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 the ratings high by violating and exploiting the vulnerable they hacked the private voice mails of families of dead soldiers and murdered children assigned me 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 we've got. to be some hacking into gordon brown's private life you have to say you have to start wonder what else is in of course the heart of it is 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. the euro zone of 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 italy the euro zone's third largest economy may become the next to to ask for a helping hand it follows both ireland and portugal having their rating is downgraded to junk status dealing a serious blow to the bailout ridden euro block which struggles to prop up its weakest economies writer and editor patrick young says that italy's a public will perhaps protest budget cuts at least as fervently as the greeks 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 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 type in engineering knows 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 those sold and seat of sovereign states is no longer to be taken for granted in a. the 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 they haven to

be in are definitely to the east everyone not so good fortunately expect further surprises because the epidemic the contagion seems to be spreading and we have new political leadership seeming to do with. the same a 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 it says there is a risk of the u.s. could fail to resolve the deadlock in its a budget negotiations max wolf who's senior analyst at green crest capital says 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 liken 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 cut 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 at another 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 meanwhile scott carter from a gold investment company told r.t. earlier that if the u.s. does default in august many might turn their backs on the dollar and look for other alternatives. clearly the debt ceiling will be raised i think you're right it is political posturing and everyone on each side of the trying to extract the best deal that they can but if we were to play the worst case scenario and we were to not raise the debt ceiling and then default or some sort of nonpayment of bills it shakes or rattles the confidence in the world that the u.s. market and the government of the u.s. is committed to its obligations long term we have nobody that can bail us out so we have to be steadfast and true on our ability to pay our bills rattling the

confidence in the world that somehow we would not pay interest payments or not pay social security checks would at minimum demand a higher return on the treasuries that we sell but at worst case would cause individuals and institutions to move away from treasuries and diversify their portfolio i think there are many people who feel that way that somehow we need a basket of currencies hard assets that limit the money printing and this is really the issue how do we constrain governments to not just print money at will and habitat tethered to some sort of hard asset historically it's been gold whether gold is the right solution or not i think the key issue is to say let's cut the spending let's live within our means if a gold standard or some other hard asset as a standard does that then i think that that's why it's gaining traction gold is the ultimate plumb line it will tell you all of the market will tell you through gold what they feel about the long term view of paper currencies and the story is not

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welcome back heavy lifting equipment has arrived at the scene of last sunday's pleasure cruiser sinking on the river volga authorities are planned to begin raising the fifty five year old affairs all next week amid fears the ship could break up because of its poor condition meanwhile divers are continuing to retrieve bodies from the sunken ship the vessels captain was also among the dead his body reportedly found on the bridge the death toll now stands at one hundred thirteen on thursday russia's prime minister vladimir putin visited a paid tribute to the rescue operation and said that those whose it negligence and the greed led to the disaster must be punished parties part 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 the bulgaria for what would be its final voyage also give us a show of he is a state expert on shipping and sometime before that voyage he said that the bulgarian 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 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

three of the boat. area and particularly concerning two 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 space 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 and 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 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 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. 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. we were approaching the position of the tragedy almost at the same time as a heavy cargo ship i don't know why he didn't stop maybe try to go but the inertia of heavy cargo wouldn't let him but as we approached the site its presence could only hamper 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. you can 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. parties that time part of the reporting of for us is there and we've got more on our website including footage of the recovery operation still underway in the volga river log on to our t.v. dot com for the first. wave of criticism is a gathering momentum in israel over a new bill that outlaws the boycott of israel and the jewish settlements on occupied palestinian territory opposition parties have called the law an attempt by a weekend a government to silence the people one peace movement has petitioned to the supreme court against the bill prime minister netanyahu and yahoo faced a stormy session on the knesset on wednesday where he was himself forced to defend the law some members walked out in protest the legislation imposes fines on boycott

organizers and allows settlers to sue them for compensation or more barghouti from the boycott divestment and sanctions movement in ramallah says the bill will only make the pro palestinian action stronger. 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 and 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 illan papi the israeli historian maybe had to try to when he said israel is that heading for which is a democracy only for the master class not for everyone and if anything israel is going it's really pushing fast forward in digging the grave of its occupation and

apartheid. as 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 now briefly look at a couple of other international headlines for you. victims of the three coordinated bombings in mumbai are being laid to rest at least seventeen were killed when blasts struck three downtown locations during the evening rush hour police say 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 bomber has attacked 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 the funeral ceremony

for. the leaders a brother was shot twice by his family friend and longtime head of security on tuesday. egypt's ousted president hosni mubarak has reportedly told interrogators that he didn't order the crackdown on protesters during february's 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 and even while protests carry on for the seventh day running in tahrir square the epicenter of the original uprising that ousted the former president. as hacking attacks go global many are looking for new ways to make computer systems safe r t talks to security software mogul you have guinea spirits key who shares his views on the issue the interview is up next.

thank you very much for being with us today so i was just wondering do you know someone who is directly personally in crime. all.

right far from these people that keep good distance. calls they're working with police departments and different cultures so. the bad guys are more complex and police and are also from news who are the people when you think about it. well organized criminal society are all in the past there were just. cyber windles. and they are all why doses just for fun just to prove themselves. most of them to cyber criminals of each other in the development where all the dark. home computers or enterprises will still be information or have their hands on the systems to use there are these sort of our computer networks and the unfortunate where the big profit from that. until the. 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. it's not money it's not profit 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 so it's just as 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 use even more dangerous because

they are getting more experienced and the. they cover but the ideas and new ways to. stop internet services go through them which. infrastructure. i am not free to the. sequel to the. police is for terrorists to employ these forces i am afraid that in the future of cyber terrorism. will. kidnap will force them. in other ways to 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 would depend on computers networks everything their own it's just a computer. in cars you know planes in industrial

in the wider months in the probation everywhere and unfortunately not everyone that works is designed you know a secure way unfortunately it's possible. that these systems in different ways so all i'm afraid with that a dangerous world which is superman or dangerous to us. i'm afraid it's that's going to do serious and that's bad news the good news he needs the governments for and they understood that and i see that the a lot of attention to the problem and i see that you scully the year these questions and the you can start with a. good theory on the informational level to frame their full lives 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 is informational because the internet doesn't

have borders and the money should scored all separate the costs the nation the board this is a speed over the internet so the only way to disturb that the only way to make this world more secure more safe is informational copulation and what they see or see or more and more reports are both for informational international meetings or news ations all projects that's a good news but if the other side of the coin when it comes to government corporation with hackers or people who are creating. are fighting where is this is that last year for example experts concluded that a virus called sex and that 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 or

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

find something else another job or another industry. maybe a different project because i still i still want to work. thank you very much for listening to banker.

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broadcasting live direct from the heart of moscow this is r t glad to have you with us and let's take a look at your top headlines rupert murdoch agrees to face a grilling by the u.k. parliament over phone hacking allegations while in the u.s. and the f.b.i. begins its investigation into claims that news corp journalists tried to access the voicemail of nine eleven families. a credit downgrade hangs over the u.s. moody's a ratings agency threatens to knock the glitter off the country's aaa position as the eurozone continues its slide with italy introducing tough spending cuts brussels is concerned that it couldn't afford to bail out italy which is the fourth largest economy in europe. heavy lifting equipment arrives at the scene of the

pleasure ship sinking on the river volga as prosecutors make the first arrests over the tragedy that has claimed more than one hundred lives divers continue to retrieve the bodies from the sunken ship including the captain who was reportedly found on the bridge. coming up our special report on one of the most scenic regions in russia from would lend it to majestic mountain. region is a sight to behold discovering russia is next. the region deep in the. east is one of russia's newest trees. two thousand and eight it brought together the chip. regions and with it a striking mix of asian and european culture. 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. one of. course the best way to get. around. a bit of. 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 more soviet and industrial it becomes. this is a great way to see the city.