this and even a u.s. military study three years ago said previously that the second largest group of jihadists seen the world right after saudi arabia so analysts 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 going and certainly it seems according to some that washington with this release 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 why hasn't russia attended the meeting in istanbul the more generally why is that isn't involved in the contact group in libya we know over recent months the russian envoy to libya had meetings with both sides in tripoli and benghazi why why no involvement now with russia. well the problem is that the libyan people have not chosen this council as their leaders and that's why russia for example has not joined the transitional council cheerleaders pool many libyans say they don't understand why it's up to the west to decide who is legitimate was their legitimate leader and who is not leaving now is

as divided as ever because of the constant block shed any ma city is growing in the rift between the libyan people is getting deeper so the libyan people are far from having made their choice in the way but 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 libya and that view is that colonel gadhafi must go when there is no place for him in libya's future but many criticize the scope of the foreign intervention saying there must be limits to taking sides in a civil war all right on to the. line for marty's version of the right thank you well a mock omen modern history lecture a university says that western countries are trying to say as little as possible about who's among the ranks of the libyan opposition some revelations might prove embarrassing. some of the ministers include all his government his former minister

of interior his minister of justice who some people thought it was a hunk with a little role in prosecuting his opponents and they're all people who apparently forty in iraq for instance against the american occupation then there are people who have been abroad living in america some of them were former engine khadafi in the eighty's and early ninety's who come out with and others have been in exile a long time they were members of families that supported the king of the libya interest who live across a minimum of three kubiak ago in one hundred sixty nine so they're remarkably crew and i think what is quite interesting in countries like britain which had a leading role in supporting the intervention in libya is how little has been put out by the british government to give names and faces to who is the sensational national council now regarded by the british government to as the legal government of libya because i think many people in britain might be a little bit alarmed to see that some of those people were perhaps involved in the terrorist acts michael could be in film or the murder of p.c.

fletcher in london. you with are still to come this hour when passing by becomes the coming of the two boats which were at the side of the volga river cruz has asked for but didn't stop to help now facing a rest. under torture torture on u.s. soil investigated a country which holds up 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 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 are to use that laura reports on how the vultures are now circling and on some pertinent parallels from a surprising source. i put 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 old 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 by 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 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 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 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

its sharp teeth and no holds barred doggedness particularly where its own government is concerned prime minister david cameron has all but shut down the press complaints commission and already talks of statutory controls to govern print journalists back in springfield mr burns is thwarted as the townspeople open up their own newspaper and he's almost right we possible can truly the media. rupert murdoch. murdoch found as did mr burns that you just can't buy all the newspapers those outside his control have been gunning for him for years and this time they may have succeeded just as he looks set to consolidate control over a launch section of the u.k.'s media markets the drugs being pulled out from under him and it's all over the hidden scandal now revealed that the police have known about it for years nor ever its own. or not who discussed the story of how they

were joined live from washington by common russell's new chance to host and unless 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 addressed the wrongdoing how do you assess this a variety of responses inside the family well you know there flailing quite a bit i mean this is survival rate you know they they know very well that there were some big ethical issues that they've 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 realize that they've got there's too much evidence and that they're in a bit of trouble you 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 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 the 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 the you 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 like you know send her out in order to you know make make the public in the in the british government a little bit happier or at least you know not as contentious but at the same time it's pretty big that she she's the one that's been that's gone already and what do you make of the fact that it's taken so long for the truth to come out and all this i mean despite the fact that there are claims that this information has been around for years and little or no action was taken how is that possible. well i mean it

has been around for years i mean and it's also been in the public that some of this information has been in the public domain for years simply that you know the fact that they were hacking into some celebrities but you know for a while the public was all those are celebrities that's kind of fair game i guess sort of laden you know maybe they would like the reading the news that much but 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 and a lot of public animosity towards the collusion in the breaking of the law and just just extreme ethical violations so i think it's the public and that's the reason why this is really blowing up my right you raise a good point here when you talk about public animosity trust in journalism and

journalism has been hit hard by this scandal and many are worrying that the implications could negatively affect media freedoms what do you think will happen. well i think that we 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 his long stretch her journalism in this country is 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 you know severely softens 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 what where where we go from here

common russel's the transcript from the voice of russia radio 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 so far 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 seventeen percent believe the approach is simply meeting the demands of the public by the rest of you say the trend that mirrors society's move to. other gone to r.t. dot com so how do you. 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. explains the drastic austerity measures may

make the situation in italy even when it's. course in the short term that my appease the markets but moving forward firstly is it may be difficult to actually implement these cuts as the british are finding over here but also severe austerity measures may well also tip the balance and push it back into into recession which again will will 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 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 cross talk of 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 it'd be good for the world if greece went bankrupt and robot is here to pay their bills or stop the lie then you would have everybody would know it's a strong sour currency based on a strong sound economy why not madame go bankrupt listen in 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.

it's an hour seventeen minutes past the hour here in moscow divers have finished searching for bodies inside the wreck of the pleasure cruise of bulgaria which sank within minutes last sunday one hundred fourteen people out of over two hundred onboard have been officially confirmed dead while fifteen are still missing the best so 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 certifies that 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 out due to visual people from among the floating debris some people were in a dreadful condition many were injured they had oil all over their skin because when the ship signs 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. and you can watch that full interview with the captain who many in russia are now calling a hero you can watch 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 parker say 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 scaling for reports. say it's been thirty years since colombian soldiers kidnapped be starved and electroshock tech there are east peace about all for having a quote subversive book. with the memories he lives every day people have survived torture in colonial times very lucky to be able to tell the story most people get tortured for ten days as a stand there and then they get shot and killed many have been these appear 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 in fort 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 the classified. army school of america. the words

terror again. 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 the school of the americas i don't think it's an accident. abuser of human rights and they were sent home is for the eighth amendment to the us constitution forbids torture and other forms of cruel and unusual punishment as does the geneva convention but they did happen there's no question that our country not only engage in torture it's of taught 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 contained because it staff advisors assigned to review them didn't speak spanish united nations special repertoire for torture one mendez himself a survivor of torture says a lack of transparency in the u.s. led to further abuse in the eighty's unfortunately. the military police say it was restored and after that it's been difficult to document to what extent that includes teaching. techniques that are prohibited by law 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. waterboarding and he would do it again. and he said damn right that he had ordered it. it's a very serious problem for the spirit and soul of our country as the myth of how many prisoners were tortured by the united states are hard to find but survivors like hector's say the numbers don't tell the full story when someone gets tortured no only the person who. has to deal with the big. causes those on the torture is also someone who has to be humanized themselves in order through the human eyes and those human beings but a society that. is going to pay a price a very big price as well killing for the r t washington d c r 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 our world update thousands of egyptians are rallying in cairo to press the country's military rulers to prosecute

the people behind the killing of protesters during february's uprising activists are calling it the friday of last morning with some of them camping in tahrir square for a week a day earlier the country's ousted leader hosni mubarak deny that there had been a deliberate crackdown and then the straightest. some fifteen hundred people have taken to the streets of jerusalem calling for the recognition of a palestinian state the organizers say that marches purely peaceful or there are a significant police presence of the united nations is set to vote on recognizing palestinian statehood in september something is really strongly opposed to this week the knesset passed a law banning boycott directed at israel's illegal settlements in the west bank. ok it's out of the business now with marie. hello and welcome to business here in r.t.

now russia's largest bank is expanding into europe it has agreed to buy the eastern european units of austria as vaults bank international and it's the first acquisition all that's going by a russian bank and now business artsy sets and the public overall brings us all the details this purchase goes in line with their bank some bishops plans to become an international banking group that had a bank care monographs there 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 is that the banking market of such hard to play golf nobody can prove it generates a call to nine to five billion euros by two thousand and fifteen and it's more than russia's potential though their bank just wants to use the eastern european union bank as a platform for its own international operations bulks bank 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 those burbank plans to finalize the deal by the end of the year and it's just the beginning here must be upset that they all read the looking out from banking also in other parts of europe and the inter kim. well let's take a look at the markets now the u.s. stocks are in the black the dow is point eighteen percent and the nasdaq is up 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 war sense looks like 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 remains unclear let's take a look at some individual movers on the my sucks the banking sector that quite well be to be one up by over one and a half percent the bank is currently figuring 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 went up by point three percent helped by the gains in oil price. russia 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 in russia receive financial concessions this is intended to boost local

production of cars and prime minister putin says the system is not open to negotiation but. the requirement to sixty percent localization and production of three hundred thousand calls a year we have. changed it to read law and we cannot cross because we cannot to bermed in the interests of domestic producers. now separately prime minister putin says there are plans to build a second line of the eastern siberia pacific ocean pipeline system for exports and 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. and that's all the business news for now the headlines are next to the rory.

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. find out what's really happening to the global economy cars report on. our seven thirty pm here on friday with on a quick rundown of the stories now over thirty countries including the u.s. officially recognized the libyan rebel council as the legitimate governing authority. to give up the recognition of. libyan rebels with money from. phone hacking scandal gathers pace forcing the chief executive of the group. to quit meanwhile questions arise as to why it's taken so long to confront the crisis despite knowing about many of the allegations from. people take to the streets to protest against.

the latest e.u. country to be hit by the financial crisis the parliament is set to approve a key austerity budget in an attempt to avert a bill. those are the headlines here in our daughters here in half an hour's time with more on the eurozone debt drain next guests on cross talk talking about whether or not the e.u. has enough financial firepower to save it from rome. hello and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle a currency in crisis european finance ministers central bankers and politicians remain at odds on how to rescue the euro as pressure mounts for another greek bailout and investors worry about italy is the euro a dysfunctional currency and who will ultimately foot the bill.

came. across the eurozone crisis i'm joined by dennis gartman in virginia he is editor of the garment lehner in single part we go to jim rogers he's an author and financial commentator and in washington we go to sherry's ide raymond she's professor of international business finance and international affairs at the george washington university all right folks this is crossfire going you can jump in anytime you want there are different points of view here like to hear me dennis if i go to you first i am i asked the question before we go to there you the facts of that are at hand with the euro i posed the question is it a dysfunctional currency what do you think about that. i've always thought it was a dysfunctional currency i thought quite honestly that the only reason the only rationale for the euro to begin with was always to do something on the part of the northern european countries to.