is not a on the russian capital you're watching our joshua welcome to the program. rupert murdoch's embattled media empire news corp has announced that its dropping its bid to take control of britain's largest satellite broadcaster moves in tandem to head off public outrage over allegations that several of his newspapers were gauged in a rampant phone hacking scandal has grown to include the british government and police officials who stand accused of complicity and corruption across the atlantic shocked us senators are calling for a probe into allegations that nine eleven victims were also targeted by murdoch's newspapers but as artie's lore and reports the media mogul's rise over the decades offered plenty of warning signs over what was to come. rupert murdoch's push to expand in british media has come to a halt public and political rage over the phone hacking the spool of news corp to drop its bid to buy satellite broadcast of b. sky b. but some say he's already killed the british press and they were saying it's far back as nine hundred eighty one that's when he

ninety out of the russian capital you're watching r t m arena joshua welcome to the program eight out of ninety european banks have failed stress tast on whether they could withstand another financial crisis now we're in italy which had hopes might help the country fand off spiraling debt costs along with the seventy billion euro cuts which parliament passed on friday but as r.t. sara first reports there's only so much that can be done before the people take power into their own hands. as the clouds gather. and the bad luck battle continues dark times could now lie ahead. everybody. is afraid for the future if you are saying countries like italy looking on increasingly unstable ground can the year i write out this financial storm this is really something quite frightening if indeed it's only really goes into big trouble on the financial markets this is certainly a totally new face of the euro crisis new dimension theory fairy tale was all too appealing countries trip saving themselves for a bite of the g.c. apple but now many are left with questioning taking the bait. not bad i mean t

i am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me joshua welcome to the program the head of the international atomic watchdog is visiting japan's fukushima nuclear plant for the first time since march as devastating earthquake and tsunami you can model as promised to help with the recovery effort i will meet the country's prime minister to discuss what aid is needed as well as killing thousands the natural disasters caused the plant's reactor cores to melt and leak dangerous amounts of radiation into the environment but the i.a.e.a. chief says the workers at the plants are capable of bringing the leak under control by early next year as planned residents evacuated from the town close to the area how the delight of them going off for the dead and missing on the radiator no ma'am . but even manny of those who survived are struggling with their own nuclear nightmare artist john thomas explains. a triple disaster on a scale the world has never known causing damage destruction and uncertainty forcing tens of thousands of japanese refugees to leave their lives behind and seek shelter

coming to life from moscow was me wearing a joshua welcome to the program one hundred people are now officially confirmed dead following the sinking of a pleasure boat on the volga river and what is russia's worst bowling disaster eighteen of the bodies recovered so far are children who've been enjoying a day out with their families on the bulgaria went down in just a matter of minutes on sunday tom barton is following the search operation. we've been talking to some of the recovery authority as the emergencies ministry divers that have been going out hour after hour to a platform above the sunken bowl daria three kilometers out from the bank in the volga river they say and the emergencies ministry say they're going to try and finish the recovery of the bodies by the end of today that's obviously a very tricky process it's taken them a long time so far divers have had to be going inside the rooms inside the boat they've had to be working steadily through those in teams some divers going ahead to try and clear any wreckage tables and things that have fallen over as the boats as the bo

and everything else the right doesn't want you to know about taxes jobs in corporate america joshua welcome back . are you there. your audio seems to have it let's. just double check with this. instead the the institute for policy studies debt reduction plan it pays off our debt our fourteen trillion dollar debt in ten years and we just lay some of the stuff out for you or we're waiting for george bush is due for policy studies they put together a debt reduction plan pays off the fourteen trillion dollar debt in ten years fourteen trillion dollars in ten years seems unimaginable it's a massive amount of money how is that possible well they tax corporations millionaires and billionaires at the same rate that they were paying taxes in one thousand nine hundred eighty one now interestingly there's a real contrast here even one the president's plan doesn't x. millionaires billionaires or corporations at all the reid plan doesn't at all the better plan doesn't it all nobody wants to go near the millionaires billionaires but here the these guys just ran the numbers back in one nine hundred sixty

this is actually going to live from moscow marina joshua welcome to the program drastic spending cuts are on the way nasally as parliament desperately tries to fand off a spiraling debt crisis you know bodes badly for the euro italy's finance minister even compare the currency struggles to the titanic as r.t. sarah for us reports there's only so much that can be done before the people take power into their own hands. as the clouds gather. continue. as for the future if you think countries like italy looking on increasingly unstable grounds can the year i write out this financial still this is really something quite frightening if indeed it's the only really goes into big trouble on the financial markets this is certainly a totally new face of this euro crisis new dimension theory faeries how with all too appealing countries trip save themselves for a bite of the g.c. apple but now many are left taking the bait that was. not bad. after more than a decade of great businesses like that business have been hit hard. stopping street in athens is still bustling the problems with economy mean

this is r t coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshua welcome thousands of protesters are packing out central madrid angry out economic woes and golfing space demonstrators from all across the country have been marching for weeks to demand quick action to deal with the country's debt a mass unemployment argues the renegotiate was in madrid to hear what the protesters now known as the indignance have to say. the cash in spain is going mainly down the drain at least that's the opinion of dollars of people who rallied across the country you know like you were going to pose in the footsteps of letting the american countries by mexico. the government is controlled by the european bank and i am c.e.o. they don't care about the people. so the people decided it's time to boyce their concerns loud and clear before the lose more than just the shirt off their back spin is one of the highest unemployment rates in the eurozone so while the european leaders have been occasionally meeting and comfortable quarters to talk about the future of the euro and the european union itself people in the co

in the russian capital you're watching our joshua welcome to the program drastic spending cuts are on the way in italy as parliament desperately tries to fend off a spiraling debt crisis it all bodes badly for the euro italy's finance minister even compare the currency troubles to the titanic as are two sarah first reports there's only so much that can be done before the people take power into their own hands. there will be one significant difference between the people who take to the streets between greece and italy and that is that greece at least thank goodness the taxi drivers don't go on strike where is italy i expect almost everybody is going to end up on strike and it's going to be absolutely chaotic the only way they can slip this through is perhaps because we do have this long lead in time until the cuts really start to make an impact in two thousand and thirteen but i think the problem is in the meantime a large amount of the sort of the leftist opposition in italy for see the fact that silvio berlusconi to many of the reasons most of which are outside of the direct school r

in the russian capital you're watching r t with me were in a joshua welcome to the program germany's finance minister wants to curb the power of the dominant credit rating agencies their verdicts can make or break economies most recently causing a euro stop plunge after downgrading portugal's debt to junk germany is at the heart of a failing nations but is now questioning whether the bailouts are legal for some economists the current strategy is just maintaining the pain. the. political will need to second by some point in the future and that it could default puts it in the same sort of financial problem as greece and it could have a same sort of financial market response as a greek default so obviously there are similarities but you do have to assess these countries on their independent characteristics the alternative is there will be a default in these countries the moment the real approach just seems to be delay it for as long as possible it looks as if germany and france are dictating this and they trying to protect the banks and delay the inevitable default so the banks will be

in the russian capital you're watching our joshua welcome to the program i mean they're destroyed homes and rotting debris survivors of japan's earthquake and tsunami are story really trying to keep their a lives together victims still queue for basic necessities nearly four months after the disaster struck while the threat from the fukushima nuclear plant keeps the beleaguered country on alert as sean thomas reports the toll on those left sifting through what remains of their communities is immense. as the waves crash against a damaged to sea wall on the japanese coast volunteers work tirelessly to clean up the debris and bring some sense of normalcy back to the area. i want to tell people we need more help more supplies and things are still bad here beyond the physical destruction and there is a distressing psychological factor as well the city of the walkie is right on the edge of the twenty kilometer exclusion zone for radiation contamination in fact in a recent study by japan's nuclear safety commission forty five percent of one thousand children tested in any walk and neighboring

am in the russian capital you're watching our joshua welcome to the program. a senior advisor to the afghan president has been assassinated by the taliban in the capital kabul one of the country's lawmakers was also killed in the attack the deaths come less than a week after how many karzai is have brother who ran south of the country was gunned down the taliban is stepping up its assault on afghan officials and smale combat troops began their withdrawal from the war zone but who has intervention expert stephen lyman says washington will want to close its grip on afghanistan because waging war is look. if i'm. president a little mystery with a small security detail not a practical marine division nic i see him he would last five minutes the resistance you know ghana's want to liberate the country so take any opportunity they care to get anything if any level in any time not only other one hundred thousand u.s. troops oh thirty or forty thousand other troops there are well over one hundred thousand private security contractors. discussed in the major media so c

and everything else the right doesn't want you to know about taxes jobs and corporate america joshua welcome. hey john thanks for having me great to have you back with us with the gang of six plan create jobs in america and can you give just a give us just a general overview of what the details are of this so-called plan. well the gang of six plan this is a reiteration of simpson bowles it's a grand bargain that went intel deep cuts and then today there is news of the new deal that would also tell future potential revenue raising so what we're seeing is that you know they're going around in circles kind of pushing the these deals out there is a lot of leaks but the real substance here is that you have house g.o.p. or it's who are really you know they've drawn a hard line in the sand and they're not going to support a debt limit rise that has any tax revenue increases whatsoever that's what they have been saying and i don't know if speaker boehner can actually make a deal. you know speaking for his own caucus at this point. it almost seems like it's the irresistible force in the world in mova

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welcome back to jay and joshua. we are talking about other pieces that are going on at the san francisco jewish film festival. i know it is the first and really the most well attended jewish film festival in the entire world. congratulations. >> thank you. >> what else is happening this year? >> well, one of the things where most excited about is every care we give out one or more. it's called the freedom of expression award. this year we are having current quest, to receive the award and to introduce spartacus, it's the 50th anniversary of spartacus. kirk douglas considers that his finest moment in that he broke the blacklist, actually, by insisting that the screenwriter gives his real name in the credits. that is part of why we are giving him the freedom of expression award. also, he is a jewish actor that is very proud of judaism as his religion and has weekly sessions with his rabbi. we are really thrilled to have him on the stage. >> think some people may not actually be familiar with what the blacklisting was