that you. you know we're getting reports that the norwegian prime minister called emergency crisis meeting with his government to take place later this evening we're also hearing that the army has been station to various points around the city center there but back at the airport where you are what is the mood. well basically more wait you've never experienced anything like this the first time that any sort of terror attack this magnitude it's never been has ever happened in this country right now we're hearing is that the assistance the help argus of the local sheet how explain responsibility for this attack and its reactions mito in more ways presence in afghanistan so this is something that the country i don't think it's quite really aware of or just isn't how the sort of history of experiencing and it's something that people at least here around me don't really

seem to be reacting to me because they don't know about it it's not like it's information is being distributed at the airport but then it's also it's not something that people seem to be concerned about here at least it's. ok don't you know thank you for bringing some today with what you know that's not reporting live from oslo for us but earlier i spoke to. him sudanese editor in chief of an independent news magazine based in oslo his mother a lawyer in the very sight of that explosion here's how he described what she saw what she told him. oh of the song there was this big blasts and people were screaming running around scared there were smoke it was just like. what we have seen for. cities around the world which has been attacked earlier we have looked at ourselves peaceful nation. even though we are

in two wars. in libya so people are rather surprised shocked. those people mostly on twitter feeds social been. trying to. jump to conclusions too early i have to say though the latest breaking news is that actually the police officer he was going to this can and. should be juve. politicians he is actually tall and blonde and that he has according to newspapers in the region work. so this is this is rather or might be more complicated than we think of to tell or i will since we had that chat just last hour obviously details coming through thick and fast since that report we had unconfirmed reports saying that the

terror group the helpers of global jihad claimed responsibility in response to norway's involvement in afghanistan we're also hearing that oslo police say they suspect the man arrested in that shooting at the youth camp and we're hearing there could be up to twenty five to thirty bodies reported by witnesses is somehow connected with what happened in the oslo bombing just an hour or two before. all right now mark almonds a history lecturer from oxford university told me that norway's involvement did nato's military campaigns could be a reason behind the attack. the most likely explanation is that norway's involvement as a nato member in armed actions line nato from libya to afghanistan will have been the basis for some backlash now whether that by rush comes from a libyan group or more generally from an islamic group or to his holster or through

generics or involvement. is obviously yet to be seen and i have to say we should remember that back in oklahoma city mention ninety five one was a huge bomb. everybody left that must be the work islamic terrorists and it turned out to work a very christian fundamentalist mission and. so with the proviso that we should not rule out other possibilities the most likely explanation is obviously there's always going to have an attack on it i think really for two reasons why as. well as perhaps. this is trash economic power of an islamic group they might signal wires or. if you think about a place like london paris. targets of terrorist attacks over the years even made quite dramatic attack on the prime missile has you can attack on. members of those who caution you couldn't necessarily have had such a little carousels perhaps i'm sure norway literally very peaceful very quiet for

a long time where if you like anymore involvement in the regions and violence was in houses miles from room country. if you just joined us let me bring you up to date on the headline facts that we know today norway's been shaken by double terror attacks earlier on the saving first the center of all slow hit by huge bomb the blast damaged parliamentary buildings including the prime minister's office where at least seven were killed though the pm himself was not harmed then the gunman went on a shooting spree at a youth camp by witness reports the latest ones we had through claim up to thirty people may. you have been killed there we hear there were seven hundred young people there between the ages of fourteen and seventeen even some unconfirmed reports that they were swimming in the sea to try and get away from a gunman again unconfirmed reports say he was wearing a police uniform police say they suspect the man that was involved in the shooting could be linked to the bombing in the capital now the state secretary christian

amundsen said the situation is the worst his country has ever seen comment from the prime minister. said is safe he said it's a very serious situation and he's called an emergency government crisis meeting tonight preliminary reports suggest a car bomb with a blast so powerful that it blew out windows over a one kilometer radius was responsible for the awful amount of damage we've seen in the center of oslo the thick smoke was seen rising from an airball ministry building after it too caught fire and police evacuated people from the city center also oslo's central railway station just to recap again unconfirmed reports say the terror group the helpers of the global jihad has claimed responsibility in the last in response to norway's involvement in afghanistan. all right let's get more thoughts about this awful events unfolding in front of our eyes in oslo was to appease the foreign news editor of the danish magazine political list of all

stripes thanks being on the program northern europe for some time has now been criticized for lax immigration policy some even said it was giving safe haven to terrorists would you agree that this might have a bearing on the attacks we've seen in norway today. well i don't think so denmark has. been criticized probably for quite the opposite of having a very strict immigration policy and has been the target for. many more than. the part you don't think a lack of immigration policy you should hear nevertheless all it takes i guess is a couple of extremists if this is to be true and there's a say the global jihad terror group has claimed responsibility for this we don't actually know whether they are they may just be trying to get some publicity off the back of it but i mean looking back in december last year twenty six people were

arrested across europe when they suspected of terrorist activities and with links to chechen jihad this was it clear then that also is in as much danger as moscow or london madrid or any other major capital. well you know the swedish international terror expressed this run store. but the threat image from denmark and norway is very very similar because both countries involved in afghanistan and libya and in no way as well this in denmark the new notorious through. of the promise prophet mohammed has been causing and aprile among muslims. so. in his view it could be what we have seen today could as well have happened in denmark and now it happened in norway danish police looking at it much the same way in.

critical points in denmark has been under increasing reliance. including. the media house. spokesman where the. cartoons of the prophet muhammad was post. printed and indeed a big republic started a at a tabloid newspaper in norway a few i thought in fact in the building that was bombed today very close to it yes it does not appear to be talking use paper baton to conquer the affairs of the world. that was also damaged in the attack it does not appear that the newspaper was the target of attack no i mean tonight as we see this unfold in sydney the army we're hearing is no taking up positions in central all slow to try to ensure safety

you know denmark and norway you're almost neighbors you're so close both of you to part of nato is there a sense of uneasiness deadlock tonight. yes definite. we have seen. denmark being the target of. conspiracy to commit terror attacks many of them. in the last couple of years. many of them talk against the media house. in december. five young men were arrested. to this. media house with gone from strength and plans to kill as many journalists and the people working theirs as possible. david headley. who was arrested in chicago had also plans to. kill as many people he could in this building only

last year old kitchen. he blew himself up. trying to plant a bomb in. that building here in seoul so something else interesting that's come out tonight although i'm saying what i'm saying about the health of the global jihad you can have an idea of what an attack might look like but you know wearing from eye witnesses that saw what went on in this youth cab that the gunman. appeared to be of nordic appearance was blond there the guy that was dressed as a policeman shooting a very soft targets these teenage is not cut out of the sort of person you'd necessarily first of all equate with somebody working for help in the global jihad . no i think it's far too early to make any conclusions about who was behind this that could have been

a. convert. if it is indeed a group that is behind this it could be. right. i think. more people. of course. we know very very little about what happened and who were behind it you know listen to the details are coming through that group has claimed responsibility the police are saying tonight that potentially linking the two attacks now just one last thought you know as we're thinking of the friends and family of the people that have perished and the people that are injured i thought very much for them tonight and one last quick thought from you will these attacks change the face of northern europe as a place of safety traditionally. that happened sometime ago.

you know. so far. the northern europe scandinavia. the. recruiter. ok thanks ever so much being on the program foreign news editor for the political magazine in denmark much appreciated all right more thought now about these very unfortunate events let's talk to radio host and author stephen leatherman is joining us on the line from chicago mr lemon either thanks if. these awful events unfold you know you're watching your side of the pond as well and we've already had unconfirmed claims by that group called themselves the helpers of the global jihad that this attack is a direct response to the presence of norwegian forces in afghanistan do you think that sounds like a realistic claim a realistic theory. karen i have written on numerous appearance numerous

individuals falsely charged numerous official stories changed when i later evidence can i give you some examples both in america and europe both world trade center up on me is in america we know about matter whether the evidence is overwhelming that the nine eleven attack itself was a false flag most people forget about the nineteen ninety three bombing. i mean number of people were convicted i wrote about one shape durometer in the so-called blind sheikh he was completely innocent he got life in prison he was a former cia asset they were i him to america he oklahoma city bombing in one thousand nine hundred five is terry nichols timothy mcveigh a truck bomb in front of the federal building in oklahoma city it was later proved that the truck bomb heroically minor damage most of the damage came from

internally raid explosives ok i think i heard the conspiracy theories about not eleven before i take in everything you say there's so i mean what are you saying about what's happened here tonight i mean he does a still very very sketchy enough you know this this is happening is people are still under the under the ruins there tonight so what do you think is garman well because they're just happy today we have no way of knowing it could be day he said could be weeks before we know anything but my advice to viewers it is always be suspicious especially about a major attack i'm sure your viewers remember the the underground bombing at all and the madrid train bombing i believe the year before of the year after midnight the mid two thousand. the. wrong the latest stories conflict. did with them presented different evidence and it looked like both of those of them

to a false light x. so again we don't know what happened today to be very suspicious and they were once loose here a clue let's see how fast the information comes out let's see if people hit shots let's see exactly what is said and if too much official information is reported to fast those are red flags because any event like this could take weeks maybe months to really find out when or if i'm in a state or two or a week we get flooded with information and names names those those are red flags is something is very very wrong statement you know i take it absolutely everything you say treat with caution absolutely understand that let's try and focus on what some of more mainstream theories may be about what could have happened here tonight i mean the claim also by this group mentions insults of the prophet muhammad which

were reprinted in a norwegian tabloid last year could that have anything to do with it you think. oh it's possible i remember about fareed i mentioned it in another kalid i wrote but it isn't all story why would somebody resurrect now a whole recent one because i had a lot of grudge to bear i guess. well there are lots of reasons people were used to it here but i would suggest there what's been your reasons in the tabloid newspaper and the newspaper wasn't struck. i'm not certain how close the army was to it but they struck government buildings now it didn't harm the prime minister there were some people killed me i'm sure other people were injured the fact that norway was part of the libya call it made a coalition against libya to add might have been a bigger recent but remember no way to pull out of the coalition. why wasn't

denmark attacked and you for the prime minister rez most them is the nato secretary general just just just regime but what do i mean more wars if there was a recent attack again no no way no way is a peaceful country why who were asked of their own well one reason may be to to incite fear to meet people who leave their evil and peaceful country syria to act by easter as well to terrorists really do this or was it a false flag look at stake here let's recall back steven to the end the last year police in belgium the netherlands and germany that arrested twenty six suspected terrorists with links to chat should militants nothing about that wasn't this a big warning i guess that terrorists have spread deep into europe and to the north . i remember those incidents a little bit i remember those that took place in denmark in the u.k.

and i specially remember the u.k. and denmark later in summation came out they conflict to do with the original story . i wrote about them but it's a good while since i've done it and i don't remember the specific details or i do remember was so late in evidence to prove the early records were falsified which again i see very suspicious. now what i look at it seven tonight people are going to read regarding northern europe and norway in particular as a less safe place than it was traditionally considered to be on a. well they certainly are all the more recent to continue the war in afghanistan and the new war is that nato countries are involved in against your movement in somalia of course the libya operation going on is a good reason to say well these muslim terrorists will go after anybody they'll do it in their own countries they'll do it in america they'll do it across europe if

we're if we don't target these people and get rid of them we'll keep inciting these incidents and killing innocent people and the trouble to scare them that people in countries especially in america believe this when in fact i know for a fact there's stories that written about the innocent people challenge that america was written about dozens of them falsely charged all of them muslims mostly occasionally a woman. written about it least five dozen of them i have yet to find a single person of any crime but they're all in christian some of them serving ways terms the public is traumatized in the imperial wars go war and these are just scandal it's it's a court topic clearly i deal with all the time ok silliman i know you've always got your very particular views about things sometimes

a little off people very much worth listening to as well stephen lemon thank you for joining us very much tonight from chicago. now norway has been shaken by double terror attacks that is our top story tonight first the center of all the hit by a huge bomb blast damaged parliamentary buildings including the prime minister's office or at least seven people were killed earlier on the prime minister himself we hear was not harmed then the gunman went on a shooting spree in a youth camp eyewitnesses report claims that thirty youngsters maybe because we're there were seven hundred between the ages of fourteen and seventeen may have been killed police say the suspect the man arrested for the shooting is linked to the bombing in the capital there making that connection tonight now waging a secretary of state christian m. uncertain said that this quote is situation is the worst his country has ever seen and promised to. safe as i reported just now but he's called an emergency

government crisis meeting tonight the interim reports suggest a car bomb with a blast so powerful that it blew windows over a kilometer radius was to blame for what happened here thick smoke earlier was seen rising from the nearby all ministry building after it to court fire police evacuated both the city center in oslo central railway station the army has been posted around the city center tonight to try and keep things safe as they possibly can unconfirmed reports say the terror group the helpers of the global jihad has claimed responsibility they say it's in response to norway's involvement in afghanistan time in a separate attack a gunman reportedly dressed as a policeman opened fire at a youth rally just outside of his low he'd been arrested but i witness reports tonight claim that he may have killed up to thirty anti terror police have reportedly been sent to the count was some seven hundred teenagers were gathered.

well our own correspondents there at the heart of blast stricken oslo tonight bringing us the very latest as it happens her first time thoughts are there for you to keep up to date with minute by minute on our twitter feed we can access all of the footage for the massive oslo blast aftermath it's available anytime you want to catch up with it there's a twitter link to our you tube channel as well featuring dramatic pictures revealing the despair and destruction in norway's capital but our top story this hour here at r.t. international. i'm kevin and let me take you through the other main news of the day now in a 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 about one hundred fifty billion euro the moves to the single currency for now the critics say what troubles lie ahead president sarkozy has been saying in brussels you know greece is

a special case it's received this special support from the europeans and other countries won't receive that but of course it's do we believe that i'm not sure that we do because it's inconceivable that the europeans wouldn't step in very and it's also i think inconceivable that even the resources now available to the financial stability fund the sort of nascent european monetary fund i think they wouldn't really be sufficient in the end if it was a sort of battle between the bond markets and the italian government so those sort of without wanting to paint nightmare scenario yes i don't think you know we're out of the woods yet. well just to remind you of bring you the latest on our top story the situation in norway we've got the headlines coming up briefly updating you on the latest in just a couple of minutes here on r t but it's business next. thanks

kevin rupert murdoch's news corp has sold its seventy nine percent stake of russia's biggest outdoor advertiser use outdoor sells advertising on billboards public transport and other services in one thousand russian cities the investor and management buy out deal is said to be worth three hundred fifty million dollars experts say the real values closer to two hundred seventy million due to company debt use 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 and a very quick look at the markets crude as up as investors hope for growing demand amid optimism in europe and the us will deal with the crises also the international energy agency says it won't extend the release of reserve will surprise us markets are still mixed half an hour before they close the dow is disappointed by caterpillar second quarter results the stock is six percent lower now stock is up

and said stocks are trading strongly in the black supported by great deal the new bailout should help to cut the country's debt by six leaders of the e.u. powered their four hundred billion euro rest to buy debt of stressed euro nations that's intended to prevent the crisis from spreading to other members and this is the closing picture in russia and head of the weekend not much movement r.d.s. up point two percent down by just a notch if we take a look at the main movers on them i say on high oil prices rose never managed to gain one point nine percent the to be another financials were down week to be down two percent of the close nover tech was gaining one point eight percent at the close on reports in talks on the purchase of a twenty five percent stake in it germany's third largest us. and that concludes this edition of the business news on r.t. join us monday morning i will be here join me if you can of course kevin is next with. for the. first time

the biggest issues get. face to face with the news makers. in india. we go to the grand imperial truly the. road to the hotel treat. the twenty second. this is the top story norway terror attacks a huge blast. killed the.

confirmed reports say the terror group the help of the global jihad claimed responsibility in response to the. capitol police say they suspect the man arrested for the shooting is linked to the capital. one of the story. in brussels from a major u.s. credit. default state. this is more now on the other big story dominating the headlines this week the phone hacking scandal. the affairs impact on both sides of the atlantic and the implications for the murdoch media empire crosstalk.

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.