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a potential new wave of quantitative easing is all creating confusion on the markets joined at the saltines twenty minutes time to find out what to do in these conditions. hello this is r t it's nine pm now here in moscow. and first rupert murdoch and his son who spent three hours facing angry lawmakers a phone hacking and police bribery claims of a now x. news of the world events took a dramatic twist when two protesters broke into the westminster committee chamber hearing since resumed banalities lorimer's following it all for us in london other laura bring us up to date on the maison development earlier on and two attempts to interrupt the hearing now the former c.e.o. of murdoch's british media interest rebecca brooks is facing the questions bring us up to date on all. well this this moment you talk about when the protests are

interrupted proceedings was hands down the most dramatic moment of the afternoon it turns out that it's police are saying that it's somebody who is actually a comedian who tweeted earlier on that he was going to do something to just run proceedings one person he was taken out in handcuffs essentially what happened is that he broke into the room where the hair at the end of the proceedings were taking place and he pelted murdoch with what appeared to be a white substance may or may not have been shaving foam or something quite light as advantages managed to get murdoch with it at which point mr mr murdoch sr as wife stands up and attempts to slack the process down to try to protect her husband quite a dramatic moment the proceedings was disbanded for around fifteen minutes in the afternoon and then. murdoch's junior and senior came back and took the stand at the end of their hearing the committee apologized profusely for what they said was an

unacceptable interruption by a member of the public. who should live press politicians and police how they survive in the scrutiny. well it's not easy and this is a this is a scandal which as you say has implications throughout society the news corp employees and indeed bosses have been answering questions the softening about what they knew about the phone hacking at the news of the world alleged payments to by journalists to the police james murdoch specifically approved pay outs settling with celebrities particularly going to being hacked why the committee was asking has he done that when he now admits that he didn't have full knowledge of what was going on at the news of the world and of course was there a cover up parliament and the police misled about what's been going on and how is the police forces relationship with the press how is that how is that come to be as cosy as it appears to be from this scandal at the end of it has to be said that

rupert murdoch was very contrite he said he apologized profusely to victims of the phone hacking scandal he said it was an unacceptable invasion into the lives of private people and he accepted that news of the world and. news corp and news international had broken trust with its readers he said he made mistakes and that people he had trusted had been betrayed and it's been another interesting development as well in this scandal now has a death to go along with it police found the body of a man called sean hall in his house just on monday he was the first names journalist to allege that his editor at the time and you cool sort of the news of the world who later became david cameron the prime minister's director of communications knew all along about the phone hacking and has actively encouraged his journalists to hack into phones now that news has really broken on twitter the twitter r.t. as we call the book going going insane about it really comparing the death of sean

hoare to the death of david kelly in two thousand and three but he of course was the u.n. weapons inspector who first. doubts on the government's claims that iraq could deploy weapons of mass destruction within forty five minutes so those two deaths are being compared likely on twitter and i'll just read a few of the tweets that we've seen comparing these two deaths one says i can't help feeling there must be foul play involved in the sean hoare death much as i suspected with dr david kelly an uneasy feeling another one says it says everything about the british public paranoia that sean hoare is trending alongside david kelly that shows a deep distrust of all thoreson in this country and another one anyone else see the similarities in situation between sean hoare and david kelly or is it just me were they pushed or did they jump and in another extraordinary coincidence it turns out that both bodies were found on the eighteenth of july short hordes of course just

yesterday and dr david kelly in two thousand and three so eighteenth of july a bad day for whistleblowers ok laura thanks very much for use of those well you know that. talk to the telegraph. through gilligan thanks for being with us mr gilligan can hear me. you're trying to do good stuff good to see you i mean one of your articles recently you say for many in power the news the world crimes are a god given opening to diminish one of the greatest checks on the media exposure would you. well we saw the former labor leader this morning on the radio here in britain saying that actually he thought newspapers should be regulated by law to be politically violence and impartial as british t.v. is and that would be a huge. erosion of freedom because people have the right to express opinions you know whether they're on palace and we're not but that's the kind of

thing that's being talked about here and that shows the real danger of what we're about this was not actually a failure of press regulation it was a failure of parts of the press of individual journalists and editors but not a press regulation the fact is that we would have a regulation against phone hacking in this country we had a regulation against bribing police officers it's called the law it's been legal for a very long time here and it was the failure of the police to enforce the law and it was the belief of those views the world that they were politically protected by those in power that allowed this to go on and not afraid of press regulation and so many unfortunate stories surrounding this whole saga and as we heard from our correspondent in london many twenty users of pointing out the once a political a big political scandal breaks out often a key figure dies so they have a point or not i mean they're referring to the death last night of sean hoare the film and he was the world journalist to who first broke all this also talking about in two thousand and three dr david kelly the weapons inspector who blew the whistle

by saying that britain knew iraq didn't have weapons of mass destruction i mean these are just unfortunate only reason anything to this speculation. look of course david kelly was my source i was the reporter he talked to i was the reporter that broke that story about the weapons of mass destruction and and i can say from experience that that being at the center of one of these storms because of course my story did cause a storm perhaps the last really do a big media storm before this one. i can say from experience is a terrifying experience and and and actually you know i got through it because i'm a professional journalist i know you know i know the motives a lot of the people behind it the murdoch press indeed was particularly voile because they hated the b.b.c. commercial rival to them but david kelly was just an ordinary civilian courts up in that maelstrom and i can understand how frightening it must have been for him and i think similarly for for sure being caught up in this kind of stories tremendously

pressurizing tremendously worrying and actually i really don't believe either david all sean hoare was murdered like some of the people on twitter saying because. i simply don't think it would have been in anyone's interest to murder them once they'd got into the public spotlight any more with an iota of sense in government would have known that to kill them we just we just amplify the story as it did with david kelly and as it is doing to some extent be shown or i think it's simply i think both were under enormous pressure from their roles as whistleblowers and and found it difficult to cope with that pressure sean hoare freely admitted that he had problems with drinking and drugs and he was a tremendously brave man to blow the whistle on what was going on at the news the world but was whistle blows are great people but they do get put under enormous amounts of pressure i want about the murdoch empire now as it stands in britain i think certain politicians will be looking for a range maybe a certain wrong politicians are afraid to come forward before we look in a steak knife an interested further into

a murdoch's papers. absolutely i mean the fact is that the press is the main thing in this country that holds politicians to account it's more effective than parliament it's more effective than the courts it's the thing politicians lose sleep worrying about in britain that's how it works. and they are seizing this is a god given opportunity to work for muslims so i have no doubt that there will be all sorts of regulations down the line some kind of statutory david cameron in south africa today said you know africa rather said that. he favored the end of self-regulation for the press they need to be some sort of independent regulation and i can i can well see that having seriously detrimental effects not just on on because of rotten journalism news the world but on the kind of good journalism that other people do as well i mean my newspaper the daily telegraph we broke the story about in peace cheating on their expenses a huge story a couple of years ago last really big media frenzy feeding frenzy before this and

we only got that because we paid money as well no i'm not selling anything new here we paid money for a stolen disk with all the. uncensored impedes expense claims on it and actually had we not done that we had most of the british public would have known about their their legislators cheating on expenses would have been two thousand sheets of blacked out paper because that's all they were going to give us a pressure and so sometimes journalists do need to do things which are actually whiter than white to get stories in the public interest and i'm really worried that those sorts of stories are going to be much much harder to do in the future because a lot of argument lot of this on both sides of the phone afraid our times are bound together given the telegraph in london a little thanks very much for being on r.t. . israeli commando support of the gaza bound aid ship on the approach to the blockaded territory reporting no resistance from activists on board

a french vessel which has now been taken to the israeli port of ashdod is the last from a ten strong humanitarian fla till it was prevented from leaving a greek port three weeks ago our correspondent policy is across developments in israel. just before noon local time today tuesday the friendship which is known as the dinner table surrounded by at least three israeli naval ships as it made its way to gaza this is off to the ship anchored overnight in international waters now we understand that the israeli navy contacted the captain of the ship warned him that if you went any further they would be acting illegally 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 and they're all sixteen people on board this ship ten of them are passengers three of them are crew three of them are journalists this is the furthest that any ship so far in this series of freedom flotilla 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 have a feed into the one that incident in which turkish citizens were killed when israeli commandos loaded the biggest ship they the mavi marmara and they simply do not want to see that happen again so the average pays to try and see this dealt with peacefully and without any kind of loss of life because many soldiers unable 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 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 in the eagle these really actions all still remains a very important question there have been at least four separate investigative committees that were set up in the last two to look at how the israeli soldiers in that first incident how they dealt with that and all the new information once

consulate found them to quote them that the israeli actions had been actually in the north pole and later this month we do expect the findings of the second iran commission that has we indicated that. why finds he is made blockade on gaza is not illegal israeli soldiers did last year at hosni 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 as such the israeli soldiers boarding is in fact illegal. paula slater there got more than online tonight of course if you missed any of the news stories we're covering want to take what i website is working or going to a very little data center called tonight charges against the parents of an eleven year old russian boy who confessed to attacking a passenger plane with a laser pen find out what authorities are doing to clamp down on a growing a potentially lethal problem we've got online for you tonight also what artsy

they'll call you all for a living it's why belgian newspapers copyright but by trying google to see the paper's web site removed from internet search results good or bad idea that the right to do that comes what you think it will discourage you to get up to go home. create an energy fuel talks between the leaders of russia and germany in hanover the demands of europe's biggest economy are growing and moscow says it's capable of meeting them as he's done your bushell's been following a high level meeting for. germany's decision to shut its nuclear stations has opened opportunities for the likes of russia's gazprom the gas giant 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 or in particular the vast modernization program of russia's infrastructure knelt by president dmitry medvedev and given the problems in the rest of the eurozone 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 there is a particular friendship between angular merkel i mean for me better perhaps the closest partners on the world stage and that was very much present here in the talks today president but if 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 and rich prevent if they shared common views on the whole middle east situation of course both countries abstained from the u.n. vote authorizing action foreign military intervention in libya some of said it is a little saying you shouldn't even know what we thought that the resolution will be implemented the wording to what it says a no fly zone that's not mean of war but actually instead of a no fly zone what we see is an active 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 alleviating 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 which was a reference there to nato submission by several nato states that they are arming libya's rebels and potentially escalating the violence both ridgewood better 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. it is the second arrest warrant against a former cia legal director whose allegedly approved drone attacks in pakistan to kill hundreds of its claimed john rizzo agreed on a list of people to be targeted by drone strikes a practice this started in two thousand and four under the bush administration so what about this we're joined by philip giraldi is a former cia officer for the very good evening thanks for joining us from

washington tonight let's get some numbers first folks about what we're talking about here the former chief counterinsurgency strategy is from the u.s. state department estimated the prototypes kill fifty known targeted people for each intended target in research also shows that up to two thousand five hundred pakistanis have been killed in those attacks since two thousand and four i guess the question is how can the u.s. continue to justify them and yeah well the u.s. makes an attempt to justify it by claiming that many of the people if not most of them are indeed terrorists or insurgents but as you just pointed out the numbers are very soft on the fact is that the intelligence that you use to target these attacks is very often faulty you will have one pakistani targeting his neighbors for one reason or another and they wind up on a death wish. i think the estimates that i've seen in that you would in the

pakistani media go anywhere from one out of ten being a militant to one out of a hundred i guess the defense department saying that at the end of the day they do reach their targets albeit not by times especially targets that are difficult to reach that other weapons couldn't get. well it is actually of course true that the using these drones and the predator missiles is a way of striking targets inside pakistan that they couldn't do with for example a lot of planes that have a pilot but the fact is that again the process is far from perfect and the argument that it's being used to take out terrorists and indeed striking a country with which america is not at war means that the whole process is something that i least in my mind is very dubious one of this case nobody expected to see anyone facing a wrestler actually serving jail time over this. well this is one of those

interesting cases that can go in several directions the united states does not cooperate with the international criminal court on this kind of case precisely for this reason so john rizzo isn't likely to be turned over to a court to face charges against him but on the other hand there are some jurisdictions in europe spain for example where anyone could walk in and make a case against virtually anyone claiming that they committed war crimes and then appears to rizzo ever has the misfortune of passing through spain he could well be arrested in the future these drones on going to go away i mean in one of the recent articles you mentioned the united states is said to be developing a new generation of super drones that can stay airborne for long periods of time they can strike anywhere in the world at any time to kill americans that are nice and quote but of course we're talking latest technology and i guess the argument is like this technology will bring more accuracy more reliability to these weapons therefore a good thing no. no i don't think so i think because the the weapon is

dependent on the intelligence and the intelligence identifies the actual terrorists and is not very good at doing that and i was so i don't think that having a technologically superior drone is going to make that much difference you have to realize we're living in the age of the video game and this is a new kind of killing that is done in a very sanitized way by some pilots sitting in nevada and it's something i suppose that was inevitable and something that suits the twenty first century character all right first you're already going to get your insight in the program former cia officer as you well thanks for being on how to. recovery crews working on lifting the doomed ship old area from the bottom of the volga river managed to finally bring the vessel up right however they said the operation to raise it might take several days more it's hope to play a crucial role in finding out why the ship went down in just three minutes meantime police arrested the captain of

a vessel that sailed past the pleasure cruise as it was sinking without stopping to help earlier the director of the firm that rented the boat on the ship registrar also the rest of the book area saying he russians called the river nine days ago killed nearly one hundred thirty people it became and has become russia's worst ever shipping tragedies. it's nine twenty two pm moscow time just a few minutes we explore whether any change will come to russia's notoriously tough prisons in our special report ahead after the business next to me tree. thanks kevin hello and welcome to the business see the shadow of debts now extends from washington to circular and covers the capitals of europe the markets are not panicking yet but the steady drip of bad news is taking its toll all titians are playing in past and e.u. leaders quarrel over greece and u.s. lawmakers on stalemates over the debt ceiling c.e.o. of index futures group project john explains what to do in these countries. 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 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 a government to inflate. instead of growth 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 fine investments that make sense multinationals of course that have exposure all over the world that are part of this global growth story was moved to more mystic news now life is getting easier for foreign investors playing on the russian stock markets they now don't have to pay a twenty percent capital gains tax for trading local sheriff's officials say

foreigners often concluded deals with russian blue chips outside the country in order to avoid this tax and the soap the move will help boost liquidity in the market. and germany will take part in russia's innovation drive to countries that creating a one billion euro investment fund to support high tech business head of russia's state v e b bank says the cash will only target small and medium sized firms in particular ones which work in the current stream believes this will help produce more components locally. most of the markets this hour we start traditionally with well and food is on the rise as investors away to reports coming out wednesday that may show u.s. imagery to grind for a seventh week however concerns about prospects of global economic problems are living beings we can say that with the growth of one dollar seventy seven cents a month sweet those markets are still up more than one percent corporate results coming out from i.b.m. alone beat expectations providing optimism i.b.m.

is therefore up around four percent this opium stocks also rebounded from the seven month lows with positive corporate results supporting some sectors banks are mostly high off to be particularly good on monday lloyds banking group took a you know up four point three percent. and this is the closing picture but tuesday's session in moscow where exchanges managed to somewhat recover monday's losses also us up one point one percent my sex freak which is the percent this was based on the rebound in world prices gazprom therefore gaining around one percent bad thousand vests is also waiting for some kind of outcome of talks in germany k.b.p.s. up one point seven percent are opposed to greater quiet energy assets in brazil that deal could boost its reserves by freeing half a cent and financials were actually caught up in the global rally d.t.b. up two percent of the close and they were down a from gazprom bank wraps up today's trade. were

a couple of important results most importantly for the full circuit or goldman sachs. bank of america merrill lynch and the president what results which were action was really great for what you're worth more or less and why and with patience especially merrill lynch almost a little your solution but never the worse it was more pressure so the market reacted great news for all that and where they agree if there's one person. high tech project scorpio voice continued to attract new companies russia's arts it's a silicon valley has revealed a further thirteen signing up projects chief operating officer says investment is coming from both big and small plates and on one level we've already attracted commitments from for example cisco over one billion dollars to invest in chicago on a smaller level one of the big pharma we've also attracted forty million dollars to invest in venture funds pause a hundred million dollars to invest in setting up an r. and d.

center for clinical trials at skolkovo 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 if you range of the type of partners we're 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 twenty percent of the finance that we receive from the russian government and i think we're on track to do we would have taken mine to school covers about thirteen months old and i think we've made some very decent progress so far as a from the business desk for now but you can always log on to a website look forward slash business for all the stories that you've seen and all the stories we've had before next up announcing the headlines with kaput. it's.

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