water after sunday's pleasure cruise a disaster on the volga river divers continue efforts to find around twenty still missing. i'll be back with more on those stories other developments too in less

than thirty minutes from now in the meantime a special report on one of the most scenic regions in russia from lush woodland to majestic mountains the region is a sight to behold discovering russia is next. the region deep in the sun far east is one of russia's newest territories formed in two thousand and eight it brought together the chip. regions and with it a striking mix of asian and european culture. traveling around you can find buddhist temples spooling national parks and remote villages that still practice traditions that date back a thousand years but if you're flying here in the regions vibrant capital.

whenever you're a place of course the best way to get to know is to have a local show you around and i know one lady here who's promised to serve me a bit of what life is like in the fast lane. just over three hundred thousand people and it's a real mismatch of styles it's one of the only cities in russia that's based on a grid system and the downtown area has some beautiful european influenced. but the further you rolaids the more soviet and industrial it becomes. if you don't mind the bug in your teeth this is a great way to see the city. friends on the only bike isn't. because these guys prefer to ride off the roads. motorcycle team is based we hold the trans. federation team is made up of more than thirty minutes of the.