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 they are empowered to deal with. kind of their own dr franklin lamb he's a 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 now 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 of misjudging their allies and getting themselves involved but i think all of this is because nato cannot accept afford a defeat nor can the white house so they're using a stumble conference to mock some eyes might some eyes pressure. khadafy 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 has frozen assets more calm and a modern history electorate oxygene averse to says that past experience shows the money the u.s. hands out often ends up in the wrong hands huge amounts of cash were the little rubber explained where they went to and it doesn't look like what went into those local herman's without any of that it was a recall who came back into the hands of some of the americans and foreigners and who were able to make nice with this so i think there is a danger of that across chris of the major cut off in the way he has for libya and where he's from a corner in some ways. we seem to be in a way repeating that with the rebels they are being taken. to things that are really counting for money and if the money has been given out is it really going to the libyan people or was it going some group libyan people who are going to start from a new burrow behave in the future too. with

r.t. now if you're in moscow still to come this hour when passing by becomes a crime the captains of the two boats which took the sight of the volga river cruise of disaster but didn't stop to help are facing arrest still to come this hour torture taught on u.s. soil we investigate how the country which talks off 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 italy's finance minister has compared to the sinking of the titanic. who's a professor of applied economics cardiff university says if the budget cuts don't work the e.u. countries are not going to bail out easily. the euro's rich countries like germany and france are 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 a default there was never any question that one of the reasons why it might be in germany is interest to bail out greece is that it's if it doesn't it's going to have a banking crisis of its own and will have to bailout its own banks but i think the judgment of the taxpayer is they'd rather bail out their own buying if they have to then keep on giving money to greeks who may never be able to give it back to them. today's cross talk peter lavelle and his guests were 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. level greece go bankrupt it would be good for greece it would be good for europe it'd be good for the world if greece went bankrupt and wrote at the heart of 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 would i want to go bankrupt let it happen in europe in america we've had staged in cities go bankrupt we've had carol is nowhere near 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 don't want to take a second in the financial markets is that simple. it. rupert

murdoch has reportedly personally apologized to the family of a murdered schoolgirl whose voice mail 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 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 on ethical methods. reports on how the vultures are circling and on some pertinent parallels from a surprising source. put every media outlet in town t.v. radio even the sky. 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. 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 i see evidence of criminal activity by these individuals and boy by the murdoch empire and yet they have not acted on it so why now just as the murdoch deal to take control of satellite t.v. giant b. sky b. look sure to go ahead his arch rival the guardian newspaper releases catastrophic allegations of a moral journalists and their shady practices that when the deal collapses the times for example which currently loses money you could have transferred some of the profits from. investing in the times and if you are for example of the guardian or the daily telegraph you would welcome it 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 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 it government is concerned prime minister david cameron has all but shut down the press complaints commission and already talks of statutory controls to govern print journalists back in springfield mr burns is to water it as the townspeople. open up their own newspaper and he's almost right we. can truly the media.

he is rude beautiful murdoch found as did mr burns that you just can't buy all the newspapers those outside his control have been gunning for him for years and this time they may have succeeded just as he looks set to consolidate control over a lot of sex in of the case media markets 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 emmett. 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 website at the moment dot com so far most people are saying that these reporting methods are just ethical and must be punished eighteen 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 losing the demands 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 be good 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 was 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 faced 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. the captain of the. 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 to the visual people from the floating debris some people were in a dreadful condition many were injured they had oil all over their skin because when the ship sank the fuel oil came up to the surface and spread everywhere and covered. 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 was particularly heartbreaking when. you can watch that full interview with the captain who many in russia are calling a hero right now on our website at r.t. dot com. and they forget all the best videos you see here on screen can also be seen on you tube channel and there's 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. dot com slash our team to

check that out and who knows maybe your click will be of course a celebration because he's approaching. five hundred million views. today. these are the images. that. 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 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 for reports.

it's been thirty years since colombian soldiers kidnapped be starved and electroshock tech there are all for having a quote subversive book. but it's a memory he relives every day people have survived torture in cologne that's why i'm very lucky to be able to tell the story most people get told to for ten days and then they get shot and kill many had been disappear hector says the colombian soldiers who tortured him and later killed his brother. and were trained right here on american soil at the school of the america and for benning georgia army major joyce of blair was an instructor there i was very much in favor of the school of the americas during the cold war era but major blair says he was horrified with what his former students did with their anti-communist training in their own country classified. army schools. use the words

terror again next door assassinate. commonly. called 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 or only has been the largest user of the school of the americas i don't think it's an accident. abuser 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 does the geneva convention but they did happen there's no question that our country not only gauge and tortured so taught others how to do it we also render 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 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 is includes teaching. techniques that are prohibited by law or by international law it's a legacy that sharply contrast with the u.s. rhetoric about respect for human rights abroad torture survivors and religious leaders in washington d.c. have come together to demand a full commission of inquiry into what they describe as torture practiced or enabled by the united states including in its own prisons like one time obey and by

the cia when president bush says that he waterboarding and he would do it again. and he said damn right that he had ordered it. so you know it'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 find but survivors like hector's say the numbers don't tell the full story when someone gets torture not only the person who. has to deal with the big wouldn't because of those on the torture it's also someone who has to be humanized themselves in order through the human eyes and all of human being but a society that supports torture is going to pay a price a very big price as well killing ford r. 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

dungeon prison there are no windows there is no sunlight there's a bedbug infestation according to prisoners who've been there mosquitoes all over the place the air is thick and 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 in 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 and 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 at some other international news in our world update and syrian opposition activists 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's rallies appear to be 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 organizers 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 what earlier this week the knesset passed a law banning boycotts directed at israel's illegal settlements in the west bank. the same 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 fires have been caused by a heat wave in the country with temperatures reaching up to forty five degrees celsius. with the summer of our top stories for in just a few minutes from now in the meantime the business news is next with marina. for the four we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers.

hello and welcome to business here on c.n.n. we start this hour with russia's largest bank which is expanding into europe bank has agreed to buy is a eastern european units of bank international and it's the first accusation all that's kind by of russian bank now business artsy starts and when you call that has all the details this purchase goes in line with their bank some bishops plans to become an international banking group but how do they care money grab says that but

two thousand foot seems better bank plans to generate up to seventy per cent of its income from international operations have also felt that he believes that in the great potential those eastern european countries where the world bank branches is that the banking market of let's. move it generates a call to nine to five billion euros by two thousand and fifteen and it's more than russia's potential so the bank could just wants to use this eastern european union bank as a platform for its own the international operations bank is among the top ten lenders in the czech republic slovakia croatian bosnia this is a traditional banking business there are no complicated structures or talks. there's no de. pendants and securities operations and almost no big corporate clients it could be called the bank for medium sized and small business souls burbank plans to finalize the deal by the end of the year and that is just the

beginning here must be upset that they old threads are looking at some banking also in other parts of europe and in turkey and. now we have the results of the latest european stress tests on banks and they show that bolts bank is just one of nine lenders to fail and it's selling some of its business to burbank in order to improve its balance sheet richard haynesworth the general director of rights and says the acquisition makes sound strategic sense for the burbank. the buying at the bottom of the cycle of the business cycle which means that asset prices are low. in a position to buy it is cash rich the strategic benefit is that it gives a foothold into the european union banking regulation the european union is such that if you branch in one of the countries you are able to open branches in other of the countries with less difficulty. to go to england and so i want to.

live with 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 views on the current economy and expectations worsen 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 volumes were down as many people were away on holiday and direction remains unclear now let's take a look at some individual movers on my socks the banking sector is the only well the to be one up by over one and a half percent the bank is currently figuring out the details of its purchase of

bank of moscow as burbank was also up after news of its acquisition of bank international and the country's biggest company gazprom went up 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 manufacturers which make more than sixty percent of the vehicle in russia receive financial concessions and this is intended to boost local production. and of cars and prime minister vladimir putin says the system as not open to negotiation. is insist we drop the requirement to sixty percent localization and production of three hundred thousand calls a year we have the position cannot be changed but it's a riddler and we cannot cross because we cannot abandon the interests of domestic producers. separately prime minister putin says there are plans to build

a second line of the eastern siberia pacific ocean pipeline the system for exports 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. all that's all the business news for now the headlines are next for bill.

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a treat. and just joined us a very warm welcome to live here in moscow top stories this hour over thirty countries including the u.s. officially recognize the libyan rebel council as the legitimate government authority which calls for gadhafi to give up power the recognition would allow washington to sponsor libyan rebels with money from gadhafi frozen assets. people take to the streets to protest against newman cuts in italy the latest. e.u. country to be hit by the financial crisis that's as the parliament approves a key austerity budget in the bid to stave off the threat of a brain child. in the u.k. phone hacking scandal gathers pace forcing the chief executive of the group known by the murdoch empire to quit meanwhile questions arise as to why it's taken so

long to confront the crisis despite police knowing about many of the allegations for years. well i'll be back with more news stories in less than fifteen minutes from now with an update for you in the meantime the sports update is with kate that will be a little later after that but in the meantime top of russia's northern capital. well i welcome to the program i was at the sheriff from the same period we'll be exploring the pits the rest allows the never give up i'm very small to transport as the venice of the north the waterways of the focal points of the city enjoying the

summer months are a great way to see that. many are simply churches cathedrals museums are visible from the canal trip of the stone to staying in the city may be an ideal way of deciding to enjoy a visit. peter the great grand vision of the city was to create a window to your. promise one piece scarcely populated the area became a fine european capital. of expensive the construction of lavish palaces on the banks of the countless channels cutting through the city such great architects as for strolling through and through how to bring the dream to life centuries later as you can see on this map. the waterways and bridges still dominates the capital. you can see how the city is set up and very spot crisscrossed by canals. and how atmosphere.