in india she's available in the movie the joint the hotel rooms a movie that's the case we go to the grand imperial should the taj west coast coromandel let her tell the socialist civility to go and. read this in the kernel was her turn to retreat. of the thirty countries including the u.s. officially recognize the libyan rebel council as the legitimate governing authority pre-training earlier calls for gadhafi and his family to give up power. as the u.k. phone hacking scandal puts a future of the murdoch media rampart 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 in italy the latest e.u. country to be hit by the financial crisis as expected approval on the stair a deep pocket there and the final straight.

with news and comments from around the world this is r.t. live in moscow with you twenty four hours a day the u.s. along with more than thirty other nations has decided to recognize libya's rebels as the legitimate government of the country a libyan contact group convening in turkey at the moment there's also look at afi to give up power kind of which can has more from washington bureau. hillary clinton has announced washington now accepts the transitional national council as a legitimate government and governing authority of believe in people and diplomatic recognition of the council means that the u.s. will be able to fund the opposition with some of the more than thirty billion dollars in code out the 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 into power in the field by washington will stop jolie who has studied in the us for years he has taught in the us of us quite well connected with the united states but help 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 propound certain people to a proper 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. thousand says he estimates one thousand he had is are among the rebels in libya one lead in rebel commander has openly admitted his fighters have al qaeda links 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 i don't 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 some of the oil very empowered to deal with. rich cohen reporting you with the life of all supposed to come this policy and boy becomes a sprawling captains of the two boats which are at the source of the river cruz a disaster which didn't stop the whole of facing arrest. and torture torture on u.s. soil reinvestigate how the country which to absolve its record of human rights is accused of training people to brutally volleyed them at home and abroad. stories of congress are but first the chief executive of the british newspaper group owned by the murdoch empire has resigned over the phone hacking scandal rebecca brooks mounting pressure to quit saying her ongoing involvement was deflecting attention from the company's attempts to clean itself up which 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 unethical methods what is reports on the vultures

are circling some permanent perils from a surprising source. a good every media outlet and on t.v. the real deal even the scariest when art 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 it 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 printed facie evidence of criminal activity by these individuals and boy oh boy 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 piece guy b. looked 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. it into investing in the times and if you will for example do you know of the guardian the daily telegraph. at its. 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 shock 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 as the townspeople put up their own newspaper and he's almost right. it is possible to control the media because of rupert murdoch he is one. 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 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 ever its artsy. well we're asking what you think about this at our website and whether you believe the tabloids tactics in getting a story can be justified here's how the voting is going at the moment at r.t. dot com that's on the screen the results so far what most people are saying that these reporting methods are ethical and must be punished twenty one percent however thing hits ok as long as it doesn't cross the. one seventeen percent believe approach is simply meeting the demands of the public while the rest say the trend of mirrors society has moved towards a less privacy would love to r.t. dot com to have your say. italy is bracing itself for a tough round of belt tightening as its parliament prepares to finally approve harsh austerity measures as part of efforts to prevent the further spread of the euro zone debt crisis which italy's finance minister has compared to the sinking of

the titanic but as financial advisor marco pierre polly explains the drastic austerity measures nate make the situation in italy even worse. of course in the short term at 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's only 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 that the outset of the whole euro project the stability pact which limits the amount of borrowing the countries can undertake has not been it here too in 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 moving forward if the

markets keep demanding higher interest and really a situation of 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 interface cross talk pretty level in his case discuss why the leadership is so adamant about saving the euro at any cost and here's what's coming up in a few hours time across the. lead greece go away grow up it would be good for greece it would be good for the europe would be good for the world if greece where great growth. and right after the how to 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 do i want to go bankrupt listen in your ear america we've had stage go great our experience it is go bankrupt we've had carys go bankrupt it didn't in the united states and it didn't in the u.s.s.r. i'll tell you why because of the four hundred billion dollars of debt that greece has fifty percent is held by german and french banks in those countries deal i

think is second in the financial markets it's that simple. q. if you want to. cross talk a little later here on our team and on the other side of the atlantic president obama has given us no make as thirty six hours to reach a deal on raising the debt ceiling that the deadlock has already spurred two of the three major credit rating agencies to threaten a downgrade of america's aaa status but investment analyst matt wolff tells 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 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 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 it'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 drag on for weeks longer than 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 start riling already strained global markets with

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i return to our top story this of the thirty countries including the u.s. have officially recognized the libyan rebel council that's the n t c as the legitimate governing authority there restraining earlier calls that colonel gadhafi and his family must go well let's discuss this development now with dr franklin lamb he's director of an organization called americans concerned for middle east peace and he's joining us there live in tripoli in libya so washington and its allies have made their support of the opposition official putting it in some clear isn't it who the rebels actually are so therefore is there not a danger of them turning against the u.s. and indeed its allies a few years down the line as we've seen so often in the past. yes well that's right but just to tell you update on the situation here since that news broke and a lot of people are glued to their radios i had a hard time coming into this hotel for this interview because of increased security

sort of fact that the thirty countries are unanimously backing b m t c but that they do his role fight and continue to prom during ramadan and it was widely assumed here that there would be a ceasefire during ramadan it's clear that the contract cooper's holding back some of my pressure on the government here and you're quite right go pretty knows a whole lot and there's a lot of questions about who these different factions who are arguably down fighting among. as for power in the in the east what will ultimately be their relationship with the americans who have a long history you know all of this judging their allies and getting themselves involved but i think all of this is because nato cannot accept or afford a defeat nor can the white house so they're using the stumble conference to mock some eyes maximize pressure of the khadafi government i just read one of your

recent articles there from tripoli you saying that the bombing has actually increased popularity therefore in tripoli with the announcement of this news how has that news where the recognition of the rebels is now officially being stated how is that news gone down with the people you've been talking to there in tripoli . well of course the news was fairly recent but some of it was anticipated i think it's sobering i think it's sobering it is a blow i think there was a hope that there would be less unanimity of course the chinese the russians stayed away and they will have a major function if the if a big group takes this at the security council and they may put the brakes on it there but i see this is a power play to mock the minds international pressure over the weekend to try to shake loose the resolve because everybody here but i think the people talking to as with me earlier you know four of four months of bombing it's still going to resolve somehow i don't think i think i'm more concerned about it as

a westerner of than the people are here i think they're resolved to see this thing through and to recal any nato attack on the capital of their country let's talk about that fifteen billion dollars of frozen good afy assets could be passed on to the rebels themselves the thing is there's a lot of trust and that is now how can they be sure that this vast amount of money will be properly spent. good question especially given the track record of accountability or lack of accountability for american funds and funds generally in iraq and afghanistan i would assume people will say they're going to watch it or the congress is going to demand that the accounting office have a role in this somehow but truly that's a problem of money house a way of disappearing past ins you know critical situations like this coming perhaps with strings attached a way some people might see it as a forward bribery making sure that there is going to be

a reward in the future and i'm talking about the country's huge oil resources. yes yes in fact i think one could see it that way i mean certainly are you know that will encourage and is perhaps designed to have more people leave this government and you know turn and go to the other side again i see politics in every aspect of what i read a coming out of istanbul just an hour and a half ago just finally i spoke to you before there in tripoli and you gave us a very graphic account of the bombing that has been taking place there tell us about the conditions for three people that briefly i know that you're in turkey but you've been outside of tripoli what are you seeing we're hearing reports of living conditions really now in a dire state and many people might say that sort of money should be going to the libyan people what do you make of conditions there and should these people be receiving that money for help. a well. i'll tell you on the street except for a little tension and maybe

a stress this afternoon people reflecting on those things remain calm. of plenty in the dark and so i see we hear of some shortages but i travel around a lot in the night in the day here and i think the population house changed much of what a course of benzine i was coming here today of course you see long lines waiting for benzene gasoline and things like that baby formula for my dad's are missing so far it's ok the question is but next few days the next week the next two weeks before the run up to ramadan i think will be a critical period and we may see more pressure brought against the civilians here if there is shortages and if become serious more serious then obviously the international community has the obligation not just to channel a good every way they can into benghazi and build ratha in those areas but to bring them over here in the west and we haven't seen those but we'll have to wait to see what how are you know what develops here and what the international community's

response is dr franklin lamb director of americans concerned for middle east peace joining us live there in libya thank you. very. life as if in searching for bodies inside the wreck of the pleasure cruise of all garia which sank within minutes last sunday one hundred fourteen people out of a two hundred on board have been officially confirmed there were fifteen remain missing the vessel will be lifted from the 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 he said a few face charges of negligence that led to the dance arrest warrants have also been issued for the captains of two call good vessels which possibly the sinking ship without stopping to help or he's been speaking 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 individual people from among the floating debris some people were in a dreadful condition many were injured they had all all over their skin because when the ship symes 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 that condition that was particularly heartbreaking. and you can watch that full interview with a captain who many in russia recording a hero right now on our website at r.t. dot com. u.s. like to be seen as one of the world's leading human rights advocates but at home it's faces growing accusations of ocracy tens of thousands of professional torturers have reportedly been trained on american soil in the past sixty years and it's claimed that many of them have used their techniques abroad as calling for reports. it's been thirty years since colombian soldiers kidnapped

be starved and electroshock take their advice these about all for having a quote subversive but. it's a memory he relives every day people have survived torture in columbus oh i'm very lucky to be able to tell the story most people get power through four days of the stand there and then they get shot and kill many have been disappear 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 americas and for pending georgia army major judith 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 in america use the words terror again next door assassinate.

commonly. 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 user of the school of the americas i don't think is and that's. 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 the geneva convention but they did happen there's no question that our country. and tortured sort of put toward others how to do it we also run 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 and inter. 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 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 can be 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 law or by international law it's a legacy that sharply contrast with u.s. rhetoric about respect for human rights abroad torture survivors and religious leaders in washington d.c. have come together to demand a full commission of inquiry into what they describe as torture practices are 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 set them right that he had ordered it. so you know it's a very serious problem for the spirit soul of our country as the needs of how many prisoners were tortured by the united states are hard to find survivors like hector's even numbers don't tell the full story would someone get store for not only the person who is so forth or for the you know with a big wouldn't because of those on the other it's also someone who has to be humanize themselves in order through the human eyes and all of human beings but a society that's true is going to pay a price a very big price as well killing ford artsy washington d.c. . i'll be back with a summary of all my new stories in about five minutes from now to me thomas all the latest business news with marina. oh and well. it's a business here and i see now russia's largest bank is expanding into europe as

burbank has agreed to buy the eastern european unit all for. international and it's the first acquisition of its kind by a russian bank and business argues that the local brings us all the details of this purchase goes in line with the survey from bishops plans to become an international banking group how to pay your money grab the butts of thousands put see in their bank plans to generate up to seventy per cent of its income from international operations we have also felt that he believes that in the great potential of those eastern european countries where the world bank branches that the baking market it's hard to believe the if nobody here who generates up two months of five billion euros by two thousand and fifty and that's more than russia's potential those burbank just wants to use eastern european you know the bank as a platform for it to hold the international operations bank is among the top ten

lenders in the czech republic slovakia croatia and bosnia this is a traditional banking business there are no complicated structures or talks like assets there's no dependence on securities operations and almost no good corporate clients it could be called the bank for medium sized and small business loans where banks plans to finalize the deal by the end of the year and it's just the beginning here but we have felt that they hold resolutely without some banking also a lot of parts of europe how they interest you. now let's take a look at the markets now u.s. stocks are in the black and that's despite reports consumer sentiment plunged in july with many saying views on the current economy and expectations worsens. in europe some of the session slightly down us traders were cautious ahead of the release of bank stress test results will come out later to. day and rochelle markets closed mixed after

a difficult week volume's word down as many people were away on holiday and direction remains unclear. let's take a look at some individual movers on my psych's the banking sector earth have quite well by over one and a half percent the bank is currently figuring out the details of its purchase of bank of moscow bank was also up after news of its acquisition of austria international in eastern europe and the country's biggest company gas problem went up by point three percent and that was helped by gains in the oil price. russia will not make concessions over its tax regime for carmakers to gain membership of the world trade organization under the rules manufacturers which make more than sixty percent of a vehicle in russia receive financial concessions and this isn't tended to boost local production of cars and prime minister putin says the system is not open for negotiation he would. report sixty percent

localization and production of three hundred thousand calls a year we have a little position colonel changed the riddler and we cannot cross because we cannot have burma in the interests of domestic producers. separately prime minister who can we says there are plans to go to a second line of the eastern siberia pacific ocean pipeline the system for exporting crude oil to asian markets he also suggested another line could be added to the nordstrom gas pipeline and that 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 though the headlines are next with will.

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