the norwegian state secretary christian made a comment he said there are still people in the buildings at the moment he declined to elaborate more on but he also said the situation is the worst his country has seen no i just want to pick up as well you started your report there by saying bring some arrests of the airports not just wanted to clarify correct you what you witnessed some arrests where you are yes we've seen arrest at the airport airport is extremely busy you've got to or it's there coming from around. and around the your union from russia ports and other countries around the world this is a bustling airport and there definitely lots of tourists people coming home that are just being greeted to this sort of uncertainty of what's going on and the information is definitely they are being presented with points in the airport but still a lot of people here aren't quite sure what's going on the light of the police and people being arrested outside definitely something that has been quite amusing for lots of people that are at the airport now. talking to people obviously around you

there what is the feeling there. the feeling is just absolute uncertainty i mean you know you come to an airport you come on your holiday you're coming back home and this is first thing you're going to be thinking about this is definitely something that's absolutely rocking the capital rocking the country people that told the rental car agencies to stay away from the center at all costs blocked off there's no way you're going to be able to get to your hotels or anything like that because of course there is an explosion it's just brought one definitely more state media saying that possibly another solution happened is well so there is just a lot of uncertainty and people are being told to just absolutely avoid the center . to bring us what you know we'll come back to you little bit later if we thank you very much well just to recap again what we know so far. said to be so you for calling to media reports we heard the report just now one government official saying it's the worst situation. norway has faced that's

a quote from him at the moment we're also hearing that people are trapped in those buildings if you take a look at those pictures i guess it's not surprising scenes of complete devastation well discuss the situation further now let's go live to london and then we're joined by robin simcox he's from the geo political research group the henry jackson society mr simcox thanks for being on our to international or your organization has got a keen interest hasn't it in issues surrounding terrorism it's not been confirmed this is a terrorist attack yet there's been suggestions it is a bomb however i mean the past scandinavian countries were traditionally known as pace for what we all remember of course those two blasts in stockholm last december now all these lows when they hit what is going on here and could there be any connection to think well i think the first thing to say is that you're right we don't want to get ahead of the story we don't know that this is for example al qaeda inspired terrorism yet but we do know as you mentioned the islam is an inspired bombing that took place in stockholm last year an e-mail sermon by the

fact that there was also we suspect has been targeted before in two thousand and nine a cell was arrested coordinated arrests that arrests also took place in the u.k. and in america about a potential al qaeda cell looking to attack in those countries as the. jew to be indicted in fact in the coming weeks on those charges so there is a theme we're seeing here car bombs which at the moment hasn't been confirmed bill is suspected possibly been used in these attacks also used car bombs force there are potential trends we're beginning to see with. related attack by i think it's too early to confirm that always heavily involved of course in nato military come planes including afghanistan libya could have any connection there. well this is being talked about there's also been reference made to the fact that norway reprints of the mohammed cartoons the danish cartoons these are all of course

possible motivations but what we have to say is that that doesn't excuse for one second the terrorist violence i think that has to come up point where you say we don't care what the root cause is this kind of violence is completely unacceptable and it must be stopped over recent years a very high particularly in the west what do you think the state of alert was in norway because this is mentioned before traditionally this part of the world's been a very kind of peaceful area or what were the state of alert of breed i'm also thinking of course these arrests at the airport another public place yeah i think the european countries are on a level of awareness for al qaeda inspired attacks but norway isn't somewhere that you've regarded as being especially high target the fact that the arrests it's a place in two thousand and nine were very significant for the fact that norway was almost not on the radar before before two thousand and nine and so i think and the fact that the minister said this is the most damaging thing that's happened to

norway says it all this wasn't a country that people regarded as being especially likely to be hit which also just reconfirms that this type of terrorism is indiscriminate in who it targets and and it goes to show that really anywhere is a game target for the likes of al qaeda if it is proved who who took up this attack which is looking over your shoulder simulators pictures are coming through the disappeared again we can see the scale of destruction immediately apparent there with the camera got the first shots we'll go back to those pictures in just a moment. there have been a number of arrests lately of people linked to al qaeda in norway do you think the country has become a hub for supporters of the extremist organization. it's hard to say it's because the whole of all you would say is that we know there are extremist elements within european countries and those who sympathize with the ideology even if not the full members of the al qaeda group the city i live in london has been a huge problem for this in the past so i think you have to do is that all european

countries have to have to you have to treat this problem with extreme seriousness it does because you've been terrific police the security services law enforcement agencies generally tracking this kind of terrorism and he takes one group one individual to be lucky once and you have to kind of scenes that we're seeing in oslo at the moment so all we can do is really talk about the most vigilant approach we possibly can this kind of terrorist threat because it is so serious problem just across the news was they were talking a few more details coming in of course everything very sketchy at the moment no one drawing any any big conclusions but we do know that norwegian state secretary christian edmonson said that there are still people in the buildings there you can see the scale of devastation is there he's looking over your shoulder we showing our viewers the latest pictures we've got through he declined to see more about that but he has gone on to say the situation quote is the worst his country has seen such as the scale of what some folding here you mentioned just now about the

prophet mohammed cartoons that have been reprinted a little while back in norway no again there are conflicting reports about whether this was a car bomb or whether this went off inside the building inside the building that could have been we think the same building that housed the tabloid paper that published those mohammed cartoons anything more to say about that. nothing really to say the most important thing you have to say is that i think the freedom of press freedom of speech in europe has to be absolutely fundamental to the cartoons perhaps were offensive to some people but of course. we don't legislate against causing offense and certainly the idea that building building should be targeted in response for publishing cartoons. i think like minded people would agree on but so while this may be something that cited as a reason why this is targeted i think the idea of attacking freedom of speech

freedom of the press should make us realize what kind of poisonous ideology al qaeda and those that they inspire have this is these are very fundamental freedoms that being attacked when when journalists and these kind of buildings come under attack from the lights when we must be really steadfast against us all right robin simcox thank you for bringing us up to date with your thoughts the research fellow as you are joining us live from london thank you. of course you can follow this latest as well on twitter feed to underscore com as well so look some other news now and major u.s. credit agency says it will downgrade the greek debt to default status as a result of the second bailout for the country the plan agreed by your leaders includes both government and private loans totaling around one hundred fifty billion euro the move is boosted the single currency for now but critics say it's only plunging the struggling eurozone into an even deeper debt hole in the future r t during a bushels got the details from brussels for you. they're putting

a brave face on it question remains how much can we believe what they are saying germans have come out jungle medical same this is a significant step this package is very good for europe as a whole and good for germany and it is. historic duty she said to greece now that we've seen the. income vince that europe will emerge stronger from this crisis. there was no. solution to this and it will take successive difficult and different steps of the crisis european stock markets have rallied on the news that is the usual reaction to such packages they lost around the week before slipping back his pledge as you say to work to bring greece is the level to default is the strengthening calls here for a new european credit rating agency but the real problem of course is that it

doesn't tackle the issue of the unsustainable some call it that. euro zone states so greece people protesting against the really very painful cuts that are being imposed on it just last week italy passed a very difficult package which has been met with fury by the italian people who are threatening all sorts of very difficult very initial reaction from them and called to go from is bad to quit when he. proposes which are rejected by that country's parliament and there are fears that spain will be next so a lot of concerns around europe but the experts here are stressing that the rest of the world continue to go all in and countries like india china even latin america will continue perhaps to take the growth of the world economy on its own shoulders and really help to compensate for the problems here in europe something that is really being stressed increasingly by analysts here in brussels. he's doing

a bushel for all of the sky tional the state of the european economy we're joined live now from germany by william and the author of gods and money william good to have you on the program so another bailout for greece then but it's still far from out of the woods yet isn't it i mean what do you think the outcome of this really going to be at the end of the day will it be default. well that this whole question of default as you know is a very technical one i think the american rating agencies really are making fools out of themselves rushing to declare a credit default situation fitch is and it was a big quake wasn't didn't show much confidence in what they're trying to do in europe well there's a second problem they are not the ones who declare credit default the eye of the international swap he was association is the body that trusted with that responsibility and they haven't declared any such thing so i think what we're witnessing here and the hedge funds attacks about a week ago on the italian banks the downgrading of greece at critical moments over

the past year and a half is really in effect a large scale currency war between the two contending currencies for world reserve currency status the euro and of course now the dollar is the world's reserve currency has been since bretton woods in one thousand nine hundred four and that is is really beginning to teeter and so i think you have really a very complex scenario here the european solutions are not in the long term lasting solutions the politicians in europe really i think have been largely naive about what they're up against with the combined might of what i call the gobs of money they wall street mega banks and the rating agencies that lock into them as well as u.s. treasury and the fed so this is this is a turf war that's going to be fought on a bloody and brutal battle plain over the coming months i think. brings into focus doesn't it although greece is in a bit of a rest by brings into focus spay and it's only

a political now thoughts about that now facing similar problems it's only maybe how do we avoid the viral spread of this debt disease. well i think the main problem is that the european banks have to in some way or another become recapitalize and on a more solid foundation and until the politicians really address that and they've been dragging their feet over the last year and a half two years really recognizing how serious some of the some of the banks are in the european space. that happens i think it's always going to be over the next months vulnerable to new speculative attacks and that's certainly what the people on the other side of the atlantic are simply licking their chops over so it's difficult to know is know what the future is going to bring things change and by the by the day but the broad picture a lot of people looking ahead to the future is saying that if the european economy does fail it could open the way for managing economies like china and india to spread their influence further is that

a fair assumption. i don't see the european economy. sinking if that's what you said. i think the compared with the american economy the european economy is the picture of health i mean we still see industry infrastructures state of the art modern rail links across europe and the steel industry automobile electronics and so forth the situation on the real economy in europe is vastly healthier than it is in the united states what europe needs is the markets of eurasia from from eastern europe to russia. to central asia china the middle east northern africa and that's really the economic future of europe the stronger those ties become the more stable the currency will be the i think the real problem is in the medium term is going to be the american dollar and the debt . the astronomical rate of increase of the of the public debt in the united states that's simply veering out of control and that's going to become the focus of the

markets in the next few months you have a lot more to come on that certainly over the next few weeks of your help as well thanks your insight always good to have in the program with a man down there well for gobs of money joining us from frankfurt germany tonight. i was eager to know what you think about all the stories we cover today actually we're asking who do you think will win most of the euro crisis right now this is what you've been telling us opinions divide it seems the majority of you still sure it will be george soros and his financial cronies who will reap the rewards of the troubles a quarter of you believe china will cash in by buying up. increase in the last hour or two in those if you believe in the u.s. will benefit most with demand for its bonds climbing higher than ever. this only one percent think the european debt is themselves will come out on top it's not good for the companies is it as they can now get away with paying less you think give us your thoughts r.t. dot com have your say. media mogul rupert murdoch seems to have come through the

u.k. parliamentary hearings. the phone hacking scandal relatively unscathed but he now faces legal challenges in the u.s. with a frenzy over his employees unethical behavior is taking a different turn many americans say the embattled media empire is the nothing more than reflect national attitudes that no longer value people's privacy but is going to church account picks up the story. as the scandal over phone hacking by the murdoch media empire rages on the public and political fury has mainly focused on ruthless tabloids out of control prepared to invade people's private lives and even the dad to get the story but some say in this day and age the whole concept of privacy is falling apart and in the u.s. more rapidly than elsewhere every time you tap on your cell or click on google or use your mail service everybody's sort of just clicks through that you agree to our terms and conditions well those terms and conditions are very very heavily weighted

against you and your privacy interests and we see breaches of privacy happening in regimes all across america all across the world really in every sector surveillance is rampant but really this is all a microcosm of the biggest surveille are all which is the state there's little americans can do with the state having sweeping access to their private information access that followed the nine eleven terrorist attacks under a new law known as the patriot act asana law his privacy was taken away from him in two thousand and two when he was detained by the f.b.i. for absolutely no reason he says and scrutinized for months without charge he's response for nine years he has voluntarily documented nearly every waking hour of his life on the web he has subsequently even turned it into a form of art sealed i listen i've used so you know that over here for example you know that on sunday november twenty fourth of two thousand and seven i've used this toilet i went grocery shopping at safeway over there on october seventeenth i got

gas over here he posts copies of every debit card transaction so you can see what he bought where and when a g.p.s. device in his pocket reports his realtime physical location on a map and this is the shot he took on his way to our studio which was immediately uploaded on his website has. some says his extraordinary abandonment of his own privacy stems from the ignorance of the authorities but in the fear they decided well that guy looks a little different so he must be arab and if he's arab then he must have explosives everyone knows that that's a logic we're operating we we realize how ridiculous that logic sounds but when your country when your own country takes that on as the basis for national policy. ignorance is the basis of national policy is a pretty scary situation and that's how i got caught up in it for haasan piracy has become a rally of the past and he says he's not surprised that journalists or anyone else

really would use the same surveillance tactics as the state in that sense it might be of no surprise that the chief architect of the petri an act the lawyer who put it together happens to be one of murdoch's hand-picked used for board directors victim served as assistant attorney general in the bush administration and was described by some as the purveyor of the most sweeping curtailment of freedom in the u.s. since the mccarthy era at a time when corporations and the government can easily hack into people's private lives it doesn't come as a surprise when for example social networks give your personal information at companies or when other industries leave bob breaching people by the seat in the u.s. it's so widespread and people have gotten so used to it that rupert murdoch seems to be perfect art of the system rather than some special bill and with corporation has been undertaking some unique all lawful practices because here in america they

are not so unique i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t. . serbia's lost war crimes suspect go to heaven has been extradited to the hague officials about the great hope his capture and extradition will clear the way to e.u. membership but is out to serve first reports now the politicians desire for you except and says not should by the average man on the street. the last of the war crimes suspects wanted by the un is heading for the hague it's seen by many as the last obstacle to serbia now gaining. some skeptical that brussels will move the goalposts once again the government keeps. filling new demands are coming from brussels where people are not feeling any benefits from it there are actually feeling that things are becoming worse as a result. support for e.u. is dropping so there is a growing gap between the voting the borders and the government and it will

probably continue to be an official government poll just out shows support for eighty membership among serbs at its lowest ever it's nice surprise that when crease portugal italy and many more are now struggling for the people hit no longer believe that we. are going to be the. problems all show. many have relatives abroad and. things are. besides their singing and they're all indications would not be successful. but. this is a disillusionment in serbia in the government's apparent willingness to bend a bit back was easy to mons so what could be next on the easy list well another major sticking point is thought to be serbia is failure to recognize breakaway

costs of a belgrade vows that will never happen despite many member states pushing for exactly that president but it insists that serbia is moral and legal obligations have now been filled the song remains the same as. i mean it hasn't changed hasn't. as to why this. project. rest and had it. made. its. way the. thirtieth there is it is part. of the now. let me bring you have to date if you will on the developing news that a huge bomb has exploded in the very center of norway's capital oslo earlier this evening damaging parliamentary buildings including the prime minister's office so far police are saying two deaths have been confirmed at least fifteen people are

injured so far witnesses say dozens of people have been lying in the streets covered in blood the details still coming through prime minister. is said to be safe tonight a government official is reporting that the resteal people trapped in the burning buildings at the blast sites just a little bit earlier in the last hour state secretary christian amundsen said that this situation is quote the worst his country has ever seen preliminary reports suggest a car bomb blast was so powerful it blew windows up to a one kilometer radius witnesses say the little boy oil ministry building has also called fire with smoke seen rising from it there are now reports that two other devices have been found that have failed to go off police revaluate in people from the city center also reports tonight of arrests at oslo oslo's nearby airport well our correspondent has got the very latest from the heart of the blast stricken city

she's there now you can find out firsthand thoughts by logging onto our twitter feed just now she's tweeted the people have been deprived of information obviously it's early days details still coming through even passengers arriving at the airport and not being told of the events in the big city nearby communication is failing as emergency service is a struggling to bring this crisis there under control stay with us for the latest from me as i get the details in from her on twitter at r.t. underscore com. all right let's catch up with the latest business now. welcome to business r.t. rupert murdoch's news corp has sold its seventy nine percent stake in russia's biggest doubt to advertiser news outdoor sells advertising on billboards public transport and other services in ninety russian cities the investor and management by a deal is said to be worth three hundred fifty million dollars experts say the real value is close to two hundred seventy two company debt news corp has had

a stake up for sale for five years after the company decided to pull out of the russian markets new owners say they plan an i.p.o. to recoup their investment in a very quick look at the markets now crude is up as investors hope for growing demand the middle to ms and europe and the us will deal with the debt crises also the international energy agency says it won't extend the release of oil supplies u.s. markets now where they are mixed the dow is disappointed by caterpillar a second quarter result the stock is six percent. european stocks are trading in the black at the close of friday's session supported by the greek deal the new bailout helped cut the country's debt by six leaders of the e.u. empowered their four hundred billion euro rescue fund to buy debt and stressed euro nations that's intended to prevent the crisis from spreading to other members also made to tell provisions for limiting the damage if credit rating agencies the greek default and this is the closing picture for the russian markets both mixed and flat

the obvious up point two percent let's take a look at the main movers and energy shares we're feeling better than the market obviously on the world prices rosneft up one point nine percent financials were not as good down two percent not overtax managed to gain one point eight percent at the close on reports it's in talks on the purchase of a twenty five percent stake in germany's third largest gas. or story a positive open today on the back of their. eurozone package fresh aid package for greece approved yesterday and today we've seen their range bound trading within up more translate now of the last the market currently is looking and resolution of their u.s. debt limit crisis situation which could calm as early as this weekend and that will certainly give the markets more reason to rally kevin is next with the headlines

and the latest on what's going on in oslo stay with nazi. without seeing the main news story this hour in norway huge explosion a shot at the center of the capital ravaging the prime minister's headquarters police. calls the blast which has killed at least fifty make the region officials say people are still trapped in the buildings at the blast site our reporters they'll be catching up with a little bit like. the leaders agree on

a multi-million dollar bailout for greece sparking fears over the. debt deal at the summit in brussels to the major u.s. credit agency to say the greek debt to default state. and the skepticism is joining the e.u. despite officials hoping the rest of. the membership last war crime suspect has been extradited to the hague this friday. from moscow now the crosstalk teams on the air. and you can. follow and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle came in the murdoch empire as the phone hacking scandal in the u.k.

engulfs more victims and politicians look for cover all eyes are on the future of news corp and its assets in the u.s. and beyond has the murdoch family finally outfoxed itself. and. crossed out the implications of the phone hacking scandal i'm joined by kevin zeese in baltimore he's a spokesperson and lawyer for the government accountability group protect our elections and author of an open letter to the f.b.i. and s.c.c. urging them to investigate murdoch's news corporation in the us in washington we have dave south danae he is communications director for free press and in london we cross a toby young he's a journalist and author of how to lose friends and alienate people all right gentlemen cross talk rules and in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want kevin if i can go to you first because of your open letter here i took a look at some of the button laws and by laws of the f.c.c. and they be.