news of the world journalist who allege that his editor and he calls 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 a suicide he was of course the u.n. weapons inspector who first cast 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 board odd resonance between those deaths the fact that their bodies were discovered in the very same date and saying that the eighteenth of july looks like a bad day for whistleblowers three top police officers two of whom who have resigned this week commissioners support stephenson his assistant commissioner mr yates has also appeared they face questioning over this this cozy relationship

between the press and the police stephenson also faced questions about his handling the police handling of this investigation into phone hacking in two thousand and nine and you 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 bride to be alleged taking of bribes by police officers from the journalists is a symptom of essentially endemic corruption in the metropolitan police and the police all over the country i want 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 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 calf to s. where both allegedly false statements and mistreatment. i obviously have no protection from. i think. daugherty told police he suspected his thirteen year old daughter was being groomed by a paedophile 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. police came to dougherty's house 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 haven'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 docket is a count of lawyers interests 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. home secretary has announced a review into the workings of the police to rebuild public trust that is little comfort to michael daugherty he says he's traumatized by his experience at the hands of the people he turned to for help the 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 is many are now asking how justice can prevail laura and it's r.t. . or i would just to bring a little bit more about what we know or mention just now about protesters rushing in and calling off that committee hearing temporarily part of a cause a scuffle suspended the hearing a man rushed up behind one of the murdoch's was then struck by somebody else was

there. as we get more on the we'll let you know but what we do know at the moment is that it has been suspended because of a scuffle. we're hearing there could be one activist group that got in the. the younger wasn't very happy that his father was not adequately protected but more on that later as a say let's bring into the equation now london based lawyer and writer. mr good very good evening to you thanks for being with us i know you witnessed what went on there as well you were in the green room just but you told me what you saw so it's all stopped for now the talking but you were looking in and listening to it what do you think about the way the murdoch's handled themselves this afternoon. appallingly i never expected them as some people did that they would reserve their right to silence because the whole exercise was to show that they were cleaner than

clean but. they've been searching a very says way. i'm afraid to expose this group. well you've actually said in one of your latest articles you wrote a couple of days ago you go as far as calling news international a criminal organization why do you say that it's a huge statement to make. yes i think they are a criminal organization in the sense that they operate a vast news gathering. put in use that information to pressure politicians and public officials to get in there were a disease that's how the mafia operate well it's an open secret i guess that offices have been leaking information to journalists for years in return for cash and we should be so surprised or is there really a difference between what what what what happened now and what news international are doing what why is international worse than what maybe some other news organizations do or have done in the past. well there has always been and always

will be a two way relationship between police and press the information goes both ways i should say but this is something on a very different scale it's not gathering information for their journalistic enterprises which is what usually goes on it's gathering information for corporate difference and further corporate interests. going political even fluence to pressuring pleas to. pressure public officials who may raise questions about the way news international operates and i think that's very very different from what goes on and will always go on between press and police and i guess there's a political game going on that we maybe haven't heard so much of yet may come out soon i certain politicians looking for revenge as a result of having been wronged here as they see it by murdoch's papers is that why this is going so far. well i don't think there are much of a position to go in revenge i think they've clustered together because they can see

that the whole thing is falling apart and are attempting to manage the situation but very much more than the police are complicit it's the politicians that have created the political atmosphere that allowed the police the and i should say the leadership of the police. to engage in widespread corrupt corruptive practices. what about the death last night of sean hoare the former news of the world journalists who were blew the whistle of course on phone hacking at the pain in the first place and it's got conspiracy theorists in overdrive no matter how you look at it it doesn't. well i don't think there's anything sinister in his death although i have to say that the man was destroyed professionally by news international the journalistic world in london is a very small place and it's the message gets around that you don't get to work here anymore. your career is finished and that's all that short of war really had was that business. a business show business journalism that he had on the mountain was

destroyed he was well known but he was drinking too much taking drugs he was depressed demoralized and. it's most strange news. what about the hierarchy in britain everyone calls talking about britain's top politicians their close ties with news international would it be so close in the future maybe briefly. i don't think. there's always going to be a close relationship between politicians and the press both need each other but i think what was going on with news international is that a very different. confluence of long political and corporate earnings and that is different in britain it's always been in the british press of collusion between journal. editorial and political parties

it's inevitable that what was going on with these international is very very different or i thought it was. too extortion and blackmail that it is too rough and tumble of politics and press well again referring back to what i mentioned earlier on you described in one of your latest articles news international as a criminal organization a strong comment. on the line from london much appreciate it or just bring you up to date with what we know now we're hearing that that committee meeting has resumed if you missed the news in the last ten minutes or so james rupert rupert murdoch shocked the last ten minutes somebody ran into that committee room. from one of the feeds or it could've been a gap year and i kissed we wanted to get some attention james murdoch. that security staff had failed to protect his let's face it elderly father properly. rupert murdoch's wife was out like a shot apparently to defend her husband unexpected turn of events. and there will

be cross all the latest that's happening throughout the next couple of hours here on r.t. . still to come on the program also ahead this hour searching for his recovery crews trying to lift the some can vessel on the volga river hopes grow now finding the truth behind the tragedy of one of russia's worst shipping disaster. next. israeli commandos of border guards a band aid ship on the approach to the blockaded territory reporting no resistance from activists on board as the french vessel which has now been taken to the israeli port of ashdod is the last from a one hundred strong humanitarian flotilla that was prevented from leaving a greek port three weeks ago our correspondent paula slayer is across developments for you in israel. just before noon local time today tuesday the friendship which is known as the tail 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 the ship ten of them are passengers three of the crew three of them are journalists this is the furthest that any ship so far in this series of freedom for two 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 that feed into the one that incident in which turkish citizens were killed when israeli commandos who wanted to because they the mavi marmara most of them 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 what that ship is in 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 had been at least six put investigative committee that was set up last to to look at how the israeli soldiers in that first incident and how they dealt with that knowledge the new information once council is found and to quote them that the israeli actions have yet to be full and later this month we do expect the findings of a second u.n. commission that has already indicated that. why finds the israeli blockade on gaza not illegal israeli soldiers did last year at harshly when you look at the commies from international legal experts they say that when ships are in the high seas

there is something such as the freedom of navigation and asked such the israeli soldiers boarding a ship is in fact illegal. authorities correspondent paula slayer let's get more now on the border the french aid ship talked to. the campaign to end the siege of gaza thanks for being with us on r.t. now the activists on the boat said they were not carrying any humanitarian aid and the rain was simply to draw attention to their mission is not just admitting though their aim was to provoke israel. no there were three there are two the people of palestine million gaza which is under siege for the year for the fourth year since the international form an international community failed till this minute to pressure israel to end the illegal sea to respect international law this peaceful activists trying to come in order to show the that one point six million palestinians are living in serious conditions they are carrying some hope they are

going to trying to break the isolation was by israel in gaza strip this is not the provocation to provoke a shoot so what happened today and what israel is doing regarding the grave violation committed on the international humanitarian who humanitarian law our people in gaza this peaceful activists were carrying with them some messages which is very important some the message to the people of gaza that there is other people who are beside the injustice beside the liberties beside the problem and there is also to be able who are the need for these these actions so the international community must act in order that the suffering of the people of gaza we are not in need for cosmetic or materials gaza is full of chocolate and catch of many of these and other kinds of these such things that israel by its

crossings but no raw materials ok no room no construction materials will do you think anything positive will come out from this very public exercises been carried out the media's attention has been focused on looking back at the fallout from last year's flotilla boarding israel. their days its land blockade on gaza ok the goods that came through you may not have wanted too much to talk about the chocolate there but could this latest very public demonstration from the activist change israel to make further concessions now they would all optimistic. we hope that the into the video and the the formal international community will act first to get to safety for these. peaceful activist we have no information regarding the guarding there was a sense the morning we have no contact with these people who are in the war until now did we have the information just the wall two words good support and we have no information so we are calling the french government in order to act to release

these activists since they are where they were in the mission civil mission british did according to the international law and the second wind that i have to raise that we will not accept any new initiative to victimize this siege to make me see longer and longer we need to n.b.c. totally is not acceptable and anymore to increase the pressure on israel what judging by what israel must dismiss what i know and what i want to ask you now is then can you see israel's side to this at saw do you have any sympathy at all with the fact that israel says it's defending its blockade of gaza on the basis of militant activity there and is fear of the hamas government can you see any mileage in their argument. entering the cement to gaza what kind of danger it's wanting raw materials access for to be able what kind of danger in israel and that this is a big thing the international law that's what gazans in need for justice. gaza was

in need for freedom we were talking about twenty eight children who are in bad need for medical treatment outside gaza and they want to prevent it to get this medical treatment because of the this illegal siege what kind of danger of these babies and children are coming to israel it's a big question it's just a humiliation and the operation on the other thing is what living in gaza we will in gaza and bad need for development we are we do thank everyone all over the world for the humanitarian aid they are sending to gaza but this is not the solution the main solution for solving the unemployment which is more than forty four percent of the battle of gaza. because trucks do thousands of houses was shot this tried to do during the ten years it's too often the crossings totally to live deficient in fishing gaza to live the farmers reach the land on gaza this is what we have need for you here your point you've made it most clearly al shout from the campaign to

end the siege of gaza thank you for being on the international. trade and energy of fuel talks between the leaders of russia and germany in hanover the demands of europe's biggest economy a growing and moscow says it's capable of slacking that's starting diable show has been following a high 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 balls as they should 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 its 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 polls there is a particular friendship between angular merkel to meet from it better perhaps two of the closest partners on the wall stage and that was very much present here in the talks today now we've heard that president medvedev has been quit 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. fred but 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 so much of it is a little saying you shouldn't even though we thought the resolution would be

implemented according to what it says and if it says a no fly zone should be imposed that doesn't mean warning but instead of a no fly zone what we see is an active phase of a civil war and some forces are supporting one of the parties to the conflict and this is not really so i think we should continue searching for opportunities to find a peaceful solution to this situation we should use all available. mediators and all opportunities because there can be no military solution to the libyan problem. reference there is a mission by several nato states that they are arming libya's rebels and potentially escalating the violence reach madrid if. they were against a military resolution of the syrian conflict where violence between government troops and the opposition is growing key theme today's 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. recovery

crews working on lifting the doomed ship bulgaria from the bottom of the volga river managed to finally bring the vessel up right now but they say the operation to raise it may take several more days to play a crucial role in finding out why the ship went down in just three minutes meanwhile police arrested the captain of a vessel that sailed past the pleasure cruiser as it was sinking without stopping to help earlier the director of the firm that rented the boat on the ship's registrar also arrested the morgue area saying the russians volga river nine days ago killed a hundred people many became one of russia's worst she three traditional. sports and i would hear them including news of a penalty kick almost cause an international incident we've got news about that in twenty minutes time choose your business next that with dmitri. so. welcome to the business of seeing the shadow of debt now extends from washington to

tokyo covers the capitals of europe markets are not panicking yet but the steady grip drip of bad news is taking its toll politicians are playing a part as leaders quarrel over greece and u.s. lawmakers are stalemate over the debt ceiling the c.e.o. of index futures group jack lew john says what he thinks the mystic investor should do. i think that the pessimistic investor needs to still have exposure to the market unfortunately remember a pessimistic investor right now believe it or not has to be counter intuitive in one nine hundred thirty two for example soybeans traded at forty four cents a bushel in one nine hundred fifty two they traded at four dollars and fifty cents a bushel this was a conscious effort on the part of the government to inflate or instead of grow and that's exactly what happened we saw a devaluation of the currency so believe it or not a pessimistic investor right now needs to be exposed to commodities needs to be exposed to hard assets so as an individual i think what you have to do is almost

bite the bullet and find investments that make sense multinationals of course that have exposure all over the world that are part of this global growth story. move to the markets now crude is on the rise as investors wait for report tomorrow that may show us some of trees decline for a seventh week where the concerns about the prospects of global economic recovery are limiting u.s. markets kicked off with the rises corporate results from i.b.m. coca-cola beat expectations i.b.m. is never up around four percent this hour here in moscow is the closing picture for the bourses the r.t.s. up one point one percent my sixty three quarters of a percent on the rebound in the oil mainly if we look at the main movers in the my six you will see their gas from again one percent on the rebound as i mentioned t.n. k b p apologies for this technical error also up one point seven percent as it acquired assets in brazil now that deal could boost its reserves by three and a half percent financial stocks were doing well with. two percent that's after

a sell off on monday and that's all we have time for join me in the fifteen minutes and we will bring of course those figures for the russian markets and plenty more. the.

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thanks a. lot. this is our team from moscow thanks for being with us our top stories media monarchies being grilled by british m.p.'s right now a village phone hacking bribery of the funding of the world sessions resumed after the dramatically suspended when to protest the broken just a little earlier. israeli commandos take over a ship carrying pro palestinian activist to gaza for take another attempt to break the sea blockade of the region vessels boarded an international business and have been taken to the israeli port of ashdod. powering up moscow says it capable of meeting get into rounds of europe's biggest economy is the leaders of russia and germany and they've been in syrian crisis for also raising the tolls. still hoping

to find a compromise between the president while avoiding tension. as we're reporting it goes about eight ships being reported by israeli commandos in international waters last year a similar instant left nine people dead next r.t. hears from an activist from that deadly flitter attempt about why israel feel so threatened by this kind of mission. let me i have a human life sex vest refusenik and that israeli who supports the fratellis thank you very much for joining us here on r t why were you part of that for telling last year and why are you not. i wasn't it. was he was named the jewish vote in 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 immoral and criminal for first of all the palestinians and secondly for the israelis. here i'm just not available without food i support it just the same and it carries the same message as without the jewish part of that there would be the whole the whole world for. a for peace and. taken down the blockade and how much support is there in israel for the for tele i would say almost none.