tonight an artsy gong but certainly not forgotten media speculation now pointing to the resurrection of the disgraced and defunct news of the world on the russian ownership of billionaire xander limited remaining tight lipped tonight. pressure mounts meantime on the british prime minister he's grilled in parliament over ties with embattled rupert murdoch and his media empire also. i want to use again said nothing whatsoever experts believe the arrest of god on have h. the last remaining cool prime suspect wanted by the u.n. from the balkan conflict is unlikely to bring serbia closer to even membership as we report. and tripoli will not consider gadhafi stepping down that's the

position revealed by libya's foreign minister today at a meeting with his russian counterpart in moscow. for minority shareholders in t.n. k p p are preparing a lawsuit claiming up to ten billion dollars in damages from b.p. for the pale pink exploration deal with knowing that in twenty. hello my name is kevin and it's ten pm here in moscow and watching our take in our top story rumors of mounting tonight that russian billionaire alexander lebedev would 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 in the u.k. paper business to own in both the independent and the london evening standard. sprint you are today. there's been a huge amount of media hype here in the u.k.

if you can imagine a nation sitting around glued to his t.v. screens into its radio. as the top executives from news corp 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 but now and i should arabs that this is just reports coming from the media that alexander lebedev how to confirm this himself but it looks like he may be interested in becoming the hero of the piece the sensually picking up the news of the world and releasing it under a new name which media reports are saying that he might call it news instead of news of the world now he does 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 shares in air afloat he also owns a newspaper in russia novogratz yet. banking and construction media assets all that all that kind of thing that 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 these embassies in london during the cold war so when he started to invest in london in the u.k. some newspaper markets and bought up those titles the evening standard and the independent people were quite worried that he would use his influence to have a say in as it's all real decisions but in fact that hasn't happened and he's widely seen as a post but very welcome addition to the u.k.'s newspaper market now his press service when we contacted him 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. deny that it's meanwhile this phone hacking scandal which has been a huge upset here in the u.k. has claimed the life of sean paul he was the first journalist to allege that his the news of the world and he calls and knew about it and in fact actively

encouraged certain hacking at his newspaper because more information about that in my report. another political scandal erupts another whistleblower diaries sean hoare 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 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 story bigger reminds me of how dr david kelly was. 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 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 and 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 and clear for the story i think it's 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 with evidence could have been crucial to proving that the news of the world editors supported

a culture of listening to private voice mail sports stories former editor andy colson who later became a media director to the prime current. minister has always denied the allegations the man was destroyed professionally by news international the. man was. drinking too much taking drugs he was depressed and. 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 police more to report and other evidence has been classified for seventy years so ten arrests six resignations two convictions and one death pact the toll of the phone hacking scandal so far the death of

a key whistleblower it missed scandal has raised questions but so far only amongst the twitter or see it's being reported as a horrible and unfortunate coincidence but it's doubtful that if this had happened elsewhere say 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. . the pressure is mounting on prime minister david cameron who is listed as news corps executives. told me believed it could cost him his top job. what really gave the story legs was the fact that david cameron to be the man disgraced. cosen into because of a project 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 be in quite the same page as it is now but the fact is there's been some real errors of judgment it times out by

a little in the governing conservative party but i did promise david cameron yet again his chief of staff has been shown to be essentially instigating a cover up by the connections. to the phone hacking and making sure that the prime minister and then leader of the opposition david cameron didn't know about it as being a large element of fingers in isn't just the kind of heads in the sand i've got is lethal for a prime minister and he's now in a real fight he is in a real really bad situation he could well be looking at some serious consequences for himself at the very least still around him. of course those could get your opinion on what you see on our station including this story because today on a website raskin you were what do you think the biggest fallout will be from the u.k. phone hacking scandal this is what you're telling us and let's take a look at that graph sings the most you believe in the battle group of the local man given the incompatibilities so you vote some fold on screen there. more of you as well as seem to think the u.k.

are one of the moguls empire will for those of you split over two options either conventional media will. let you know will collapse with bloggers taking over all the story well it's what's offices across the globe or the saga taking it to the big screen is never a blockbuster that will say it out c dot com. serbia's fulfilled the final demands of the u.n. war crimes tribunal for the former yugoslavia extra ration seventy to go ahead it should be arrested after seven years on the run he's accused of atrocities during creation's war for independence from yugoslavia in the early one nine hundred ninety s. ranging from murder to religious persecution follows the arrest of cold blooded she was wanted for similar crimes but attentions were key requirements and says he was paid to join the e.u. but the block is unlikely to reward the sacrifice that's according to all kinds of experts marco gets it. serbia will get in recent years against nothing whatsoever i mean the serbian serbia has got many many more hoops to jump over

before it can get anywhere close to a new membership but i think what the serbian leadership really wants is to have the appearance of travelling 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. once it's not us your leaders really were 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 style which has worked so far. this is our taste still to come with me kevin our informer allies left out in macau. 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 we meet

a former lebanese soldier who blames israel for forgetting to help fight hezbollah protecting. the country georgia's witch hunt for alleged spies gathers pace says the photographer is charged with espionage for russia plead guilty local journalists those silly confessions to forced to send a clear message to the rest of georgia's media community pick up story part of it more native to. tripoli refuses to negotiate over colonel gadhafi stepping down that use was revealed by libya's foreign minister during a meeting with his russian counterpart here in moscow at his country is that the foreign ministry with the latest. 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 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 according to the libyan

foreign affairs minister every single party has to be involved in these negotiations and not one party should be singled out including of course the opposition forces in benghazi. we should. she do should you wish we can route only view not only. should. we do to be removed in the courtesy of your vote. in the street or from three over the course of. three things. so what we are sure are for different is there is a rumor an order of russia of course proposed itself as a mediator in the ongoing conflict that has basically said that it will try to do everything possible to bring about a ceasefire and a diplomatic solution to the conflict in contrast to the military intervention and how that a lead by nato troops which russia believes is simply prolonging the so-called

policy of isolation of russia has said that it does believe mark it off he should step down from power he does support the proposition of the african union for a cease fire and will continue to do everything in his power to bring about a diplomatic resolution to the ongoing conflict. sort of many controversial issues during a storm of lively debate on our website forum you could have your say as well so you go for us here. tonight children preparing for motherhood new breast feeding bowl good mixed reaction from the parents the shows in the toy stores across europe. the u.s. when you think about that story let us know also the world's biggest country. a unique project underway in st petersburg to create a tiny replica of russia in a very fine detail with him about that as well you have to squint both take a look at our gallery at r.t. dot com.

it's. just. me. it's eleven years now since the israeli army withdrew from lebanon however the consequences of the war against hezbollah are the palestinian liberation organization is still being felt today members of the south lebanese army who fought alongside their israeli counterparts say the country they backed as let them down nazis policy has got their story. and there's only one thing for was masham 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 his below on lebanese soil helped by the

south lebanon army a militia of christians and jews control the south of the country this old lebanese army didn't fight for israel as a world that is there didn't fight for so. it was a mere thing of interest between them and us but growing domestic pressure in this role of the high losses suffered by the army finally convinced the government to withdraw and it did so quickly. area it steve 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 a sleeping they for sure knew even less there was some sort of selection the commanders were brought here but i'm sure if you were to drive not much was done for you for. 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 out alive he'd been working with israeli

intelligence hoping to recruit live in the skies i did not want to run here i wanted to die fighting with the israeli intelligence almost forced me to cause 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 these weak government gave him i feel ashamed. in my country. dripping not only the case before was not jim but told him people that remain in state in israel . big 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 far as there is a home. for them already eleven years.

ago the thing we don't have to we must. with it's very unique. it's a very unique nobody did they do that i found a cure for europe you name it they were not worthy of them. but still that treatment was not enough to stop two thirds of those who came to israel from immigrating elsewhere but i feel betrayed the beast sitting in the special intelligence forces have not given me any help since i've been here let it be israeli lebanese border and just friends 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 to good friends has since become close friends and through its bars israel's forgotten friends seem condemned to fit a peek at the family they're more than likely never see again policy archie on the israel lebanon border. also making headlines this wednesday night syria's foreign

ministers want the ambassadors of america and france to travel outside the capital without permission this one for diplomats was severely criticized by the government of visiting the volatile town of hamas are considered an opposition stronghold it comes as security forces continue violent crackdown on anti-government demonstrations at least ten people were killed and she was there is at least for now the rally and the simply don't. feel this president barack obama's welcome to cross party senate proposal designed to cut the country's huge debt the plan is to reduce the deficit by about four trillion dollars over the next decade by slashing health spending education and labor programs with only two weeks left to avoid a looming default lawmakers from both parties are also discussing raising with recurring limits. now says the lantus is on its way back down to worth as the final mission of the u.s. space shuttle program draws to an end that lantus and its crew of four left the international space station to land the space 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 facility. same with space but the end of the american space shuttle program the many say the country's dream of space exploration is over but that's rejected by one of the storm over robert williams the man behind the hubble space telescope he told us the golden era of space from search he thinks is in its prime . 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 in the past fifteen years and the large ground based observatories and the new the technological developments that have enabled us to do things like adaptive optics supercomputers that have really advanced or understanding of astronomy at this large number of discoveries that i would say really makes it appropriate to call

this a golden era of the strong. but if you're interested you see more that if you're full of five hundred ten minutes time tonight on this channel. george's they despise sagas take it another twist police he says the three photo journalist charged with spying for russia no confessed their guilt but starting to really commission reports next there are mounting concerns that the suspects were coerced into admitting to crimes they didn't commit. and then there were in on the last georgian photographer to deny allegations of spying has apparently changed his story he now admits the charges video testimony of gore get a lot of this confession of spying for russia was released by prosecutors to the media but most journalists are skeptical of this latest development for our. old this is very strange and there is in the middle of a night out in business is very case has been marked as the secret work of this

confession is a serious breakthrough easer because we have 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 or initially insisted they were innocent then one by one the dog first started changing their testimonies eventually three of them incriminate themselves in his panoz but up the law they insisted he was not guilty and even went on 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 all in the state bird limited to car ads it believes these admissions of guilt show the case has been fabricated. we live in

a totalitarian state and all current is concentrated in our hands of president saakashvili and if someone goes against him all of us will end up like yes basically this is a message for all of us journalists including me and with. members of the media heard the message loud and clear and stage a protest outside the jail where they did talk refers are being held and preliminary detention human rights act. meanwhile. hardly this is just powering the country album grounded because you know 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 that many ordinary people it's just the latest in the seemingly endless string of spies scandals to hit georgia in our. story the streets

fearless and daring use welcome the peek of parker a free running in russia got more about that in twenty minutes time a sports blogs are as good about their business now though the me trees here. alone welcome to business r.t. good to have your company minority shareholders are. preparing a lawsuit demanding five to ten billion dollars in damages over between a failed bid to partner with and i'll take expiration they have won a russian court ruling obliging the parties involved to submit documents on the preparation of the multi-billion dollar deal within two weeks this will allow the shareholders to evaluate the damages b.p. and rosneft failed to strike the deal this spring as the shareholders claimed b.p.'s russian joint ventures should be the primary vehicle for exploration in the arctic. stock markets were taking

a breathing pause they welcomes president obama's news of progress on raising america's debt ceiling he's meeting with congressional leaders to discuss a new debt cutting plan and determine if it could point the way out of the impasse . there's still a long way to go in terms of the the two positions coming together however we haven't got 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 of both republicans and democrats within it coming up this proposal we know that almost fifty senators listen to the president 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 this is this is caution with the optimism. let's take a look at how the russian markets and the when's they searched in both markets and then the session in the black though they didn't lose some of the steam by the end

of the day most new chips were up on the my sex gas prometa just point two percent mark world was positive last telecom was posting very strong gains on speculation it could be completely selling its assets to private investors the state however would still hold veto rights and poly metals slipped deep into the red after several days of gains as gold was edging lower michael stein from a pretty bank wraps up today's trade. today the russian equity market is up for the second day in a row helped by the very strong start to the us growing 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 a retail sales accelerate to a five point six percent during the month of june and we also saw the reversal in

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