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. or deny that it's meanwhile this very 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 the news of the world andy coulson knew about it and in fact actively encouraged. 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 hall 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 similar tragedies of sean hoare in david kelley 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 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 short or 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 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 abuse international the journalistic world in london is a very small amount was destroyed he was well known but he 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 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 you're

at it r.t. . well course it was good to hear your views of the stories we're running particularly this one this is a big story on our website we're asking what do you think the biggest fallout will be from the u.k. phone hacking scandal voting if you have done this is what you're telling us to use the majority of you believe. given the more powerful competitors some news world think that the u.k. arm of moguls will fall split between two options either conventional media as we know it will collapse you think it will take over or the story will only hit box offices across the globe with the saga taking the big screen as a big blockbuster. you know that will bring the view is in. place to be if you want to get your. and. serbia has fulfilled the final demands of u.n. war crimes tribunal for the former yugoslavia next croatian serb leader got a headache she's been arrested after seven years on the run he's accused of

atrocities during croatia's war for independence from yugoslavia in the early ninety's ranging from murder to religious persecution it follows the arrest of rock of love it she was wanted for similar crimes the detentions were kittle to violence and reserve the right to join the e.u. but the block is unlikely to reward the sacrifice that's according to balkans expert mark of gas which serbia will get in return what it usually gets it has nothing whatsoever i mean the serbian serbia has got many many more hoops to jump over before it can get anywhere close to 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 us your leaders really were just obeying orders i think that is

the argument of the current regime in belgrade and so this carrot of e.u. membership is something they wave in front of the population to ensure that the population remain those style which has worked so far. this is all too international for moscow with great care of it all in this hour and still ahead former 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 but now they spit on my face were made to former south lebanese soldiers who play music israel for forgetting those who helped fight hezbollah over a decade ago and got his story coming up. next though tripoli refuses to negotiate over colonel gadhafi stepping down that news was revealed by libya's foreign minister during a meeting with his russian counterpart here in moscow earlier. versus the foreign ministry where 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 are attempting to seek diplomatic solutions to the problem russia of course proposed itself as a mediator 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 that heralded a lead 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 russia has said that it does believe moammar gadhafi should step down and will continue to do everything in his power to bring about a diplomatic resolution to the ongoing conflict. that's just one of the stories controversial stories you're talking about online lively debate on our web site for you can join in and have your say r t v dot com or while you're there two children

preparing for motherhood new breastfeeding dolls you hear me right get a mixed reaction from parents as they hit the shelves in toy stores across europe and the u.s. what do you think about that is it just too early to be think you like a thing that has no teeth dot com. and the world's biggest country we need to share a unique projects underway in some papers but to create a tiny replica of russia in fine detail you need to squint to see here in our gallery in our seat of home. in the u.s. the obama administration signals it will support a short term extension of the debt ceiling if there's an agreement to cut the deficit early he welcomed across party senate proposal which includes spending cuts and tax hikes but with only two weeks left no will avoid

a looming default well let's discuss the situation about the u.s. economy we're going to washington neil strokers these are press secretary for the movement progressive change campaign committee which is talking thanks for taking the time out to be on our channels pre-shared it just recently i gather you and two hundred thousand other members of your organization pledged to refuse to donate all volunteered to obama's twenty twelve presidential campaign if he allows congress to make spending cuts but surely with such a massive deficit these painful cuts those arguing the not painful have to be made no. well you're right cuts do have to be made but it's the quite the question is where are the cuts going to come from are they come going to come from seniors and working families or are they going to come from the richest of the rich who have been benefiting from things like the bush tax cuts over the last decade so your argument is not where the cuts is where the big impose you're let me that clear. exactly you know listen the deficit is clearly

a problem and it's something we've got to do something about it but how we deal but how we deal with it how we fix that problem that's what this debate is about and you know currently you know up here in washington there's this discussion of the gang of six talks right this is a this is a deal that you know isn't going to work for a lot of seniors and working families it could lead to cuts to social security and the raising of the medicare eligibility age is going to be a real problem and and that's the last kind of place that we should be cutting and difficult economic times like these or i mean a lot of people are going to say they don't want these cuts nobody wants it on the door i guess but you know if these cuts don't go through there's a chance congress will fail to agree isn't on raising the debt ceiling before the deadline the consequences of that would be devastating surely for the country. the consequences will be devastating and that's why it's so important that progressive leaders in congress and president obama really stand strong and push towards a clean vote on the debt ceiling the last thing we need it while the deficit and

debt is important they've been important for a really long time the last thing we need to do is tie this whole debt ceiling argument to the larger deficit ceiling argument that is the time for talking out here what you say we hear what you say about the cuts as you see it the cuts being the wrong going to implement it in the wrong people but is the time for talking over. well you know that's a gets a fair question the time for talking you know it we're definitely moving towards needing to have a resolution on this but when we talk about the deficit and we talk about how we're going to we're going to cut these programs what i think back to is my my boo show he's back in chicago she's ninety years old she lives on social security cuts to social security or cuts to medicare are going to hit her directly you know it's an extremely hot summer right now in the united states cut to social security means she has to raise the temperature on her or her ac unit that's the last thing we

should be doing in times like these and what we need to be focusing on now is on dealing with our debt and deficit problem but actually making sure the richest of the rich are paying their fair share whatever these cuts as we know not everyone is going to be happy. if they do go through other going to be see see people taking to the streets like we have done in europe well i think what you're going to see and as we saw it bold progressives dot org over two hundred thousand former supporters of the president and people who who like me i worked on president barack obama's campaign in two thousand and seven and two thousand and eight we were supporters of his campaign but if he makes cuts to medicare medicaid and social security benefits two hundred thousand folks said that they simply could not volunteer or donate his campaign i think that's the kind of reaction that we're going to get across the country people are going to going to lose face in this in this president if he allows the richest of the rich to get the benefits of of this deficit talks for thirty seconds will make you the president what would you like to see done as

a way forward that would quickly within the next two weeks. well kevin i think the way i think the way we pursue it is push for clean debt ceilings talk you know we've done this countless times over the last you know thirty years thirty plus years this is not hard this is something that congress is due every time and let's have a clean up and down vote on it and push that through you know actually today members of congress are pushing around ronald reagan statement back in one thousand nine hundred seventy where he said raising the debt ceiling was the patriotic thing to do it's time for republicans and democrats to do the patriotic thing raise the debt ceiling and let's have this talk about the deficit afterwards all right see raise the debt the city is live for me in the america's aaa credit rating remains intact so of course as a result of it it doesn't told me that the country's economy is healthy and all full state. well i think we have to deal with the debt and deficit problem that's for sure but the way we deal with it is you know moving to something like

a really really popular program a congressman named jan schakowsky proposed a millionaire's tax in the gang of six plan right now we're going to raise lower the tax rates again to something like twenty nine or thirty percent the. millionaire tax plan ensures that millionaires are paying forty five percent and billionaires are paying forty nine percent these are people who are the richest of the rich we need to make sure they're paying their fair share and that's the way we can reach trillions of dollars by raising revenues and exactly that way and make sure that the working families and seniors aren't the one fitting the bill for the deficit problem. maybe you can call your luck today robin hood possibly but a nice robot move from the progressive change campaign committee. your thoughts on the program live from washington. celeb it is since the israeli army withdrew from lebanon however the consequences of the war against hezbollah and the palestinian liberation organization is still being felt members of the lebanese army who fought alongside there's really kind of say the country they've. got 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 neighbor nice to flee with the israeli army as it left lebanon for eighteen years the israelis had been fighting the palestine liberation organization and his below 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 do them fired for is hard as a world that is the didn't fight for so. there was a knitting 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. arya epstein was

a soldier at the time and says the lebanese soldiers who helped israel were left behind almost like sitting ducks. if we as 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 nash and was one of those who got out alive he'd been working with israeli intelligence helping to recruit lebanese spies i did not want to run here i wanted to die fighting but the israeli intelligence almost forced me to come i was told you know too much but the way they treat me now is a shame they forced me to run away and now they spit on my face six months ago i'm not a lawyer found for was living in a tent on the street he was hardly surviving on the few hundred dollars

a month israeli government gave him i feel ashamed. in my country that treating not only the case of four was not jim but two thousand people that remain in state in israel. the country and the state of israel are treating them like. it's a charge the government is aware of although it says it's doing its best to help them by giving cash education and in some cases although not in far as is a home. for them already eleven years. we don't have to we must go with it's very unique. it's a very unique nobody they do that there i found the cure. your name we never know but they have them. but still that treatment was not enough to stop two thirds of those who came to israel from immigrating elsewhere. 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 close to 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 next door to talks the mother on the hubble space telescope who believes despite the u.s. shuttle program winding up we're still what is the goal of major astronomy in space exploration.

the beauty of. security basically it's funding and it's a place. to think that beautiful ideas do you have a better chance than that is that aren't that pretty 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 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 how galaxies form 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 horrible and of course

that's important for we scientists and 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 fifty years now if you would go to a typical classroom in the united states and look at posters on the wall you would see pictures of dinosaurs for the first time last year pictures from hubble space telescope occurred more often than dinosaurs on the walls of the classrooms of america that is quite an accomplishment thank you children for funding to help. in fact that's true we've had servicing missions to the hubble and the last one there was a lot of questioning because. the economy was having problems and whether or not it should go ahead there were some on committees that actually recommended against the final servicing of the hubble in fact it was the american public that insisted that help was to be serviced so it could continue sending pictures for another five to

ten years be responsible for perhaps the most full facial no photographs and who really got it from point a nothing how much of a gamble was it a big gamble really i've always been a risk taker and model life when i was a child first thing i did when i got my first job after school was to deliver newspapers i saved up money and got a telescope i was interested in astronomy even at that age twelve years old first thing i did was on a dark night i took it out to see how far i could see fifty years later when i became director of the institute that operates hubble space telescope it seemed to me to do the same thing scientifically look to see just how far out that could see galaxies i was willing to take a recess and point hobble at undistinguished spot in the sky for ten

full days to see what it could see some prominent scientists were very worried about this because we did this just after hubble had been repaired for the first three years of its existence there was a flaw in the mirrors that needed to be corrected and so the american public was very upset about that hubble space telescope at the time of its launch was the most expensive scientific project in history. two and one half billion u.s. dollars very expensive and it was not working for three years the astronauts repaired it famous servicing mission very successful perhaps the greatest moment in nasa this history except for the moon landing and it was very were. reason to many people that right after the service in the mission when people had been opposed to the telescope because it wasn't working here's some crazy astronomer was going to try to see if he could image distant galaxies and they were afraid that i would

get no results and if that were true then the public would really be opposed to the telescope but i thought it was worth the scientific risk what drove you that intuition or is that is that reason in my science i do tend to rely on my intuition probably too much actually because i can point to times in my scientific career when i had a hunch we call it you suspect something and i followed it and it turned out not to be productive it's true in life that if you're going to make really interesting discoveries something that is unexpected you do need to be a risk taker and i guess i like to go for the big discovery and so i'm willing to take a risk even though the majority of the time perhaps you come up with nothing very interesting and i've certainly had some failures that turned out to be a success and i think it was definitely worth it it was a nine to five when you revolutionized the visuals of the science i mean for us for

ordinary people it was a revolution of the visuals and a science what about scientists and space researchers now can they take a chance to gamble or are the stakes too high budgets to tight. it's becoming more difficult when funding is in sure there is greater pressure to come up with a result and i think it's important for the people in the political world to fund expensive scientific projects to realize that it is important for the march of science for the march of human knowledge that a certain amount of risk taking be undertaken you also said that we're now experiencing that golden age of astronomy you still have that opinion laid. yes this extends over a period of some years 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 the space missions that we've had in the past fifteen years and the large ground based

observatories and the new technological developments that of unable to us to do things like adaptive optics supercomputers that have really advanced our understanding the strong to me if you look at the fundamental discoveries that have been made in astronomy. paul sawers quads are times. the existence of planets around other stars in the past fifteen years there's been an explosion of knowledge about things largely is due to important technological developments so they've all come together to cause this large number of discoveries that i would say really makes it appropriate to call this age a golden era of astronomy but what do you think how both crowning achievement will be i believe the crowning achievement of hubble space telescope will be the fact that it made the public aware of the universe and the fact that we can understand

it and the fact that humans are a part of the universe and evolved from it i believe that is hubble's crowning achievement. for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers.

this is our team moscow it's midnight thirty now just checking the clock for you moscow time these are all top stories media speculation points to a possible resurrection of the disc race and defunct news of the world under russian ownership the billionaire alexander remaining tight lipped about that time the british prime minister gets a grilling in parliament over its ties with disgraced news corps executives. the last remaining war crimes suspect wanted by the u.n. from the balkans conflict is captured in serbia rests its fugitive commander got and had as part of the country's latest attempt to overcome obstacles to say you membership. in tripoli will not consider gadhafi stepping down that's the position

revealed by libya's foreign minister at a meeting with his russian counterpart in moscow visiting diplomat expressed disappointment with several western countries for recognizing the opposition council's living as a legitimate government. while across the world alarming number of people die from heart disease every year next a special report coming up traces the connection between those grim statistics and what's in the food we eat every day. you're not born with a biochemistry or psychology degree so every second of your existence from birth to graduation people make decisions for you what you do what you wear what you learn and most important you eat. as you grow older your parents obsess over paying the bills keeping everyone fed is their main priority and here's the problem they come home from a long day of work and exhausted they fix you dinner what is it processed food why

because it's quick and they've been convinced it's good for you. when they need a babysitter who becomes your new best friend the television and as you watch the t.v. you see all those food commercials with slogans like good for the little keyboard elves who are constantly telling you how great their products are. one day you wake up and you're twenty five what happened to all those years by now you've been thoroughly branded by the food and chemical companies. all of your daily food purchases are made in accordance with how you feel about the products you consume for example. heinz ketchup and nothing else you drink your favorite soft drink a bit chilly everyone has a favorite snack food. or restaurant. you have come to believe that betty crocker.