oh she's available in the movie joyce fever chills the home of the let's begin we go to the grand imperial truly the torch was pushed coromandel new can a letter to the close richard good to see don't need to go and. read this in the kernel was hotel as risky retreat. as the u.k. phone hacking scandal puts the future of the murdoch media empire at risk and questions arise as to why it's taken so long for action to be taken despite police knowing about many of the allegations for years. public outrage in italy the latest e.u. country to be hit by the financial crisis as the expected approval of an austerity budget that enters the final straight. under torture toward on u.s. soil uproar over america's reported training of brutal interrogators have used their methods at home and abroad allegedly abusing the same human rights the

country so vocally at it's. just after four pm here in moscow you without c m n roll reception welcome to the program the chief executive of the british newspaper group owned by the murdoch empire has resigned over the phone hacking scandal rebecca brooks bowed to the mounting pressure to quit saying that her ongoing involvement was deflecting attention from the company's attempts to clean itself up she's due to appear before a panel of m.p.'s next tuesday along with former boss and his son to face questioning on the allegations of ethical methods parties or every now reports on how the vultures are circling and on some pertinent parallels from a surprising source. put it green media and put into new t.v. radio even the. when imitates life the long running simpsons

takes a shot at it 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 the book prada 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. looked sure to go ahead his thoughts rival the guardian newspaper releases catastrophic allegations of amoral journalists and their shady practices that when

the deal collapses the times for example which currently loses money could have transferred some of the profits from. into investing in the times and if you will for example be the guardian. of. it 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. you. that would suit the government just fine the british press is famous for its sharp teeth and no holds barred talkativeness. 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 is to water it as the townspeople put up their own newspaper and he's almost right we possible can truly the media because of rupert murdoch he. 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 years and this time they may have succeeded just as he looked set to consolidate control over a large section of the u.k.'s media markets across being pulled out from under him and it's all over the hidden scandal now revealed that the police have known about it for years you read it artie long. time brian drawling who runs an independent

t.v. network in the united states and says rupert murdoch's global media dominance could be compared to some countries imperial missions. and you can make an analogy. other international scale between what happens in takeovers the united states and britain to pull over iraq and who do they bring to power who they employ they employ oh well slopes to meet the parents same thing has happened in the tabloids where we have been immense power in uganda and murdoch you know people. who they hire paper for hire not in every journalist. but certainly. for murder world whether it's on television where you've got a we're of all the sas. in entering the united states or not we're. it's a whole culture our own control and conception or an agenda and i

think when. britain and the united states. where we are asking i what you think about a story on our website and whether you believe the tabloids tactics in getting a story can be justified here's how the voting is going so far see dot com and some of the numbers now so i thought most people are saying these reporting methods are outrageous and unethical and must be punished i thought however things it's ok as long as it doesn't cross the line twenty three percent believe the approach is simply meeting the demands of the public while the rest say the trend mirrors society's move towards less privacy which so you have your say just. calm scroll down it's on the right. italy is bracing itself for a tough round of belt tightening as its parliament to finally approve harsh austerity measures it's part of efforts to prevent further spread of the eurozone debt crisis which italy's finance minister has compared to the tonic but as financial writer patrick young explains the government may find itself look ahead

but the public that's dead set against cuts. will be one significant difference between a peep. take to the streets between greece and italy and that is but a 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 was that which are outside of the direct fiscal reason are well and 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 behavior to be here definitely to the east and everyone martin fortunately expect further surprises because the epidemic of contagion seems to be

spreading and we have no political leadership seeming to do with a. drastic austerity measures may make the situation in italy even worse that's according to a financial adviser and wealth manager medical reporter. of course in the short term that my appease the markets moving forward firstly is it may be difficult to actually implement these cuts as the british are finding over here but also severe austerity measures may well so tip the balance and push it back into into recession which again will. make the situation worse and therefore make the deficit situation worse i think it went wrong really at the outset of the whole euro project the stability pact which limits the amount of borrowing that countries can undertake has not been here to and many countries in the living well beyond their means for for many years all these countries have simply too much debt and he's very very

difficult to manage that debt moving forward if the markets keep demanding higher interest and really a default situation of elise some of the european debt has to be on the table and will probably be on the table within the next six or twelve months. to those are addition of cost will. discuss why the easel you ship is so adamant about saving for your any cost but here is a little bit of what's coming up later in the day here at. 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 drove the hottest pay their bills are stuck lie and then you would have everybody would know with a strong sound currency based on a strong sound economy why not let him go bankrupt listen in our euro in america we've had states go away and 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 of debt greece has fifty percent is held by german and french banks and those countries don't want to take a second look in the financial markets it's that simple. and on the other side of the atlantic president obama has given the u.s. lawmakers thirty six hours to reach a deal on raising the debt ceiling has already spoke to the three major credit rating agencies to threaten a downgrade of america's aaa status but investment analyst max wolff tells r.t. that washington's addiction to debt and clouding both sides of a tight for a real solution. america's been going 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 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 decided no increase in revenues accept the role i on the 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 a growing chorus of foreign and domestic voices urging congress and the white house

to stock riling already strained global markets with a political impasse. you are going to be live from moscow not you remember you can check out plenty more news stories along with blogs and galleries are all on our website. it's a taste of what's lined up for you that right now about what's on the blogs position eight it to the governor of russia's time region is up for grabs in a t.v. reality show but why this unconventional election. picture gallery is an exclusive look at the elimination of some of afghanistan's poppy fields to the remarkable photos in fool. dot com. twelve minutes past the hour here in moscow divers have finished searching for

bodies inside the wreck of the pleasure cruise up which are sank within minutes last sunday one hundred fourteen people out of a two hundred on board have officially been confirmed dead fifteen are still missing there will be lifted from within the next few days and investigators hope that a thorough examination will help determine what caused the tragedy so far two people have been arrested in connection with the disaster the head of a company which operated the boat and the inspection is certified to face charges of negligence that led to the arrest warrants have also been issued for the captains of two cargo vessels which passed by the sinking ship without stopping to help. to pick up the ship it did come to the rescue and here's how he described the scene. as we were nearing the site we began to figure out how many people there were in the water although that was hard to do because there was a lot of rubble floating around as well it was very hard to pick out due to visual

people from the floating debris some people were in a dreadful condition many were injured they had will all over their skin because when the ships the fuel oil came up to the surface and spread everywhere you could . not meet the rescue even harder because the oil made the victims greasy and hard to get a hold of them on board and seeing children in that condition particularly heartbreaking when. you can watch that interview in full up with a captain who many in russia are calling a hero you can do so right now at our web site that's our team up. the u.s. likes to be seen as one of the world's leading human rights advocates but at home it faces growing accusations of see tens of thousands of professional torturers have reportedly been trained on american soil over the past sixty years and it's claimed that many of them have used their techniques abroad for reports. so you think it's been thirty years since colombian soldiers kidnapped oh be starved and

electroshock tech they're out he's about all for having a quote subversive book. but it's a memory he lives every day people have survived torture including it's i'm very lucky to be able to tell the story most people get for three or four days of the stuff on there and then they get shot and killed and many have been disappearing 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 americas and for penning georgia army major judith 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 players as he was horrified with what his former students did with their anti-communist training in their own country classified. that army school in america used the words the terror of being next door to assassinate.

commonly. called waits for. graduates from the school of the americas have been implicated in massacres and torture throughout the hemisphere have the more than sixty thousand soldiers and police to have graduated ten thousand of them have been in colombia has been the largest news of this clue that america's i don't think is an accident the. abuser of human rights and there was some hemisphere the eighth amendment to make us constitution forbids torture and other forms of cruel and unusual punishment as the geneva convention but it did happen there's no question that our country. and torture and so forth taught others how to do it we also render people who also sent people to prisons in other countries where they were in fact or truth there although congress to make them 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 gayeties unfortunately. the military aid and police aid 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 of day 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 it. so you know it's

a very serious problem for the spirit soul of our country i think it's 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 through not only the person who is so forth or for the i would be wouldn't because of those and of course there'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. . meanwhile the u.s. is reportedly running a secret prison on training base in somalia that's being appealed by journalist to jeremy scahill who says that he's visit the facility and he told r.t. that by expanding its war on terror america only makes you better. 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 thick and disgusting some prisoners are said to be losing their minds 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 as the u.s. expands its military operations and its covert operations in somalia and elsewhere in east africa as well as in yemen the administration should be required to define for the american people exactly what laws are governing these operations there have been scores of night raids conducted by these forces in afghanistan in pakistan in yemen in somalia where innocent people have been killed or when someone that they

meant to kill was killed but scores of innocent people were killed along with them so if we're going to get into the business of making assassinations our norm that's really what these are assassinations then we need to be ready for the blowback because we're creating a whole new generation of enemies that wouldn't normally have been our enemies because we've killed people in their family especially those who had done no wrong and were the victims of bad intelligence. twenty minutes past the hour now here in moscow you with say despite treaties and agreements to reduce the number of nuclear weapons some elements of still invest in perfecting their arsenals and for some and he walked it so the danger will remain until people stand up against it in about an hour's time here in our special report tells the story of citizen crusaders who hope to sound a wake up call to countries refusing to abandon their nuclear weapons. with the end of the cold 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 mystics particularly nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert. because of the using a as a three. as an extra bit you know if you keep spinning a trillion dollars a year on weapons of eventually you're going to blow everybody up you you know people are dying from these weapons but until we actually see it people don't wake up to nuclear weapons or a bill. that represents all of the firepower of the second world war this. is the equivalence fire power of the world's nuclear arsenal today. some of international headlines for you this is our world update here in libya thousands of pro-government protesters have rallied in a town west of tripoli to demand that nato stops its military campaign meanwhile

rebels are converting factories into as workshops to build weapons from scratch as they struggle from a lack of ammunition elsewhere the libya contact group of nato nations arab countries and other states is meeting in turkey to find a political solution to the five month long conflict. thousands of egyptians are rallying in cairo to press the country's military rulers to prosecute the people behind the killing of protesters during february's uprising activists are calling it the friday of last morning with some of them camping in a terrier square for a week a day earlier the country's ousted leader hosni mubarak denied there had been a violent crackdown against demonstrators. that's three powerful eruptions often internews in volcano have forced hundreds of them. nearby residents to flee. has spewed smoke and lover and while spreading panic no casualties have been reported so far the volcano has been on high alert and believe.

well it's now if you have today rather a new submarine is next with the business. hello and welcome to business here on r.t. thank you for joining us now russia's largest bank is expanding into europe has agreed to buy the eastern european units of austria's for international it's the first position of its kind by a russian bank and for all that the tells us across live to the southeast but who joins us also headquarters hello there down on the wall what can you tell us why is bank buying this business from the bank international. this purchase goes a lot of their bank lands to become the international banking group that the bank government debt has just sat that's the two thousand foot ceiling that i plan to

bring up the level of profound thought that come from international operations the fact that he believes in a great but then sold those eastern european countries where more banks have its branches is that the baby market took such cultures as czech republic also but here will be generating up to ninety five billion euros by two thousand and fifteen it's more the brushless potential those burbank protest wants to use eastern european union bank as a platform for international operations and the demographics planes why they chose them these parts ecolab. bolds bank is among the top ten lenders in the czech republic slovakia croatia and bosnia this is a traditional banking business there are no complicated structures or talks assets there is no dependence on securities operations and almost no big corporate clients

it could be called the bank for medium sized and small business. so burbank plans to finalize the deal by the end of this year and it's just the beginning cameron realises that the pay old resolute thing at some other european banking after the acid in europe into. the town of balakot are reporting outsiders for of anx headquarters thank you very much for that update. you know stay with us for bank of richard haynesworth the general director of restraints and believes it has made a sound strategic decision because it's spared a foothold into the european union. banking regulation in the european union as such. if you. are one of the countries you're able to open branches in other countries with less difficulty than if spear point was to go say to

england and say i want to open a branch and it would have more difficulty it also gives strategically it gives exposure to other cultures i mean existing banking cultures. well let's take a look at the markets now in europe they are down as traders remain cautious and head of the release of bank stress test results were tried throughout later today. and russia the markets opened in negative territory but now we see that the my sex as our point zero six percent and let's take a look at some individual movers on my sex the banking sector is doing well vit c. is off of one point seven percent and the bank is clearly figure out the details of its purchase of bank of moscow as burbank is also up after news of its acquisition of austria's vaults international and it's the by pantheon a polygraph i just told us and the country's biggest company gasp on nearly half

a percent helped by a slight rise in oil prices. now russia will not make concessions over its tax regime for carmakers to gain membership of the world trade organization under the current rules manufacturers which make more than sixty percent of the vehicle in russia receive financial concessions and this is intended to boost local production of cars but prime minister putin says the system is not open to negotiation. open borders insists the requirements the sixty percent. reduction of three hundred thousand calls a year we have a little position climate change and the riddler already we can't cross because we can't to burn them the interests of domestic producers. now separately prime minister truth is there are plans to build a second line of the eastern siberia pacific ocean pipeline this is them for

exports include the world 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 but he gave no time frame for either project. well that's all the business news for now the headlines are lacks the gory.

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