who worked at the london embassy in london during the cold war when he started to invest in london in the u.k. newspaper markets importer of 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 now his press service when we contacted him said that they couldn't comment and this was the first that they had heard of this story but we are still waiting to see whether leverage if himself will come out and. deny that it's. this phone hacking scandal which is a huge upset here in the u.k. has claimed the life of sean hall he was the first journalist to allege that his editor at the news of the world andy concerned knew about it and in fact actively encouraged 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 sun horse story bigger reminds me of how dr david kelly was bumped off similar tragedies of sean hoare in david kelly all this madness and david kelly shawn who are this what i'm thinking something's not trying to talk to kelly was the u.n. weapons inspector who first cause 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 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 sean hoare being at the center of one of these storms a terrifying experience i really don't believe either david or sean hoare was murdered because. i simply don't think it would have been in anyone's interest to murder them once they got into the public spotlight anyone with an iota of sense in government would have known that to kill them would just would just amplify the story i think it simply i think both were under enormous pressure from their roles as whistle blows and and found it difficult to cope with that pressure sean hoare was evidence could have been crucial to proving that the news of the world editors supported a culture of listening to private voice mails for stories who was former editor

andy colson who later became a media director to the current prime. mr has always denied the allegations the man was destroyed professionally by news international the world in london is a very small amount was. drinking too much taking drugs he was depressed to be moralized police are saying hall's death doesn't appear suspicious and they're looking at suicide dr kelly's death was also recorded as suicide although many including leading doctors and m.p.'s have never accepted that their suspicions of hardly been quelled by the fact the post-mortem report and other evidence has been classified for seventy years so ten arrests six resignations two convictions and one death that the toll of the phone hacking scandal so far the death of a key whistleblower in this scandal has raised questions but so far only amongst

the twitter aussie it's being reported as a horrible and unfortunate coincidence but it's doubtful that if this had happened elsewhere say in russia or in india the british media would be so quick to accept it as a coincidence particularly looked at in the light of the death of david kelly you're at it r.t. . the pressure is mounting on prime minister david cameron to disclose news corps executives. told me he believes it could cost him his top job. what really gave the story legs was the fact that they have a camera in to the then disgraced. coast and into the conservative party photo made him is director of communications now i don't think without without that kind of that legs give into the story i think it probably wouldn't have been quite as big as it is now but the fact is there have been some real errors of judgment times out of the governing conservative party but the prime minister david cameron yes again his chief of stuff has been shown to be essentially instigating

a cover up by the connections because and have to do the phone hacking and making sure that the prime minister and then leader of the opposition david cameron did know about it as being a large element of fingers in isn't just a 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 real really bad situation he could well be looking at some serious consequences for himself at the very least stuff still around him. of course it was good to get your opinion what you see on our station including this story because today on our website. what do you think the biggest fallout will be from the u.k. phone hacking scandal this is what you're telling us to let's take a look at that. most do you believe in the battle group of local now given the compatibles so you focus on fold on screen there. more of you as well as similar to think that the u.k. arm of the mogul's empire will fall others of you split over two options either

conventional media will. 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 no big blockbuster that will say it out dot com. serbia's fulfill 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 creations war for independence from yugoslavia in the early one nine hundred ninety s. ranging from murder to religious persecution follows the arrest of not that she was wanted for similar crimes that intentions 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 balkans expert marco gets it. you will get in return what usually gets nothing whatsoever i mean the serbian has got many many more hoops to jump over before he can get anywhere close to

a new membership but i think 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 it the e.u. wants it it's not your leaders really where just obeying orders i think that is 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 r.t. still to come with me kevin now in former allies left out in the cold. i was told you know too much of it 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 south lebanese soldier who blames israel for forgetting to help fight

hezbollah for attacking. both come to georgia's witch hunt for alleged spies gathers pace says the photographer is charged with espionage for russia plead guilty to local journalists though say the confessions were forced to send a clear message to the rest of georgia's media community to pick that story apart a bit more but later a few. 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 and his country is at 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 i mean to go to war. we should old rule. should do should. which would include. not only the. car we should. move it to be removed in the kurdish. condition or from three over the course of. the things we shouldn't. we are sure. going to it is going to go on to the order of 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 ceasefire 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 of russia has said that it does believe moammar

gadhafi should step down from power it 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. well as one of many controversial issues during a storm of lively debate on our website forum you could have your say as well the story of. my children preparing for motherhood new breast feeding bowl good mixed reaction from the parents as they hit the shelves and toy stores across europe were. the u.s. when you think about that story let us know also the world's biggest country a. big unique project underway in st petersburg to create a tiny red girl russia a very fine detail about that as well you have to squint though take a look at our gallery at our t.v. dot com.

it's eleven years now since the israeli army withdrew from lebanon however the consequences of the war against hezbollah and the palestinian liberation organization are still being felt today members of the south lebanese army are fought alongside their israeli counterparts say the country they backed as let them down. the story. there's only one thing for wise 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 binny's to flee 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 this old

lebanese army didn't fight for israel as a world that is didn't fight for. there was admitting in between them and us that growing domestic pressure in israel over the high losses suffered by the army finally convinced the government to withdraw and it did so quickly. arya epstein was a soldier at the time and says the lebanese soldiers who helped israel were left behind almost like sitting ducks and that's what. if we're soldiers knew little about us leaving they for sure knew even less if 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 into israel those who were left behind were tried jailed and sometimes killed as traitors for was nash and was one of those who got out alive he'd been working with israeli intelligence 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 the stadium is why the country and the state of israel are treating them like. it's a charge the government is aware of although it says it's doing its best to help them by giving cash education and in some cases although not in followers 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 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. a good fence has since become close friends and through its bars israel's forgotten friends seem condemned to fit if a peek at the family they're more than likely never see again policy r.t. on the israel lebanon border. also making headlines this wednesday night syria's foreign ministers warn the ambassadors of america and france will travel outside

the capital without permission this one for diplomats were severely criticized by the government for visiting the volatile town of hamas 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 police fire the rally in the city. the u.s. president barack obama is welcome to cross party senate proposal designed to cut the country's huge debt plan aims 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 federal borrowing limit. now says the lantis 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 and lead you 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 training facilities will be staying with space but the end of the america's space shuttle program then many say the country's dream of space exploration is over vast rejected by going to storm over robert williams the man behind the hubble space telescope he told us the golden era of space research 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've had in the past fifteen years and the large ground based observatories and the new technological developments that are the neighbors to do things like adaptive optics supercomputers that have really advanced our understanding of astronomy of this large number of discoveries that i would say really makes it appropriate to call this a golden era of astronomy. and

if you're interesting see more of that interview in full in fact right terminus time tonight on this channel. george's latest spy sagas take another twist tbilisi says the three photo journalist charged with spying for russia no confessed their guilt but as a teacher in english the reports next that are mounting concerns that 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 odd in that this is very case has been marked as top secret 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 a span asure but up to lots 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 ali a newspaper dimity god's 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 all of us will end up like this is about basically this is a message for all of us journalists including me and with women. members of the media heard the message loud and clear and stage a protest outside the jail break a videographer as are being held and preliminary detention human rights act. meanwhile believe. this is just powering the country other 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 case of the photographers to end without any public discussion and that's possible if all the rest to plead guilty. and well be keys seems outrageous to journalists and to many ordinary people it's just the latest in the seemingly endless string of spies scandals to hit georgia even. ahead a 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 bulletin let's get right down to business now though dimitris here. alone a woman welcome to business artie good to have your company minority shareholders are preparing a lawsuit demanding five to ten billion dollars in damages over between failed bid to partner with rosneft in arctic exploration they've 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 shareholders to evaluate the damages b.p. and rosneft boy 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 poor as they welcomed 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 but we've got limited time for that to happen i mean yes it is good news that we've got a bipartisan gang of six with both republicans and democrats within it coming up this proposal we know that almost fifty senators listen to the proposal in detail yesterday for an hour and we know that so far none of the key players have vanished out of it have completely said no this is not the deal so it is looking optimistic but i just think you know this just this is caution with the optimism. let's take a look at how the russian markets and the wednesday session both markets ended the session in the black though they did lose some of the steam by the end of the day most new chips were up on the my six gazprom added just point two percent 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 day. to day the russian equity market is up for the second day in a row helped by the very strong start to the u.s. burning season and also helped by the increase in oil prices to within just two percent of a six week highs on 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 retail sales accelerate to up five point six percent during the month of june and we also saw the reversal in disposable income which was down in may and is

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russian counterpart in moscow. the man behind the hubble space telescope believes despite the u.s. shuttle program winding down now 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 its funding and its place. to think that beautiful ideas 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 we're trying to understand the universe and beauty is one of those things maybe you've heard the expression and the 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 that reveals the answer to some important question like how stars form how a galaxy form and so to a scientist 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 fascinated by certain things they're fascinated by dinosaurs for.