was in the news again after he told the new york times that news of the world reporters were not only hacking into things but they were also using police technology to locate people using their mobile phones and paying at the police for the privilege of doing say we saw a commission that supports stephenson the head of the metropolitan police resigning and he very much stuck the knife into david cameron as he did say he said the prime minister's relationship with the former with his former communications director and former news of the world editor the cool said it made it difficult to discuss certain facts about the phone hacking scandal with him so what we're seeing in this country really is the loss of trust in the press first and foremost then subsequently a loss of trust in the police and just underlines how serious this could be for david cameron he has decided to cut short a trip to south africa to come home and take part in a debate on this phone hacking scandal. this is james corbett independent news website of joining us from japan to give us

a few thoughts about this ever unfolding story very good morning to thanks for being with r.t. short holes death has been described by police tonight as they explained but not suspicious however you know it's another bizarre twist about how you look at it isn't it in this continuing scandal going right to the heart of power in britain and i do think the conspiracy theories will be in overdrive. well i don't know about the conspiracy theorists but i think certainly it would be prudent to take a look at the timing and nature of this. just considering the timing with which it's unfolding and i think this actually goes to the very heart of the scandal that's unfolding because it really does raise the question of what institution can be trusted with an investigation into this death certainly the london metropolitan police is in is in shambles at the moment with the commissioner and assistant commissioner having resigned over the scandal already and obviously implicated with that with some of their police officers obviously in this scandal and then also the idea of there being some sort of. parliamentary inquiry into suspicious death would

be highly suspect because obviously andy colson was the former communication minister for the prime minister and he's the one implicated by showing horse testimony so it goes to the very heart of the depth of the scandal that we're dealing with in which i think the public has every right to be skeptical of these institutions which are supposedly going to be investigating themselves in these matters jobs are not how much you know about this deceased man showing a whole about how important a figure was in the revelations about phone hacking. i don't know in the overall scheme perhaps he wasn't the most importantly of the investigation but just the idea that he was coming out with these revelations and and winding up dead just as the scandal is unfolding i think the timing in itself is suspicious and i think the public would be best served by a full and independent inquiry into that death but given the nature of for example the hutton inquiry into dr david kelly's death i'm not sure how much the public can even trust such and such an inquiry talking at trust to top cops of both resigned

sense that we can't over links to news of the world think is being investigated by the police over this whole hacking scandal and have the police lost the trust of the british public over their handling of it so. i would think so and i think deservedly so to find out that certain officers had been on the payroll of these organizations and providing details today to the journalists who were involved in a scandal that in itself is quite a disgrace and it does raise the question of who is properly qualified to to look into this into to form a proper investigation certainly not the police itself investigating itself that would be ridiculous at this point and the idea again of a parliamentary inquiry it has to be at least seemed to be completely free of ties to the prime minister's office certainly and into any other m.p.'s who may have been implicated in the scandal so it's going to be an incredible mess unfortunately for the british people to be sorting through right now. and i think trust in the

public institutions has been necessarily eroded by this appalling disgraceful conduct on the part of so many different people in whom the public has invested so much trust so we just mentioned the british david cameron just to recap for our views i'm sure the already know just to recap the of course the former of news that with radicals and this is. how might this affair affected politically now cameron i think he has to be at least somewhat tarnished by this affair i think that there may be a possibility that whole come through on the other side vindicated but just to have been i think so deeply involved in this and to have exposed to really the fact that not only of course cameron but new as prime ministers before him have had a very cozy relationship to say the least with the with news of the world and with various murdoch operations and not only his relationship to andy colson but to rebecca brooks the recently resigned and recently arrested c.e.o. of news of the world i mean it's again it's

a very difficult situation for him to extract himself from or to claim that he had no idea of what was going on to the mother. how did it ever rival political influence in britain its reputation that was now in tatters could the role that it was had been filled by another media organizational mogul looking ahead i think definitely there will be a power vacuum if if murdoch does vacate or obviously murdoch's instant newspapers will be tarnished by this so i think there will be a power vacuum and unfortunately vacuums are tend to be filled quite for quickly so i would imagine that there will be other people in other organizations come along to take his place quite quickly and and we see it's interesting to see the timing of this scandal just as he was applying for control of b. sky b. you're looking at all this story from japan way you'll buy it just to get your take on why you think this case is called such but take it. i think it goes to the heart of a number of different things and one of them is just the idea of this phone hacking and the idea that we are all. vulnerable to this and in our times of greatest

vulnerability in times of a death of a loved one or seven seven bombing victims for example being hacked into like that it's the it's the most. incredible intrusion of people's privacy that i think really horrifies people and it's interesting to see how people get horrified in this circumstance but not in the circumstance of for example when the british government comes out and says they're tapping the phones of one thousand citizens per day as they did back in two thousand and eight there was a report released about that or the illegal wiretapping going on in the united states and that. no no they it's very interesting to see people are quite sanguine when it's the government doing it but but at least in this case it is sparking a public debate and i think again it is the revulsion at the idea of the intrusion of people's basic privacy all right james cole that independent news website it's a pleasure to have you and thank you. coming up searching for answers as the recovery operation of the cruiser that sank in russia's volga river continues we'll

bring you all the latest from the sea and also revealing the secrets of the universe a unique russian observatory is said to do albeit to study electic objects where their fridge said off of a picture. now 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 but the murders come less than a week after how many as half brother the south of the country was gunned down so the taliban seems to be stepping up its assault on afghan officials just as nato combat troops are beginning to withdraw deed on sunday the alliance handed over control of the first of seven designated areas to local forces as the war activists told me a trail of military bases will none the less be 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 and by 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 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 is very much biased towards mesnick 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 four seems to be extremely unlikely. and

a change of 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 pretty smart like reports for our team next there's concern that afghan forces are too divided ill equipped and lacking in training to fend off the taliban by themselves. 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 are 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. 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 beat back the taliban led insurgency regardless of age or ethnicity when we are old brothers and we are all called by one name. 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 mujahedeen 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 deadline to hand over security responsibilities to the afghans the afghan army enjoys a much better reputation in the police force and has even been featured recently. but as the army takes greater responsibility for security around the country there are concerns that the quality of troops may be coming in the expense of quality for starters more than eighty percent of troops are illiterate a big problem with the 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 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 start future. we will be here late ninety's fighting each other killing each other these people waiting in groups or little groups to control it yet another obstacle for a young army but still has much to prove before it can stand on its own feet jason wattle are in kabul for two major terror plot hatched near moscow has been followed by russia's security services police have detained a group of four people from the north caucasus were allegedly planning to attack a correspondent in a culture of it in the caucasus forces 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 a moscow region now special forces found guns explosives maps and schedules of the planned attack also ole of 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 medvedev 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 threat 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 to underline the situation in the

region remains very tanned the last twenty four hours have seen two dads the blast that has russia's north caucasus and the first one happened in change now two policemen were killed and seven others wounded when an explosive head to search operation in the mountainous area known as the second one happened in the republic of dagestan it was a roadside bomb detonated as a car was passing by the explosion allowed to policeman and three others wounded oldys blast happened in the wake of the recent terror raid that was launched in the region in the republic of dagestan two days ago and now despite that there have been a number of terror raids and the fighting against terrorism goes own still the remains and search operations continue. our correspondent in a culture online tonight at r.t. dot com the stories getting hit says deaths and desperate financial problems

continue to terrify europe we've got expert analysis and opinion for you about the scale of the problem that just seems to keep rising wallet online tonight also no more secrets how a mistake by a russian mobile phone giant meant that all private messages here including influence to a public all day today are teed off home. boosting trade and reaffirming ties that among the top priorities is to me to be very busy in germany right now to be chancellor angela merkel the russian president also focusing on the growth of small businesses he's set to meet entrepreneurs from both countries a correspondent daniel bushell is across the developments for us in hanover. germany is russia's biggest trading partner and the announcement by the country that it plans to shelter all its nuclear stations in the lloyds of the fukushima accident in japan gives an opportunity to russia's gazprom which is hoping to tie up big deals here and hand over gas from really seeing germany as a stepping stone to the whole e.u. market especially given the fact that the european union for germany is closing up

it really hopes to expand on the relationship with russia tapping into dmitry medvedev. program for the country germany hoping to snap up deals in russia russia hopes germany can bring nato round to the point of view of a joint missile defense system in other words that they can avoid the fear that the missile defense will be pointed mosco there are fears that most go that the defense system could be aimed at russia or libya or germany or russia or both abstained from the u.n. vote authorizing nato action in libya and they both want to stop further escalation of the void and that's their own report that nato countries all being libya's rebels so both countries will be looking to strengthen their already strong relationship one a range of issues on which they share a common position. russia says it won't recognize the libyan rebels as the country's only legitimate authority foreign minister sergei lavrov criticize the

u.s. and other nations for taking that step in a diplomatic meeting last week in istanbul. that was you but look we 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 asked for us just like in any other conflict we reject isolationism 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 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 vowed to deal with them until an interim government is in place a move also potentially gives the libyan opposition access to billions of dollars of daffy's assets frozen in american banks. the lifting of the cruiser that sank in russia's volga river last sunday killing around one hundred thirty people has been resumed only have been halted because of bad weather work has been trying to move the vessel off its side and what's one of the operations most difficult stage is it's the recovery could play a crucial role in finding answers as to why the ship went down the next task is to search the riverbed for fifteen missing victims the bulgaria sank in just a matter of minutes with more than half of the two hundred passengers drowning one of russia's worst ever shipping disasters. the lonely vigil of masses hubble telescope in orbits comes to an end it now gets to share the job of looking deeper into the universe than anyone's done before

that's because russia set up its own eye in the sky and we hear it's got the sharpest sight in the galaxy. the way that off. this is the moment to russian space scientists have been waiting for for decades the space observatory it creeped with the cutting edge telescope a huge step in universe explorer ation as an enormous i will be able to see further and deeper than ever before it with the possible to observe the most mysterious the darkest and the most shadowed the 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 thousand times shop but then america's. i'll let you enjoy the moment.

i'm really. ready. to. help. and. we will receive the first images of the universe. reported from baikonur. with less than a year left now before the next presidential election in russia voters are already coming up with their own ideas about a supporter potential candidate is one of the more extraordinary ones for you an online campaign has been launched urging young women to be uprooted by ripping off their clothes you heard me right the group call yourself the putin army is trying to move closer invite you to send in videos of the stripping off of the prizes promised for the winners some of the stunts becoming something of a mission here in russia last year recall students from the top university pose for a calendar expressing their love for the program.

of who said calendars next week to have a new view from space show we have the story. telescope the russians just sent him to war when we talk to the country space industry chief an ecstasy unveils the future of extraterrestrial exploration is that. russia is launching its biggest space telescope at

a huge to orbit earth and carefully observed a universe looking deeper and further to shed light on the darkest and in most mysterious corners of our galaxy and others what does this mean for us and for russia they had a russian space agency ross costless is here with me thank you very much mr cain for joining us thank you for inviting me well americans have a will now have company in our bit is the russian telescope looking to discover something missing during all the years it's been operating deal with foreign scientists not russian so our telescopes the specter are is more interesting than the whole space telescope in terms of capacity for new discoveries it's a very exact science implying that final results must be analyzed in detail and are open to interpretation so it's difficult to forecast anything here the telescope makes it possible to monitor emerging new stars and galaxies in a radio frequency band to witness the events and gather statistical data on the

basis of which it would be possible to predict how our planet and indeed our universe develops to understand where we all have come from. and what's waiting for us in future in this respect this is a historic event which marks russia's return to space science with america's shuttle program coming to an end russia set to become only country. people into space but how long will that monopoly last. the u.s. is aiming to have a new space launch program for man's ships and a new manned space ship ready by twenty sixteen but this depends on investment from the private sector let's wait and see how things go i think that today russia's role is irreplaceable because at the moment the world has only one manned space ship this all used which is capable of taking cosmonauts to orbit including the international space station. and there are exploring mars and talk space priorities what does russia nicely focused on. those who

say a flight to mars is a top space priority understand that it's a very long term goal which is unlikely to be achieved will i hold this post it makes the life of those who set such priorities easier and more comfortable in my view the organization should prepare for one core objective it may even be a flight to mars program but it should dictate developments today tomorrow and the day after because anyway people need some tangible results and the taxpayer who contributes huge sums of money to space exploration wants to see a return on his or her investment that is why our program is split into a number of priorities yes today decisions on the future of manned space exploration are made as a global level during closed door meetings with space agency heads in europe and of course with nasa chief charles bolden as well as the french british germans and italians the main pool so to speak to determine space policy we arrived at the conclusion that today no single country is in a position to develop such

a huge space program like a flight to mars on its own international cooperation is fundamental on my initiative we've set up an expert group to prepare proposals by the year's end. on how to realize and consolidate international cooperation and how to divide obligations and responsibilities between various space agencies in order to avoid duplicating each other we need to define responsibilities of each party involved at this stage we haven't got past talking about it that's for immediate challenges to mount spaceflight the most important thing for russia is to increase its role to at least match the american segment of the international space station our second goal is to return to the international automated spacecraft manufacturing pool we must regain our position in manufacturing communications surveillance and meteorology satellites the three major fields an automated spacecraft communications we're beginning to establish cooperation with europe on transponders we've also launched two meteorology units and over the next three years we plan to launch a pool of satellites that would make russia self-sufficient in all meteorological

issues weather forecasting or any climatic emergency warning. us for earth surveillance we're launching our first satellite this year to detect and forecast geological or natural emergencies this is a direction we'll follow through on i think the key for us now is to use western technologies to regain our positions in third country markets such as south east asia africa and south america where the u.s.s.r. russia traditionally had a strong position our circle is completely grown us we've been talking about it since two thousand and seven and it's high time to realize it. isn't. thank you very much for talking to our. fifty fifty. fifty

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closely to see don't need to go publicly and read this in the kennel was hotel as a treat. hello this is our team these are our top stories tonight a former news of the world journalist who blew the whistle on phone hacking at the british tabloid is found dead at his home it comes as the storm around a group of adults media tend to focus on the police and the prime minister. the taliban claims responsibility for the killings of more high ranking officials in afghanistan it comes as nato begins to hand over control of the country provinces and local forces facing a huge question mark so that a pillar to the. russian security forces fall a major terror plot may moscow police arrested a group of people. who were allegedly planning an attack on a crowded area is

a major transport hubs. one thirty am moscow time next people of all of this cross talk guess debate where nato is relations with libyan rebels will lead to next and what's next indeed for the war torn country as a whole. if you can. follow in welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle libya's stalemate in the sand and nato bombing campaign and aid to anti kadafi rebels have only hardened political facts on the ground western intervention was intended to last a few weeks now is open ended instead of dislodging khadafi nato allies are left to bicker among themselves. and you can. cross the nato mission in libya i'm joined by io johnson in london he is the

founder and director of viewpoint africa also in london we have marco gas a key is a political analyst an expert on south east european affairs and in barcelona we cross to omar asher he is a lecturer in politics of the modern arab world at the university of exit are all right gentlemen this is crosstalk that means you can jump in anytime you want omar i'd like to go to you first in barcelona how would you assess nato's operations in libya to date because depending on the new source you want to read it stalemate it's quagmire. we've coming across reports of rebels committing human rights. violations they're not looking so pretty anymore and it's just basically a civil war that has come to a stalemate so how would you assess nato's operations to date well if that's a civil resistance campaign to take their ship that somehow turned into an armed conflict because that was the choice of.