mr. cameron here is that the opposition has been calling for her to go for days. it does make the prime minister look like he is a bit behind the curve. >> mr. camera and talking about changing the political pollster -- mr. cameron was talking about changing the political culture. >> he made it clear that the era of self regulation of the press is coming to an end. the complaint commission is probably -- its days will be numbered, basically. there's an element to the two public increase that looks at press regulation. it's clear that something big will have to change. >> thank you very much for joining us. let's take a look at some of the other stories making headlines today. syria has accused the u.s. of involvement in the anti- government protests that begun four months ago. a syrian officials said a u.s. visit to the city of hama was proof of american attempts to escalate the situation. the state department said robert ford will stay in hama. pakistan has responded to comments by america's highest rank military officer that it sanctioned the killing of a pakista

mr. cameron defended hiring andy coulson but he said that in hindsight he would not have made the same choice. this report contains flash photography. >> a french in need -- a friend in need is a friend. they become a massive headache. david cameron has always defended his decision to give andy coulson a second chance. >> with 20/20 hindsight, i would not have offered him the job and i expect he would not have taken it. you don't make decisions in hindsight, you make them in the present. you live and you learn, believe you me, i have led. >> the prime minister said he was extremely sorry. what he -- was he ready to say sorry for hiring him? >> if it turns out that i had been lied to, that would be a moment for a profound apology. >> few expected him to go that far. >> that is not good enough. this is not about hindsight, mr. speaker, it is not about whether mr. colson lied to him, it is about all the information that the prime minister ignored. >> there was questions about the prime minister's other choice of friends. there was many meetings with news international bosses with rebekah brooks

mr. cameron of a catastrophic lapse in judgment of hiring him and mr. d by saying if he ever found out andy cowlingson had lied to him and if andy coulson is found guilty of anything to do with the phone hacking allegations, then as prime minister he would come forward and give a profound apology and put his full weight behind it, but for today there have been a lot of calls for mr. cameron to resign over the past few days, but for now those voices seem to be pretty silent. >> sally, really paralleling some calls for rupert murdoch for his future, that he might step down and lit his vice chair take over, how have those two prominent figures been compared in the uk? >> well, yesterday was pretty much rupert murdoch's today and today was mr. cameron's. there's been a big shift in focus in the uk press. yesterday, of course, we had the extraordinary scenes where rupert murdoch and his son james were put on the spot by a very powerful committee of mps, and then mr. murdoch was pied in the face which tended to kind of pull the attraction away from him, but to

mr. cameron in his own party. think the second question that we come to, apart from this severe dent to his authority, and the fact that this story is going to be with us for at least another year, because of what catherine just says is the police inquiry, but also the levinson inquiry on the media. >> yes. >> and relations with the police. so the second part of the question is, the general relationship with the media and politicians. now, that's alwaysoing to be a bit incestuous, it's just that's been very incestuous in britain in the past few years under attorney blair, under gordon brown, and what we now see as an obsession with media management. not just shared by downing street, but also, my goodness, by the meopolitan police. th is the police force in london that sees it necessary to employ more than 50 press officers, including about 10 people who used to work for news international. this is surely -- >> yes. i went to the -- i went to the committees yesterday. the one that got allhe attention was, of cours

mr. cameron was the leader of the opposition. but coulson stayed on to the job until the start of the year, about five months ago. in the last few minutes, we heard that david cameron, the british treatment, will be holding a press conference at half past the hour, 9:30 british time, 10:30 central european time. we will bring that live to you. the closure of the "news of the world" may feel like the end of an era. but is it really? already we are hearing reports that the murdoch empire is preparing a replacement. dan rivers joins us now from outside the "news of the world" offices in east london. dan, raining heavily there, i can see. but good-bye "news of the world" hello "sun on sunday?" >> the final edition of the "news of the world" is being put together by staff behind me who have been told yesterday that they will be their last edition after 168 years, the world's biggest selling english language newspaper is to fold as everyone here starts to take in the news that this paper is going out of business and comes to terms with

mr. cameron. -- i was invited to have a cup of tea. >> from high drama, to the circus. a cup of fight to the face. >> do you need to leave at this time? >> no. >> why not? >> people that i trusted let me down and i think that they behaved disgracefully and betrayed the company and me and it is for them to pay. i think frankly, i'm the best person to clean this up. >> many questions are unanswered about who it to -- who committed the appalling actions and who knew what when. murdoch will not be seen as broken by today's ordeal. there will be years to wait before the decision by a judge. >> it was a revelation about a murder victim milly dowler milly dowler -- phone.owler's hacked this is what rebekah brooks had to say about the incident. >> i don't know anyone in their right mind who would sanction anyone listening to the voice mail of milly dowler in those circumstances. i just don't know anyone who would think that was a right and proper thing to do at this time or any time. i know that we know a lot more now but that is all i can tell you. >> many of the details were

mr. cameron gave very little detail on numbers. >> ticking very much to the end of 2014 for the pullout before british troops -- for british troops. -- sticking very much to the end of 2014. twice as many afghan security forces will be generated this year as the other troops are leaving. afghanistan takes care of its own security through the massive buildup of its own forces. the problem is the recent attack on the hotel intercontinental in afghanistan. it was only when nato was involved that the taliban attack was ended. there will still be a presence, but nothing like the number of troops we have seen in the past 10 years in afghanistan. >> germany's constitutional court is considering a challenge on whether the country oppose the c-- whether the country's contribution to bailouts is appropriate. there's concern that it could be against the german constitution. we spoke about whether the case had a chance of success. >> it's not an open and shut case either way. everybody says that it could go either way. another thing is the german constitution was written with memories of war and hyperinfl

mr. cameron said this. >> on the case of rebecca gross, i do not think is right for the prime minister toicking and choosing who should run and you should not run the organizations. that has been reported that she offered resignation over this, and in this situation, i would have taken it. >> david cameron has done his best to distance himself from the scandals, but questions about his own judgment and his french of continue. especially now that some say they warned him years ago about hiring the former news of the world editor. >> for president obama, the u.s. economy has been the overriding johnson he took office. today comes with more disappointing -- the overriding challenge since he took office. today comes with more disappointing news. the unemployment rate is back up to 9.2%. but what can be done to get america hiring again? we have a senior writer for bloomberg business week joining us from new york. robin, how could these figures fall so far below expectations? >> it is because we are in such a and chartered territory. it is unbelievable, the extent to which economists missed on

mr. cameron said this. >> on the case of rebecca gross, i do not think is right for the prime minister toicking and choosing who should run and you should not run the organizations. that has been reported that she offered resignation over this, and in this situation, i would have taken it. >> david cameron has done his best to distance himself from the scandals, but questions about his own judgment and his french of continue. especially now that some say they warned him years ago about hiring the former news of the world editor. >> for president obama, the u.s. economy has been the overriding johnson he took office. today comes with more disappointing -- the overriding challenge since he took office. today comes with more disappointing news. the unemployment rate is back up to 9.2%. but what can be done to get america hiring again? we have a senior writer for bloomberg business week joining us from new york. robin, how could these figures fall so far below expectations? >> it is because we are in such a and chartered territory. it is unbelievable, the extent to which economists missed on

mr. cameron said he is confident over all things were on track. >> i do believe that it is right, as we build up the afghan national security forces, as we see a stronger and more confident afghan national army, stronger afghan police, many of whom we trained ourselves, and also the local police, i do believe it is right to start planning the withdrawal of some of our troops. as i say, we start with 9500, there are 426 coming home, over and above the 9500, and i will talk to the house of commons tomorrow about a modest reduction that will take place next year. >> the afghan president says his people have to take charge of their own security. >> this, of course, does not mean there should be a sudden and immediate end to assistance to afghanistan or to cooperation between afghanistan and its allies, like the united kingdom. but a process in which afghanistan increasingly becomes in charge of its own affairs, all of its affairs, and where increasingly we are no longer a burden on our allies. >> increasingly, time lines are being set. british combat operations in afghanistan will finish by the e

bars whilst assemble the evidence will take a very long and the same happens now i've just seen mr cameron in the house on your television monitor and he will be held responsible for what has happened he's talking about upping the ante things like they're killing more civilian job under the not that accurate and using massive weapons things like the way of bombs one ton one ton this is sixty plus shoes from the second world war and the nuremberg principles is unbelievable and you hear the talking about isn't even tones this is all very ordinary and of course the result of this will presumably be further destabilization in the middle east what do you see is the end game. must use the word game in. the usual time. kills and but it's planned and there's a book here that i've got which is online it is a very rooted hidden history of zionism chapter twelve. blogs what they were saying then the man who did you know it was a journalist of the minister of foreign affairs in israel and he was analyzing how they could disappear it all. arab nations because he knew because of tribal differences and t

mr. cameron new, referring -- knew, referring to a statement. are you accusing the prime minister of lying about what he was told? secondly, before this whole row, what assurances did labor give news international about not raising bskyb's bid? >> let me deal with both of those questions. on the first question, i am saying that the prime minister has a series of unanswered questions on this issue. the most important of those is the question about the specific information that was passed him by the guardian newspaper. we do not yet know the chain of events but we do know there was an admission that mr. hint -- hilton talked to the guardian about allegations, that he was a convicted criminal. there was evidence he was paying the police on behalf of news organizations. he was on trial for a further offense. i also understand that mr. hilton pass that to mr. llewellyn. these rate serious allegations. there was evidence being presented by the guardian newspaper. mr. kamen said, i had no specific information. but he did have a specific information. or

about the hacking two other people were also arrested as public opinion turned against the paper mr cameron promised inquiries into press and since john gaunt who used to work for the real sister paper says britain's media was too close to the misconduct . many of us were calling for a full public inquiry led by a judge and cameron as being dragged in this position he's now willing to let it happen so extremely embarrassing for at least part of what's called the chipping condom set which is a rural part of britain he lives down there the weekend regret a group. certain columnists live down there and the whole set you've got to make socially but it was a different set when labor in power. which only blair but all of it is too cozy and too comfortable if you don't have a real democracy you have to have a separation between the press surely the political establishment and the government of the day you also need to have separation between the judiciary and those two areas in britain and the united kingdom they've become too close over the last thirteen or fourteen years and i believe that last

bars whilst assemble the evidence would clear a long actually and the same happens now i do see mr cameron in the house on your television monitor and he will be held responsible for what has happened for you about upping the ante like there needs killing more civilian job bombs are not accurate and using massive weapons things like the. one ton one ton this is sixty plus shoes from the second world war and the nuremberg principles is unbelievable and you hear the b.b.c. talking about an even this is all very ordinary and of course the results of this will presumably be further destabilization in the middle east what do you see is the endgame. just use the word game and the more they use it all the time. periods. and it's planned and there's a book here that have got trees on reinitialize the very man who wrote it hidden history of zionism chapter twelve russian and blogs what they were saying then mangled did you know was journalism actually attach to the minister of foreign affairs in israel and he was analyzing how they could this and meet all the arab nations because he knew because of

now behind bars whilst assemble the evidence along it really and the same happens now i just see mr cameron in the house on your television monitor here and he will be held responsible for what has happened he's talking about upping the ante things like that he needs killing more civilian job the not that accurate and using massive weapons things like the. bomb one ton one ton this is sixty plus years from the second world war and the nuremberg principles is unbelievable and you hear the ribisi talking about an even tones this is all very ordinary do you think that britain's reputation for press freedom does the bottle the printing media i don't really talk i do used to support the borning star but they have a certain amount of the presiding stuff not directions that go home i wish adventure the television d.p.c. salute. i would so much a channel for other trades to watch i think it's we are in with the vortex sucks for the larger and we're somewhere that could it we're in in the bottom and. that today is helping thank you very much thanks very much.

ate the noise like two other people also arrested as public opinion turned against the paper mr cameron promised inquiries into press ethics and practices john gone to used to work for the news of the world sr says britain's media is to tie did its great. many of us were calling for a full public inquiry led by a judge and cameron has been dragged through this position he's now willing to let it happen six truly embarrassing for him he's part of what's called the chipping candombe set which is a rural part of britain he lives down there at the weekend rebecca brooks lives down there sure and columnist lived down there and the whole set you can to make socially that set was a different set when labor in power which only blair but all of it is too cozy and too comfortable if you don't have a real democracy you have to have a separation between the press surely and indeed the political establishment and the government of the day you also need to have separation between the judiciary and those two areas in britain and the united kingdom there are big. i'm too close over the last thirteen or

mr. cameron is a saying in an investigation into its practices? what you see in the near future about what may change? guest: what more willie investigation and throw up and what threats will that pose to individuals involved at the senior level in this company? there are real questions but executives in the company and whether any of these emails point to them, whether they're wrote checks, and approved behavior they should not have done. that is a very live question. there is a concern in other sections of the british press that there are implications and they have used many of those practices and that the finger will come sooner or later, be pointed at them. we have this medley of cases that still have to be worked through. there'll be time spent in court, in parliament, and that the police level. there is a much broader debate about what the public will then expect and tolerate from the media in britain. host: and room -- andrew edgecliffe-johnson from " financial times" in london. in the last 12 hours, leon panetta, according to "the new york

mr. cameron before the prime minister? >> i think that did. >> it is inconceivable mr coulson would not have known one of the people working for you was an ex employee of news of the world. what was he -- he writes for news international. >> a close relationship between mr. coulson and mr. wallace, but i met mr coulson once. i didn't meet them together at all. >> is it conceivable they wouldn't have known about each other's jobs? >> it is inconceivable they wouldn't talk. >> let's move to the contract. >> to say that mr. coulson worked for the prime minister, working for me. >> mr. wallace was not working directly for me. this is a minor part-time role for which i had some advice. >> were you one of the people consulted when mr fedorcio worked with him as a consultant? you have 69 press officers in the metropolitan police but needed another consultant? >> it is what you found out. [talking over each other] >> has it gone down? >> age 45. >> you needed an extra consultant. >> yes i was. let me say the benefits of what we kno

mr. cameron met with executives from the company more than two dozen times in the last 14 months and labor leader said the prime minister ignored obvious concerns about andy coolson when appointed him as the communications chief. >> mr. speaker this can't be put down to gross incompetentence. it was a deliberate attempt to hide from the fact of about mr. coulson. >> order! order. members shouting out shouldn't be doing so. they must calm themselves. keep on an even keel. it's better for their health and for the house. >> the prime minister, mr. speaker, was caught in a tragic conflict of loyalty between the bands of integrity people should expect and his personal allegiance to mr. coolson. he made the wrong choice. >> the phone hacking scandal brought down two of the top police officers over allegations the cops took bribes from news of the world executives. the police and parliamentary investigations of all this are ongoing. >> shepard: back here in the u.s., rescue teams searching for three hikers swept over the edge of a raging waterfall and officials believe all of them are dead. happe

mr. cameron, no other conversations took place. it lasted minutes. >> that is the one you went through the back door. >> yes, i had been asked by mr. brown, many times... >> through the back door? >> yes. bill: can i ask you -- >> and my family went there, many times. >> were there any pre-conditions, with the u.k. government, the support of your newspapers? >> i never guaranteed anyone support of my newspapers. we changed -- we had been supporting the thatcher government and, the government that followed, and we we changed and supported the labor party, when it was, ten years ago, with the direct loss of 200,000 circulation. >> did you ever employ any pre-conditions on either the labor party -- >> no. >> no pre-conditions whatsoever. >> the only conversations i have had with them, mr. blair, as i can remember, were arguing about the euro. >> well, mr. blair... >> what? >> mr. blair... halfway around the world in the 1997 election -- that doesn't matter. >> that is something mr. cameron arranged. >> yes. >> also, i ask you, it is un

mr. cameron. another conversation took place. >> and that was when you went in the back door? >> yes. i had been by to visit mr. brown many times. >> through the back door? >> yes. [laughter] my family had gone there many times. >> were there any preconditions by the support of your newspapers? >> i never guaranteed anyone the support of my newspapers. we had supported the thatcher government. we changed to support the labor party, whenever it was. at the direct loss of 200,000 circulation. the on the conversations i had had with mr. blair, that i could remember, were out and about in europe. >> mr. blair [unintelligible] he visited you halfway around the world before the 1997 election. >> that was something mr. cameron are arranged? >> it is understood that the fbi are investigating 9/11 victims. have you commissioned an investigation into these allegations? >> we have seen no evidence of that at all. as far as we know, if they do, we will treated exactly the same way as we treat it here. i cannot believe it happened to anyone in america whether it was someone at "news of the world,"

mr. cameron is appearing at a heated emergency session in the house of commons. tough crowd.e is being criticized for hiring a communications chief who is a former editor of "news of the world." the tabloid newspaper, only by news corp, recently shut down because of the scandal. >>> a protestor lunged at murdock yesterday hitting him in the face with a pie. rupert murdock's wife jumped from her feet took a swing at him. that's her on the left in the pink. police ended up arrestk the guy. >>> suspected cybercriminals from the bay area are among 16 people arested in a nationwide raid. this was targeting "hacktivists. fbi agents searched homes an seized computers in several states yesterday to take down a notorious computer hacking group. "anonymous" gained worldwide attention in december when it disabled or disrupted the website of paypal, mastercard and visa. according to the san jose indictment, at least two of those hacking suspects are from the bay area. >>> new this morning, stock futures are rising on news of a multi-billion-dollar jet deal. just about an hour ago america

mr. cameron and nick greg's liberal democrat are joining the labor party to form a united front to call upon mr. murdock to withdraw the bid. had that said, news corp. has indicated that they are willing for this to be referred to an antitrust independent regulatory agency. and what that will do is look hard at the question of whether or not it contraits too much power in one media entity and kicks it down the road for several months. it's the hope of news corp. executives who are eager for this deal to go through to solidify their control of the nation's largest broadcaster, that it will occur at a time when political passions have cooled and the fires of scandal don't burn quite so brightly. >> npr david joining us from london. david, thanks a lot. >> you bet. >> ifill: debt ceiling negotiations crept along at a snail's pace today, as both sides agreed on the need for action, without actually agreeing on how to get there. >> with no deal in sight the political barbs on the senate floor mitch ma connell delivered a blistering tra keak of president obama's leadership. >> the president has pr

mr. cameron. no other conversation took place. it lasted minutes. >> and that's the one you went in through the back door? >> yes. i had been asked also by mr. brown many times. >> through the back door? >> yes. >> can i also ask you, mr. murdoch -- >> and my family who went there many times. >> have you ever imposed any preconditions upon a party leader in the u.k. before giving them the support of your newspapers? >> i've never guaranteed anyone the support of our newspapers. we change -- we had been supporting the thatcher government and the conservative government that followed and we changed and supported the labor party whenever it was, 13 years ago, with the direct loss of 200,000 circulation. >> did you ever impose any preconditions on either the labor party -- >> no. >> no preconditions whatsoever? >> no. the only conversations i had with them, mr. blair that i can remember, were about the euro. >> mr. blair visited you halfway around the world. >> he what? >> mr. blair visited you halfway around the world before the 1997

mr. cameron, just sent out today. i suspect we're in common cause for this. we want to make sure the citizens are preserved and the victims of september 11th where there were british citizens as well as u.s. citizens who lost their lives. >> mr. murdoch gave an interview to "the wall street journal," a newspaper he partly owns. we have a reputation of great good works in this country referring there to the uk. does that sit right with you? we have a reputation of great good works? >> well, of everything i've read, john, the "news of the world," the invasion of privacy of the british prime minister about his son's illness, the royal family, crime victims, a young child. that isn't in my mind real journalism, that isn't great good works, that isn't how you go about selling nups. >> we'll keep in touch as this one goes forward. if there are leads to follow just how would an investigation into possible hacking nearly a decade ago work? mark rash has an expertise in cybercrimes. this is ten years or two months shy of ten years. if someone tried to hack into e-mail

mr. cameron no other conversation took place. >> and that's when you went in through the back door? >> yes. i had been asked by mr. brown several times. >> through the back door? >> yes. [laughter] and my family many times. >> [inaudible] before giving them the support? >> i never guaranteed anyone support of our newspapers. we had been supporting the government come and we changed and supported whenever it was, 13 years ago with the 200,000 circulation. >> did you ever report any preconditions on the labor party? >> no. of the only conversations i had with them i can remember were arrived at that euro. >> mr. blair who visited you -- it doesn't matter. >> [inaudible] >> can i also ask it was understood that the fbi are investigating have you commission investigation into these allegations? >> we have received no evidence of that at all and as far as we know -- >> that they do? >> they are treated exactly the same way as here, and i can't believe it happened to anyone in america as well as the news of the world. i don't know. >> if these allegations are true the investigation into th

mr. cameron, is that correct? >> let me make it clear that i do not believe that the prime minister would be compromised. i was just guiding him against any acquisitions that he might pick up. second, i did not say that -- [inaudible] it is my understanding that it is consistent with the advice from senior official, but i think mr. yatess might have -- >> [inaudible] >> i don't know, but that's -- >> who had that conversation? >> my suggestion is ask mr. yatess. >> we will. >> to the extent that mr. yates felt he was expected to do the minimum with this review or whatever it's to be described as, is that not understand l? i mean,nd i -- i mean, i don't know you're saying the statement was a reference one, but do you understand where it might be that mr. yates could have felt under pressure to produce quick results when you had told your colleagues at the conference i asked john yates to establish the facts of the case and look into the detail and i anticipate making a statement later today. >> if i can finish that

mr. cameron took on a's his communications chief.m that post in january of 2011 and was arrested over these latest revelations. journalism, politics, the country's police. the phone hacking scandal could also dent rupert murdoch's business ambitions. newscorp is trying to acquire a paid tv broadcaster serving britain and ireland. some say getting rid of "news of the world" will help. it owns 39% of the company but wants to snap up the remainder. the company'sed by faced opposition from the rivals and media industry and some politicians who object it on grounds that it would own too much of the british media if the deal went through. well, that opposition has increased as the phone hacking scandal escalates. critics claims it chose news corp. and its management not proper to own the broadcaster. so where does this all leave news international, the company that runs newscorp's newspaper assets. they're cooperating with the inquiry, cause to be made for rebecca brooks, editor of "news of the world" resigned from her current job as chief

time the problem that we've got is with public state sponsored multiculturalism and even david cameron mrs merkel president sarkozy they've all now admitted that this is a problem is where we have imported cultural customs into our country which are not appropriate in western liberal advance democracy and instead of being very strong about this and that's not how we do things we were pleased and let these people carry on with things like you know arranged marriages polygamous marriages all of these kind of things and introduce their past and in fact in britain i don't know about it also but in britain we actually have recognition of sharia law for some tribunals so it's got the legal system has already taken a foothold without us and of course this is a road to ruin. or to recap our top story now here in r.t. in the region the police say at least eighty people have been killed in a shooting spree. at a youth camp run by the governing labor party the gun attack is believed to be the worst of its kind in the history came shortly after a bomb ripped through the heart of the administrator the