transfer 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 drive all 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. this is good. news. we should be. producing. all. this. you know good that would suit the government just fine the british press is famous

for it sharp teeth and no holds barred doggedness particularly where its own government is concerned prime minister david cameron has all but shut down the press complaints commission and already talks of statutory controls to govern print journalists back in springfield mr burns's thwarted as the townspeople put up their own newspaper and he's almost right with possible to control the media. rupert murdoch he is one beautiful man murdoch found as did mr burns 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 looks set to consolidate control over a lot section of the case media markets the drugs being pulled out from under him and it's all over the hidden scandal now. but the police have known about it for

you know rabbits aleksey. id's been hearing how the culture of control by the murdoch media got out of hand brian ross who runs a t.v. network for social activists says there are parallels with some nation's wider imperial ambitions. you can make an analogy i think on an international scale between what happens in take over so the united states and britain took over iraq and what do they bring the power who they employ they employ to move close loads and i think that same thing has happened in the tabloids where you have a man's power and again some murdoch and a few of the other barons and who they hire what type of boat he they are not painting every journalist with the brush of luxury but certainly if you look at the murder whether it's on television where you've got paid verbal assassins like

o'reilly and hannity and night it states i don't know about britain. it's a whole culture of power and control and deception or an agenda and that agenda i think it was the gender of the dominant powers both in britain and the united states. well we are asking what you think of tabloids tactics in getting the story and here's what you're saying and t.v. dot com so far most votes say it's ok as long as it doesn't cross the line thirty four sand something viewers things he approaches simply meeting the modern public's demand around a fifth believe such boarding houses are outrageous colin must be punished while the rest thing again is in line with society's move towards less privacy cast your vote now at r.t. dot com but here's what else would line up for you today. in the names put a lot of near book discover why the russian p.m.'s been given the bon treatment on

billboards in moscow. the creature is in crisis as a ferret a parrot and a monkey escaped from a siberian circus seemingly because of bad summer weather is getting them down or on the furry friends in the foster care to go home. drastic spending cuts are on the way in italy yes parliament desperately tries to fan off a spiraling debt crisis it all bodes badly for the euro italy's finance minister even compare the currencies troubles to the titanic but as financial writer patrick young told us the government may find itself in conflict with the 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 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 there are big problems in western europe the havens to be are definitely to the east everyone must stop and fortunately expect further to the prices because the academic the contagion seems to be spreading and we have no political leadership seeming to do with it. and in today's crossed out the l.

of alan his guest discuss why the e.u.'s leadership is so adamant about saving the euro at any cost yourself what's coming up at eleven thirty g.m.t. . let 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 heart of pay their bills or stop the 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 and cities go bankrupt we've had carriers go bankrupt it didn't in the united states and it didn't in the u.s. start tell you why because of the four hundred billion dollars of 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 to. clear reflections on the

other side of the atlantic to president obama has given and yielding the u.s. congress thirty six hours to raise the country's debt ceiling the deadlocks already spurred two of the three major credit rating agencies to threaten downgrading america's aaa status but alice maxwell tells r.t. that washington's addiction to debt is clouding both sides appetite for real solution. america's been running on debt for years this is a disaster in the making and i would liken the 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 it'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 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 despite treaties and agreements to curb the spread of nuclear weapons governments keep investing in perfecting their arsenals and for some activists the danger will remain for as long as people remain apathetic and about twenty minutes time artie's special report tells a story of citizen crusaders who hoped to sound

a wake up call for countries refusing to relinquish nuclear weapons. with the end of the boer war and the going away of the soviet union many people thought that nuclear weapons disappeared. the risk is not zero that something might be going off by mistake especially with the nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert. level so that they could use it as a threat. as an actual event that you know if you keep spending a trillion dollars a year on weapons of venture you're going to blow everybody up you've you know people are dying from these weapons but until we actually see it people don't make up nuclear weapons or a bill. that represents all of the firepower of the second world war this second sound is the equivalent firepower of the world's nuclear arsenal today.

iran's torrence have been issued for the captains of two vessels which passed by the sunken volga river cruise ship was out stopping to help survivors and they will reportedly face negligence charges comes just a day after two people linked to the disaster were arrested the had over the farm which rented out the vessel and the registrar certify the ship are suspected of violating safety regulations resulting in the deaths of the severely overloaded cruiser went down on sunday and russia's the public of tatarstan killing at least one hundred fourteen people including twenty seven children the sunken ship is to be brought to the surface within the next few days are you spoke to the captain of a vessel which came to the aid of the survivors. as we were nearing the site we began to figure out how many people there were in the water hold 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 mountain. floating debris some people were dreadful condition i mean you were injured that oil over there because when the ship saying the fuel oil came up to the surface and spread everywhere and covered the people that made the rescue even harder because the oil made the victims krishi and hard to get a hold to pull them on board sheen children and that condition that was particularly hard breaking. the full interview with the captain many in the country are considering a hero is in line right now at r.t. dot com. the u.s. may want to be seen as the world's human rights advocate but a home a face is growing accusations of hypocrisy thousands of professional torturers have reportedly been trained over the past sixty years was department of fans approval at a scaling for found out it's ready to export its interrogation expertise. it's

been thirty years and i mean soldiers kidnapped be starved and electroshock heck they're at least peace about all for having a quote subversive book. the memories he reliving every day new people have survived torture in colonial times very lucky to be able to tell the story most people get told to for the stand there and then they get shot and kill 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 america and for benning georgia army major joyce 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 classified. army schools. use the words terror again next door assassinate.

commonly. called waits 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 that with some hemisphere the eighth amendment to the us constitution forbids torture and other forms of cruel and unusual punishment as does the geneva convention but it did happen there's no question that our country not only engage in torture it's sort of put toward others how to do it we also rendered people we also sent people to prisons in other countries where they were in fact tortured there although congress demanded more oversight of military training programs and into. 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 contain because its 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 can be eighty's unfortunately. a military aide and police aide 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 contrasts with u.s. rhetoric about respect for human rights abroad torture survivors and religious leaders in washington d.c. have come together to demand of the commission of inquiry into what they describe as torture practices been able 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 survivors like hector's even numbers don't tell the full story when someone gets torture not only the person who. has to deal with the big wouldn't because of those on the torture it's also someone who has to be humanized themselves in order through the human eyes and all of human beings but a society that supports torture is going to pay a price a very big price as well healing for the arts in washington d.c. . as the u.s. expands its anti-terrorist network abroad there are now reports of secret prisons and somalia the sites officially belong to local security forces by iran paid for by the cia jolliffe jeremy scahill says he's visited the prisons adding that

america's mainstream media makes 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 bed bug 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've 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. well some of this hour's other world news now the pentagon has admitted suffering one of its largest ever happier taps with thousands of sensitive the fans file still deputy defense secretary william lynn says all the data was taken at 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. sound government libyans have rallied in a town west of tripoli to express support for chrome to darfur 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 the lack of them munitions elsewhere the levy a contact group of nato nations countries and other states is meeting in turkey to find a political solution to a month long conflict. mexico's biggest ever marijuana plantation has been discovered by authorities two hundred fifty kilometers south of the us border it covers one hundred twenty hacked areas and as water by an advanced 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 covered forty tons of marijuana. this is next with. russia's largest bank is expanding into europe burbank has agreed to buy the

european unit of austria's volkswagen the national has the first acquisition of its russian bag business southeast on the pinnacle of has more details. it will be very banks tourist purchase outside the former soviet union it's quite widespread bank starts of expansion plans in eastern europe i it's lucky to still very very similar to russia c.i.s. markets and borders bank itself are the very lucrative targets both bank it's awesome the rest are made of f. fourteen billion dollars and it has a wide network of branches across nine countries in central and eastern europe what we know by now is that today's bear bank man ounce approaches off a hundred per cent over the eastern european union also both bank international for estimated eight hundred and forty million dollars the talks started last year but then have been complicated by the ownership structure of the bank but now the deal

is expected to be closed this year and we're now hearing banks that had quarters waiting for they had a bank get a month. to give us all the details on the upcoming. russia will not make concessions over its tax regime for coming because to gain membership of the world trade organization under the current rules manufacturers which make more than sixty percent of the vehicle in russia and receive financial concessions this is intended to boost local production of cost prime minister putin says the system is not open to negotiation. you want to do it but only hopeless insist and we dropped the requirement to sixty percent localization production of three hundred thousand calls in the year that we have the legal position clearly we changed it to read laurie we cannot cross if you colonel to burned an interest domestic producer. separately prime minister putin says there are plans to build a second line of the east pacific ocean pipeline the system for exporting crude oil

to asian markets he also suggested another line could be added to the north stream gas pipeline which goes under the baltic sea and terminates in germany no time frame for the project. to move to the markets now and go to commodities first oil is going down on a stronger dollar light sweet is down twenty five cents brant sixty six cents investors suspect the u.s. fuel consumption may climb ahead of reports that may show industrial production increased in june and consumer confidence. moved to europe now european markets are down as traders remain cautious ahead of the release of bank stress test results due out later this afternoon their full financial stocks are coming under pressure for these down point three percent the dax point four percent. and in russia a pretty similar picture to the markets open the negative territory in the still there however the losses have been pared r.t.s.

is down just by a quarter of a percent myself down just a notch take a look at some of the main stock movers actually on the market that we're seeing right now financials are mixed along with other financial stocks across the globe is down point six percent burbank is seeing a pretty hefty grove compared to the general movement on the market it's up more than one percent this is probably because of the support but the news the buying the unit of volkswagen the national is giving to the stock. energy shares are down gas problem down quarter of a percent as well prices are declining soda. and other commodities gold prices are close to record highs as investors look for a safe haven from the storm brewing in the world's biggest economies seen as a traditional store of values being driven by concerns over the u.s. debt situation and the prospect the federal reserve will print more dollars when i was last in a trade at eighty x. capital believes there's no limits to the rally it did look like

a few weeks ago the bird the price of gold was going to come in lower but in your view you're 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 areas that's 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 there's no ceiling you could carry on going to seven hundred eighteen hundred dollars and gold stocks remain a favorite on the russian market that extension call from seed capital takes some names he thinks will continue to attract investor interest the best birds

great know in the market will be the gold companies. which are essentially hedge against weakness and go into other currencies full image gold been doing quite. triples has been a very rough couple for two ways names such as a coup in the world also a good page positions and unicom for reasons. of internal restructuring has been open for me as a market as well europe's a day business will be back in the fifty minutes time with an update marina's next with a headline. i

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back you're watching r t here is a look at the top stories media mogul rupert murdoch is on the offensive claiming news corp made only minor mistakes even as the f.b.i. moves in over the possible phone hacking of nine eleven victims. and the e.u. scrambles to cut spending as a debt hole sweeping the block threatens to sink italy it's the greatest task yet for the leadership's efforts to keep wavering currency alive. america's two faced torture tactics rising uproar over the u.s. training and exporting brutal interrogators while preaching human rights to the rest of the world. next hour a special report on those who have seen the change dangers of nuclear weapons

firsthand and are taking it upon themselves to open the world's eyes. the fall out from the french test went beyond the polynesian islands they caused outrage in new zealand which took the lead in the n.t. nuclear movement and became a black sheep among western countries yes unlike any other country new zealand refused to rely on nuclear weapons for its security but here nuclear technology is banned it's the law. i think a lot of the young people feel proud about new zealand strictly for policy that people have come a bit complacent and feel as foreign we're safe there are these other issues here i mean a lot of people say people in the peace movement has happy seven out of memes gray beards resounds and that's what people say. even in new zealand it's difficult to find young people concerned about this issue they are more sensitive to the melting

of the antarctic and he wants to revitalize the ageing pacifist movement and i'm wishing peace foundation and my role is to use outreach coordinator. in the race and they are going to tell he see to it being pacific you fist of all and basing all these amazing people from twenty seven different countries in the pacific and i felt for the first time in my life that new zealand was not remote and that we were big compared to. so things out the pacific garden country. i was brought up in the higher the peace activist mother she's been around during peace activist the last thirty years so it's in my blood and i feel a responsibility to continue that when. i have this funny memory of mum buying me a greenpeace sticker that you put on your window and it was of the rainbow warrior and the fact that.