roman empire collapsed second i if i may always slaps is. me it always seemed to me that the roman empire didn't collapse as simply more of itself into the catholic him either. one could put that spin on it but one would also have to say that the western roman empire gradually declined in power to the point it was taken over by dramatic barbarians. the western roman empire suffered a drastic decline in political complexity so it's true that the western roman empire not everybody enjoyed thought it was a decrease in political and economic complexity which one could call a collapse ok and i am sorry to interrupt you and you are you are reading into it a second one. my second example is a famous romantic example is the polynesian society on easter island easter the most remote habitable scrap of land in the world and island twenty three hundred miles west of the coast of chile and near absolutely nothing easter island is famous for its dry can pick stone statues when up to eighty tons a record by polynesians and then gradually all of those stat

inaction and we'll see if the news of the world scandal could lead to the end of rupert murdoch's media empire and will speak to radley balko who says that caylee's law one which would punish parents with a felony for not reporting a missing child within twenty four hours or a child's death within one hour he says that's a bad idea they've got all of that and more free to night including a dose of happy hour but first let's take a look at what the mainstream media has decided to miss. now call me crass i'm just going to say the mainstream media has moved on from a dead little girl to a newborn and this story was all over the news this morning they say everything is bigger in texas and that certainly holds true for a big boy born over the weekend little fingers little but little john michael is anything good little to michael brown the biggest baby ever born they're going a whopping sixteen pounds use a living by c. section and guess what his parents said no more kids. really i mean it's not as of our entire economy is on the brink of a deep balls because congress can't get their act together a

well you know right now there is no evidence that it's gone beyond the murdoch empire but then again for a long time even the murdoch empire insisted it had gone beyond the news of the world and for some time they insisted that there wasn't even there and so at every turn we find out that there's a little bit more a little bit more but it all has been contained so far to the murdoch empire now he's in competition in competition with people who i'm sure would like to have the same access to the scoops that he's got but so far it just hasn't turned up and so for thankfully has not been the culture even of the tabloid press in the united states seems to be kind of a british thing seems to be something that rupert murdoch has cheerfully exploited and in a number of his properties i hope that it's limited to his properties for a number of reasons not least of which is i really don't think that americans are going to stand for the pain of having the nine eleven bodies zoomed for scoop in the tabloid press that's really a tremendously upsetting prospect i mean the other hand i will say that

boy by the murdoch empire and yet they've not acted on it and i think this is really where this story is going is and now people are starting to ask questions if the police have got this private facie evidence of criminality why haven't they acted further they've effectively they've decided not to investigate themselves and this is now becoming the focus i think here in britain of the story where we see lots of scotland yard detectives basically coming to an agreement and of course these people have many of them have been paid by the murdoch empire to not investigate themselves so the regulation is completely gone now if we go back to ninety ninety seven this is december ninety seven the chief commissioner of metropolitan police a paul condon actually told the home affairs select committee that they had between one hundred and two hundred fifty corrupt detectives in scotland yard but that there was nothing he could do about it because they had more money and better barristers than he did he knew they were corrupt but he couldn't sack them so they had better little help phenomenal what

murdoch empire and not to look into that and you know and news of the world was breaking the story to me i mean. i don't have the evidence here to say definitely that's the case i think it's why we need investigations here in the united states is that it's in the it's in the interest of every american here whether you're conservative or your. democrat or liberal you want to be able to trust that the news that you're getting is actually accurate that the people are engaging in criminal activity to deliver to you and we've already seen fox just fox and forgive the news corp aside we know what's going on with kind of this you know increasing pressure and in this you know picture of this sort of this large criminal enterprise a coordinated criminal enterprise i have a hard time believing it didn't work over fox which is really kind of the crown jewel of the entire empire but if you even just look at the way fox has held stock in the last year or so aggressively courting candidates creating folks like mark rubio out of out of whole cloth and gave them a lack of u.s. senate all of the fundr

is the murdoch media empire structured as a kingdom rather than a corporation and we're talking about you know a hereditary. whatever the word it i know it what it's all it's i mean it's almost feudal in nature you know that you have all these different division heads that report directly to rupert murdoch and you know i have heard many many times that those that are writing of age are publication of his they're hearing from him once a week and he has you know really absolute control you know obviously there's a board but they're his board and so he has an enormous american troy he built and he built that empire himself and in fact you know over the last year and a half in the press we've seen a lot of fighting between his kids about who's going to take over but it's not will roger ailes get a big job you know we'll go to someone else it's which of rupert skewers or rupert murdoch's kids are going to take over the empire sort of very much as a kingdom it's interesting he gets any it's possible with all the news of the world was hacking we know they were they were hacking things about

>>> on the broadcast tonight, the plot thickens through the rupert murdock empire. now a surprising death. what's next in the story, and here in the u.s.? just the start of a sweltering week across much of the nation. tonight how bad it will get and for how long? a huge percentage of this country. >>> looking for a connection between americans who serve in vietnam and an increased risk in dementia. america's team back at home tonight. they remain our top women. it just wasn't their day. "nightly news" begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. it's one of the true media empires in the world. it's threatened and under attack. it's the empire of rupert murdoch, newspaper man who shut down one of his many papers but remains in the business along with some of the great name plates in film and television. the scandal that started with newspaper reporters eavesdropping on the cell phones of innocent people continues to claim new victims and may soon be felt more here in the u.s. than many first thought. it's still galloping its way through

but they're not our empire it's not our empire it's the empire of big business the empire of wall street the empire of big oil yet they send us people who couldn't afford to go to college people who need health care for our families people who don't have jobs they send us to do the fighting for them the reality is the majority of people in the united states are opposed to the wars in iraq and afghanistan inside the military as well and with this government is going to continue sending us to fight and die in these wars that are not in our interest and really it's up to us to stop them and that was stephen lineman host of the progressive radio news hour as well as iraq war veteran and political activist i call prysner. switching gears now really switching gears it is a sad day first and a happy day for others glenn beck wrapped up his last show on fox news today so what does that mean for fox and for back himself and also for the americans who have been tuning in for the last two years artie's honest report. cleaned petri got a messenger of enlightenment i'm sorry. i just love my country.

rupert murdoch's media empire is crumbling face who growing public outrage toward the british tabloid newspaper news of the world rupert murdoch officially announced that a he's shutting the paper down next week journalists and editors of the paper are involved in a highly public scandal and are accused of acting in a phones belonging to a teenage murder victim as well as victims of the london terror attacks and even british soldiers who were killed in combat british lawyers now have own their attention in rupert murdoch's far reaching empire in the u.k. and are even talking about seriously talking about breaking it up meanwhile here in the u.s. where we have to deal with so-called news a court decision today against the f.c.c. could have far reaching effects on the state of media ownership in america and could block murdoch franks from expanding his media empire here in the states within the u.s. third circuit court of appeals ruled today that a company can no longer a pirate news. papers and broadcast stations in the same market reversing an older c.c. rule and at least one reporter

of the happenings scandal surrounding group or murdoch's media empire continues to grow each day last friday les hinton publisher of the wall street journal and the c.e.o. of dow jones resigned over the weekend former news of the world at the rebecca brooks was arrested salim yard chief paul stephenson stepped down on sunday night and by today john gates the assistant commissioner was also on his way out at the request of certain members of congress eric holder and the justice department have now launched an investigation into whether or not because of nine eleven had also been hacked and bloomberg reported today that news corp's independent directors have begun questioning the company's response to the crisis and whether a leadership change is needed and he cited unnamed sources there so even time to start questioning if murdoch's time as the media mogul's coming to an end and is this the scandal that the left has been waiting for you and me to discuss it is katrina vanden heuvel editor and publisher of the nation magazine katrina thanks so much for joining us tonight it's been a whi

this crumbling empire or this actually i mean it may turn a group jeff and may not will not equal you know what i'm. going to. the in the u.k. i mean there's always criminal investigations one of the editors ended up as the press guy the number one press guy for david cameron in a big scandal around that i mean it's actually shaking the government and you know he's going to be arrested tomorrow the guardian is which is probably were provoked shutting down the newspaper but. there's an extension from this scandal in the u.k. these hacking these phones to the wall street journal with the article that you wrote i read today is accurate you tell us about that well you know rupert murdoch and you know every every corporate mogul wants to will for his empire and the wall street journal is that rupert murdoch he's got all of the screaming tabloids and he's got this the ideological television station and it's all pretty lowbrow stuff but then over time as a woman's. vote in the u.s. you know he and i mean really globally the boss street journal is the paper of record for review the global fin

too scared to confront the murdoch empire? >> a british company could not go and buy anything more than 20%, he has 30% of british sky. it is been argued that he has far too much power and they assume that his papers decide whether they will become the prime minister or the next government. that is totally unacceptable. >> it was your former boss who was one of the first to cozy up to rupert murdoch. >> if you ask him, and you can

is the scandal in danger of in danger in the entire empire? >> i think you have to separate the two things. is there any allegation that similar behavior was taking place in any of the u.s. operations? there are no allegations. this is a fast-moving investigation. we don't know what it will throw up next. clearly, there has been contamination to the way that investors in the u.s. and around the world, they see the risks attached to part of the business they never paid much attention to, the u.k. newspapers. they are slow-growing and shrinking assets that were not a big part of the investor focus until last week. >> one group has accused rupert murdoch of treating the company like a family candy jar. do you think there could be growing unease among investors? >> for context, these are relatively small institutional investors. they have added this to their libby of complaints. we are picking up concern about corporate governance. -- this has added to their litany of complaints. this sense that they failed to get a grip on the scandal has been ru

. >> pressure on rupert murdoch's media empire in the u.k. has intensified following new allegations of malpractice by journalists of its newspapers. >> breaking news coming to us from the writer news agency. an explosion has hit a gas terminals on each of its border with israel. the blast happened at a pipeline distribution station. one report said masked gunman had launched a raid, starting a huge fire. it is the third attack on the pipeline within the last few months and the second within the last fortnight. more on that story to come. story,eturn to our top the phone hacking scandal that is engulfing the rupert murdoch media empire here in the u.k. there was an article headlined "murdoch's watergate." thank you very much for joining us. >> the story has a question mark at the end. this is about a massive abuse of power, just as watergate was about a massive institutional abuse of power from the top down. what we are seeing here is astonishing and unprecedented, the hacking scandals shaking rupert murdoch's empire. none of us should be too

more bad news for infotainment media empire report out of the u.k. says that murdoch's now shattered stabbed lloyd news of the world attempted to pay off a new york police officer for access to the phone records of a nine eleven victim the offer was rejected by the police officer and problems grew by leaps and bounds today when the guardian reported that former british prime minister gordon brown was also a victim of hacking by other british newspapers owned by murdoch's news corp private investigators working for murdoch's papers including the formerly reputable sunday times allegedly monitored brown's phone and family medical records for more than ten years while he served as prime minister and chancellor of the structure of the exchequer all of these developments seem to have railed the media mogul's bid to buy british broadcaster b. sky b. it's british politicians who. to block the acquisition b. sky b. is a very profitable a.t.t. satellite the u.k. and jim that murdoch has had it is for quite some time meanwhile here in the u.s. murdoch's news c

murdoch has corrupted the press under his watch, the low-end of his empire. and now we are looking for a smoking gun, just as we did in watergate. we don't need a smoking gun to know what kind of aura existed at "news of the world" and other publications. i think there is something, this is not just about murdoch's papers. as he went deeper into the gutter in terms of the lowest descending common denominator in journalism, with his publications, others followed suit, just as they did in this country went "the new york post" started to go down. >> is this a huge amount of change? >> i would like to believe is a moment of change. i would agree with carl that what this represents is a kind of corruption of the british political system -- the british press corps system. i thought one of the most telling thing is that murdoch said today was when he leaned over and said that singapore was the most open society in the world, as far as he was concerned, and that got a laugh from the assembled m.p.'s. what i saw there was the arch apostle of envy in that culture. that

and as you pointed out your important questions now need to be raised about murdoch about his empire and their activities in this country the u.k. will have a hearing tomorrow coaling group and his son james murdoch it will be watched but once you have the police involved as we've seen not just hacking but the bribery of police or secret insider information i think all it's roth but do you think that let's say is rupert murdoch is he smart enough to say that hey this is the brits this is the way that they do it yes of course he is the head of this massive british media empire they're british journalism tabloid journalism specifically has always been known to go a couple of steps farther than the u.s. press has so if his hands aren't exactly dirty do you think they will still come down to him that he himself as a key figure with all suffer well what murdoch and his p.r. firms are trying to do is keep this is narrow it's possible to talk about how this is a rogue operation rogue apple a few outlets a few reporters but rupert murdoch is a fox but the sky has fallen on him and he now doe

it was the same of you i can tell you a lot of the muslim world if it's an empire in disarray rupert murdoch in his the men's media assets were under investigation in what is being called voice mail is this. a telemarketer broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture. we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from the realms of. the future coverage. wealthy british scientists. market. mind what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cancer no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to come as a report on our team. just . to keep. a low in welcome across talk i'm people about an empire in disarray rupert murdoch and his immense media assets are under investigation in what is being called voicemail game is this scandal all about murdoch and his sleazy business practices or a media that no longer serves the public good. crosstalk media today i'm joined by twenty percent and dallas he's a professor and gold distinguished chair in journalism at southern methodist university in los angeles across the thaddeus russell he's a

so hard, is this scandal shaking the empire so hard it's going to affect the part of the empire that'snited states? 27 television stations, the new york post, the fox news channel, dow jones and the wall street journal. will it bring the rupert murdoch empire down here in the u.s.? today we got part of the answer to that question when the scandal took out the publisher of the wall street journal. les hinton, for 12 years, les hinton was the chairman of news international, publishes "news of the world," the sun, and the sunday times. that means les hinton was in charge when "news of the world" allegedly hacked into 13-year-old milly dowler's cell phone, deleting voice mails and giving her family false hope she was alive. les hinton was in charge in 2005 when the "news of the world" apparently tried to hack the phones of the families of the 7/7 london transit bombings, les hinton was in charge when they hacked banking, legal files, and tax affairs. hinton was in charged when "news of the world" was charged of hacking into the phones of 9/11 victims, and until today les hinton was in char

that is the cost of their empire militarism.that is the cost, the loss of our freedom to keep us safe. as we know, we treat your liberty for safety come you get either one. [applause] >> irony is that bound. i didn't take a conservative can't rent site would be debating the son of george mcgovern always wanted, calling us to come home america. but here we are. some history less. the problem with world war i was that he left europe after world war i as my debate partner suggested dominique in the world safe for the tick teachers. secondly, the reason we had to rely on the soviet union during the second world war was the gophers of the policy of appeasement, which squandered material advantage to such a degree that by the time we woke up late at the two-day gathering of danger, with no choice but to make a devil's bargain in the state in europe in the first place and had something akin to nato during the cold war we would not do not position. people who advocate intervention or at least we are not callous to human life on the cont

but they're not our empire it's not our empire it's the empire of big business the empire of wall street the empire of big oil yet they send us people who couldn't afford to go to college people who need health care for our families people who don't have jobs they send us to do the fighting for them the reality is the majority of people in the united states are opposed to the wars in iraq and afghanistan inside the military as well with this government is going to continue sending us to fight and die in these wars that are not in our interest and really it's up to us to stop that. and there's much more available for you right now on our web page at r.t. dot com. we have the latest from the wimbledon as it rushes of maria sharapova recovers from a bad start to clinch a victory and a place in the finals. was the trial of ukraine's former prime minister yulia timoshenko and of the latest judicial moves against ukraine's iron lady. egyptian officials have ordered a probe into fresh clashes between police and protesters in cairo hundreds of people have been injured as more riots sweep the cou

over the years that his media empire can keep expanding there's a lot of money involved here a lot of money that's been thrown at political campaigns mr murdoch and his minions have lubricated our political process and they have bought their way to be you ownership rules in this country imperiling democracy and i think you know have a media landscape that is consolidated conglomerate ties and murdoch. and he has a lot a lot of b.s. on the other hand you never say never but we are looking at now is in the u.k. i scandal there was no and all power to the guardian which stayed on it who's extraordinary reporter nick davis has like the word and bernstein of watergate in one he stayed on it even when the head of scott new york who resigned just the other day came in and spoke to alan rusbridger the head of the guardian and said your reporter full of inaccuracy never say never went public revulsion erupts it can change even moving a man and mogul who has no scruples reckless irresponsible journalists were hurt up can be pushed aside and i think that is for citizen power people power can ove

could the fallout from the scandal now contaminate the entire murdoch empire? >> i think it is really about the credibility of people named murdoch. a loss of credibility and a loss on the level that we have seen over the past week begins to prompt questions about whether these people should be running a great public company. >> do you think that james murdoch is going to run the empire? >> i think that was a virtual certainty little more than a week ago. it has been highly doubtful now. i do not actually see how james goes on to run the british side of this business, no less the entire business. >> you suggested that rupert murdoch would sell his british newspapers to contain this crisis. has it come to that, do you think? >> that is what i have heard discussion of pirie whether that is an actual scenario or more likely the panic conversation of executives who really do not know what to do or what is going to happen. i think they are looking at this situation, and it is entirely out of their experience. there is no model year. news corp. has based a lot of cri

when we come back, remembering another media empire by a man who also built himself a castle. william randolph dorf. i tell ya, i work a long day, every day. i hang my head out the window. oh man, we're delivering everything you can think of: plywood, cement. i, i enjoy the breeze on my tongue. well uh, and every weekend, seems like we're headin' down to the lake. we're pullin' a boat or somethin'. i don't know why. i just do. it's not a problem. i don't mind as long as we always stop at chevron and get that techron stuff. my ears flop around too. check it out. [ male announcer ] your car takes care of you, care for it. chevron with techron. care for your car. it's hard work; i need a nap. >>> rupert murdoch is a powerful man. he runs a media empire and by all accounts has political influence in both britain and the united states. and in many ways, he is not unlike another media mogul who got his start in san francisco a century earlier. william randall hurst. george watson brought us this story about hurst and his empire. >> he was born before the battle of getty sburg. he fo

-- james murdoch inherit the empire? >> i'm not sure he will want to. >> america is concerned about pakistan. following their success in the osama bin laden operation, people are wanting to the ideas of stopping the terrorists in their tracks. >> pakistan might prove to be the major challenge in the so- called war on terror. the rising confidence of extremist groups is making observers extremely nervous, especially as the country is home to what the jihadists like to call the islamic bomb. the last time the world was jittery about security in pakistan was nearly a decade ago just after the 9/11 attacks when washington developed an emergency plans. we have been told that these plans are coming once again and they are contemplating the country expanding their nuclear arsenal at a time of weakness. these are the images behind the latest attack of nerves, a naval base in karachi. they destroyed two u.s.-made spy planes in a well-executed operation which is believed to have received support from elements within the armed forc

as the scandal over phone hacking by the murdoch media empire rages on public and political fury has mainly focused on ruthless tabloids out of control prepared to invade people's private lives and even the dad to get the story but some say in this day and age the whole concept of privacy is falling apart and in the u.s. more rapidly than elsewhere every time you tap on your cell or click on google or use your mail service everybody's sort of just clicks through that you agree to our terms and conditions well those terms and conditions are very very heavily weighted against you and your privacy interests and we see breaches of privacy happening by corporations all across america all across the world really in every sector surveillance is rampant but really this is all a microcosm of the biggest surveille are all which is the state there's little americans can do with the state having sweeping access to their private information access that followed the nine eleven terrorist attacks under a new law known as the patriot act asana law his privacy was taken away from him in two thousand

it's an outpost for the murdoch empire. the group had sales of $33 billion and a profit of $640 two million. where they make their money is not newspapers, but television. the fox network contributed that figure, $15 billion. that's almost half of the sales. that's the reason the murdoch empire is so interesting. these satellite broadcaster in the u.k. has sales of $8 billion. it's a lot of people are speculating that this will move with "news of the world" is part of the plan to secure bskyb. let me touch on some of the other stories. a lot of optimism. we like that. a lot of optimism about america's job report in just about an hour. it has already lifted the stock markets. there's a lot of hope that the unemployment figure will be an improvement from last month's dismal numbers. analysts expect the jobless rate to remain the same, currently at 9.1%. ing financial markets -- wide there's likely to be such an increase. --i think it's part to the the related to energy. also, the implications of the japanese earthquake. those

use shareholders' money and as murdoch's media empire in the u.k. crumbles there are new allegations in america that fox news is also acting in too ill into phones illegally or at least phone records as the daily koz is reporting a former fox news executive dan cooper has come forward saying that fox news chief roger ailes constructed an underground bunker within the fox news building in new york city headquarters to perform out of her intelligence that may include illegally hacking phone calls the bunker was known as the brain room so all of these new developments coming out of the u.k. and this new allegation that fox news is home to a james bond villain style secret base underground mean for rupert murdoch's media empire and for that matter his job they've sold anna joins me now to talk about the story he's the communications director of free press that all civil rights attorney and media advisor dave welcome we're going to be related to so. if murdoch goes in for that matter roger ailes let the old know it not to be a case of meet the new boss s

this is the real cash cow of the news corp empire, $2.54 billion, operating income for 2010 representing 55% of the overall bottom line. let's go into the next division, fox search light 20th century fox tv production, 24% of the overall group, $1.1 billion, obviously not hugely affected by what's taking place over here in the uk. this is one division that has the big question mark over it, the publishing division, $997 million in 2010, 22% of operating income for the company. we have "the wall street journal" front cover, they purchased that for $5 billion. you have $200 million coming from the uk. not a game changer but whether this spills over into the other businesses that rupert murdoch owns. the next division, u.s. broadcast networks, they have about 37% penetration into u.s. house holds, this represents 9% of the bottom line, $409 million they have, tv stations scattered throughout the united states, again, does it spill over because of reputation? right now analysts we spoke to on wall street say not just yet, last division here, sky italia here, scott mockridge, it represents 4%

or it's this or it's that and it was kind of a tenuous argument to say it's an empire now we're in. iraq afghanistan pakistan libya we're bombing yemen. i'm known for getting a couple here we've got a company tens because one hundred countries from what i understand will actively but i mean we perform an extraordinary rendition oh it's just it's so it's so hard to keep track of the empire these days but now it's really like it's in your face and it's undeniable with this why is it that the temptation of a standing army allows our government to get away with this because it's the surat of it or afraid of it being. necessary for security is just. under with it right well you know with this new congress they they started by reading the constitution you know and that was a lot of the tea party influence the new congressmen that were elected i remember the green party and you know i think there's a lot of people who are genuinely interested in the founding principles and when you go to those events you hear a lot about the founding fathers some people are wandering around it's recurrent

senate takes aim at rupert murdoch's media empire. washington's planned missile shield over europe has been labeled as the main irritant but between behind rather a widening chasm in russian american relations by foreign minister sergei lavrov off the u.s. has brushed off moscow's concerns over the project maintaining the shields only to protect against attacks from rogue states but some say it's taking advantage of post soviet business to see it through i thought he was going if you can reports u.s. missile defense plans in europe are of course up for discussion here in washington foreign minister lavrov said russia for a legally binding guarantees that the european missile defense project will not threaten russia's security there has been words before washington has many times said that the system would not be against russia but moscow needs to have it on paper some analysts explained that this urge that russia has for getting everything on paper with promises in the past that were not fulfilled for example when the soviet union col

rupert murdoch's giant media empire reeling after a bombshell. his tabloid reporters bribing police and eavesdropping on the most vulnerable people in the news. >>> free woman. casey anthony will walk out of jail in days. hear why one juror says thth had to let her off. an abc news exclusive. >>> healthy living. could the long-awaited promise of stem cells now come true? see what they do for a damaged heart. >>> and, survival story. jaycee dugard, imprisoned, kidnapped by a predator for 18 years. tonight, how does a child give birth in a backyard? >> i wasn't alone. and i knew i could never let anything happen to her. >> jaycee dugard, a message of courage and life. >>> good evening. you may have suspected it was happening, but we confirm tonight the dark underbelly of tabloid journalism and what some of those reporters will do. here's a measure of the outrage. the biggest newspaper in england has been brought to its knees, closing, over. rupert murdoch, whose empire extends to america and includes fox news and "the wall street journal," shaken b

. >> rupert murdoch's troubles may have broken out in the british corner of his empire, but the contagion is spreading fast to his businesses worldwide. in his home and australia, where he owns almost 150 titles, the company is checking all editorial content from the past five years. politicians are wary. >> i have been pretty shocked and disgusted to see the revelations we have seen in the united kingdom's, some of the things that have been done to intrude on people's privacy. >> more seriously, the contagion spread to murdoch's adopted home, the united states, where he is now a naturalized citizen. his holdings include the new york post, wall street journal, harper collins, twentieth century fox and the influential fox news channel, which has enabled murdoch to play something of the same political role in america that he has played in britain. >> fox is a very conservative media outlet, it takes a conservative bent and sides with republicans routinely, against the democrats. i think there has been a lot of liberal anger at mr. murdoch over the years. i also think there have been liberal

how badly has his empire been affected by this scandal? >> well, tuesday is going to be a really fascinating day. rupert murdoch and his son and a former editor, rebekah brooks, will be appearing before parliament and will be answering questions and why they have not acted on it. ed miliband, the leader of the labor party -- labour party, they will be arguing for his power to be curbs. there is a big discussion. in the u.s., and they are investigating. tomorrow and the next days and weeks are going to be fascinating in that respect. >> as always, we thank you very much. on to libya now, where rebels have claimedictory in the battle for a strategic town. there are conflicting reports about whether or not they have complete control of the town which has been held since gaddafi -- by gaddafi since march. most of the gaddafi forces are said to be retreating west. rebels say 12 fighters were killed and hundreds wounded. the capture would mark a major rebel breakthrough in their bid to push westward. the foreign ministers of europe have been mee

. >>> overseas the scandal grows and so does the anger surrounding the media empire of rupert murdock. the phone hacking scandal has already taken a big prize away from him. his company, news corporation, badly wanted to buy the big satellite network bskyb. today they dropped their bid. there's no telling where this case ends, but this is all new territory for this huge media figure and for great britain. nbc's stephanie gosk is in london again for us tonight. stephanie, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. well, news corps got beaten up all day today by british politicians both before and after they dropped out of the bid. one of their fiercest critics, former prime minister gordon brown, who accused murdock's papers of law breaking on what he calls an industrial scale. >> order! order! >> reporter: in parliament today politicians for once found something they could agree on. rupert murdock's news corporation, they said should drop its bid for british tv network bskyb. >> they've got to stop talking about mergers until they sort out the mess they created. >> reporter: but

chinese empire. and in some sense, the course of modern history, the last 200, 300 years has been the struggle of whether the international state system can, with procedures, succeed against one challenge after another. and that challenge today is coming out of islam, and primarily from what we are calling islamism. >> host: to what extent is your argument here similar in terms of the basic thrust, the argument that samuel huntington made in class of -- clash of civilizations we talked about its values, its trajectories, being fundamentally in collision with the west, on all sorts of levels? and i found myself sometimes reading your book thinking that's the same basic confrontation that you are talking about. so tell us come in what way does your argument like huntington's and in what way is it different? >> guest: fundamentally its core duo. the huntington argued, the clash of civilization, one would look back on that book, and i, before his death brought that up with professor huntington directly,

alone when 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 you say. crosstalk 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 thaddeus 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 university all right gentlemen this is crosstalk that means you can jump in anytime you want i always go to the person has to go early is for this program so i'm going to go to you thaddeus here and looking at what's happening to them the murdoch media empire and every hour that passes more revelations are coming out and it looks very very ugly does any of this surprise you and you think it's going to be this is just the tip of the ic

we asked if the flow -- p hone hacking scandal moloch's empire. the duke and duchess of cambridge had traveled to one of canada's most remote areas. they were greeted with a display of music and dance. peter hunt. >> the sound may be familiar, this setting less so. they are here for a taste of another way of canadian life. half of the population are aboriginal. prince william tried to hand. >> we are so excited to be here. [speaking native language] >> [cheering] >> thank you very much. >> this is a vast area with few inhabitants. a few of them were here to see a couple that has been referred to repeatedly as a mega celebrities. >> i have-quito net on. i have not tried anything for three days. there is no bathrooms here. >> it is nice to see them personally. i'm lucky. >> we are up in the north. you would've thought they would come up here? this is great. >> the finalists in the indian princess of canada competition were on parade for prince charles and princess anne. in the 1970's, it was a different age. 40 years on, williams challenge was to ta

each building normally takes years to complete it isn't slowing down his property empire his next one is an old chapel and he's always looking for willing volunteers if you want to try and with a few quick tips from i was well on my way to an architectural triumph. always hard work in the hot sun makes a man thirsty. that. i don't have to stay and help or how to finish this project but i can at least help contribute to the building materials. woodring on the job is encouraged. but just one of course because my next stop was going to take some serious concentration if i didn't want to end up with a block or two. i'd. suffered imo. from both. to martial artist does. this is ten c. karate club the biggest and most successful in the city so it's run by alexander one of russia's most accomplished karate masters and he's a bilious sister by his son year. he's a black belt of course. an intensive course. quickly in here. has been teaching since nine hundred ninety four and estimates he's trained thousand students. percent of the city's population. this is a man who says he wants to. blindfol

, if you will, or certainly in a power sense, an empire? you make the case that empire requires a much more sophisticated foreign policy in which you operate through regional alliances, and even sort of networks of much more sophisticated ways of looking at what's happening out round the world to interest than the sheer exercise of force or hard power, if you will. you could argue that in some way that was what barack obama sent out to do in the world. his embrace of multilateralism was and if you almost certainly an effort to rebalance the world, where the simple projection of american force -- >> guest: there in is the rebalancing of the world. the vision of the present is an engineer. prior to that there has to be sophistication of understanding the personal forces. what are the national interest? what are things that others cannot agree to? what are the things that they must have? it is essential that a foreign policy could build on the concept of constraints. one's own constraints, understand what is you cannot give up, what you must h

as in the case of the automin empire were very aggressively wanting to stay out of, as in the case ofhe chinese empire, and in some sense the course of modern history over the last 200 to 300 years has been the struggle whether the international state system can have proceed chiewrs to succeed against one challenge after another, and that challenge today is coming out of islam and priorlily from -- primarily what we call islamism. >> host: to what extent is your argument here similar in terms of the basic thrust to the argument that samuel huntington made in clash of civilizations talking about islamic civilization and its values and its projectory being fundamentally in collision with the west on all sorts of levels. >>i find myself reading your book it has the same basic confrontation that you're talking about, but -- tell us, what ways does your argument like huntingtons, and what way is it different? >> guest: it's a little bit like it, but fundamentally it's different. the argument that clashes civilizations when we look back on that book, and i, before his death, brought that up

phone hacking scandal puts the future of the muddled media empire at risk questions arise as to why it's taken so long for action to be taken despite police knowing about many of the allegations for years and. public outrage and it's really the latest e.u. country to be hit hard by the financial crisis the expected approval of an office there the budget enters the final stretch. and on business russian markets closed slightly down after a difficult week with low volumes as many people were away on holiday and the direction remains unclear we have more on that for you in twenty business. seven o'clock friday night here in moscow you without saying welcome to the program the u.s. along with more than thirty other nations has decided to recognize libya's rebels as the legitimate government of the country the libyan contact group convening in so he has also urged colonel gadhafi to give up power now let's talk more about this story with all the. waiting for us in our washington bureau. the white house seems to be taking the chance that it can trust the rebels but is there a sense in washingt