joint people to the home of the that's the great way to go to the grand imperial truly the torch was there. you can oh well it's no good to see don't need to go and . read this the colonel will search no retreat. as the u.k. phone hacking scandal puts the future of the murdoch media. questions arise as to why it's taken so long the for action to take place why police knowing about many of the allegations for years. public outrage in italy the latest you country could be hit hard by the financial crisis must be expected approval of austerity budget there enters the final stretch. toward your top on u.s. soil after all over america is reporting training of brutal interrogate or abuse their methods at home and abroad allegedly abusing the same human rights in the country so vocally. and on business burbank is expanding and see europe

by making a one of a kind acquisition by russian banks will have all the details for you and about twenty minutes in business. it's just after five pm on friday here in moscow you without seen the chief executive of the british newspaper group owned by the murdoch empire has resigned over the phone hacking scandal rebecca brooks bowed to mounting pressure to quit saying that her ongoing involvement was affecting attention from the company's attempts to clean itself up she is due to appear before a panel of m.p.'s next tuesday along with her former boss and his son paul to face questioning on the allegations of ethical methods i want to use that laura now reports on how the vultures are circling around on some pertinent parallels from a surprising source. every media outlet in town t.v.

radio even the scariest part 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 and nine 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 b. sky b. short to go ahead his rival the guardian newspaper releases catastrophic

allegations of a moral journalists and their shady practices that when the deal collapses the times for example which current loses money he could have transferred some of the profits from. the times in a few of for example the. telegraph. 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. 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 burns is caught it has the townspeople put up their own newspaper and he's almost right. is it possible to control the media. rupert murdoch is beautiful 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 sceptic consolidate control over a launch section of the ukase 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 laurette its hot seat. meantime a brian

a drug he runs an independent television network in the united states says rupert murdoch's global media dominance could be compared to some countries imperial ambitions. and you can make an analogy i think going international scale between what happens in take over so the united states and britain took over iraq and who do they bring the power who they employ they employ truthful sloan's you make the same thing has happened in the tabloids where you have an immense power and against. the other parents and who they hire. lay higher not meaning every journalist who should certainly be revered murdoch whether it's on television where you. were of all the assassins from regular wryly and entering the united states i don't know. it's our school culture our

in control and section for an agenda and gender i think is the gender you can going to powers for britain in the united states. or here at r.t. we're asking what you think about the story on our website and whether you believe the tabloids tactics and getting a story can be justified some of the numbers here's how the voting is going so far over us here dot com at this point and most people are saying that these reporting methods are outrageous and on difficult and must be punished thought however thinks 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 to let them see we're going to party dot com and make sure you have your say. italy is bracing itself for a tough round of belt tightening as its parliament passed and finally approve hotshots parity measures and so part of efforts to prevent further spread of the eurozone debt crisis which italy's finance minister has compared to the titanic but

its financial writer patrick young explains the government may find itself at loggerheads with the public that's death against cuts. there will be one significant difference between the people who take to the streets between greece and italy and that is that in greece at least thank goodness the taxi drivers don't go on strike where is nick lee i expect almost everybody is going to end up on strike an intent to be absolutely chaotic the only way they can slip is through as 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 handling 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 not

all fortunately expect further to the crisis because the epidemic the contingent seems to be spreading and we have no political leadership seeming to do with. all the drastic austerity measures may make the situation in italy even worse that's according to financial adviser and wealth manager marco your property. 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 also tip the balance and push it back into into recession which again will. make the situation worse and and therefore make the deficit situation worse i think it went wrong really at that the outset of the whole euro project and stability pact which limits the amount of borrowing that countries can undertake has not mean it here too and many countries in the living

well beyond their means for the for many years all these countries have simply too much debt and is very very difficult to manage that they're moving forward if the markets keep dividing higher interest and really a default situation of at least some of the european debt passerby on the table and will probably be on the table within the next six or twelve months. in today's edition of cross talk people a bell and it's just discussed why the leadership of so i don't know about saving the euro at any cost or some of what's coming your way in approximately two hours time right here. let greece called bankruptcy would be good for greece it would be good for the europe it'd be good for the world if greece went bankrupt and roll out of the house just pay their bills or stop a lie and then you would have everybody would know it's a strong sound currency based on a strong sound economy while while i'm out and go bankrupt listen in i you're in

america we've had states called cities go bankrupt we've had counties go bankrupt it didn't in the united states and it didn't in the u.s. start i'll tell you why because of the four hundred billion dollars a debt the least has fifty percent is held by german and french banks and those countries don't want to think a second in the financial markets is that simple. on the other side of the about so called president obama has given the u.s. lawmakers thirty six hours to reach a deal on raising the debt ceiling deadline has already two or three major credit rating agencies to threaten a downgrade of america's aaa status but investment analyst about school told r.t. that washington's addiction to debt is clouding both sides appetite for a real solution. america's been running 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 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 deadline 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 revenues are acceptable 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 token is past the hour now here in moscow you without seeing and don't forget we have all the best videos for you you see them on ebay and also see them on our very own you tube channel and there's a plenty of extra content that's you a check this out you can watch stunning footage of captured by cameras affixed to the boosters of the space shuttle atlantis as a blast of off into space i look on to you tube dot com slash our teeth check it out and who knows maybe i'll click what we have cause for celebration that's all it's he approaches the over five hundred million. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images we're seeing

from the streets of canada after. corporations day. welcome back you with us here live from moscow now divers have finished searching for bodies inside the wreck of the pleasure cruiser bulgaria which sank within minutes last sunday one hundred fourteen people out of over two hundred on board have been officially confirmed fifteen are still missing the vessel will be lifted from the riverbed 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 the company which operated the boat and the inspector who certified it faces charges of negligence that led to but that's the arrest warrants are also being issued for the captains of two cargo vessels which passed by the sinking ship without stopping to help although we spoke to the captain of the ship they did come to the rescue and

here's how he described as soon. 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 relief floating around as well and like it was very hard to take i did a visual people from the floating debris some people were in a dreadful condition many were injured they will all over their skin because when the ship sank the fuel oil came up to the surface and spread everywhere and covered them that made the rescue even harder because the only the victims greasy it's hard to get a hold of them on board has probably seen children in that condition by particularly heartbreaking. you can watch that full interview with her with the captain who many in russia are calling a hero now you can watch it right now and i website r.t. talk. to us like to be seen as one of the world's leading a human rights advocates but at home it faces growing accusations of hypocrisy tens of thousands of professional torture and sort of being trained on american soil

over the past sixty years and it's claimed that many of them have used their techniques abroad as colin ford reports. it's been thirty years among mean soldiers kidnapped be starved and electroshock heck they're out he's about all for having a quote subversive but. the memories he relives every day people have survived courtroom in columbus i'm very lucky to be able to tell the story most people get through 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. 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 as he was horrified with what his former

students did with their anti-communist training in their own country the classified . army schools in america used the words. it's the word assassinate. town and leave. it all the way it's. 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 user of this quote americas i don't think is and that's the. abuser of human rights and that was 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. and tortured sort of push toward the other side to do that we also render people

also sent people to prisons in other countries where there were in fact or truth 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 contained because its 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 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 is 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 practices were able 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 them 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 in numbers don't tell the full story when someone gets store through you know only the person who. has to deal with the world because of those. resources someone who has to be humanized themselves in order for the human eyes and all of human beings but a society that's the force structure is going to pay a price a very big prize as well killing for it r d washington d.c. . meanwhile the u.s. is reportedly running a secret prison at

a training base in somalia. by journalist jeremy scahill says that he's visited the facilities and told us that by expanding its war on terror america. 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 and 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 and 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 now at twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow and despite treaties and agreements to reduce the number of nuclear weapons some governments still invest in perfecting their arsenals and so the danger will remain until people stand up against it and about from time to time i was special report tells the story of citizen crusaders and hope to sound

a wake up call for 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 mistake specially the nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert. the significance to using a day as a three or 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 build the new. that represents all of the firepower of the second world war this. is the equivalence fire power of the world's nuclear arsenal today.

all right so you would r.t. it's good to have you with us today let's check out some other international news for you in our world update the libyan contact group which includes the u.s. and over thirty other nations it says it now recognizes in libya's a main opposition the transitional council as the country's government the group also declared that colonel gadhafi regime is no longer legitimate and also has made a meeting in turkey and finding a political solution to the five month long conflict. sultanzoy projections are rallying in cairo to press the country's military rulers to kill them prosecute the people behind the killing of protesters during february's uprising activists are calling it the friday of last warning some of them camping in surreal square for a week a day earlier the country's ousted leader hosni mubarak denied there had been a deliberate fraud a crackdown against them. some pretty powerful eruptions of an indonesian volcano have forced hundreds of nearby residents to flee look on has skewed smoke while

spreading panic no casualties have been reported so far the volcano has been on high alert for nearly got. some. time off to business news with maria. hello and welcome to business here on r.t. now russia's largest bank is expanding into europe as burbank has a great supply the eastern european units all of also has faults international and it's the first acquisition of its kind by a russian bank well for all the details let's now cross live to this is our it's nice that was outside sperm banks have corridors hello to. what can you tell us about why a sperm bank is why this business from waltz into. this purchase go through line with the banks ambition to become an international banking group that

other banks care mcgrath has just the right to fatherhood the bank plans to generate up to seven burst out of its income from international operations we have also said that he believes the great potential of those eastern european countries where both bank branches use that the breaking market of such countries as the czech republic or slovakia will be generated seen up to ninety five billion euros by two thousand and fifteen more than the first potential the above it took months to use the eastern european union the whole book but now they platform for its own international operations now they get a grip explains why they chose the base particularly bank. bankers among the top ten lenders in the czech republic slovakia crew we should and this is a traditional banking business there are no complicated structures are toxic assets

there's no dependence on securities operations and almost nobody corporate clients it could be called the bank for medium sized and small business. so bear bank plans to finalize the deal by the. this year and that is just the beginning garamond we have felt that they are already losing out sound banking outfits in other parts of europe than turkey back to you now. thank you very much that the i know that was the telephonic of our reporting from the springs have quarters here in moscow. now save us for a bank richard haynesworth the general director of restraining believes has made a sound strategic decision. buying at the bottom of the cycle of the business cycle which means that prices. overseas in a position to buy it in this cash rich strategic benefit is that it gives spurred by a foothold into the european union thank you 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 say to england and say i want to open a branch i'm in england but it would have more difficulty. well let's take a look at the markets in europe they are in the black of bouncing back from a week starts of friday friday this remain cautious ahead of the release of bank stress test results throughout later today. and it's a similar story in russia as you can see right now we're told the arts yes and in my sex are in positive territory all the mood remains cautious and let's take a look at some individual movers on my sex back in sector is there well is all the bankers currently figuring out the details of its purchase of bank of moscow as her bank is also off the news of its acquisition of. international and eastern europe

that would just hold the balance and the country's biggest company gas problem is slightly helped by gains in the oil price. russia although not make concessions over its tax regime for carmakers to gain membership of the world trade organization under the current rules and manufacturers which make more than sixty percent over vehicle in russia receive financial concessions this isn't time to boost production of cars and prime minister putin says the system is not open to negotiation. if you do it. the requirements the sixty percent localization production of three hundred thousand cars a year we have the will and position capital and change what you believe the riddler and we cannot cross because we can to burn down the interests of domestic producers. well separately prime minister putin says there are plans to build

a second line of the eastern siberia pacific ocean pipeline this is them for exporting crude oil to asian markets he also suggested and nother line could be added to the north stream gas pipeline which goes under the politics see and terminates in germany but he gave no time frame for either project. and that's all the businesses for now will have more and our sign and the headlines are next. the.

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