i've seen a video that was found in news international's english ofces. knew exactly what was going on. instructions had been given to do surveillance. >> bergman: lewis was already under financial pressure because his law firm didn't want to keep suing news international. they didn't want you to take any more of these cases. >> correct. >> bergman: and then you get a letter, as i understand it, from attorneys for news international saying that they're going to make sure that you don't take any more cases. >> correct. the words they use is, "it's rare that we have to admonish a fellow professional" and "we will seek, or we might seek, an injunction against you, but there is still time for you to do the right thing, to do the proper thing, and not act." i didn't do what they asked me to do. >> bergman: tguardian also felt under pressure. they received a surprising wasitor. sir paul stephenson would later deny he was trying to influence the guardian's coverage. but that's not how the editor saw it. >> chief cop came in here to essentially warn me off the st

on july 15, she resigned as chief executive of news international. two days later, she was arrested for the first time on suspicion of phone hacking and corruption. today she's been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert justice. >> this story is nowhere near over and who knows where it will end up. but secondly, the original criminalities that they were investigating, phone hacking, is nowhere near as serious as what they're now investing, which is conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. >> they were arrested at their home after an early morning knock from the police. david cameron is a neighbor and friend of both of them. he was at eaton with charlie brooks, who became a leading racehorse trainer and the prime minister recently admitted he did ride a horse loaned to the couple by scotland yard. >> before the election, yes, i did go riding with him. he has a number of different horses. and yes, one of them was this horse razor, which i did ride. >> tonight, rebecca brooks was freed by police after hours of questioning. like her husband,

james murdoch, the man in charge of news international has quit his job. w based in new york, rupert murdoch's young assange is an executive with the parent company. he will now be concentrating on the television business. there is some flash photography here. >> it is a move full of symbolism. james murdoch's day-to-day involvement with his father's newspapers and did last year. it comes as a relief for him. he does not have his father's passion for newspapers and so that he gets out of the firestorm. hacking was a news of the world. while they kept asking questions, he was a forced to admit to mistakes, in one case with his father by his side. >> with the benefit of hindsight, we can look at all of these things. if i knew that what i knew now, we would have taken more action and move faster to get to the bottom of these allegations. >> he is not the first executive to go. rebecca brooks, the managing director quit last summer. since then, the scandal spread with allegations of corrupt payments to police and other officials asked by journalists on the "sun

editorial clout it's really up in the air because partly in order to demonstrate how the culture at news internationalhas changed, raourplt anrupert murdoch and oe been saying it will be less salacious, sensational and he's been as good as his word. the first edition was fairly tame and that's the good news, i suppose, for the image of news international. the more complicated thing is a lot of people bought the news international for the sensation. >> ifill: ned temko of the london "observer," thank you. >> woodruff: again, the major developments of the day: north korea agreed to a temporary halt in nuclear testing, uranium enrichment and missile launches and to allow foreign monitoring of its main reactor complex. at least nine people were killed in the midwest as an outbreak of tornadoes ripped through the region. and the republican presidential candidates moved on to the ten super tuesday states after mitt romney won in arizona and michigan. and to hari sreenivasan for what's on the "newshour" online. hari? >> sreenivasan: also with the end of american heart month, we examine some common mispercept

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the chairman of news, international dominates the british papers. news corp.ress staffers will not have a member of the murdoch at the helm. for the first time since robert murdoch bought into the market in 1969. the sun also sets. the resignation lays bare how much power has shifted away from newspapers and also we from london. the times is an international publication and details the next steps of the former chairman and james will now focus his attention on the television business. news corp. is trying to depict the resignation as a routine part of his relocation to new york. despite intensifying criticism over the phone hacking scandal. this is "newsday". these are the headlines. north korea says it is offering to suspend nuclear production and missile tests in return to food aid from the americans. after four weeks of bombardment it looks as though the syrian government ground defenses is underway. animal welfare groups in china have stepped up a campaign to stop bears being formed for their -- barmed ofarmed for the. it is extracted without anesthetic. a

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. >> you mentioned that the nexus of politicians and the press particularly as it inhabited news international the british newspaper arm of mr. murdoch's news corps, also don't forget the police. the horse was actually a gift from scotland yard to mrs. brooks, a retired service horse and there were questions about whether it seemed that violated police policy as you suggest, a very minor episode suggestive of the way this goes. the way the prime minister rode that very horse on the brooks' ground seems to be only too vivid an illustration of that coziness. >> british prime ministers can last for a decade or 30 years i was just watching a docudrama they can last forever or a stiff breeze can knock them out forever. is david cameron experiencing a stiff breeze or is this just going to do damage. >> if you think back to last summer when this first rereputed, whether this could fracture the coalition. david cameron formed a government in partnership with the liberal democrats a third party as a way of establishing a working majority in parliament. this is a reminder of the embarrassment of the pol

hopes are now pinned on a new international envoy to syria but his push for a peace plan, which began in damascus last weekend, has yet to yield results. while military intervention has been ruled out by western nations, there are calls by some arab countries to arm the opposition. an option which would surely see the country slipped further into civil war. >> the u.n. now estimates that more than 200,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in syria. today, turkey says that within the last 24 hours alone some 1000 syrians have crossed over their border. a short while ago, i spoke to our correspondent who is on the turkish side of the frontier. the number of refugees seems to have picking up in recent days. what are they telling you? >> everyone has a story. there are always stories of journeys, grueling journey is at that. particularly the last several miles they make towards the border. these are very large families. some whole villages have simply abandoned their homes where they have been surrounded by pro- assad forces. they go as far as they can buy road but those last fe

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. >> rose: james murdoch stepped down today as executive chairman of news international, the british newspaper arm of news corp, for the first time since 1969 no member of the murdoch family will have a role in managing. a wide phone hacking scandal embroiled the company in controversy. he will remain news corp's deputy chief operating officer and will concentrate on expanding the company's television business. joining me here in new york andrew edgecliffe-johnson of the "the financial times,"" john burns from the "new york times." john, tell me what this means and why did it happen now? >> well, if you read the company announcement, you'd think it was just kind of a routine reshuffle, lots of congratulations for all that was accomplished by james murdoch from his years in london. but you only have to step back to take a look at this to see whose happened here is they've taken him out of the game in britain at a time when the scandal is not relenting, intensifying, when, by all appearances, criminal prosecutions cannot be far away. his farther has come in here at 80y years old, assume

there is international outrage, but no agreement about how to bring it to an end. bbc news, outside homs. >> let's look at some other stories. observers from the organization for security and cooperation in europe have described the voting that returned vladimir putin for another term as russian president as clearly skewed in his favor. at a news conference held in moscow, the observer's spokesman said there were serious problems with the democratic process. >> although all contestants were able to campaign, the conditions for the campaign were clearly skewed in favor of one candidate. also, overly restrictive, candidate registration requirements limited genuine competition. while all candidates have access to media, only one candidate, the current prime minister, was given a clear advantage in the coverage. state resources were mobilized at the regional level in his support. >> that was some of the monitors speaking. vladimir putin has yet to respond to. those to but he claimed a resounding victory. he had tears in his eyes as he spoke to supporters in moscow. the oppositi

new challenge which is. has grown in proportions to the level of threat to regional and international peace and stability let's this is also a contribution to the. resolution of the complex issues to which the afghan people of a single let's talk about latest news and start speculating and this is back to stand the marsh well the upcoming aesir military exercise on anti-terrorism and to take a stand. because that has dropped out and there is not taking part in in the middle east does it mean as some speculate that that is back as time may leave the reservation you know there was well what was the reason for his pakistan not take part in them because i think it's it's within the main framework it's anti terrorist groups and why don't they participate well. and multilateral organisation consists of member states and all member states have their own interests and not always the concrete interests of the member states coincide and. they have a right to participate in this or that cooperation and by the way this is. in visit in article sixteen of the charter and if one member state is not interested in taking part

james murdoch has resigned as executive chairman at "london news international."inally if you really want to be like mike, here is your chance. michael jordan sprawling suburban chicago estate is up for sale for a mere $29 million. >>> jeremy lin is bloodied, but not beaten. kobe bryant plays a mass adventure and mavericks, big man goes down and out. some calling it america's greatest ever soccer victory. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> in weather, all eyes are on the next severe weather outbreak coming on friday. your forecast is coming up. you're watching "early today." owe we e >>> good morning. if you're just waking up, this is "early today." >>> in sports, two of the hottest teams in the nba met last night in san antonio and unlike at the rodeo, the bulls won out over the spurs. here is fred roggin with an early look at all of your sports headlines. >>> good morning. before last night, the spurs had lost just one game at home all year. the chicago bulls changed that. here we go to san antonio. spurs and bulls back and forth the ent

a result of the shanghai cooperation organization or was founded in two thousand and one the new international body united china has a stop to kurdistan and russia. was initially given a cold shoulder by the west things changed after obama became us president that was when nato started seeking the assistance. normalizing the situation in afghanistan all of the c.e.o. countries based terrorism and drug trafficking threats from afghanistan and therefore rightfully interested in the region still is a sham a relatively young ten year old organization b s c o is still in search of its role searing security and economic collapse despite its cooperation with nato many still see it as a counterbalance to the north atlantic alliance. with the basque welcome to the show thank you very much for for being with us thank you . first of all i was asking the question that we started with a actually the question right why we wanted you here in the show so is a clear vision at least the moscow. the vision of the of the sea this is primarily a military. and economic organization as the chinese would definitely w

international news and comment live from moscow this is r.t. moscow's ready to back a u.n. resolution on syria as long as it contains no ultimatums aimed at assad's regime that's according to the russian foreign minister who's voicing strong support for the u.n. special envoys roadmap to peace in the conflict torn country u.n. security council is set to consider voting on a draft statement on syria later on choose day sarah firth has the details. russia remains very much focused on what it said all along which is that it is calling for a cease fire to hold to the violence in the country but it's not going to back anything the same as putting in the ultimatum on the syrian government to. talk about solution is seen as simply backing one side and now we know the foreign minister lavrov was meeting today with his lebanese counterpart and he spoke about the trough resolution this is going to be discussed later in the security council that's because so far from. that i used to back a pin and six point peace plan calling for much the same things that the arab league observers mis

former news international exec was released on bail for the second time yesterday in connection with an ongoing phone hacking scandal at the london tabloid. back here at home, the securities and exchange commission charged two amerprise financial advisers with insider trading one of them announced through alcoholics anonymous. >>> finally, the end of an era. the 2010 print edition of the iconic 32-volume set will be its last. >>> coming up, orlando uses dwight howard's magic while they still can. lakers win in double overtime. and a pinball machine hockey goal. >>> plus, byu makes comeback history in the first round of the ncaa basketball tournament. your early morning sports headlines are ahead. >>> i'm here to remind everyone this is officially the last week of winter. it's not going to feel like it of course. your forecast is coming up. you're watching "early today". >>> good morning. if you're just waking up, this is "early today." and in sports, last night march madness kicked off in style with two big comeback victories. here's nbc's fred roggin with an early look at all your s

." >>> in the uk, word that rupert murdoch's son james resigned as executive chair of news international, in the wake of the phone hacking scandal at murdoch's british newspapers. james murdoch will concentrate on expanding their international tv business. >>> when we come back, remembering a pop star who helped to define an american generation. ♪ ♪ >>> the sad news today about the death of davy jones was a huge mortality reminder for an entire american generation. a lot of people, of course, can still name all four monkees, davy jones, mickey dolenz, peter tor and michael nesmisth. in the late '60s, girls would tell you you are either a davy jones girl or micky dolenz girl. peter and michael not so much because they were more the brooding artist type. when we learned davy jones died at age 66, it had people looking back. davy jones was the consensus choice cutest monkee with the floppy hair and british accent that regularly caused swoons to break out. the men behind "the monkees" knew he was worth his weight in gold. "the monkees" were made for tv literally. fans tuned in, not quite rea

. >>> israeli president shimon peres has a new international facebook page after visiting ceo mark zuckerberg in morning and interacting with facebook users in a live web interview. terry mcsweeney is live at facebook headquarters in menlo park. a lot on his agenda today. >> reporter: there is. he's meeting with all kinds of people here. today it was a day to launch a new facebook page. being the president of israel there is something more to it than what minor yours might look like this is dedicated to the solutions to the problems in the mideast. look at the president shimon peres here at facebook today in menlo park. he took questions from chief operating officer of facebook, sheryl sandberg from the audience, facebook employees. he talked about is peace possible for israel? about iran. the standard of living for his arab neighbors. he hopes his new page draws young arabs to discuss peace and how to achieve it. he says he is grateful for facebook for its ability to unite people in this way. >> facebook opens eyes. before it people didn't have the slightest idea what is happening in the res

now as a presidential candidate he has proposed a new international tax system that zeros out taxes for companies that create jobs outside the united states of america. i'm not making this stuff up. look both, president obama, governor romney, we are talking about taxes and the burden on manufacturers, there's a big

of the we told you are completely new set of policies we need dogs who are we start selling off our economy if you. bought our resume and also with other international partners we view the new mix of a chronic policy as well as this perceive the world. because it makes all right i ga wranglers i wish we had more time for this attorney a professor of constitutional law joining us live from athens thank you thank you very much. this is r.t. now thousands of construction workers in the u.k. have discovered they were placed on a secret employment blacklist which enjoyed police support the illegal files deemed the victims many of whom had complained of safety standards to left wing and troublesome and later their sackings and made reemployment nearly impossible now these details and i want to explore a smith. from working for speaking the truth these trade unionists and whistleblowers all fighting back after years of wondering why they couldn't get a job he's skilled engineers now know their names were on an illegal blacklist. in two thousand and four former union organizer steve hadley was mysteriously sacked and for the next four years he wanted why he

last july the report comes from the afghan human rights commission assisted by international open society groups evidence of newtorture has already been uncovered as are he's just gotten a cheeky on reports from washington every year international forces detained thousands of afghans and a good number of those are transferred to afghan interrogators now the report by the afghan independent human rights commission and a new york based open society foundations were guilt that what awaits the detainees after being. word is often torture and denial of due process the report refers to very specific cases and testimonies and basically asks whether the us is complicit in torture there we're talking about some gruesome reports of abuse detailed in that report beatings suspension from the ceiling electric shocks of threatened or actual sexual abuse and other forms of mental and physical abuse which are routinely used to obtain confessions or other information the research primarily focuses on how the afghan intelligence agency does business and that it says that the u.s. the business of the u.s. forces is just to hand o

the world put the issue of the international assistance mandate and it's up to the un to end it after the mission is accomplished very important as the details now from new york. according to international law it is the security council that house to give approval and write a report before all the troops can withdraw from afghanistan what ambassador churkin indicated is that the fact that there is an escalation in violence that's ongoing and terrorism continues to be us fret he said it is ill considered to establish arbitrary deadlines for withdrawing troops if the situation in afghanistan right now remains very critical and very unstable ambassador churkin said that security viable security needs to be a stablished before international forces leave one of the many concerns churkin raised is the fact that print the production and illegal sales of drugs continues in afghanistan he said the production of opiates increased by sixty percent in twenty eleven and the fact that he said that there has to be stringent measures taken to eradicate the drug fields and drug crops in afghanistan he went on to paint what we could consider a very scary picture of this c

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