the officer who worked in the soviet embassy in london during the cold war so when he started to invest in london in the u.k. some 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 that just 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 has been a huge upset here in the u.k. has claimed the life of sean paul he was the first journalist to allege that his news of the world and he calls and knew about it and in fact actively encouraged

hacking at his newspaper there's more information about 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 blogosphere 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 sean 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 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 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 cause former editor andy

colson who later became a media director to the current prime minister has always denied the allegations but the man was destroyed professionally by views international. journalistic world in london is a very small amount was destroyed he was well known but he was drinking two months 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. so you thought only

amongst the twits are 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're and it's . and there's a growing belief that the scandal could be threatening prime minister david cameron's hold on power due to his close links to top murdoch executives british blogger gary cole explains why what really gave the story legs was the fact that david cameron to the then disgraced. coast and into the conservative party for the made in his director of communications now i don't think without without that kind of bat 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 it turns out. the governing conservative party but the prime minister david cameron yes again his

chief of staff has been shown to be essentially instigating a cover up about the connections because in have to do the phone hacking and making sure that the prime minister and 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's 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. of course your view is always welcome on our stories you're going to have your say at our tea dot com this week we're asking you what will be the biggest fallout from the u.k. phone hacking scandal here's what you're telling us so far. most of you nearly forty percent believe that the embattled rupert murdoch will now give in to more powerful competitors around a quarter believe the media itself will become a casualty to citizen journalism like blogging just behind that is the view that

the u.k. government will fall over the scandal and around a sixth believe the fallout will be an epic movie based on the story i wonder if that would be something promoted by fox own of course by rupert murdoch have your say and hearty dot com. serbian authorities have arrested the last remaining fugitive wanted over war crimes in the former yugoslavia in the one nine hundred ninety s. ex croatian serb general who was traced after eight years on the run and is charged with atrocities stemming from his war of independence his capture and imminent delivery to the war crimes court in the hague was the last obstacle in the way of talks on serbia's path to e.u. membership artie's furthest more from belgrade. he led the insect to school says during creations ninety nine to one thousand nine hundred ninety five were the independents yugoslavia he was detained near his family home to the north of

belgrade and we saw just how it is off to his arrest this being quote here in belgrade a creep is x. addition to the hay he's the last of the wall prime suspect that is being still by the hague and he's being charged with fourteen counts and will cry in succeeding the murder that's funded is known serbian but now this is really seen as a very important that. this is always the main part of the e.u. in that talks about potential the kind of just see what we membership and as he said the last war crime suspects the arrests to be seen a number of these other arrests happening in two thousand and eight and just less than two months ago we had the arrest. president said it's already said that it investigates being working extremely hard to track down these people and a big stepping stone for them and what they see could be at the ten chill to wait

to the full even membership in the i did that now with this latest arrest the east getting to welcome serbia with has been said by many people to be a little bit naive that a number of stumbling blocks remain not least in the public opinion amongst the serbian people that the serbian government has been bending over backwards to comply with the hague and they've really to see the hague be quite violent in the way that they treat the thing it's always they feel pointing in this direction that really quite this illusion with president but it says policies now remember parliamentary elections coming up just next year the i did that problem say will be solved by membership to the greedy now it's seen as the polls. serbian balkans expert marco gas which doesn't believe that you will play ball and granting membership even though the last war crimes suspect has been handed over. will get

in return what it usually gets it has nothing whatsoever in the serbian has got many many more hoops to jump over before you can get anywhere close to you 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 you want it it's not your leaders really just a cold as 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 which has worked so far libya's foreign minister says the departure of moammar gadhafi is not a subject for discussion he was speaking after meeting with his russian counterpart

here in moscow but he's cut to the nose of a reports from the foreign ministry here 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 to mean what. we should all who are who are you. should do should. which would include only. on the. car which should be in the. movie to be removed in their courage their will to be able. to the earth to shouldn't will for procuring over the course of the. very

things we shouldn't turn. over the world we're sure. is going to it isn't going to the order is 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 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. talks have been revived but the deadlock remains over the u.s. debt ceiling with barack obama meeting democratic allies and republican foes to discuss ways out of the crisis there's been some movement after the president

backed a bipartisan proposal from the so-called gang of six to reduce the deficit by nearly four true. in dollars over the coming decade negotiations come with only two weeks before the default deadline the new senate proposal includes both spending cuts and new taxes but the role for page draft of the plan has already faced criticism. from the progressive change campaign committee 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 or 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 afterwords. it's eleven years since of 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 say the country they backed has let them down artie's policy or has the story. there's only one thing for ys 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 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 to do than fight for israel as a world that is there than fired for self. there was a living in the 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. area 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 solved lebanon army soldiers crossed into israel those who were left behind were tried jailed and sometimes killed as traitors for was imagine 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 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 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 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 as 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 the jews that i found the 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 by 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 good feints has since become 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. next to the man behind space telescope

who believes despite the u.s. shuttle program. we're still.

the beauty of. security basically it's funding and if. you think. you have a better chance than that that is 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 beauty. 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. he 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 both well in fact that's true with their 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 responsible for perhaps the most full facial no photographs of the skies and who really got it from point in kabul at nothing 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 out that could see galaxies so i was willing to take a recess and point. 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 servicing 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 truly 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 deaf. only worth 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 of 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 enabled 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's qualls 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 her. 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 part of the universe and evolved from it i believe that is hubble's crowning achievement. for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get a human voice ceased to face with the news makers.

broadcasting live from moscow or to six thirty in the morning this is sean thomas. headline. russian billionaire alexander lebedev expresses interest in buying at the news of the world shot by media tycoon rupert murdoch over phone hacking scandal has involved the british prime minister david cameron you're given a grilling in parliament over his ties with the disgraced news corp executives. serbia has captured the last outstanding suspect being sought for war crimes in the yugoslav conflict in the one nine hundred ninety s. the expected extradition of go on to the hague should now pave the way for talks on

serbia joining the european union but some down this will ever become a reality. colonel gadhafi is a resignation is not an option according to the libyan foreign minister speaking after a meeting with his russian counterpart in moscow russia has again reiterated its willingness to become a mediator going from. the man heading the russian direct investment fund. just where high tech and innovation investment is to come from as part of president medvedev economic modernization drive our interview show spotlight is next right here on r.t. .

hello again you're welcome to spotlight the show on art. today my guest in the studio is killed in the media at the world economic forum in st petersburg president meet the midfield to launch an investment fund aimed at healing the country's economy with borrowed money innovative businesses and high tech manufacturers stand among the main recipients of the promised karishma to fulfill them bushes go the president sent one of the iconic figures are dressed invest in the market to spur the process but where will the money be coming from here's the head of the russian direct investment fund kid he'll meet the. recently created russian direct investment.