which blew out windows in the city center for us right now i'm thinking about the cuts in my head and of course it's horrible nice things happen you don't really know what's going on you can assume there's been a bomb because of the serious effect. it's being linked with the same man who's thought to be a right wing extremist with anti muslim views in on the seventeenth of july he still top posted a twitter feed where he has said that one person with a belief is equal to the force of a hundred thousand who have only interests so he thought of posted radical tweets leading up to this attack he's now been charged with both the bombing in the city center here in oslo and the us come just outside he was a fundamentalist he's a fundamentalist christian and he says multiculturalism has always failed us in his blog which has been found calls himself a nationalist he's also registered a gun club and around two years ago opened a farm called geo farm which gave him access to industrial fertilizer which is

often used by terrorists for warmings like this one so it seems that it's an idea that he's been planning for a long time initially a group including helpers of the global jihad came out and said that they took responsibility for the forming but then they retracted that of course norway is is participating in the libyan and afghanistan war efforts as part of nato and they're just last winter there were dozens of islamic militants arrested throughout western europe in connection with with planned bombings police told people to stay out of the city center to avoid using mobile phones the exits to the borders of norway which shots immediately after the blast and roads leading into and trains leading into the capital rules so hold to it now we've we've heard that soldiers are on the streets with machine guns police also and it's being called the worst attack since world war two perhaps the worst shooting spree in history. artie's down

a bushel reporting what i mean time a hello laura say security an international affairs advisor based in norway says that national divisions in the country's political climate could be linked to the brutal scenes it's witnessed in the heart of an increasingly. intense and heated debate about immigration. about both immigration is doing to no beach culture multiculturalism is really not the way to go forward marginalized feel their voices are not being heard in the political establishment. in the region people have never been consulted democratically about whether a bump immigration on or not and that their political establishment is a sort of of the elite that lives in areas which are depicted out they all white and that is lower class in a region so who feel that the immigrants are sort of getting into the territories removing them forwarded from the drugs lowering their salaries etc and there are no

playing the democratic rules i guess. so far seems to be the motivation of this person as well. no way security force was prepared to thwart a terror attack but still failed to preempt the massacre well that's the view of danish morton messerschmitt who raised doubts over the scandinavian security forces . many scandinavians were of the belief that we are police our intelligence service really have the facilities and the measures in order to prevent this from happening we have in numerous cases we have prevented attacks from terrorist groups islamist groups earlier on of course it's much more difficult to prohibit individual lunatics from doing so for a small piece of we have as we have seen yesterday but there's of course once again the question is whether the police whether they and senator service has the facilities and measures that are adequate to the situation that we are living in

today. u.s. based war correspondent keith holman snow believes we may never learn what really happened on the island but that there was ample reason for cells to talk in a way it's not unusual for a government or an organization to which works with the media systems to control information the way that norway norwegian media does or the norwegian government does to hide the facts of something like this until they've decided that they want to tell the truth about what really happened in some cases the public will never learn the truth about what really happened but obviously to keep the public from becoming too frightened they want to keep the numbers down and well have a lot of parents wondering if their children have been killed and so there's a lot of reasons why governments control this kind of information norway has a huge role in the missions the isis forces in afghanistan let me non somalia uganda norway has committed to claims to the bombing in libya and they were

previously involved in iraq and it's that that wouldn't be surprising either but. again back to the culture of war norway's the fourteenth largest arms importer in in the world the highest military expenditures per capita in all of the european countries and you know it's makes a lot of sense that this could be coming back on norway just like you know the chickens come home to roost. all right now for more on the possible motives behind the attacks and across life to lead to give a political analyst from london based. insights thank you for joining us today so critics believe that the current political climate could have triggered the attacks in norway what kind of signal does this send to other european nations do you think well i think this is a signal not only for european union nations but also since we were on our t.v. today to russia ukraine and other countries that have issue woodson a phobia with right wing groups it's basically. a case when.

this. small group could be an individual decided to resort to terror to draw attention to his political views or let's take a step back here look at the broader political impact because how is a tragedy likely to influence government policy do you think well i think first of all they will be many questions also about the security measures so i think the bomb blast in central all slow begs the question how could a lone individual or a small group of individuals plan such a large bomb in front of. major government buildings and including the building that hosts the prime minister's office and also. reports suggesting i mean you know we just kept saying that we're a safe country meaning that they assumed that there would be attack of these so in the future some sions will change they will be more careful with this sort of

groups with this sort of fuse and also security measures ok so there are going to be some political policy implications here regarding the aftermath of this but the number of victims confirms the unprecedented nature of the attack this was clearly a well thought out and executed attack or could this really just be the work of one individual thing. though the fact that the bomb blast was so big and also could be need to move suggests that they could have been more than one people behind the attack however having said that if it's a very driven individual who is who has also psychological problems that help him to overcome fears and deal with large volumes. explosives then one person could pull off. that plan however it is more likely that there was

a small group behind it and we do know that the suspect being questioned by police i did get his hands on an eco farm a few years ago and possibly a huge amount of fertilizer that could be used for a homemade bomb what about the timing of the attack so any significance there. well i think that the timing. in july of july which is also as our no your friends are telling us is called norwegian ramadan for. civil servants because most of them take holidays to draw attention to the fact that they can carry out oh he can carry out this attack in government quarter but also i think the aim in downtown also was not really to cause the number of casualties he's his plan was almost to to show that he's unhappy with the current labor led government but he's also taking drastic measures to sort of stop

norway being wronged by liberals by labor party in the future and targeting sort of the future of the party day labor party youth summit county on the island so i think. choosing to leave friday late july in downtown also meant that it was not an explosion to show howard but not really close casualties but then moving on to island targeting that young politicians who has really really a show of political discontent are from the suspect. from the london based think tank. global insight many thanks thank you. to stay with us here in our life from moscow will be back with other news in just. planation free play couldn't take should be free transport charges free to make amends three players free studio time free

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dollars debt ceiling collapsed after a republican opposition leader walked out of negotiations with president obama unless the government can agree to raise the debt limit by august second the country will be unable to pay its bills and will have to declare default and effects are already being felt as the u.s. federal aviation authority which oversees all civil flights begins to shut down but critics say that it's unlikely either side a solution to the spending cuts that new york resident went onto the streets of the big hole to gauge public opinion on more taxation. would you be willing to pay more in taxes to save your government from bankruptcy this week let's talk about that. definitely would. have an.

education. so do you trust your government to spend it correctly i don't trust any of the country a little bit how much is a little but. few percentage points more and that's about it that's about it since fifty percent of the american public does not pay a nickel i would have a problem i believe everybody even if it's a dollar fifty everybody should be in this shared sacrifice you know the parents of how much work you know if i'm working hard and i make you my. share you know why do i want to get taken away from me when people who you know don't. you know you just spend a lot more money in taxes so that more people have my service that. you have to pay for people who aren't working as hard as you yeah yeah do. ok with that. yeah i think everybody should have it ok so i think it's ok because if you pay too

much taxes you know you take the energy from people who want to work. too much texas you have a government like in the states government to spend all the money on your wars in iraq and. so i would first stop the wars and there you don't need a tax increase in a matter how you feel about taxes the bottom line is you're probably always going to have to pay them but if that's your government used well. you with r.t. thank you for joining us on this saturday has announced a new one hundred sixty billion euro bailout for greece even as athens credit rating drops into the dreaded default category european leaders however made clear their resolve to pull the e.u. out of its spiral of debt at any cost but critics while agreeing that the cash injection was necessary for now maintain that it's not nearly enough to get the

euro back on its feet 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. i mean do we believe that i'm not sure that we do because it's inconceivable that the europeans wouldn't step in they 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 without wanting to paint nightmare scenarios i don't think we're out of the woods yet. and so nearly twenty minutes past the hour now here in moscow russia's volga river tragedy recovery operation has taken a new turn the sunken

a pleasure cruise is being totally shallow waters where it will be prepared for transportation to shore the vessel is filled with water which needs to be pumped out before the records a large enough to lift experts are eager to examine the ship to determine why exactly the. two weeks ago one hundred fourteen people have so far been confirmed dead in the tragedy eight are still listed as missing the owner of the cruiser is meantime under investigation and two people have been already charged with violating safety regulations. well i media experts in the united states say that mainstream outlets are sacrificing viewers because of their choice of content they say it's become a trend to shower the viewer with a flurry of sensationalism rather than important news and as artie's lauren lyster reports us big business and politicians could be directing the shift in style now to talk about some of today's biggest political story it's the story behind the story our cycle whoa the editorial mission driving the mainstream news cycle and i

just kind of sat back i was like wow this is it this is the speech played by the rules instructions coming straight from the top he said i was just in washington and people in washington tell me that they're concerned about your tone recently departed m.-s. n.b.c. anchor jank ugur describes the talking to he alleges came from the head of the cable news network the talking to that drove him to leave the station he said i love to be an outsider outsiders are cool but we're not we're insiders. we are those former insiders and analysts we interviewed say it's this way of thinking in the mainstream t.v. media that leads to a twenty four hour news cycle filled largely with casey anthony the woman accused of killing her two year old little girl you would know if the this is your underpants we now learn maria demanded he move al has been following us with her style of coverage that in m.s.m. defectors says it's cost stations their literate audience and credibility

a lot of mainstream television news in particular is in the gutter they're just wasting your time with casey anthony stories with anthony weiner's wiener it's become a national joke a national joke that protects ad revenue and political currency unlike more hard hitting stories they would be stories that offend big corporations and big political power and that's why they're not covered it could explain why more reporters haven't covered for example a secret prison in somalia run by the cia journalist jeremy scahill exposed secrets and says several other american reporters know about it too instead this was the response to his story in the case of c.n.n. didn't even mention my report and just basically reprinted a press release from the cia saying that you know they were just assisting the somali government they could explain why networks aren't redoubling their efforts to cover hard hitting stories instead fresh off the successful ratings of the casey

anthony trial you have a network like a.b.c. hiring former kidnapping victim elizabeth smart to cover missing children stories i mean they basically came out and said we need to do more missing children or missing people stories and so that's what they're going to do and that is going to be a cost to other stories taking away from stories that affect people on a greater scale from jobs to inequality poverty wars and police brutality. the direction seems to be heading ever further in the direction of sensational and tabloid. which if rupert murdoch's news corp scandal is any indication could backfire ultimately that's you're going to lose gratings you're going to lose viewers and you know ultimately you may be you may find yourself under investigation networks that pledge to lean forward or claim to be fair and balanced or that call themselves the most trusted name in news c defectors leaving to find an independent outlet if they want to try to live up to those mottos laura mr r. t.

washington d.c. . well the motivation behind sensationalistic rather than fact based journalism may be the age old pursuit for higher profits that's according to our young member of the young talks the poor. the overall goal for the media right now is to profit i mean they're constantly worried about ratings why are they worried about ratings because in the advertising department or in the sales department those ratings need to be presented to advertisers and if you are cut they think that if you cover stories that are important stories on libya stories on the economy that americans are going to buy it they want the sensationalism they're going to focus on the sensationalism there is an audience out there for it but it's discouraging because people are getting informed on the issues that are that are important to vet the issues that actually affect them on a daily basis and if they think that's going to bring in the money in the ratings then that's what they're going to cover and i think that that's discouraging and i

think they're wrong i think they're wrong on that point. you're with us you live from moscow let's check out some other international news in brief for you this hour. militants in somalia say they're still banning most foreign aid agencies from working in the famine struck country and the militants deny u.n. reports that somalia is in a state of disaster the statements under severe drought have struck the region rendering millions in dire need of food and water the u.n. estimates tens of thousands have already died from shortages. foreign ministers from north and south korea have broken the three year suspension of high level bilateral meetings the unofficial talks took place on the internet and island of bali a venue for the eighteenth regional forum of the association of southeast asian nations that need to still to be a positive step to possible future negotiations on the issue of nuclear weapons on the korean peninsula north korea quit the original talks back in two thousand and seven. nato was carried out fresh bombing runs on the libyan capital this saturday

hitting colonel gadhafi as headquarters meantime the whereabouts of the incumbent leader remain unknown on friday. tripoli in support of the colonel libya has been ravaged by civil war since february with the nato led coalition beginning asterix back in march military contributor says there's a growing credibility gap within the alliance over the intervention. there is a lot of talk about. the u.s. policy or the lack of faith or a guiding pakistan and afghanistan no less has been said about the nato operation or actually aerial intervention and bombing in libya take a close a look at how the nato aerial bombing in libya is related to american try vies in afghanistan and pakistan on a technical basis yes they nato intervention and indiscriminate bombing and libya

could be both of the united states and nato operation but technicalities aside it is not just a turn a half wars for the united states in reality if not on the ground at least in the air over a levy at the bombing is one hundred percent a nato operation the timing of nato operation against libya demonstrated not on the of the lack of trust between the united states and pakistan and afghan leadership it is also indicative of a huge credibility gap between the genuine united states of america and its here appear nato partners now right now at twenty five minutes past the hour here in the russian capital we will be back with the latest headlines in just a couple minutes.

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welcome back you would see a quick summary now at the top stories there was. shooting spree in modern history at least eighty four people have been killed in norway early a bomb ripped through the heart of the government district of the capital oslo killing at least seven the prime minister's office was there the leader was not in the building at the time of the blast. meantime a thirty two year old norwegian man has been arrested and charged with committing both attacks police suspect one or more gunmen might be involved in the shooting global jihad initially claimed responsibility for the. right those are

the headlines here and. next time i'll go talk to alexis crow from the royal institute of international affairs to find out whether the revolutions in north africa will lead to greater security threats in the future you without. easy of nature and discovery to. communicate with the why don't. test yourself and become free. see what nature can give you on the.

move to the. probable again of the welcome to spotlight the interview shelved on r t i'm now going all of them today my guest in the studio is alex's crop whether last year russia and the united states were discussing the new start treaty they argued whether or not it would protect your approach potential building in this but very soon a different throughout the middle east revolution said warfare spread throughout north africa and the middle east toppling regimes and bringing instability to the region so what are the biggest threats to european and a global security today here's an expert on international security at the royal institute of international affairs alex this crowd. last year russia and the united states strengthen ties by signing the new song you put a solemn entreaty.