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 amplify the story i think it's simple 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. journalistic world in london is a very small place and the man was distraught he was well known he was drinking too much taking drugs he was depressed the 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 reports and other evidence has been classified for seventy years 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 you're at it. i mean as david cameron tries to explain his dealings with rupert murdoch's empire. cole believes those times could take their toll on both the pm and his

government what really gave the story legs was the fact that they have a camera and. then disgraced. colson because of the quality photo 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 real errors of judgment turns out shared by the government because of that policy but the prime minister david cameron yes again his chief of staff has been shown to be essentially instigating a cover up by the connections because in 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 still around the. table as the phone hacking scandal in britain continues to unfold on a daily basis storm clouds gathering a prime minister david cameron he closed his close connections well but to be back to that media empire has seen him facing some difficult questions in palma de well let's cross live now to london while he's there and that's sounding by for us. you've been following this very closely for us on that it looks like one of cameras hottest days things you take in the p.m.'s chair doesn't it. that's right he's faced some very tough questions from. the house today about his own involvement essentially in this phone hacking scandal it's been revealed that he had extensive meetings or has had extensive meetings during the fifteen months that he's been in office with all sorts of executives from news corp and from news international twenty six meetings in fifteen months that's a lot for

a prime minister have to have he's also faced tough questions about his heart of. his director of communications and. a former news of the world journalist who. was being investigated back in two thousand and nine as paul told about original investigation into phone hacking as david cameron said if you knew about the hacking that was going on inside his paper then he lied to everybody including several counts of perjury where he lied under oath and so he would be prosecuted for that and you also said that if it's cool soon had lloyds to him to david cameron then he would apologize for that he stopped short of apologizing so far we're seeing new allegations surface all the time is something to do with this all the news the world journalist neil wallis who was hired as a consultant for the police it also seems now that he was devising and cools and head of the general election and cameron said very clearly that he wasn't ever

employed by the government and that he had never been paid by the conservative party to do that he's also faced repeated questions about whether whether cameron interfered in the b. sky b. deal that rupert murdoch was trying to push through did he have conversations with news corp executives about the b. sky b. deal he has refused to answer that it's really very directly saying only that he's had no conversations and so he's opposed the question over and over again this is really a web of scandal that we think is still unfolding really and it involves this tangled . and in the relationships between politicians and the police and the media and cameron has become more and more implications as this scandal has gone on it's now been revealed that his chief of staff allegedly all sed scotland yard the police force not to brief the prime minister on the phone hacking investigation as it was

going on and people are now asking whether that was willful ignorance on the part of the chief of staff and on the part of the prime minister does he want to avoid knowing about the investigation i'm not usually a betting woman but i have looked at a couple of betting shops in the offering on camera and being the next minister to leave office at the beginning of the week the odds were one hundred to one and now they've dropped in some places to as low as forty one people also taking advantage of this situation of course miliband the leader of the opposition has consistently stopped short of calling for the prime minister to resign but he is going out of his way to set himself as what he sees as a more trustworthy leader for the country and of course we've seen the commissioner of the metropolitan police to pull stevenson on his resignation saying essentially that he didn't see why he had to step down by hiring this news of the world journalist neil wallis when david cameron doesn't have to step down for having hired andy cool soon as his director of communications said this is this is

certainly not the end of this and very serious for david cameron the scandal just rumbles on in london ok laura many thanks. and of course would always like to know what you think about this and all our website you want will be the biggest full out from this phone hacking scandal we're seeing in the k. so far there was george if you think it will all end with rupert murdoch losing his many slices of media caves you can has is always of course of the vision thing the cabinet was full of fear foresee conventional media losing out to bloggers and fourteen percent of you think the biggest outcome will be nothing more than an academy award winning blockbuster biopic. and it's fulfilled the final demands of the u.n. war crimes tribunal for the former yugoslavia eggs. go down hard it has been arrested after eight years on the run he's accused of several atrocities through is

limited to be in croatia and yugoslavia in the early ninety's ranging from murder to religious persecution it follows the arrest of run without it she was wanted for similar crimes which marked serbia is driving to overcome obstacles to its membership bids john law and director of the institute of democracy incorporation in paris says serbia strategy for improving its image is misguided. 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 you can screw up you don't improve your image by effectively admitting as the present government in belgrade that serbia's role in

the breakup of yugoslavia was qualitatively worse than that of the other states you're with c.n.n. still ahead this hour georges which for a lead gathers pace to talk with the child for the espionage for russians plead guilty local journalists say the suspects were forced to confess to send a clear message to the rest. well speaking general says for those killed by drawing this human rights campaign is the man be arrested the man behind the strikes on pakistan where they could one danger is the ongoing campaign paces for. its eleven years since the israeli army withdrew from lebanon however the consequences of the war against hezbollah and the palestinian liberation organization are still being felt by thousands of former soldiers members of the south lebanese army who fought alongside their israeli

counterparts so the country they bought has that them down well it's clear the story. there's only one thing for was 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 didn't fight for is as a world that is there didn't fight for. there was a meeting of in 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 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 up i was told you know too much the way they treat me now is a shame they forced me to run away. six months ago a man lawyer found four was living in a tent on the street he was hardly surviving on the few hundred dollars

a month government gave him i feel ashamed. of my country. that treating not only the case before was not jim but two thousand people that remain in the stadium is 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 far 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 in. your 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 close to a good fence has since become the close fence 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. you can find more background on israel's conflicts with its neighbors on our website dot com also that the laser only efforts to lift the sunken bowl dariya cruiser from the riverbed in central russia is expected to start shortly and we've first hand accounts from the divers who found the one hundred fourteen trapped in the black also. the biggest country in the world.

a unique project is underway in st petersburg to create a model replica or brush in fine detail to get a little gallery at a. gritty three. three. three. three. three. three block video for your media project free media r t v dot com. georgia is the latest spy saga takes yet another twist to p.c. says the three photos this challenge was spying for russia have no confessed that killed but is salty's that in addition to reports there are mounting concerns us suspects with us into admitting crimes they didn't commit. and then there were in on the last georgian photographer to deny allegations of spying that has apparently

has changed his story he now admits the charges video testimony of your god's is going to question of spying for russia was released by prosecutors to the media but most journalists are skeptical about this latest development or our. old it is very strange and there is in the middle of the night god and this is 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 accuser because we have doubts about this whole deal so that you would get the monsoon 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 initially insisted they were innocent 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 prove 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. 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 has any other proof of their guilt he wouldn't have to force these confessions i need to remember what they were basically this is a message for all of our journalists including me and all the. members of the media heard the message loud and clear and stage a protest outside the jail break free to talk refers are being held and preliminary

detention human rights activists meanwhile believe. lead to system of power in the country i'll bet on did 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 the way they want to they want the case of the photographer strand without any public discussion and that's possible if all the rest to plead guilty go in well the case seems outrageous to journalists and many ordinary people it's just the latest in the seemingly endless string of spies scandals to hit george even r.t. . or you cable to human rights groups together with pakistani activists is sinking under arrest warrant for a form with cia director he's allegedly responsible for drone strikes in the country that killed hundreds of civilians now are tied in jonah rizzo admitted in the interview that he did prove to tell. us to fall despite the fact that the u.s.

isn't a war but the country the strikes are intended to target al qaeda militants but the total civilian death toll as a message of up to two thousand five hundred people so far pakistani noise have already filed a complaint against accusing him of conspiring to kill innocent people american antiwar activists afraid of brown from and believes the u.s. is homing its own interests of the region. the basic justification for this program is that it's protecting america it's necessary for u.s. national security in fact they always figure is that we've seen these drone strikes have been fury of the people pakistan we've quadrupled the pakistani taliban in numbers and violent attacks they've moved the east into the border you have the hardware to the point where they now. pose a major threat to the pakistani government only into the pakistani military so much

that there's now talk of an anti us military coup on the front page of the new york times and most important we've poured into the u.s. ambassador and better solution real than the wiki leaks cable. we're so the u.s. is so hated now in pakistan the government is afraid it's corporate within and safeguarding its cheerios which are the world's fastest growing and by all experts will tell you the least secure so the result of this drone story campaign is very creasing the danger in the united states of a conventional and or nuclear terrorist attack going to create balance of off international headlines now while on a date the us president rockey fama has welcomed a five paulson senate proposal designed to cut the country's debt about aims to decrease the deficit by about four trillion dollars over the next don't have any more time flashing health spending education and the nation. within weeks left to

have loans and looming default if no make is on both policies also discussing raising the federal borrowing limit is. three policemen including a district chief percents who insurgents were killed in a firefight in the south and kandahar security forces attacked the building off the tip offs how about militants were in hiding and planning to attack and nearby police station father insists spiked is that police begin to take charge of security in a process that's due to last until twenty fourteen by that time most foreign troops will have to be sure all those remaining would be in support in combat roles. syria's foreign minister has warned the ambassadors of american frogs don't travel outside the capital without permission earlier this month the diplomats were severely criticized by the government visiting the volatile town of hama for food at the opposition stronghold but this comes as security forces continue a volley

a crackdown on anti-government demonstrations at least ten people were killed on tuesday's police final rally in the city of homs. he wrote about the main story of the just a few minutes before that they were at the busy marina. hello and welcome to business here on our stock markets are letting out a little sigh of relief at least for the moment the welcome president obama's news of progress on race in america's debt ceiling he's meeting with congressional leaders to discuss a new debt cutting plan and determine if it could point the way out of the impacts . it does seem that this is kind of what president obama was looking for you know four trillion dollars is a big thumb however the pope with enormous cuts as we're seeing in greece for example is that really big cops can actually damaged economic growth so much that in fact the governments when it says can end up looking worse and there's

a very folly to be trolled between not damaging economic growth and making the government look good and i think that's a tricky line to go in the last data we had from the u.s. the key piece of data about unemployment report for true really showed the u.s. economy and i think that is also causing some concern. but let's take a look at the markets now crude is on the rise we see about a light sweet is just one dollar the price increase comes after a strong u.s. housing data and. avoid a technical default and branches of just over a dollar as well now european stock markets are higher this hour with financials driving gains the overnight a rally on wall street and there are names from apple are boosting investor confidence there. and here in moscow both of my stocks are in the black the r.t.s. is almost one percent up and my sex is just half a percent and less like

a look at the blue chips on the my sax most of them are on the rise gas problem is adding point nine percent and we're also telecom this posting strong gains on speculation it could be completely sold to private investors the state however would still hold veto rights and pulling that all slipped into negative territory after several days of gains as gold is edging lower. now car production in russia is returning to pre-crisis levels the spike the positive outlook prime minister putin has ordered car makers to increase production to three hundred thousand vehicles per year the number of automobiles made in the country has jumped fifty seven percent a year on the year. the new scheme requiring three hundred thousand production is a very sensible step because it is an attempt to move the market in the right

direction what we had before that was fifteen or twenty manufacturing facilities that were really just assembly units where most of the components were imported and a million man assembly unit doesn't bring much local work so the government really wanted to bring the production of components into russia it's a great jobs for engineering is that on a scale of specialist russian and from and with the promise of that scale of production then it makes sense for components. so broadly it's a good step and if the market grows as strong as we expect to get within five years up to about three now perhaps even towards four million if things go well then then it all makes sense. and that's all the business news for now dmitri will have the next update for you in about fifteen minutes and the meantime as the headlines without.

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it's all fall down this is all t.v. pressure mounts on the britain's prime minister who gets a grilling of paul amid over his ties with disgraced news corp executives. say the timing of the phone hacking scandal that's already led to several arrests and resignations and the and. the last remaining war crimes that wanted by the u.n. from the balkans conflict to this be a reference to the ball and how did it fall because latest attempt to overcome obstacles to its. georgian journalists accused the old forest use of

force and confessions from. responding. they claim is to send a clear message to the rest of georgia's needy community. now with the u.s. shuttle program winding up in a tough economic situation straining space research some say the american dream of reaching for the stalls is a one month still believes that whether the will goes away robyn williams one of those behind the launch of the hubble space telescope things humankind will still make its way into space 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 idea 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.