now back or are others as i say been involved in actions against french or american tourist but now after using them it's going to give in to jumping in here. you are calling him a motley crew a mixed bag certainly the members of the transit transitional national council what do you think the rebels actually want to work with the all these 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 of this legitimizing the rebels is that they can now access the by a large fungus that the libyan government took a dark place to brought and one problem of course for the rebels has been that they have been available so short of money we hear the british foreign secretary mrs clinton saying i don't he's running out of money but the rebels in benghazi seem to be very short of money certainly for everyday items like medical supplies containing ordinary life so a lot of money is now going to be sloshing around and i'm afraid one question is going to be as we saw with a lot of two thousand and three who is going to get this money who is really going

to sign it how is it going to be audited what are you know we talk about thirty billion dollars where it's going to go i mean i'll bring you guys in government just in a line their pockets what's the point of giving them a look a billion dollars there's a severe risk of that and as we've seen over iraq for instance huge amounts of cash were delivered to iraq but never explained where they went to and it does seem that quite a lot went into those local hands without any that it was he would also came back into the hands of some of the americans and foreigners involved who are able to make nice it was auctioned so i think there's a danger that across all of the criticisms of the maid of qatar in the way he is running libya and where he's on the finances of the country in some ways as a personal fiefdom we seem to be in a way repeating that with the rebels they are being taken on trust is no real or distinguish no real system of counting for the money do you think and you think it's possible though i mean just handing out just a dishing out thirty billion dollars to the members of the new transitional national council in libya could this be a way for america to see an end in one way or another. them to allow the west to

have a switch to say a bigger presence there for the oil perhaps well i think certainly it's a way of keeping them on side yes i'm afraid one thing we've seen in libya is as they repeated requests by the rebels for two things one is for direct military involvement in many ways to do the fighting and the second is her mommy i want her source what we're going to do and if the money has been given out is it really going to the libyan people or is it going to some group of libyan people who are going to take on many well behaved in the future to the people. in the past and i think when we look at as i say the track record of a number of leaders who are in fact ministers and senior officials who are there who feel it's more hopeless that they have had a change of heart government they're just they don't like who he is now governing sublists tripoli they want to get rid of him but we don't necessarily see evidence of taking courses in civic governments and government and how to run a clear accountable. 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 stay without say. 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 her 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 that lauren reports now on how the vultures are circling and on some pertinent parallels from a surprising source. put every media outlet in turn on t.v. read you even the sky. when imitates life the long running simpsons takes a show to its own no rupert murdoch aka you. montgomery burns in an episode broadcast

apparently coincidentally this week. but it's not the only odd 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 four two 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. look sure to go ahead his arch rival the guardian newspaper releases catastrophic allegations of a moral journalists and their shady practices that when the deal collapses the times for example which currently loses money you could have transferred some of

the profits from. into investing in the times and if you are for example or the guardian 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 should be. you know. that would suit the government just fine the british press is famous for it sharp teeth and no holds barred doggedness particularly where it 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 as the townspeople opened up their own newspaper and he's almost right we. the media. he is really 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 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 you were at it. and they were asking what you think about this website and whether you believe the tabloids tactics in getting a story can be justified here's how the voting is going over at r.t. dot com right now looking at. so far most people are saying the reporting methods

are outrageous and unethical but must be punished. for 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 of mirrors society has moved towards less purposely make sure you log on to r.t. dot com and have. italy is bracing itself for a tough round of belt tightening as its 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 sinking of the titanic but as financial adviser marco pierre explains the drastic austerity measures may make the situation in italy even worse. of course in the short term. 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 make the situation worse and therefore make the deficit situation worse i think it went wrong really at that the outset of the whole euro project the stability pact which limits the amount of borrowing that countries can undertake has not been it here too and many countries i mean 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 the e.u. needs to speed up its crisis decision making to resolve the turmoil and countries that's the view of the greek minister of culture and terms but one thing that we

see a lot of is a lot of the beat and the markets are watching that would be making decisions before the decisions are made by the european union and that's always a disaster when you're dealing with markets that are moving so fast you need to be very first in the decisions you make sure you have a very tough situation with the greek economy within the european framework cannot be. made. to meet them in order for the growth. today's edition of cross talk people of elena's guests discuss why the e.u.'s leadership is so adamant about saving the euro at any cost it's a tool to use of what's coming up next now. let's 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 rose just pay their bills or stop a lie then you would have everybody would know it's 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 grow 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 a 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 us lawmakers thirty six hours 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 at 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 quickly as you possibly can and that's 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 at 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 without a life in moscow where it's now a quarter past the hour don't forget that all the best videos you can see here on and you can also see them on you tube our very own you tube channel there's plenty of extra content waiting for you have a look at this you can watch us and stunning footage captured by cameras fixed to the boosters of the space shuttle atlantis as it blasted off into space and on to you tube dot com slash odyssey to check it out and who knows maybe a click will be a cause for celebration as he approaches the landmark of five hundred million views . more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images.

from the streets of canada after. a giant corporations rule the day. you with artie now five years have finished searching for bodies inside the wreck of the pleasure cruise out bulgaria which sank within minutes last sunday one hundred and fourteen people out of over two hundred onboard have officially been 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 operate of the boat and the inspector who certified it face charges of negligence that led to the deaths arrest warrants have also been issued for the captains of two cargo vessels which passed by the sinking ship without stopping to help well we spoke to the captain of the ship 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 well as the 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 oil 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 oil made the victims greasy and hard to get a hold of to pull them on board seeing children in that condition that was particularly heartbreaking would you know you can watch that full interview with the captain who many in russia are now calling a hero you can watch it right now at our web site. the u.s. likes to be seen as one of the world's leading human rights advocates but at home it's facing 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 as carolyn

fought reports. say it's been thirty years since colombian soldiers kidnapped oh be starved and electroshock tech there at least these about all of our 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 had 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 and for benning 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 next door assassinate. or lie. down and leave. it all but 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 i don't think it's an accident the. abuser of human rights in 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 if that happens there's no question that our country not only engage in torture it's sort of put toward others how to do it we also rendered 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 an internal 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 can. 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. a military aid and police aid was restored and after that it's been difficult to document to what extent that includes teaching. techniques that are prohibited by it 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 mortar board and he would do it again. and he said damn right that he had ordered it. that'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 fight but survivors like hector's say the 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 being 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. . without the law from moscow despite treaties and agreements to reduce the number of nuclear weapons some governments still invest in perfecting their arsenals and of their 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. but. with the 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 especially with the weapons on hair trigger alert. because of the difference to use it as a threat as an extra bit but 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. a bill. that represents all of the firepower of the second world war and this. is the equivalent firepower of the world's nuclear arsenal today.

business with. international news. thousands of egyptians are rallying in cairo to press the country's military rulers to prosecute the people behind the killing of protesters during operations and activists are calling it the friday of last warning with some of them camping in tahrir square for a week. the country's ousted leader hosni mubarak it's been a deliberate and violent crackdown against. syrian opposition activists says that security forces have killed fourteen protesters. government demonstrations across the country. appear to be the most widespread since the uprising began in march it comes days after government supporters laid siege to the 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.

with. 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 units of austria is fox bank international and it's the first sequestration off it's called by a russian bank now business arts. has all the details for us this purchase goes in line with their bank some bishops plans to become an international banking group that's how the bank care monograph says that by two thousand foot seems 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 those eastern european countries where both banks have the broncho except at the bank

a market of such hard. probably the if nobody can prove it generates a call to mind to five billion euros by two thousand and fifteen and it's more than russia's potential so their bank could just want to use the eastern european union bank as a platform for its own international operations. spank is among the top ten lenders in the czech republic slovakia crew we shouldn't 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 loans burbank plans to finalize the deal by the end of the year and it's just the beginning here must be upset that they old read the looking out from banking also in other parts of europe and the inter q. that was our. report in there and stay was spur bank

richard haynesworth the general director of rights 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. in a position to buy it is. a strategic benefit is that it gives spare a foothold into the european union banking regulation 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. it would have more difficulty. now let's take a look at the markets now u.s. stocks are mixed now we can see there is down by twenty ten percent and then we have nasdaq which is up by point thirty two percent but let's take a look at what's happening in europe stocks there are also max we see that the

footsie is down by point zero three percent and the dax is up by a point twelve percent and that's traders 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 r.t.s. and my sex are in positive territory so not that similar actually it's good for us but remains cautious in that sense now russia will not make concessions over its tax regime for carmakers to again membership of the world trade organization under the current rules manufacturers which make more than sixty percent of the vehicle in russia for sci fi national concessions and this is intended to boost local production of cars and prime minister vladimir putin says the system is not open to negotiation with. the requirement to sixty percent localization and production of three hundred thousand calls

a year we have the position cannot be changed but it's a red line we cannot cross because we kernel to burned in the interests of domestic producers. and separately prime minister putin says there are plans to build a second line of the eastern siberian pacific ocean pipeline the system for exporting crude oil 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 this hour the headlines are next of henri.

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find out what's really happening to the global economy in these kinds of reports. six thirty pm here in moscow on friday you would often see a quick summary now of the top stories at over thirty countries including the u.s. officially recognize the rebel council as the legitimate governing authority reiterating audio calls for could offer to give up power to recognition and will allow washington seems libyan rebels with money. from. the u.k. phone hacking scandal gathers pace forcing the chief executive of the group owned by the murdoch empire. meanwhile questions arise as to why it's taken so long to confront the crisis point police knowing about the allegations from. people take to the streets to protest against. the financial crisis.

to approve a key austerity budget in an attempt to. those are the headlines here and he will have more of that about fifteen minutes time but for now though it is. the bonus of the. well i welcome to the program i was at the sheriff from st petersburg will be exploring the pits the rest allows the never give up i'm very small to transport 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 are simply churches cathedrals museums are visible from the canal trip of the stone to staying in the city may be an ideal way of deciding to enjoy a visit. piece of the great grand vision of the city was to create a window to your. promise one piece scarcely populated reaching the area became a fine european capital. spend expensive the construction of lavish palaces on the banks of the countless channels cutting through the city such great architects as risk truly. how to bring the dream to life centuries later as you can see on this map of. the waterways and bridges still dominates the capital. you can see how the city is set up and very spot crisscrossed by canals. and how atmosphere often.