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 they couldn't comment and this was the first that they had heard of this story but we are still waiting to see whether himself will come out and. deny that it's. a 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 and he calls and 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 strong horse story bigger reminds me of how dr david kelly was bumped off a 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 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 shore 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 whistleblowers 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 views international the. 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 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 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. . of course your view always welcome on our story should know if you. and i were asking what you think will be the biggest fallout from the u.k. phone hacking scandal is avoid telling us so far most of you merely forty percent believe. the most given the more powerful force of you believing tonight the. casualty just citizen journalism blogging about it just beyond that is the view that the u.k. government for all over the other six of you mean time believe the fallout will be wait for an epic movie based on the story you've got a point. something promoted by fox out of course rupert murdoch. have your say. serbia has fulfilled the final demands of the u.n. war crimes tribunal for the former yugoslavia extra ation serb leader got and had

each has been arrested after seven years on the run he's accused of atrocities during creation's war for independence from yugoslavia in the early ninety's ranging from murder to religious persecution follows the arrest of rock i'm glad it choose want of a similar crimes the detentions of the requirements of service to join the e.u. but the block is unlikely to reward the sacrifice according to balkans expert marco gas each 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 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 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 sile which has worked so far. you're watching r t live from moscow with me kevin zero in this hour ahead former allies left out in the cold. i was told you know too much but the way they treat me now is a shame they forced me to run away and now they spit on my face we need a former south lebanese soldiers who blames israel for getting those who helped fight hezbollah over a decade ago we've got his story. next though tripoli refusing to negotiate over colonel gadhafi stepping down that news was revealed indeed by libya's foreign minister during a meeting with his russian counterpart here in moscow catarina is there a visit the foreign ministry. 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 and how did 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. so ongoing story online for us about. your side to get involved with a lively debate about it on our website for what i call one of them as well you

might be interested in checking out these stories children children preparing for motherhood with new breast feeding goal getting a mixed reaction that you may expect from parents as they hit the show stores across the u.s. is it being proud to go to is it just too young to think about stuff like that it's all going from like also this to the world's biggest country. now unique project is underway in some cases but to create a tiny replica of russia everybody following the trail meet the squid the suit the . pictures for you to go home. talks have been revived to raise the u.s. debt ceiling in the eleventh hour attempt to avert default on a step into the economic unknown president obama's indoors to bar quite a bipartisan proposal from the so-called gang of six senators to reduce deficits by

nearly four trillion dollars over the coming decade negotiations come with only two weeks now before the default deadline a new senate proposal includes both spending cuts and new taxes but the roth four page draft of the plans already have over criticism as well to nail straka from the progressive change campaign committee a democrat living pressure group he told me that proposal will make the elderly pay for the mistakes of the rich rather than raise the debt ceiling. 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 listen the deficit is clearly a problem and it's something we've got to do something about it but how we deal about 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 raising of the medicare eligibility age it's 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 people who who like me i worked on president barack obama's campaign in two thousand and seven in two thousand and eight 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 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 it's eleven years since the israeli army withdrew from lebanon over the consequences of the war against hezbollah the palestinian liberation organization is still being felt members of the set of lebanese army who fought alongside those really kind of save the country they. got the story. there's only one thing for wise now jim 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 may be nice 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 shias and druze who controlled the south of the country this old lebanese army do than fried for is hard as the world that is the didn't fight

for so. there was a knitting of in the roses 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'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 into israel those who were left behind were tried jailed and sometimes killed as traitors for was an ashen 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 a man 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 dripping not only the case of four was not jim 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 followers as a home. for them already live when you. think we don't have to we must. it's very unique. it's a very unique nobody would do that where i'm from the cure. your name we never know

but they have them. at success as a kind of. 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. georgia's latest spy sagas take another twists tblisi says the three photojournalists charged with spying for russia vo confess their guilt but that is really good reports that are mounting concerns 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 georgie have the largest 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 isn't there a case has been marked as top secret and this confession is a serious victory 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 although 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 photographers started changing

their testimonies eventually three of them incriminated themselves in his pen eyes 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 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 a newspaper dhimmitude e-cards it believes these admissions of guilt show the case has been fabricated. we live in a totalitarian state today all power is concentrated in the hands of president saakashvili and if someone goes against him then 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 three photographers are being held and preliminary

detention human rights activists meanwhile. protests will hardly affect the system of power in the country other than the 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 case 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 to many ordinary people it's just the latest in a seemingly endless string of spy scandals george. it's one twenty am here in moscow next. space telescope who told us he believed despite the u.s. shuttle program it was still witnessing a golden age of astronomy and space exploration.

and. the beauty of. security basically its funding and its 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 is concerned or trying to understand the universe. is one of

those things maybe you've heard the expression. and so in fact what i see. is a picture that other people might not consider beautiful but that reveals the answer to some important question like how stars galaxies form so to a scientist. he is a totally different thing the fact that hubble produces beautiful images that children like to see is very important for the funding of hoebel 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 accomplished so thank you children for funding to help both well in fact that's true but there are 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 hubble in fact it was the american public that insisted that help those should be serviced so it could continue sending pictures for another five to ten years responsible for perhaps the most sensational photographs of the skies and who really got it from pointing hubble at 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 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 is history except for the moon landing and it was very worrisome 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 trophy is that intuition or is it 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 mage or. really 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 in ninety 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 lately yeah 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 in the new technological developments that have been able to us to do things like adaptive optics supercomputers that have really advanced our understanding of astronomy if you look at the fundamental discoveries that have been made in astronomy. paul sawers quads ours.

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.

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the grand imperial truman told us to. tell the socialist you see don't need to go clips from the sun the candle was toto as a treat. this is all around the world from central moscow thanks for watching these are all top stories for media speculation points to a possible resurrection of the disgraced and defunct news of the world russian on the show the billionaire alexander lebedev remaining tight lipped about that mean time pressure on the british prime minister who gets a grilling in parliament over his ties with disgraced news corp sec it was. the last remaining war crimes suspect wanted by the u.n. from his company. it's captured the serbian arrested fugitive commander go ahead it is part of the country's latest attempt to overcome obstacles to its membership. in

tripoli will not consider gadhafi stepping down that is the position revealed by libya's foreign minister to meeting with his russian counterpart here in moscow because the diplomat expressed disappointment with several western countries for recognizing the opposition council as it is a legitimate government. one city while i am kevin oh and thanks for being with us now while the u.s. is rapidly running out of time to deal with this debt crisis. next whether it's all about politics rather than the economy crosstalk just there. to.

welcome a cross talk i'm hearing about debt deadlock as the deadline for the u.s. to increase its debt ceiling looms would appear to be more about politics and upcoming elections than fixing a crippling problem as the u.s. courts financial disasters do americans have an appetite for are scared. to cross talk the debt impasse i'm joined by my guests in new york doug henwood he is editor and publisher of left business observer and howard gold he is a columnist for market watch and founder of the political blog the independent agenda all right gentlemen this is cross time that means you can jump in anytime you want but first let's have a look at the debate unraveling on capitol hill. just under two weeks this is how much time washington has left to race the federal debt ceiling set at fourteen point three trillion dollars and this the u.s. that steadily creeps towards its legal limit demo.