parliament and the police misled about what what's been going on and as how is the police force's 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'd made mistakes and the people he had trusted had been betrayed and it's been another interesting development as well in that this scandal now has a death to go along with it police found the body of a man called shaun 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 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 cost 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 foresty in this country and another one. anyone else see the

similarities in the situation between shaun hall 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 shorn horse of course just yesterday and talked to david kelly in two thousand and three so a bad day for whistleblowers parties lorimer though let's get some more reaction on the fallout of the scandal surrounding rupert murdoch's news empire and talk to british blogger how recall the whole a very good evening two things have been on the line was you just heard there from our correspondent laura speculation circling on twitter about the similarities between the deaths of sean hoare and david kelly about you've got some to say about that too strongly suspect well i think the police have come out. they are they are treating this not treasonous suspicious and they don't believe that any third party was involved mr hall was was known. to be deeply troubled as

one person put it to me with drink and drugs addiction it was actually the reason he was he was fired from the news that a few years ago because of his because of his addiction so i do think this is a sign of tourists more than anything anything more suspicious to the story. of the past of many a british politician on their toes afraid of any potentially unflattering facts being published about remember how likely is it that what we're seeing today is a result of the political plot maybe back against murdoch. well i think. this story's been bubbling i've a for a few years is kind of under the surface in britain since. kind of two thousand and six two thousand and seven when one rogue reporter from the news the world was was convicted but i think what really gave the story legs was the fact that david cameron. the then disgraced. coast and into the conservative party fota made him is

director of communications now i don't think without without that kind of that legs given to the story i think it probably wouldn't have been quite as big as it is now but the fact is there's been some row errors of judgment times out sharing by a donor in the governing conservative party but by the prime minister david cameron and he's now in a real fight he is in a real but really bad situation he could well be looking at some serious consequences for himself at the very least stuff still around him you say seriously how serious could he go over this. i'd say that. after what's happened today what's the merits today that yes again his chief of stuff has been shown to be essentially instigating a cover up about the connections. to the phone hacking and making sure that the prime minister and then leader of the opposition david cameron didn't know about it there's been a large amount of fingers in isn't just a kind of heads in the sand and that is lethal for

a prime minister if there's any any kind of evidence that david cameron didn't know about because it's connections in some seriously very don't you people as a private investigator is things like that that he's in real trouble i think there is potential a ten to fifteen percent chance that the province would go i think its chief of staff at llewellyn is in a lot more trouble and we'll probably see him go to mark perry from the chunk i watched of the news of the murdoch being questioned earlier on for a cave into the studio here there were a lot of a lot of passing the buck a lot of i don't know a lot of i wasn't aware of the kind of thing no great revelations came out apart from the apologies what was all this about them today just a t.v. show for the public. well i think all i think the reflection that this is is a sort of the best result the models could have hoped for because no damning new revelations came out there's been no kind of twists involving them personally and it gave them a chance to to be very humble to apologize to to show the public

they all human there's been this reputation of have being this kind of evil kind of cat stroking. villain tied to you that this reputation v. is a holding one of their sins by the puppet strings but i think want today showed that this was that was one very frail old man who was at the end that they deeply shocked by what went on to have what went on underneath him and i think the public may have to be able to apologize but i need to not only the world's t.v. what is it but a shout and it's not a surprise that news because shares are up seven percent now to offer this evidence i think it's been a good result for them but. and then getting a result they have managed to make problems a lot more difficult for the government it was a convincing performance you're saying from then ok one other quick one it must be pretty face that the british press notorious for its sharp teeth when it comes to pursuing a scandal do you think after this story is going to mean the british press is going to lose its bite in the future. well there was that there was

a former labor party lated no candidate who was roundly rejected by the country and ninety ninety two who said today that he believes that the press should be should have the same rules that british television has a balance and political neutrality that they were shocked that that suggestion was shot down into flames and kind of laughed out of westminster i think what the most dangerous thing that could happen from this scandal is the fact that the actions of a tiny tiny proportion of british journalists could be used by mainly the left or the left. to try and there put restrictions on the press to try and shut down debates and try and have news of the british press i'll be a very sad day obviously the president has to take into account where it went wrong and make sure that these sort of things don't happen again but if it was too new to the british press it be a very sad day for democracy a lot more on this story yet howie kolo blogger joining us live from london on the program. israeli commanders aboard the gaza bound

a chip on the approach to the blockaded territory reporting no resistance from activists on board the french vessel it's 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 with the latest paula sleeze across developments for you needs rail. 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 of passengers three of the 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 that feed into one that incident in which turkish citizens were killed when israeli commandos wanted to because they have a mob in monterrey 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 rules as it did go off without incident and 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 these were actually 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 first incident how they dealt with that knowledge the you information once console's found them to quote them that the israeli actions have now. and later this month we do expect the findings of a second u.n. commission that has a we indicated that is. 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 medium of navigation and as such the israeli soldiers boarding friendships is in fact illegal more from poor online as well she. blogs their. culture we don't wish to reason you've missed online including things as well. charges brought against the parents of the 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 this growing and

potentially deadly problem so online tonight also. off limits find out why belgian newspapers copyright route with web giant google are seeing the paper's web site removed from internet search results do you think that they'll get anything any comment want to save and restore our family can i was that if i was going to hear from you at r.t. dot com get the discussion comment about. trade in energy of fuel talks between the leaders of russia and germany in hanover the demands of europe's biggest economy a growing moscow said it is capable of meeting them bush has been following this high level meeting germany's decision to shut its nuclear stations has opened opportunities for the likes of process gazprom because john is hoping to tie up some deals here in hanover which 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 program of russia's

infrastructure no boy. better given the problems in the rest of the eurozone and 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. 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 wall 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 he would be making all of the very shortly. 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 boarding 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 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 is a reference the nato mission by several nato states that they are arming libya's rebels and potentially escalating the violence 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. human rights lawyers are seeking an arrest warrant against a former cia legal director who allegedly approved drone attacks in pakistan that

killed hundreds this claim john rizzo agreed on a list of people to be targeted by drone strikes a practice which started in two thousand and four under the bush administration when i joined by tara marr a she's a staff attorney at reprieve the campaign group this brought this action against the former cia legal director thanks for being on the program your organization is leading isn't it the child. against them as i just said what kind of results do you expect the engine really think we'll see of is that your aim at the end of the day . well i mean the main point behind all of this and what we're pre-vis hoping to achieve is this to get a measure of transparency out of the obama administration you know thus far these drones have been operating in pakistan in the federal federal administrated tribal areas fata and they've been operating in secret by the cia and they've been killing indiscriminately hundreds of civilians and so that the purpose of this is is hopefully to get transparency out of out of the cia and out of obama and to to get

some justice on behalf of the nec terms of these drone strikes it's a p.r. exercise when your legal team at reprieve particularly clive stafford smith spring it's unlikely we'll get a warrant so the whole thing's. going away and i mean you know well well the thing has it is awareness it is awareness but we think we have a very good client i mean you know rizzo has been on record in saying it in and knowledge that he was the one who was signing off on these death warrants you know he has admitted that he was the one who was you know allowing for these drones to operate in fatah for allowing these drones to kill individuals there which we know has resulted in a number of innocents who have died and so you know it's beholden on the pakistani courts you know to not to not allow this to continue and to stand up for its citizens and say ok enough is enough i guess the kind of argument is that killing civilians and military operations isn't considered illegal under international law

it proved to be deliberate disproportionate all right how you ever going to prove it's any of those things considering the us officially is part of a number of civilians dead from drone strikes in pakistan in just a few thousand not a thousand claimed by human rights groups. well you know it's interesting the legal question here is actually quite interesting. because as we know the u.s. is not in a war in pakistan and so i don't take it as fact that it is legal for the u.s. to be operating within pakistan i actually think that the u.s. is operating extra legally by carrying out these drone strikes in pakistan in yemen and somalia and in terms of it being disproportionate you know we have numbers coming out of pakistan that indicate that you know for every one suspected militant that's being killed one hundred forty innocent civilians are dying as a result of these strikes and so if those numbers are correct you know we have people on the ground who are gathering the information who are doing the investigation to try to collect the information so that we can bring

a more transparent a more honest picture to the public about what's happening in pakistan. the u.s. claiming the drone strikes do less despite what you're saying they're bringing the success with a minimal amount of collateral damage the death that you're talking about all still an effective tool destroy good targets were more conventional weapons. you know i don't think so and i think that if the u.s. is going to make that claim and make those assertions it's going to have to be transparent to be honest about what it's doing what you're currently is not doing the u.s. has to put up its numbers and we've asked you know what what how many civilians are being killed the u.s. has you know flatly denied that or they have said that there aren't any civilians being killed where we know that in fact there are inside the u.s. hasn't been transparent on this and so we can't just accept what the united states is saying as long to our mari stuff attorney it's a reprieve a company group has brought the action against a former legal director thank you for your input on the program much appreciated.

recovery crews working on lifting the doomed ship borg area from the bottom of the volga river of managed to finally bring the vessel upright but they say the operation to raise it might take several days i would hope to play a crucial role in finding out why the ship went down in just three minutes this is a piece of the rest of 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 and the ship's registrar also arrested a bog area sank in russia's volga river nine days ago it killed nearly one hundred people that has become russia's worst ever shipping twenty three vessels like the whole gehry though continue to cruise russian rules and ways are never ports next. 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 the tension now

turns to the safety of the rest of russia's ruefully. to see for ourselves we traveled upstream to the city of yours lovell like the fourth majority of vessels on the river volga this one was built in the soviet tides and in the last twenty years it's been through the house of multiple as each one of them has used that relentlessly most passenger ships to dismantle operate at the last vessel servicing remote areas are subsidized with tickets gusting as little as fifty cents apiece but tourist craft have to get city funding too there is no money for placements just in the us because you're sick we are just a small company we 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 burying the subletting of old ships the small operators what use group make up on 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 i have no money for autonomy that not everyone agrees. that if we simply start spending ships we will lose rivers transport altogether any such measures must go hand in hand with redeveloping the river shipping industry. ruddiman in chino is one of the new cost 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

that first step you mean. no but even if this does happen it will take years for the new ships to come on stream in the meantime earth passengers on an old ship begin to stop using it because of safety concerns. well it can be scared of everything so i will carry on going on these private planes which have to happen it's. going to. be you know slow. as much of this business need to be treated here. thanks kevin hello and welcome to the business update on the shadow of death now extends from washington to tokyo and covers the capitals of europe markets are not panicking yet but the steady drip of bad news is taking its top politicians are playing a pass as e.u. leaders coralie of a greece u.s. lawmakers are in stalemate over the debt ceiling the c.e.o. of index futures group jackboot or john explains want 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 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 fine investments that make sense multinationals of course that have exposure all over the world that are part of this global growth story. life is getting easier ever 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 sheriff's officials say

foreigners often concluded deals with russian blue chips outside the country in order to avoid this tax and let's hope the move will help boost liquidity in the market. brings us nicely to the commodities and stock markets now crude is on the rise as investors wait for a report due out on wednesday that may show us some entries in interest declined for seven weeks we could always also contributing to the games u.s. markets are showing strong rally results from i.b.m. coca-cola beating expectations i.b.m. is up five percent providing optimism to investors and the concerns remain now ah profits of banks. and moscow both exchanges also ended tuesday session in the black the r.t.s. up one percent my sixty three quarters of a percent is mainly due to rebound on the oil market energy majors are on the rise helped by this gain a new oil price gazprom is gaining one percent k.v. p. is up one point seven percent on reports it's agreed to acquire energy assets in brazil the deal could boost its reserves by percent financials also on

a rally after a sell off the previous trading session the tbs up two percent of the close on day but done up from gazprom bag wraps of the day they were all important results mostly from the sector gold of. america merrill lynch if there's a result which will actually look really great for one or more worse than what i was. just global such as middle east but never the worse that was what frederic so the market reacted neutral on that and basically. all that's it for now enjoy my colleague in the course or she'll be here at ten twenty am moscow time with a fresh wednesday update. hungry

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the close of the show to say don't need to go. read this and the colonel was a total retreat. stop stories the murdoch media mana key grilled by british m.p.'s of are alleged phone hacking and bribery rupert murdoch his son and the former c.e.o. in the u.k. answered questions about the inner workings of the shamed of news of the world newspaper. israeli commandos take over a ship carrying pro palestinian activists to gaza for take another attempt to break the sea blockade of the region the vessels being taken out of the israeli port of ashdod. and powering up moscow says it's capable of meeting the energy demands of your biggest economy is that he does a brush with it in. supposed eleven pm here in moscow next on r t the kaiser report on rivals the financial fairy tale and some economic heavyweights appear to be living in more of that surely than and then just over thirty minutes from now our channel will be off the air for a very little while for sure jules technical maintenance work will be back in five

to six am g.m.t. that's ten in the morning moscow time we very much look forward to having your company again at some point tomorrow i'm kevin owen in moscow tonight how are you over now to max and stacey. max kaiser this is the kaiser report america's going down the drain well let's get all the details of stacy herbert well max that's what you would think if you listen to moody now my first headline is actually a tweet from eric schatz or from bloomberg ron paul tells me triple a reading probably not worth saving moody's part of political theater yes well it's interesting isn't it because movies they've run out of foreign countries to destroy what they're corrupt ravings and now they're so they're

targets on the united states so this is exactly what was predicted by marxism at the capitalist will sell themselves the news to hang themselves well the oligarchs i don't think you call these people capitalist but i'm also noting the word theater and you often see that in the terms of war the war theater. and i think this is part of what moody's is the rating agencies are part of the banking occupation globally they don't recognize any nation well they are going to downgrade they've already put them on notice people are saying as a part of the theater of the debt ceiling debate that's going on regardless of what's going on with the debt ceiling the american aaa rating for its bonds will be cut now i have suggested that countries like greece that are being attacked by moody's should set up their own rating agency and return the favor.