in india all these are made of the moviegoer the joys the hotel rooms the home of you that's the case we go to the grand imperial truly the taj was the push coromandel you can know what hotel close richard to see don't need to go and. read the sun the colonel was hotel as a retreat. over thirty countries including the u.s. officially recognized the libyan rebel council as the legitimate governing authority richer rating earlier calls for gadhafi and his family to give up power. public outrage in italy is the latest e.u. country to be hit by the financial crisis as its parliament approves an austerity part in a bid to stave off the threat of a bailout. as the u.k.

phone hacking scandal puts the future of the murdoch 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. with news and comment from around the world this is our to live in moscow 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 they've been in contact group convening in turkey there's also word colonel gadhafi to give up power a good half is reacted to that by vowing to fight on can a child has more now from our washington bureau. the hillary clinton has announced washington now accepts the transitional national council as the legitimate government and governing authority of the leading people and diplomatic 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 khadafi 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 to show 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. for years he has talked to the u.s. so he's quite well connected with the united states but how about 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 sort of say but some experts also point out that in an attempt to probe certain people to prosper 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 feel even in two thousand says he estimates one thousand he had is there among the rebels in libya one leave in rebel commander has four

police admitted his fighters have to leave 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 leader unravels could backfire but washington doesn't seem to care as long as they have some of the oil very empowered to deal with the kind of book to franklin he's the director of an organization called americans concern for middle east peace told me earlier that it is just another dangerous case of the u.s. misjudging. a lot of questions about who these different factions who are arguably fighting among themselves for power in the in the east what also might leave the their relationship with the americans who have a long history you know misjudging their allies and go to 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 this stumble conference to mock some eyes maximize pressure on the government. well as we've heard the official recognition of the rebels could see the u.s. give them thirty billion dollars of colonel gadhafi is frozen assets not all and a modern history next redox a diversity says that's past experience shows that none of the u.s. hands out often ends up in the wrong hands huge amounts of cash are worth a little clearer her explained why they went to. local homes without having to get a little who came back into the hands of somebody americans and foreigners and world who are quite nice and so so i think there's a danger of that looking the prisoner who made a profit in the way he's wrong libya and where he's from or pronounces it from somewhere. you know way repeating what they are being taken on. board of things that are really counting her money and if the money has been given out is it really here in the libyan people and was it going from group of people

who were inside and mainly well behaved in the future to also people who have been in the past. with r.t. live here in moscow still to come this hour when passing by becomes a crime the captains of the two boat switch with the side of the volga river cruise of disaster but didn't stop to help facing arrest the system becomes torture torture on u.s. soil we investigate how the country which talks of its record on human rights is accused of training people to brutally violate them at home and abroad. so those stories to come but first italy is bracing itself for a tough round of belt tightening after its parliament gave its final approval for harsh austerity measures is part of efforts to prevent the further spread of the eurozone debt crisis which he said the finance minister has compared to the sinking of the titanic patrick milford is a professor of applied economics and cardiff university says if the budget cuts

don't work the e.u. countries are not going to buy enough easily. the euro's rich countries like germany and france particularly germany are not really willing to pay the bill for the bailouts of countries like greece and portugal and then if the risk of the default is seen as rising in the bigger countries like spain and italy even less are they able to pay the costs of the debt servicing that's needed and so there's no bailout really impressed by these rich northern countries and therefore the other countries have to think of some way of getting by and that's going to be default there was never any question but one of the reasons why might be in germany's interest to bail out greece is that it's if it doesn't it's going to have a banking crisis of its own will have to bailout its own banks but i think that the judgment of the taxpayer is they'd rather bail out their own banks if they have to

then keep on giving money to greeks who may never get to give it back to them. today's crosstalk peter lavelle and his guest who are discussing why the leadership is so adamant about saving the euro at any cost and here's some of the program coming up for you in the next hour. lead to greece go break probably would be good for greece it would be good for europe it'd be good for the world if greece went bankrupt and rose to the heart of pay their bills or start a lie then you would have was great everybody would know it's a strong sour currency based on a strong sound economy while i'm out of gold problem. in america we've had stayed. in cities go bankrupt we've had care is go bankrupt 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 of debt that greece has fifty percent is held by german and french banks and those countries bill want to take a second hit in the financial markets is that simple. fix it.

if you want to think. rupert murdoch has reportedly personally apologized to the family of a murdered schoolgirl whose voicemail was hacked by his newspaper the news of the world this comes after rebecca brooks the chief executive of murdoch's british newspaper group finally caved into pressure to resign over the scandal she's going 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. reports on how the vultures are circling and on some pertinent parallels from a surprising source i need the help of entailment t.v. reveal even the scale of it is when art imitates life the long running simpsons takes a shot it's rupert murdoch aka montgomery burns in an episode broadcast apparently

coincidentally this week. yes 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 had since about two thousand and forty thousand and five and yet they promise facie evidence of criminal activity by these individuals and boy 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 piece guy be 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 could have transferred some of the profits from. the times and if you will for example

the guardian telegraph. that it's not just rival newspapers who stand to gain from murdoch's empire crumbling the b.b.c. could retake t.v. territory lost to b. sky b. and the labor party which was wounded by years of relentless attacks by murdoch papers can finally take revenge but where will all this lead. to. that would suit the government just fine the british press is famous for its shot teeth and no holds barred doggedness particularly where it is concerned prime minister david cameron has shut down the press complaints commission and already talked of statutory controls to govern print journalists back in springfield mr

burns is thought it was the. people open up their own newspaper and he's almost right. as it is possible and truly the media. is. murdoch found as did mr burns that you just can't buy all the news papers those outside his control have been gunning for him for years and this time they may have succeeded just as he it sets it consolidate control over a lot sex and if you case the media markets broke the rules out from under him and it's all over the hidden scandal now reveals that the police have known about it for years you were at it r.t. . and they were asking what you think about this on our website and whether you believe the tabloid tactics in getting a story can be justified here's how the voting is going on the web site of the moment on t.v. dot com so far most people are saying that these reporting methods are outrageous

and ethical and must be punished eighty percent however think it's ok as long as it doesn't cross the line we can see there on screen that nineteen percent believe the approach is simply using the commands of the public while the rest say the trend mirrors society's move towards less privacy you can log onto r.t. dot com to have your say because to hear from me. divers are finished searching for bodies inside the wreck of the pleasure cruiser bulgaria which sank within minutes last sunday hundred fourteen people out of two hundred on board have been officially confirmed dead while fifteen remain missing the vessel will be lifted from the river bed within the next few days and investigators hope a thorough examination will help determine what caused the tragedy well so far two people have been arrested in connection with the disaster the head of the company which operated the boat with the inspector who certified it faces charges of negligence that led to the deaths arrest warrants of wars have been issued for the

captains of two cargo vessels which passed by the sinking ship without stopping to help. 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 be guided to vidual 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 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 when you know. and you can watch that full interview with the captain who many in russia calling right now on our web site r.t. . and the paper gets all the videos you see here on the screen can also be seen on

you choose a channel and there are plenty of extra content there for you to for example you can more stunning footage captured by cameras fixed to the boosters of the space shuttle atlantis as it blasted off into space going to you tube got com slash r.t. to check that out and who knows maybe your click will be a cause for celebration because it is approaching the landmark of five hundred million views. we. want to use today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world is seeing from the streets of canada after. trying to operations around the day. the u.s. likes to be seen as one of the world's leading human rights advocates but at home

it faces growing accusations of hypocrisy tens of thousands of professional tall trees have reportedly been trained on american soil over the past sixty years and his claim that many of them abuse their techniques abroad is killing forty one points. it's been thirty years since colombian soldiers kidnapped be starved and electroshock hacked there are east peace about all for having a quote subversive book. but it's a memory he relives every day people have survived for truth in colonial times very lucky to be able to tell the story most people get told to for ten days as a stand there and then they get shot and kill many have been disappeared after said 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 joints a player was an instructor there i was very much in favor of the school of the

americas the in the cold war era but major players he was horrified with what his former students did with their anti-communist training in their own country the classified. that the army schools in america use the words to regain its force assess and they. come and leave. it all the 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 is the abuse of human rights and that was sometimes for the eighth amendment to the us constitution forbids torture and other forms of cruel and unusual punishment as has the geneva convention but they did happen there's no question that our country. tortured so taught others how to do it we also.

sent people to prisons in other countries where they were in fact or truth there although congress demanded more oversight of the military training programs and into. 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 in the eighty's unfortunately. the military aid and police aid was restored and after that it's been difficult to document to what extent that it 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 turns are 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 trying to mowbray 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 that. 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 no only the person who is so forth or for us to deal with the wouldn't because of those on the torture is also someone who has to be humanized themselves in order to be humanized on the road human being but a society. that is going to pay a price rises were killing for our t. washington d.c. . meanwhile the u.s.

is reportedly running a secret prison in the training base in somalia that's being revealed by journalist jeremy scahill who says he has visited the facilities and he told r.t. that by expanding its war on terror america only makes new enemies. inside this gunjan prison there are no windows there is no sunlight there's a bedbug infestation according to prisoners who have been there mosquitoes all over the place the air is moist they can disgusting some prisoners are said to be losing their minds some people have been held for eighteen months without charge without access to lawyers without access to the red cross in fact the red cross told me that they were not aware of the prison and that they have never been given access to it i know for a fact that journalists from several major american news outlets were aware of these facilities in mogadishu and it's for those networks to answer why they've never reported on it as the u.s. expands its military operations and its covert operations in somalia and elsewhere

in east africa as well as in yemen the administration should be required to define for the american people exactly what laws are governing these operations there have been scores of night raids conducted by these forces in afghanistan in pakistan in yemen and somalia where innocent people have been killed or when someone that they meant to kill was killed but scores of innocent people were killed along with them so if we're going to get into the business of making assassinations our norm that's really what these are assassinations then we need to be ready for the blowback because we're creating a whole new generation of enemies that wouldn't normally have been our enemies because we've killed people in their family especially those who have done no wrong and were the victims of bad intelligence. brief look now some other international news in our world update and syrian opposition activists say security forces have killed at least seventeen people during anti-government demonstrations across the country that is police have reportedly used tear gas to disperse protests in the

syrian capital friday is relatively the most widespread since the uprising began in march. thousands of taking to the streets of jerusalem calling for the recognition of a palestinian state it was billed as a march for independence with all the guys are saying a two state solution is the only way to put an end to the israeli palestinian conflict united nations is set to vote on recognizing palestinian statehood in september that israel is strongly opposed to but earlier this week because it passed a law banning boycotts directed at israel's illegal settlements in the west bank. to some dramatic images from croatia a huge fire that's engulfing the heart of the brach has forced hundreds of residents to flee the flames plumes of smoke that have destroyed forcing farms could be seen from the mainland the fires have been caused by a heat wave in the country with temperatures reaching up to forty five degrees celsius. not about the summer of our top stories we're in just a few minutes from now in the meantime the business news is next with marina. for

the film we've got. the biggest issues get voice face to face with the news makers. hello and welcome to business here on artsy and we start this hour with russia's largest bank which is expanding into europe as a bank has agreed to wire the eastern european units over. international and it's the first that there was this an all that sky why of russian bank now business

starts these thoughts and has all the details this purchase goes in line with their bank from bush's plans to become an international banking group that's how the bank your money gets there that's why it's a thousandfold seems better bank plans to generate up to seven per cent of its income from international operations to the whole south that's he believes that in the great potential those eastern european countries where the world bank branches is that the baking market let's. move it generates a whole two months to five billion euros by two thousand and fifteen and it's more than russia's potential so thank you just once to you this is the european union bank as a platform for its own international operations is among the top ten lenders in the czech republic slovakia crew we should in bosnia this is a traditional banking business there are no complicated structures or talks.

there's no to. plans and some securities operations and almost no big corporate clients it could be called the bank for medium sized and small business goals burbank plans to finalize the deal by the end of the year and that is just the beginning cam of the real stealth of the bay old resolute came out from banking also in other parts of europe and the intricate. now we have the results of the latest european stress tests on banks and they show the bold spike is just one of nine lenders to fail and sell in some of its business burbank in order to improve its balance sheet richard haynesworth the general director of restraints and says the acquisition makes sound strategic sense for the program. the buying at the bottom of the cycle of the business cycle which means that asset prices are low. sperm bank obviously is in a position to buy it it is culture rich strategic benefit is that it gets spared a foothold in through the european union banking regulation and the european union

is such that if you are a branch in one of the countries you're able to open branches in other countries with less difficulty. to go say to england and so i want to open up. in england but it would have more difficulty. let's take a look at some markets now u.s. stocks are mixed this hour there is a sharp fall in u.s. consumer confidence and a new report says sentiment plunged in july as used on the current economy and expectations worsened that's playing against better than expected corporate earnings from citi group and google. in europe stocks end of the session slightly down as traders were cautious ahead of that release so bank stress test results. and the russian markets closed the mix after a difficult week but down as many people worldwide on holiday and direction remain

unclear now let's take a look at some individual movers on my psych's the banking sector is the only well of the fifty one hour by over one and a half percent the bank is squarely figuring out the details of its purchase of bank of moscow was also out after news of its acquisition of volkswagen international and the country's biggest company gazprom went out five 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 current rules and manufacturers which make more than sixty percent of the vehicle in russia receive financial concessions and this is intended to boost local production of cars and crime in the survivor mirror putin says the system is not open to negotiation you know. the requirements of sixty percent localization and production of three hundred thousand calls a year we have a little position currently changed but it's

a riddler and we cannot cross because we cannot abandon the interests of domestic producers. really prime minister putin says there are plans to build a second line of the eastern siberia pacific ocean pipeline system for export in 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. what sort of business news for now the headlines are next but bill.

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