cold this winter as cash strapped families struggle to pay gas and electricity bills as artie's laura smith reports there is little comfort from the energy giants but the race for profit in full swing. it's a bitter winter's day in london and inside this plot it's not much warmer single mother of four julie has only one thing on her mind as the cold bites how is she going to pay her ever rising energy bill i decided to take few libel from the ceiling and i only use one in my. room i use just one light and in the passage one. and in my son's room and only one libel on my daughter's room trying to cut down. the bill next time but in regard to bill. we spoke to julie last winter when she was already struggling and we've come back to see how she'll face this is even bigger challenge five of the six big energy companies have announced price rises of around ten percent according to use which whose business it is to help people reduce their bills it will drive more into an increasingly common form of poverty poverty is where you spend more than ten percent of your net income on your energy bills a

and keeping the cash to themselves not everyone's going to let their community grind to a halt laura smithhas been to meet the one man bank. oh thank you to follow up thank you dave fyshwick is a cheeky northern charmer he made his fortune selling minibuses in his hometown as burnley but instead of fancy holidays and expensive cars when the credit crisis hit dave wanted to give something back so he decided to open a bank this late two thousand and eight early two thousand and nine my mini. me to get funded for their bosses as they are done for the last fifteen years but overnight that just stopped the banks just stopped lending to the to the customers and i'm thinking of a done something wrong have they made a mistake of that up at the gas bill electric bill or form bill you know it's not the people that are the problem it's the banks that have the problem try thought arland of them so that's what it bank on dave he says although thanks to extensive red tape he's not actually allowed to call himself a bank and he's keen to differentiate himself from banks in other ways too he offers five p

former london police chief warning that plummeting morale is putting the fight against crime risk laura smith looks at why the force no longer feels it has the government's support. another day another demo and the police all with on hand to keep control but while the boys and girls in blue do their jobs sometimes it impossible conditions the government is reducing their budgets by a massive twenty percent the net result more all in the force hits an all time low with just fifteen out of fourteen thousand officers saying they feel the government gives them a great deal of support say those fifteen offices are certainly in the force i work in lancashire and i don't have any offices that they're not being supported by the government and that rock bottom bain's has lost five hundred fifty officers from her force meaning more work for those left behind and a genuine fear that when people call nine nine nine there won't be anyone left to deal with the emergency and she's not alone so i'm in pain is chair of the war except police federation and says morale hasn't been this low in his twenty six yea

lot is people who rob banks go to prison banks who real people get paid bonuses that has to stop laura smith r.t. birmingham. now the vote count in ukraine has been suspended in told monday after reports of violations at several polling stations and the opposition claims the poll has been blatantly rigged by the ruling party the election was also overshadowed by scuffles between supporters of the opposition and police in one region it's of course predict the current president's ruling party will retain its lead but lose its two thirds majority i was alter also expected to show a strong performance by the freedom party known for its hardline nationalist stands it could gain around ten percent of the vote with solid results in the west of the country and in the capital. or in half an hour's time with my colleague bill gawd for now though after just a very quick break it's part three of our special report american autumn thanks for watching arts. it sounds like a dragon crashing through the forest but it is in fact technology versus trees and would you believe it this machine can file and strip

laura smith there and she just said the full interview with you in a sound is coming your way at thirty g.m.t. . for europeans have it united for another collective show of anger as doctors from all over the continent have been protesting in portugal workers from spain belgium and other e.u. states marched to the parliament building this meant to protest against looming cuts. in protest comes as the latest bailout deal for greece which remains at the center of the continent crisis is set to go through the german parliament and spring frustration powerhouse among politicians and people about the costs the country has to bat for the rest parties it's all of the reports. in the german parliament on friday isn't just a vote. it's also being seen very much as a test of. the opposition parties and it's going to have to prove to their. financial aid it's in germany best interest to vote for it what this latest package essentially means for twenty thirteen germany is set to lose around seven hundred and thirty million euros due to implementing these latest measures. that is enough because we wo

i was writing laura smith there and she just said the full interview with julian sanchez coming your way later today at six thirty am g.m.t. . europeans have united for and now there are a collective show of anger as doctors from all over the continent have been protesting and portugal workers from spain belgium and other east eight march to the parliament building in lisbon to voice their anger at the looming cuts exulting from a new law court workers' pan-european protest comes as the latest bailout deal for brinks which remains the center of the continent's debt crisis is set to go through the german parliament there's growing frustration in the powerhouse both among politicians and the people about the costs the country has to bear for the rescue are just peed all over reports. the vote in the german parliament on friday isn't just a vote on greek financial aid it's also being seen very much as a test of anglo merkel's off already chancellor though the opposition parties in the parliament have said that she's going to have to prove to them that this latest round of financial aid

party's laura smith era let's get some expert opinion in terms of what's at stake for your about them at the sun that for that i'm joined by dr michael is the director of the open europe berlin think tank sir thank you so much for taking time to speak with us now let's get straight to the story i want to know if you're optimistic that this whole situation will end quickly and that an agreement could actually be reached. some of. my friends in brussels tell me you know. so tonight perhaps we'll be in agreement on a somewhat modified. plan because all all the member states see that the alternative which would be a rollover of the two thousand and thirteen spending ceiling and certain. areas is not very attractive to all of the other states well well it does seem however that there is divisions within the countries over the budget i mean talk a little bit more about the unity or perhaps lack thereof in this walk. well there's certainly more than one block there's definitely the net contributor is the net recipients and then there are the countries that have only relying on arm and region

when it comes to the outside world on the economy though there's a deepening rift as artie's laura smith now reports obama's victory is getting only a or rather muted response in the old world. europe is very unwilling to commit any more troops to anymore battles abroad the problems in the middle east i think of the us the us is having reflect hugely in europe and in fact in a poll published in desh biegel newspaper in germany we have a bonus foreign policy rating in europe has drop since his election in two thousand and nine from eighty three percent to seventy one percent said people here are worried about that and of course i think the major. moves pressing issue is the economy the u.s. economy and how it recovers has a huge snow cone effect in. the u.s. appears to be in a much slower recovery than was hoped for many of worried or isn't doing as much as he could be doing that's been little fall in unemployment and little increase in the size of the private sector and in fact this yeah the european countries in here opinion and the u.s. entered into a sort of war of words france and ge

going to find the extra ten percent that's going to go in your bill from them but i don't know laura smith artie london . international news in brief now turkey's officially asked nato to deploy profitted defense missiles on its border with syria and chris says the move triggered by the growing concerns over the syrian war which it fears could spill over the border some alliance members including germany have already welcomed initiative which nato say they'll discuss now without delay. anti-government protesters have been clashing with police for a third consecutive day in the egyptian capital cairo violence has left more than sixty people injured marks one year since the so-called second wave of the egyptian revolution rioters say the new government hardline response to protest mirrors that of former president mubarak and they're demanding further change. two suicide bombers attacked a u.s. base in afghanistan's capital kabul killing two afghan guards they apparently tried to reach the gate but detonated the device is when police spotted them local reports say the taliban claimed responsi

is laura smith at the ecuadorian embassy in london where he's been holed up for almost six months now. as any journalist working in london now is i'm pretty familiar with standing outside the ecuadorian embassy waiting for julian assange to come out and talk from the balcony just to my right here but this evening i've been inside that resort embassy to talk to judy and i saw he's recently written a book called cypherpunks freedom and the future of the internet and that's what he really wants to talk about at the moment and we did talk about that we talked about how he sees this increase in state surveillance is hugely damaging for the entire fabric of society how companies and governments can minute the internet for data that is placed there willingly but unwittingly by citizens all over the world let's just listen into a little bit of what he said about that we all think of. some kind of proponent rome where we can throw our ideas and communication with writers and books and i exist somewhere out there actually there exists. who are physically controls this controls the realm of our

last thing the government needs particularly as it stares another winter discontent in the face laura smith r.t. london. on the website right now more trouble for the u.k. as a parliamentary report says tens of billions of taxpayers' money used to bail out two of the country's banking giant may be lost for good fodder more plus. the renowned metropolitan museum gets slapped with a lawsuit for ripping off visitors who were pushed into thinking admission fees are mandatory the fraud is unveiled on r.t. dot com. other world news now here the former head of the cia david petraeus says the assault on the american consulate in the libyan city of benghazi was a terrorist attack he gave evidence at the u.s. capitol about september's assault which left the u.s. ambassador and three other diplomats dead. his appearance before the panel a week after he stepped down as cia director committing to an extramarital affair with his biographer paula broadwell american investigators are also looking into claims that she gained access to secret data on his computer over the former. general maintains he did not

those who only receive a cold shoulder from the big players and that's by founding is our bank laura smith has more on that story. hello. well don't look like you did fish which is a cheeky northern charm he made his fortune selling minibuses in his. hometown of burnley but instead of fancy holidays and expensive cars when the credit crisis hit dave wanted to give something back so he decided to open a bank two thousand and eight early two thousand and nine my mini. me to get funded for. fifteen years but overnight that just stopped the banks just stopped lending to the to the customers and i'm thinking have a done something wrong have they made a mistake of the. you know it's not the people that are the problem it's the banks the problem try thought outland so that's what i did bank on dave he says although thanks to extensive red tape he's not actually allowed to call himself a bank and he's keen to differentiate himself from banks in other ways too he offers five percent on savings and he lends that money out to his local community and no bonuses and the profits go to charity. but there

lot of people who rob banks go to prison banks to real people get paid bonuses that has to stop laura smith birmingham. one next year and all is lost for the eurozone after the break we talked to political analyst and sociologist jack goldstone explains how the bloc can return to the path of economic growth. tucked in between the russian mainland japan and the suckling island is the island of minute on named after french seafarer who discovered it it is described as the right of the sakhalin region we'll take a look at what's in store for us here. until two thousand and four the island was part of the borders own and was completely restricted too busy to know this picturesque place is open to tourists unique plants and animals are its top attraction. really has been exploring the deaths of the world sees for several decades but it's here at more your own island where here is finally found what he'd been looking for . the water here is very clear the visibility is very good and the underwater world here is the extremely rich i've been to many diving locations across the planet in . putting t

parties are laura smith in london now from chile towns of alaska to miami beach americans are joining together to call for a disunited states but hundreds of thousands of online pro independence petitions have been filed in all fifty states as we reported online. plus rushes and gas giant gazprom and its partners push plans for a pipeline under the black sea a step closer to reality by signing off on the final investment for those project details also on our web site. now the economic downturn is not only refuse to greek wallets but has also shaken up the country's political scene greece saw some unexpected names turn up on the parliament's poll winners list in june including the ultra nationalist golden dawn party parties could roll over investigates the side effects of the crisis. hunger joblessness the feeling is ripping their country apart greeks are seeking answers today crisis in increasingly extreme news the main form but this has been expressed is the rise of the greek left but also a warning development in the. past months has been the rise of the neo fascists and actually me

being hailed as fuel poverty where the only way to stay warm is an extra blanket here's our teaser laura smith with the full story. it's a bit of a winter's day in london and inside this plot it's not much warmer single mother of four julie has only one thing on her mind as the cold bites how is she going to pay her ever rising energy bill i decided to take a few libel from the ceiling and i only use one in my room it's only seated in my kitchen and my you just one like trying to cut down. off the bill next time but every kind of bill come is still high we spoke to julie last winter when she was already struggling and we've come. back to see how she'll face is even bigger challenge five of the six big energy companies have announced price rises of around ten percent according to use which whose business it is to help people reduce their bills it will drive more into an increasingly common form of poverty fuel poverty is where you spend more than ten percent of your net income on your energy bills. and we've seen these recent price increases pushed three hundred fourteen founts and people into

there well to talk more about some of these far reaching consequences of cable gate correspondent laura smith who joined me earlier today from london. two years ago on the twentieth of november two thousand and ten cable guy really got into the swing of things the first two hundred twenty cables were published by media partners of wiki leaks in spain and germany and france the u.k. and of course the u.s. and what we've seen since then huge consequences both internationally and the wiki leaks as a corporation and so people within that corporation so we're going to talk about this in a little bit more detail i know but there's been huge consequences in terms of the arab spring cable guy is really credited with being a catalyst for the arab spring also since cable gave wiki leaks as a corporation and many people will say that this is not a coincidence has come under increasing pressure quite shortly following cable gate its experience denial of service is service attacks on it as it was also blockaded by a lot of payment method so pay pal credit card companies denied wiki leaks that this is and

prime minister who is pushing the toughest for the cuts let's get more on this now from artie's laura smith who is live for us in london laura welcome back to the program on the merkel herself as an optimistic that a deal could be struck in brussels this time around what's behind the pessimism. i think nobody's very optimistic at this stage that these talks will result in anything other than everyone just walking away from the table and saying we'll come back early next year and talk about it again the proposals the e.u. president herman van rompuy is pushing forward remain on satisfactory to practically everyone it seems he presented new proposals actually late last night which involved taking some money away from akman costs and reallocating it into other areas he made that presentation of it in a shortened late dinner last night and we understand that there was no discussion of those proposals you can imagine all the leaders to sort of filing out in silence after they've heard them ready to come back for talks this morning. currently offering a real terms cut in the entire budget of twen

washington will develop its relations with the rest of the world let's talk about this with allergies of laura smith a live in london and you got a piece going up in moscow for us also with laura laura so what's been the reaction like in the e.u. since the real action of president obama. well it's quite early on in europe at the moment. was was seen as really to kind of the world wanted to win even if american citizens and there have been some congratulations david cameron has tweeted his congratulations as. the head of the european commission and as far as how it will affect relations going full which are really two main areas in which who's in charge in america really affects the u.k. and countries in europe and foreign policy of course and crucially the economy now foreign policy as we've already heard from guy and they seem to be a source of. the battle really between a bomb of the us is romney and. over foreign policy it was really a question of diplomacy or a sort of rest of reticence to step into these international conflicts. this will the military intervention that we seem to see represente

what is our laura smith reporting there from london after a short break here on r.t. it'll be our breaking the set with i've been watching. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. resistance is not politics but a culture. is couldn't get. on its own. cultures of resistance on our team. good laboratory was able to build a most sophisticated robot which fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach creation why it should care about humans and world this is why you should care only on the dot com. loaf. here is mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that we americans call a donor night concludes the longest and while this campaign in our history colors if you let all of that change magically before that some additional effects a time with twists and turns in the gold market should this be something you want

generous wage but a recent job suggests otherwise earlier my colleague research she spoke to artist laura smith about why working for burger king could be better than working for the queen. this is really unfortunate timing this week in the u.k. it's living wage week. position politicians and campaign is working towards giving encouraging employers to pay what they're calling a living wage higher than the minimum wage and london is elsewhere say eight pounds fifty five in london seven pounds forty five outside lunches place the minimum wage which is six pounds nineteen now i think in any other week this job would have gone pretty much on notice but some eagle eyed journalists bosses it is an advert for a part time cleaner windsor castle which is paying a living wage of lower middle. to work in clean. the. prestigious job to have surely there would be a job that would pay a bit of the pennies over the minimum wage. you think so you think so but what should be stressed that this is not illegal because it is paying about the bedroom wage but it's a little bit stingy it's not generous and it's not

thing the government needs particularly as it stay as another winter of discontent in the face laura smith r.t. london. coming up after a short break it's breaking the set with a moment. you just saw often enough and knows that to ride a horse you've got to catch it first. for him it's a daily routine that you're soft as a foursome breeder on the island of a horn at the heart of. his life on an isolated farm is about blue sky green grass and his horse is what sometimes he gets lonely here but the horses have become part of me now i've fallen off. many times sometimes big bites as well it's part of my every day life. i look ormsby in home to it rats like you just saw for centuries most still live off the land but cattle and fish. by coal is often called the pearl of siberia a horn is said to be the pearl of by call it's all end of think forests. and vast staps. virtually undiscovered by tourists until some twenty years ago i haunt us quickly becoming a magnet for nature lovers and if you will seekers you're quite some way from civilization here accommodation on the island is very basic so y

last thing the government needs particularly as it stares another winter of discontent in the face laura smith r.t. london. and surely one r.c. would talk to a former manager advisor to george w. bush who shares his views on the likelihood of a strike on iran over its nuclear program. you can tell an ordinary russian siberian in the blink of an. anthropologist. those days siberians were different clothes different food. different animals. but what about. my journey began into men but the big city was all shiny skyscrapers and shopping malls much like any other prosperous russian. so i decided to. a small town just outside. dumplings came from here to dominate the russian cuisine but only in siberia. with cabbage and making sure you can have as a starter main dish. although it may draw. most people in siberia see nothing wrong with hunting only if you decide to participate. when you look upon martin. as in the middle of a swamp only accessible by air transport. and. it's inhabited by. a large muslim minority that migrated head before the russians. and this. israel. maybe not this. there is a br

going to find the extra ten percent that's going to go in your bill for the world i don't know laura smith r.t. london. twenty minutes from now but meantime a separate is a gaining support across europe in britain it is no exception surely we talked to margaret thatcher's former economics minister about the trend. rich is slow often enough and knows that to ride a horse you've got to catch it first. for him it's a daily routine that your soft as a horse breeder on the island of a horn at the heart of. his life on an isolated farm is about blue sky green grass and horses what sometimes it gets lonely here but horses have become part of me now i've fallen off so many times sometimes they bites as well it's part of my every day life. i holmes been home to it rats like me just laugh for centuries most still live off the land of cattle and fish every evening local villagers place their nets and in the morning the catch is always good. we always have enough here. if by call is often called the pearl of siberia and horn is said to be the pearl of by. it's all end of fake forests. and vast staps.

club his deputy has already warned the budget crisis may leave britain out of the block parties laura smith explains with the cloud hanging over the houses of parliament could this be the beginning of the end of britain's membership of the european union pro europe deputy prime minister nick clegg certainly seems to fear he's said that wednesday's rebellion by conservative m.p.'s when they voted in favor of cutting the budget the e.u. could leave britain either isolated inside the union all out of his altogether that will be music to the is of many who support leaving the e.u. the money britain contributes has become a huge burden of contention while brussels encourages e.u. member countries to tighten their belts it doesn't appear to be tightening its own in fact if the e.u. commission gets its way britain will be forced to pay an extra one point. three billion pounds next year in budget contributions on top of the eleven billion we already pay and we'd soon be handing over a staggering twenty two thousand pounds and minutes to brussels david cameron has promised tell negotiate a deal that

last thing the government needs particularly as it stares another winter of discontent in the face laura smith r.t. london. it's emerged this week that pakistan could be developing its own armed drones as has been frustrated with the high numbers of civilians and soldiers american aircraft in the country and says it could target militants more effectively but draw is only part of the problem when it comes to pakistan's anger over washington's policies such as one of ours former ambassador to the us. strikes are taken very very negatively in fact the unpopularity of the us in pakistan there are many of these of but one of the fundamental reasons is new drug the pakistani people don't like that do you wish to come into pakistan. and this upset and this is more talk about leverage and i think the issue of trade is more political and people like us to come in to. solve an energy it would be ordered to of pakistanis. there. are huge breaks the u.s. gives us monetary support. and funding overall in terms of. in terms of manpower and from different. if. it's been a colossal clock and more than that w

last thing the government needs particularly as it stares another winter of discontent in the face laura smith r.t. london. right now wells and stage a march through dublin in protest of abortion laws that led to the death of a woman who was denied help to terminate her pregnancy and. a gun store owner in arizona publishes an ad in the local newspaper telling president obama supporters are not welcome in his shop go online to find out more. western countries used to be a top destination for immigrants seeking a better life that's been changed now with the misery of the debt crisis and europeans themselves looking elsewhere to find a place to make a living. investigates the turnaround. and those low terry teahouse anyone in need is welcome here. in the queue for food traditionally immigrants from somalia but and this is new some europeans as well. who want to father three came here from spain eleven months ago after he lost his job and gained debts instead of doing a good one i put out there i came here with hope i was forced to leave spain due to the economic crisis and bank recession here i w

laura smith r.t. london syrian rebel forces looking to oust president bashar al assad have risk. in important endorsement from the west the european union says the national coalition is a legitimate representative of the country's people but it stopped short of giving the group a special recognition now france and the u.k. were the first western powers to give the rebel alliance their stamp of approval with turkey later doing the same and cora is now pushing for nato to install a patriot missile system along its border in order to defend herself russia is among the countries strongly opposing the move widely seen as the first step towards creating a no fly zone meanwhile political activist dr abdul believes that turkey has an alter a motive for its request to plunge the region deeper into chaos. deploying such missiles is not really going to be for defensive measure what do they need to defend against turkey has an army and they can defend against more power for example this is clearly for a larger scale intervention where they want to secure a no fly zone area we've been hearing

where trade unions have promised a winter of discontent aimed at the government's austerity drive laura smith spoke to british trade union leader bob crow the full interview is coming up later today but here's a quick preview. with a site that is about sewing that workers save enough for enough when people pay the tax. not be able to afford to go to university their kids not be able to get social housing or the social benefits being eroded child benefit being stuck. that is good to do something about it. if you don't fight then you're to put up with a posse sign if you do want to fight you've got a chance of winning. we'll be back with more international news in thirty minutes coming up in a few moments our special report iraq. issues that so much of the huge musician. market revolutionary dictator in the making president mohammed morsi is presidential decree spreading in wide powers has reopened the debate about. live . live . live. live live. live. live live live . more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. tr

laura smith reporting there live from london laura thank you very much that's how things. mohamed from the syria tribune says european supporters of the rebel coalition don't know what they ideally with. we don't know but this coalition has they don't control anything on the ground and you know the worst one of them to be the sort of cause of the whole process which did not make sense right after in france after the verdict by the coalition has a legal sort of preserve the syrian people. thinking and feeling the earth the release the video seeing that this delusion the family and this that they are they would keep fighting until they reach their goal which is an islamic state in syria so i don't think that they will they would be able to grow food on the ground or we cannot talk about the rebels marching on the one flag. i've got it sounds president counties i call the united states talk around altering officials to take over the american run prison after a bank run two months after control of the facility was teaching us into up to her . texas wants to pull away from the

another winter of discontent in the face laura smith r.t. . well coming up the third part of cultures of resistance which examines how arts can serve as ammunition in the battle for peace and justice after the break. good lumbered surely to mccurry was to believe a new age most sophisticated. who should leave. your new found anything tunes mission to teach music creation why you should care about humans in. this is why you should care only. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you don't know i'm trying hard welcome to the big picture. you have a war. to the notes we have. groups. all . right enough to my mouth it was like when you have that knowledge that wasn't. the smadi when i was fourteen yes you can liberate there when he certainly can't do it through the barrel of a gun salute the social changes will be the afghans themselves afghan men and women we believe are going to stand up to the

recognition by france and italy in a joint statement as appalled by the foreign ministers of his laura smiths in london with the details. they've called the formation of the coalition a major breakthrough that's what william hague said in his statement earlier and he's now recognizing the coalition as the sole the just not representative of the syrian people now that alone brings with it major political clout that along with it he's also introduced what he calls a significant increase in practical support they're going to invite a political representative to come to the u.k. so that's especially essentially establishing a diplomatic front inviting an ambassador from the this coalition to come to london but also and this is a thing that's going to give people most pause for thought he's going to commit another one million pounds in what he calls communications support he mentioned a couple of things internet hubs satellite phones to enable the opposition to communicate where and when they're in the field but of course when we say the field what we really mean is the battlefield so people are w

last thing the government needs to to kill is it stirs another winter of discontent in the face laura smith r.t. london. and after a short break it's our lauren lyster capital account. in japan the average height for men is one hundred eighty two centimeters ten centimeters shorter because of that some employers refused to hire me one of them even told me directly that i was too short to deal with the clients computers already spent three months in this hospital and plans to stay for another four to add the coveted seven santa maters to his stature invented by the famed soviet off the beat is good for you as are of in the nineteen fifties these frames were initially used to treat fractures in deformities by cutting bones and slowly pulling them up or therefore stimulating tissue regeneration it was off was able to receive arms and legs and people who thought they were crippled for life the soon to be other patients shallow bones and in many cases their shattered lives were the main goal when professor of design system. frame using bicycle parts sixty years later says invention is increasing

watch out for that you can see my whole interview with today and later on in the program indeed laura smith there and her full interview with songes on the next hour stick around for that. and worries over freedom of speech is seeing british newspapers possibly face the first major press record door in three hundred years after all they believe the deepest probe into the. choir has accused newspapers of wreaking havoc on the lives of innocent people and calls for a new legally backed regulator prime minister david cameron doesn't agree though putting him on a collision course with his coalition partners the victims of press intrusion an inquiry was launched after a tabloid edited by cameron's friend rebecca brooks and his former media chief in the cool hacked voice mails of celebrities and the missing school girl who was later found dead. the road to damascus airport reopened on friday off the ceiling the government said it had regained control of the area between fierce fighting between the army and rebels on several international airlines suspending flights the capital of syria is still c

news of the deputy of the latest to step aside just days after the director general quit artie's laura smith as the latest from london. director general george resigned over the weekend saying that it he felt it was the owner of both thing to do but what might not be seen as the honorable thing to do is that he's currently taking all four hundred fifty thousand pounds of his yearly pay packets despite having been in the job only fifty four days and of course much of that fifty four days he spent some would say in effect actually trying to fight these fires to keep on breaking out the b.b.c. and that money will be paid by the taxpayer just the latest thing is these allegations by a man called steve meston who said that he was repeatedly sexually abused as a child by a senior politician that was reported on the b.b.c.'s flagship current affairs program news night and only all of it was this steve messam showing the first graph of lord mcalpine and he said oh no actually i'm sorry i was mistaken it wasn't him after all and that haven't been enough in itself of of the jimmy savile scandal again

against any cuts britain has been the loudest voice against a budget increase but as artists heiress laura smith reports the chances for to strike a good deal are quite slim. it's not shaping up to be a pleasant couple of days in brussels after three years of economic turmoil in the e.u. which if we can political ties with stock divisions are emerging on one side northern europe and countries like the u.k. which are demanding huge cuts in spending to match. that's making it to the thout and east who are dependent on cash from brussels very uneasy e.u. president herman van rompuy is stuck between them he suggested seventy five billion euros to the more than trillion euros budget but that satisfied no one britain appears to warm to the idea. to cut two hundred fourteen billion old that means leaders from both sides of the budget divide threatening. david cameron is heading to brussels of what many are calling mission impossible he's under intense pressure to cut budget contributions but the daily telegraph newspaper understands that his negotiating position is based on the e.u. budget the whole no

i use a lawyer people who rob banks go to prison banks to real people get paid bonuses to stop laura smith birmingham. while you and while you can always look up more news at our website that would be so easy if you were searching for wiki leaks in the u.s. national archives has the service has recently blocked any search which contain the name or any keywords of the whistle blowing web site so i had to r.t. to get all the latest on that story. also online and all found in south korea proves the trunk is no obstacle to talking head to our web sites for that story and much much more. now a central vote. commission in ukraine has to span accounting until monday due to reported disorders in several polls the opposition's claiming the election has been blatantly rigged by the ruling party has also been overshadowed by scuffle between supporters of the opposition and police across the country clashes were also reported from the election commission in key of polls predict the ruling party of presidency a call which will retain its lead but lose its two thirds majority the recent results also mar