e.u. central bankers fear italy and spain i may also be heading for their own financial abyss. news around the clock from around the world six am in moscow i'm mad très a good to have you with us here on r t revelations keep coming out about the ill fated voyage of the sunken pleasure cruiser on the volga river as one former captain says it was quote technically dead long before sunday's tragedy this comes as investigators arrest the director of the company who lease the vessel and the official who certified it as being sea worthy both are charged with providing unsafe services that resulted in death. if found guilty they could face up to ten years in prison more than one hundred people are now confirmed to have died after the ball garia went down in only a matter of minutes in russia's republic of tatar stand twenty three of the bodies were recovered have so far been those of children. and has the latest from the scene just a warning you may find some of the images in this report disturbing. the camp behind me will remain busy throughout the night and into the next day as team

e.u. central bankers fear italy and spain are heading for their own financial abyss brussels is concerned that it won't have enough cash in its trillion and a half hero fund to bail out italy it's the fourth largest economy in the world and analysts say it has a worse debt problem than i. or ireland. up next and cross talk peter lavelle and gas discuss the repercussions of the phone hacking scandal that's gripping the u k . and you can. see. a low in welcome to cross talk on people about an empire in disarray rupert murdoch and his immense media assets are under investigation in what is being called voicemail gate is this scandal all about murdoch and his sleazy business practices or a media that no longer serves the public good. can . the cross-talk media today i'm joined by tony pedersen in dallas he's a professor and bell distinguished chair in journalism at southern methodist university in los angeles we cross the fattiest russell he's a historian and the author of a renegade history of the united states and in oxford we go to shawn powers he's an assistant professor at georgia state

e.u. central bankers here italy and spain may be heading for their own financial abyss brussels is concerned that it won't have enough cash in its euro bailout fund to meet italian debt. sticking with financial troubles up next part one of the alone to show reports on u.s. debt issues and if washington may have to print more currency stay with us on our. for the feast we've got. the biggest issues get voice face to face with the news makers. welcome the loner show where you get the real headlines with none of the mersey come alive out of washington d.c. now and i will take a look at what ben bernanke said when testifying on the hill will there be or will there not be a q e three that a new poll shows that opinions towards america in the arab world are lower now than they were under president george w. bush sounds like obama is really scoring up that and these days newsrooms are emptying while p.r. firms are bulking up so how could that trend change journalism as we know it we're going have all of that and more for you night for you tonight including a dose of happy hour but first let's take

e.u. central bankers fear italy and spain are heading for their own financial abyss brussels fears that it won't have enough cash in its trillion and a half euro fund to bail out the fourth largest economy. not only western europe facing financial troubles up next speaks with the prime minister of belarus about the severe economic crisis that has hit the republic recently spotlight coming up. yeah. i mean. the program is. since spring is in the grip of a severe financial crisis is the government to do the. rescue by securing a loan from the. need to stabilize. this. is. to save its ailing economy today. is here to this question he is the prime minister. cling to official reports inflation. forty percent by the end of the year trying to get rid of national currency the russians are buying up importing dues exchange operations a temporary prohibited by the state the dramatic by the russian. undertaken two months ago hasn't stopped the process collation. helped secure a three billion dollar bailout loan from the russian led.

e.u. central bankers fear italy and spain could be heading for their own financial abyss and brussels fears that it would not have enough cash in its trillion and a half euro fund to bail out italy. coming up our special report on one of the most scenic regions in russia from lush woodlands to mighty mountains of the ski region presents a sight to discover stay with us. the region deep in the far east is one of russia's newest territories. two thousand and eight it brought together the chip. regions and with it a striking mix of asian and european culture. traveling around you can find buddhist temples spooling national parks and remote villages that still practice traditions that date back a thousand years but if you're flying here in the region's vibrant capital. one of. course the best way to get to know is to have a local show you around. a bit. in the. three hundred thousand people and it's a real mismatch of styles it's one of the only cities in russia that's based on a grid system and the downtown area has some beautiful european influenced. but. the more soviet and industrial it bec

e.u. central bankers fear italy and spain may be heading for their own financial abyss brussels is concerned it wouldn't have enough cash bail out the. analysts say europe's fourth largest economy is too big to fail and that it has a problem. coming up our special report on one of the most scenic regions in russia from lush woodlands to mighty mountains. is a sight to behold discovering russia coming your way next. the region deep in the. east is one of russia's newest territories. two thousand and eight it brought together the chip. regions and with it a striking mix of asian and european culture. you can find buddhist temples spooling national parks and remote villages that still practice traditions that date back a thousand years but if you're flying here you'll be landing in the region's point capital. whenever you're a new place of course the best way to get to know is to have a local show you around and i know one lady here who's promised to serve me a bit of what life is like in the. just over three hundred thousand people and it's a real mismatch of style.

e.u. central bankers fear italy and spain may be heading for their own financial abyss brussels is concerned that it wouldn't have enough cash in its hero bailout fund to meet italian debt analysts say as europe's fourth largest economy italy is too big to fail but it has worsened debt problems and either portugal or ireland. next part two of the alone a show where we take a look at how p.r. firms are growing while news companies are shrinking and what that means for the future of journalism stay with us here on our team. all right it's time for you said it i read it where i take time to respond to my brilliant and engaging viewer comments from facebook twitter and you too because when you've got something to say i do listen now for us i'd like to respond to a comment about our mainstream miss segment yesterday i compared the media's obsessive focus on the weather to them completely ignoring the fact the u.s. still won't let a us representative visit bradley manning and job said on you tube the weather is very important to millions of people and certainly worthy of a segment here or there it

e.u. and the european central bank was to take a more lenient position to ireland you had u.s.treasury secretary geithner saying wait a minute take a hard line for a for ireland you have to crush it because we've the u.s. banks financial casinos have insured irish debt same thing with greece it's the u.s. treasury that comes in and says wait a minute are tied himself system has turned into a i'd shape we've insured the greek debt and we can't afford to take a loss so you're europeans have to take a loss you have to impoverish your later so that our financial wall our wall street just you know capitalist firms like goldman sachs can make a kelly and they can't pay their people one hundred million dollars a year in salary if you don't impoverish your labor we're making money off you and that's the financial system that's what we call stability so you may think it's our risk but it's not our risk it were. knowing you've got to do what you were referring to risk isn't a risk if you let us treasury act is the battering ram for the wall street firms that ensure the rest and say you t

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