to publicize his belief that the forty five minute claim had been exaggerated gilligan believes there are similarities between kelly and short haul being at the center of one of these storms a terrifying experience and i really don't believe either david or sean hoare was murdered because. i simply don't think it would have been in anyone's interest to murder them once they got into the public spotlight anyone with an iota of sense in government would have known that to kill them would just would just follow 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 short haul with evidence could have been crucial to proving that the news of the world editors supported a culture of listening to private voice mail sport 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 abuse international. journalists in london

is a very small place and the man was distraught he was well known but he was drinking too much taking drugs he was depressed to be moralized 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. as

a coincidence particularly looked at in the light of the death of david kelly. well the british prime minister david cameron has been called before parliament to explain his close relationships with a number of disgraced news corp executives and british a blogger how recall believes those ties could take their toll on current and his government. what really gave the story legs was the fact that david cameron. the then disgraced. coast of the conservative party for the made him is director of communications 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 turns out shared by the government conservative party but the prime minister david cameron yes 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 and

making sure that the prime minister 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 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 for himself at the very least stuff still around him. still to come on the program finding the man behind the drawings to use the sign rights groups wants a price channel to write legibly killing hundreds of civilians like other form of legal to right the point the strike. and allies soldiers who fought face red in the war against lebanon are finding themselves in a country that's got their distance. said be an authority have announced the arrest of goran how to judge the country's last remaining u.n.

war crimes fugitive what he was being fought for atrocities ranging from murder to religious persecution during the conflict between croatia and yugoslavia in the adding ninety's it follows the restaurant came out it wanted by the hague tribunal for similar crimes walking so dr tell you become obstacles in the way of it. you don't laundering the central institute of democracy and cooperation in paris it's critical of the type takes towards e.u. membership. i've never been a supporter of this. policy towards the hague tribunal or indeed towards the european union in general it's my view that i've expressed many times that the hague tribunal is a politically rigged court whose trials are a disgrace to the principles of. due process and i moreover think that the prosecutions that have been brought against serbian. indictees are qualitatively different and more aggressive than those that have been brought against other

nationalities including against croats. now george's latest spies are taking yet another twist simply see now says three photo journalist locked up on charges of espionage on behalf of russia have confessed their guilt but as artie's any reports there are concerns that the suspects were coerced 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 joerg abdel odds is 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 and this is there a case has been like this top secret all of this raises questions and are not getting any answers and this confession is a serious face three easier because we have made doubts about this whole deal so

that you would 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 then one by one the photographers started changing their testimonies eventually three of them incriminated themselves in his pen asure but up to lots 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 part 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 him by what they were basically this is a message for all of us journalists including me and all the. members of the new. heard the message loud and clear and stage a protest outside the jail break through which will go first are being held and preliminary detention human rights activists meanwhile believe produce will hardly affect the system of power in the country i'll bet on them because you will 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 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 begins to seems outrageous to journalists and to many ordinary people it's just the

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now u.k. based human rights group together with pakistani activists the seeking an arrest warrant for a former cia director allegedly 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 fourteen. i like that the u.s. isn't at war with the country that's off the strike that's the kind of medicine at the total civilians home is that's the message out to two thousand five hundred people think pakistani noise of already filed a complaint against resign accusing him of conspiring to kill innocent americans who act of a threat ground and i believe the u.s. is any homing its own interests and the point. the basic justification for this program is that it's protecting america it's necessary for u.s. national security in fact by all the figures that we've seen these drone

strikes have been fury of the people of pakistan they've quadrupled the pakistani taliban in numbers and violent attacks they've moved them east into the point you have the heartland to the point where they now pose a major threat to the pakistani government. to 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 according to the u.s. ambassador and better solution reeled in the wiki leaks cables. were so the u.s. is so hated now in pakistan the government is afraid to corporate with their own safeguarding its nuclear tiriel s. 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 increasing the danger in the united states of a conventional and or nuclear terrorist attack. eleven years after israel's retreat

from lebanon the soldiers are still struggling to cope with the consequences of that withdrawal their members of the so-called south lebanese army backed israeli forces and they feel their sacrifice has gone on recognized paula slim one of whom a soldier who says there is little support from the country he. there's only one thing for wise now jim 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 may be nice to flee with the israeli army as it left lebanon for eighteen years the israelis had been fighting the palestine liberation organization and his below on lebanese soil helped by the south lebanon army a militia of christians shias andrews who controlled the south of the country this old lebanese army to do than fight for is hard as

a world that is didn't fight for self liberty there was a meeting of engrosses 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. our 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 what. 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 imagine 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 want to die fighting with these. intelligence almost forced me to

call on 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 dripping not only the case of four was not jim but two thousand people that remain in state in israel. that country in 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 is a home. for them already eleven years. we don't have to we must. it's very unique. it's a very unique nobody the jews that. 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 seven years since the israelis withdrew from lebanon the situation has deteriorated and this is close to a good fence has since become close friends and through its bars israel's forgotten friends seem condemned to fit 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 g. to officially end with the return of atlantis from its last mission on buzz day there are some that say the country's dream of space exploration is now over

a position rejected by robert williams a distinguished astronomer on the mound behind the hubble telescope where he says the golden era of space research is in its prime and you can watch the full interview with him in fifty minutes time helen ossie. 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 are the neighborhood us to do things like adaptive optics supercomputers that have really advanced our understanding of astronomy at this large number of discoveries that i would say a really big set appropriate to call this a golden era of astronomy. and when it comes to starting a family determined couples in russia will stop at nothing many of the country's

six million in fact all upon estates argosy is their only chance of having a child but despite the practice being legal in russia the end result isn't always a case of the family. these first photos of anton 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 i think of it 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's sorry that mother also disappeared soon after the delivery little and tom's 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 limited it's just but we're in our modern world the idea of surrogacy is sometimes distorted it even be used to avoid the hardships of pregnancy and to preserve the beauty of a body that turns surrogacy into a business renting out

a womb costs from twenty to thirty thousand dollars however often either those who pay nor the sarah get want to admit their involvement in the process the attitude to surrogacy in russia is on big years 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 small or not such a small lie. 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 sarah see as the only solution to their financial misery if we had no other choice we lived at my mom's place nine people in four to six square meter is. you know either mother of two hope giving birth or money would allow her buy an apartment for her large family however hard

way through the pregnancy the genetic parents demanded she aboard they had shopped around and their backup was bearing twins. so the biological father sprawled out in front of men unarmed chair and almost laughed when he was saying don't you understand we need neither you nor the baby. you know either still hoped they'd accept the baby but instead ended up with no feet and an addition to her family too little and on 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. ok let's have a look at some other top stories we're around the world this hour and dozens of protests the japanese embassy in south korea against tokyo's decisions avoid corkery and air after the airlines testified over disputed territory korean air through its new flagship air bus a three eighty lasting above the decoder i

observed tired of playing as its territory things have been disputing the sovereignty of the islands for many years the region is located in the east sea an equal distance from japan and south korea. u.s. president barack obama has welcomed a bipartisan sell it proposal designed to cut the country's huge debt the plan aims to decrease the deficit by about four trillion u.s. dollars over the next decade on future adoptions will mainly affect health spending education and labor programs with only two weeks left to avoid looming default and all makers from both parties are also discussing raising the federal borrowing limit which areas are likely to stick to hits and why are the questions tackled and b. lavelle's crossed all next hour in the program here's a quick preview. if you ask the question very specific. do you would you like to see taxes rise people with six figure incomes or would you rather see medicare and

social security cut there's no question that people would like to see a rise in taxes on the upper brackets but that this is not what the true believers in the tea party want they want a very dramatically smaller government they have had it out for the new deal and the great society for generations really we can go back to the night early one nine hundred fifty s. to hear some of this new deal rhetoric and they somehow are really dominating the discourse partly because the president is not not a tough bargain or i think partly because he would like to see some of these cuts himself. coming up ok do you stay with. me now.

in denver. little college international sanctions as to takes place in paris on july ninth and tenth. the best live introductions by russian designers to the most beautiful virgin cities of central russia. this is a good living fair children from. slums like presiding over the festival. function festival. this is. following the welcome to business here on arts you know we start this hour with stock markets which are letting out a little sigh of relief at least for the moment they're welcome president obama's news of progress on race in america's debt ceiling and his meeting with congressional leaders to discuss and new debt cutting plan and determine if it could point the way out of the impasse now louise cooper from the interesting

partners explains what this could mean. there's still a long way to go in terms of the the two positions coming together however we haven't but we've got limited time for that to happen i mean yes it is good news that we've got a bipartisan gang of six with both republicans and democrats within it coming up this proposal we know that it was fifty senators listen to the proposal in detail yesterday for an hour and we know that so far all none of the key players have vanished out of have completely said no this is not the deal so it is looking optimistic but i just think you know this is this is who should we be optimism. and let's take a look at the markets now crude is on the rise sleights is just over one dollar this hour and brands is at one dollar point twenty eight cents the price increase comes after a strong u.s. housing data and that cutting plan avoiding technical defaults and the european

stock markets are higher this hour with financials driving gains the overnight rally on wall street and earnings from apple are a boost in investor confidence there. and here in moscow both the markets are in the black of the arts yes one percent and my sex is zero point sixty nine percent and let's take a look at some individual moves on the my sites most of the blue chips are on the rise gazprom aside and point ninety five percent. post in a strong danes on speculation it could be completely sold to private investors say it however would still hold veto rights and haul in metal unfortunately slipped into negative territory for investors there after several days of gains as gold is lower. russia has removed the capital gains tax for foreigners trading on the country's stock exchanges the move is mansour tracked further investments and

further promote moscow as an international financial censor and that's going to see on ads run a sense capital says investors 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. you know they didn't want to be taxed previously they set up offshore structures or international investors buying g.d.r. salute be excused from taxes in the previous set up so in current change for them to trade the mystic stops locally same condition as international trading solely this creates for them vector which will push them into the mystic trading so it's going to be positive for domestic liquidity. well that's all the business news for now and next up are the headlines with alison.

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much money in which of course you might want to call them so here's a dead end known as the deadline for the u.s. to increase its debt ceiling moves would appear to be more about politics and upcoming elections than fixing a crippling. he used. to. say. in india all she's available to do. join. the gateway go to the grand imperial. told.

to go to. rome to see the colonel was virtually a retreat. in the. rest of. the country's last remaining. fugitive. a grim deja vu with the man capable of dealing with the great. dead drawing increasing scrutiny from the public familiar with. voices of support of three that's accused of espionage and growing as critics

question the validity of the suspects recent confession it's. now with the u.s. shuttle program on a tough economic situation straining space research some say the american dream of reaching for the. one man still believes where there's a will there's a way robyn williams one of those behind the doors of the hubble space telescope things humankind will still make its way into space all specially next. mr williams thank you very much for being with us today it's an honor sir my pleasure said the beauty of. security basically it's funding and if. you think that beautiful do you have a better chance. that pretty. no i would say well it's always

nice to look at beauty. but. as far as a scientific value of hubble is concerned or trying to understand the universe and beauty is one of those things maybe you've heard the expression and beauty is in the mind of the beholder and so in fact what i see beauty and sometimes is a picture that other people might not consider beautiful but it reveals the answer to some important question like how stars form how galaxies form and so to a scientist the beauty is a totally different thing that. produces beautiful images that children like to see is very important for the funding of hoebel and of course that's important for we scientists that's exactly what i meant and so in that sense yes it is important in fact i can tell you. in the.