the police how are they surviving the scrutiny. but 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 to soften 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 payouts settling with celebrities particularly whose phone says been 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 what's been going on and as how is the police forces relationships 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 the 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 named journalist to allege that his editor at the time andy cools and other news of the world who later became david cameron the prime minister's director of communications knew all along about the phone hacking and had actively encouraged his journalists to hack into phones now that news has really broken on twitter the twitter r.t. as we call them are going to 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 widely 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 forests 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 hauls 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 the. talk to the telegraph. drew gilligan thanks for being with us mr gilligan could hear me. you are trying to do your 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 jokes on the media exposure. when we saw a 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 and you know whether they're on palatable or 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 he 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 that use the world that they were politically protected by those in power that allowed this to go on 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 are pointing out that once a political a big political scandal breaks out often a key figure dies do they have a point or not i mean they're referring to the death last night of sean hoare the former news of the world journalist two who first broke all this also talking about in two thousand and three dr david kelly the weapons inspector blew the whistle by saying that britain knew iraq didn't have weapons of mass destruction i mean these

are just unfortunate only recently thing to this speculation. well it will 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 did it did 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 vile because they hated the b.b.c. commercial rival to them but david kelly was just an ordinary civilian caught up in that maelstrom and 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 anyone with an iota of sense in government would have known that to kill them would just would just amplify the story as it did with david kelly and as it is doing to some extent with sean 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 a whistle blows are brave people but they do get put under enormous amounts of pressure i want about the murdoch empire now as it stands in britain do you think certain politicians will be looking for a range maybe a certain wrong politicians are afraid to come forward before we're looking to stick the knife in and twist it 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 they are seizing this is a god given opportunity to work to muzzle us 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 in 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 the kind of rotten journalism used 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 him piece cheating on their expenses a huge story a couple of years ago perhaps the last really big media friends feeding frenzy before this and we only got that because we paid money as it's well known i'm not

selling anything new here we paid money for a stolen disk with all the. un since it impedes expense claims on it and actually had we not done that we the most 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 officially and so sometimes journalists do need to do things which aren't 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 thought about this on both sides of the phones but for now i'm afraid our terms of boundary gilligan the telegraph london editor thanks very much for being on r.t. . israeli commandos a border guards a band aid ship on the approach to the blockaded territory reporting no resistance from activists on board the french vessel which has now been taken to the israeli port of ashdod is the last from a ten strong humanitarian flotilla that was prevented from leaving

a greek port three weeks ago our correspondent paula slee is across developments in israel. just before noon local time today tuesday the friendship 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 the 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 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 had their feet into the one that

incident in which turkish citizens were killed when israeli commandos wanted the biggest ship they them of the modern wreck and they simply do not want to see that happen again so the added pain is 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 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 was all still remains a very important question there had been at least four separate investigative committees that were set up last to to look at how the israeli soldiers in that. incident how they dealt with that knowledge the u.n. freeman wants council found and to quote them that the israeli actions have been

handy 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 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 as such the israeli soldiers boarding ships is in fact illegal. or they've got more of an online tonight of course if you missed any of the news stories we're covering want to take a look at our web site is working on going to be one of your data set to hold tonight charges brought against the parents of 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 the growing a potentially lethal problem we've got online for you tonight also what i see the call the call for limits why a belgian newspapers' copyright web trying google a see the paper's web site

removed from internet search results good or bad idea that the right to do that tell us what you think of all the stories you still get up to go home. and trade in energy fuel talks between the leaders of russia and germany in hama over the demands of europe's biggest economy a growing and moscow says it's capable of meeting them he's done your bushell's been following the high level meeting for. 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 and hand over 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 announced by president dmitry medvedev and given the problems in the rest of the euro zone 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 to meet from it better perhaps two of the closest partners on the walls stage and that was very much present here in the talks today 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 and great spread but have said 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 though we thought that the resolution will be implemented that warning to what it says a no fly zone does 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 libya 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 is a reference there to nato submission by several nato states that they are arming libya's rebels and pretend. really. voile and. a very good military resolution of the theory and conflict between government troops and the opposition is growing. he writes lawyers are seeking an arrest warrant against a former cia legal directives allegedly approved drone attacks in pakistan the kill hundreds it's claimed jon brazil agreed on a list of people to be targeted by drone strikes a practice this started in two thousand and four of 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 in what we're talking about

here the former chief counterinsurgency strategy is for the u.s. state department estimated that drone attacks kill fifteen 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 then 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 this the fact is that the intelligence that that is used 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 list. 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 well at 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 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 at least in my mind is very dubious what about 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 can walk in and make a case against virtually anyone claiming that they committed war crimes and then of mr rizzo ever has the misfortune of passing through spain he could well be arrested looking to the future these drones on going to go away i mean one of your 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 america's enemies and to quote but of course we're talking latest technology and i guess the argument is latest technology will bring more accuracy more reliability to these weapons. for 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 on the program former cia officer as you all thanks for being on how to. recovery crews working on lifting the doomed ship will garia 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 please the rest of 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 arrested the bulgaria sank in russia's volga river nine days ago killed nearly one hundred thirty people it became and has become one of 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 with dmitri. thanks kevin hello and welcome to business see the shadow of debt now extends from washington to europe and covers the capitals of europe the markets are not panicking yet but the steady drip of bad news is taking its toll politicians are playing a part as e.u. leaders quarrel over greece and u.s. lawmakers on stalemate over the debt ceiling c.e.o. of index futures group jack john explains what to do in these conditions. 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 one thousand 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 fine investments that make sense multinationals of course that have exposure all over the world that are part of this global growth story. well let's move to more optimistic news now life is getting easier for foreign investors playing on the russian stock markets there 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 there's hope the move will help boost liquidity in the

market. and germany will take part in russia's innovation drive two countries there creating a one billion euro investment fund to support high tech business the head of russia's state of the e.p. bank says the cash will only target small and medium sized firms in particular ones which the current stream believes this will help produce more components locally. move to the markets this hour we start traditionally with oil and crude is on the rise as investors awaits a report coming out wednesday that may show us some into the wind for a seventh week however concerns about prospects of global economic recovery are limiting gains you can say that with the growth of one dollar seventy seven cents a month sweet u.s. markets are still up more than one percent corporate results coming out from i.b.m. coca-cola 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 enough to be particularly good monday lloyds banking group took up four point three percent. and this is the closing picture for tuesday's session in moscow where exchanges managed to someone recover monday's losses all of us up one point one percent my six three quarters of a percent this was based on the rebound in oil prices gazprom therefore gaining around one per cent and that's as investors are also waiting for some kind of outcome of talks in germany ok b.p. is up one point seven percent are opposed to agree to quiet energy assets in brazil that deal could boost its reserves by three and a half percent and financials were. actually caught up in the global rally two percent of the clothes they brought down the from gazprom bank wraps up the day straight. to be a couple of very important results mostly probably for the national sector goldman sachs and bank of america merrill lynch in the pacific what results which will

actually look really great for what they're worth more or less and why with patients especially merrill lynch global socialism to the local officials but nevertheless that was what frederic so the market reacted quite unusual on that and basically the if there is with this high tech project skolkovo is continuing to attract new companies russia's answer to silicon valley has revealed a further thirteen signing up for g c four pricing offices says investment is coming from both big and small plates. on one level we've already attracted commitments from for example cisco of 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 plus one 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 i have committed financing to

go finance with us about forty million dollars as well so give you a 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 potentially twenty percent of the finance that 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 as a from the business desk for now but you can always log on to our website forward slash business for all the stories that you've seen and the stories we've had before next up and i'll see the headlines with kaput.

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murdoch media monarchies being grilled by british employees over alleged phone hacking bribery at the now defunct news of the world rupert murdoch and his son of being followed by the former c.e.o. in the u.k. were. questions about the inner workings of the. israeli commandos take over ship palestinian activists to gaza for take another attempt to break the sea blockade of the region the vessel was boarded in international waters and it's been taken. says it's capable of meeting the energy demands of the biggest economy is the beaches of russia and germany meet in the syrian crisis

were also raised at the top of the moscow still hoping to find a compromise between rebels while avoiding intervention in syria. moscow next week small can be done to overhaul russia's prisons which have come under fire for overcrowding and poor conditions. but. not. any complaints. i. guess of the cash. pulse of life for the sake of my wife and kids. according to statistics one out of every four men in russia has served time in prison currently nearly nine hundred found inmates are serving time in prison colony most of them have committed serious crimes. convicts into a quarantine if they see a mix of the old penitentiary system and then you. initially the russian panel

system had inherited the legacy of stalin's notorious killers. but now it is going through a period differ from the likes of which have never been seen before. everyone here has to decide whether or not they're going to change their ways sure go educate the warden needs to see that it's happening what kind of changes are already in place behind the barbed wire and will modernization benefit both the inmates prison staff . convicted cover leon of masterminding the murder of a fellow businessman and sentenced him to seventeen years so he has spent several months in one of moscow's investigators isolation wards now pavo is due to be transferred to a prison colony on face the wall. spread their legs were done.