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today's news and this means top stories on our team grief and despair in norway as the country mourns the victims of its first ever terrorist attack the suspect admits to killing dozens of the twin terrorist falsities. none just very brave exist becoming of more than annoying to people was necessary and he was to go alone when all the details in a few moments. live pictures from but dread aware of crowds protests over surveillance jets and other one make use of heroes future despite iraq for its to save the company currency. rupert murdoch faces investigation
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in the us and job or alleged phone hacking by his media firm that suffered being grilled in britain over the scandal that should move these politicians and the press. just after eleven pm here in the russian capital you're watching r t thanks for being with us and also our top story the entire norwegian nation has been shaken by friday's killing rampage as a country mourns the ninety three people massacred and the also bombing and you count shooting prime minister yet stoltenberg has said the two days since the attacks turned into hours days and nights filled with shock and crying archies adonal bushell reports now from the capital oslo. it's a day of mourning there's a memorial service behind me attended by king harold of norway looking very somber the prime minister of norway says that the two days since the tragedy have seemed
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like an eternity the people obviously are tense they're still trying to understand how something like this could have happened and the police say they'll still looking there's potential there are more victims to be found on the island is also just outside there is criticism rising for the police but it took them from an hour to now to have to actually find the to find the killer and to stop the massacre so there is criticism storage fees over this over this tragic incident the suspect has admitted the crime he said that he wanted to change in society that he wanted to force the revolution that it was an atrocious but necessary act to make the norwegian people realize and the society realize that it's going wrong he said it's not a crime more details are emerging about the suspect himself who posted a rense of fifteen hundred page rants on the internet saying how he went to various countries czech republic in the european union with its lax gun laws is what he
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said to look for and he speaks plainly how he was going to carry out these acts you can maybe understand what he is. among community here that he wasn't before he was allowed to carry out his crimes he expressed violent and he muslim views he was briefly a member of the progress policy here in norway which is and he immigrants in the ruling labor party is who we attacked first through in the city center the government headquarters were hit by a car bomb that apparently he went to an oil and just outside where he attacked a group of children he was dressed in a police uniform he had a gun and he was shouting i'll kill everyone everyone must die we have pictures of her children swimming for survival hiding in the rocks and dramatic pictures of a ten year old. boy being saved so the tragedy of a nation really hear more now in this report brave christine it will cause hit the
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local bomb explosion in days and surrounded by broken clothes she stayed in the lawsuit to help the wounded waitress just standing tough thing and then suddenly it just faded i was like i call it a face just waiting for your body blow off it out like last bits in their eyes how do you know that gets smashed that's all of them the skin and everything this show patched up victims before giving out whole drinks as a nation which has never suffered at the hands of terrorists before he says norwegians just didn't know how to react. all or i'm stronger from course some buildings. also be patrolled things 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
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a machine most people. think. that. this is just the two atrocities produced many acts of heroism with the dust settles on the walls worst mass shooting it's worse it is also boise anger and the attacks were allowed to happen in the first place a good little story ignore dozens of hate messages from suspect. you haven't really been prepared right being extremism expressed fury of the government's policy on immigration blogs and twitter feeds. the shootings may reflect growing national opposition to fully immigration policies the political establishment the more they are relative the people that live in areas where there are simply no. immigrants so that was a poor people in or the being pushed out of the places they used to live live in and that's also their drugs that are in jeopardy muslims claim this disappointment
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that the killer turned out to be wants they want this guy to be a muslim or how much they're not. good it's for them it's a little bit strange because he's no egypt so they talk too much about his grandmother about us. it's not good norwegians 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 but in no way the far right sentiment. wider than norwegians are ready to admit and there's a respectful attitude towards that kind of thing and in mainstream media but the reality is that fifty percent of who joins are against multiculturalism as people here try to pick up the pieces and bring meaning to this twitter tiger already thing it will sell relations between communities some expect the crackdown
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by police on the e.u. growing for right movements while other spirit is slowly fueled resentment against europe's muslims victims are beginning to piece together the shots of lawyers but experts warn this might not be the last such a time as outrage at the perceived failure of a multicultural society grows the new bush will see oslo others a brave except he needed to start a revolution to force a change in society investigative journalist tony gosling believes there's a new brand of neo nazi terrorism that authorities all over the world should be watching closely. anders breivik thought he was some kind of teutonic knights from medieval times because he's echoing the kind of crusader attitude and it's a very strange version of christianity that he. is he says he's a christian i don't think he is he says maybe the same kind of strange version of
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christianity that bush and blair have been coming up with over the last ten years or so so i think that this is actually the tip of an iceberg is actually quite a lot of this neo nazi activity out there and now i think the antiterrorist or thought is right across the world we're going to have to take this brand of terrorism much more seriously and particularly worrying is that he was a freemason and as brave as declare that he was a freemason i would imagine that the norwegian police are now going to be talking to other all the other members of any masonic lodges that he was in because this seems to be the place where this kind of fake christian rather nasty racist ideology was cooked up i would also add that it was interesting that the police said they never come across him before the norwegian police but i wonder very much i wonder if the secret service in norway has been watching him because it was very strange that when he was first arrested on friday the police actually called out his name to him now it was very i would be amazed if they would have actually known
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as they first approached him what his name was i would have thought that from the arrest point that's where the investigation would have started from. the whole world is now discussing what lies behind this trotty in norway and you can join the debate on our website r.t. dark heart now where so far at the majority here from madison is to brain fewer people say the tension stems from multiculturalism and eight percent believe the reason is global terrorism which penetrates everywhere and the rest it's down to the failure of security forces a law guards are to guard can't ever have your say on. and still ahead for you in the program marching in a protest well they call themselves indignant once they've taken to the streets of madrid tired of what they say is their government's inaction against recession and unemployed. and they took began stabbing over control of afghan provinces to local security forces but many question if they are really up to the job.
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now this week the phone hacking and police bribery scandal was taken to the british parliament rupert murdoch his son james and a former u.k. see overbeck of books were all grilled by british lawmakers for several hours the trio said they were deeply sorry for what happened however miller allegations of emerged the news international chairman james murdoch misled m.p.'s by saying he was unaware of the true extent of illicit phone tapping rice company's reporters meanwhile questions are being asked over the death of journalist sean hoare the matter credited with revealing the phone hacking scandal and authorities or emma reports it's drawing striking parallels with another whistleblower. another political scandal erupts another the whistleblower diaries sure who was the first former news of the world journalists to go on the record to allege that phone hacking was endemic at the paper and that its editor andy colson actively
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encouraged it who was found dead in his house on monday setting up local spear into a frenzy of comparisons with the case of dr david kelly noise in the sun here story reminds me of how dr david kelly was bumped off. eerily similar tragedies of shortfall and david kelly wallace from the water and david kelly shawn who are this what i'm thinking something's not right to kelly was the u.n. weapons inspector who first cast doubt on the government's claim that iraq could deploy weapons of mass destruction within forty five minutes it led to scrutiny of tony blair's decision to invade iraq by extraordinary coincidence caylee'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 had spoken to to publicize his belief that the forty five minute claim had been
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exaggerated iligan 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 walsh or hall was murdered because. i simply don't think it would have been in anyone's interest to murder them once they got into the public spotlight anyone with an iota of sense in government would have known that to kill them we just would just amplify the story i think it's simpler i think both were under enormous pressure from their roles as whistle blows. and found it difficult to cope with that pressure short haul with evidence could have been crucial to proving that the news of the world editors supported a culture of listening to private voice mail sport stories because former editor andy corson who later became a media director to the current prime minister has always denied the allegations that the man was destroyed professionally by views international or the journalistic world in london is a rare small planes and the man was distraught he was well known but he was
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drinking too much taking drugs he was depressed to be moralized police are saying hall's 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 m.p.'s. have never accepted that their suspicions of hardly been quelled by the fact that small to report and all the 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 that the key whistleblower in this scandal has raised questions but so you thought only about speech which you wrote see it's being reported as a horrible and unfortunate coincidence but it's doubtful that if this has happened elsewhere say in russia or in india the british media would be so quick to accept it as a coincidence particularly looked at in the light of the death of david kelly you're
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and it's o.t. . well germany says it will land at libya's rebels one hundred million euros for quote civilian and humanitarian purposes brylin opposed the us for military intervention in the country but promised to help. through peaceful means let's not talk to chris of course so a government consultant in germany and he joins us live from berlin thank you very much for being on the program the scene thing so this money is supposed to be used for a peaceful purposes humanitarian purposes but is there any thing that can actually do to stop it from being spent on arms that after all that's what the opposition says it wants most. you see it is really a big question what this money is being used for first of all who controls that then next has nato ever cared for the civilian population in libya i don't think so . you know the group of countries bombing libya and using uranium weapons
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that of course is a group of countries not caring for the civilian population base he definitely another point here i see the the important port town of brega which is hotly debated among the rebels and the government as who owns this town now might be a question with some of this money might be used in fact to buy the try to get the town into the hands of the rebels i think that's the question here quite importantly right now to use the money i doubt what it is but visual language of the german government well yes there are mixed messages coming from president over this whole affair first it didn't matter no fly zone resolution if that never said it would give our senators efforts and our hearing moneys heading to the rubble so what this what is going on what is the goal of the german government here. you see
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the problem was when our foreign minister made the decision to not vote with this time in the security council he was told by all the officials including our secret services that libya is a dirty game and of course you know what what could he do then he thought i could not be part of that game because i don't want to be part of another do it again we did that already in afghanistan we abstained in iraq and now we have this libyan case on hand and meanwhile we did two other countries doing cause of oh so where the hell this is going to end he said we're not into it but abstaining just to be neutral in this case of course was that enough because nato has used the security a resolution is a free hand to do just anything they want in effect they are fighting on the side of the rebels they're fighting the libyan government and that is something that hard to see cannot rest the whole word in peace because nobody knows when nato will
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decide to you know protect some civil populations and. kill the government whether we like it or not that's the situation here again this summer so now aside from the money that the german government is giving the libyan rebels have also recently gave that colonel gadhafi is frozen assets in the u.s. and that's after washington of course gave them full circle matic recognition do you think now that this will break the stalemate that having so much funding will actually swing the balance in this civil war. the of course the question the more than twenty billion dollars in free and i think it was also a known story behind the scenes you know that this money is going to be used to help the rebels but of course that is in a way totally illegal you can't just take money away from from governments and give
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it to rebels if this is the future policy that would be a very tough situation on this globe just a bit more push on a german germany's position here nato has called on its members for more active involvement believe it happened in germany of course where it has not participated in the military effort so far but it did say it wants needs this mission to be successful do you think we will see berlin actually joining the campaign one day. well let's put it this way if the pressure by nato by washington on germany prevails and continues and grows stronger then we might see a lot of things which many people may regret including russia and china but that is not sure so far the government german government stays somehow within the lines it has taken but of course with in this band with of possible decisions it is siding very closely with washington and as an arab journalist pointed out to me
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germany wants a piece of the cake to be to be clear germany wants to maintain its fifteen percent of the libyan oil as a percentage of the total oil imports of germany ok thank you very much for your contribution your insight there christophersen our government consultant in germany thank you. well if you've missed anything recovering on air just head to our web site artie dot called where there's always more to be found and here's a taste of what's online right now cover a bohemian mystery why don't why every july since the eight hundred eighty s. california was have been filled with some of the most wealthy and powerful men in the world. at russia's rush to stock up on painkillers as the government prepares to make pills containing code available by prescription only to find out why the move has caused controversy at r.t. dot com. and crowds of protesters have converged on the spanish capital madrid after marching from across
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the country well they're angry at the soaring unemployment to the highest of the euro zone and at the government's failure to tackle the recession well for more now let's cross a lot of our correspondent you can never be sure who's in the center of madrid or the demonstrations demonstrators rather have actually said count so if you know what is going on there spanish discontent has been brewing for a while hasn't it. absolutely in fact a lot of people in the spanish media and the other protesters themselves are referring to this is the spanish revolution you have to keep in mind the fact that spain has one of the highest unemployment rates in the eurozone in fact its youth unemployment is the highest in the european union it's more than forty percent so almost every other young person in the country cannot get a job but it's not that they're not it's not that they're not trying it's just it's just impossible for them to do it so this entire movement which is called the fifteen m. movement started on may fifteenth of this month and since then thousands upon
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thousands of young spanish people have been gathering all across the country in order to call in the government and tell them express the protests and i'll call on them to focus more on the domestic issues they want more jobs. they're trying to find out they're trying to get answers from the government as to why can they not get jobs or why is the country in their opinion going down the drain and in fact as you have mentioned earlier a lot of them have set up camp here in fact this particular protest which is going on right now there are thousands of people just below me unfortunately cannot see them right now but they're very loud there is a there are literally thousands of them they have walked a lot of them have literally walked by foot from more than a hundred sixty cities in spain to converge here and work with them so in the middle of madrid in order to call on the government to bring more jobs to stop listening to the world bank to the i.m.f.
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to the w t o because there they are calling on the government to bring those jobs into focus on the domestic issues a lot of them have been camping out here for several days and their slogan right now is somewhat reminiscent to something that we've all heard several years before and so yes we can predict as they believe that they these young people of spain can actually make a difference by showing their protests. as this is going on in spain i mean this massive protests you can see there behind you with all their grievances the public airing their grievances on the other hand a lifeline has been thrown to greece to similarly read through the protests of their own just recently leaders they finally agreed to have a second package to rescue package to greece the many analysts say this is not going to be an officer what you're hearing there as well. well our you have to understand that their hundred nine billion dollars package which has been approved for greece a lot of analysts are saying that it's not going to help the country because the one thing you have to remember is that greece will have to pay this out at some
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point or another and how is the country going to do that when you have. what some analysts are saying is the issue off the rating agencies which are creating conic by saying that several countries like greece like spain like portugal. we have been downgraded by agencies they say that these very rating agencies are craving panic which is also keeping the countries from blossoming a lot of people are saying that this is what has been done for greece is not enough that something else has to be done and of course countries like germany and france that work rather banks which are which are in germany and france are just scrambling to kind of keep figural float but a lot of the critics this latest bail out are saying that euro probably will not hold out for much longer and those are the very same fears which are expressed by the thousands of people yelling and shouting and protests right below me in the center of madrid right now all right thank you very much for that report our correspondent in italy for reporting live there from the spanish capital but it.
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now emerged as the services have recovered more bodies from the russian pressure both sides of the volga river two weeks ago killing one hundred twenty people the wreck to ship has been lifted from the bottom shallow waters well the task now is to drain the hole so investigators can examine the vessel in detail to determine the exact cause of the tragedy the search continues for two others whose fate remains unknown let's believe their bodies could still be trapped inside the gulf area went down within minutes of the tenth of july drowning more than half of its two hundred passengers the boat's owner is under investigation at it two people have already been charged with violating safety regulations. now let's look at some other stories making headlines around the globe although some day after two high speed trains crashed in china killing thirty five people and injuring two hundred rescuers pulled
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a small talk from the wreckage bit of good news there but one of the bullet trains was forced to stop after being struck by lightning and was then hit by a second train from behind 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 long. bullet trains in two thousand and seven. a car bomb has killed eight soldiers in yemen's coastal city of aden 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 of the country has been hit by months of anti-government protests including clashes between security forces and on groups. a host of celebrities and friends paid tribute to british soldiers as diva amy winehouse who was found dead in her london flat on saturday police say because of her death remains unexplained the twenty seven year old star wrote
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a myriad of awards including five grammys for her music and had been hailed as one of the most talented a singers of her age her success was often overshadowed though by well documented battles with drugs and alcohol also the subject of her hit song rehab last month she canceled her european tour after being rude off stage during a performance in serbia. however latest operations led by nato and afghan forces sixteen assertions have been killed in the country's south the raid comes in response to renewed taliban activity as they too begins a gradual withdrawal from afghanistan where the plan is to recall all foreign combat troops by the end of twenty fourteen and they've new military commander in the country general john allen once of quote tough times ahead for the war effort earlier this month the afghan president's half brother was assassinated by one of his own bodyguards and in a separate incident one of whom had karzai as top advisers was also gunned down as
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you were active as brian becker thinks of the u.s. led coalition is losing ground in afghanistan where the number of casualties continues to rise. they can't win by staying in for their presence is becoming the main catalyst for the armed insurgency. so you not only the telegram 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 cars eyes 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 the karzai government the u.s. is losing grown steadily its spending one hundred twenty billion dollars
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a year that's an increasing amount from the treasury bills already drain based on huge budget deficits here the number of casualties on the afghan and american side is is is increasing not decreasing 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 crime when i would say the u.s. hasn't gained anything i think the u.s. 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. all be back with a recap of this me same stories and just a few moments if you stay with us r.t. .
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