it was british journalist andrew gilligan who david kelly had spoken to to publicize his belief that the forty five minute claim had been exaggerated gilligan believes there are similarities between kelly and sean hoare being at the center of one of these storms a terrifying experience 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'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 simply 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 who are 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 place and the man was distraught 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 aussie 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. . as david cameron tries to explain his links with rupert murdoch's empire bush's brother gary cole believes those ties could take their toll on cameron and his. what really gave the story legs was the fact that david cameron to the then disgraced. cosen of the conservative party for the maiden is director of communications 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 have been some errors of judgment it turns out shared by 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 in how 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 . soldiers he is right on the war against lebanon are finding them found some kind of country that's forgotten their existence. george is the latest spy solid guy has taken yet another twisted b.c. now says three photojournalists locked up on charges of espionage on behalf of russia have confessed they killed but it's aussies that he can use to reports there are concerns that the suspects were worse 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 abdullah 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 and this is there a case has been marked as top secret old this raises questions and are not getting any answers and this confession is a serious face to 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 personal photographer were accused of passing on top secret information to russia's military intelligence 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 a 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 all the 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 out of him but basically this is a message for all of us journalists including me and. members of the media heard the message loud and clear and stage

a protest outside the jail where three photographers are being held and preliminary detention human rights activists meanwhile believe protests will hardly affect the system of power in the country. 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 arrested plead guilty. and well the case seems outrageous to journalists and many ordinary people it's just the latest in a seemingly endless string of spies scandals to hit georgia. r.t. . you can find more background on hunger dalton spy scandal unfolded on our website about dot com to the naked ambition to find out how ukrainians say their support for the torch of the talk. of

a slightly different topic cat love kids. playing on the balance of moscow gets its own temple that it catered to the line. when you take three. four three. three. three. three. three balls video for your media project free media and our t.v. dot com. serbian authorities have announced the arrest of the country's last remaining un crimes a fugitive when he was being sought for transfer scenes ranging from murder to religious a prosecution jury in the conflict between croatia and yugoslavia and the nineteenth it follows the arrest of a lot it's wanted by the hague tribunals for similar crimes marking serbia's drive

to overcome obstacles in the way of its bid to join the e.u. wolf for more on this that's cause live ballot alexander puppets of the list based in belgrade this coverage many times of being with us here now why do you think that belgrade has waited until now to arrest both had it i'm glad it. well i think the serbian authorities claimed that they couldn't find them before of course the opposition here questions that this is all part of a. election campaign because parliamentary elections are due here early next year and many here in the opposition think that this is all in the function of getting some points from the you because. the current government is desperate to get candid this see and the beginning of negotiations for the work session so some are interpret ing it as putting the timing as close to the election so this can be exploited both internally and externally it's ok we're shifting the focus now to

the hague why do you think that the international criminal tribunal there is also you say focused on so be in wartime leaders right now. i'm sorry can you repeat. trouble here and they certainly i was also why do you think that the international criminal tribunals in the hague is also so focused on so timely it is well you know this is the story of the hague from the start the hague tribunal from the start has actually been designed to criminalize all serbian activity from the ninety's from the civil wars in yugoslavia because serbia has been practically the only state that wasn't. fully pro western ally and serbia is being reviewed by the west is the only potentially major russian ally in the in the region and for this reason the hague tribunal was practically set up only. to make

sure that the official version of the wars has serbia as being the main guilty party and everything that the serbs did in their defense was to be criminalized and was actually just the last on the list of all that had to be exported extradited to the hague just like before him very emotive response that i mean do you not feel that the trials carried out so far in the hague have been fair and do you think that this latest arrest how it's of course being the last major war crimes figure from the period of the conflict does that now draw a line under this whole process. well it draws a line in the sense that there won't be any more international pressure i mean international western pressure on serbia to extradite anybody else you know there are no more fugitives from from the hague so everyone has been extradited but of course now we're going to have the trials and the trials are

a part of major effort to rewrite the history of this entire region and of the balkan balkan wars from the one nine hundred ninety s. so we still have that to handle and especially even more than the hodge trial the trial will be very interesting because of. the controversial story about sort of beneath so many facts that are still unknown and also the involvement of western intelligence agencies and western governments in the whole breakup of yugoslavia we still have that of course western media is going to try as they have so far to ignore or to minimize whatever portions of the trials are dealing with their own rule but. i guess russia today and other similar outlets are going to be dealing with that side so hopefully the global auditorium will get to see part of the other side of the story if they cover the trials that are still ongoing well of course for us to say oh you are an objective viewpoint and

a lot of time but obviously you're quite critical of what's happening at the hague i'm afraid that we are out of time for now but alexander profits many thanks for your thoughts and to speaking to us from belgrade thank you ok eleven years after israel's a retreat from lebanon thousands of soldiers are still struggling to cope with the consequences of that withdrawal members of the so-called south lebanese army he backed israeli forces and they feel their sacrifice has gone on recognized that one former soldier who says there is little support from the country he fought for. 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 neighbor knees 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 to solve the lebanese army to do the fight for israel as a world that is didn't fight for self. there was admitting 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 for. 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 cause 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. in my country drifting not only the case before was not jim but two thousand people that remain in state in israel. country in the states of peace without 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 live when you.

go there. we don't have to we must go with 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 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. a good fence has since become 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. ok let's take a quick check now some other top stories from around the world and dozens of the protests in the japanese embassy in south korea get decisions to boycott korean to be airline test flight disputed territory korean f. through its new flagship. only the. territory which you can't do without them disputing the sovereignty of the audience for many years the region is located in the east sea and distance from japan and south korea . u.s. president barack obama has welcomed a bipartisan senate proposal designed to cut the country's huge debt the crown aims to decrease the deficits by about four trillion u.s. dollars over the next decade and we're bringing more teacher reductions will mainly effect help education programs with a need to avoid leaving the fold and will make his from policies already discussing raising the federal borrowing limits. and when it comes to starting

a family the terms couples who are in russia will stop at nothing many of the country's six million infertile pollin is if he is the only chance of having a child but despite the projects being legal in russia the end result isn't always a case of happy families. these first photos of anton made him an orphan see he was ill his genetic parents refused even to hold him the boy has a rare and incurable genetic disease but i don't 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 anton story is just one of the shocking examples of shortcomings in the russian family code that seeks to regulate sorry to see in the country for grappling with it it's just you know a lot of the world the idea of surrogacy is sometimes distorted it can 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 no the sarah get 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 woman and for many it's easier to resort to a 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 sorry to 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. zinaida mother of two hoped

giving both the money would allow her buy an apartment for her large family however hard way through the pregnancy the genetic parents demanded she abort they had shopped around and their backup was bearing twins. the biological father sprawled out in front of men unarmed chand almost knocked when he was saying don't you understand we need neither you nor the baby you know this still hoped they'd accept the baby but instead ended up with no feet and an addition to our 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 daria pushed over r.t. aska. that is the way the news is this hour here on r.t. business next of maureen. hello and welcome to business here on r.t.

now hopes for a resolution of the american and european debt problems have slightly tamed investor appetite for gold the precious metal has lost almost one percent on wednesday but the prospects are still bright for the bullying standard chartered bank is predicting it will rise to five thousand dollars per ounce within ten years well i'm now joined by the bank's metal analyst dan smith. well thank you very much for joining us now what can you tell us about this precious metal war are the drivers for this supercycle. you know what we found in our report was that the if you look at the link between the gold price and i'm going comes in india and china is a very powerful link between those two going back about thirty years and if you project that relationship forward assuming nothing else changes then you do get a gold price up just below five thousand dollars an ounce or twenty twenty. base case for classes that we probably up to two thousand one hundred over the next

three years so we are still very bullish on gold but not poised bullish is that five thousand dollar number of mind suggest. what would you say the employees of asian countries is in the growing demand. yeah i think india and china really are the key drivers of this price now they account for more than half of global coal demand so what's happening there is the inflation of course quite high in both countries and also the countries develop in g.d.p. per capita rises spacy some money into the gold market and of course and from the central bank perspective as well indeed in trying to buy thought it would be big buyers of gold is a increase the effect and gold has to rise in proportion to that increase in risk so. close upon a pollution elements we think for gold from both india and china. now what is that there is a bubble in the gold market. yeah i think that's

a very very good question i mean there are some signs of perhaps a very early bubbling gold so if you look at the link between gold prices and the dollar gold price of generally outperform the dollar affects. partly i think there is a reflection of the economy credit crunch from people like on a psychological shifting gold so we do think that kind of makes sense in hawaii but there is this the sign of a disconnect between having said that we think you know prices can continue to rally on a kind of year by year perspective over the next three years we think so. perhaps we are not too far off in the end but we still think we've got a long way to go in this in this bull run and house expects supply to react to the rally. here we put out. just about a month or so ago from aren't the same so they look to all the gold projects that are coming through in the world and they found that they would actually be steady

growth in supply over the next few years so perhaps rising by about three and a half percent on the full cost per year. for gold miners acquire the right sort of moment. a lot of money being put into exploration into both projects in crisis for us in america and other places so there is a lot of pressure at the moment to increase gold supply from the mining sector and we think a very few that will turn the gold market around but it certainly won't be for the next couple of years so watch out for supply but we think it was a one overwhelmed him on for at least next two or three years. or thank you very much we'll be looking forward to more of your forecast than some of their metal analysts that standard chart of bad thank you very much. thank you. now let's take a look at the markets crude that is on the wrong line it's. almost one and a half dollars and bronze it is adding almost the same there one dollar thirty four

the price increase comes after a strong u.s. housing data and that kind of plan aimed at avoiding technical default. and european stock markets are higher this hour with financials driving the gains the overnight rally on wall street and earnings from apple are boosting investor confidence there. and here in moscow both the markets are in the black of the arts yes it is just over one percent and my sex is out a good point seventy two now most of the blue chips are on the rise on the my sags gas problem is adding point zero five percent ross telecom is posting strong gains on speculations that could be completely sold so why would any basters this state have or would still hold veto rights and hauling metal slipped into negative territory after several days of gains as gold is edging lower as we mentioned.

well that's all the business news for the well next up are the headlines with that . question is that so much time in which of course you write on it comes and so here it is dead dead long as the deadline for the u.s. to increase its debt ceiling looms what appeared to be more mom politics in upcoming elections than fixing a crippling wealthy british style. sometimes it's right on.

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return to go. read this in the kernel was virtually a retreat. it's all falls down or must be this is the which means that and. the conference that long term meaning scenic wanted by the war crimes tribunals at the hague. the british prime minister gets a grilling and call him and his time i have to scrape news corp executives of the disenchanted public to scrutinize the death of yet another whistleblower. georgian voices of support for three photojournalists accused of backspin dollars are growing as critics question the values is he of the suspects a recent confession. or while the u.s.

is running out of time to deal with this debt crisis. whether it's all about politics than the economy crosstalk. logan welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle dead 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 austerity. 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 the notion that it would become suddenly unreliable and illiquid would throw shockwave.