joyce be vigils the time of violence the grief we go to the ground in period. that george was pushed coromandel you can a little socialist which says don't need to go publicly and read this and the colonel was a child as used to retreat. tonight in our team russian billionaire owner of several british newspapers alexander lebedev says he wants to revive the disgraced humans of the world weekly closed in the wake of the phone hacking scandal. meantime pressure mounts on the british prime minister he's grilled in parliament over ties with the impact of rupert murdoch and his media empire. also the last remaining war crimes suspect wanted by the u.n. from the balkan conflict is captured serbia arrested fugitive commander got into having to join the e.u. . country plea won't consider gadhafi step bat's the position revealed by libya's

foreign minister had a meeting with his russian counterpart here in moscow. hello it's a pm here in moscow my name's kevin oh you're watching the first russian billionaire alexander lebedev said he'd like to revive britain's news of the world the newspaper recently shut down by rupert murdoch the ex k.g.b. agent has some experience of the u.k. paper business owning both the independent and the london evening standard that is the roma joins us live from the u.k. capital pretty sort of illness developing story today laura so how likely is it now that negative could get its hands on yet another high profile media outlet in the u.k. albeit there tainted as it is so far. well let me just says for a moment he doesn't have the cash in his pockets as it were but he says if he could sell something astaire another company that he owns or something like that he would

be interested in in reforming the news of the world and certainly when the paper closed two hundred perfectly good journalists were made redundant by that move and so they'd probably be pretty pleased to have their jobs back in a reforms paper lives just as that if you did buy it he would change the title from a paper that he says plays on the least attractive strings of human nature to one that investigates wrongdoing and corruption among the rich and powerful he ought to tell you a little bit about leverage if he is estimated by forbes magazine to have a fortune of two point one billion dollars and of course he owns shares in ira floats he also owns a newspaper in russia and over it as yet. king and construction media assets all that kind of thing but he has been a controversial figure in the u.k. as you mentioned he's a former k.g.b. officer who worked at the london of the soviet embassy in london during the cold war so when he started to invest in london in the u.k.

some newspaper markets and brought up those titles evening standard and the independent people were quite worried that he would use his influence to have a say in as it were real decisions but in fact that hasn't happened and he's widely seen as suppose but very welcome addition to the u.k.'s newspaper market huge injection of cash he relaunched the london evening standard a free newspaper massively increased the circulation the independent also has a larger circulation than it did before it's a much better paper than it was before and he will soon launch a sort of a sort of newspaper digest called the which goes along with the independents so he's been very good for the newspaper markets huge injections of cash and also it's actually in the sixty's seventy's and eighty's. is resolutely scaling titles essentially from going under and he says that it's a personal mission of his to own his paper rather than any kind of commercial

endeavor which is probably a good thing given the state of the newspaper market here in the u.k. elsewhere in the same hacking scandal we have seen it playing a life that was the life of shawn who are who was found dead in his home he's the first names journalist to allege that his editor he's a world at the time i think also knew all about saying hacking allegations that sense the blogosphere alight with comparisons with the death of dr david kelly the u.n. weapons inspector more on that in my report. another political scandal erupts another whistleblower diaries sean who was the first former news of the world journalists to go on the record to allege that phone hacking was endemic at the paper and that its editor andy colson actively encouraged it who was found dead in his house on monday setting block a spear into a frenzy of comparisons with the case of dr david kelly why isn't this story

reminds me of it kelly was. similar tragedies of shawn hornbeck kelly all this madness and david kelly sean who are this what i'm thinking something's not right dr kelly was the u.n. weapons inspector who first cost down on the government's claim that iraq could deploy weapons of mass destruction within forty five minutes it led to scrutiny of tony blair's decision to invade iraq by extraordinary coincidence kelly's body was discovered exactly eight years before that of sean hall's on the eighteenth 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 similar. between kelly and sean hoare being at the center of one of these storms a terrifying experience i really don't believe either david all sean hoare was

murdered because. i simply don't think it would have been in anyone's interest to murder them once they got into the public spotlight anyone with an iota of sense in government would have known that to kill them we just would just amplify the story i think it's simpler i think both were under enormous pressure from their roles as whistle blows and and found it difficult to cope with pressure short haul with evidence could have been crucial to proving that the news of the world editors supported a culture of listening to a private voice mail sports stories former editor andy cole said he later became a media director to the current prime minister has always denied the allegations and was destroyed professionally by abuse international. journalists in london is a very small planes and the man was distraught he was well known he was drinking too much taking drugs he was depressed moralized police the thing was 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 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 about twitter or c it's being reported as a horrible and unfortunate coincidence but it's doubtful that if this is happening elsewhere say in russia or in india the british media would be so quick to accept it as a coincidence it taking only looked at in the light of the death of david kelly lore and it ought. so. the pressure is mounting on prime minister david cameron two of his rings to discuss news corps executives and speculations about here could

cost him his job tonight let's discuss the implications of the scandal for the u.k. leadership with dan hodges he's from labor and website very good evening to you thanks for being allowed to international david cameron could be our guest severely damaged by this scandal is there anyone pulling the strings there though will stand to benefit by seeing him go it is a primary target in all this well i certainly think the labor leader ed miliband would not it's a significant political scalp if he could force the prime minister out and i do think in fairness to david cameron i mean he did put in quite a strong performance in the debate today i think also in fairness to to ed miliband i don't think you always start off necessarily from the view that cameron was going to fall below but this is there's absolutely no doubt that david cameron's credibility has been damaged i think as much for his mismanaging. mismanagement of this issue and rather than questions over scripts and you said good performance today that he gave you know when he was grilled in parliament he said he never had

an inappropriate conversation over murdoch's a big full full control of sky but that kind of raised more questions than it answered didn't it how do you interpret what went on there tell us little bit more about that meeting today. well i think i think to be honest inadvertently i mean david cameron attempted to evade the issue about his discussions with news international but he's interested in this made it very very clear that he has been in discussions with news international. i mean his defense is that he would insulate themselves if you light from. other colleagues but that was definitely one area where you strip out there was another as well where. some really. talking perceivable said she for so many not they've years now the challenge for a prime minister on his assertion that no one would want it without the nature of. his former president vice all here's the interesting news international's links to the scam and i'm tom watson said quite clearly in quite

a sort of dramatic flourish that he had in fact the promise from produce the latter so there's no doubt there are questions still to come in too long but whether or not we're going to find if you like a smoking gun and something to actually bring down. that's not really how it's playing out and i'm talking about employment. by the prime minister what you think the real picture is and. he didn't know do you think he really didn't know you didn't want to know to think it was very badly advised by his advisors. well i think these things take a look at cern by the revelation that the metropolitan police offered to actually brief the prime minister on the nature of their investigation and they were asked not to do so by it quietly well and who is david cameron's chief of staff i think a picture is emerging of a sort of. tell in relation to this which as i say was that it may insulate cameron from allegations that he has that acted. sort of with impropriety and he's

nevertheless rating raising questions about his political judgment in relation to this issue and in many ways that may prove to be the most damaging of all from them is that he's going to walk away from it totally on then. you know i think he is damaged if. he was he was thinking about this with an teflon camera because none of the sort of damage and political issues that were actually stuck to him but this one has landed him it has damaged him i mean equally it has also been standing of ed miliband a lot of the opposition so political damage has been done i'm not sure it's a matter of this stage i don't know just maybe website thanks for being on our team much appreciated. and of course we're always keen to know your opinion on all the stories we covered this one as well as on our web site today we're asking you this question what's the biggest fallout could be do you think from the u.k. phone hacking scandal while the majority of you think it will all end up with rupert murdoch losing your slice of the world's media take the patent that's what

you say and you can see the graph of the support of our team voters think that the u.k. front mode is impossible for a fifth of you predicting conventional media losing out the bloggers but a lot of bloggers lately online and they're fifteen percent of you believe the biggest outcome will be nothing more than an academy award winner pick very nice or you can change those results with us know what you think go online to our web site r t v dot com. so he has fulfilled the final demands of the u.n. war crimes tribunal for the former yugoslavia croatian serb leader gordon had been arrested after seven years on the run he's accused of atrocities during creations war for independence from yugoslavia in the early ninety's ranging from murder to religious persecution it follows the arrest of rackham landed she was wanted for similar crimes but attentions were key requirements and serve you need to join the e.u. so they will be the last ones according to doctors which foreign affairs editor of chronicles magazine. it's not really serving as an entity that's particularly keen

to join the e.u. it is the european coalition led by president boris tadic and it uses the rhetoric well e.u. integration with some of the euro enthusiasm if you will is a substitute for a coherent strategy of serbia's getting out of a deep economic social and political crises this is effectively was the of course for over a decade since the fall of slobodan milosevic and in any event there has never been able here in the breaks in serbia in the pros and cons of either membership actually anything that serbia will now need to and. police will be mounds and additional preconditions so it is really an open secret in brussels and their work is euphemistically known as normalization of relations with serbia as neighbors

which is the code word for the recovery mission of course of those independence will top the agenda so i think that all of these 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. this is artsy moskos still ahead through this with me kevin no informant left out in the cold. i was told you know. but the way they treat me now is a shame they forced me to run away and now they spit on my face we need to form a sort of lebanese soldier who blames israel for forgetting those who helped fight hezbollah over a decade ago. charges were chosen for alleged spies gathers pace too as the photographer is charged with espionage for russia plead guilty local journalists say the suspects were forced to confess to send a clear message to the rest of georgia's media community. tripoli refuses to

negotiate over colonel gadhafi stepping down that news was revealed by libya's foreign minister during a meeting with his russian counterpart here in moscow this good latest on that now the go live throughout his country in a zone of of them with the country what else was said in moscow today. well according to sources we know that this meeting was actually called by the libyan side which according to russian sources within the foreign affairs ministry is all signs for cautious optimism it does of course suggest to the russian side who was up proposes saw as a mediator in the ongoing conflict in libya that those in power in libya don't simply want to engage in a military all on gauging of the conflict but are in fact searching for ways out of it and russia has of course proposed itself as a mediator and has always called for a diplomatic solution to the ongoing conflict calling the approach all nato troops policy of isolation that does not in fact lead check any officials resolution of

course western powers have recently recognized the. opposition forces in benghazi as a legitimate government russia has refused to do so believing that isolating or supporting one of the forces in the ongoing conflict will only worsen not conflict and will not relieve chill resolution. it's that the russian foreign minister said that russia remains firm in the position that moammar gadhafi has to surrender power but that the solutions of the cease fire that has to be implemented must be reached through diplomacy and not ongoing military attacks that basically the war in some of the african union for a cease fire and will continue to do everything in its power to bring about a diplomatic solution to the crisis and really refrain from the so-called isolation that russia believes nato forces are currently implementing in libya. reporting live from moscow thanks for bringing us up to date on that one. it's eleven years

since the israeli army withdrew from lebanon however the consequences of the war against hezbollah and the palestinian liberation organization is still being felt today members of the south lebanese army and fought alongside their israeli counterparts have a country very backed. artie's paullus news story there's only one thing for the international dreams about and that is to return home but home to southern lebanon and he's stuck here on the other side of the border in northern israel. that's going home five kilometers away eleven years ago for was was one of several thousand christian binny's to free with the israeli army has eclipsed given on for eighteen years the israelis have been fighting the kind of standard aeration organization and his below on lebanese soil helped by the south lebanon army a militia of christians and jews who control the south of the country the soul of the liberal news has been fired for is the word as

a word that is there didn't fight for so. there was a meeting of interests between them and us but going to mystic pressure in this role of the high losses suffered by the army finally convinced the government to withdraw and it did so quickly. arya epstein was a soldier at the time and says the lebanese soldiers who helped israel were left behind almost like sitting ducks and. 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 going for you. some seven thousand south lebanon army soldiers crossed into israel those who were left behind would tried jailed and sometimes killed as traitors for was national was one of those who got out alive keeping working with israeli intelligence hoping to recruit lebanese spies i did not want to run here i wanted to die fighting but the israeli intelligence almost

forced me to come 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 no lawyer found four 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 they are treating not only the case of four was not him but i'm told them 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 far as this is a home. for them already eleven you. know the thing we don't have we must. it's very unique it's a very unique nobody they do that. never

nobody of them. that's. it's true that treatment was not enough to stop two thirds of those who came to israel from immigrating elsewhere but i feel betrayed the peace sitting in the special intelligence forces have not given me any help since i've been here this is the israeli lebanese border and that's used to be known as the good things but in the last eleven years since the israelis withdrew from lebanon the situation has deteriorated and this is close. has since become close friends and through its stars 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. and israel newton on board. was one of the many controversial issues during a storm of lively debate on our website forum you can join in to feel like that obscene dog home while you're there check out these stories while children

preparing for motherhood the new breast feeding dolls get a mixed reaction from the parents as they hit the shelves and toy stores across europe and the u.s. but even about that a lot of. the world's biggest country in miniature in new projects underway in some papers but to create a tiny replica of russia and five before they can look i'm going to call. george's later spy saga taking another twist of lucy says the three photojournalists charged with spying for russia have confessed their guilt results is really a political report three months in 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 have the largest confession of spying for russia was released by prosecutors to the media but most journalists are skeptical about this latest development or our. old maids is very strange and they rest in the middle of the night and that this is a very case has been marked as top secret work and this confession is a serious victory user because we have made doubts about this whole deal cynical you will get the odds and maintained his innocence ever since he along with three other photojournalists was arrested at the beginning of this month old including president mikhail saakashvili his personal photographer were accused of passing on top secret information to russia's military intelligence or initially insisted they were innocent and then one by one the photographers started changing their testimonies eventually three of them incriminated themselves in his binoche but up

the law 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 in staff changes 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 current is concentrated in the hands of president saakashvili and if someone goes against him 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 break free to talk of kurds are being held and preliminary detention human rights activists mean why. well hardly spoke to system

of power in the country i'll bet on the person who investigated is one everyone who can interfere out of the picture so they can lead it the way they want to they want the case of the photographers to end without any public discussion and that's possible if all the rest to plead guilty and well he's seems outrageous to journalists and really ordinary people it's just the latest in a seemingly endless string of spies scandals to hit georgia. r.t. . but sports a bit so you know has got be as a record breaking day for russia in the pool that's more than twenty minutes time now let's go to our business route with dmitri. thanks very much karen the stock markets were letting out a little sigh of relief that they at least at the moment they are they welcomed president obama's news of progress on raising america's debt ceiling he's meeting with congressional leaders to discuss the new debt cutting plan of the terminator to point their way out of the impasse. 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 approach with publicans 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 banished it out of you know how they're completely said no this is not the deal so it is looking optimistic but i just think you know it's just this is cool with the optimism. all right let's move to the stock market seems pretty optimistic where you light sweet crude up seventy six cents brant more than a dollar this price increase comes after this debt cutting plan aimed at avoiding technical default was announced u.s. markets actually opened mixed i'm not that optimistic that's after a very strong session on choose the best is now weighing in well on one hand the

progress with raising that ceiling on the other hand us home sales going down point eight percent in june european stock markets closed the circle are going to close in picture pretty positive over their financials driving gains royal bank of scotland lloyds barclays all up more than three percent. and this is the closing picture for russia were both for the r.t.s. nice mix and in the black over he did lose some of their momentum by the end of the trading session as america opened in negative territory most of the blue chips however were on the rise however gas problems are just point two percent despite all these gains world prices last time they call now that's now standing for much stronger gains on speculation it could be completely sold to private investors the state however which always will be to write polymaths all slipped to four point four percent into lot of territory after several days of gains as the gold was edging up anyway michael stein from creative bank wraps up today's three.

today the russian economy market is up for the second day in a row helped by the very strong start to the us early season and also helped by the increase in oil prices to within just two percent of a six week highs on the domestic front we saw some very healthy economic data unemployment in russia i dropped to six point one percent in the month of june from a six point four percent in may we also saw our retail sales accelerate to 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 and russia's car production market is returning to pre-crisis levels was no deals made in the country just fifty seven percent during the year some analysts say russia could become europe's biggest carmaker by twenty fourteen the way things are going with we've already recovered so about ninety percent of pre-crisis levels already part two thousand and. again assuming we don't have the next wave with financial

crisis with us relative global stability certainly the conditions are strong enough and russia could reach that easily with some sort of pre-crisis levels in. ten percent. fifteen percent growth which could get up to. six prices 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 podcast. joint didn't start in fifteen minutes we will be with a not a couple of the headlines.

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