and if you are for example. 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 we would be. 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 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. can truly the media. rupert murdoch. murdoch found as did mr burns that you just can't buy all the newspapers those outside his control have been gunning for him for years and this time they may have succeeded just as he looked set to consolidate control over a launch section of the u.k.'s 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 years nor. meantime brian who runs an independent t.v. network in the united states says rupert murdoch's global media dominance could be compared to some countries imperial missions. and you can make an analogy i think an international scale between what happens in take over so the united states and

britain to go over iraq and who do they bring to power who they employ they employ slow slow slow and i think that same thing has happened in the tabloids where you have a man's power and against murdoch and a few of the other parents and who they hire what type of boat they hire not painting every journalist with their shoes but certainly if you look at murdoch well whether it's on television where you paid or of the assassins like o'reilly and hannity and the united states i don't know about britain. it's a whole culture of power and control and deception or an agenda and now i think it's. going to powers both in britain and the united states. where we are asking i what you think about the story at our web site and whether you believe the tabloids tactics in getting a story can be justified here's how the voting is going so far dot com and some of

the numbers now so far most people are saying these reporting methods are outrageous and unethical and must be punished i thought however things that'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 a less privacy make sure you have your say just live on dot com scroll down it's on the right. it really is bracing itself for a tough round of belt tightening as parliament prepares to finally approve harsh austerity measures it's part of efforts to prevent the further spread of the eurozone debt crisis which italy's finance minister has compared to the titanic but as financial writer patrick young explains the government may find itself at loggerheads but the public that's dead set against cuts. there will be one significant difference between the people. he 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 seeing 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 more definitely to the east everyone martin fortunately expect further surprises because the epidemic the contagion seems to be spreading and we have new political leadership seeming to do with the. drastic austerity measures may make the situation in italy even worse that's according to financial adviser and wealth manager marco pierre thought

a party. of course in the short term that my appease the markets but 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 also tip the balance and push it back into into recession which again will will that make the situation worse and 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 it is very very difficult to manage that debt moving forward if the markets keep dividing higher interest and really a default situation of at least 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 and in today's or addition of cross talk people of ellen is going to discuss why the ease of the ship was so adamant about saving the you're at any cost here is a little bit of what's coming up later in the day here on alt. let greece go bankrupt it would be good for greece it would be good for the european be good for the world if greece went bankrupt and run out of the house just 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 listen in in america we've had states go away growth 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 of debt that greece has fifty percent is held by german and french banks and those countries don't want to take a second 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 deadline has already spurred two of 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 is clouding both sides of a tight for a 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 that's out of power screams and yells for three or four days at most usually about how the government spending too much and should live within its means the debt ceiling demand gets raised and it's business as usual that's been the case for thirty years so we have one side in the congress right now that's the cited no increase in revenue is acceptable another side that 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. along with.

t.v. show. picture galleries. finished searching for bodies inside the wreck of the pleasure cruise which within minutes last sunday one hundred fourteen people out of two hundred on board have officially been confirmed dead fifteen are still missing. within the next

few days. examination will help determine what caused the tragedy so far two people have been arrested in connection with the. company which. did come to the rescue. as we were nearing the. many people there were in the water. because there was a lot of. very hard to pick out to the visual people. some people were in a dreadful condition many were injured. because when the ships the fuel oil came up to the surface and spread everywhere and covered. the rescue even harder because

the oil made the victims greasy and hard to get a hold of to pull them on board seeing children in that condition it was particularly heartbreaking. and you can watch about interview in full over the captain who many in russia are calling a hero you can do so right now at our website that's our team. the u.s. likes to be seen as one of the world's leading a human rights advocates but at home it faces a growing accusations of hypocrisy 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 reports. it's been thirty years since colombian soldiers kidnapped be starved and electroshock tech there are 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 kill many have been disappear hector 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 in four pending 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 force assassinate. commonly. call them wait 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 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 was sometimes for the eighth amendment to the us constitution forbids torture and other forms of cruel and unusual punishment as does the geneva convention but if that happens there's no question that our country not only gauging torture it's of toward 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 and inter. an 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. 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 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 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 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 first torture 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 prize as well killing ford r. t. washington d.c. . meanwhile the u.s. is reportedly running a secret prison on training base in somalia that's being revealed by john lister jeremy scahill who says that he's visited the facilities he told me that by expanding its war on terror america only makes us. 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 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 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 have done no wrong and were the victims of bad intelligence twenty minutes past the hour now here in moscow you with despite treaties and agreements to reduce the number of nuclear weapons some governments still invest in perfecting their arsenals and for some activists the danger will remain until people stand up against it in about an hour's time here on our special report tells the story of citizen crusaders who hope to sound a wake up call for countries refusing to abandon their nuclear weapons. with. war and going the way of the soviet union many people thought that nuclear weapons disappeared. the risk is not zero that something might be going off by mistake. or 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 venture 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 with a bill. that represents all of the firepower of the second world war this. is the equivalent firepower of the world's nuclear arsenal today. let's take a brief look now at some of the international headlines for you in brief the world update here in libya thousands of pro-government protesters have rallied west of tripoli to demand it stops its military campaign meanwhile rebels are converting factories into workshops to build weapons from scratch as they struggle from. elsewhere libya contact group of 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 square for a week a day earlier country's ousted leader hosni mubarak. violent crackdown against demonstrators. forced hundreds of. 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 going to one. well it's now if you have today rather on the news 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 is false bank international is the first acquisition of its kind by a russian bank and for all the data tells us cross live to the southeast. who joins us outside of his headquarters hello that down on the wall what can you tell us why is buying this business from bank international. this purchase goes a lot better about business plans to become an international banking group that other banks the government there has just that that's the two thousand foot ceiling bad bank plan that generates up to some of the press that all that comes from international operations it also says that he believes that the great potential of those give the european countries where more banks have its branches is that the

baby market took such punches as the czech republic slovakia will be generating up to ninety five billion euros by two thousand and fifteen and it's more than russia's potential so spare a bank could just wants to use eastern european units all fog bank as a platform for international operations and the demographics planes why they chose them these parts ecolab and. 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 are toxic 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 is better bank plans to finalize the deal by the end of the year and it's just

the beginning dam on the grounds that that they are already looking at some all the european banking assets and the assets in europe. but then if i look over reporting. headquarters thank you very much for that update it's. now same as for a bank of richard haynesworth the general director of restraints and believes it has made a sound should teach at the session. the big gives. a foothold into the european union. banking regulation in the european union is such that. if you branch in one of the countries you are able to open branches in other of the countries with less difficulty. to go to england and want to open a branch. it would have more difficulty it also gives strategically it gives exposure to other cultures and

existing cultures. well let's take a look at the markets now in europe they are down as traders remain cautious as head of the release of bank stress test results which are due out later today. and the rush of the markets opened in negative territory but now we see that the my sax point zero six percent and let's take a look at some individual movers on my sax the banking sector is doing well is off of one point seven percent and the bank is clearly figure out the details of its purchase of bank of moscow this burbank is also after news of its acquisition of austria's vaults fact international unless the earth i just told us and the country's biggest company gas from nearly half a percent helped by a slight rise in oil prices. now russia will not make concessions over its tax

regime for carmakers suga a membership of the world trade organization under the current rules manufacturers which make more than sixty percent of a 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. the requirement to sixty percent localization production of three hundred thousand calls a year we have the position cannot be changed but it's a riddler and we cannot cross because we cannot abandon the interests of domestic producers. separately prime minister putin says there are plans to build a second line of the eastern siberia pacific ocean pipeline system for exports in crude oil to asian markets he also suggests that another one could be added to the north stream gas pipeline which goes on the baltic sea and terminates in germany

but he gave no a timeframe for either project. well that's all the business news for now the headlines are next the very.

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that's. a brief summary story. pace chief executive of the group owned by the. questions meanwhile questions arise as to why it's taken. to be taken by police knowing about many of the allegations for years. people take to the streets to protest against. the latest country to be hit by the financial crisis and the parliament is set to approve a key austerity budget. inside the rest of the. country to focusing on the area around the site of the same

thing with the boat due to be lifted to the surface one hundred fourteen people have been officially confirmed dead fifteen still missing. time will have their sports update with kate. north capital to stay with us. hello and welcome to the program i was at the sheriff from st petersburg will be exploring the pits the rest allows the never ever i'm very small to transport also known as the venice of the north the waterways of the focal points of the city enjoying the summer months are

a great way to see that. many of simply churches cathedrals and museums are visible from the canal trip of the stone to staying in the city may be an ideal way of deciding to enjoy the visit. piece the great grand vision of the city was to create a window to your. from a swampy scarcely populated area became a fine european capital. spend another expensive construction of lavish passes on the banks of the countless channels cutting through the city such great architects as for strolling through and through the house bring the dream to life centuries later as you can see on the day st petersburg the waterways and bridges still dominates the capital. you can see how the city is set up and very spot crisscrossed by canals. and all atmosphere. as they call.