in india she's available in the movie joyce below to the home of the let's go to the grand imperial. torch was pushed corleone till you can a listener tell the socialist which says don't need to go and. read this and the colonel will search no retrieve. no books thirty countries including the u.s. officially recognized the libyan rebel council as the legitimate governing authority reiterating earlier calls for gadhafi and his family to give up power. as the u.k. phone hacking scandal could the future of the murdoch media empire and risk questions arise as to why it's taken so long for action to be taken despite police knowing about many of the allegations big. and public outrage in italy the latest e.u. country to be hit by the financial crisis as the expected approval of an austerity budget enters the final straight.

news twenty four seventh's this insanity of the u.s. along with more than thirty other countries have decided to recognize libya's rebels as the legitimate government of the country the libyan a contact group convening in turkey was also declared that colonel gadhafi regime is no longer a legitimate recognition by the u.s. will allow washington now to sponsor libyan rebels with more than thirty billion dollars of gadhafi frozen assets to discuss this development now joined by not almost a modern history lecture i spoke with university i thank you for joining us today so who are these rebels that the west now is agreeing to work with do we do we know anything about them nationally side with amanda now we're getting reports that al qaeda may have infiltrated the ranks well. the rebels are of

a mixed group. some of them were ministers in qatar his government his former minister of interior minister of justice and some people there was a hunger. risking his opponents and then there are people who apparently for him in iraq for instance of instant merit not action then there are people who have been girls living in britain and america some of them were former engine cut off in the eighty's and early ninety's and others again emacs are a long time they were members of families and supported the kind of the idea interesting to look for them in america could not go in my time and you know i'm so they were not fully crew and i think what is interesting in countries like britain which i had a leading role absorbtion the intervention in libya is how little has been put out by the british government to give names and faces to who signed this transitional national council now we're going to start to as a leader government media because i think many people in britain might be a little bit alarmed to see that some of those people without general in the

terrorist act the fear was of who's committing might not have been filmed or the murder you think actually nandan back in the period when he was a pariah before he became acceptable to her partner how does the same in both in actions against french or american just. but now as you think i'm a significant jumping in here. you were calling him a motley crew a mixed bag certainly the members of the transit a transitional national council what do you think the rebels actually want to work with the thirty countries that have decided to give it credibility. well i'm sure they would like to work with them for their own ends. after all the key aspect to this legitimize in real rebels is they can now access a very large chunk of the libyan government abroad and one problem of course for the rebels has been that they have been so short of money here the british foreign secretary mrs clinton saying what else is running out of money that the rebels in benghazi seem to be very short of money certainly for everyday items like medical

supplies containing all right so a lot of money is now going to sloshing around and i'm afraid one question is going to be as we saw with the comparison free who's going to get this money who's really going to sign it has it what it is what should you know we talk about thirty billion dollars when we look at a guy i mean all the new guys in government just nine o'clock it's what's the point of giving a lot of billion dollars there's a risk and as we've seen over iraq for instance huge amounts of cash delivered to iraq but never explained where they went to and it does seem quite went into those little hands without any legitimacy but also it came back into the hands of some of the americans and foreigners involved who were able to make nice and so he's going to stay in jail that accrued criticism a graph is the way he is running libya and where he's on the finances of the country in some ways. we seem to be no way repeating the rebels they are being taken on trust is no real things no real counting for the money do you think and

you think it's possible though i mean just handing out just dishing out thirty billion dollars to the members of the new transitional national council in libya could just be a way for america to see an end in one way or another bribe them to allow the west to have a say a bigger presence there for the oil perhaps well i think. certainly it's a way of people i'm on the side yes i'm afraid when we. are in that there is a repeated crossroad robles which one is for the recruitment of people from many ways to do the fighting. and the second is for money i once thought what they were going to do and if the money has been given out is it really going to the libyan people or was it going to some group libyan people who are many well behaved differently in the future to be able to go in the past and i think when we look at as i say we track record of the number of leaders who were impacted ministers and senior officials who were there has gone it's not obvious that they have had a change of heart government they're just they don't like to. be struggling they

want to get rid of him but we don't necessarily see evidence of horses in governments and so government how to run a career council. all right and mark almond a modern history electorate oxford university thank you very much thank you and i will be bringing you the latest developments as well as more expert analysis on the situation in and around libya throughout the day you stay with r.t. . 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 so quit saying ongoing involvement was deflecting 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 to face questioning on the allegations of an ethical methods assays lore and reports now on how the vultures are circling and on some pertinent parallels from a surprising source. but every media outlet in town t.v.

radio even the scariest when thought imitates 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 got 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 piece guy b. look sure 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 currently loses money you could have transferred some of the profits from. investing in the times and if you are for example the guardian or the daily 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 a cover. 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 byrne this as the townspeople put up their own newspaper and he's almost right we. can truly love the media. rupert murdoch he 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 think it is and this time they may have succeeded just as he looks set to consolidate control over a launch section of the e.u. case 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 any

longer and we're asking what you think about this website and whether you believe the tabloids topics and getting a story can be justified is how the voting is going over at r.t. dot com right now with me. so far most people are saying because reporting methods are outrageous and unethical but not to be punished so hard with 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 and mirrors society has moved towards less promising make sure you log on to r.t. dot com and help us. italy is bracing itself for a tough round of belt tightening parliament to finally approve harsh austerity measures it's part of efforts to prevent a further spread of the eurozone debt crisis which italy's finance minister has compared to the sinking of the titanic that's financial adviser marco explains the drastic austerity measures may make the situation in italy even worse. 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. 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 and stability pact which limits the amount of borrowing that countries can undertake has not made it here to in and many countries mean living well beyond their means for for many years all these countries have simply too much debt and this is very very difficult to manage that debt moving forward if the markets keep dividing higher interest and really a default situation of 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 the e.u. needs to speed up its crisis decision making to resolve the turmoil in countries that's the view of the greek minister of culture and so on. but one thing that we see a lot of is a lot of the b. and the markets are watching going to be making decisions before the decisions are made by the european union and that's always a disaster when you're dealing with my kids that are moving so fast you need to be very first in the bank so you have a very tough situation with the greek economy within the european framework. needs to meet other domains to meet them in order for growth. today's edition of cross talk people of ellen discuss discuss why the easily leadership is so adamant about saving the euro penny cost him a bill to use and what's coming up next now. let's go great he would be good for greece it would be good for the europe it'd be good for the world if greece went bankrupt and right pay their bills or stop the lie then you would have everybody

would know it's a strong currency based on a strong sound economy while i'm out and go bankrupt listen in europe in america we've had states go away grocery 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 the four hundred billion dollars a greece has fifty percent is held by german and french banks and those countries bill one of their financial markets is that simple. and on the other side of the atlantic president obama has given us lawmakers thirty six was to reach a deal on raising the debt ceiling because already two of the three major credit rating agencies to threaten

a downgrade of america's aaa status but investment analyst max wolff tells us here that washington's addiction to debt is causing both sides for a real solution to america's been running on debt for years this is a disaster in the making i would liken the situation here to a cancerous tumor inside a body there's no better time to cut the cancerous tumor out 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 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 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 a growing chorus of foreign and domestic voices urging congress and the white house to stop riling already strained global markets with a political impasse it without a lie from moscow where it's now a quarter past the hour don't forget that all the best videos you can see here on the air you can also see them on you tube a very and you tube channel there's plenty of extra content waiting for you there have a look at this you can watch us some stunning which captured by cameras fixed to the boosters of the space shuttle atlantis as it blasted off into space i look on you tube dot com slash odyssey to check it out and who knows maybe a click will be a cause for celebration as the approaches the landmark of five hundred million views.

the news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images. from the streets of canada after. the operation to rule the day. you with r.t. now divers have finished searching for bodies inside the wreck of a pleasure cruise up bulgaria which sank within minutes last sunday one hundred and fourteen people out of over two hundred on board officially confirmed dead fifteen are still missing the vessel will be lifted from their riverbed within the next few days and investigators hope 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 has certified to face charges of negligence that led to the deaths arrest warrants are also being issued for the

captains of two cargo vessels which passed by a sinking ship without stopping to help well though we spoke to the captain of the ship that did come to the rescue and here's how he described the same. 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 as the whales and like it was very hard to pick i did a 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 ship's fuel oil came up to the surface and spread everywhere and covered them that made the rescue even harder because the oil made the victims greasy it's hard to get a hold of to pull them on board but seeing children in that condition was particularly heartbreaking when you're there you can watch that full interview with the captain who many in russia are now calling a hero are you watching right now at our website r.t. dot com. the u.s. likes to be seen as one of the world's leading human rights advocates but at home

it's facing a growing accusations of apocryphally 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 a broad scale in foreign parts. it's been thirty years since colombian soldiers kidnapped oh be starved and electroshock take their advice he said that after having a quote. subversive but. it's a memory he lives every day people have survived through it so i'm very lucky to be able to tell the story most people get through for the stand there and then they get shot and killed and many had been disappeared 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 judith of player with 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 school. used the words terror again next door assassinate. commonly. called waits for. graduates from the school of the americas have been implicated in massacres and torture throughout the hemisphere have the more than sixty thousand soldiers and police to have graduated ten thousand of them have been colombia has been the largest news of the school of the americas i don't think is an accident the. abuse of human rights in that with some hemisphere the eighth amendment to the us constitution forbids torture and other forms of cruel and unusual punishment as does the geneva convention but if that happens there is no question that our country not only engage in torture but sort of put toward others

how to do it we also render people we 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 internal investigation by the government accountability office so 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. 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 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 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 said damn right that he had ordered it. some very serious problem for the spirit soul of our country as a means of how many prisoners were tortured by the united states are hard to find it survivors like hector's even members don't tell the full story when someone gets through not only the person who saw it first torture has to deal with the big wouldn't because of those on the courtroom it's also someone who has to be humanized themselves in order through the human eyes and all of human beings but a society. is going to pay a price i paid the price as well killing ford artsy washington d.c.

. without a vote from moscow despite treaties and agreements to reduce the number of nuclear weapons some governments still invest in perfecting their arsenals and very existence is a disaster waiting to happen that's according to antiwar activists who hope to sound a wake up call for countries refusing to abandon the nukes that's the focus of our special report later today. with the end of the boer war and the going away of the soviet union many people thought that nuclear weapons disappeared with the risk is not zero that something might be going off by this to expose really nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert. but the significance to it was in a day as a threat or as an actual event that you know if you keep spending a trillion dollars a year on weapons adventure you're going to blow everybody up you can 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 nuclear. that represents all of the

firepower of the second world war and this second sound is the equivalence of fire power the world's nuclear arsenal today. business with marina is moments away for now to check out some other international news in our world up it here on r.t. 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 a friday of last warning some of them camping in tahrir square for a week they say earlier the country's ousted leader hosni mubarak deny there had been a deliberate and violent crackdown against demonstrators. the syrian opposition activist says that security forces have killed fourteen protesters during an answer government demonstration across the country and truck drivers appear to be the most

widespread since the uprising began in march it comes days after government supporters laid siege to the american and french embassy in the country's capital the syrian leadership meantime is coming to criticism following those attacks with the white house saying assad's government has lost legitimacy. and i promise the next the business news with marie. hello and welcome to business here on r t thank you for joining us now russia's largest bank is expanding into europe sperm bank has agreed to buy the eastern european union. bank international and it's the first acquisition of its kind by russian bank now business arts or has all the details for us this purchase goes in line with their bank's ambitious plans to become an international banking group out of bank care money grab that by two thousand proteins better bank plans to generate

up to seven per cent of its income from international operations also felt that he believes in the great potential of both eastern european countries where more bank has branches is that the baking market that's hard to calculate the force of ikea will be generating up to months of five billion euros by two thousand and fifteen that's more than russia's potential both their bank just wants to use the eastern european union bank as a platform for its own international operations we. expect is among the top ten lenders in the czech republic slovakia crew we should. this is a traditional banking business there are no complicated structures are toxic assets there is no dependence on securities operations and almost no corporate clients it could be called the bank for medium sized and small business those burbank plans to finalize the deal by the end of the year and it's just the beginning gambled real

stealth of the day old bread the looking out from baking also in other parts of europe in turkey. over poured in there and stay was spur bank richard haynesworth the general director of restraints and believes it has made a sound strategic decision. the buying at the bottom of the cycle of the business cycle which means that asset prices are low. obviously he's in a position to buy it is. a strategic benefit is a big spur a foothold into the european union banking regulation in the european union as such if you. in one of the countries your able to open branches in other of the countries with less difficulty. to go to england and so i want to open a project i think it would have more difficulty. well let's take a look at the markets now u.s.

stocks are in the. can see there is down by throwing temper slams and then we have nasdaq which is up by point thirty two percent so let's take a look at what's happening in europe stocks there are also mixed we see that the footsie is them by point zero three percent and the dax is up five point one percent and that's a stranger's remain cautious ahead of the release of bank stress test results which i do out later today. and it's a similar story here in russia where both the arts yes and my sex are in positive territory at some level actually it's good for us remains cautious in that sense now russia will not make concessions over its tax regime for carmakers again 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 isn't local production of cars and prime minister vladimir

putin says the system is not open to negotiation on your. requirements sixty percent localization and production of three hundred thousand calls a year we have a little position colonel we changed the red line we cannot cross because we cannot have burned in the interests of domestic producers. and separately prime minister putin says there are plans to build a second line of the eastern side very impressive an ocean pipeline the system for exporting crude oil to asian markets he also suggests the line could be out at civil north stream gas pipeline which goes under the baltic sea and terminates and germany but he gave no time frame for either projects but that's all this is for this hour the headlines on iraq savory.

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