into a law abiding citizen. present life behind bars an arche. on r.t.e. gone but certainly not forgotten media speculation points to the resurrection of the disgraced and defunct news of the world under russian ownership but billionaire alexander lebedev remaining tight lifted. meantime pressure on the british prime minister he's grilled in parliament over ties with the embattled rupert murdoch and his media empire. also in the program the last remaining war crimes suspect wanted by the u.n. from the balkan conflict is captured as serbia rests its fugitive about to go ahead it should have been to join the e.u. . and tripoli will not consider gulf a stepping down that's the position revealed by libya's foreign minister at

a meeting with his russian counterpart here in moscow. in business news stock markets are taking a breathing pause as president barack obama announces progress has been made in raising the debt ceiling for the united states more than twenty minutes out of business for. nine pm here in moscow my name is kevin zero in this is r t and our top story tonight rumors abound saying that russian billionaire alexander lebedev would like to revive britain's news of the world and use paper recently shut down by rupert murdoch the ex k.g.b. agent has some experience of the u.k. paper business to owning both the independent already and the london evening standard that he's there and it's in the u.k. capital to bring us up to date on this developing story what we know tonight how likely is it now that leverage they have could be getting his hands on yet another

high profile media outlet in the u.k. . well let me just talk generally little bit about the phone hacking scandal first and say that it's been a huge there's been a huge amount of media hype here in the u.k. if you can imagine a nation sitting around glued to its t.v. screens into its radio. as the top executives from from news corp news international rebecca brooks murdoch his son james. the two top people in the metropolitan police and prime minister david cameron have all been paraded before m.p.'s know how to answer some very tough questions a lot of media surrounding that here in this country and there's been a series of anti heroes in this story the two murdoch's themselves david cameron has turned into a bit of a villain in the piece in the last couple of days and also of course the metropolitan police but now and i should add that this is just reports coming from the media that alexander lebedev hasn't confirmed this himself but it looks like he

may be interested in becoming the hero of the piece essentially picking up the news of the world which of course was closed down making redundant in the process of two hundred journalists and picking up newspapers suppressed reassembling the pieces and releasing it under a new name which media reports are saying that he might call it news instead of news of the world he said according to bloomberg and various other media reports they don't have the cash that the movements but if he could get it together he writes consider buying the paper and he also told told bloomberg according to them that he would change it from a paper that he said plays on the least attractive strings of human nature to one that really investigates wrongdoing i don't know what irish and powerful people now if you words about alexander ever since he is estimated by forbes magazine to have a fortune of two. dollars he of course large a large number of shares an aeroflot the airline he also has interest in the banking construction and media sectors in russia and he has been previous to this

a controversial figure in the u.k. . he already owns two newspapers he bought the evening standard's and the independent newspaper in ahead of the purchase of those of those papers there was a notice speculation that he would that he would use these these publications to put forward his own views that he would have some sort of influence over editorial content he's of course a former k.g.b. officer who worked in the soviet embassy here in london during the cold war but in fact that there has been none of that that we have seen and it's widely accepted that he has been excellent both for an injection of cash and as a as a newspaper owner here in the u.k. the evening standard we released as a free newspaper in circulation has increased dramatically he's also turned the independent around which would have called under without his injection of cash much actually as rupert murdoch did here in the u.k. when he bought the star and the times back in the sixty's seventy's and eighty's he

sees it as a personal mission to only papers here in the u.k. rather than any kind of commercial endeavor which the good thing considering the state of the newspaper markets here in this country now his press service when we contacted them said that they couldn't comment and that this was the first that they had heard of this story but we are still waiting to see whether eleven different self will come out and confirm or deny that it's meanwhile this phone hacking scandal which is a huge upset here in the u.k. has claimed the life of sean paul he was the first journalist to allege that his editor at the news of the world and he calls and knew about and in fact actively encouraged. his newspaper the blogosphere has been satellite comparisons between the death of sean paul and the death of u.n. weapons inspector dr david kelly back in two thousand and three there's more information about that in my report. another political scandal erupts another

whistleblower diaries sean hoare was the first almost news of the world journalists to go on the record to allege that phone hacking was endemic at the paper and that its editor and he calls an actively encouraged it paul was found dead in his house on monday setting the blogosphere into a frenzy of comparisons with the case of dr david kelly why isn't the sun horror story bigger reminds me of how dr david kelly was bumped off the similar tragedies of sean hoare and get it kelly all this madness and then it can be shown 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 kelly's body was discovered exactly eight years before that of sean hawes 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 at all sure 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 simply i think both were under enormous pressure from their roles as whistle blows and and found it difficult to cope with that pressure so one who 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 because former editor andy colson who later became a media director to the cut. prime minister has always denied the allegations and

was destroyed professionally by abuse international or the journalistic world in london is a very small amount was his story is well known who is drinking too much taking drugs he was depressed moralized police the thing hall's death doesn't appear suspicious and they are 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 police more to report and other evidence has been classified for seventy years ten arrests six resignations two convictions and one death tax 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 r.t. it's being reported as a horrible and unfortunate coincidence but it's doubtful that if it happened

elsewhere say in russia or in india the british media would be so quick to accept it as a coincidence particularly gets out in the light of the death of david kelly you'll read it r.t. . in time pressure is mounting on prime minister david cameron over his links to discourage news corps executives spritz blogger harry cole told me it was it could cost him his job. what really gave the story legs was the fact that they have a camera and. then disgraced. the coast and into the cause of cause the photo made in his director of communications now i don't think without without that kind of. legs given to the story i think it probably wouldn't have been quite the same page as it is now but the fact is there's been some errors of judgment it's times out shared by the government because of the policy but david cameron yes again his chief stuff has been shown to be essentially instigating a cover up by the connections. to the phone hacking and making sure that the prime

minister then leader of the opposition david cameron didn't know about it it's been a large amount of fingers and it isn't just the 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 really really bad situation he could well be looking at some serious consequences for himself at the very least stuff still around him. always get your opinion on the story as you see basically this one we will know what you think about it did on our website today we're asking you what you think the biggest fallout will be from the u.k. phone hacking scandal thanks for taking part if you have done so far this is what you're telling us the majority of you think it will all end up with rupert murdoch losing his slice of the world's media cake to competitors others if you will split between three opinions either the u.k. arm of the moguls empire will for all conventional media it will lose out to bloggers who some a lot of moderate activity about this story of course the rest of you as you can see they're believing the biggest outcome will be nothing more than an academy

award winning bio pic now there's a thought you can. have your say on that as well go to our teeth of compromise. serbia's fulfilled the final demands of the u.n. war crimes tribunal for the former yugoslavia and its creation serb leader go to how that she's 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 rock omar that she was wanted for similar crimes but the tensions were clear requirement of. joining the e.u. for insight on this latest arrest those across the balkans expert marco gas itch tonight marco good to see you on the line from london there when looking back at the creation war many a story and say don't say it was a civil war between croats and serbs with both committing atrocities against each other why then are only serbs being accused. well first of all kevin i should correct you there's only really been one war over those twenty years it's

been a war to carve up yugoslavia to make it smaller and to destroy ultimately so it can become a series of small little satellite states beholden to a global superpower so there's only been one war and a series of conflicts as to why serbs generally are just to paint a picture because the tribunals have been set up to to accuse also been leaders of being i didn't serve them being criminals while hiding the real criminals so that the tribunals pointing finger is the one that the actual criminals who broke up the country hide behind and that's really why the serbs get the rough end of the stick you know look at it go and have it he was indicted correctly get it get it from iraq if you will in two thousand and four that's thirteen years after the alleged atrocities why the long delay before the latest capture. well i think they basically forgot about him because he's really not a significant player or he was just

a loose rein really in their propaganda operation if they didn't indict him then there would be one serbian leader who wasn't accused of being a criminal and that would be inconvenient they had they had to accuse all the serbs all their leadership of being criminals for this propaganda picture to take hold so they remembered him very very late and they've accused of all things which have really they've got no evidence that he's involved in things for which they really operate on the principle of so-called command responsibility and a joint criminal enterprise now a joint criminal enterprise is pretty much what they accuse serbs of having everyone else is very rarely target is brush but serbs are given all the time i the other thing that serbs are given of course is the accusations of genocide whereas the others are accused of being war criminals or crimes against humanity so there's a kind of league table of accusation on the serbs always are at the top it is the holy sable of tribunals i guess the real reason why why he's been brought to task this is because he was on that easy you wish list that's another bit of it

fulfilled isn't it what will serve you get in return. well you will get in return what usually gets nothing whatsoever i mean serbian has got many many more hoops to jump over before you can get anywhere close to membership but i think that what the serbian leadership really wants is to have the appearance of traveling hopefully regardless of whether they ever arrive in the e.u. or not because it's that travelling hopefully which allows them to some people say abandon many national interests with the excuse that in fact the e.u. needs the e.u. wants it's not us your leaders really we're just obeying orders i think that's the argument of the current regime in belgrade and so this carrots of e.u. membership is something they wave in front of the population so ensure that the population remain those sile which has worked so far one of the seven people who was very briefly marco what what will they make of this arrest tonight i think they

know that this is an important player with no real guilt attached to him apart from being in the leadership he is simply another another accused or there's been so many that they will not take this very seriously at all they understand this is another sacrifice in the strategy that they've been told will get them to the holy grail of the e.u. but whether they ever get there and in what condition they get and what status they have in the e.u. these are all questions that really still to be answered so if i were them i wouldn't hold my breath because he's balkans expert things going on r.t. tonight. still to come up in the program as well the former allies left out in the cold. i was told you know too much put the way they treat me now is a shame because me to run away and know they spit on my face i mean a former south lebanese soldier who blames israel for forgetting those who helped

fight hezbollah over a decade ago we got his story coming up also georgia's witch hunt for alleged spies gathers pace as the photographers charged with espionage for russia plead guilty but local journalists say those confessions were forced to send a clear message to the rest of georgia's media community more to tell my story to. tripoli refuses to negotiate over colonel gadhafi stepping down the news was revealed by libya's foreign minister during a meeting with his russian counterpart in moscow let's go live now to r.t. is katrina. relief for us the only said moving story what else is being said in moscow today what do we know. well according to russian officials it was actually the libyan side that asked for this meeting which gives diplomats in moscow cautious optimism because of course it signifies to them that the libby those in power in libya don't actually want to continue the military ongoing military conflict and are attempting to seek diplomatic solutions to the problem russia of

course proposed itself as a mediator in the ongoing conflict and has basically said that it will try to do everything possible to bring about a cease fire and a diplomatic solution to the conflict in contrast to the military intervention and how that led by nato troops which russia believes is simply prolonging the so-called policy of isolation and of course the recognition by some western states all of the opposition forces in benghazi as the legitimate government is only extending the conflict and worsening the conflict making it even more difficult to find a diplomatic solution to the conflict itself course russia has said that it does believe moammar gadhafi should step down from power but that all of those other countries war involved and are attempting to mediate the conflict should not support any one side because not of course does not lead to healthy negotiations russia has said that it does support the proposition of the african union for a cease fire and will continue to do everything in its power to bring about

a diplomatic resolution to the ongoing conflict zone of a producer pretty low from central moscow there thank you. it's eleven years since the israeli army withdrew from lebanon but the consequences of the war against hezbollah out of the palestinian liberation organization is still being felt today members of the south lebanese army you fought alongside there was really kind of parts of the country very dark as well so it is all asleep it's ghost story. there's only one thing for those national 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 my home five kilometers away eleven years ago for was was one of several thousand christian mini's to flee with the israeli army as a cliff they've been on for eighteen years the israelis have been fighting the palestine liberation organization and hizbullah 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 lebanese army didn't fight for is the word as a world that is there didn't fight for so. it was a meeting of interests between them and us but growing domestic pressure on israel 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 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 it is wrong those who were left behind were tried jailed and sometimes killed as traitors for was nash and was one of those who got heart alive he'd been working with israeli intelligence hoping to recruit lebanese spies i did not want

to hear i wanted to die fighting with 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 it was hardly surviving on a few hundred dollars a month israeli government gave him i feel ashamed in my country the tree being not only the case of four was not there but two thousand people that remain in state in israel. that 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 years.

we don't have we must. wait it's very unique it's a very unique nobody. nobody of them. that's. still that treatment was not enough to stop two thirds of those who came to israel from immigrating elsewhere. 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 a good friend but in the last seven years since the israelis withdrew from lebanon the situation has deteriorated and this is close the defense has since become close friends and through its bars is was forgotten friends seem condemned to fit if a peek at the family they're more than likely never see again policy r.t. on israel lebanon border. just like a spy saga has taken another twist tbilisi says the three photojournalists charged

with spying for russia confess their guilt because that is ridiculous to report the mounting concerns the suspects were coerced into admitting the 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 your get out the law this confession of spying for russia was released by prosecutors to the media but most journalists are skeptical about this latest development or our. old this is very strange and there is in the middle of the night and it is and a case has been marked as top secret work and this confession is a serious breakthrough easier because we have this whole deal cynical you would get the odds and maintains his innocence ever since he along with three other photojournalists was arrested at the beginning of a son called 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 and then one by one as a dog first started changing their testimonies eventually three of them incriminated themselves in his dinars but up the odds 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 chased 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 chased the story and managing editor of all in newspaper dhimmitude regards it believes these admissions of guilt show the case has been fabricated turn of the deliberate are we live in a totalitarian state 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 theater jugglers are being held and preliminary attention human rights activists mean why. i'll believe. this is the last hour in the country i'll be grounded because the investigators want everyone who can interfere out of the picture so they can lead it the way they want to they want the keys of the photographers to and 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 the seemingly endless string of spies scandals in georgia and you know r.t. . coming up on the program they say that where you are what you eat well that might not be such a good thing we've got a special report coming up on covering an ominous link between everyday food and deadly disease shortly as it is each year to be out of business for us actually

retreating. quite a bit of share actually current stock markets are letting out a little sigh of relief at least at the moment they have us so far welcomes president obama's news of progress on raising america's debt ceiling he's meeting with congressional leaders and new debt cutting plan at the time and if it could point the 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 was heartless clinton 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 cool should with the optimism

. but of a change there from optimistic to neutral on the crude remark here take a look light sweet now down fifty cents to ninety seven dollars a barrel brant still at seventeen cents now this comes after the tragic end of winning technical default so worries there about america's ability to actually create demand for gas basically u.s. markets open mics than flat the still trading in negative territory after a strong tuesday session investors old weighing the progress with raising the debt ceiling and counterbalancing that u.s. home sales going down point eight percent in june it's plenty to think about their european stock markets. first a session where you see its wednesday's mess with the financials driving gains r.b.s. a lloyd's and barclays wall up three percent in london and here in moscow is the close of the day session there i am correcting myself the r.t.s.

is up half a percent my socks up by just a notch most of the blue chips were actually on the rise but they lost most of the steam gazprom point two percent was telecom five and a half percent strong gains on speculation it will be completely sold to private investors to say however would still hold peter writes even if that happens probably not all slipped into negative territory deep into the red four and a half percent that's after several days ago. i was told that michael stein from a creative backdrops up with a story. today the russian economy 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 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 a six point four percent in may we also saw a retail sales accelerates to

a five point six percent during the months of june and we also saw a reversal in disposable income which was down in may and is up in june. i'll be back in fifteen to some of the covers much of the headlines and say one thing. forty two thousand americans die each year from car accidents syria feltham. seventeen 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 . if. you. will. bring you the latest in science in six months from the ground floor. we've gone to the future covered.