london is embassy in london during the cold war so when he started to invest in london in the u.k. some newspaper markets and water up titles the evening standard and the independent people were quite worried that he would use his influence to have a say in 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 liberty of himself will come out and. deny that. this very scandal which is a huge upset here in the u.k. has claimed the life of sean for he was the first journalist to allege that his editor at the news of the world and he calls and knew about and in fact actively encouraged hacking at his newspaper because more information about that in my

report. another political scandal erupts another whistleblower diaries sure who was the first former news of the world journalists to go on the record to alleged phone hacking was endemic at the paper and that its editor andy colson actively encouraged it who was found dead in his house on monday setting the bloke a spear into a frenzy of comparisons with the case of dr david kelly why isn't this shown here story bigger reminds me of how dr david kelly was bumped off a similar tragedies of sean horne david kelley all this madness and david can we shawn who are this what i'm thinking something's not trying 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. co-incidence kelly's body

was discovered exactly eight years before that of sean hall's 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 we're 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 short haul 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 minister has always denied the allegations the man was destroyed professionally by abuse international. journalistic world in london is a very small amount was destroyed he was well known but he was drinking tonight was taking drugs he was depressed the 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 a month. the twitter all see it's being reported as

a horrible and unfortunate coincidence but it's doubtful that if they said happened elsewhere say in russia or in india media would be so quick to accept it as a coincidence particularly in the light at the death of david kelly you were and. there is a growing belief that the scandal could even be threatening prime minister david cameron's hold on power due to his close links to top murdoch executives british blogger harry call explains why what really gave the story legs was the fact that david cameron. the then disgraced. coast and into the conservative party fota made him is director of communications now i don't think without without that kind of. legs given to the story i think it probably wouldn't have been quite as big as it is now but the fact is there's been some errors of judgment times out there in the governing conservative policy but the prime minister david cameron yes 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 then leader of the opposition david cameron didn't know about it there's been a large amount 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 really really bad situation he could well be looking at some serious consequences for himself at the very least stuff still around him. and your view is always welcome on our stories you can have your say at r.t. dot com this week we're asking you what will be the biggest fall out from the u.k. phone hacking scandal here are the results so far. most of you nearly forty percent believe that the embattled rupert murdoch will now given two more powerful competitors around a quarter believe the media itself will become a casualty of citizen journalism like blogging just behind that is the view that

the u.k. government will fall over the scandal and around the sixth believe the fall out will be an epic movie based on the story wonder if that will be something promoted by fox owned of course by rupert murdoch you have your say on that at artesia. and serbian authorities have arrested the last remaining fugitive wanted over war crimes in the former yugoslavia croatian serbia general goran hadzic was tracked down after eight years on the run before extradition to the u.n. tribunal at the hague he is accused of atrocities during croatia's war of independence from yugoslavia in the early ninety's ranging from murder to religious persecution at the head he will join other war crimes suspect they're going to arrested in two thousand and eight and rocco logic excuse me held just two months ago his capture was the final demand of the war crimes court the last obstacle in

the way of talks beginning on serbia joining the european union but some serbs like balkans expert marco don't believe that the e.u. will play ball. serbia will get in return for years against nothing whatsoever i mean the serbian serbia has got many many more hoops to jump over before he can get anywhere close to members ship 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 carrots 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 and you are with r t and still ahead for you this hour reward for support. 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 around seven thousand ex members of the defunct south lebanese army say they've been abandoned by israel they helped fight the palestinian liberation organization and hezbollah for over two decades in their own country. onto libya's former excuse me on to libya where the foreign minister says the departure of more market afy is not a subject for discussion he was speaking after meeting with his russian counterpart in moscow are. reports from the foreign ministry in moscow. 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 of whom. we should all who are who are you. should do should. which would include only being on the. car which should be in the. mood to be removed in the curfew there will be a growth. there are going to shoot from three or four records for the. very things we shouldn't turn. over to work we are sure the brochure of evolution is going to there's a rumor on 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 did 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 moammar gadhafi should step down from power but 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 of his country knows of a reporting there now into the states where talks have been revived to raise the u.s. debt ceiling an eleventh hour attempt to avert default and a step into the economic on known president obama has endorsed a bipartisan proposal from the so-called gang of six senators to reduce deficits of by nearly four trillion dollars over the coming decade. goshi ations with only two weeks before the default deadline the new senate proposals include both spending

cuts and new taxes but the roll four page draft of the plan has already faced criticism. from the progressive change campaign committee a democrat leaning pressure group says the proposal will make the elderly suffer rather than make the rich pay for their mistakes and that it should have nothing to do with raising 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 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

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 now it's time to take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world for you tonight. the u.s. government says all diplomats in syria should be allowed to travel freely around

the country following a ban imposed by the assad regime on foreign consular staff leaving the capital earlier this month the french and american ambassadors visited the town of hama angering the damascus government hundreds of thousands demonstrated afterwards in protest against the assad regime a violent security force crackdown continues with local human rights groups estimating at least sixteen hundred have been killed during four months of unrest. the space shuttle atlantis is on its way back to earth for the very last time the craft and its crew of four left the international space station and are due to land at the kennedy space center in florida early on thursday touchdown will spell the end of nasa as shuttle program after that atlantis will become a museum piece with plans to turn that the mission control room into a training facility. it's eleven years since the israeli army

withdrew from lebanon however the consequences of the war against hezbollah and the palestinian liberation organization are still being felt members of the south lebanese army who fought alongside their israeli counterparts save the country they backed has let them down artie's publicly or has 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 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 hizbollah on lebanese soil helped by the south lebanon army a militia of christians shias andrews who controlled the south of the country this old lebanese army has been fired for israel as a world that is didn't fight for so. there was

a living 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 and that's what. if we're soldiers knew little about us leaving they for sure knew even less there was some sort of selection the commanders were brought here but i'm sure if you were a driver not much was done for you. some seven thousand south lebanon army soldiers crossed into israel those who were left behind were tried jailed and sometimes killed as traitors for was an ashram 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 want 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 he was hardly surviving on the few hundred dollars a month israeli government gave him i feel ashamed. in my country they're 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 followers is a home. for them already eleven years. we don't have to we must do with it's very unique. it's a very unique nobody. from a cure. 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 feints has since become the close friends and through its bars israel's forgotten friends seem condemned if a peek at the family they're more than likely never see again policy r.t. on the israel lebanon border. talks to the man behind the hubble space telescope who believes that despite the u.s. shuttle program winding up. will be witnessing a golden age of astronomy and space exploration.

the beauty of. security basically it's funding and if. you think do you have a better chance. 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. what i see. is a picture that other people might not consider beautiful but it reveals the answer to some important question like how stars galaxies. beauty is a totally different. produces beautiful images that children like to see is very important for the funding. and of course that's important. 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 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 was to be serviced so it could continue sending pictures for another five to ten years the responsible for perhaps the most full facial no photographs of the skies and really got it from point in kabul at how much of a gamble was it

a big gamble really i've always been a risk taker in my 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 that could see galaxies so i was willing to take a recess and point at undistinguished spot in the sky for ten full days to see where. 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 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 in ninety five when you revolutionized the visuals of the signs. 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 they stakes still high budgets to tie up. it's becoming

more difficult when funding is in. 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 of that opinion lately yeah because 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 are the neighbor of 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 are those. 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 yeah 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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cool. and broadcasting live from russia's capital moscow where it is two thirty in the morning this is our club to have. gone up but certainly not forgotten media speculation points to the resurrection of the disgraced standard defunct news of the world under russian ownership but billionaire alexander lebedev with maine tight lipped about the subject. the last remaining war crimes suspect wanted by the u.n. from the balkans conflict is captured as serbia arrests its fugitive commander. it's part of the country's latest attempt to overcome. to its e.u.

membership big. and a tripoli will not consider khadafi stepping down that's the position revealed by libya's foreign minister at a meeting with his russian counterpart in moscow and all across the world an alarming number of people die from heart disease every year our special report coming up traces the connection between those grim statistics and what's in the food we eat every day. everybody eats food and we all have our favorites here in america is abundant so we

take it for granted. think about the food you eat what do you know about it where does it come from how is it made. me eating before corporations were relentlessly marketing foods to us. this film is not just about food it's about the changes in our food supply the changes in the quality of our food. as a nurse i work in hospitals one thing remains the same throughout the mall there are too many sick people. it seems all diseases are on the rise. how many people do you know with heart problems diabetes. the hospitals are full and there's not enough nurses to properly take care of them all. the quality of our food is decreasing and the number sick people are increasing there has to be a connection. the majority of americans are overweight and at the same time malnourished.