if and then this with we could kind of nice it didn't mean years here in wages if one thought through another year of skeptics who wanted danger from the start they have become the unlikely hero this tale just who the hell do you think you people are you are very very dangerous people indeed your obsession with creating this euro state means that you're happy to destroy democracy you appear to be happy for millions and millions of people to be unemployed and to be poor untold millions must suffer so that your euro dream can see you if you rob people of their identity you rob them of their democracy but they are left with is nationalism and by those countries are now waking up to the reality of the night man that says the euro is a political prison for poor countries such as greece and spain and they need to be liberated from their prison recreate their own currencies have devaluation make their exports cheaper make it easier for tourists to visit their countries and

they'll get back on their feet greece ireland portugal italy spain dominate continue to topple the year and it seems there will be no happily ever after. and on the other side of the atlantic president obama has warned the us is quickly running out of time to deal with its own financial troubles congress must raise the current fourteen point three trillion dollar debt ceiling one of bombers urging the parties to ignore political differences and avert armageddon economy express or rodrigo tremblay believes a deal will be struck on the debt limit will once again go up. the united states is not in the same position as and they are a country this is a country you know was a currency as you know is internationally and therefore they can afford to trim more dollars than the year old can. guarantee but that debt

level is very high they raise the debt ceiling each year they will be raised because the president obama has a tradition of caving in to the demands of the republicans he did that he did it twice before so the republicans are. expecting that he will do the same it would take a fall a few days or a few hours before the deadline of august second that could be a similar situation as that happened in one thousand nine hundred four when the representative going which closed the government for a few days or should if you are nearly two weeks. held very much to president clinton at that time to be re-elected in one thousand nine hundred six that's what president obama is hoping now that the republicans will be so extremist than they in two thousand and twelve next year he may be re-elected. you're with r.t. still ahead for you this love of labor india's hard work ethic is the driving force

behind the country's economic success leaving western countries legging behind. others are still to come from a russian orphanage to a golfing prodigy report on the young man's latest challenge of trying to trace his siblings. first rupert murdoch has apologized for the news of the world phone hacking scandal with full page ads in seven british national newspapers the media mogul is now working with a team of top p.r. experts before a grilling from british m.p.'s on choose day amid public outrage over illegal accessing of the mobiles of murder and terrorism victims and dead soldiers' families the crisis has already forced him to shut the one hundred sixty eight year old newspaper scuttled his bid for b. sky b. and claimed two of his top executives journalist action returns he told me earlier that some are said to benefit from the meltdown that murdoch's media empire. the political class is here finally feel free to up for the first time in decades and

decades so i do think appeasing murdoch will particularly work everyone is watching for tuesday's committee where rupert murdoch and his son james will appear so it'll be interesting to see that but i think we should remember that the prime minister ariel sharon we will probably know today because it's saturday said the truth is we've all been in this together the press politicians and leaders of all parties and yes that includes me very sorry indictment for democracy in this country and coming through there i suppose one could say that it was multinationals who are using murdoch in a way so then lobbying rupert murdoch gets the big companies big multinationals and so forth that seem to get things done by helping m.p.'s behind me perhaps not as bad as in washington but i do think it's the end of outside influences outside on democratic forces as regards influences on the parliamentarians behind me it is interesting that he owned these newspapers and they always say rupert murdoch loves newspapers he basically had newspapers so that he could manipulate monopoly

concerns over his broadcast interests which actually did make money unlike the newspapers newspapers are just a tool of war he has lots of enemies out there he probably a lot of ammunition to go back at them though thanks to all the muckraking journalists who spent their time. looking at sex scandals really he does have lots of friends one should add but it looks at some m.p.'s have it unbelievable that he has the right to own any form of media in this country we're about to talk about the united states because that's where it gets really interesting the democratic party in congress is a full on party doesn't really have anything any hope left now that president obama has destroyed his reputation warmongering and and his sort of reaganites economic policies as he deals with the deficit the democrats have nothing much to do but they all hate one particular. cable channel four news and i'm hearing that if

if the nine eleven victims have been hacked by subsidiaries of news corp then fox news is finished it took it took the most curious cases of hacking rather than any kind of a regulator body to be able to get murdoch to finally. finally overthrow him as it were is an amazing story we'll be. looking for the hollywood blockbuster. afshin rattansi talking to be a little earlier the scale of britain is now starting to spill over to the us where calls to investigate the actions of murdoch's media have been driven by reports as we've just been hearing there on the phones of victims of the nine eleven terrorist attacks from cities being hacked but as honest as you check in the reports the tabloids keep flying off the shelves thirty drugs cheating and lies. dirty laundry. and crime stories almost beyond human imagination. all this is served on

a platter and sold for a couple of quarters by tabloids headless man in topless bar or something. in the freezer. like i bought it veteran journalist michael musto is one of millions falling for the bait of catchy headlines even though he knows the business inside out in america we don't break the law per se but they do have sleazy tactics i mean they will slant a story they probably make up sources i mean when you read in a source. in the source said well who is it many times they can just make up the quote themselves and they say joe smith from queen said blah blah blah a lot of times i feel they're just inventing these quotes to back up the thesis of the story fascination with scandal is almost religiously observed in the u.s. and great britain we are both countries in both media environments where gossip sells and there's a tremendous interest in celebrity both countries are

a buzz after rupert murdoch's news of the world newspaper phone hacking shocker broke in london his empire stretches far and wide across the u.s. as well let's not forget he owns the new york post the wall street journal and the daily at a protest outside rupert murdoch's big apple pad protesters demanded an investigation into his publications that whole we know what murdoch does in england because he was caught and we want congress to investigate what he's doing here in the united states we don't know if newspapers are acting other people in this country yet but i see no reason to put it past them so how far from potential public embarrassment do american newspapers stand but the ones that are owned by rupert murdoch without question the new york post. is one of the most hideous deceitful. tools of criminals that there could be when it comes to getting scandal sold in the us counting on the readers short attention span is a common publishing trick jennifer aniston brad pitt has gotten together about

forty two times so far this year and i haven't seen photographs together since two thousand and six they're able to keep selling and repackaging the same story that isn't even a story no publication would admit to paying for. information but that's also often a technicality what a lot of mainstream news publications can get away with doing is even though they won't explicitly give someone money in exchange for an interview someone might set up a terrible organisation and then the news will happen to donate twenty thousand dollars to that terrible organisation the culture of sensationalism in the press is putting the future of journalism on the line the anglo-american style is it's trashy it's ribald and there's just sort of this snickering tone that is very american you know we're a juvenile society where young society i don't really know what the brits excuses i mean they've been around a long time but hey we blame it on them because we're their children while some will always remain fascinated by tabloids as rags continue to sell others have

reached a breaking point i don't have that great of a sense of what happens in britain but i know it's pretty bad here and there are a lot of people who are really upset about the culture of news in america and just how little information seems to get out there between all the gossip the press has to be vigilant and in the united states the press has fallen asleep and r.t. new york. well newspaper gossip columns have become a reading habit for millions of people in our health and it's all six new yorkers why digging around for sleaze seems to be taking over the news. how has tabloid journalism become so influential and so popular in today's world this week let's talk about that i mean people like to read about other people's business. you know. newspapers have to try to compete with the internet. with up to date you know. dirt i think it's absolute trash

there's no space in this world for it at all i hope they'll go in there but they're not going under they're increasing in power i don't believe that this is going to be the biggest takedown ever rupert murdoch is going down i think it's more of a pop culture based audience and so the journalists kind of cater to that and in turn it's kind of fun for them to be secret detectives but isn't it terrible i mean it might be fun but it's still criminal acts it's horrible i hate journalists you know whatever that whatever it takes to get the story and her whoever they want you know and do you ever do you have that attitude at your job no not at all so what makes journalists special and they're not special they're the opposite of special they have no scruples we have it in the mark too because. people. you know they like to end with you they like. to win. but that's not what journalism

specifically what's true but never believe the media's or is it just going to keep getting worse probably do you think journalism like that is bound to spread around the world and become as rampant as it is in britain i do unfortunately and it really isn't journalism i mean there is there is no logical reason that huge gaar reach the bottom line is that if the rampant popularity of tabloid journalism in the u.k. is any indication the rest of the world should preserved be. paired for their own gentle let them to get a lot dirtier. special floating cranes are preparing to lift the doomed ship bulgaria which sank in russia's volga river last sunday the search operation for fifteen missing passengers continues in the area and on nearby islands out of two hundred eight people who are on the cruiser one hundred fourteen have been confirmed dead twenty

eight of them children bodies tom barton is on board one of the ships watching the recovery efforts. the two enormous cranes behind me have begun the process of lowering two cables which will then be threaded underneath the ship and used to right it is currently leading on its left side divers will then be able to go under to check for any of the remaining fifteen bodies that are yet to be found the shores are also being searched for any of those bodies and they'd also be able to search for the potential damage caused to the bulgarian to sink they will eventually find that damage as the ship is ready to be raised and they'll have to seal the hole but let all the water in and any other holes and then all the water inside the bulgaria will be able to be pumped out making it's light enough to be raised the divers though have got a difficult task ahead of them with me is under a you are digging he's from the emergencies ministry under a could you maybe just tell us a bit about the conditions that the divers are working in.

divers are currently working on the river bed but it's really difficult because of crew visibility basically you can't see anything even if it's right in front of you that's why the tires are preparing to lift the ship up there barely able to see what they're doing obviously this operation now everyone is waiting especially the relatives on the banks will be desperate for news of what has happened to their loved ones and increasingly investigators want to know what caused this ship to sink and sink so fast causing so much tragedy. tom barton reporting their time now to update you on some other international news in our world update this hour to vienna first and thousands of mourners have joined the imperial style funeral of the last of the austria-hungary empire people gathered to pay tribute to crown prince otto von berg the sort of austria's last emperor of european royals and political leaders who were in attendance prince had spoke died earlier this month

at the age of ninety eight and has been buried in the imperial crypt. despite warnings from china u.s. president barack obama has held a private meeting with the exiled tibetan spiritual leader the dalai lama chinese government earlier called on the united states to cancel the talks saying it would damage relations between the country's leaders are expected to discuss the dalai lama's hopes for tibet to be semi autonomous and chinese accuse them of pushing for full. independence. yet as one of president hugo chavez is to return to cuba for more cancer treatment including chemotherapy has been given approval from the national assembly for the trip was required by the constitution chavez returned to venezuela after spending nearly a month in cuba where he had a tumor from his pulpit region removed his battle with cancer has raised doubt service fitness to lead the country but officially he still plans to run for reelection next year. syrian opposition members been holding meetings of the mass

chrysalis campbell discussed ways of president assad this comes after a massive nationwide protest rocked the country on friday leaving at least thirty two people hundreds of thousands of anti-government demonstrators poured onto the streets of the capital in other cities before facing a crackdown by security forces the government has launched a national dialogue that the testers are demanding president assad steps down. if you want to achieve your dreams you gotta be ready to work for them and that's what indian people are doing in their droves and it seems staying at work longer than their western counterparts is paying off. elbowed her way into reveal the reality of life in the new delhi rat race. it's a busy city with busy people india is a rising economic locomotive so what's the driving force behind its success it could very well be that people like you and. bulls are co-directors of a small one import company called divine and is indians have developed a strong liking for french and spanish mintage is young men are working overtime to

fill their glasses you have to be very flexible with your working hours. engineers were recovered globalization and because of all you know you're interacting with so many people from abroad especially america you know in europe so. we can't be fixed by means where we can say we're only going to work from nine to five but people in britain for example can and do say that seven spent years working as a business consultant in the u.k. and he says brits watch that clock closely in britain people leave a five o'clock and they won't start i said because i got a train to catch up for many years in britain and yet there is that some people. in britain people don't work weekends it's changing a little bit now particularly in periods of economic recession. but generally it's a monday to friday as recently as just two years ago india had a six day long week the government has put in strict regulations regarding labor

hours but that doesn't stop people from spending more time in the office than needed notice of the most significant difference between the kind of work culture in india and in britain is the pressure of people around to work above and beyond the contracted hours. everyone will do this irrespective or really if there's work to be done if there is a small enterprise to run then all state regulations go out of the window if sacrifices equal success then you have to make them i wouldn't twenty four seven. working at the. i work on sunday. i'm an office working because they're all between processed that these things are being organized so out for them. but what may seem a fine example of dedication may actually be a drawback in the office environment i think people are expected to do the job of

two or three people. even though the contract was might say one thing which isn't always such a good thing because if you work such long hours it's going to affect your performance while europe and the u.s. spend their money on fighting wars and their time on trying to figure out a way to get out of economic slump india is busy getting things done the indian way or garnish is probably the most popular god in the entire hindu pantheon in india he is supposed to bring prosperity and success to those who worship him but the success of indian businessmen should not be attributed to the divine help alone nine to five working hours just don't cut it here in the long hours of hard labor but at the end all of that hard work pays off in. new delhi. if you've missed anything we're covering on. the website well not all the time here's what else you'll find there at the moment should you go on us activist a monumental fortress of emerges that during the cold war america trained

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on the. video. old girls and streets now in the palm of your. on the dot com. he's a russian born gold prodigy handed his chance in the game after being adopted by american parents but for nikolai cabinet ski his biggest challenge isn't finding form on the fairways but fun in the family he left behind back home you go or don't know has the story. he might have a smoother swing but from the outside nicholai looks no different to the pampered junior players in this hyper exclusive moscow golf club but this couldn't be further from the truth nikolai come alecky was an eleven year old when he was adopted by an american family and you can never say that or think his life is easy you know and basically they're the they make you feel like it's nothing you're

nothing to me when i came to united states i had a lot of problems emotion that he's an incredible young man he is someone who has taken on many challenges in his life and he's always overcome then came the gulf one day i just saw my desk going in a golf club in the backyard and a seven iron i don't remember exactly but i had no idea what it was i just was a piece of metal and i asked him what it was and he told me it was golf and then he asked me to he said you want to do want to try and i tried it and i headed straight for my first ball and he said you're playing. despite making headway in sport was one thing nicholai could not get over when he moved to the united states nikolai was separated from his younger sister and brother and lost track of them he rejected several sports scholarship offers at top years colleges to play for the russian national golf team so he could search for his siblings. this year during a top junior tournament heard news about his sister my whole life. my dad and we

have paid a lot of money to different companies to try to find her and then i met a family out of nowhere and they found there in less than two weeks so to me i never thought that i was ever going to see her again. reunited at last nicholai sister and the seer who's never adopted she's about to graduate from a school in southern russia. knew when they heard about my brother and i thought it was a prank my friend played on me i don't remember much about him i think. and to become close. she just listening i'm going to buy her a computer so that we can talk to each other all the time so that we never losing touch again but when you put it. back in moscow nicholai has won the prestigious filed zero series tournament and will compete against europe stop young players later this year but he says now his priority is finding his brother we can only

wish nicholai the best in his dream to become a professional golfer but what he's had to overcome whatever happens next he is already a winner either of our ordinary absi in moscow. we'll explore the explosive dangers. of a growing nuclear shortly but before that i'll be back with the headlines in about three minutes from now stay with us life here in moscow.

wealthy british style it's time to. find. the perfect. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy in these kinds of reports. with the end of the boer war and the going away of the soviet union many people thought that nuclear weapons disappeared. the risk is not zero that something might be going off by mistake especially a lot of sounds of the nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert. focus of a difference to use it as a threat all as an actual bit but you know if you keep spinning a trillion dollars a year on weapons of benchley you're going to blow everybody up you've you know people are dying from these weapons but until we actually see if people don't wake

up to nuclear weapons or a bill. that represents all of the firepower of the second world war and this second sound is the equivalent firepower. the world's nuclear arsenal today.

tonto to join our main news stories this hour on r t eight european banks fail stress test for a worst case scenario with threatening to rain down on the euro in the current financial still rupert murdoch says sorry for the phone hacking by the news of the world as his media empire built on sleaze and scandal tries to stave off self destruction preparation work is underway to lift the russian cruiser from the bottom of the bowl goodrich aimed at shedding more light on why the vessel went down with a loss of around one hundred thirty dollars. each continues in this thirty minutes from now in the meantime is the second part of our special report about anti nuclear activist from new zealand who works to inspire youth to fight for atomic disarm that's next. the fall out from the french

test went beyond the polynesian islands they caused outrage in new zealand which took the lead in the n.t. nuclear movement and became a black sheep among western countries yes unlike any other country new zealand refused to rely on nuclear weapons for its security but here nuclear technology is banned it's the law. i think a lot of the young people feel proud about new zealand especially free policy that people have come of complacent and feel that as foreign we're safe there are these other issues here i mean a lot of people say people in the peace movement has had beaten out of members graveyards resounds and that's what people say. even in new zealand it's difficult to find young people concerned about this issue they are more sensitive to the melting of the antarctic and he wants to revitalize the ageing pacifist movement

when i'm working at the peace foundation and my role is to use outreach coordinator . in the race and they are going to tie he see to it being a pacific youth fist of all and basing all these amazing people from twenty seven different countries in the pacific and i felt for the first time in my life that new zealand was not remarked and that we were big compared to. some of the things out of the pacific garden country. i was brought up in the higher the peace activist mother she's been around during peace activist the last thirty years so it's in my blood and i feel a responsibility to continue that when. i have this funny memory of mum buying me a greenpeace sticker that you put on your window and it was of the rainbow warrior and the face of terrorism kidnapped by in harbor on a part that was on a peaceful mission really sort of shocked.