between kelly and sean hoare being at the center of one of these storms a terrifying experience i really don't believe either david all sean hoare was murdered 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 i think it's simpler i think both were under enormous pressure from their roles as whistle blows and and found it difficult to cope with that pressure sean hoare was evidence could have been crucial to proving that the news of the world editors supported a culture of listening to private voice mails for stories former editor andy colson who later became a media director to the current prime minister has always denied the allegations the man was destroyed professionally by views international the journalistic world in london is a very small amount was destroyed he was well known but he was drinking too much taking drugs he was depressed demoralized police are saying hall's death doesn't

appear suspicious and they're looking at suicide dr kelly's death was also recorded as suicide although many including leading doctors and m.p.'s have never accepted that their suspicions of hardly been quelled by the fact the post-mortem report and other evidence has been classified for seventy years so ten arrests six resignations two convictions and one death that the toll of the phone hacking scandal so far the death of a key whistleblower in this scandal has raised questions but so far only amongst the twitter ossie it's being reported as a horrible and unfortunate coincidence but it's doubtful that if this had happened elsewhere say in russia or in india the british media would be so quick to accept it as a coincidence particularly looked at in the light of the death of david kelly your emmett r.t.

. and the prime minister's close ties when you score and his efforts to head off the crisis could yet to take a toll on him and his government that's according to british blogger harry cole. what really gave this story legs was the fact that david cameron. the then disgraced. coast and into the conservative party for the maiden is director of communications now i don't think without without that kind of. 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 have been some errors of judgment it turns out shared by a donor in the governing conservative party but the prime minister david cameron yet again his chief of staff has been shown to be essentially instigating a cover up about the connections because you have to do the phone hacking making sure that the prime minister and the then leader of the opposition david cameron didn't know about it there's been a large amount of fingers in isn't just the kind of heads in the sand and that is

lethal for a prime minister and he's now in a real fight he is in a real really bad situation he could well be looking at some serious consequences very at the very least there's stuff still around him. well still to come on the program finding the man behind the drains. on the stony human rights groups want to press charges for unmanned attacks allegedly killing hundreds of civilians by getting off to a former cia director who proved the strikes. these don't allies soldiers who fought for israel in a war against lebanon finding themselves stuck in a country that's the new existence. george's latest spy saga has taken yet another twist to be seen the us says three photojournalists locked up on charges of espionage on behalf of russia have confessed their guilt but. reports there are concerns that the suspects book the worst into admitting crimes they didn't commit. and then there were none the last georgian

photographer to deny allegations of spying has apparently changed his story he now admits the charges video testimony of giorgio this confession of spying for russia was released by prosecutors to the media but most journalists are skeptical about this latest development or our. old this is very strange and there is in the middle of the night god and this is the case has been marked this top secret all of this raises questions and are not getting any answers and this confession is a serious face three accuser because with doubts about this whole deal. you will get the odds and maintained his innocence ever since he along with three other photojournalists was arrested at the beginning of this month old including president mikhail saakashvili his personal photographer were accused of passing on top secret information to russia's military intelligence or initially insisted they were innocent and then one by one the photographers started changing their

testimonies eventually three of them incriminated themselves in his panoz but up the odds they insisted he was not guilty and even went on hunger strike to provoke this point in fact his lawyer says the photographer seems to have changed his mind over the space of just ten minutes and that's led to questions over the circumstances under which the photographer seems to have changed his story managing editor of ali a newspaper dhimmitude e-cards it believes these admissions of guilt show the case has been fabricated turn of the demagoguery we live in a totalitarian state today all power is concentrated in the hands of president saakashvili and if someone goes against him and all of us will end up like this if the interior ministry had any other proof of their guilt he wouldn't have to force these confessions i took them by what they were basically this is a message for all of our journalists including me and paula. members of the media

heard the message loud and clear and stage a protest outside the jail where three with drug refers are being held and preliminary detention human rights activists meanwhile believe the hardly affect the system of power in the country alba grounded because it's very likely that of dillard's or will be forced to ask for my removal from the case investigators want everyone who can interfere out of the picture so they can lead it the way they want to they want the case of the photographers to end without any public discussion and that's possible if all the rest to plead guilty. and well the case seems outrageous to journalists and to many ordinary people it's just the latest in a seemingly endless string of spies scandals to hit georgia. r.t. . well there you can find more background on how the georgian spy scandal unfolded on our website that salty not. so naked ambition find out how ukrainian female

activists show their support for the georgian for toddlers. and cat lovers could soon be seen what should be on nots as moscow gets its own temple dedicated to the . mission free cretaceous free. for chargers free arrangement free. free. free. free broadcast quality video for your media project free video dog r.t. dot com. u.k. based human rights group together with pakistani activists are seeking an arrest warrant for a former cia director actually responsible for drone strikes which killed hundreds of civilians now retired john rizzo admitted in an interview that he had been approving such attacks in pakistan since two thousand and four despite the fact the

u.s. isn't at war with the country the purpose of the strikes was to target al qaeda militants but the total civilian toll is estimated up to two thousand five hundred people so all of the study lawyers have already filed a complaint against accusing him of conspiring to kill innocents on american antiwar activist ranchman leaves the u.s. isn't its only interest in the region. the basic justification for this program is that it's protecting america it's necessary for u.s. national security in fact all the figures that we've seen in these drone strikes have been fury of the people pakistan we've quadrupled read pakistani taliban in numbers and violent attacks the removal of these. into the pool and you have the heartland to the point where they now pose a major threat to the pakistani government. of the pakistani military so much that there's now talk of an anti he was

a military coup on the front page of the new york times and most important we've poured into the us ambassador and better solution real than the wiki leaks cables. we're so the u.s. is so hated now in pakistan the government is afraid to cooperate with iran safeguarding its nuclear materials which are the world's fastest growing and bio experts will tell you the least secure so the result of this drone strike campaign is fastly creasing the danger in the united states a conventional and or nuclear terrorist of. israel's or treat from that and then thousands of soldiers are still struggling to cope with the consequences of that withdrawal they are members of the so-called south lebanese army back to israeli forces and they feel this sacrifice has gone unrecognized paula slim that one former soldier says that the support from the country he fought for. there's only one thing for one's national dreams about and that is to return

home but home is southern lebanon and he's stuck here on the other side of the border in northern israel. that's my home five kilometers away eleven years ago for was was one of several thousand christian binny's to flee with the israeli army as it left lebanon for eighteen years the israelis had been fighting the palestine liberation organization and hizbollah on lebanese soil helped by the south lebanon army a militia of christians and jews who controlled the south of the country this old lebanese army has been fired for is as well that is there didn't fight for. there was a knitting of in the between them and us but growing domestic pressure in israel over the high losses suffered by the army finally convinced the government to withdraw and it did so quickly. arya epstein was a soldier at the time and says the lebanese soldiers who helped israel were left behind almost like sitting ducks and that's one thing if we're soldiers knew little

about us leaving they for sure knew even less there was some sort of selection the commanders were brought here but i'm sure if you were a driver not much was done for you. some seven thousand south lebanon army soldiers crossed into israel those who were left behind were tried jailed and sometimes killed as traitors for was an ashram was one of those who got out alive he'd been working with israeli intelligence hoping to recruit lebanese spies i did not want to run here i wanted to die fighting with the israeli intelligence almost forced me to call i was told you know too much but the way they treat me now is a shame they forced me to run away and now they spit on my face six months ago i'm not a lawyer found for was living in a tent on the street he was hardly surviving on the few hundred dollars a month the israeli government gave him i feel ashamed. in my country. that

dripping not only the case before was not jim but two thousand people that remain in state in israel why the country and the state of israel are treating them like. it's a charge the government is aware of although it says it's doing its best to help them by giving cash education and in some cases although not in followers as a home. for them already eleven years. we don't have to we must. with it's very unique it's a very unique nobody did it do that from a cure. you name it never nobody of them. but still that treatment was not enough to stop two thirds of those who came to israel from immigrating elsewhere but i feel betrayed by the beast sitting in the special intelligence forces have not given me any help since i've been here this is

the israeli lebanese border and this fence used to be known as the good friends but in the last eleven years since the israelis withdrew from lebanon the situation has deteriorated and this is close to good friends has since become the close friends and through its bars israel's forgotten friends seem condemned if a peek at the family they're more than likely never see again policy r.t. on the israel lebanon border. now with the american space shuttle program and you to officially end the return of atlantis from its last mission on thursday there are some that say the country's dream of space exploration is now over position rejected however by robyn williams and distinguished astronomy and then behind the hubble space telescope he says the golden era of space research is in its prime you can see a full interview with him next hour here. we're going through difficult periods now in the past few years but when i talk about the golden age of astronomy i talk

about the the space missions that we've had in the past fifteen years and the large ground based observatories in the new technological developments that have been able to us to do things like adaptive optics supercomputers that are really advanced or understanding of astronomy if you look at the fundamental discoveries that have been made in astronomy. paul sawers qualls ours. the existence of planets around others in the past fifteen years there's been an explosion of knowledge about things and then largely is due to important technological developments so they've all come together to cause this large number of discoveries that i would say really makes it appropriate to call this age a golden era of astronomy. now when it comes to starting

a family determined couples in russia will stop at nothing many of the countries six million infertile couples say surrogacy is there any chance of having a child despite the practice being legal in the end result isn't always a case of the families. these first photos of bent on made him an orphan seen he was ill his genetic parents refused even to hold him the boy has a rare and incurable genetic disease but. they simply threw him out like an unwanted kitten and picked a healthy one. while his healthy twin brother enjoys family life and tom has no one but hospital staff helping him to survive the boy sorry that mother also disappeared soon after the delivery it's but also responsibility to take keer all the children. you for. such a child in an orphanage they should pay for that. they should bear.

all of their income. it's a pity you they're. implemented you live in our country little and own story is just one of the shocking examples of shortcomings in the russian family code that seeks to regulate sarkozy in the country for a government which is the in our modern world the idea of surrogacy is sometimes distorted if you even be used to avoid the hardships of pregnancy and to preserve the beauty of a body this is why you spoilt i'm rich so i can buy a surrogate and then get a nanny to bring the child up that's emasculating the idea of humanness and turn surrogacy into a business renting out a womb costs from twenty to thirty thousand dollars however often either those who pay nor the surrogate want to admit their involvement in the process the attitude to surrogacy in russia is ambiguous so many women simply don't want anyone to know their baby is carried by another one out of the many it's easier to resort to

a small but not such a small why how about one scene in public with this there really is no going back to the sides become entangled in a legal and moral not blackmail homes intended parents while surrogate mothers greatest fear is not getting paid most of them see sorry to see as the only solution to their financial misery. who had no other choice we lived at my mom's place nine people in four to six square meter is. zenaida a mother of two hoped giving birth or money would allow her buy an apartment for her large family however half way through the pregnancy that attic parents demanded she a board they had shopped around and their backup was bearing twins. the biological father sprawled out in front of men unarmed chair and almost knocked when he was saying don't you understand we need neither you nor the baby. you know even still

hoped they'd accept the baby but instead ended up with no feet and an addition to her family. all a worm you do. that comes from more we're all just. too little and don't these legal details are called comfort the question is whether he will ever want to know who his real parents are and why they treated him as a commodity dairy pushed over r.t. . now it's have a look at some other top stories from around the world the south rebels have suffered severe losses while trying to seize the strategic eastern libyan town of break up they were shelled by government forces and trucks disguised with little frogs insurgence advance on record has also been complicated by landmines reportedly planted by colonel gadhafi forces doctors from nearby hospital say at least eight rebels have died in recent fighting. thousands of people have protested

in front of the japanese embassy in south korea and tokyo's decision to boycott korean air after the airlines test flight in a disputed territory. which new flagship a three eighty s. there are links to japan claims as its territory if you countries have been disputing the sovereignty of the winds for many years the reason is located in the east sea and the distance from japan and south korea. u.s. president barack obama has welcomed the bipartisan senate proposal for a debt cutting plan crafted by senators proposals aim to decrease the deficit about where trillion dollars over the next decade future abductions will remain in effect health spending and education labor programs with only two weeks left to avoid looming default lawmakers from both parties are also discussing lifting. of it.

basin's up next with maria. hello and welcome to business here on our team now we start this hour with russia which has removed the capital gains tax for foreigners trading on the country's stock exchanges the move is months or track further investments and further promote moscow as an international financial center of n s a going to see an act renaissance capital says in the fasters will welcome the change people who are in north raising russian domestic stocks know raising offshore g.d.r. stocks right so the if they don't want to put you know talks of import speak to experience leave a set of offshore structures or international investors buying g.d.r. so we will be excused from talks as in the previous set up so in current change for them to trade the mystic stops local the same condition as international did your

three of them solely this creates for them victor which will push them into the mystic trading so it's going to be positive for domestically that. stock markets are letting out a little sigh of relief well at least for the moments they've welcome for us then obama's news of progress on raising america's debt ceiling but there's still concern a new round of quantitative easing or more simply money printing could be on the cards. from and that futures group believes the net effect of a cash stimulus is questionable. essentially q.e. two or three is nothing more than printing up money out of thin air one of the things that people don't realize is that the six to seven hundred billion dollars that was printed up in q e two all went overseas if you look at where a majority of that money went over six hundred billion or went to the european banks basically to support their balance sheets in the wake of what's going on here

none of that money was really used to stimulate the economy now having said that the aftereffects of printing up more money are evident i think what we have to do is look back in history there are a few times where we could look back at when the government decides to inflate to over growth what are the ancillary implications and one of them of course is the fact that you see both commodity prices and equity prices incidentally go up simultaneously. but let's take a look at the markets now crude on the rise we can see that light sweet. points sixteen cents this hour and brant. seventy two cents the price increase comes after a strong u.s. housing data and that cutting planning that of what in technical default. and european stock markets have opened higher with financials driving gains. here in moscow bull markets are now open and they are on the positive notes that

the r.t.s. is up one percent and my sex is adding points seventy four percent. i look at ahead so that they strayed on the day about donna from gas from bank expects the sideways movement to continue in the absence of any bad moves. to do will be the sort of like trading on the sidelines because the no no manager and them should happen therefore in the market will be the tree will who pollute the stalls with the cull the done the previous day and you know make maybe some corrections but overall especially given that saturday's and middle of the summer and the market unmotivated tend to be actually gaining weight so i more think that if no major bad news will cap one of the bodies for example recently but these are thinking now it's already done deal then the market should be it should be more flat even maybe even a little higher. and that's all the business is for the l.x. up by the headlines with carrie.

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the grand imperial true and told us to. say don't need to go and. read this in the kennel was her job as a treat. for you watching r t it's time for the headlines agreement deja vu as the mad take one of dealing greatest blow winds up dead during increasing scrutiny from a public all too familiar with misfortune. georgian voices of support for three photojournalists accused of espionage. as critics question the validity of suspects recent conventions. u.k. and pakistani human rights groups want to press charges have unmanned attacks which eventually kill hundreds of civilians after former cia legal director. that's the

night. while the us is running out of time to deal with its debt crisis parties people of asks whether it's all about politics rather than economy cross-talk is up next. in. the low welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle that deadlock as the deadline for the u.s. to increase its debt ceiling looms would appear to be more about politics and upcoming elections than fixing a crippling problem as the u.s. courts financial disasters do americans have an appetite for are scared. to cross talk the debt impasse i'm joined by my guests in new york doug henwood he

is editor and publisher of the left business observer and howard gold he's a columnist for market watch and founder of the political blog the independent agenda all right gentlemen this is across time that means you can jump in anytime you want but first let's have a look at the debate unraveling on capitol hill. just under two weeks this is how much time washington has left to raise the federal debt ceiling set at fourteen point three trillion dollars and as the u.s. that steadily creep story that's legal limit democrats and republicans agree that a failure to avert a default would trigger an economic catastrophe a catastrophe that would not only hit the u.s. but would also undermine an already fragile global economy clearly if we gotz went so far as to default on the debt it would be a major. crisis because the treasury securities viewed as the safest most liquid security in the world it's the foundation for most of our financials for much of our financial system. and you know.