after another year of skeptics who wanted danger from the start they have become the unlikely hero of this tale just who the hell do you think you people are you are very very dangerous people indeed your obsession with creating this euro state means that you're happy to destroy democracy you appear to be happy for millions and millions of people to be unemployed and to be poor or others old millions must suffer so that your euro dream could continue if you rob people of their identity if you rob them of a democracy but all they are left with is nationalism and violence countries are now waking up to the reality of the nightmare that says yes the euro is a political prison for poor countries such as greece and spain and they need to be liberated from their prison recreate their own currencies have devaluation make their exports cheaper make it easier for tourists to visit their countries and they'll get back on their feet greece ireland portugal italy spain it doesn't age

through to need to topple the year and it seems there will be no happily ever after . i see things. italian lawmakers may be desperately swerving to avoid a crash like greece but as financial rider pattern told us the government may find itself in conflict with a public that's dead set against cuts. 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 seeing the fact that silvio berlusconi many of the reasons most. sure outside of the direct to

school 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 very difficult to hold his government to answer there are big problems in western europe the havens to be are definitely to the east everyone not to fortunately expect further to the prize and because the epidemic the contagion seems to be spreading and we have new political leadership seeming to do with it. and it's days peter lvalues guess discuss why the e.u. is leadership is so adamant about saving the euro it cost your summer what's coming up in the next hour. led to greece go bankrupt it would be good for greece it would be good for the europe it'd be good for the world if greece went bankrupt and rose to the how to pay their bills or stop a lie then you would have everybody would know it's a strong sound currency based on a strong sound economy while i'm out and go bankrupt this isn't in our euro in america we've had states go away growing here in cities go bankrupt we've had

counties go bankrupt it didn't in the united states and it didn't in the u.s. start i'll tell you why because of the four hundred billion dollars a debt that greece has fifty percent is held by german and french banks and those countries don't want to take a second hit in the financial markets is that simple. if you. want. the sunken volga river cruise ship is due to be refloated within the next few days with special equipment already at the scene of last weekend's accident in tatarstan the operation is due to begin later on friday severely overloaded vessel went down on sunday killing at least one hundred thirteen people including twenty seven children while over a dozen remain missing meanwhile two people lengths to the disaster have been arrested the hand over which granted diverse. and the registrar certified

a certified ship suspected of violating safety regulations resulting in the deaths of the captain of the vessel save about seventy six passengers and crew from the sunken cruiser as we were nearing the site we began to figure out how many people there were in the water although it was hard to do because there was a lot of rubble floating around as well it was very hard to pick out individual people from the amount of fluid and debris some people were dreadful conditions i mean you were injured that oil all over there because when the ship sank the fuel oil came up to the surface and spread everywhere and covered the people and that made the rescue even harder because the oil made the victims greasy and hard to get a hold to pull them on board sheen children and that condition that was particularly heartbreaking. the full interview with the captain many in the country are considering a hero is online right now at r.t. dot com. the u.s.

may want to be seen as the world's human rights advocate but a hole with faces growing accusations of hypocrisy thousands of professional torturers have reportedly been trained over the past sixty years was department of defense approval at a scale and ford found out it's ready to export its interrogation expertise. it's been thirty years since colombian soldiers kidnapped oh be starved and electroshock tech there are east peace about all for having a quote subversive book. but it's a memory he relives every day people have survived torture in cologne that's why i'm very lucky to be able to tell the story most people get told to for the stand there and then they get shot and killed many have been disappear hector says the colombian soldiers who tortured him and later killed his brother. were trained right here on american soil at the school of the americas in four benning georgia

army major joints of blair was an instructor there i was very much in favor of the school of the americas during the cold war era but major blair says he was horrified with what his former students did with their anti-communist training in their own country the classified. army school. use of the words interrogate next door assess and they do. come in laying. it all the weights for. graduates from the school of the americas have been implicated in massacres and torture throughout the hemisphere of the more than sixty thousand soldiers and police to have graduated ten thousand of them have been colombia it has been the largest user of the school of the americas and i don't think it's an accident the. abuser of human rights in. for the eighth amendment to the us constitution forbids torture and other forms of cruel and unusual punishment as does the geneva convention but they did happen there's no

question that in our country not only engage in torture it's of taught others how to do it we also render people we also sent people to prisons in other countries where they were in fact torture there although congress demanded more oversight of military training programs an internal investigation by the government accountability office showed that school of the americas manuals advocated using quote torture truth serum blackmail and execution the pentagon said it didn't know what the manuals contained because it staff advisors assigned to review them didn't speak spanish united nations special repertoire for torture one mendez himself a survivor of torture says a lack of transparency in the u.s. led to further abuse in the eighty's unfortunately. a military aid and police aid was restored and after that it's been difficult to document to what extent that includes teaching. techniques that are prohibited by law by international law

it's a legacy that sharply contrast with the u.s. rhetoric about respect for human rights abroad torture survivors and religious leaders in washington d.c. have come together to demand a full commission of inquiry into what they describe as torture practices are enabled by the united states including in its own prisons like one time obey and by the cia when president bush says that he waterboard and he would do it again. and he said damn right that he had ordered it. so you know it's a very serious problem for the spirit soul of our country as the myth of how many prisoners were tortured by the united states are hard to find but survivors like hector's even numbers don't tell the full story when someone gets torture not only the person who so forth has to deal with the big wouldn't because of those on the torture it's also someone who has to be. minnows themselves in order to be humanized on those human beings but a society. is going to pay a price

a very big price as well killing for it r t washington d.c. . has the u.s. expands its anti-terrorist network of rods there are now reports of secret prisons in somalia the sites officially belong to local security forces but are run and paid for by the cia journalist jeremy scahill says he's visited the prisons adding that america's mainstream media make it hard to report on what's really going on there. inside this dungeon prison there are no windows there's no sunlight there's a bedbug infestation according to prisoners who've been there mosquitoes all over the place the air is thick and disgusting some prisoners are said to be losing their minds there are also reports from prisoners that there were very young boys inside of the prison some people have been held for eighteen months without charge without access to lawyers without access to the red cross in fact the red cross told me that they were not aware of the prison and that they have never been given access to it i know for

a fact that journalists from several major american news outlets were aware of these facilities in mogadishu and it's for those networks to answer why they've never reported on it both c.n.n. and a.b.c. have allowed their facilities their media outlets to be used as conveyer belts for the spin of the cia and that's the job of the cia and they do it well but the job of major media outlets should not be to be a conveyor belt for the propaganda of u.s. intelligence agencies so i would leave those those questions for other media outlets as to why they're not reporting on this very serious life and death issue that has to do very much with the rule of law in this country and whether or not there's been any change when it comes to respect of international human rights laws and standards made into their special report on the citizen crusaders and danced the global threat of the tonic arms who hope their passion for peace can sound wake up call for countries refusing to relinquish nuclear weapons.

with the war and the going away of the so. many people thought that their weapons disappeared. the risk is not zero that something might be going off by mistake especially with the weapons on hair trigger alert. to use it as a threat. but you know if you keep spinning a trillion dollars a year on weapons of eventually you're going to blow everybody you know people are dying from these weapons but until we actually see if people don't wake up. that represents all of the firepower of the second world war this. is the equivalent firepower of the world's nuclear arsenal today.

marks disgraced media empire is now under f.b.i. investigation over whether the voice mails of nine eleven victims were intercepted and news corp's grip in britain is slipping fast abandoning a major t.v. takeover closing its leading newspaper and with murdoch someone before parliament a while he fights to save his media titan the vultures are circling lower am it has been finding out. but every media outlet in town t.v. radio even the sky writers when thought imitates life the long running simpsons takes a shot at its owner rupert murdoch aka montgomery burns in an episode broadcast apparently coincidentally this week. but it's not the only old piece of timing in the extraordinary phone hacking case that seems to get more scandalous every day the list of something like four thousand names

which the police have had since about two thousand and four two thousand and five and yet they promise facie evidence of criminal activity by these individuals and boy by the murdoch empire and yet they have not acted on it so why now just as the murdoch deal to take control of satellite t.v. giant b. sky b. sure to go ahead his rival the guardian newspaper releases catastrophic allegations of a moral journalists and their shady practices that when the deal collapses the times for example which currently loses money you could have transferred some of the profits from. investing in the times and if you are for example the guardian or the daily telegraph you would welcome that it's not just rival newspapers who stand to gain from murdoch's empire crumbling the b.b.c. could retake t.v. territory lost to b. sky b.

and the labor party which was wounded by years of relentless attacks by murdoch papers can finally take revenge but where will all this lead. now. on. the. news. we should be. producing moderate damage. that would suit the government just fine the british press is famous for it shop teeth and no holds barred doggedness particularly where its own government is concerned prime minister david cameron has shut down the press complaints commission and already talks of statutory controls to govern print journalists back

in springfield mr burns is as the townspeople put up their own newspaper and he's almost right we. can truly the media. rupert murdoch he is one beautiful man murdoch found as did mr buttons that you just can't buy all the newspapers those outside his control have been gunning for him think it is and this time they may have succeeded just as he gets set to consolidate control over a lot section of the e.u. case media markets the drugs being pulled out from under him and it's all over the hidden scandal now revealed that the police have known about it for you know at its own sweet time to. r.t. has been hearing how the culture of control by the murdered media got out of hand brian drolet who runs a t.v. network for social activists says there are parallels with some nations wider. we can make an analogy. and international. between what happens in

takeovers so the united states and britain took over iraq and bring the power they employ they employ oh. and i think the same thing has happened in the tabloids where we have a mention in the again so we're not in a few. and they hire. painting every journalist with that brush of thuggery but certainly if you look at murdoch whether it's on television where he got paid burma with sas and so like o'reilly and hannity and united states i don't know about in britain. it's a whole culture of power and control and deception or an agenda and that agenda i think is the gender dominant power is both in britain and the united states. well you more a video reaction and analysis on the murder. com and here is what else we have

lined up for you today the name sports and discover why the russian given the bomb treatment on billboards in moscow also on. the creature is in crisis eric a parrot and a monkey skate from a siberian circus seemingly because of bad summer weather is getting them down. brands and bluster. president obama has appealed to an on field in congress to lift the country's debt ceiling as to go she asians over the budget stretch on deadlock has already sparked fears that americans traditional triple a credit score may be under threat but alice max will tell you that washington's addiction to solving debt problems with

more debt means there is little chance of either side offering a solution to america's been running on debt for years this is a disaster in the making 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 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 most usually about how the government spending too much and should live within its means the debt ceiling debate gets raised and it's business as usual that's been the case for thirty years so. we have one side in the congress right now that's decided no increase in revenue is acceptable own the other side the 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 roiling already strained global markets with a political impasse now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world has admitted suffering one of its largest ever heard taps was thousands of sensitive the fans. deputy defense secretary william lynn says all the data was taken in a single intrusion in march officials blame an unspecified foreign government and comes after revealing a new internet strategy which treats cyber space as operational terrain like land air and sea. sauza pro-government libyans have rallied in a town west of tripoli to express support for colonel gadhafi and to demand that nato stops its military campaign meanwhile rebels are converting factories into

arms workshops to build weapons from scratch as they struggle from a lack of ammunition else worth a levy a contact group of nato nations airplanes and other states is meeting in turkey to find a political solution to the five month long conflict. mexico's biggest ever plantation has been discovered by authorities two hundred fifty kilometers south of the us border it covers one hundred twenty hackers and is watered by a vance irrigation system last year investigators found a tunnel running from mexico to the u.s. that was fitted out with lighting ventilation and a railway to transport drugs you also uncovered forty tons of marijuana. for business have a date with matrix this. hello and welcome to business losses burbank is finalizing the agreement to acquire the

eastern european unit of austria's bank international could be the biggest acquisition by the russian land outside the former soviet union and is expected to be closed by the end of the year sources close to the talks say burbank could pay up to one billion dollars for the assets. gold prices hit a record high on thursday as investors look for a safe haven from the storm brewing in the world's biggest economies now it's coming down just a bit at the moment seen as a traditional store of value gold's being driven by concerns over the u.s. debt situation and the prospect the federal reserve will print yet more dollars man of the. capital believes there's no limit to the can rally it did look like a few weeks ago the bird the price of gold was going to come in lower but in theory you starting to see increased eurozone concerns increased inflationary concerns the prospect of more quantitative easing more stimulus spending from the from the federal reserve we thought that that finished at the end of june now in the last

couple of days or so there's an increased likelihood that the federal reserve could start to print more money and that is going to go into two areas are going to go to gold and into equities are most likely gold at the moment so obviously sixteen hundred dollars would be an obvious level for gold to hit and then you start to see some profit being taken off the table but then you could push through that and as there's no ceiling you could carry on going to seventeen hundred eighteen hundred dollars. standard and poor's says there's a one and two chance that will cut the u.s. top notch credit rating that's in case u.s. lawmakers failed to agree on raising the state's debt ceiling as appears put the u.s. on the negative watch and says a cart would be by one or two notches a downgrade could raise borrowing costs for the united states and spark the financial markets the warning comes days after moody's investor service frightened a similar move. was take a look at the markets right now will is flat and mixed in other tronic trading

investors suspect the u.s. fuel consumption may climb ahead of reports that may show industrial production increased in june and consumer confidence improved. across asian markets also makes tech stocks and exporters are among the leading advances cassio and so we were adding more than one percent year to japan gaining around two percent the hang saying however is down by a quarter percent. and russia is kicking off trading for friday the r.t.s. opened down point two percent driven by world stocks mainly while the my six will be starting to trade in around for you know how it's. call from world capital expects the markets and russia to end the week as they began characterized by low volumes and. we believe that on friday nothing would change except the fact that the three people are generally more cautious on friday to take long position was

probably the market will be even through on the pressure but again we think the rule over the next few weeks will stay in pretty narrow trading range the most important stuff for it no pickups which in the statements of the us. political and economic establishment regarding the the possibility of the quantity freezing and b. regarding the studios here is there. well that's it from the business news for now we will be back in fifty minutes time with an update maureen is next with the headlines do stay with us.

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find out what's really happening to the global economy in the reports on. the back you're watching are to you live from moscow these are the top stories the e.u. scrambles to cut spending as the debt hole sweeping the block's writings to sink italy it's the greatest task yet for the leadership's efforts to keep the wavering currency alive and. murdoch's misery mounts the f.b.i. looks into whether a nine eleven victims phones were tapped while the fallout and suppliers of british armed forces it out of a multi-billion dollar t.v. takeover. and america's toothpaste torture tactics rising uproar over the u.s. training and exporting brutal interrogators while preaching human rights to the rest of the world. in fifteen minutes time we'll have

a sports update with anders farmer next door to his margin andrus takes us on a romantic tour of russia's northern capital. hello and welcome to the program i was at the sheriff from the same period will be exploring the pits the rest allows the never river i'm very small to transport also known as the venice of the north the waterways of the focal points of the city during the summer months are a great way to see that. many are simply displaced churches cathedrals museums are visible from the canal trip of the stone to staying in the city may be an ideal way

of deciding to enjoy a visit. piece of the great grand vision of the city was to create a window to your. promise one piece scarcely populated area became a fine european capital. expense in the construction of lavish palaces on the banks of the countless channels cutting through the city such great architects as risk truly. helped bring the dream to life centuries later as you can see on the day st petersburg the waterways and bridges still dominates the capital perched on the banks of the never river you can see how the city is set up and very spot crisscrossed by canals. create a whole atmosphere of. cost and i think it's just amazing you can take a party down the river spend the night silence for a nice and if you want to feel a bit more to do something more special.