he who kills the movie that's the case we go to the grand imperial truly the taj was the coolest coromandel you can a little closer to see don't need to go and. read this in the kennel was such a retreat. so i cannot see cops and hikers a second senior british police officer quits over his links to rupert murdoch's media empire as the pressure of now builds on the prime minister. of the taliban assassinate some more high ranking officials in afghanistan this nature begins to hand over control of the country's provinces to local forces facing huge question marks over their ability to cope. russian security forces full of major terror plot in moscow which is believed could have called huge loss of life. also in business news the form of b.p. chief tony hayward is reportedly eyeing russian oil companies are and basket one

that i want to. welcome you watching our team from moscow it's ten pm monday night here now kevin and first another day another sculptors the news of the world scandal continues to unravel britain's second most senior police officers now quit following the example of his boss who resigned on sunday it follows revelations they hired a firm and he was the world executives of media advisor there exits no more pressure on the prime minister david cameron also hired a former editor from the same paper. reports. the feeling on the ground here in london is that this is an unfolding scandal not one which is drawing to an end every day there are more allegations more arrests and small resignations and this missiles we've seen those countries to top police officers resign in the last

couple of days over the relationship of the police with the news of the world needs paper and there are several reasons for that the first is that police obviously closed an investigation into phone hacking back in two thousand and nine saying that there was no evidence to support it and of course we've also seen allegations that police including offices the seniors detectives were involved in accepting bribes from journalists at the news of the world in exchange for tipoffs allegedly now when assistant commissioner yates resigned he says that the news of the world had been uncooperative in that original inquiry but that he never lied and that's all the information that he's provided to parliament about the phone hacking scandal up to now was in good faith but m.p.'s widely dismissed that evidence is unconvincing and they said that this was not the end of the matter so we will see

further questions on the relationship between the police and the news of the world and of course in the next couple of days we'll see people appearing before parliament including we hear rebecca brooks both those 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 resigns 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 andy kristen 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. it's the employer and 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 forrest johnson

the mayor of london who is supposed to be in charge of the metropolitan police i answering some very difficult questions from journalists in a news conference just a little bit earlier because cause what we see here in the u.k. is 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.c. 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 but his calls for the . journalists north trouble is joining us now from london to give us a few thoughts of his own about what's unfolding in front of our eyes we. see the waves of the scandal to get the feet of the british pm oh now are they well the public what do you think well of the moment they are all ready to leave. kaufman and the new skin or well west for the prime minister should resign but

there is a lot from the point of view of. the conservative the tories they don't feel that one has to resign but we don't know how it will go in the next few days every did you arrest on you nation. that will come in the next few days and then we'll see what the prime minister's position is but at the moment it doesn't seems likely that a promise there will be resigning or there's a general feeling isn't there that he hasn't handled it very well. well i feel that . i can see that he didn't not at the beginning and it took him a while and miliband actually was leading the the schole but as soon as he realized that there were this kind of was too big and it could not be backtracked and longer continue as i think the kind of position that we will investigate everything to do go. to the end of it and we will make sure that. the police investigations are going on. it is difficult to see at the moment of this will turn out in the public

view but his reading of the gone down very much in sort of moment we can only wait and see what tomorrow subcommittee hearings will actually bring more about what kind of a relations will be so that's the british problem is to cover the british police in the last twenty four hours britain's two most senior police officers resigned over the scandal how these allegations affecting the force right now the public's trust in police saying well there's been a report of about one hundred thirty thousand pounds worth of. gold given to the police in england but at the moment they are telling cleary it's going on on every level within the police outside the police with some communities but the judge as well in all every kind of the main in this situation so we'll have to wait and see what this investigation will bring but at the moment even small subcommittees meeting might not bring that much information from the murdoch's. because. since

there is an ongoing investigation is going to be impeded you could ask you about that so you don't think any explosive evidence there all the media is going to be trade of course so no what i've got to say are what rupert murdoch and his son and as you say in their former u.k. c.e.o. rebecca brooks are going to say to those employees tomorrow do you think it's going to be a low key event. no according to the biographers of. murdoch rupert murdoch says that it's likely that they will speak more than we should all that they're not exactly prepared for these kind of meetings and the last one in two thousand and three i believe. stated that there was corruption that leap a police officer was to get information about a public the it is even said that the news of the world. and sheen to people on the other mobile phone was that only the police should have for there are lots of card question of a probably be asked tomorrow and if they do answer and it's likely that they may

then we might see that tomorrow might actually be something explosive could be extraordinary revelations that will actually lead to more arrests and more resignations not of course we would have to see it the way it would have to wait and see tomorrow no question marks as well about how this was allowed to grab for so long it's now only coming out the full extent of the methods used by the news of the world isn't it but the government the police apparently turning a blind eye to this for years how could that happen you think. it's things that the politicians and the police buy extensions depends on the media to actually get elected in power and the ways that actually seems to be going about this business is that if if you don't grant interviews or you don't do this or that usually they can be dirty then in the press and the newspapers and the empire of a mother start powerful so the news the politicians have got to be friends and you

know if you want with the press and the seventy we're with international news and the news of the world and so at the moment it is but i see that it was difficult for them to actually get out of this friendship or to break this friendship from fears that they might have been in the next elections the police world that was briberies it seems the investigation will cover perhaps. there may be the investigations were stopped but also these people a blind eye for so long. page documents from the care that they have actually recovered at the end of going through and so why did not actually gone into this in two thousand and nine and so there are hard questions and there was a lot of there were a lot of people in high places that didn't seem to want this to explode and so at the moment it's gone too far now and the public opinion is totally against. this to be actually hushed up any longer since. the the. the the million dollar incidence of the teenager's murder where actually the news of the world

seems to be in their phones and deleted messages to try to get new messages while the parents thought that she must be alive would actually show been monitored so this was the event that started the scandal but this story is not new if it was actually nick davis from the guardian who was working with the new york times who actually in july two thousand and nine this is when he wrote this the main articles about him is under sedation in the phone hacking. so it's only now that actually does take in this proportion and only now that the politicians feel and even the police feel that an proper investigation inquiries can be made and we can only hope with an inquiry going on the. government will be able to we will be able to get a well we'll be hearing all of morrow as you say it's a messy business more questions to be said tomorrow our cameras will be there will be across what's happening as well journalist and author rather michel tremblay thanks for your thoughts thank you for coming up here on r.t.

searching for answers as the recovery operation of the cruise which sank in russia's volga river continues to bring you all the latest from the sea and also to come in the program tonight. believe that america if you give us the valley find out why twenty two thousand winners of the green card lottery seeing their luck run out on their way to the united states. next though the taliban has claimed responsibility for the assassination of the afghan president's senior adviser 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 a week of the hamid karzai is half brother who ran the south of the country was the taliban stepping up its assault on afghan officials as nato combat troops begin to withdraw on sunday alliance handed over control of the first of seven designated areas to local forces the antiwar activist jim brown told us a trail of military bases have been 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 apply for example the amount of construction that's going on at places. nato bases at places like kandahar and diagram and so on which look very permanent 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 recognize simply call a withdrawal 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 what 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 certain ethnic groups so it starts with

handicaps 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 to. change the top for nato and of going to start with general david petraeus leaving to take over as director of the cia he's being replaced by general john allen who will look to see the gradual transfer of responsibility for security from nato troops to local forces. reports next razzi this concern that ask forces are too divided 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 looking for them this is the kabul military training center and the board's paid fire blanks the men here halfway through a ten week program and the officers don't cut the many slack when it's over i'll be deployed in eastern congo a province one of afghanistan's most violent corners and up 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 of 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 the taliban led insurgency regardless of age or ethnicity then in the army we are old brothers and we are all called by one name. right a call of duty has also struck a chord beyond able bodied males a first ever class of women soldiers has just graduated. and there's even a mujahedeen unit made up of hardened veterans and the anti soviet this is all good news to u.s. military planners who have set a two thousand and fourteen lead to hand over security responsibilities to the afghans the afghan army enjoys a much better reputation in the police force is even featured 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 for starters more than eighty percent of troops are literally a big problem an ability to read maps and numbers can spell the difference between life and 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 ex warlords who still command loyalty as long regional and ethnic lines and could drag the country people 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 stop here true. it wouldn't be and you know they would be fighting each other and you can be killing each other these are the. groups that are the groups who control it in your letter obstacle for a young army but still has much to prove before it can still need some. more blood in kabul for a time. a major terror plot hatched in moscow has been followed by russian security

services police are detained a group of four people from the north caucasus were allegedly planning the attack corresponded within a cochon of his in the caucasus forest she's got the latest for you. well all the members of the group that was detained by russian special forces were originally from of 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 plans it's hot also old as the detained people have confessed and police other people there are believed to be linked to the atomic were also found now president medvedev has ordered an urgent investigation and once those who are responsible for the failed it time to be severely punished now since the start of this yeah there has been a number of anti terror raids and despite the fact that dozens of terrorists were killed during those operations still these 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 just underlines the situation in the region remains very time for the last twenty four hours have seen two dogs the blast that hit russia's north caucasus and the first one happened in change now two policemen were killed and seven others wanted 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 pothole car was crossing by the explosion allowed to policeman and three others wounded oldies up in the wake of what we see terror raids that was launched in the region in the republic of died down two days ago now despite the. number of air raids and fighting against terrorism goes on and still the remains and search operations continue.

there's been no more videos the laws should be amazing observatory on our website we're actually talking about the space observatory that russia or sent up there will tell you more about i will bit later in fact if you want to know about that it's going to be we're joined by helping telescope tailor our website our feed of course also online tonight at deaths in desperate financial problems continue to terrify you are you expert analysis and analysis and opinion of how the scale of problems just keep right now for life for us for more secrets so in the state by russian mobile phone private messages including in some of ones were made public. the lifting of the cruise and sank in russia's volga river last sunday killing one hundred thirty people have been halted because of weather workers have been trying to first move the vessel off its side in what is one of the operations most difficult stages the recovery could play a crucial role in fighting our system while the ship went down some bad reports.

police in our thirties 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 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 essentially 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 for news of where their loved ones may be and they also want the same answers as to why is trying to be 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 so many revelations have come out same old and decrepit in fact not even worthy to be on the water of the volga hopefully the raising of the 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. for some twenty two thousand people one a green card lottery to live in america good luck seemed suddenly to have deserted them their dreams of a new life were dashed when the u.s. state department played the bit of computer error and the results were no longer valid now the stories because fresh out of nowhere the lottery operates he's going to get you can found. hoping for a better life in america because you quote from nigeria applied for the green card lottery he won or so we 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 a war but i want a lot of thoughts that i cannot get over. it's one for 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 and a computer programming error caused more than ninety percent of the select 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 the result of the green card lottery not be random even if there had been a computer glitches but they department claims one of the arguments is that even an error 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 think 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 it's old record and old traction on your cd player when you have to run you made your tracks three four and five and then your track twelve that's still run the state department has brought up intricate technical arguments to explain the blunder but thousands of its victims say they have the feeling that someone has gambled with their lives we've been we've got america. going to shut down our t. washington d.c. . so making news this monday night according to the press has cleared a ninety seven year old home gary man of nazi war crimes. bureau from a 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 and forces in one hundred forty two more than twelve hundred people killed notorious massacre. the un size called thought of both cambodia and thailand to withdraw the troops from the disputed border area around an ancient temple complex two nations were asked to allow the neutral observers to monitor the cease fire the temple belongs to cambodia but much of the surrounding land is entirely tensions increased when the building was awarded world heritage status in two thousand and eight. so 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 the sixty seven minutes that's representing every year of mandela's life in active politics millions of schoolchildren also signing a special version of a happy birthday song actually the eighteenth of july is recognized by the un as mandela's day for his major contribution to the cause of peace and freedom. with less than a year left before the next presidential election here in russia voters were ready

come up with a road some of them special ideas how to support a potential candidate here's one of the more extraordinary ones for you an online campaign has been launched noting young women can back bloody mayor putin by ripping off their clothes having correct the group calling itself the putin army the move there was a big visor to send in videos of them stripping off with prizes probably for the winners we don't know with judges are instantly similar stance of becoming something of a tradition here in russia last year students from the top university posed for a vote calendar expressing their love for the press. this is r.t. just twenty minutes away from monday night sports and i discover who is the latest giant of wall foot waterfall a copper america this week and last the kremlin this business next with dmitri. thanks very much kevin alone a warm welcome to business r.t. the former boss of b.p.

is considering a bid for two major russian oil firms sky news quotes people close to tony hayward saying he's interested in both sniffed and bash and asked our correspondent in the course of a look at how likely such a deal could be. tony hayward the narrowest have been looking so investor cash ever since their company's float on the london stock exchange last month they raised over two billion dollars which could partly phone the acquisition of russian oil producers boss never ever reduce nafta worth around twelve billion dollars the stakes in question would be bought from russians are rubbing near your friend close holding company a of cases the emma none of the companies being talked about have made an official statement and others we've spoken to you got such a deal could be possible if he has repeatedly said that he has no interest in selling outsold bosh and loose that but analysts say the price being talked about is not enough to make a f. k. take it seriously especially since all companies are know its core business at the

same time envious all that and much will gas corporation has been in talks with passion of embers left to merge the two companies and buy x. twenty five percent stake all 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 to russia. moving on now russia's the largest oil producer to ease continuing its international expansion the company has agreed to buy forty five percent stake in an exploration project in the amazon forest area covers around fifty thousand square kilometers and holds over five hundred million barrels in oil equivalent sources close the deal say he could pay up to one billion dollars a stick figure to the markets now we start with the world price of oil is no with investors concerned the worsening debt crisis in europe may slow be brought to me and weigh on fuel the months pass the rising dollar is actually creating grounds

for a drop in oil price. u.s. markets open for a measure of builder confidence showed a bit of improvement in june but none in july still the dow jones down one percent now said one point one percent recovering slightly of them compared to the previous our european stocks are extending last week's loss of the stress test results have shown lenders may have to raise additional cash banks are leading the downside for both in london where the full seize their one point five percent same amount and backs as the dax so frankfurt is also led by banks now it's moved to the russian markets they also started the week on a very negative note the obvious there one point eight percent noise at one point six percent main reason energy prices declining and therefore the oil companies like broad snaps take a look at them last summer like two percent p.t.b. also climbed one half percent despite publishing positive financial results for the first quarter we'll talk about that in just

a second later polymaths is up almost four percent at the close with best wishes to asses like gold and hard times but you know bing wraps up today's trick. rick you're here for today for investors was so the crisis in europe around the stock markets was negative while marcus was the bottom one percent which is comparable to the european stock market forces. news gives one prize was strafed by the gold price and the big three are confirmed and which drive some stores install some new cards for them at all we chatted about three point six percent which is quite different from a form of the salsa pieces i might get to talk more of the dick cavett of that stuff on out so you would have.

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