any body in the united kingdom in london my constituency that actually wants to contribute to the continued existence of the hero because i think it's a stupid idea to start with and it's just chucking money down the drain pulling the plug on those states could trigger a chain reaction. greece believe investors could no longer to avoid quitting the euro. that in turn will spork the exits of portugal even italy and spain. ireland the board everybody said ok the bug is going to stop there over the last couple of weeks we saw that also. spain over germany italy with germany started to go all europe's top banks hold billions of euros greek and poor did if those countries go bust they could lose their money. we might see

scenarios like a bank. that means that people will run to the bank. in order to withdraw their deposits because they believe the bank might not be able to pay them the euro is facing an existential crisis admits german chancellor angela merkel that's raising tension across the globe. at the moment the most visible the most obvious in the eurozone problems but on the other side of the atlantic you have the u.s. economy not in the session but showing some very weak economic figures and suffering as well. be you leaders could sign the death warrant for the single currency if they fail to halt the spread in europe experts fear public panic will take over denying them control. see brussels karl denninger editor of the financial market taker dot org says greece should be allowed to fail and those have been reckless enough to buy their bonds suffer the consequences. the

reality is that you will own money to pay rent risks lose their investment it happens every day trying to prevent that from happening simply makes the distortion worse and creates a bigger problem that then has to be faced at a later date you can kick the can down the road to an extent but you're not actually fixing anything well when it comes to greece what they need to do is allow greece to fall they'll leave the euro go back to the garage the value the currency and the people who own them that them money and bought those bonds lose a significant part of their investment the bond market is already trading as if that's happened. stay with us here on r t still ahead this hour a new egypt but same old problems reshuffled cabinet sworn in we asked whether the new government will calm those still calling for change plus. just imagine this piece is about four and a half billion years old like the earth space rocks but it's passion for cosmic

collecting or just pursuit of profit we explore what lies behind that meteorite you've are spreading through central russia. first though investigations into phone hacking case that's rocking the u.k. are growing by the day with ever more questions being asked of key figures in political media and police circles as a scandal intensifies its impact threatens careers across the board archie's lore amid reports on how the case continues to haunt not just rupert murdoch but prime minister david cameron as well. some made chip pains in the news hacking scandal may be well playing but at the moment that's still standing despite pull off to pull threatening to smash them out of the game in the frame but as someone once famously said i'm enjoying this so. british prime minister david cameron one set of this is that i was humbled and i think the murdoch's chiefs of global news

empire and news corp also implicated the police accused of taking but where will the next strike come in the phone hacking scandal and who lent up the big turkey. there's been a large amount of fingers in isn't just the kind of heads in the sand and that is lethal for a prime minister and he's now in a real fight here isn't a real but really bad situation he could well be looking at some serious consequences very at the very least the stuff still around him fancy a flutter on the much of the century betting shops its last day old son cameron being the. first m.p. to full over hacking. and we've seen cameron over the last few weeks fall from one hundred to want to be the next cabinet member to leave to forty one years and he just slightly crept up again to five to one today as a result of his statements in the house earlier where we thought he gave quite a good performance the murdoch's may have dodged bullets coming from every

direction from m.p.'s but it was someone not even in the game who hit the eighty year old kingpin right in the face with a phone despite profuse apologies to victims of his own newspaper's unethical behavior he had no intention of stepping down. what's less clear is whether david cameron remains the best person to lead britain out of this crisis of confidence it's cameron's arch rival ed miliband who believes he's got the skittle shaking and he's eyeing up a spare that will see the whole lot come crashing to the ground so the country can have the leadership we need why why doesn't he do more why doesn't he do more than give a half apology and provide the four apology now for hiring mr cool center and bringing him into the heart of downing street. commentators say to pin spotted machine has

placed the prime minister on a firmer footing following wednesday's game in the house of commons but the match is still far from won you know. he is damaged before. he was beginning to develop the. camera because none of that sort of damage that would actually stop him the scandals forced resignation school grounds top executives at news corp the u.k.'s two most senior police officers many are asking if the prime minister will be next to find himself lying face down in the gully david cameron's promised a full. apology if it turns out and was lying to him about his involvement in thing hacking but some say that. when they see a long way from not it's far from clear who can survive the frame still to come and remain standing at the top of the media the police and the government.

know where and it's all it's the. dave celadon a communications director for the u.s. and geo free press says we've only seen the tip of the iceberg in this crisis there's been a very cozy relationship between media and government throughout western democracies it's no less true in the united states that it is in the u.k. . and what we've what we've seen is is sort of a laying bare of that relationship in a way that that everybody suspected but now we now we can see that it's the that our suspicions are proven true the only surprise would be if there weren't more surprises and there is suspicion that something similar or to a lesser or greater extent has been happening in the united states if in fact it is found that the allegations that news corp properties were looking for looking to hack the telephones of nine eleven family victims or victims' families that is

going to be a storm the likes of which you've never seen in the u.s. . serbia's expecting progress on its bid to join the e.u. after the arrest of war crimes suspect gore and how is it that had been a key hurdle on the road to membership that still needed clearing had such may be extradited to the hague on saturday r.t. sara for reports from the serbian capital belgrade. whilst the government's very much to the west the public opinion actually does this quite significantly now the last time i was in both grade at the end of last year i spoke to the deputy prime minister hen i asked him why there's still such a government drive to membership and he said that they would see this as a chance for serbian people to have a normal life well the people here in serbia only have to look at what's happening right now in greece in spain in italy to see that quite clearly even membership is not going to be the answer to all our country's problems now as to

that they're also a very disillusioned with the government's policies and the way that they've handled this whole partnership and dealings with the e.u. they feel the sub is being made to jump through hoops and while stepha filling all these the monster to put on them by the this thing gets very little in return. and what it usually gets it had nothing whatsoever. got many many more hoops to jump over before you can get anywhere close to. the e.u. has always linked. membership with the full cooperation with the hague and we've already heard from president padgett that he feels that they have felt the moral and legal obligations to the hague so it's going to be very interesting not see with this latest arrest of had it whether or not the e.u. is going to sell not just with words but with action stocks it seems that with the

arrest serbia really has cooled brussels blup. brussels is not going to fulfill the promises it gave serbia and the you wish list more and with the arrest of had situ according to steven car got a bitch from the storable project. the list of demands. is truly people to the wall. one by one in. serbia. to the european union for him to give. me a new source of funding to. serbia's economy. human sacrifices made so far over. all shows that about sixty percent of the serbs are. skeptical of the e.u. many have relatives abroad and are getting the picture things are.

sure they're seeing and they're also occasionally he successfully concealed or. even the most skillful. is committing the population. in the. placating. something. the c.s. think about anyway. this story is sparked interest on the forum where many of our top stories are always up for discussion you can log on enjoying it r.t. dot com and also find these. delivery with a difference in the lion's den as of owner has pledged to spend five weeks with his family of big cats hopefully he won't be their lunch but rather their midwife lots of the passion and fashion are running high in st petersburg as the dozens of glamorous contestants don their ideals for get this one hundred meter dash find out what prize the girls were chasing at our teeth dot com.

in egypt a new cabin it's been sworn in after former president mubarak was ousted by a revolution in february but protesters still remain in cairo's tahrir square demanding faster reforms from the ruling military former egyptian deputy foreign minister and now a professor at american university in cairo dr abdullah. says little has changed since mubarak's departure. in fact had disappointed many of the people because they were waiting for the government unfortunately this government was coming to catch up. pacifying the portions of the. people. who really harper's the people now talking about mubarak as too much better than that they used to be losers and this in fact. is confused he doesn't

know how to get our with us so this is why i'm still appealing to the middle council not to lose more time because now after six months. nothing is too much better than we expected before we have to find out. a model for security because. people now. no confidence between the people and it's going to. turn now to some other stories making headlines across the globe the u.s. has announced it will send aid to famine hit somalia but only if assured deliveries won't be hindered as they pass through islamised militant controlled areas the un has declared a state of famine in southern somalia where nearly four million people are in danger of starvation a devastating drought has caused the crisis said to be the worst to hit the region in decades it's estimated the stricken country needs more than one of the half billion dollars in aid. for elderly kenyans have been given legal permission to sue

the british government government over alleged atrocities committed during colonial times claimants allege they were systematically abused in special camps set up to crush them out rebellion against the british rule the foreign office says it should not be held responsible for the actions of the colonial administration. and a crowd of thousands. as gathered to welcome home a space shuttle for the very last time as atlantis touched down from the international space station marking the end of an era it marks the end of the thirty years of shuttle travel which were of wood during which two were destroyed in flight with the loss of fourteen astronauts after its thirty third expedition atlantis will be put on display at the kennedy space center all travel to and from space will now depend on russia until new alternatives are developed likely several years off. from one space landing to something rather larger falling from the cosmic beyond locals in central russia rizana region have found tons of meteor

fragments sparking more than a little excitement on a boy coach occurred took her chance to catch a fallen star. they don't believe in aliens so the time machine but they do spend most of their time looking for extraterrestrial matter that will take them billions of years back in time most meteorite hunters in russia do it for profit but some still see it as their way of heat hiking through the galaxy. this is the oldest matter you can hold in your hands there is a theory that meteorites are part of planets core just imagine this piece is about four and a half billion years old like the earth this valley about three hundred kilometers east of moscow is their latest pitstop about ten thousand years ago the local fields took a have a pounding from an audience shower creating the most fertile meter a ground in central russia is this covering two thousand was a pure accident. a few ditches were dug kid to help with the draining off to

excavate his left a local resident was passing by he noticed a rather strange rock and picked it up the rug lay idly in his bomb for two years until the store program brought me to write some t.v. and sent it in for testing. but then the next few years about to be tons of meteoric material was discovered here some of the unlikely help of the donation he's on our staff he's the only dog in russia trying to hunt for rocks from other planets in many ways meteorite hunting is a lot like gold digging you have to spend weeks and the wild hoping for a stroke of luck but in today's prices searching for these acts trying to wrestle rocks can be more profitable than even the good old gold fever marchionne no lou and i meteorites we are in high as the month can cost two or even three times the weight in gold the biggest findings usually gravitate to the united states and

western europe where most me to write collector is a base and while russia gaza law expert effects are terrestrial rocks ten percent of their value must be paid to this. still some delish try and dodge the meter right tax base for toll on hall was uncovered earlier this year at a moscow airport on its way illegally to the czech republic for some of their fallen stars but for others meteorites are increasingly becoming a blazing hot new commodity. art scene. and up next r.t. sophie shevardnadze discussed the prospects of economic cooperation between paris and moscow with the french president's special representative to russia stay with us here at r.t. . after

the last special representative of the french president on cooperation on russian french business relations thank you very much for being with us today so you come to russia every fifteen days what is your primary mission but when you're on your golf you my first mission given by presidents are cozy in line with president medvedev is to report and scope out the establishment of your russian economic zone

and the second part of this mission is to strengthen economic cooperation in all possible areas between our countries. now you have responsibility also developing the trade between french france and russia which sectors of the russian economy do you think are most attractive for business leaders in france. yes your one year today for france it is of course more materials in trade we have gas oil is essential but there is much more. alstom is doing with transmission holding building locomotives for export. the world look at what's on offer us doing in the pharmaceutical area we cooperate in many new technological areas and today these areas are multiplying because we are in the heart of russia's modernization plan and french companies can offer quality technology and so for us we want to be interest are many not only wrong materials which remain essential including a nuclear sector in which we can cooperate more deeply. well in talking about. the good sides of the modern ization and present inventive has criticised the

investment climate in russia do you see improvement the poor they call shihab. i see huge progress myself i've been working with russia for many years and i believe we are wrong when seeking to teach lessons to russia today russia is twenty and the progress to date has been huge and president medvedev invited me to putin have done huge work we see it the changes are profound to put it simply on our side we are not always very aware of that firstly you need to read russian which is not common and secondly you need to come more often to russia so we also need to open our minds there is still much to do however your leaders the president and your prime minister say it at the st petersburg forum the roadmap was clarified or that the investment climate is much better today look at the business flow between us the big french groups are present for example vinci who are doing the motorway link between moscow and st petersburg today we are developing cooperation on power

generation on the sides of the st petersburg summit we signed with e.d.f. to equip and i would say to provide electricity to the city of tomsk we build parts for a.d.'s for airbus in the records going siberia so there are multiple areas of cooperation the cooperation between france and russia does work. but i still want to ask you if someone like you doesn't come to russia every fifteen days just the business community in general outside of russia do they still have the old stereotype. russia is all here if you speak with the presidents of big french groups present in russia they are very happy to be here and they want to develop their business those who are not here yet often house of a priore and we have i have to say that in western europe not only in france a problem with our media who do not know russia well and russia should communicate more also there are old stereotypes of the progress achieved is not reflected in media. why why is. pretty traders very biased in the west russian

media. i think their image of russia is based on the past from fifteen or twenty years ago they do not come to russia often and often doesn't russia communicate actually quite little to us on what internal changes are taking place we have to deal with our days with ideas and perceptions which are wrong and this i believe is an important subject this is a blocking point we often speak about big groups or think about the numerous small and medium sized companies in russia and in france many are already cooperate i would we could do much more in this area. how will the french business that you bring to russia help diversify the economy. today you are in the middle of a modernization drive in russia be it in transport water or electricity distribution in aeronautics in health at the laboratories level in high tech and by the way you have school which is a big success many companies e.d.s. alterman students and often but also american german and many others are present so

we can help our technology transfers in many areas but also this year we'll be calling to north caucasus to actually evaluate its potential investment in north caucasus. alpine curious about tourism expertize figure in your approach we. are he yes and i believe that russia took a very good decision which is the want to try to stabilize and ensure better security in this area through economic development and both presidents president made the president. on the sides of the g eight meeting joint declaration on this yes with. russia chose parents as a main supplier not exclusive but main to try to establish ski resorts and develop the area coastline but this is a huge project led by mr billow president of north caucasus resorts were taking a visit with me snowboarding and i believe that the best on tours development will prove to have been the right one to create jobs give people hope and as well you

increase security which also comes through economic development we are going to take part in this event your security is the first time you will because north caucasus we yes for me this will be my first time in the north caucuses and i am very excited to have the chance to discover it all which is wonderful i have seen photos the french team accompanying me already knows that area is a wonderful place and i think you can develop a tourist up in the center of europe which will be very attractive to the whole world but how long do you think it actually could turn to tourism paradise because right now it's not the safest place to be or for tourism tourists to go i mean of course at expel your you know the french have experience we developed in croatia remember turkey at the very beginning when we were developing tourism in turkey the area was not safe. and the conviction of your government and your president to say that we're going to develop this area to create jobs for the young of course to ensure security the government provides guarantees for up to

seventy percent of investment but it's still taking a chance it's the right decision to develop this area so that is what needs to be done. and i thank you very much for this interview. thank you. forty two thousand americans die each year accidents thousand. seven hundred thousand people. and thirty two thousand will kill themselves cancer in all its forms kills five hundred sixty thousand of us here part disease is even more devastating it kills over eight hundred seventy thousand americans every year. wealthy british.

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three thirty am in moscow these are your r.t. headlines european leaders hammer out a deal on a second bailout for greece worth one hundred ninety billion. heroes at a crunch summit in desperate bid to save the single currency private lenders will also be contributing for the first time which states rescue to the tune of thirty seven billion while they use emergency fund for dead stricken nations will be increased. meanwhile the e.u. troubles don't deter aspiring states from hoping to join as serbia prepares to extradite more prime putin to fugitive how does it to the hague and its latest attempt to become a member of the op. ed investigations into the u.k.

phone hacking scandal intensify with even more political figures coming under scrutiny in the public betting on who the case might bring down. up next do you really know what you're eating coming up in our special report stay with us. you're not born with a bio chemistry 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 and the pillsbury doughboy are safe and friendly. your internal dialogue rationalizes these products can be dangerous otherwise some government agency would put a stop to it.