of july two thousand and three 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 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 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 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 you're at it r.t. . and of course we'd like to know what you think on our website we're asking you what will be the biggest fallout from the u.k. phone hacking scandal so far i can tell you that the majority of you think will end up with rupert murdoch losing his slice of the world's media kate to competitors always a quarter of r.t. voters think the u.k. is kaput it will fall a fifth foresee conventional media losing else of bloggers and fourteen percent of you think the biggest outcome will be nothing more then an academy award winning a blockbuster biopic. let's move over to serbia now and it fulfill the final demands of the u.n. war crimes tribunals for the former yugoslavia ex croatian gordon had it has been

arrested after eight years on the run he's accused of atrocities jan croatia's war of independence from yugoslavia in the early ninety's ranging from murder to religious persecution follows the arrest or rather that it you with wanted the similar crimes they had a senator to requirement to join me but they won't be the last ones according to dr steady yet to put the foreign affairs editor of chronicles michael thing. it's not really serving as an entity that's particularly keen to join the you it is the true european coalition led by president boris tadic that he uses the rhetoric of integration with some of the euro two zero s m if you will as a substitute for coherent strategy of serbia's getting a hold of a deep economic social and political traces that is effectively was the other a decade since the fall of slobodan milosevic and in any event there has never been

incoherent debate in serbia in the pros and cons of membership actually anything that serbia will now be in two and. a list of additional be mounts and additional preconditions so it is really an open secret in brussels worked is euphemistically known as normalization of relations with serbia as neighbors which is the code word for the recognition of course of those independence will top of the agenda so i think that all of this will actually come into play before serbia sees any movement in what i personally believe is an endless road which will not be crowned a success in a decade at least. you know with the r.t. and still ahead a few this hour georgia is a witch hunt for alleged spies gathers pace of the charge with their knowledge for russia plead guilty journalist say the suspects were forced to confess to send

a clear message to the rest of the windows media. player children are treated as a commodity we know why sarkozy in russia is something not quite what a virtual comparable biological mother. it's 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 members of the south lebanese army who fought alongside their israeli counterparts say the country they backed have let them down . or have the story. there's only one thing for was not them 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 lebanese 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 and jews who controlled the south of the country this old lebanese army do than fight for is the word as the world that is it didn't fight for so liberal 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. arya epstein was a soldier at the time and says the lebanese soldiers who helped israel were left behind almost like sitting ducks. 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 solved lebanon army

soldiers crossed into israel those who were left behind were tried jailed and sometimes killed as traitors for was nash and was one of those who got out alive he'd been working with israeli intelligence helping to recruit lebanese spies i did not want to run here i wanted to die fighting but the israeli 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 israeli government gave him i feel ashamed. in my country that treating not only the case of four was not jim but two thousand people that remain in state in israel. 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 live in you. we don't have to we must. with it's very unique. it's a very unique nobody could do that there i found the cure. you name it never nobody of them. in the rue truth 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 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. on the israel lebanon border. story there from paula is one of many controversial stirring up a storm of lives debate on our website for the speed the soft new i knew kind of called joining the conversation to have your say dot com also online for you children parents or hood and you breastfeeding don't get a mixed reaction from parents and they hit the shelves and toy stores across europe and the u.s. . in the world's biggest country in minutes unique projects under way again petersburg create a tiny replica of russia in fine detail take a look around gallery of art you doctor.

a u.k. based a human rights group together with pakistani activists and seeking on a rats warrant for a form with cia neagle directs he's allegedly responsible for the drain strength of the country that killed hundreds of civilians now it's time to admit it in winter that he to prove to tanks and pakistan since two thousand and four despite the five the u.s. isn't at war with the country the strikes are intended to target al qaida medicines but the total civilian death toll is this a message of up to two thousand five hundred people safe ah pakistani lawyers have already filed a complaint against her is that if he's a ham of conspiring to kill innocent people american antiwar activist or fred brown and buildings the u.s. is bombing if they didn't try and that we are going to be 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 but 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 iran safeguarding its myriad tiriel those 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 fascinated creasing the danger in the united states of

a conventional and or nuclear terrorist attack. george's latest spy saga has taken another twist tbilisi says the three photojournalists charged with spying for russia have now confessed their guilt but as all of these and in the reports are all mounting concerns the suspects were coerced into admitting to 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 and this latest development or our. old this is very strange and there is in the middle of the night and it isn't there a case has been marked this top secret and this confession is a serious breakthrough easer because we have made doubts about this whole deal cynical 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 all 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 are 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 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

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. hardly effective system of power in the country are grounded because we're investigating is one 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 the gaze seems outrageous to journalists and really ordinary people it's just the latest in the seemingly endless string of spies scandals to hit georgia. now look at some other international headlines this hour in the u.s. president barack obama has welcomed

a bipartisan senate proposal designed to cut the country's a huge debt the plan aims to reduce the deficit by about four trillion dollars over the next decade by the lives and health of bending education and labor programs within a two week that to avoid a looming default lawmakers from both parties are also discussing raising the federal borrowing limit. syria's foreign minister has recently ambassadors of america from north to travel outside the capital without permission earlier this month the diplomats were severely criticized by the government visiting the volatile town of hama considered an opposition stronghold this comes as security forces continue a violent crackdown on anti-government demonstrations at least ten people were killed on tuesday's police find a rally in the city of homs. now says atlantis is on its way back down to earth as the final mission of the u.s. space shuttle program draws to an end atlantis and its crew of four left the

international space station and is due to land at the kennedy space center in florida on thursday after that it will become a museum piece and there are plans to turn the mission control room into a training to finish. just over the end of the american space shuttle program many say the country's dream is space exploration is a robot that's rejected by eminent astronomer robert williams the man behind the hubble space telescope he says the golden era of space research that it's playing and you can see it's going to be you in just over an hour's time here on r.t. . 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 space missions that we've had in the past fifteen years and the large ground based observatories and the new technological developments that are the neighbors to do things like about developing supercomputers that of really advanced our understanding of astronomy of the large number of discoveries that i would say

a really big set appropriate to call this a golden era of astronomy. now when it comes to starting a family determined russians will stop at nothing many of the countries six million infertile couples see that sarkozy off is that only a chance of having a child but despite being legal in russia the practice doesn't always and in the case of happy families. these first photos a vandal 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 like junk 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 aunt 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 government which is just but where in our modern world the idea of surrogacy is sometimes distorted if you even used to avoid the hardships of pregnancy and to preserve the beauty of a body that turned 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 of for many it's easier to resort to us i'm all for 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 forty six square meter is. zinaida mother of two hoped giving both the money would allow her to 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 my needs neither you nor the baby zenaida 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 cold 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 artie aska. late stage be alarming

connection between your everyday food in the most life threatening to visit with surveilled and all special report has to tell you first. forty two thousand americans die each year are six thousand. seven hundred thousand people. and thirty two thousand will kill themselves cancer in all its forms kills five hundred sixty thousand of us here part disease is even more devastating it kills over eight hundred seventy thousand americans every year. ok all the latest business news on the way now what dmitri. thanks i was holding a warm welcome to business artsy stock markets or lesser gods a little sigh of relief at the moment they welcomed president obama's news of progress on raising america's debt ceiling and meeting with congressional leaders

to discuss a new debt cutting plan at the time and if it could point the way out of the us. 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 almost fifty senators listen to the proposal in detail yesterday for an hour and we know that so far none of the key players have vanished out of it have completely said no this is not the deal so it is looking optimistic but i just think you know this is this is caution with the optimism. i was going to the markets now crude is on the rise light sweet is up ninety cents a brant more than a dollar at one hundred eighteen dollars twenty seven cents per barrel the price increase comes after a debt cutting plan to avoid a technical default one of the mentioned just a second ago u.s.

markets opened mixed and flat to negative after a strong tuesday session verses are weighing the progress with raising the debt ceiling and that's counterbalanced by a date that u.s. home sales went down point eight percent in june. european stock markets another half hour to go to the end of trading they are positive the financials are driving the gains royal bank of scotland lloyds and barclays all up more than three percent in london and this is the closing picture for russia where the r.t.s. managed to gain a half a percent my sex just a not shy actually the markets lost most of the steam by the end of the session as the u.s. markets started trading if we look at the main movers gazprom is up point two percent ross telecom was one of the outstanding gain is up five and a half percent on speculation it could be completely sold to private investors the state however would still hold veto rights slipped into negative territory after several days of gains as gold was edging the michael stein from wraps up today's

trading. today the russian equity market is up for the second day in a row helped by the very strong start to the u.s. burning season and also helped by the increase in oil prices to within just two percent of a six week highs on one of the mystic front we saw some very healthy economic data unemployment in russia i dropped to six point one percent in the month of june from six point four percent in may we also saw our retail sales accelerate to up five point six percent during the month of june and we also saw a reversal in disposable income which was down in may and is up in june russia's covered auction market is returning to pre-crisis levels automobiles made in the country jumped fifty seven percent year on year some analysts say russia could become europe's biggest carmaker by twenty fourteen the way things are going with it we've already recovered to about ninety percent to pre-crisis levels already by

two thousand and. again assuming we don't have the next wave of financial crisis if it's relative global stability certainly the conditions are strong enough in russia you could reach that easily return to pre-crisis levels. ten percent fifteen percent growth much we could get to preprocess pre-crisis levels so the question is when commercial gets up to the level of three point four three and a half million and certainly by two thousand and fourteen i think that's a reasonable forecast. so for now we will be back in fifteen minutes with an update as of next we're back.

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elections than fixing a crippling. in india old geezer made ability to move the joint be able to be. the great way to go to the grand imperial. told us to. let her till till she.

did to go and. run the said the colonel was such a retreat. it's all. this is a mountain the person's prime minister gets a grilling of parliament over his tongue to disgrace new school executives. scandal that's already that's a separate arrest the resignation is that for the. last remaining war crimes wanted by the un in the balkans conflict is counted a savvier reference fugitive commander gordon how it is pomp the country's latest attempt to overcome obstacles to it the new membership is. georgian jealousy of the false and compassionate talk with spying for russia they claim it's

a clear message to the rest of georgia. and while the u.s. is running out of time to deal with the debt crisis the bell also is whether it's all about politics well the new economy crosstalk is next. logan 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 crossfire 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 creeps towards its 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 gots 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.