the tractor italian prime minisr silvio berlusconi bunga-bunga party is raging on. and now the prime minister is on time for allegedly having sex with an underage prostitution known as "ruby, the heart stealer" and at one of the bunga-bunga parties. we are told this involved a lot of beautiful women, a lot of money, and a lot of sex. and according to a new report the parties continue. berlusconi's lawyers deny it. the chief correspondent is like for us in the new york newsroom. jonathan, how did they find out about the bunga-bunga parties? >>jonathan: they stumbled across the evidence. a colleague and friend of silvio berlusconi is a millionaire businessman and he heads the formula one grand prix circuit and he was being investigated for tax evasion and they stumbled across some wiretapped phone calls where he was talking to a lot of other wealthy men about the parties saying that they were still going on, not at the original berlusconi residence but a villa a few miles away, so, this was all by accident that the tax investigators have now passed this information on

newspaper and surprise he won three times its own prime minister silvio berlusconi's trial on charges he paid for sex with an underage prostitute and abused his power to cover it up resume yesterday a day after his party suffered sterling losses and local lections all across italy and his lawyers promptly requested that the trial be moved out of the chords and into a special ministerial tribunal considering there's been over a month since the last hearing the case the spectacle will probably continue to drag out for a long time but media outlets are reporting the trial and all the information that has surfaced about where it was going is now infamous bunga bunga sex parties is having a cultural backlash in italy or many say that the objectification of women as sexual objects has become mainstream because of berlusconi's media empire. some added exaction started going after companies that objectify women practice some say their list don't eat starting with his t.v. channels featuring lots of dancing girls and. it's very embarrassing that this is an ad for a radio i scream you think sta

the referendum was on whether to approve berlusconi's idea of reviving nuclear power. voting was held on sunday and monday. the italian interior ministry said 94.6% were against domestic nuclear power generation after 95% of all the votes were counted. >> translator: today is the historic day for italy. >> translator: the nuclear accident at fukushima convinced us that nuclear power generation is an outdated technology. >> even before the result was announced, berlusconi expressed his intention to cancel the plan to build new nuclear power plants. >> translator: once the italian people have spoken we will probably have to give up nuclear power. >> he also said the country will promote renewable energy sources. germany and switzerland have already decided to close their nuclear power stations after the accident at fukushima daiichi's nuclear power plant. italy is the first country to hold a refer dumb on its energy policy. >>> three months after the crisis at the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant an nhk poll shows nearly half of the japanese people want fewer plants

silvio berlusconi's so-called bunga bunga parties. first, a look at what's hot on the web for you. first off for you, another gaming company was hacked, nintendo this time, but they say no customer information was compromised and the hacker who claimed that they're behind the breach tweeted they meant no harm. they're the same group that hacked sony, exposing personal information for more than a million users. >>> robert pattinson's steamy kiss with his co-star is lighting up the internet today. but not the co-star you think. for the third year in a row, pattinson and kristen stewart won best kiss at the mtv movie awards and this year fans thought they might actually see the real life couple smooch. but, no, he kissed another co-star instead, taylor lautner. the movie won five awards. there you go. >>> if you're inviting your friends to a party by posting it on facebook, make sure to check

silvio berlusconi accepts defeat in ballot÷ initiatives.and dirk nowitzki beats the miami heat to win the nba finals. >> germany has recognized libya's rebel government as the sole goverment of the people. they have bolstered support for the government. he said germany shares the same go as the rebels, which is a libya without gadaffi. >> hhe was there to tell the rebels tha tthey support the battle against gaddaffi. until now this was seen as one representative of the people of libya. now this is the sole representative and they are opening -- in bengazi. >> it is crucial t help the country for the people of libya. [gunfire] >> for the rebels, the goal is a long way off. in west libya, they have held misrada, but heavy shelling keeps them from gaining further ground. col. gadaffi appeared on libyan television, metting with the -- meeting with the president of the chess association, showing that it is far from checkmate. >> hillary clinton is telling african nations to stop supporting the libyan leader. she has said that african countries c

you know you could see the live pictures here of president medvedev and silvio berlusconi during a news conference we don't have the english translation we are waiting trying to get it from from there in rome. more than an anniversary and now we're going to be holding this trilateral meeting with the vice president of the united states of america mr joe biden we've already had a meeting amongst ourselves. and we've examined the international issues before us so we met just a few days ago when france anyway and during that time of course we just custer the main issues that concern the international scenario right now but i don't wish to anticipate what he's going to say i would like for dimitri himself to inform you of what he would like to say. i'll start one statement by congratulating him on behalf of the russian federation for all of my colleagues here russian journalists. on vacation or one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the fusion of legally i would call a geisha. enjoys taking part vent. because italy he's very close or. and we maintain very good very close relationship will it i

on the two dmitri medvedev and prime minister of italy silvio berlusconi need just days after a major summit the g. eight summit wrapped up in france and of course the focus was mainly on those agreements already achieved between the leaders like a common stance on north africa and the middle east uprising again dmitri medvedev today reiterated russia's position on that russia only supports a peaceful resolution of the conflict in libya and considers it the country's internal affairs also invited for talks in rome today was the u.s. vice president joe biden together they discussed libya the middle east and apart from that the u.s. missile defense system for europe we don't rush expects more transparency more cooperation from the u.s. on that as america plans to deploy this a.m.d. very close to russia's borders so dialo could be intensified today new solutions found of course and these talks take place just days before another major get together of the european leaders takes place in the russian city of growth that is russia summit planned for a june nine and turn and so of course in t

today and he said president maybe it was about to sit down for talks with prime minister silvio berlusconi here at. pili and this meeting comes just days after the g eight summit wrapped up until the grandsons and other major get together is about to start in the russian city of new norgrove that's russia some days it will take place on the ninth of june so we expect the two will focus mostly on the fears of the upcoming summit succumbs are traditionally that is close economic ties between russia and the european union energy projects but it is a chanel economy if we talk about e.t.a. and france the two over the past years have cemented close political and economic ties with the lhari of deals worth billions of dollars they're together building a new gas pipeline south stream pipeline to europe working on an ambitious one hundred passenger jet a joint space exploration programs that easily is also russia's third largest trade pot that within the e.u. so indeed the relationship deserves to be told a privileged relationship as soon as it will score any himself described it in february one vi

silvio berlusconi's attorney is. italy is calling this a stunning defeat, that his political party just lost these major elections even in his hometown. one of his lawyers said it wasn't because of policy or the economy, but because of the 74-year-old's partying lifestyle that landed him on trial could topple his government. many here are saying it's about time. silvio berlusconi and his eternal grin has hardly let his many travel times of late get him down. at the g-8 summit he complained to president obama that leftist judges are out to get him. back home, at this youth event he says, i'm getting the desire to invite you to a bunga-bunga party. he's talking about the wild parties he's accused of throwing in the disco in his basement, the one investigators have called orgies. one of the dozens of young women prosecutors say he paid for sex, which he denies, they say was underage. ruby is her stage name. the belly dancing teen runaway also denies doing anything untoward for the gifts and cash she admits silvio berlus

trace: bun bunga bunga time and charges of sleeping with underage prostitute not stopping silvio berlusconim getting his party on. according to the daily tell graph wiretaps indicate the billionaire prime minister has switched his bunga bunga party venue. include a lot of beautiful women, money and sex are still in full swing although mr. berlusconi's lawyers deny all of it prosecutors say the prime minister had sex with that underaged prostitute known as ruby the heart stealer at one of those bunga bunga parties. i'm trace gallagher in for shepard smith. this is the fox report. it's the bottom of the hour. time for the top of the news. new pictures of congressman thorn weiner turning up on the web. hours later he confessed to sending explicit photos to three women over the past three years including this one. last week congressman weiner denied sending it saying someone hacked his twitter account. >> last friday night i tweeted a photograph of myself that i intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in seattle. once i realized i had posted to twitter i panicked. i to

however, in the wake of the accident at japan's fukushima daiichi power plant, berlusconi stopped his plan in an attempt to avoid the referendum. with the fukushipuck shifukushit leaking radioactive substances into the air and sea, people living in the northeast are getting more and more anxious. governments are releasing data daily showing radiation levels are safe. but not everyone is convinced. >>> nhk provides updates on airborne radiation levels every day. the bulletins are based on data collected by local governments. this man pays attention to the news, but he also checks radiation levels online. he's the father of two elementary school-aged children. he and his family live in a city about 65 kilometers from fukushima daiich i. they're out of the evacuation zone, but sometimes they experience the same measurements found in the no-go areas. he's frustrated because officials haven't released radiation readings for his neighborhood. so he's not taking any chances. to protect his children, he keeps their bedroom windows closed. he also blocks ventilation openings with plastic wrap.

those improvements will not silvio berlusconi for this event. they will be for the permanent use for everybody. >> as the economy creates more homeless folks, what more can be done to divert them off the streets and into housing and job training? >> if i could answer that easily. one of the reasons i came to work enthusiastically with the former mayor is that i truly believe in the care not cash approach to ending homelessness. the solution is permanent supportive is in. we're already putting up the housing but not of the pace we would like because of the economy. that will continue to be the target and focus of the true answer to the challenge of homelessness>> the more you wile individuals changing their lives. in doing so, we continue to have a very active human services agency on the ground, and getting them in the shelters that we have and trying to operate programs like project homeless connect and others where we bring tremendous amounts of volunteer support. the hope is to engage people to make better decisions. you can't force people. w

. >> silvio berlusconi was dealth t a serious political blow. is facing four criminal cases. a series of aftershocks in new zealand is being blamed for the death of an elderly nursing-home resident. a health official confirmed but gave no further details. it is thought the residents -- the strongest of which was 7.0. >> you have been watching "newsday". bring you a reminder of the main news. unrest in syria is continuing. 6000 have crossed into turkey. the military have been arresting hundreds of people. keep up-to-date with our story by visiting the bbc news website. that is all from us from london and singapore. rico is back for asia reports. stay with us. >> hello and welcome. >> see the news unfold, get the top stories from around the globe and click-to-play video reports. go to bbc.com/news to experience the in-depth, expert reporting of "bbc world news" online. >> funding was made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own foundation. the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. and union bank. >> union bank has put

the italian prime minister silvio berlusconi said the italian people have made their opinion clear and government and parliament must now respond fully. for the third day running, there have been clashes in southern china. about 1000 protestors set fire to cars and damaged government buildings. the vaccination program for children in the developing world. among the donors includes the computer billionaire bill gates. putting america back to work has been the obama administration's top priority for years. it could be the issue which decides whether the president keeps his job for another term. the party hopefuls take to the stage in new hampshire for debate tonight. president obama held an event of his own to prove that he has not lost sight of that all- important mission. obama hit the road today to talk economics, but his destination was pure politics. north carolina is in need of some serious presidential wooing. the state did not give him a ringing endorsement in 2008. dewpoint five years later, their jobless rate is higher than the national average -- 2.5 years later. it did not st

he will have a meeting with prime minister silvio berlusconi. >>> and the atlantic hurricane season gets under way today. june is expected to be a quiet month, as usual. but forecasters are predicting an active season, with 18 named storms. ten of them are expected to become hurricanes. the first storm will be named arlene. >>> the crew of the space shuttle "endeavour" is now back on earth after landing overnight in florida. commander mark kelly and the five other astronauts will hold a news conference this morning. kelly travels to houston tomorrow to reunite his wife, congresswoman gabby giffords. >>> a minnesota man is setting out today on a rather unique three-month journey, hoping to break a world record by paddleboarding the entire mississippi river. he plans to paddle eight hours a day. his goal is to raise relief money for the red cross. is that relaxing? or is it a workout? >> it's like a modern-day huckleberry finn. but on one of those surfboards. >> i like it. >> eight hours a day for three months. >>> for some of you, your local news is next. >> for everybody else, "america t

prime minister berlusconi is after it's to bring italy back into the nuclear round and i believe being the only country in the world that ever had nuclear power and abandon it have now been put on the shelf by italian reaction to fukushima but in except in that strange locale in the center of europe i think we have a continued commitment worldwide to nuclear power you called the german decision responsible do you think this is what makes you think so do you think that germans will not be able to make it live b.m.w.'s to pay for speed for additional electricity but i i don't think they're going to be able to make enough for a new a boy energy. for fill their fantasy is. it is not possible in the twenty first century for a major industrial economy to power itself with clean energy without considerable reliance upon nuclear power and any belief with that is part of all is based upon a fantasy the germans are already recognize that they're going to be burning more coal importing more gas importing some nuclear from france and there are some players operating on a on a on a blind faith that

nuclear energy and water privatization the voters also accept reject a big body current pm silvio berlusconi to retain immunity from prosecution after he steps down one of the votes so far that will cost him fame. definitely shelving government plans in what is seen as a major blow to what is going to administration. a suicide bombers kill themselves at least one of a bank in the pakistani capital he detonated his bomb in a security guard tried to search a suicide attacks are frequent across pakistan but it's the first time in a year and a half that a suicide bomber has managed to hit a target in islamabad where security is tight. he's even second largest city of christchurch has been shaken by two volunteer earthquakes they come just four months after another tremor left the city in ruins and killed nearly two hundred people the latest quake struck within minutes of each other with the strongest having a magnitude of six on the richter scale although widespread damage was caused there were no reports of any injuries. but a natural disaster of a different kind is explored in our special repo

program to build new stations people are also voting on whether the current prime minister silvio berlusconi can retain immunity from prosecution wants to step down from power. voters across turkey are heading to the polls in a general election two parties are battling for power with current prime minister type and one running against the secular republican people's party and once targeting a parliamentary majority so we can change the constitution in favor of more liberal policies. but there's a festive atmosphere here in moscow and around russia today as the country marks twenty one years since it declared its sovereignty followed by the collapse of the soviet union just one year later it held its first free elections which resulted in victory for the reformist president. as. now reports even today memories of that bumpy road to democracy are still fresh in many people's minds. twelve nineteen ninety one millions voted to make boris yeltsin russia's first president a watershed moment in the country's history because this was the first free election in russia the day after we left behind a

energy or water privatization the vote is also looks set to reject a bid by the current pm silvio berlusconi to retain immunity from prosecution after his steps down or half the votes so far counted were cast in favor of indefinitely shelving government plans. what is seen is a major blow to body scans administration. as suicide bombers kill themselves at least one of those a bank in the pakistani capital doesn't make cities bomb when a security guard tried to search him suicide attacks are frequent across pakistan but it's the first time in a year the hoff that a suicide bomber has managed to hit a target in his number that where security is tight. brings up that for the moment i'll be back to recap i had lines in just a few moments from now stay with us live here in moscow this is all to. culture is that so much of always about the feeling goes i think if i'm not going to give a real commitment for boris yeltsin was he a great man who made history or was he merely a product of his time opinions differ widely don't know wynton. to a substantial degree and one form or another socialism has s

to the crisis in the middle east north africa he held talks with italian prime minister silvio berlusconi after the two off the ground military parade it came as italy celebrates the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of its unification. was there to see. yes to take a show featuring not only the national army of easily but also foreign armies every second day of june italy celebrates the italian day of the republic on these state nine hundred forty six one fashion fall at the end of world war two beatles voted more arps had to drop their republican form of government these days no less passed at the last republican traditionally features these spectacular military parades in the very center of romania call a stay home and this year's parade as you said is national because at twenty eleven also marks one hundred fifty years since he became a unified country from a patchwork of cities states of never in a small in history to easily source so many national flags waving in the air as this year but unlike for example the retreat day parade in most these military types who in rome is not so much

the number of casualties not been disclosed we who are nato you hold mr cameron mr sarkozy and mr berlusconi mr obama may already. have a good response support for the deaths of these innocent children innocent was done here as an innocent fathers and mothers you cannot justify this attack the enemy was up with that incident. sunday's fatal error occurs in the rising concerns within nato about his operation in northern africa only eight out of its twenty eight members have joined the mission to protect civilians in libya which raises the question how many would support one to kill them ration option or r t tripoli. and with civilian casualties in libya mounting and no end in sight those paying for the intervention and my baby is stumping up more than they bargained for the u.k. has announced that its taxpayers might see one point six billion dollars of their hard earned cash diverted to fund being to rancher and his lawyer and that reporters there's little patience left among an already visitors and public. they're already calling it the billion pound war it's calculated that if the war in l

the lawmakers in question are berlusconi -- in berlusconi's party.judiciary. so i don't know how that will play out. but i think in the end, amanda knox's case, the case against her is looking weaker and weaker. >> another odd iity for us, at least in the italian court system, is that if you make a charge against the police, the bliss beat me, that leads to a slander charge, which amanda and her parents are now facing. how does that figure into this? >> well, this is absolutely astounding. yeah, of course in the united states, in a criminal case, if the parents come out and say, hey, the cops abused my daughter when they questioned her, no big deal. >> we hear that a lot. >> i probably said it a few times about some of my clients. but in italy when the parents said this, the police sued them for libel and slander. and that case is now going through the italian courts. you criticize the police in italy, you get sued. and so that's now -- >> could knox be let off for the murder and then end up spending time for slander? >> well, the parents could theor

peaceful resolution to the crisis in the middle east north africa he met with prime minister silvio berlusconi actually to watch the grand military parade dedicated to the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of italy's unification i should say are you cutting the grass has more from. vatican city vogel school any need just days after the g eight summit wrapped up in france so course the focus was mainly on the grants already achieved between the leaders like a common stance on the north africa and the middle east conflicts uprising again dmitri medvedev reiterated today russia's position russia supports a peaceful resolution of the conflicts in league and considers it the country's internal affairs also invited for talks today in rome was us vice president joe biden apart from libya and the middle east conflict they discussed the u.s. plans to deploy and to me sell system in europe you know russia expects more transparency more cooperation from the u.s. on that as this system is to be deployed so kudos to russia's borders from joe biden and to meet their presence in rome today were presided daves

energy and water privatization and such is also looks set to reject a big budget current pm silvio berlusconi to retain immunity from prosecution after he steps down or the health of it so far counted work cost in favor of indefinitely shelving government plans and what is seen as a major blow to the scones administration. as suicide bombers kill themselves at least one other at a bank in the pakistani capital you just mentioned these bomb when a security guard tried to search and suicide attacks and frequent across pakistan that is the first time in a year the hoff that a suicide bomber has managed to hit a target in this number that we're security is tight. turns on that for the moment i'll be back to recap i had lines in just a few moments from now stay with us live here in moscow this is. cultures that so much always about the feeling because i think a commitment to give a real commitment for boris yeltsin was he a great man who made history but was he merely a product of his time opinions differ widely don't know when didn't. two s m stanfield agree and one problem or another socialism h

for instance, if you look in italy, everybody's freak being berlusconi's sex life. for better and worse, our politicians are famous people so we're curious about the way he leads his private life, what he does in mediums that sort of put his private life and public life next to each other, like on twitter. i think, sure, it's ridiculous to talk about this when we could be talking about any number of important issue. but one thing doesn't always preclude the other. we can be curious about this without, you knowing giving up every other story in the news cycle. >> jeff jarvis, let me ask you about the college student who received this picture of somebody's -- somebody in their underwear. she says she doesn't know anthony weiner and she says she was labeled mistress, her phone numbers were gwynn out, relative members were contacted bit press. are we guilty of invading her privacy? >> that's the unfortunate thing of being brought in accidentally. we're living more public lives and i celebrate that f you choose to be public. when you're pulled into the public eye against

kim jong il or silvio berlusconi.is more than 70 to 80% gray, leave it alone. bill clinton's hair looks fantastic now. he's nearly 100% gray. it looks perfect. >> reporter: other men who are doing white right? anderson cooper. actor john slatery. and george clooney. joe, on the other hand, wants to dye. after colorist lisa strapped him in, it was time for the chair. >> right now we're applying the gray blending hair color. >> reporter: joe, how are you feeling right now? >> excellent weather excellent. i feel myself being transformed. >> reporter: the voices of your buddies, are they going through your mind right now. >> they are. a lot of them are saying very insulting things. you know what? i don't mind. i'm a trend setter. i feel good about it. done? >> done. >> is it still gray? >> reporter: joe's moment of truth had arrived. are you ready for the mirror? >> i am. >> reporter: would he live to dye another day? >> wow. that is fantastic. 1994 all over again. >> reporter: do you think you look your age now? you're a

night, but instead i spent the day on the phone with president obama trying to squeeze another $1 berlusconi out of the most powerful man -- $1 billion out of the most powerful man in the world and a reluctant one, i might add. i'm hoping this evening will be more pleasant, and in fact, it already has been. so let me thank you for your patience with my schedule and for sticking with me as your speaker tonight. you know, as important as that process was this spring, it was important in part because we needed to cut spending and we needed to move on to the next debate, the real vital debate, and that's the debate over this year's budget and the president's request that we raise the national debt limit. ultimately this is a debate that is not about numbers, it's a debate about jobs. and it's a debate about the very future of our country, and that's what i want to talk to you about tonight. as everyone in this room knows all too well, our nation is confronting a very serious debt crisis. our national debt has exploded to the point where it's no longer just threatening our children's future decad

the vice president met with him and prime minister bruce ghani when he was in -- prime minister berlusconi when he was in rome. i don't have any trouble announcements to make -- travel announcements to make. >> what is the deadline for -- >> the drawdown will begin in july 2011. you heard it on the best source possible. the president said he would make a decision soon. >> does not -- doesn't he have a week before july to make -- >> soon is pretty soon a. you can expect that to be soon. >> he said yesterday that he planned for germany to take an active role in libya. >> i think it is part of wise planning to consider the future that we hope to help bring about, with the very actions we've taken, but it diplomatically, economically, unilaterally, multilaterally, militarily through the net emission -- for the nato mission -- yes, we are in contact with our allies, consulting with and talking with the transitional council about libya's future. have theat, i don't specifics about how that will unfold once gaddafi leaves -- >> if he were to leave within the next 10 minutes, is there a whole list