people appearing before parliament including we have rebecca brooks both top ranking police officers they will have to answer more questions role in the scandal in front of parliament we're seeing more and more that everybody in the public eye is implicated in this scandal really more and more people being implicated when commissioner stevenson resigned he really stuck the knife into prime minister david cameron he said that the prime minister's relationship with the former news of the world editor and cool surgeon who of course he hired to work with him made it difficult to disclose certain facts to the prime minister about the phone hacking and he also didn't tell the prime minister about the employer the employment of neil wallis who's that former executive director of the news of the world as a consultant to the police for fear of compromising david cameron now that obviously puts cameron very much in the spotlight we've also seen boris johnson the mayor of london who is supposed to be in charge of the metropolitan police unstring some very difficult questions from journalists in a news conference just

a little bit earlier cause what we see here in the u.k. is first people losing trust in the press secondly losing trust in the police and now we may even see them losing trust in their m.p.'s if this is not the end of this scandal certainly not and indeed the labor leader ed miliband is calling for the breakup of murdoch's media empire that is laura rupert murdoch and his former yukos c.e.o. rebecca brooks of police on tuesday over the scandal but media told the police being paid for information by the media is not likely to disappear any time soon. this is a good example of what the police have been doing in the kind of murdoch years they've been using a rest they've been leaking they've been paid for telling people where celebrities have been arrested so actually manipulating the rest of people is actually a practice that has become in trying now in my view as a result of the kind of bribery thing so this would hardly be out of practice but i

don't think it's going to deflect opinion i mean there are so many m.p.'s now and indeed so much of the british establishment which for so long kowtow to murdoch is now prepared to get to the bottom of this and we doubt those people who have been corrupted at different levels remember that four years ago right the police had these bags with i think it was a level one thousand letters about four thousand celebrities and victims of crime and all these other people and they knew they were taking part investigation these bags were just left there i mean it's amazing it's remarkable that it took four years for them to do anything about this meanwhile senior police officers were wining and dining with members of the murdoch empire they were they were meeting them for drinks privately one even hired them at a thousand pounds a day to work for him so you know what does this tell us about the relationship between the police and the news corp employees well it's very very serious and if this can happen at the top of the police look at the example that gives to officers down down the lines now you could well you know can any organization properly

examine itself but so much is at stake but if that operation is seen to be corrupted as well i think we've got you know an even bigger problem i think so many people now are watching it including you know members of parliament select committees these are investigative bodies within the british political system they're all all eyes are on this let alone all the journalists who are looking at what's going on so i think that the ramifications of this is so big i mean you know britain is is is shaking at this each day it's headline news and people are asking who's next. coming up here on r.t. searching for answers as the recovery operation the crew of the russian told the river to bring all the latest from the scene as we know it and also ahead. the. valley find out why twenty two thousand winners of the green card lottery have seen a lot run out on their way to united states. the taliban has claimed

responsibility for the assassination of the afghan president's senior advisor in the capital kabul along with one of the country's m p's local security forces say they've already killed the militants who carried out the attack the murders come less than. half brother who were on the south of the country was. the taliban stepping up its assault on afghan officials as nato troops begin to withdraw indeed on sunday the alliance handed over control of the first of seven designated areas to local forces but antiwar activists jim brown told a trail of military bases are being left behind. i would question to what extent they really want to leave clearly they have to present themselves as leaving whether they really intend to leave i think you can gauge by for example the amount of construction that's going on at places. nato bases at places like kandahar about graham and so on which look very permanent and involve hundreds of

millions of dollars but certainly some process is going on and it may end up in a withdrawal or something that we could recognizably call a withdrawal but compared to the goals that they set themselves or that they claim for themselves ten years ago there's very little to cheer about i think you have to ask the question security for who or for walks when they talk about handing over responsibility for security because by all accounts for example the afghan army as it's called is very much biased towards ethnic groups so it starts with that handicap from the beginning so the idea that it would be an impartial force or seen to be an impartial force seems to be extremely unlikely. meanwhile there's a change at the top for nato in afghanistan with general david petraeus leaving to take over as director of the cia he's being replaced by general john allen who will oversee the gradual transfer of responsibility for security from nato troops to

local forces but jason model of reports for r t next there's concern afghan forces are too divided too ill equipped and lacking in training to fend off the taliban on their own. there's confusion on the faces of the afghan army soldiers as a firefight unfolds on the other side of the wall lucky for them this is the kabul military training center in the bullets being fired blanks the men here halfway through a ten week program and the officers don't cut the many slack when it's over the be deployed eastern province one of afghanistan's most violent corners mob but we must push them hard so they can perform under pressure day by day we're making progress the afghan national army has already come a long way its ranks have swollen to about one hundred seventy thousand troops thanks to fresh waves of recruits attracted by higher wages and extra perks the soldiers insist they are all united in their desire to be back to tell a bomb led insurgency regardless of age or ethnicity then any are what we are old

brothers and we are all called by one name was by the call of duty is also struck a chord beyond able bodied males a first ever class of woman soldiers has just graduated. and there's even a mujahideen unit made up of hardened veterans of the anti soviet jihad this is all good news to u.s. military planners who have set a two thousand and fourteen but no need to hand over security responsibilities to the afghans the afghan army enjoys a much better reputation in the police force has even been featured in the recent movie. but is the army takes greater responsibility for security around the country there are concerns that the quality of troops may be coming at the expense of quality starters more than eighty percent of troops are illiterate a big problem an ability to read maps and numbers can spell the difference between life and death adding to the woes are widespread drug use and desertions today roughly one in four combat soldiers quit their post critics also point out that the military leadership is made up of many rival x. warlords who still command loyalties along regional and ethnic lines and could drag

the country deeper into conflict as the u.s. begins to scale back its role as custodian this summer there are concerns that these divisions may flare up if i was not neutral. it will be here late ninety's fighting each other killing each other these people waiting in groups of little groups to control it in yet another obstacle for a young army that still has much to prove before it can stand on its own feet jason want to live in kabul for a time. a major terror plot hatched near moscow as before by russian security services police have detained a group of four people from the north caucuses who are allegedly planning the attack our correspondent in a culture of in the caucuses has got the latest. well all the members of the group that was detained by russian special forces were originally from the north caucasus regions and they were planning an attack in crowded areas as well as the transport

hubs of the moscow region now special forces found guns explosives maps and schedules all of these planned attacks also old as the detained people have can fast and police other people there are believed to be linked to the planned attack were also found now president means visit has ordered an urgent investigation and once those who are responsible for the failed attack to be severely punished now since the start of this yeah there has been a number of terror raids and despite the fact that dozens of terrorists were killed during those operations still the potential terrorist rats' remains high according to russia's in terra ministry and today off through the news of this failed operation of this failed attack president mugabe just underlined about the situation in the region remains. the last twenty four hours have seen two dad the blast that hit russia's north caucasus and the first one happened in change now two policemen were killed and seven of us one says when an explosive head to such

operation in the mountainous area and that was the second one happened in the republic of dagestan it was a roadside bomb detonated as car was passing by the explosion allowed to policeman and three others wounded oldies have been in the wake of what we've done to terror raids that was launched in the region in the republic of dagestan down two days ago now despite. a number of air raids and fighting against terrorism goes on still the france remains and search operations continue. but as we do the culture of a still to come in the program tonight revealing the secrets of human good say. that the true said the story teller. objects we send off the pictures online about others well tell me more about that also find it was some russian girl showing their support for the dream of putin at next year's presidential elections now.

taking a closer. lifting of the cruiser that sank in russia's volga river last sunday killing around one hundred thirty people may take up to several days the vessel first has been moved off its side in what is one of the operations most difficult stages the recovery could play a crucial role though in finding out and says as to why the ship went down tom parton is following developments. we're up here on the volga bank about three kilometers from where the recovery attempts are taking place in the distance behind me police and authorities have been trying to stop journalists getting any closer to the recovery efforts and that's because late last night one of the cables holding the ball guerrier snapped and they were trying to at the time to right the ship before lifting it now they've they're attempting to repair that cable and thread it back underneath the ship so that they can write it and then begin to lift it divers will then be able to go under the ship to look for fifteen bodies which

are yet to be found and also to try and find the causes essential to the hole that let all the water in so fast and made the bulgaria sink in under three minutes there are many people on the banks that are waiting for those answers firstly the relatives and the survivors some of them have been waiting for over a week now the news of where their loved ones may be and they also want the same answers as to why this tragedy happened as the investigators for all the criminal cases that have been opened they're going to want to know if the shit really was a so many revelations have come out saying old and decrepit in fact not even worthy to be on the water of the volga hopefully the raising of this ship will show in very short time what has remained a mystery up till now and hopefully help help provide some kind of answers as to why so many lives were lost in such a short space of time. russia says it won't recognize the libyan rebels as the

country's only legitimate authority foreign minister sergei lavrov criticised the u.s. and other nations for taking that step of a diplomatic meeting last week in istanbul. but liberals do not share this position for one simple reason this position again means that those behind the recognition are fully siding with one political force in the libyan civil war this again means that those who took this decision are pursuing a policy of isolation in this case the isolation of tripoli astro's just like any other conflict we reject isolationists as a way to resolve problems we believe in involvement and in this context at different levels we maintain contact with both tripoli and benghazi we were just them to show a constructive stance and responsibility for the fate of the libyan people and to get to the negotiation table to launch a dialogue about creating a transitional structure that would prepare reforms on a free democratic elections for the president of the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton announced the recognition of the rebels on

friday at a meeting of the international contact group on libya washington and more than thirty other western and arab states have to deal with them until the interim government is in place the move also potentially gives the libyan opposition access to billions of dollars of gadhafi assets frozen in american banks. also making headlines tonight a court in budapest has cleared a ninety seven year old son barry about a nazi war crimes shunned or came hero a former police captain denied being involved in the massacre of civilian hostages in serbia during world war two it was alleged a patrol under his command took part in the murder of jews in a raid by hungary forces in one hundred forty two more than twelve hundred people were killed in the notorious massacre. south africa is celebrating former president nelson mandela's ninety third birthday to mark the event people around the globe are asked to do charity work for sixty seven minutes representing every year of mandela's life an active polity. millions of schoolchildren also sang

a special version of a happy birthday song for the x. media the eighteenth of july is recognized by the un as mandela's day for his major contribution to the cause of peace and freedom. the un science courses all the votes come in thailand to withdraw the troops from the disputed border area run an action temple complex the two nations were asked to allowed neutral observers to monitor the cease fire the temple belongs to come both here but much of the surrounding land is in thailand tensions increased when the building was awarded world heritage status in two thousand and eight. for some twenty two thousand people who want to green card lottery to live in america good luck seems suddenly to have deserted them their dreams of a new life are dust when the u.s. state department claimed had been a computer error on that the results were no longer valid now the story's cast fresh on the way the lottery operates as art is going to teach you can founder. hoping for a better life in america. from nigeria applied for the green card lottery he won or

so it said in the letter that he received from the state department almost two weeks later the us voided the results of the lottery for some twenty two thousand people including you get your core but i want to lots of. i'm going lotteries want to get off. it's one from each year the u.s. state department grants green cards to some fifty thousand people from around the globe the lottery where the jackpot is the right to live and work in america is advertised as completely random the state department claims in this case there was a computer glitch and the results were not arbitrary a computer programming error caused more than ninety percent of the selectees to come from the first two days of the registration period the victims of the blunder have joined in a class action suit against the u.s. state department and lost the court here has been struggling with the issue of randomness asking how could the result of the green card lottery not be random even

if there had been a computer glitch as the state department claims one of the arguments is that even in the era like that could produce a random result and the whole idea behind the green card lottery is that whoever you are whatever you do you can win it but this case could very well undermine that perception experts specializing in information technology say the decision of the state department as well as the court that dismissed the case defies simple logic rhonda means that if all records of all the tracks are on your c.v. player when you hit the run you may get tracks three four and five and track twelve that's still random the state department has brought up intricate technical arguments to explain the blunder that thousands of its victims say they have the feeling that someone has gambled with their lives we believe that america. going to shut down our t. washington d.c.

. the lonely vigil of nasa's hubble telescope and all bids come to an end as it now gets to share the job of looking deeper into the universe than anyone has done before rushing the scent of its own in the sky and it's got to show up inside to the galaxy on his roof an ocean was the launch pad to seattle. this is the moment russian space scientists have been waiting for for decades the space observatory it creaked with the cutting edge telescope a huge step in universal ration as an enormous i will be able to see further and deeper than ever before it will be possible to observe the most mysterious the darkest and the most shadow corners of our galaxy and other galaxies as well and stars even it will be able to observe black holes and shed light on their dark nature and these huge enormous i will be able to provide detailed images detailed pictures of the universe with a resolution a thousand times shop but then america's. well i'll let you enjoy the moment.

i'm really. ready. to. help. and money. we will receive the first images of the universe. reporting from baikonur space expose looking forward to getting valve if you want to see war all of the amazing you know we go to my website it's trivial to tell you by. one of the stories making headlines is that some desperate financial problems continue to terrify europe we bring you expert analysis and opinion of how the scale of the problem just keeps rising it's not dot com tomorrow morning. no more secrets find out how a mistake by a russian bobo. went on private most news including intimate ones were made

public but. now with less than a year left before the next presidential elections here in russia voters are already coming up with their own ideas of how to support a potential kind of this is one of the more. extraordinary words for you have been online campaigns been launched urging young women into baghdad he may have put in by ripping off their clothes a group calling itself the putin army the move girl's revises offended videos of them stripping off with prizes promised for the winners under the judges similar stance of becoming something of a tradition in russia last year students from a top university posed for a bone chip calendar expressing their love for the premier. it watching our team items cover no info to bring with us shortly we go behind bars to sample the tough life in russia's prisons it's business right now though dmitri.

thanks kevin hello and welcome to the business update on out the former boss of b.p. is considering a bid for two major russian wilford sky news quotes people close to tony hayward saying he's interested in both and basnet our correspondents met in the course of a look at how likely such a deal could be. tony hayward the natural child have been looking to invest or cash ever since their company on the london stock exchange last month they raised over two billion dollars which could hardly fund the acquisition of two russian oil producers by sniffed every new snap worth around twelve billion dollars the stakes in question of what the ball from russians like rubbing where you have to send those holding company a if cases the emma none of the companies being talked about have made an official statement but analysts we've spoken to believe that such a deal could be possible if k. has repeatedly said that it has no interest in selling out so angry but and the say

the price being talked about is good enough to make a if to take it seriously especially since all companies i know it's poor business at the same time envious oil and natural gas corp has been in talks with passion if ever they have to merge the two companies and by its twenty five percent stake well whoever ends up getting these assets one thing is for sure and that is that they will be getting access to one of the biggest discovered oil fields in russia. moving on that russia's furred largest oil producer caving piece continuing its international expansion the company has agreed to buy a forty five percent stake in an exploration project in the amazon forest covers around fifty thousand square kilometers holds over five hundred million barrels in the oil equivalent so this is close to the deal so you could call to one billion dollars stake same with oil second look at the current oil price than it is heading down and it's actually

a very sharp drop more than two dollars for lloyd's sweet brant is down one dollar in the heart of this is as debt problems are still looming in europe and the united states losing worries about economics the demand for fuel and also the dollar is high versus the euro therefore we're going back to. moving to stockmann. it's now in the u.s. though still lower more than one point two percent for both the dow jones and nasdaq this is build the confidence showed slight improvement in june but not much of prospects for improvement in general. european stock so seeing as pretty similar picture of the down the one point five five percent of the worst both in london and in frankfurt lenders may have to raise additional cash that's according to the results of a recent stress test for banks and therefore banks were the prime losers both in london and the frankfurt on monday. rush also started the week on a very negative note a sea of red all over the board actually the r.t.s.

down one point eight percent my six one point six percent second some of the main movers because of declining oil ross never lost more than two percent between being a declined one and a half percent despite publishing positive financial results and among mine as polymaths so once again again almost four percent as investors are switching to precious metals like gold for safe haven purposes but you know bragging now wraps up with a strong. rick a day or quarter day for investors was priceless europe the stock markets was negative well marcus was the bottom one percent which is comparable to european stock market was good news is oil price which stays high gold prices there continue and which dr sam stovall russian stocks to new heart for the metal which added about three point six percent which is quite different from ours

a softer increases in my view to talk more of the day. business out will be back in fifteen minutes time with not the else either. mission disciplinary punishment education. work. could the penitentiary system transform a criminal into

a law abiding citizen. should presume life behind bars on our t.v. . in some petersburg oh she's available in hotels a story of a little ambassador in a small school to kowtow to triple a soto patricio toto golden golden. bowl to extol. and see if this city visit.

hello there you're watching r t from moscow is coming over here tonight with the top stories for you in the crisis and rupert murdoch's media empire spreads to the british police becomes a senior policeman is being followed by his deputy and a critic over their links to newspaper executives can boil you can broaden the scandal over a phone hacking bribery. also making headlines the taliban claims responsibility for the killings of more high ranking officials in afghanistan this comes as nato begins to hand over control the country's problems to locals facing a huge question marks a rebel ability to cope. and russian security forces foil a major terror plot waskow police have arrested a group of people from the north caucasus who are allegedly planning an attack on crowded areas of major transport. russia's prisons or the touristy tough

places but now the jail system itself is facing calls for reform special report on the air. up up up. and complains. i. guess the catch. also was for the sake of my wife and kids. going into statistics one out of every four men in russia has served time in prison currently nearly nine hundred found inmates are serving time in prison colonies most of them have committed serious crimes. convicts enter a quarantine if they see a mix of the old penitentiary system and then you. initially the russian pain all system had inherited the legacy of stalin's notorious killers. but now it is going

through a period differ from the likes of which have never been seen before. everyone here has to decide whether or not they're going to change their ways should go edging toward needs to see that it's happening what kind of changes are already in place behind the barbed wire and will modernization benefit both the inmates prison staff . convicted coverly owner of masterminding the murder of a fellow businessman who sentenced him to seventeen years so he has spent several months in one of moscow's investigative isolation wards now pavo is due to be transferred to a prison colony on face the wall. spread their legs right up. the neither slave makes it monday to ray for a convert to be taken into.