those titles the evening standard and the independent people were quite worried that he would use his influence to have a say in editorial decisions but in fact that hasn't happened and he's widely seen as a very welcome addition to the u.k.'s newspaper market huge injection of cash he relaunched the london evening standard as a free newspaper massively increased the circulation the independent also has a larger circulation than it did before and it's a much better paper than it was before and he also launched a sort of a sort of newspaper digest called the which goes along with the independent so he's been very good for the u.k.'s newspaper markets huge injections of catch. up to it actually in the sixty's seventy's and eighty's he's rescued the failing titles essentially from going under and he says that it's a personal mission of his to own newspapers in britain 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 phone hacking scandal we have seen it claim a life that was the life of sean who are who was found dead in his home he's the first named journalist to allege that his editor that he's a world at the time of the cools and knew all about phone hacking allegations that sent 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 anough the whistleblower diaries sure hall was the first former news of the world journalists to go on the record to alleged phone hacking was endemic at the paper and that it editor andy colson actively encouraged it who was found dead in his house on monday setting the bloke a spear into a frenzy of comparisons with the case of dr david kelly why isn't this shown here a story bigger reminds me of how dr david kelly. similar tragedies of sean hoare in

david 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 cast doubt 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 caylee's body was discovered exactly eight years before that of sean hordes 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 similarities between kelly and short haul 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 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 simpler i think both were under enormous pressure from their roles as whistle blows and and found it difficult to cope with that pressure short haul 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 hoards former editor andy colson who later became a media director to the current prime minister has always denied the allegations the man was destroyed professionally by abuse international. 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 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 so ten arrests six resignations two convictions and one death that the toll of the phone hacking scandal so far the death of a key whistleblower in this scandal has raised questions but so far only amongst the twitter ossie it's being reported as a horrible and unfortunate coincidence but it's doubtful that if this had happened elsewhere say in russia or in india the british media would be so quick to accept it as a coincidence particularly looked at in the light of the death of david kelly your emmett r.t. . pressure is mounting on prime minister david cameron to over his links 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 done hodges is from labor website thank you thanks for being on our

to international david cameron could be our guest severely damaged by this scandal is there anyone pulling the strings there who will stand to benefit by seeing him go it is the primary target in all this. well i certainly think the labor leader ed miliband would regard it as 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 he or his staff had necessarily formed the view that cameron was going to do this is there's absolutely no doubt that cameron credibility has been damaged i think as much for his mismanaging. the issue as mismanagement of this issue rather than questions over each person and you said good performance today that he gave her you know what it was grilled in parliament he said he never had an inappropriate conversation over her dogs for full control of sky but that kind of

raised more questions than it answered didn't it how do you interpret what we know tell us little bit more about that meeting today. well i think i think to be honest inadvertently i mean david cameron may have attempted to evade the issue about his discussions with news international but his evasiveness made it very very clear that he has been in discussion with news international over the pace car i mean his defense is that he would be insulated himself if you light from that. to other colleagues but that was definitely one area where tripped up there was another as well where tom watson relate graham doggedly in pursuit of this issue for so many years now the challenge for prime minister on his assertion that no one of the more liberal about the nature of the course and his former presidents are all his links to news international news links to the sky and tom watson said quite clearly quite a sort of dramatic flourish that he had in fact written to the promise from produce

the latter so there's no doubt there are there are questions still to come into our answers but whether or not we're going to find if you like a smoking gun and something to actually bring down a lot of these government. would think that's the case at the moment that's not really how it's playing at the moment they're all talking about employment by the prime minister what is the real picture is. he didn't know do you think he really didn't know you didn't want to know do think it was very badly advised by his advisors. well i think this you take another term 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. who is david cameron's chief of staff i think a picture is emerging of a sort of don't ask don't tell in relation to this which as i say was cameron from allegations that he acted. sort of with impropriety it is 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 do you think is going to walk away from it totally. no i think he is damaged before this he was he was beginning to develop the teflon camera because none of the sort of damaging political issues that were in the government actually stuck to him but this one has landed and it has damaged i mean equally it has also boosted the standing of ed miliband the leader of the opposition so the political damage has been done i'm not sure it's going to turn out to be fatal at this stage we don't know just from a bronco web site facebook on our t.v. much appreciated. and of course we're always keen to know your opinion on all the stories we cover basically this one as well it's on our website 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'll all end up with rupert murdoch losing your slice of the world's media take a competitor that's what you say and there you can see the graph of the support of

our team voters think that the u.k. both of them will fall a fifth of you predicting conventional media losing out to 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 will pick very nice thought you could change those results with us know what you think go online to our web site r t dot com. serbia's fulfilled the final demands of the u.n. war crimes tribunal for the former yugoslavia croatian serb leader gautam had been arrested after seven years on the run he's accused of atrocities during creation's war for independence from yugoslavia in the early ninety's ranging from murder to religious persecution it follows the arrest of that she was wanted for similar crimes that attentions were key requirements of serbia's bid to join the e.u. but it won't be the last ones according to dr rich the 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 true european coalition led by president boris tadic that uses the rhetoric of e.u. integration with some of the euro two zero s m if you will as a substitute for coherent strategy of getting out of a deep economic social and political crises that has effectively lasted for other a decade since the fall of slobodan milosevic and in any event there has never been incoherently baked in serbia in the pros and cons of membership actually anything that serbia will now mean two and. a list will be mounds and additional preconditions so it is really an open secret in brussels it is euphemistically. as normalization of relations with serbia as neighbors which is that. the recognition of course of those independence will top the agenda so i think that all

of these elections are coming to 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 still ahead of me kevin informed that left out in the cold. 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 i meet a former lebanese soldier who blames israel for forgetting those who helped over a decade ago. georges 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 can look at duffy stepping down but news was revealed by libya's

foreign minister during a meeting with his russian counterpart here in moscow to get latest on the go live to. vote for more deets a country and 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 a sign for cautious optimism it doesn't or suggest to the russian side who has proposed a self as a mediator in the ongoing conflict in libya of those in power in libya don't simply want to engage in a military problem gaging 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 to any efficient 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 that conflict that will not really a resolution. the russian foreign minister said that russia remains firm in the position that moammar gadhafi has to surrender power but that the solutions and the cease fire that has to be implemented must be reached through diplomacy and not ongoing military attacks that basically the morning 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 refrain from the so-called policy of isolation that russia believes nato forces are currently implementing in libya troops out of a reporting live from moscow thanks for bringing us up to date on that one. it's eleven use 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 who fought alongside their israeli counterparts in the country they backed down. this story. there's only one thing for ys national 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 they've been nice to free 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 didn't fight for is the word as a word that is there didn't fight for. 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. aria 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. 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 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 i was told you know too much but the way they treat me now is

a shame they forced me to run away and now they spit on my face six months ago i'm not a lawyer found for was living in a tent on the street he was hardly surviving on the few hundred dollars a month the israeli government gave him i feel ashamed. in my country. that dripping not only the case before was not jim but two thousand people that remain in state in israel. country in the state of israel are treating them like. it's a charge the government is aware of although it says it's doing its best to help them by giving cash education and in some cases although not in followers is a home. for them already eleven years. we don't have to we must. with it's very unique it's a very unique nobody did it do that. you name it never

nobody of them. but still that treatment was not enough to stop two thirds of those who came to israel from immigrating elsewhere but i feel betrayed by the beast sitting in the special intelligence forces have not given me any help since i've been here this is the israeli lebanese border and this fence used to be known as the good friends but in the last eleven years since the israelis withdrew from lebanon the situation has deteriorated and this is close to 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. well it's one of the many controversial issues stirring up a storm of lively debate on our website forum you can join in to feel like an obscene dog call while you're there check out these stories as well children preparing for motherhood 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. when you think about that a lot of. the world's biggest country in miniature you need projects underway in some papers to create a tiny replica of russia in fine detail take a look at our gallery of art to call. george's latest spy sagas taken another twist to police she says the three photo journalist charged with spying for russia and confessed their guilt results is really reports of mounting concern of 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 abdel odds is confession of spying for russia was released by prosecutors to the media but most journalists are skeptical about this latest development or our. old this is very strange and there is in the middle of the night and this is there a case has been marked as top secret book 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 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 pen asure but up to lots 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 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 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 even talk refers are being held and preliminary detention human rights activists meanwhile. well hardly to system of power in the country i'll bet on that because you know investigators want everyone who can interfere out of the picture so they can lead the way they want to they want the

case of the photographers to end without any public discussion and that's possible if all the rest to plead guilty and well the case seems outrageous to journalists and to many ordinary people it's just the latest in a seemingly endless string of spies scandals to hit georgia. r.t. . the sport sort of it has got these a record breaking day for russia in the poll that's going up in twenty minutes time now though let's go to business right with dmitri. thanks very much kev and the stock markets were letting out a little sigh of relief that i 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 terminal for good 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 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 banished it out of you know have completely said no this is not the deal so it is looking optimistic but i just think you know there's just this is caution with the optimism . all right let's move to the stock market seems pretty optimistic there too 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 day investors are now weighing in well on one hand the progress with raising that ceiling on the other hand u.s. home sales going down point eight percent in june european stock markets closed the

secular the closing picture pretty positive over there financials driving gains rollback of scotland lloyds barclays all up more than three percent. and this is the closing picture for russia where both of the r.t.s. my six and in the black vote we 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 gazprom was up just point two percent despite all these gains in world prices they call now and that's an outstanding performer strong gains on speculation it could be completely sold to private versus state however always will be turned right polymaths all slipped a four point four percent into negative territory after several days of gains as gold was edging up anyway michael stein from creek bank wraps up today's three. today the russian equity market is up for the second day in

a row helped by the very strong start to the u.s. earning 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 a 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 and russia's coppered auction market is returning to pre-crisis levels automobiles made in the country jumped 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 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. some ten percent. fifteen percent growth which 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. joint business out in fifteen minutes we will be here with an update kevin's next with headlines.

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fifty. five. helos is our team. and our top stories for you the russian billionaire owner of several british newspapers an exam the lever there says he wants to revive the disgraced news of the world weekly closed in the wake of a phone hacking scandal meantime pressure mounts on the british prime minister who gets a grilling in parliament over his ties with disgraced news corps executives. the last remaining war crimes suspect wanted by the u.n. from the balkans conflict as captured as serbia to rest since fugitive commander got on had a huge part of the country's latest attempt to overcome obstacles to e.u. membership. and tripoli won't consider gadhafi stepping down that's the position

revealed by libya's foreign minister at a meeting with his russian counterpart in moscow be visiting diplomat expressed disappointment with several western countries for recognizing the opposition council as libya's legitimate government. next he talks the man behind the hubble telescope who believes despite the u.s. shuttle program winding down we're still witnessing a golden age of astronomy and space exploration. mr williams thank you very much for being with us today it's an honor sir my pleasure said the beauty of. security basically it's funding and if. you think that beautiful do you have a better chance. that pretty. no i would say well it's always

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