in india rosie's availability in the movie the joint below shows the home of the gateway to the grand imperial truly the taj was the girl until you can alyssa till the close of the civility to go and proclaim the same the colonel was a hotel retreat. over 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 puts the future of the muddled media empire at risk questions arise as to why it's taken so long for action to be taken despite police knowing about many of the allegations for years and. public outrage and it's really the latest e.u. country to be hit hard by the financial crisis the expected approval of an office there the budget enters the final stretch. and on business russian markets closed

slightly down after a difficult week with low volumes as many people were away on holiday and the direction remains unclear we have more on that for you in twenty business. seven o'clock friday night here in moscow you without saying welcome to the program the u.s. along with more than thirty other nations has decided to recognize libya's rebels as the legitimate government of the country the libyan contact group convening in so he has also urged colonel gadhafi to give up power now let's talk more about this story with all the. waiting for us in our washington bureau. the white house seems to be taking the chance that it can trust the rebels but is there a sense in washington that it could always backfire. where were you hillary clinton has announced washington now accepts the transitional national council as the

legitimate government and governing authority of the leading people and different recognition of the council means that the us will be able to fund the opposition with some of the more than thirty billion dollars in kentucky regime assets that are frozen in american banks but it's not only that the obama administration has provided overwhelming military and political support for this transitional council the head of the council has recently traveled to washington showed his gratitude asked for more support analysts say it's no surprise that he's being propelled to power and leave it by washington who has studied in the u.s. and years he has taught in the u.s. so he's quite well connected with the united states but how often comes with strings attached and some say the leading opposition leader is sure to get instructions from washington on how to return the favor so to say but some experts also point out that in an attempt to approach certain people to cry where the west supports the rebels and the rebels are not a homogenous group there are all kinds of people there are some radical elements as well a former jihadist who we now see his. two thousand says he estimates one thousand

the jihadists are among the rebels in libya one leader in rebel commander has openly admitted his fighters have beliefs and even a u.s. military study three years ago said previously that the second largest group of jihadist seen the world right after saudi arabia so i don't loose say the support for this very diverse group which is the libyan rebels could backfire but washington doesn't seem to care as long as they have someone loyal very empowered to deal with it and it certainly seems according to some that washington with the service of thirty billion dollars could well be just financing as you harvests in this case one point i want to bring up here is why hasn't russia attended a meeting in istanbul the more generally why is that but isn't involved in the come to libya we know the recent months ago russian envoy to libya had meetings with both sides tripoli and benghazi why why no involvement with russia. well the problem is that the libyan people have not told them this council as their

leaders and that's why russia for example let's joint a transitional council cheerleaders paul many libyans say they don't understand why you talk to the west who decide who is legitimate who's their legitimate leader and who is not leader now is as divided as ever because of the constant blace at any mosque that he is growing in the rift between the libyan people is getting deeper still believe in people are far from having made their choice and the way the west has obviously made the choice for them and there is a view that's shared by the whole of the international community including the critics of what nato what nato is doing in that view is that colonel qaddafi must go and there's no place for him in leave his future but many criticize the score before an intervention saying there must be limits to taking sides in a civil war all right all teams are going to live martin is watching to be right thank you. for mark o'mara modern history lecture

a lot of universities those western countries are trying to so little as possible about who's among the ranks of the libyan opposition some revelations might prove embarrassing. some of the ministers in qatar his government his former minister of interior minister of justice and something recorded was a hunger for the world in prosecuting the good office of homes and then there are people who apparently forty in iraq for instance against the american occupation then are all people who have been abroad during unbutton america some of them were former engine khadafi in the eighty's and early ninety's who proudly and others have been in exile a long time they were members of families that supported the. idea interests and they were probably the military coup by the way in my sense of you know i'm not a remarkably crude and i think what is quite interesting perhaps in countries like britain which i don't even merlins can be intervention a million is how little has been put out by the british government to give names and faces to who is on this transitional national council now regarded by the

british self too as a legal government because i think many people in britain might be a little bit alarmed say that some of those people without gingold in the terrorist acts like the caribbean film or the murder you think that's going on and. with arthur still to come this hour when passing by becomes the company's offer to votes which were at the site of the volga river cruiser disaster but didn't stop to help now facing a rest. under torture on u.s. soil in britain a country which holds its own record of human rights as a unit of training people to brutally violate them at home and abroad. 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 perfecting 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 i think all methods are to use the lore and reports on how the vultures are now circling and on some pertinent parallels from a surprising source. a good every media outlet in town t.v. read you even the scary to when art imitates life the long running simpsons takes a shot at its own no 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 had since about two thousand and forty thousand and five and yet they got prime to face the evidence of criminal activity by these individuals and

by the murdoch empire and yet they've 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 he's bought rival the guardian newspaper. releases catastrophic allegations of amoral journalists and their shady practices that when the deal collapses the times for example which currently loses money could have transferred some of the profits. into investing in the times and if you are for example the. growth 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.

to. 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 talked of statutory controls to govern print journalists back in springfield mr burns is quoted as the townspeople open up their own newspaper and he's almost right. it is possible that can truly the media. beautiful murdoch found out that it's 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 across 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 nor of its own. or not to discuss the story or for that we're joined live from washington by carmen russell's chance to host and analyst of the radio station voice of russia thank you for joining us today in a recent interview with the wall street journal murdoch said that some of the british m.p.'s comments were quote total lies but then his son james announces an apology campaign to quote address the wrongdoing how do you assess this of karate of responses inside the family. well you know they're flailing quite a bit i mean this is survival rate you know they they know very well that there were some big ethical issues there that they've breached and so you know of course this is typical first denial that's one of the first responses but then they

realise that they've got there's too much evidence in that they're in a bit of trouble what can we read into regarding the resignation of rebecca brooks the chief executive of murdoch's british newspaper group does this mean that the empire is collapsing or just that it's sacrificing its senior executives to survive i actually think it's some of both i mean i think that he was obvious or she was obviously rather a favorite of rupert murdoch so the fact that he had to let her go particularly is pretty significant but you know certainly it is part of she is one of the sacrificial lambs in all this but you know it's also that but the fact that she was such a favorite isn't very indicative that they're you know they're reeling back they're taking this very seriously they know that they're in a lot of trouble for the things that they know the things that they've done so i mean i think it's a combination of both i mean they're going to try to you know send her out in order to. make the public in the in the british government a little bit happier or at least you know not is as contentious but at the same time it's pretty big that she she's the one that's been that's gone already how do

you make of the fact that it's taken so long for the truth to come out an organism despite the fact that there are claims that this information has been around for years and little or no action was taken how it's not possible. well i mean it has been around for years i mean it's also been in the public and some of this information has been in the public domain for years simply that you're the fact that they were hacking into some celebrities but you know for a while the public was oh those are celebrities that's kind of fair game i guess or at least didn't you know maybe they were by reading the news that much you know once it once it was you know this poor girl that they were hacking into her phone i mean that's when it when it really hit the fan and and that's why i mean that's why the british government also has to you know call call to account for their own actions and their own kind of i don't want to necessarily say coverups but at the very least their acceptance of the way that it was is going i mean there is just a lot of public pressure i think in a lot of public in

a maasai towards the collusion in the breaking of the wall and just just extreme ethical violation so i think it's the public and that's the reason why this is really blowing up for you where you raise a good point here when you talk about public and a lot of trust in journalism and journalism has been hit hard by the scandal of many of the implications could negatively affect media freedoms what do you think will happen. well i think that we've could very well see some statutory implications here some more regulation and i think that this is the biggest shame i think that you know rupert murdoch has is long seen themselves as the newsman bodies in so many ways and that has long stretch her journalism in this country as well over in the u.k. i mean this is a guy who who you know once he took over the new york post we had page six which are you know severely softened journalism standards and so on and then we had obviously you know fox news and so on so you know for somebody who considers himself in a newsman i mean he's her journalism

a lot and this is just the latest i think in terms of the way he's damaging in calling for more regulations and i think that's a major travesty and i think that there could be one where we go from here and russell's who transferred from the voice of russia or your station in washington thank you. well we're asking you 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 right now what are your thoughts on. most of you are saying that these reporting methods are outrageous and ethical that must be punished twenty one percent however think it's ok as long as it doesn't cross the line seventy two percent believe the approach is simply meeting the demands of the public park the rest you say but the trend that mirrors society's move to me that's simple elegant to r.t. to help us. 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 think it's right for national adviser. explains drastic austerity measures may make the situation in italy and one that's. of course in the short piece the markets moving forward firstly 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 italy 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 up at the outset of the whole euro project the stability pact which limits the amount of borrowing 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 demanding 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 to twelve months. in today's edition of course talk about people of ellen as guests discuss why the leadership is so adamant about saving the euro at any cost here's some of what's coming up in about fifteen minutes time. let's go bankrupt it would be good for greece it would be good for the europe would be good for the world if greece went bankrupt and just pay their bills or stop a lie then you would have everybody would know with a strong sound currency base or a strong sound economy why would i want to go bankrupt. in america we've had states go away grow here in cities go bankrupt we've had counties go away broke 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 greece has fifty percent is held by german and french banks and those countries don't want to take a second in their financial markets it's that simple. it's an hour seventeen minutes past the hour here in moscow divers have finished searching for bodies inside the wreckage of the pleasure cruise of 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 instead has certified to 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 but we spoke to the captain of the ship that did come to the rescue and here's how he described the scene. as we were nearing the site we began to figure out how many people there were in the water although that was hard to do. because there was a lot of rubble floating around as well it was very hard to pick i did a visual people from among the floating debris some people were in a dreadful condition many were injured they had will all over their skin because when the ship signed 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 it's hard to get a hold of to pull them on board seeing children in the condition like that was particularly heartbreaking. you can watch that full interview with the captain who many in russia are now calling a hero and you can watch it at this moment at our website 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 growing accusations of course a 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 ports. it's been thirty years since colombian soldiers kidnapped be starved and electroshock heck there at least he's about all for having a quote subversive but. it's a memory he relives every day people have survived through in columbus i'm very lucky to be able to tell the story most people get thought through for ten days as a stand there and then they get shot and killed and many have been disappearing hector 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 garrett the player was an instructor there i was very

much in favor of the school of the americas there in 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 the classified. army school in america . the words the interrogator next door. assassinate. commonly. waits 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 this school of the americas i don't think it's an accident. abuser of human rights and it was sometimes for the eighth amendment to the us constitution forbids torture and other forms of cruel and unusual punishment as the geneva convention but they did happen there's no question

that our country. gauge and tortured sort of taught others how to do it we also run the people we also sent people to prisons in other countries where they were in fact torture and there although congress to make them 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 contain because of 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 can be 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 were enabled by the united states including in its own prisons like one time of day and by the cia when president bush says that he. waterboard and he would do it again. and he said them right that he had ordered you if. you had some very serious problem for the spirit and soul of world country as a matter of how many prisoners were tortured by the united states are hard to find but survivors like hector said in numbers don't tell the full story when someone gets tortured no only that person. has to deal with the big one because if those under torture is also someone who has to be humanized themselves in order through the human eyes i know if human beings but a society that supports torture is going to be upright it's

a very big prize that's really killing ford r. t. washington d.c. are in a few moments or not so yes marina with the business but for now let's check out some other international news at this hour in the world update thousands of egyptians are rallying in cairo to cross the country's military rulers to prosecute the people behind the killing of protesters during february's uprising i think it's a calling it the friday of the last one and with some of them camping in several square a week a day earlier the country's alstad leader hosni mubarak denied that there had been a deliberate. intention of the strikers. some fifteen hundred people have taken to the streets of jerusalem calling for the recognition of a palestinian state you're going to say their knowledge is purely peaceful or they're a significant police presence and that the united nations is set to vote on recognizing palestinian statehood in september something israel is strongly opposed to this week the knesset pasta more banning directed at israel's illegal settlements in the west bank. ok it's not the business with.

hello and welcome to business here in artsy now russia's largest bank is expanding and see europe has a very it's a buyer the eastern european units of. insulin national and it's the first acquisition all that's going by a russian bank and now business starts he sat down upon the call brings us all the details this purchase go through line with their bank some bishops plans to become an international banking group out of your money grab that by two thousand what seems better bank plans to generate up to the first down top with income from international operations we have also felt that he believes in the great potential of those eastern european countries where both bank branches is that the baking market approach to populate the off the market will be generating up to mind to

five billion euros by two thousand fifty and that's more than russia's potential growth there but he just wants to use the eastern european union bank as a platform for its own international operations because among the top ten lenders in the czech republic slovakia crew. this is a traditional banking business really complicated structures are toxic assets there is no dependence on securities operations and almost 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 government reacts to that they old resolute king out from banking also in the other parts of europe and the intricate. well let's take a look at the markets know the u.s. stocks are in the black the dow is zero point eighteen percent and the last point

sixty four percent and that's the spire reports consumer. sentiment plunged in july but many say news on the current economy and expectations worsens let's take a look at what's happening in europe stocks are about to close at the moment they are down slightly as traders remain cautious head of the release of bank stress test results due out later today and in russia markets they closed flat after a difficult week volumes were down as many people were away on holiday and direction remain unclear let's take a look at some individual movers on the price sucks the banking sector the quite well beaten even up by over one and a half percent the bank is currently figured out with details of its purchase up by moscow and burbank was also up after news of its acquisition of. international interest in europe and the country's biggest company gas problem with out by point three percent by the gains in oil price. brush so will not make concessions over

its tax regime for carmakers to gain membership of the world trade organization under the current rules manufacturers which make more than sixty percent of a vehicle to russia receive financial concessions this is intended for production of cars and prime minister putin says the system is not open to negotiation. sixty percent localization production of three hundred thousand calls a year we have position carol we changed it to read law and we cannot cross because we can't are burned in 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 system for exports include the world's who 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. and that's all this is going now the headlines are next to the rory.

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