sir paul stephenson would later deny he was trying to influence the guardian's coverage.that's not how the editor saw it. >> chief cop came in here to essentially warn me off the story and said there was nothing in it. now, i didn't know at the time, but this was one of those sort of bombshells for me that came out during the summer. he had just employed the former deputy editor of the news of the world as a, uh, as a special advisor. >> bergman: the police had hired neil wallis, who was andy coulson's deputy during the very period when the phone hacking was taking place. the guardian was on its own, with no other major newspapers investigating the story. >> there were points when it was very frightening. it is no fun at all being attacked by an organization which controls, at that stage, four newspapers and a major television news channel in this country. and it can fill you with panic, really. >> bergman: then alan rusbridger took an unusual step. >> at that point i rang bill keller on the new york times and i said, "i'm living through this sort of strange dream. 't it

and by reva and david logan, committed to investigative journalism as the guardian of the public interest. additional funding is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. and by tfrontline journalism fund, supporting investigative reporting and enterprise journalism. (phone ringing) >> please leave your message after the tone. (beep) >> hi, love, i was just thinkg i'm going to be late home from work tonight. >> bergman: britain is still coming to terms with a scandal of historic proportions. >> that should be fine about e kids, but i'll be seeing lawrence tomorrow. >> bergman: voicemails hacked by the thousands, messages like these... >> daddy, can you tell us what time you're coming home from work? >> bergman: private and intimate. >> (crying): clarissa, i've got some terrible news. please ring me back. >> bergman: stolen and turned into stories for the largest selling paper in the country, a murdoch tabloid called the news of the world. it had gone on for years. >> i first heard about the hacking of voicemail by journalists when someb

of trees and the guardian of his statue. >>> all right. had a decent round of thundershowers, the rumbles of thunder but now you can see most of the activity very spotty and in southern maryland, now south of cambridge some showers in the southern tip of the state toward lexington park. out toward manassas, the shenandoah valley, lightning detected. things are clearing out nicely in the center part of the state. right now outside some sunshine back out. that's nice. 71 at bwi. what a change from the cool weather we were dealing with yesterday. through the day it's interesting. lots of downpours. storms rumbling through and the sunshine popping back out and same deal in annapolis. storms took longer to show up and were quick to depart. you can see a beautiful blue sky. winds from the south and southwest. that's a warm breeze, so no rapid cool off with that boundary swinging through. there's some gusts near 33 in the western part of the state. it will be breezy tonight and through the day tomorrow looking quite breezy. right now temperatures

we have done that involving youth, parents, guardians and a police officer. when we do this, it allows the plaintiffs to resolve issues with the accused officer in person in a dispute format. the goal of this is to bring the involved parties together to achieve mutual understanding. we have heard a lot of testimony this evening about interactions between youth and the police where there could have been a mutual understanding developed if a mediation had occurred. we provide a neutral mediator so for our program. -- mediators for our program. we are located on the seventh floor of -- we are easily accessible by public transportation. we receive walking complaints between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. monday through friday. we also received complaints by telephone and fax. you can file a complaint with your police station and it will be forwarded to us. our office is the verse. we are multi lingual. they speak languages including cantonese, mandarin, spanish. two of our investigators are bilingual because the largest number of non-english interviews we conduct our in

will be drawing up on his trial yeah the headline in the guardian as well it says that irritating habits die hard it's accompanied by a large picture of a rural polling station of women walking around with essentially a. suitcase ballot box for people to put their ballot papers into that of course is in reaction to these allegations of carousel saying where people were alleged he tossed around to different polling stations to be several times it was the comments in the guardian says that people were sent racing going around them for things to pay or space to be again we brought. in the daily telegraph me tourists the t.p.c. and he writes a note for the economist he's saying that speech in may have won the election but he's lost the battle for the middle class is the economy back to the swelling position which we understand is going to turn out into the streets again they said today that he has won this election battle but he has lost the war head. in the telegraph that its claims of pole fraud to taint victory in the daily mail we've got a rather nice little car seat actually the picture

guardian angel said they hoped their presence will deter and prevent any future crime. let's switch gears to night and weather. the a beautiful night across the region. a look ats here with the first forecast. >> it has been beautiful. of greatad a lot pictures coming in. we will pick out some of the best pictures. here is 1 cent and by car lot. the cherry blossoms -- here is in by carla. we had those morning clouds. believe it or not there is a dump-sum thundershower aroun warrenton heading to culpeper. it will not interfere with the cherry blossoms. we will be seeing a little bit more fog. a little bit more tomorrow. one more warm day. blossoms because there some coming this way for the weekend. >> the dreaded blossom killers. join you again. was the perfect day to visit the cherry blossoms. this year's five weeklong centennial celebration is inected to be a boost the city.r reports show hotel bookings are 24%. 55 hotels are participating in special packages. and 2010, they drew an 24 who spent $92rs -- $792 million throughout the city. are having a photo contest. and

well i mean who are these people out there like it hasn't been properly defined and we had a guardian there was a guardian op ed that came out the other day written by not only worth and in this op ed she calls and being signed into law actual treason i believe that everybody in congress who voted for this thing and knew what they were doing they need to be removed from office peacefully but they need to be removed we need to vote them out or have a recall or some other measure and president obama's administration has to be held accountable as well for what they knowingly signed into law there is a piece that came out i believe yesterday or the day before representative blackburn in forbes magazine and she's saying that now the t.s.a. is going to expand their grass to highways and maybe even bus depots and that was an agency that was originally intended to just do airport screening that was the whole point of the t.s.a. was just screen passengers before you get on an airplane and now they've turned into something very close to this weird secret police force they have uniforms they hav

since which would bring all of us to that's what we've got in the guardian the daily mail a similar thing a couple of page spreads in the middle of the newspaper this isn't quite as peace and wins elections not in flight we got a nice little cartoon have a son all the talking of his son in bed and saying that's nothing certain and i think that's death taxes and he said winning an election it's about the flavor of what the newspapers are saying at the moment will be our thing will comment coming out all the time and as i say could have been expected to bring the nexus congratulating the big three listeners rarities laura smith live for us in london thanks very much for that update. and for more analysis on this wonder about alexei kodaly of editor in chief of a russian foreign news website. so thanks very much for being with us here on r.g.p. so you were an observer during sunday's vote no there was a lot made of the fact they were trying to make this vote as visible and transparent as possible do you think those efforts were worthwhile or were they in vain based upon what you saw at least

all libyans are guardians of the revolution. all of them.you us. all libyans are guardians of the revolution. all of them. i see our koel as being to preliminarily facilitate and focus the tremendous energy of the libyan people, to help try to ensure that it is used in such a way as to realize the aims of the revolution and keep it alive. we acknowledge that the times ahead will be challenging. 42 years of dictatorial rule have taken their toll on and you are country and people. 42 years. we can it not build our new country overnight. we cannot build new institutions overnight. we cannot build understanding and acceptance of a new order overnight. all this will take some time. and mistakes will be made. however, libyans will proof their perseverance and resolve yet again and rise up to the challenge. there may be times when things in libya may appear to be outside or to be deviating from their track. but we, the libyan people, would bring them back on course. libyans are learning for the first time in four decades to have trust in their gove

also seen that they need to figure out ways to come up with the money, whether from a parent or guardian. i have seen them literally pushed off of buses. >> [speaking spanish] >> it is very difficult for me to see this as a latino. i consider them the future. so it is difficult for me to see this happening, and i want to support them. thank you, and we hope you can be on our side. >> laura zapato, estella rosares -- chairperson nolan: how many speakers? >> 20 more. >> good afternoon, director, commissioners. i and the community organizer for the jamestown community center. some of you have met with some of our kids. they wanted to be here, but unfortunately, because the time was not changed -- one of my students this year, but the majority could not be here to talk to you today. we were lucky because it was early release today in the school district, so we have some elementary and middle schoolers who were able to join us. that was happenstance. but it would have been great if you could of passed this to 4:00. we need this to happen. we have been working with you guys for about 18 months

so that now if you are taken into custody, you have a right to have a parent or guardian present. you are given a brochure about the kinds of rights you have. this is a brochure that the use commission, many organizations came together and put together so that youth would have this information. we work with the department to talk about instances, having the department provide more protection so that custodial interrogations' would be tape- recorded so we would be able to have the best evidence of what had rick -- occurred. part of what we talk about was wanting to have parents and guardians involved in the get-go so there is a partnership between youth who are being investigated and for their families and so there is that involvement and so that instead of being brought to the district station, we can have a youth provide full service. part of what we have done is that we have been able to work with the police department as well as hear the voice of youth to put these in place. there are individuals who have not spoken tonight but they are the ones who, because the things that hav

"the guardian newspaper. as the revolt raged, asma al- assad defended him. now, she is paying the price. >> in a quick look at other news from around the world, the leader of the coup in mali has no intention of staying in power. he said he would stand down after securing the country. he said troops had been badly equipped and poorly trained for the fight against rebels. in france, the authorities in toulouse has begun clearing out the flat where the self confessed al qaeda militant was shot dead on thursday. the french prime minister has defended the police and intelligence services against accusations that they mishandled the search for the killer. now to the state of the global economy. president obama nominated jim yong kim to be the next leader of the world bank. this was a surprise choice. he is currently the president of dartmouth college and a global health expert. now, he is the topic to when the official selection process. he will have his work cut out for him trying to cure the world's financial pr

the phrase they are using who guards the guardians? a phrase we like at the guardian.goes to the heart of what the story is b. it's not about phone hacking or computer technology, it's about power and who weilds the power. the feeling that rupert murdoch has come into the country in the last 30 years and ascribed himself and his family around him too much power and telling competition and the public what to do. and that's what the inquiry is edging its way towards. the next inquiry will look at the relationship between the press and politicians and that's when things get interesting. >> to the local question that is in the back of the mind here, did anything this week increase materially the chances that this scandal stands up on its own feet and announces itself in this country? >> absolutely. we heard about a network of corrupted officials in brit yain yain -- britain and arrests of military and defense officials. it's very serious and goes to the idea of bribery and corruption. and it brings the crisis home to america in a very serious way. that's when the company w

sliwa, you founded the guardian angels and i think your name is synonymous with civilian patrols. what did george zimmerman do wrong and was there anything he did right that night? >> he did nothing right except wake up early that day and begin to stalk people that through his paranoia he thought were looking to commit crime on his compound. a self-appointed watchman. the other day i'm speaking in a high school in new jersey and the youngsters go oh, you're just like zimmerman. i wanted to impale myself right there. wait a second. i buried six guardian angels who have been shot and killed in the line of duty, i was stalked myself, i had a gunman go pow, pow, pow, five hollow point bullets. he's become the face of block watch crime watch. >> what was he doing different from your block watch crime watch? >> he was so low, he had all the furniture upstairs and rearranged in the wrong rooms. i know everyone is fixated on hoodies, but i know there had to be a bunch of young men passing by with hoodies. in his mind, trayvon was a hood, a hoodlum, an enemy of society. guy had skittles an

conflict british newspaper has printed e-mails apparently written by president assad and his wife the guardian says they were intercepted by position members and revealed scores of personal information. afghanistan's security will be in local hands next year as the british and american leaders confirm a countdown at their meeting in washington and investigation is also pending into a possible assassination attempt against the u.s. defense secretary during his visit to the war torn country. and illegal immigrants coming to the u.k. and search of work are finding their dreams and being in poverty but because many have no idea documents they know have no way of returning home. next time we hear why president obama's initial offer of dialogue with iran over its nuclear program descended into the confrontation we're seeing today. r.t. is sitting down with trita parsi president of the national iranian american council and author of the new book a single roll of a dice obama's diplomacy with iran mr parsley thank you very much for joining our team thank you for having me this is percy when u.s. presi

against the syrian government mark the first anniversary of the rest of the country becomes britain's guardian newspaper releases what it claims are thousands of league team veils for president assad's private account. pumping up the pressure the u.s. wants india to stop buying a rainy unoiled try to persuade the country to go elsewhere for its crude needs big time president obama has warned that the window for talks over rand's nuclear program is shrinking. plus the taliban the suspends peace talks with the united states and president karzai says he wants nato out of all villages for the american soldier gunning down sixteen civilians in cold blood washington and london maintain they will hand over security responsibility to afghan forces next year before coalition troops pull out in twenty forty. there's more topical conversation trita parsi the co-founder of the national training at american council tells us that r.t. while washington's approach towards the islamic republic has changed from one source from peaceful dialogue to the confrontation we're witnessing right now. r.t. is sitting do

. >> yeah, these are thousands of emails that the guardian newspaper in britain has got hold of from opposition groups who apparently hacked into the personal accounts. president, his wife, and some of his close circle. the guardian says it can't verify they're all true, but it seems to think at least some of them are. and politically, no great revelations about syrian strategy, and syria is taking advice from iran. that's no great surprise. but some pretty quirky stuff. you know, you've got the president's wife ordering a fon did you e set from amazon, doing a lot of shopping in paris online, buying thousands of dollars worth of candlesticks, chandeliers, tables that she sort of thing. and then, president assad himself apparently sending around kind of jokey youtube videos depicting the situation in homs in a kind of cartoon-like way with toy cars and biscuits to depict the siege there. so, certainly the sort of stuff that a lot of syrians are going to find pretty upsetting. >> jon donnison there. right, we're going to get some sport now. andrew lindsey joins me on the morning after

the case with hungary, the european commission, the guardian of the treaty, has to be very attentive to the respect by member states of european legislation, and that is what the committee has done. -- european commission has done. we have launched a number of procedures against hungary because we have doubts. the european commission has doubts about the compatibility of some of the laws. >> adjacently, maybe the press law. >> a number of issues. the european commission has concluded in a number of these cases, hungary was doing the right thing, and in a number of cases they were not doing enough. for some of the cases we initiated, they are not yet close. they will be pursued because we are insisting that we need more guarantees. the system is there. the system is there. if there are doubts about the fact that one country is not fully respecting the law, the spirit and the letter of the law, the european commission, guardian of the treaty, can act. and ultimately, if need be, the european court of justice will have the final word. >> can issue a judgment that can be enforced, a puni

syrian government marked the first anniversary of the unrest in the country it comes as britain's guardian newspaper releases what it claims are thousands of leaks emails from president assad's private account. pumping up the pressure the u.s. wants india to stop buying iranian oil trying to persuade the country to go elsewhere for its. meanwhile president obama has warned out the window for talks over iran's nuclear program is trying to. close that's all about suspense peace talks with the u.s. president karzai says he wants nato out of the edges after an american soldier gunned down sixteen civilians in quote what washington and london maintain don't hand over security responsibility to afghan forces next year before coalition forces pull out in two thousand and fourteen. next up treat up our sea of the co-founder of the national iranian american council tiles are too wide president obama's approach towards the islamic republic has changed from once offering peaceful dialogue to the confrontation we're seeing today. r.t. is sitting down with trita parsi president of the national iranian

and his wife have been published in a british newspaper a year after the conflict escalated the guardian says they were intercepted by opposition members and seemingly shine a light into the embattled leaders and our circle let's get the details from artie's a london correspondent laura smith laura what exactly is are is in these e-mails. well this is an extraordinary cache of emails and of course as you've already mentioned we have to look at where they come from they were claimed intercepted by the opposition group the super supremes council of the revolution between june last year and early february now it can't be any coincidence that they've been really being released today which of course is the first anniversary of the revolt in syria and they reveal a whole range of of sort of. occupation all matters of the first syrian president but also personal matters let's start with the more serious things that these e-mails really reveal they seem to suggest that assad has established through and communicated with through a private e-mail address a sort of network of powerful aides with wh

lopez gave permission to a friend to write a blog for the bay guardian and lopez posted a link to it on facebook page that called for her to resign. they say the couple's marriage was strained when, quote, the notoriously work-aholic politician did not find his family role an easy fit. they also say he would not make time for marriage counseling. >>> livermore police are looking into a suspect who targeted prostitutes. they say rodriguez raped three women. he lured them to his home after seeing the ads on the website. they were initially reluck at the present time to cooperate -- reluctant to cooperate because of their line of work. they are asking any other possible victims to call them immediately. now thieves who can imitate the voices of your children, grandchildren, friends and trick you into sending them emergency money. >> sorry for the bad trouble.n, but i need your i am in a lot of trouble. >> the scammers find information about their victims on facebook and then trick them by saying they need emergency money. so far there have been 25,000 complaints with the scam cheating p

britain's guardian newspaper releases what purports to be thousands of emails from president assad quite a big splash but all of a truth will track more for me in just a moment from. pumping up the pressure of the u.s. wants india to stop buying iranian oil or trying to persuade the country to go elsewhere for its crude needs. plus washington and london pledge to hand over responsibility for security in afghanistan to local forces next year by all the us the press secretary tries to run the turner prize in kabul. thanks for joining us this thursday four o'clock here in moscow on charon terror well the syrian president remains in power a year since protest against his rule and violence for the country and according to a leaked e-mails allegedly from his account but charles saw it is on their iranian guidance and ridicules his own reforms but as artie's laura smith reports of there is considerable doubt about the credibility of the claims which come from splintered opposition groups. well there's a variety of things that refer to in his professional life and also in his personal life these

you founded the guardian angels and your name is a none miss with civilian patrols.did george zimmerman do wrong and was there anything he did right that night? >> he did nothing right except wake up early that day and begin to stalk. people that, through his paranoia, he thought, while looking to make crime on his compound. a self-appointing watchman. the other day i'm speaking at a high school in new jersey and the youngsters go, oh, you're just like zimmerman. i wanted to impale myself right there. wait a second. i buried six guardian angels shot and killed in the line of duty. i was stalked myself. a person go pow, pow, pow, pow, pow. god, save me. what do you think this is? this isn't zimmerman but he's become the face of crime watch, black watch. >> the block watch, what was different than what you do? >> in the streets we call it mad dogging. he was on a mission. he all the furnitures upstairs arranged in the wrong rooms. everyone is fakesated on hoodie, but there had to be a bunch of young men of all colors passing by with hoodies. he fixed on trayvon. in his