of the americans concern for middle east peace organization told me earlier that the recognition of the rebels could be just another example of the u.s. dangerously misjudging and. there's 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 be their relationship with the americans who have a are a long history you know 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 this stumble conference to mock some eyes mark some eyes pressure of the khadafy government the official recognition of the rebels could help washington fund them with some of gadhafi thirty billion dollars of assets frozen in the u.s. but mark modern history lecturer at oxford university says that past experience shows the money the u.s. hands out often ends up in the wrong hands huge amounts of cash were deliberately

rubber explain where they went to and it doesn't look like what went into those local herm's without having to do it was he was also came back into the hands of some of the americans and foreigners in world who are able to make nice with this so i think there is a danger of that across looking the president of the made a profit in the way he has for libya and where he's from in some ways. we seem to be in a way repeating that with the rebels they are being taken on trust. or things who are counting for money and if the money has been given out is it really going to the libyan people or is it going to some group libyan people who are going to take on many burl behave in the future to the people in the building in the past. you're with r.t. here in moscow and still to come this hour when passing by becomes a crime the captains of the two books which were at the site of the volga river cruise a disaster but didn't stop to help a facing arrest. stories to come but first italy is bracing itself for

a tough round of belt tightening after its parliament gave its final approval for harsher sturdy 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 patrick who's a professor of applied economics at cardiff university is told me earlier that if the budget cuts don't work the e.u. countries are not going to burn out italy. the euro's rich countries like germany and france particularly germany are not really willing to pay the bill for the very loud 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 that 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 and will have to bailout its own banks but i think the judgment of the taxpayer is they'd rather bail out their own bank if they have to then keep on giving money to greeks who may never get to give it back to them and on the other side president obama has warned that the u.s. is running out of time to deal with its debt crisis economics analyst dr roger vaughn has told me earlier that american politicians are not able to articulate solutions to the country's deficit. there's a personality conflict between the majority leader and the president which is quite unique and this has been taken into the public avenue of discussion once that happens and trust is lost between leaders it's far more difficult to secure an

agreement behind the scenes if you cut spending you're going to also impede economic growth because the government is one of the largest employers if you bring troops home and stop the wars you also have a problem with employment as the service men and women come home these are classic economic problems what's required in the u.s. is a drastic program of infrastructure development and public jobs to guarantee wages and non interest loans for average americans if italy defaults for instance in europe it will be impossible for northern europe to bail out italy that will take the u.s. over if the dollar significantly loses value when the u.s. is unable to help europe that will in turn take the u.s. down the japanese no more have do not have sufficient liquidity to help this time around as they did in two thousand and eight the euro is intrinsically weak one is not a competitor for the dollar the ruble stands to be fairly stable given russia's standing the major energy producer and natural resource giant on the world scene so the

ruble should remain relatively stable. other news now rupert murdoch has personally apologized to the family of a murdered schoolgirl whose voicemail was hacked by his english tabloid newspaper the news of the world this comes after rebecca brooks the chief executive of not expressing newspaper group finally caved in to 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 unethical methods what is your editor ports and how the vultures are circling addled some potent parallels from a surprising source put every media outlet in town t.v. radio even the scale. when not imitate life in 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 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 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. 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 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. producing. 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's thought it as the townspeople put up their own newspaper

and he's almost right we. 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 lot section 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 ever. divers have finished searching for bodies inside the wreck of the pleasure cruiser bulgaria which sank within minutes on the volga river in russia last sunday hundred fourteen people out of over two hundred on board of being officially confirmed dead by russian authorities while 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 well so far two people are being arrested in connection with the disaster ahead of the company which operated the boat and the inspector certify 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 or to spoke to the captain of the ship 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 individual people from the floating debris some people were in a dreadful condition many were injured. 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 and seeing children in that condition was

particularly heartbreaking when you know and you can watch that full interview with the captain who many in russia according to here are right now on our website it's dot com. 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 his claim that many of them have used their techniques abroad as came in for reports. it's been thirty years since colombian soldiers kidnapped oh be starved and electroshock heck there are atheists about all for having a quote subversive book. with the memories he lives 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 the stand and then they get shot and kill many have 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 the classified. army school. use the words interrogate next door assassinate. commonly know. it all but wait 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 and i don't think it's an accident the. abuser of human rights in that was 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 it did happen there's no question that our country not only engage in torture it's sort of put toward others how to do it we also rendered people we also sent people to prisons in other countries where they were in fact tortured 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. aid 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 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 mortar board 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 survivors like hector's even numbers don't tell the full story when someone gets torture not only the person who so first torture 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 prize as well killing ford r. t. washington d.c. . will be about the summer of a top stories for you in a few minutes from now but in the meantime it's a romantic tour of russia's northern capital.

hello and welcome to the program i was at the sheriff from the same pit is back we'll be exploring that celeste allows the never give up and various modes of transport also known 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 the fall because so. many are simply displaced 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 join a visit. piece the great grand vision of the city is to create a window to your. from a swampy scarcely populated area became a fine european capital. spend expensive the construction of lavish passes on the

banks of the countless channels cutting through the city such great architects as for straight through and through the house bring the dream to life centuries later as you can see in this map of modern day st petersburg the motorways and bridges still dominates the capital perched on the banks of the never river you can see how the city. he sets up in various pollens crisscrossed by canals. it really creates a whole atmosphere like the venice of the north as they call us and i think it's just amazing you can take a party boat down the river and they can out spend the night time explain a nice and if you want to be a little bit more to do something more special you can actually order about spirits out just for friends and scud there and eat and drink and have a good time in. the cellar or should bring their guts to watch.

let's. face it meant to pick out. the winter canal is one of the most poetic coolest old subpoenas but it was described to alexander christian's famous queen of space mobile as a popular meeting place for lovers the area is especially lovely when seen from the water when you sell in a boat in casa look on the beach but the frames that want to come out magnificent like something decent. living tonics location and hours of sightseeing standing on your feet consume take it's cool circus plus preacher temperature spa complete complex is in russia. opens in two thousand and eight it brings a new concept in five star hotels to the very center of st petersburg just a few steps from the river palace square and the hermitage popular with locals and

visitors this is a chew on therapy it's its best whether you're here to help or simply to relax the pool with its various hydrotherapy jets is simply to find. some to also close a number of soreness and turkish brush you know finish buying dry steam in the west territories there's even a single room to show consensus. it's a maritime color experience. is located near. paris ship with a ship is the perfect place to relax.

with a top floor restaurant and. the venue is popular with a large posse groups to all your enjoyment. in the gym. so what other water theme places in st petersburg one of the historical symbols of russia's military fleet has been turned into a museum and stands proudly to the city's central embodiment. is one to be associated with the revolution of nine hundred seventeen another warship is besieged by thousands of tourists every year.

is seemingly the first to raise the rent on the ship standing for the bullshit power of the cruise itself as witnessed many battles before. the ships of the baltic fleet. when the weather was hot and sunny there are many places in the city where you can enjoy between. peoples but some day during. the territory. the famous pizza fortress is a popular destination for those who are craving some some bathing beach time it's not recommended. place to enjoy beach activities like in the beautiful historical surroundings. tractions in the city especially during the white night period. there are around twenty bridges across the river the show raised during the night to get ships in cruise line is. a spectacular race for thrilling views a special night tool for tourists which is

a must see. must remember the times when the bridges or otherwise could be stuck on a different side of the city. the white nights period is the perfect time to decide the encounter so you can stroll along the ridges like you might enjoy in the twilight zone the buildings reflecting in the controls on the it's always wonderful there's something magical about the city. to discuss the magic of symphonies but let's meet the streets just . to meet you. three is exactly. the summer. present that.

everybody everybody is on their own. and. yes i think one of the main symbols of the. make the city. and whether it's really what makes sense it is very special place because it's like . our friends i have also met this quieter than you fall into here as really popular like on the one hand it's quite a kind of historic post-op time on the other hand it's like getting to this time i mean what there now peter the great had tens of thousands of soldiers you know build all the canals and waterways in the city what you think his what's been his purpose was his purpose they were as a force to make every sense rationale like being a piece of hero and a scientist virgie's i guess that then was terribly in place here i mean i think you can walk around some parts of the city and it looks like paris or you know you could be in most cities you know they're down with something like it but they also

join the summer you know a boat trip is a fantastic way to see parts of st petersburg not just in the city but you've got you've got these walls as well and you've got you know actual tour of the fortress behind as they all fires and like i guess that this is their kind of story stick speciality centers very when you're trying to see these t.v. from the weather and like almost the whole season from that what they're yeah it's not like maybe in budapest or in paris temporarily you can see they're like the center and other places you will see like every meal tents and so on but yet everywhere if you do it by by boat by ferry you will see amazing amazing pieces of architecture like everywhere and it seems well that there are some sports that take place on the river as well there are the different boats you believe in swimmers waves close up also of course and and that like the perfect point is that you can do it like in this city chest and this you do you can reach it by metro and that's it you don't have to have a you know at three point two hours somewhere just half an hour or even in the

heart of the season yeah that's what race you can do it is great with race was the reason you enjoy your time here and said this is about being. my final shot with the right time the embodiment of the piece from peatross i want to be a waitress to the city and a private speedboat. we are. not going to teach you to come out to you two ways on the boat you see the sea from the bench. originally there were no bridges crossing the mighty never get past the ferry between banks by boat for the main reasons why some petersburg was given the name of venice off in the us. while this is just. is justified and you can see that. behind as he found say a private boat sold well there are various companies in the city to offer trips around the never on the size of boat what does it depend on your party size charge by the hour many will including. the st petersburg ports

an incredible city throw in the spectacular architecture museums styling history and the reflecting in the shopping mall says it is like something out of a fairy tale. having survived a tumultuous history and having changed names several times in really is a cold city of growth and development. here. and with around us an outstanding individual monuments of architecture history and culture no one to rush to the woods or the world's most peaceful locations. while though we comment that's all the time we have. the peaceful waterways i'll thank you just but i'll see you again at the same time next week and tell them for me and the rest of the crew chaps.

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find out what's really happening to the global economy cause a report on. live from moscow this is good to have you with us this hour top stories now over thirty countries including the u.s. officially recognize the libyan rebel council as the legitimate governing authority research earlier calls for gadhafi and his family to give up power. as economic crisis deepens in europe with italy being the latest country to adopt a new study budget and the u.s. lawmakers are running out of time to deal with its mounting debt. as the u.k. phone hacking scandal puts the 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. thomas will be here in less than half an

hour as the news continues and out in the meantime more on the year is that thankful that the train next as a pizza lavelle lost his guests whether the e.u. has enough financial firepower to save it from ruin that's debate next in crosstalk . 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 not the eurozone crisis i'm joined by dennis gartman in virginia he is editor of the government letter in singapore out we go to jim rogers he's an author and financial commentator and in washington we go to sherry's i'd raymond she is professor of international business finance and international affairs at the george washington university all right folks this is across time then you can jump in anytime you want there are different points of view here like to hear me and then if i go to you first i i ask the question before we go to the 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.