led particularly at the time of the first police inquiry into phone hacking which took place in two thousand and nine james murdoch says that when the when the hacking investigation was closed the staff of news international relied heavily on the fact that the police at that there was nothing further to be investigated they also relied on a decision by the press complaints commission that said nothing further no nothing to see here and also on the outside legal advice so they feel that they were within their rights to not look at phone hacking inside their organization anymore this is the first time that rupert murdoch has faced m.p.'s in his more than thirty years more than forty years of being operational in the u.k. media sector and it has to be said that he doesn't seem to be taking it very well he's he's a little bit it's a little bit on edge his tone is a little bit sticky he was very very keen to point out that he has a very many excellent people working on his stuff at news international news of the world was just one percent of the interest that he holds another interesting

development today is something that's happening on twitter actually uses of the social networking sites are drawing attention to the old resonance between the death of sean hoare which his body was found yesterday he was the first news of the world journalist to allege that his editor andy corson and later the director of communications for the government knew that phone hacking was taking place all along he was found dead yesterday the eighteenth of july two thousand two thousand and eleven on the eighteenth of july two thousand and three the very same date david kelly was found dead also presume to be suicide he was of course the u.n. weapons inspector who first cos doubt on the government's claim that iraq could deploy weapons of mass destruction within forty five minutes and moreover said that the government knew that iraq couldn't deploy those weapons of mass destruction to people all over twitter during attention to the old resonance between those deaths the for. that their bodies were discovered on the very same date and saying that

the eighteenth of july looks like a bad day for whistleblowers this whole scandal is certainly a shake in the press politicians around the police in britain how they survive in the scrutiny. well the police know very well it has to be said also appearing before m.p.'s today where three top police officers two of whom have resigned this week commissioner support stephenson his assistant commissioner mr yates has also appeared they face questioning over this this cozy relationship between the press release stevenson it was widely accepted for having stuck the knife into david cameron when he resigned he denied having done that today he also faces questions about his handling the police handling of this investigation into phone hacking in two thousand and nine and he also admitted that no fewer than ten former news of the world journalists have worked in the met press office now

a lot of people are suggesting that the taking of bribes will be alleged taking a bribes by police officers from journalists is a symptom of essentially endemic corruption in the metropolitan police and the police all over the country i went and talked to talk to some people about that and here's my report. ian tomlinson died in london's g. twenty protest in two thousand and nine after being pushed to the ground by p.c. simon harwood harwood's said he'd been prevented from giving first aid by a bottle throwing more he later admitted happened john schollers demonizes short by police in a london underground station in two thousand and five officers allegedly leaked a report saying he'd fled from police c.c.t.v. images later showed this was true. less well known is michael daugherty a man who went to the police for help only for it to turn into a kafkaesque where both allegedly false statements and mistreatment. i

obviously have no protection from in this country i think is completely outrageous ducati told police he suspected his thirteen year old daughter was being groomed by a pita. concerned they referred it to his local station sex crime unit then nothing after two weeks doctors he phoned the unit secretary that's when the trouble started i just. got my house of soldiers police came to dougherty's house door to arrest him for harassing the police secretary shortly after his arrest he learnt the investigation into his daughter's grooming had been dropped by police records show they hadn't looked at any of the evidence the police secretary has since admitted she has a hazy recollection of the telephone call she said upset her so much but only when presented with tapes of the conversations daugherty had luckily recorded the

officers involved in his arrest were found to be at fault and sent on a retraining course but doctors he believes that's not enough i don't think anything different than. i think this is this is normal. they need to be held accountable in the same way that anybody else would in a court dockets he's a count of lies interest meant by the police is by no means unique but the phone hacking scandal has brought stories like his into the public eye revealing bribery and corruption at the heart of the police force it's amazing the focus has tended to be on the journalists themselves and not on the allegedly corrupt police officers who have been receiving money to provide protected information but it does show that there's a sort of endemic corruption and a failure of accountability for. two of the country's most senior police officers have resigned this week and two more are under investigation after relations

between news corp and the police were revealed to have been far too cozy senior police officers were wining and dining with members of the murdoch empire they were they were making room 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 or. 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 two officers down down the lines the home secretary has announced a review into the workings of the police to rebuild public trust that of little comfort to michael daugherty who says he's traumatized by his experience at the hands of the people he turned to for help to phone hacking scandal has many far reaching implications from the potential breakup of the media empire to a loss of faith in the british press but it's also pushed into the spotlight once again a police force that appears only to tell the truth when its course out in the law

many are now asking how justice can prevail your advocates are too young to. move into the middle east now and israeli commandos have boarded the gun laws around a chip on the approach to the blockaded territory reporting and no resistance from activists on board the french vessel is the last from a ten strong humanitarian patellar that was prevented from leaving agreed poor three weeks ago on one of the clears across developments in israel. just before noon local time today tuesday the french ship which is known as the detail was surrounded by at least three israeli naval ships as it made its way to gaza this is off to the ship and overnight in international waters now we understand that the israeli navy contacted the captain of the ship want him that if you went any further they would be. breaking israel's blockade on gaza and according to the israeli army they made it quite clear to the ship's captain and the ship's passengers that there were other legal options available to them they're all

sixteen people on board this ship ten of them up passengers three of them are crew three of them are journalists this is the furthest that any ship so far in this freedom for to go to has been able to go in terms of being able to reach gaza now the israelis are at pains not to see a repeat of what happened last year when you had their feet into the one that incident in which turkish citizens were killed when israeli commandos who wanted to because they have the mavi marmara and they simply do not want to see that happen again so they added pains to try and see this dealt with peacefully and without any kind of loss of life because many soldiers naval soldiers boarded the ship when it was some seventy kilometers away from gaza and there's no question that the ship was still in international waters it did go off without incident and walk now that ship is being towed to the israeli port city of ashdod according to the israeli army spokesperson there the passengers on board will be dealt with by the israeli

immigration police but the question of just how the israeli action is all still remains a very important question there has been at least four separate investigative committees that were set up last to look at how the israeli soldiers in that first incident and how they dealt with that knowledge the new infusion once councils found into quote that the israeli actions have yet to be unlawful and later this month we do expect the findings of a second u.n. commission that has already. dictated that why finds the israeli blockade on gaza not illegal the israeli soldiers did last year at home when you look at the comments from international legal experts they say that when ships are in the high seas there is something such as the freedom of navigation and ask such the israeli soldiers boarding a ship is in fact illegal. trade and then a jihad fuel talks between the leaders of russia and germany in hanover that involves of europe's biggest economy

a growing and moscow says it's capable of locking down daniel bushell's been following behind level meeting. germany's decision to shut its nuclear stations has opened opportunities for the likes of russia's gazprom the gas john is hoping to tie up some deals here in hanover which it really sees the german market as a stepping stone to the rest of the european union germany in turn seize opportunities in russia in particular the vast modernization program of russia's infrastructure and knelt by president michel medvedev and given the problems in the rest of the eurozone in places like portugal greece ireland also potentially spreading to perhaps it's early and spain there are concerns that the european market may not be providing germany with the same opportunities as before nevertheless president medvedev says he's cautiously optimistic about the future of the eurozone he would like to see more currencies come to the fore a subject that he's raised in the past there is a particular friendship between angular merkel to meet from it better perhaps two

of the closest partners on the world stage and that was very much present here in the talks today now we've heard that president medvedev has been quiz several times about his election opportunities and today he said that he would be making you know it's a very shortly about whether he would stand for president of russia again. and richard would have said they shared common views on the whole middle east situation of course both countries abstained russia and germany abstained on the u.n. vote authorizing action for military intervention in libya and the escalation of violence is something of concern to both sides some upset it is a little saying you shouldn't even though at the risk aleutian should not be playing i mean both resolution nine hundred seventy three and resolution nineteen seventy they're ok we support it the first resolution we abstained on the second one but we thought that the resolution will be implemented deploying to what it

says a no fly zone there is not mean of war but actually instead of a no fly zone what we see is an air. to phase of civil war and some forces are actually supporting one of the parties to the conflict and that's not good in fact for libya it is very bad so i think we should continue looking for opportunity to find a peaceful solution to this situation we should use all sorts of mediators and all sorts of opportunities because the libyan problem does not have a military solution a reference the nato mission by several nato states that they are arming libya's rebels and potentially escalating the violence both richard vedder and i'm going to merkel say they're against military resolution of the syrian conflict where violence between government troops and the opposition is growing key theme today is that news conference was that the troubles across the middle east which they noted were taking place between government forces and civil forces as well should not be

fueled by outside forces that was something that both sides both russia and germany stressed today fortune seekers flocking to big cities in search of a dream job is something we're all familiar with but in greece the reverse trend is down taking hold as the financial meltdown chicas a surge in unemployment and cuts begin to find many people are now leaving for the countryside katherina is out of about some thriving farmers in the debt stricken country. the birthplace of civilization greece is famous for its ancient ruins among other things those very ruins and the tourists they attract are today almost the only profitable thing in greece as the country taught hers on the brink of financial ruin. people here are losing all hope of making it through even the ones living in the capital athens. for many the solution is simple leave city life behind. greece's reverting to an agricultural economy farming is one of the few

remaining profitable industries with apple grape olive and cherry orchard it's practically everywhere the rule life is bountiful as a city girl i could never imagine leaving behind that urban lifestyle and moving to a remote village but after seeing and tasting what the great countryside has to offer it becomes pretty clear that for the desperate people of athens this is a land of opportunities ripe for the taking. over has known this for decades she picks her own fruit and uses them for daily business her workshop is practically a big kitchen and the work is like cooking for a big family something she does anyway but their house right above the shop she can never be late for work and wouldn't change this for anything a city could offer and many people tired of bottling up their frustrations in the

city are making the same choice i did since i was living. everybody wants to do the same but. the money to go since we have a crisis. people. and they go to their houses. because the edge goes and marmalades have given after a chance to raise her kids and live her life the way she wants but most greeks are simply energy i'm never a very large percentage of. people who have lost their jobs especially young people who are almost desperate i mean young to become architects and i'm afraid that they cannot. but the truth will be that they will not find

a job almost the first sentence of ninety two ninety something percent statistics show that nearly one million people have lost their jobs in the figures are only expected to rise with over forty percent of people under the age of twenty four out of work any job is in demand and quite villages like iowa are rapidly becoming the proverbial silver lining of the dark debt cloud that loose over greece casuarinas r r t greece. for all the latest news in comment on the greek financial crisis as well as the troubles in the wider. website and here's what else we'll find right now as. charges against the parents of an eleven year old russian boy who confessed to a time in a passenger plane with a laser pen find out what authorities are doing to clamp down on the growing appetite problem. also online but off limits why

a belgian newspapers' copyright round with web giant google seeing the paper's web site removed from internet search results all those details at all to dot com. recovery crews working on lifting the doomed ship bulgaria from the bottom of the volga river have managed to finally bring the vessel upright however they say the operation to raise it might take several days it's hoped to play a crucial role in finding out why the ship went down in just three minutes meanwhile. police have arrested the captain of a vessel which sailed past the pleasure cruise that as it was sinking without stopping to help direct their friend the boat on the ship's registrar was also arrested but all gary assange can russia volga river nine days ago killing nearly one hundred. or became one of russia's worst ever shipping tragedies but vessels like that will carry continue to chremes russia's waterways and never ports. scenes no one wants to see repeated russia still in shock over the sinking of the

river cruise ship bulgaria that killed one hundred twenty nine but attention now turns to the safety of the rest of russia's river fleet to see for ourselves we traveled upstream to the city of heroes like the vos majority of vessels on the river volga this one was built in soviet times and in the last twenty years it's been through the multiple hours each one of whom has used that relentlessly most passenger ships that this will operate at a loss vessel service in remote areas are subsidised tickets costing as little as fifty cents apiece but tourists craft have to get city funding to there is no money for placements. we are just a small company who could never afford to build our own ships i think with good care the existing ships can be used for another fifty years. the owners and says

these ships have passed the latest technical inspections but so too did the bulgaria and that ships had to created emergency alarm was partly blame for the high death toll. some are calling for stricter regulations including bearing the subletting of all ships to small operators but this group make up when a large respectable company sees that a ship is getting too expensive to repair instead of writing it off they pass it on to a smaller operator and these smaller outfits are often unscrupulous about how they approach maintenance and have no money for autonomy that not everyone agrees means that even if we simply start banning ships we will lose river transport altogether any such measures must go hand in hand with redeveloping the river shipping industry. ruddiman in chino is one of the new class entrepreneurs is hoping to do just that yet he admits that orders for new vessels have declined dramatically

following the economic difficulties of the last few years and. this industry is not going to pull itself out of the current crisis for that to happen the government must take the first step you know but even if this does happen it will take years for the new ships to come on stream in the meantime asbestos on an old ship if they're going to stop using it because of safety concerns. well you can be scared of everything so i will carry on going on these rather by would have a happens. either of iraq now r.t. jaroslav. ok a quick check now of some other news making headlines around the globe this hour and japan has banned the full shipment from the bush era amid growing concerns over radiation infected beef around six hundred fifty tunnels which of these in contaminated hey have been shipped across the country since late march me from areas surrounding the plant but also be withdrawn from sale it comes four months

off the earthquake and tsunami tore through three she's causing radiation that into the sea and soil. the nasa space shuttle era is now always agree with. the international space station for the final time during a thirteen day journey to crew for travels around the station with cameras recording all the historic events off of the shuttle returns to earth day it will join discovery and endeavor in the kennedy space center museum story is rockets will now become only getting to and from my s.s. . iran says it's speeding up its nuclear enrichment by installing more efficient centrifuges that one of its facilities and that's despite a number of rounds of un security council sanctions over to rounds nuclear activities iran denies its developing atomic weapons insists its refining uranium for electricity and medical research. ok up next with the latest business with

dmitri. welcome to the program life is getting easier for foreign investors playing on the russian stock market they now don't have to pay a twenty percent capital gains tax for trading local shares officials say foreigners often concluded deals with the russian blue chips outside the country in order to avoid paying this tax and there's hope the move will help to stick with it in the market. move to the market then crude is on the rise as investors wait for reports tomorrow that may show us some injuries decline for seven weeks the dollar is also a weak that's because of an uptick in the u.s. housing market light sweet is up one half dollars brant one dollar twenty nine cents move to the stock markets and then the u.s.

they kicked off with a one percent rise as corporate results from i.b.m. and coca-cola beat expectations i.b.m. is up four percent. korean stocks are trying to rebound from a seven month low with positive corporate results supporting some sectors banks mostly high up to be particularly hit on monday lloyds banking group is up three percent in london. where most of the markets are in the final minutes of trading and it's a positive day all tears up one percent point fifteen. point eight percent else take a look at what's behind the growth and it's mainly due to correcting the oil prices which are going up so gazprom therefore is up almost two percent t.n. k b p is up one point seven percent on reports it's agreed to acquire energy assets in brazil the deal could boost two so reserves by three and a half percent financials are also in a rally after some of the previous trading session b.c.b.s. gaining more than two percent of the close. project skolkovo is continue to attract

new companies russia's answer to silicon valley has revealed a further thirteen firms have signed up projects chief operating officer says investment is coming from both big and small place. on one level we've already attracted commitments from for example cisco of one billion dollars to invest in scope on a smaller level one of the big pharma we've also attracted forty million dollars to invest in venture funds plus one hundred million dollars to invest in setting up an r. and d. center for clinical trials at school and then on another level in the venture capital we've attracted four funds collectively which have committed financing to go finance with us about forty million dollars as well so give you a range of the type of partners who are working with from the very large commitments to very important commitments on the venture side as well our goal is to match one hundred percent and potentially two hundred percent of the financing we receive from the russian government and i think we're on track to doing that we have to keep in mind the scope of it is about thirteen months old and i think we've

made some very decent progress so far. all right lots of fun now in fifty minutes saw him i will be had to bring you an update alice is next so that these things. for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on.

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is all sea outrage to britain watching closely is the modal media more like he's being grilled by m.p.'s over the phone hacking and bribery claims rupert murdoch and his son are all saying questions about the in a working for the now defunct news of the wild and these are live pictures from but hearing taking place in parliament right now. israeli commandos take a verse ship carrying pro palestinian activists to the looting in their attempt to break the scene placated the region the bessel was boarded in international has

been taken to the israeli port of ashdod. cowering all moscow says it is capable of meeting the energy demands of europe's biggest economy as the leaders of russia and germany. believed in syria and crying also raising the stakes and still hoping to find a compromise between the rebels in this wall avoiding intervention in syria. well as we were reporting the goals abound aid ship has been boarded by israeli commandos eight international waters last year a similar boarding a left knowing that people dead were lost you know he is from an ounce of us from the deadly flu to attempt about why israel feel so threatened by this kind of mission. let me i have a human life sector best refusenik and it is really who supports the fratellis

thank you very much for joining us here on r t v why were you part of that for telling last year and why are you not. i wasn't it. was it was named the jewish vote last year it was a bunch of. i would say five. jews from all over the world and then another and four israelis. younger. and we came within with jewish message if you want jewish israeli message that we also jews and israelis are not against. are not against the palestinians not about to oppress them we come it's really very few we come to break the siege we acknowledge the situation of the people in gaza we think it's illegal immoral and criminal for first of all the palestinians and secondly for the israelis this year i'm just not available without food i support it just the same.