join me the chills the arm of violence the gateway to the grand imperial truly to tell us the truth coromandel you can a letter tell the socialist that you see don't need to go and. read this and the colonel was hotel as you secure a treat. today's news on the week's top stories here on r t and agree and in despair in no way the country mourns the victims of its first ever terror attack the suspect tells police the ninety three deaths were gruesome but unnecessary. and this very brave exists he was tired thing alone and the killing of more than ninety people was a necessary measure of public more details in a few moments. rupert murdoch faces investigation in the u.s. since the more alleged phone hacking by his media that's after being grilled in britain over the scandal that shook the police politicians and the press. the e.u.

reaches out a helping hand it to greece agreeing on a new bailout a cloud to gather around the trouble the euro amid a stormy mood in spain also struggling with severe financial workers. at the top stories of today and off this week you're watching the weekly with me roll reception the entire norwegian a nation shaken by friday's killing rampage is mourning in one thousand and three people massacred in the also bombing at a youth camp shooting prime minister stoltenberg has told us that are out of the two days since the attacks i felt like an eternity the main suspect anders breivik has told police he was solely responsible for the atrocities. szell has more on this. the suspect has admitted the crime he says it was an appalling yet necessary act and he adds that it was needed to shake up norwegian society he claimed it

wasn't a crime more details are emerging about the suspect that he posted a bizarre fifteen hundred page book where he says how to make a bomb and i quote once you decide to strike it's better to kill too many of them not enough or you risk reducing the desired ideological impact of the strike or also violent muslim views on that site now to just remind you what happened there was a car bomb here explosion here in the city center government headquarters and just a few hours later he traveled just outside all flow to an island where gathered in a police uniform he took the children around him he had a gun and because of the close here the children were expecting that there were lots of policemen with guns around at the time so they weren't surprised by that and then he began to shoot sheltering i'll kill everyone everyone must die now we have new pictures of our swimmers people swimming full survival. for their lives

hiding in the rocks of a ten year old boy being rescued today's a day of mourning there's a memorial service being held just a few hundred meters from here in oslo cathedral and the court hearing is on monday the police say there still may be more casualties up to ninety seven recorded and there is criticism that it took them an hour to an hour and a half after receiving information of the attack on the island but it took them over an hour to get to the scene and to stop the massacre there's also been criticism they were looking for muslims initially they were saying it was a muslim attack the police say that it was difficult to get to the island they had to find transport there as stories are emerging of immense over all the people who risk victims who went back into the danger area here in the city center but also there is growing criticism here in oslo. government integration policies which seem to have backfired more now in this report brave christine who was hit by the.

explosion in days and super broken clothes she stayed in the floor so to help. a waitress just standing chaffing and then suddenly it's just me i was like i caught a fish just waiting for you looking aloft and out like plastics in their eyes. you know they got smashed glass all over them the skin and everything this show put patched up victims before giving you know it's hot drinks as a nation which has never suffered at the hands of terrorists before he says norwegians just didn't know how to react. a long storm from core some buildings were both young people sheltering gaming rolling on this man's wife suffered severe shock when their windows were blown else by the lost but he says they're lucky to be alone his thoughts go out to the many young victims of the second attack i think about well there's

a shade there was some kid in darling i think. that parents just caused it to atrocities produced videotapes of fear it was this is that those senses and the ball was mass shooting explosive is also closing anger that the attacks were allowed to happen in the first place and it will ignore dozens of hates messages from suspect. you haven't really been prepared for right wing extremism previously expressed fury at the government's open door policy on immigration blogs and twitter feeds. the shootings may reflect growing national look position to field immigration policies the political establishment the more they are relative the people that live in areas where there are simply no immigrants. for people in order to have a big pushed out of places they used to live really been on the soles of their

drugs that are in jeopardy whose lives claimed this disappointment that the killer turned out to be buoyant they want this guy to be a muslim although most of you know. it's for them it's a little bit strange because he's in the region so they talk too much about islam and about us it is not about religions are said to be fed up with their brand of what's been dubbed radical liberalism it's the country's multicultural policies that turn the government against his own playing the way the far right sentiment. winds are. ready to admit and there is a polite and respectful attitude towards that kind of. media but the reality is that fifty percent often who joins against multiculturalism as people here try to pick up the pieces and bring meaning to this twitter type will

really think it will for our relations between communities some expect the crackdown by police on the e.u. growing full right movements well of the spear this will only fueled resentment against europe's muslims victims are beginning to piece spoke together the shouts of lawyers but the experts warn this might not be the last such a tank as outrage at the perceived failure of a multicultural society grows the new bush will all see oslo. meantime and who knows the suspect personally told us here at r.t. that he was shocked by the news but that was low is a place where radicalism is on the rise. i could not imagine i. imagine the. brainwash. never change across. a religious fanatic or anything. religious but it wasn't trying to irk you or any bank. i just. it

was really just pretty much i would more describe. i'm always. angry that he would be so to speak in person but they. are not more than that i did not they saw through ideological. bias conversation on the other hand to loop around. like. all people who have very radical religious all ranging from white christian and then you have. left this idea and. managed to find some right wing groups. generally surprised that people find their extreme ideas that also is basically

like. wrong way. that was founded on a former acquaintance of the ledge to kill a. well the whole world is now discussing what lies behind the atrocity and you can join in on the debate on our website r c dot com check out the stands now so far the majority of you think sheer fanaticism is to blame a few people say the tensions stem from multiculturalism nine percent believe the reason is a global terrorism which penetrates everywhere the rest say it's down to the failure of the security council to make sure you have your say just log on to see dot com and. still ahead if you're on the program as we do the weekly on r.t. nato begins handing over control of afghan provinces to local army forces but many question if they are up to the job. plus we haven't come painters' against us drone attacks in pakistan want to fire a lawsuit

a former cia legal chief for approving attacks that killed hundreds of innocent people. this week the phone hacking in the police bribery scandal was taken to the british parliament rupert murdoch his son james and former u.k. c.e.o. rebecca brooks all grilled by british lawmakers for several hours the trio said they were deeply sorry for what happened however and you want to cations have emerged that the news international chairman james murdoch misled m.p.'s by saying he was unaware of the true extent of illicit phone tapping by his company's reporters meanwhile questions are being asked over the death of journalist sean paul but the man credited with revealing the phone hacking scandal on his ass he's a lawyer and reports it's drawing striking parallels with another whistleblower keep silent for another political scandal erupts another whistleblower diaries sean hoare was the first all modes in the world journalists to go on the record to alleged phone hacking was endemic at the paper and that its editor andy colson

actively encouraged it who was found dead in his house on monday setting up locusts into a frenzy of comparisons with the case of dr david kelly why isn't this shown horror story bigger reminds me of how dr david kelly was bumped off. eerily similar tragedies are sean hoare and david kelly wallace madness to water and david kelly shawn who are that's what i'm thinking something's not right dr kelly was the u.n. weapons inspector who first cast doubts on the government's claim that iraq could deploy weapons of mass destruction within forty five minutes it led to scrutiny a tony blair's decision to invade iraq by extraordinary coincidence kelly's body was discovered exactly eight years before that of sean hordes on the eighteenth of july two thousand and three it was british journalist andrew gilligan who david kelly could spoken to to publicize his belief that the forty five minute claim had

been exaggerated gilligan believes there are similarities between kelly and short haul being at the center of one of these storms a terrifying experience i really don't believe either david all sean hoare was murdered because. i simply don't think it would have been in anyone's interest to murder them once they'd got into the public spotlight anyone with an iota of sense of government would have known that to kill them would just would just amplify the story i think it's simply i think both were under enormous pressure from their roles as whistle blows and and found it difficult to cope with that pressure on who was evidence could have been crucial to proving that the news of the world editors supported a culture of listening to private voice mails for stories. editor andy colson he later became a media tie rector to the current prime minister has always denied the allegations and was destroyed professionally by abuse international. journalistic world in london is a very small planes on the ground was destroyed he was well known. drinking too

much taking drugs he was depressed moralized police this thing called death doesn't appear suspicious and they're looking at suicide dr kelly's death was also recorded as suicide although many including leading doctors and peace. have never accepted that their suspicions of hardly been quelled by the fact the post-mortem report and other evidence has been classified for seventy years to ten arrests six resignations two convictions and one death that the toll of the phone hacking scandal so far the death of a key whistleblower in this scandal has raised questions but so far only amongst the twitter ossie it's being reported as a horrible and unfortunate coincidence but it still feel that if this had happened elsewhere say in russia or in india the british media would be so quick to accept it as a coincidence particularly in the light of the death of david kelly you'll read it

or to be funded. you're watching the weekly here on r.t. it's good to have you with us today emergency workers have recovered more bodies from a russian a pleasure boat that sank in the volga river two weeks ago killing more than one hundred twenty people the wrecked ship has now been lifted from the bottom in total shallow waters the task is now to drain the home so investigators can examine the vessel in detail to determine the cause of the tragedy the search meantime continues for the bodies bodies of the last two missing victims which could still be trapped inside the bulgaria went down within minutes on the tenth of july drowning more than half of its two hundred passengers the boat owner is under investigation and two people have already traffic violation of safety regulations. also this week greece let out a sigh of relief after long talks e.u. leaders are finally agreed on how to help the country avoid defaulting on its debt

athens for now receive a new bailout worth an estimated one hundred nine billion euros the plan it was agreed after greece approved severe austerity measures which sent thousands protesting onto the streets the rescue will also involve lowering interest rates on greek debt and extending the period in which it can be repaid a package also grants a bank of portugal and ireland twice as much time to pay back their own loans you know spain which has the highest rate of unemployment in the eurozone so thousands of protesters converge on the capital on saturday with more rallies expected on sunday financial journalist patrick young says bailing out the failing economies will not help them in the long term i think it's going to prolong the agony unfortunately like everything we've been looking for for weeks we want to leadership from the european union and i think really the european union's own sort of press conference just demonstrates what a shambles this whole proceedings is i mean we have to sit through chain different leaders all telling us who's actually in charge and what's going on they give

certain parts of the information seems to be contradictory ultimately alone. more money has been thrown at the greek economy in the hope that i stop the contagion but really a lot of it just looks like hype and i'm very very concerned because how do you actually find a cure we just got another sticking plaster it can has been kicked down the road the danger of contagion still leaking to other countries such as our loan to portugal even italy and spain are there and therefore if we don't have a cure ultimately we can't keep spending all the bank's money and all of the government's money on all of these economic issues and at the same time consumers are basically scared and i think they're going to dry up and not be willing to indulge in normal economic activity i think it's a worrying time and fears of a default are also raging across the atlantic and iraq obama met with congressional leaders in a desperate bid to avoid economic collapse previous talks with a republican house speaker broke down on friday congress must approve raising its

current fourteen point three trillion dollars debt level before august second or risk of default the impact which would have shake the entire world economy the deal offered by president obama includes slashes to medical costs and other entitlements are both democrats and republicans are divided over over the details of a package of spending cuts and tax rises as investigative journalist craig the palace says it's the ordinary americans who will have to foot the government's bills. george bush when he was president from two thousand and one to two thousand and eight when r o y o. e out of a surplus we could forgive in germany six billion dollars a year by bill clinton turned it into a six hundred million dollars per year deficit adding three trillion dollars us debt eric cantor for all those bushes wars and perhaps for weapons for the tax cuts now these guys don't want in the bill somehow the compromise means that

these this shook in dollars will be paid for pocket eliminating the benefit for the working class b. american people the elderly people on social security can incur with debts veterans receiving better veterans benefits didn't increase the debt it was the result of bush's wars tortious tax cuts while spending for these programs now are the beneficiaries basically people who got the money don't want to pay it back. well for more news and a comment on the financial woes gripping the world just head over to r.t. dot com here's a taste of what else is waiting for you right now uncover a road here in the mystery find out why every july since the eighteen eighties california would so filled with some of the most wealthy in powerful men in the world. and russians are rushing to stock up on painkillers as the government prepares to make pills containing code available only by prescription and why the

move has caused controversy at r.t. dot com. you're watching the weekly here on r.t. but just for a moment we'll pause to cover some of today's other international headlines and clear up operations continue in china a day after two high speed trains collided in the east of the country at least thirty five people were killed almost two hundred injured one of the bullet trains was forced to stop after being struck by lightning and was then rear ended by a second train two of the coaches fell from a bridge as a result of the crash it was the first derailment on china's high speed rail network since the country launched the bullet trains in two thousand and seven. a car bomb has killed eight soldiers in the yemen's or coastal city of eight the blast took place near the entrance of an army camp as a convoy of vehicles packed with troops was about to leave officials said they were being sent to fight al qaeda linked militants in a nearby province the country has been hit by months of antigovernment protests

including clashes between security forces and armed groups. a host of celebrities and friends have been paying tribute to amy winehouse the british soldier as diva was found dead in her london flat on saturday police say the course of a death remains unexplained it's twenty seven year old star won a myriad of awards including five grammys for her music and having held as one of the most talented singers of her age a success was often overshadowed by a well documented battle with drugs and alcohol also the son. for the hit song rehab last month she cancelled the europeans who are being booed off stage during a performance in serbia. but as well and president hugo chavez has returned home after spending a week in cuba undergoing chemotherapy he says he's now free of malignant cells and ready to continue his work last month chavez on the way to operation for a cancerous tumor a fifty six year old leader who has been in power for more than

a decade said earlier that he will run for reelection next year. well in the elections operations led by nato and afghan forces sixteen insurgents have been killed in the country's south the raid comes in response to renewed it's not about activity as nato begins a gradual withdrawal from afghanistan the plan is to recall all foreign combat troops by the end of two thousand and fourteen nato has a new a military commander in the country general john allen wants a tough times ahead for the war but the idea that someone from the afghan president's half brother was assassinated by one of his own body guards in a separate incident one of cars ice top advisors was also gone down and she wore activist brian becker thinks that the u.s. led coalition is losing ground in afghanistan while the number of casualties continues to rise. they can't win by staying in fact their presence is becoming the main catalyst for the armed insurgency not only the taliban but maybe one hundred

forty armed groups and they can't leave either because if they leave there will be a perception that the u.s. and nato were defeated by an armed insurgency but this dilemma must be solved some way so ultimately the united states cannot prevail the assassination of karzai as brother and his inner circle shows that the edifice of the karzai regime necessary at least to give afghan face to the nato occupation that itself is now crumbling these armed attacks these assassination attempts are designed to create. panic and i think in all likelihood they are creating panic within the very heart the foundation of because like government the u.s. is losing grown steadily it's spending one hundred twenty billion dollars a year that's an increasing amount from the treasury that's already drained based on huge budget deficits here the number of casualties on the afghan and american side is is is increasing ip creasing and yet they're no closer to victory in fact

they're losing control of the country and the government that they sponsor is is in fact in danger of crumbling i would say the us hasn't gained anything i think the us is losing ground and spite of what david petraeus and the obama administration say this is a bad situation possibly a catastrophe for the united states. now the u.s. has been carrying out unmanned drone strikes in pakistan for years but not one of the masterminds of the attacks is in the crosshairs himself a former cia official john resign faces a lawsuit over civilian casualties when wives lawyers and the families of victims are seeking an arrest warrant against him it's claimed the result would prove a list of targets for the drone strikes which often resulted in the scores of civilian deaths. is a member of the campaign group that's bringing the action against him as i told us that washington must be held to account for its awful ration said pakistan. thus far these drones have been operating in pakistan in the federal peril administrate in tribal areas. and they've been operating in secret by the cia and they've been

killing indiscriminately hundreds of civilians and so the purpose of this is this hopefully it's a good sort of transparency out of out of the cia and out of obama and sued to get some justice on behalf of the victims of these drone strikes as we know the u.s. is my little more unhappy the usa is operating extra legally by carrying out these drone strikes in pakistan in europe in somalia and in terms of it being disproportionate you know we have numbers coming out of pakistan that indicate that you know for every one suspected militants being killed one hundred forty an ascent civilians are dying as a result of these strikes and so if those numbers are correct you know we have people on the ground who are who are gathering the information who are doing the investigation and trying to collect the information so that we can bring a more transparent more honest picture to the public about what's happening in pakistan. with r.t. and live from moscow now when it comes to having

a baby some couples are ready to embrace every possible method to achieve their dream while illegal in many countries commercial surrogacy is an option and russia can carry a heavy financial and emotional price at it very prescribe the reports not of how legislation will fail to protect those involved in the process and i should warn you there are some possibly disturbing pictures in this story these first photos of them tom made him an orphan seen he was ill his genetic parents refused even to hold him and the boy has a rare and incurable genetic disease but that don't cover they simply threw him out like an unwanted kitten and picked a healthy one. his healthy twin brother enjoys family life and john has no one but hospital staff helping him to survive the boy's sorry mother also disappeared soon after the delivery little and on stories just one of the shocking examples of shortcomings in the russian family code that seeks to regulate surrogacy in the

country for graphic images but in our modern world the idea of seriously is sometimes distorted if you didn't used to avoid the hardships of pregnancy and to preserve the beauty of a body that turns surrogacy into a business renting out a womb costs from twenty to thirty thousand dollars however often either those who pay you know the sour you want to admit their involvement in the process the attitude to surrogacy in russia is ambiguous so many women simply don't want anyone to know their baby is carried by another woman out of how many it's easier to resort to small or not such a small why how about one scene in public with this there really is no going back to the sides become entangled in a legal and moral not blackmail forms intended parents while surrogate mothers greatest fear is not getting paid most of them see sorry can see as the only solution to their financial misery if you have no other choice who lived at my

mom's place nine people in four to six square meter is. zinaida mother of two giving both the money would allow her to buy an apartment for her large family however halfway through pregnancy the kinetic downs demanded she aborts they had shopped around and their backup was bearing twins still it's the biological father sprawled out in front of men and on chance almost knocked when he was saying don't you understand the need neither you nor the baby. zenaida still hoped they'd accept the baby but instead ended up with no feet and an addition to her family to nickle and tone these legal details are cold comfort the question is whether he will ever want to know who his real parents are and why they treated him as a commodity terry pushed over artsy sky. and actually we explore how what you think you know about your diet in the food you eat could be completely wrong that's our special report coming up after

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