in india oh she's available in the movie going to join the hotel rooms the home of violence the gateway hotel the grand imperial truly the taj was the bush coromandel you can oh well so tell the truth as literature says don't need to go and. read this in the kennel was her job as a retreat. because you can truly the media. the media mogul goes on the offensive claiming news call made only minor mistakes even as the f.b.i. moves in over the possible phone hacking of nine eleven victims of europe's debt plague it spreads to its third largest economy spurring italy's lawmakers to deal that multi-billion dollar gloating with spending and. america's two faced torture tactics rising uproar over the us training and exporting brutal interrogators all preaching human rights to the rest of. also as burbank is mulling one of the

largest international acquisitions for the russian banking industry its agreeing to pay eight hundred forty million dollars for banks international eastern european units and more on that in twenty minutes time. global news live from moscow city center this is r.t. i'm sure rupert murdoch has taken a swipe at his media rivals labeling accusations against news corp as total lies and that only minor mistakes have been made in the phone hacking probe the embattled media mogul now has an f.b.i. inquiry on his hands over claims that the voice mails of nine eleven victims were intercepted meanwhile in britain the scandals claimed its biggest scalp yet rebecca brooks has quit she run but also. u.k.

newspapers and was editor of the news of the world when a murder victim a million dollars a phone was hacked next week she'll join rupert and james murdoch and facing a parliamentary grilling but as artie's a lawyer and reports while he fights to save his media titan of all channels are already circling. every media outlet and own t.v. radio even the scary. when not imitate 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 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 have since about two thousand and forty 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 piece guy b. look sure to go ahead his thoughts 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. into investing in the times and if you are for example the guardian all the daily telegraph you would welcome it it's not just a 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. but where will all this lead.

in your school. history. you know. that would suit the government just fine the british press is famous for its sharp 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 byrne this as the townspeople open up their own newspaper and he's almost right. it is possible to control the media because of 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 launch section of the case media markets the drugs being pulled out from under him and it's all over the hidden scandal now reveals that the police have known about it for years nor ever its policy. but after you've been hearing about how the culture of control by the murdoch media got out of hand brian calling who runs a t.v. network or a social activist says there are parallels with some nations why the imperial ambitions who can make an analogy i think. your national scale between what happens in take over so the united states and britain took over iraq and. they

bring the power who they employ they employ. slogans and i think that same thing has happened in the tabloids where we have a man's power and again some murdoch and of the other parents and who they hire what they propose who they hire not painting every journalist with that brush but certainly when murdoch whether it's on television or. rahul assassin swank o'reilly and hannity and united states i don't work in britain. it's a whole culture of power and control and deception or an agenda and that engendered i think it was the agenda to powers both in britain and the united states. well there were more video reaction and analysis on the dog's misery at r.t. dot com here's what else we have lined up for you today the name is blood of discover why the russian prime minister of been given the bond of treatment on

billboards in moscow also online. the creatures in crisis as a parrot a parrot and monkey all it's from a siberian because they're similar because the bad summer weather is coming down more on the furry friends of a faster and arty dot com. and are seven minutes past the hour here in the russian capital a drastic spending cuts are on the way in italy as parliament desperately tries to fend off a spiraling debt crisis it all bodes badly for the euro italy's finance minister even compared the currency struggles to that of the titanic but as a financial writer patrick young 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 ideas that in greece at least thank goodness the taxi drivers don't go on strike or is it glee i expect 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 larger minds of the sort of the leftist opposition in italy for see the fact that silvio berlusconi due to many of the reasons will simply target side of the direct fiscal reason our own well i mean he's a wounded animal at this point in time and in some ways i think that he's going. to get very difficult to hold his government together so there are big problems in western europe but here wants to be a degree to the east everyone not only fortunately except for the crisis because the epidemic the contingent seems to be spreading and we have new political leadership seeming to do with it. in today's edition of cross talk people of

eleanor's guest discuss why the e.u.'s leadership is so adamant about saving the euro at any cost but here's some of what's coming up shortly here on our saying. let's reschedule bankruptcy would be good for greece it would be good for the european be good for the world if greece went bankrupt and rushed to see how to pay their bills or stop a lie and then you would have everybody would know it's a strong currency based on a strong sound economy why not let him go bankrupt listen you know you're in america we've had states go away aggressively in cities go bankrupt we've had counties nobody grew up 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 has fifty percent is held by german and french banks and those countries don't want to take a second in their financial markets it's that simple. and

there are clear reflections on the other side of the atlantic as well president obama has given an unyielding u.s. congress thirty six hours to raise the country's debt ceiling deadlocks already spurred two or three major credit rating agencies to threaten downgrading america's aaa status but investment analyst months wolf tells r.t. that washington's addiction to debt is clouding a both sides are for a real solution. america's been going on that 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 and 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 i don't 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 you with us here live from moscow now 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 today. programme our special report tells the story of

a citizen of crusaders who sound a wake up call for countries refusing to relinquish the nuclear. with the end of the cold war and the going away of the soviet union many people thought that nuclear weapons disappeared. their risk is not zero that something might be going off by mistake especially with the nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert. the pacific begins to use it as a threat. as an echo of it but 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 the firepower of the second world war this. is the equivalence of fire power the world's nuclear arsenal

today. welcome back in with me arrest warrants have been issued for the captains of two vessels which passed by the sunken volga river cruise ship without stopping to help survivors they were reporting on negligence charges it comes just a day after three people linked to the disaster arrested the head of the firm which runs about the vessel and the registrar who certified the ship are suspected of violating the safety regulations resulting in the deaths severely overload loaded cruise i went down on sunday and it rushes republic of tatarstan killing at least one hundred fourteen people including twenty seven children that ship is to be brought to the surface within the next few days spoke to the cops who came to the aid office of funds because 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 going to be vigil people from the floor to. three some people were in dreadful condition i mean you were injured there of oil all over their skin because when the ship sank if you will came up to the surface and spread everywhere and covered the people that made the rescue even harder because the oil me the victims greasy and hard to get a hold to pull them on board chain children and condition i was particularly heartbreaking. full interview with the captain and many in the country are considering a hero is online right now that are to talk. the u.s. may want to be seen as the world's human rights advocate of home it faces growing accusations of hypocrisy thousands of professional torturers have reportedly been trained over the past sixty years with approval from the department of defense. for thought up it's ready to export its interrogation expertise. it's been thirty

years since colombian soldiers kidnapped be starved and electroshock take their advice these about all for having a quote subversive book. but it's a memory he lives every day people have survived torture in corona's i'm very lucky to be able to tell the story most people get for three or four days of this time there and then they get shot and kill many have been disappear after says the colombian soldiers who tortured him and later killed his brother. and were trained right here on american soil at the school of the america and for benning georgia army major jews the player was an instructor there i was very much in favor of the school of the americas during the cold war era but major players that he was horrified with what his former students did with their anti-communist training in their own country the classified. army schools. use the words

interrogate makes for sas and they do for a long. time and when. you go 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 who have graduated ten thousand of them have been colombia has been the largest new source of this quote america's i don't think is an accident or. abuse or even brights and there were some 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 our country not only gains in torture and so we're told others how to do it we also render people we also sent people to prisons in other countries where they were in fact tortured there although congress to make them more oversight of military training

programs and inter. 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 man gets himself a survivor of torture says a lack of transparency in the u.s. led to further abuse can gayeties unfortunately. a military aide and police aide was restored and after that it's been difficult to document to what extent that he includes teaching. techniques that are prohibited by law or by international law it's a legacy that sharply contrast with 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 practiced or enabled by the united states including in its own prisons like one time obey and by

the cia when president bush says that he waterboarding and he would do it again. and he said damn right that he had ordered. you had some very serious problem for the spirit soul of our country as a matter of how many prisoners were tortured by the united states are hard to find but survivors like hector's it in numbers don't tell the full story when someone gets tore through not only the person with so forth or for us to deal with a big woman but because of those. 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 i paid the price as well killing ford artsy washington d.c. . u.s. expands its unseen terrorist network abroad there are now reports of secret prisons in somalia the sites officially belong so your local security forces are run and paid for by

a journalist in germany scahill says that he's visited the person's writing but america's mainstream media makes it hard to report on what's really going on. inside this dungeon prison there are no windows there is no sunlight there's a bedbug infestation according to prisoners who've been there mosquitoes all over the place the air is moist 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 just turning twenty minutes past the hour now here in moscow you with us here to check out some other world news when you brief the pentagon admitted suffering one of its launch a rocket attacks with thousands of sensitive defense stoneham pretty defensive secretary william lynn says all the data was taken in a single intrusion in march officials blame an unspecified foreign government comes off to recruiting a new internet strategy which treats cyberspace as operational terrain like land and sea. senior officials from some forty countries are meeting in

istanbul to discuss libya and to try to find a political solution to the five month long conflict he will assess the road map for peace in libya as proposed by turkey meanwhile thousands of 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. revolution coalitions across egypt are taking to the streets to protest the interim government's performance since the uprising threw former president mubarak from power at a mounting be immediate departure of the interim prime minister ayad establishment of a new democratic institutions coalition's hope to bring a million people onto the capital streets after friday night's. products or the news for now but i'll be back with the headlines straight after the business update with dmitri. thanks rory hello and a warm welcome to business r.t.

russia's largest bank is expanding into europe the sperm bank has agreed to buy the east european units of austria sports bank international for up to eight hundred forty million dollars the first acquisition of its kind by a russian back the head of verse burbank explains the reasons for the deal. with it's our first step towards transforming scared bank into a global bank the decision was made based on vision to make five to seven percent of our profits from overseas operations by twenty fourteen good bank we are buying is in the fast growing global central and eastern european region we see the acquisition as a springboard for further expansion into europe. why the talk more on this we're joined by richard haynesworth general director of rust rating richard thank you so much for being with us sir is it a good deal well it's certainly an interesting deal. in terms of the synergy of spear bike moving into different market going beyond the borders of russia.

although we know that we to be has caught banks in other parts of the world well these banks such as what used to be called that's going to rock new bank or europe . in france these were banks that were remnants of a soviet banking system. one or two of the commercial banks they'd set up our banks outside of or outside of russia before the crisis and treaty b. has recently. branches in vietnam and in shanghai put spear bank did not have much outside of russia so it's been catch up basically we think maybe it's not playing it's not playing catch up but in a different sense because what it's done is it's gone for another growing market which is eastern europe to some extent wrong could say the eastern europe is a bit more like russia next soviet union the markets in which we t.v.

is working but could actually as burbank go further and compete say with german and french giants. i think that that would be difficult certainly if you're looking in a long term perspective so a plan fifteen twenty years then that's definitely were aiming at but initially what they will have to do is first of all consolidate their management their whole team to be a multinational multicultural as opposed to being simply a savings bank in russia by the way do you think there's a risk of forced burberry because it lacks the experience of managing an international bank is always a risk in any takeover in any acquisition but there are going to be cultural differences between the buyer and and what is bought we also see this between spare part control. spare part is just portrayed her there are bound to be differences these differences are showing up people have left. but on the other hand spurred by

i wanted to take in order to change itself so whining a piece of an exterior of what essentially was an austrian bank but there you east european area it's buying in expertise that it doesn't have so it does make sense there is the opportunity for expanding further if they can get this integration process or european banking is actually right now troubled with its exposure to government debt do you think the timing of this deal actually makes sense i think it's absolutely perfect for spare bike because in a sense they're buying at the parts of the market. we don't know yet what the results are of the stress testing for a spark they're due out today but i wouldn't be surprised to find out what spike. i was in a position where it was more in favor of getting rid of this unit than keeping it

which means that the price would have been lower the price would have been lower on the sort of hot spot so spare bike is buying in at a good time. it doesn't appear that there are too many problems left in these regions but it does give it a footprint in the european union which then will allow it to open branches in other parts of the european union so it's a sort of toll hole from which it can then spread to other countries all right regimes with thank you so much for your comments and for your time i was wishing sort of general director of a risk rating with us in the studio thank you so much. all right we have time to take a look at the markets to start with europe and markets there are down hesitation for traders they remain cautious ahead of the release of these bank stress tests as we mentioned the results are due out later this afternoon so footsie is down one

percent driven by mining stocks in russia pretty similar picture no long positions as you can see there mostly head of the weekend r.t.s. is down and basically point one percent and i six pretty much by the same amount look at some of the meno market movers and with banks is all looking actually positive e.t.v. up one point two five percent the other bank is sorting out right now its purchase of bank of moscow and there's a lot of volatility in that stock burbank getting some support from from the news that it's acquiring the east european. units of international therefore it's up three quarters of a percent of the moment is down twenty five percent as well prices are declining slightly at the moment. and europe today john my colleague mary nicholson will be here in fifteen minutes time to bring an update on its.

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