oh as. this is news coming to you live from berlin a tragedy on the danube river the tourist boat sinks leaving at least 7 people dead event on the hunger in the capital budapest during a storm rich heavy rainfall hampering rescue efforts many of the passengers are still missing. a setback for israel's binyamin netanyahu 2 months on from elections the country's long time leader extremes to form a government the knesset votes to send the country back to the polls. and former

u.s. special counsel robert muller a brick says silence he says is reporting to russian election meddling does not exonerate president dr profit from criminal wrongdoing. plus the mothers who refuse to give up hope in mexico these women have taken the search for their missing children into their own hands in a country where 30000 people have disappeared. i don't work of i'm under dutchy my good to have you with us. at least 7 people are dead and more than a dozen missing after a sightseeing boat sank in the river danube in the hunger and capital with uppish the boat capsized but it was struck by another vessel in the high given parliament building it was carrying more than 30 south korean tourists and 200 crewmembers

rescuers worked through the night searching for survivors. the rain kept flashing dine as rescuers scoured the dark cold water. they were searching several kilometers down stream from the site of the accident looking for people swept away by the river's powerful currents. and all other boat traffic was halted along a stretch of the danube site of beauty passed as military personnel and divers joins the rescue effort. from people with serious injuries and someone used to be resuscitated. but they were unable to save a number of passengers the danube had been flooding as a storm envelops budapest. this size korean travel agency which hired the boat apologized but defended the decision to let passengers board despite

the weather. will get 30 customers and one of our cats boarded the cruise boat for the budapest night in utah that it hit. at the time of the water level was high but other crews or it's operating as usual not just out but this. one expert told one gary intellivision that the pleasure boat called the mermaid likely went down very fast children were reportedly among its passengers local and for the very latest i'm joined by our correspondent stefan boss in but the best to find out what is the latest with the rescue operation. well what we do know is stats at the moment they are still working around the clock to find people but it's getting very difficult because it is raining and die 1st i'm not sure if they can found to remaining people they're still looking for still 20

south korean tourists and they are all very anxious at this point whether they will find any people and in what state they will find it and 7 do we know any will of bought the circumstances of the collision. well what we do know is that this boat when to a coalition which an older vessel and that has been a concern for some time because quite a lot of sightseeing boats in the danger great for especially also in the evening so i expect more questions will be erased about the number as ships in the night and also what to do better to control old old that shipping at that you have to know that the sightseeing boats are very. tourists thousands of people are using it to end you really and of course the questions will be raised also why it

could happen in such a storm in such a rain exactly in the storm and the rain must fish only affecting rescue operations because the danube river is kind of in in space at the moment the current is very fast. well indeed indeed and that is a major concern for the rescue workers. at a moment to be moving at a very fast pace and also it is very difficult anyway to reach from they say area the danube so quickly and to have to do all kind of things we perceive to be foster there and also what is what of course remains an issue is how could it happen and where there are really as of course the shipping authorities are now saying that they saw no problem in going about their business but i think more questions will be raised in the coming hours about this and if i do every and they

will information on the victims. well we do know that there are concerned that's among the victims are children they have not yet released old the names. of those involved in these accidents of course they are still trying to find people alive but the it seems to be more difficult every hour to find him because the water he's also michael. and stefan both with the best thank you very much for bringing us up to date on that boat. in the capital i'm getting captain. is really only because the voted to dissolve parliament after prime minister binyamin netanyahu failed to form a coalition government talks short because of infighting among netanyahu as rightwing allies he was unable to broker a compromise between the secular nationalist party of former defense minister lieberman and ultra orthodox jewish parties on the issue of military conscription

need to now missed a midnight deadline of forming a government paving the way for an unprecedented 2nd snap election in september last vote was hands just 7 weeks ago. kind of cream while correspond in jerusalem and joins me now from outside the israeli parliament tanya a big setback for netanyahu tell us more about why he was unable to form a coalition yes definitely a big 3rd for mr netanyahu it was a real drama here last night in the knesset here just behind me when the lawmakers voted for the dissolution of this knesset session so paving the way now for new elections which are set for september 17th in the last elections just to remind you where just on april 9th not so long ago it was mainly because of a dispute over this conscription draft law between the us were also talks

a coalition partners and now the secular writing project is right be tane no. object to lieberman and mr netanyahu lost the 5 seats of months apart he was unable to form the question that 61 seats out of the 120 so that is why we will see now elections coming up but some commentators here also point to the fact that it became actually also a power struggle between these 2 former allies so let's see what mr netanyahu had to say off to the vote last night in the knesset. it is just unbelievable unbelievable lieberman is now part of the left you give him votes for the rights and he doesn't give his vote to the right wing government this is what we see. we will run a shop election campaign which will bring us victory. we will win.

we will win and the public will win and that's when i'm not so tell me he seems pretty confident in my need to now that he when the next election but then after the last election april was close why wasn't the runner up benny gantz given a chance to form the government well that's also being debated here because that would have been the other option basically that mr netanyahu would give back the monday it that he had been given by the israeli president mr rivlin to form the question government and usually it would then go to the next candidate but that was not in the cards so mr netanyahu would not give out you know the possibility to form the next government that's why he was pushing the knesset you know to push for the for the dissolution and so paving the way for the elections but i think the opposition all of the opposition would go for mr net to know now

we've heard them already saying you know he was unable to form a coalition dragging the country into unnecessary elections so they would have a chance now to regroup themselves maybe there will be a new alliances and then they will go from there to see whether this time. mr netanyahu is likud party so donna as the country goes back into campaign mode what about the criminal investigations against bibi netanyahu. there will be certainly also overshadowing the next elections actually mr netanyahu is under indictment pending a hearing and that hearing had been postponed which would then confirm whether he will be actually indicted or not so this hearing was set for october it's very close to the next elections on september 17th possibly so we're not sure whether this hearing will then be again postponed but having said that i mean last time

during the elections the corruption charges brought against mr netanyahu didn't really sway his vote ways so it's a question whether you know they will actually play a big role again during these elections at least for the voters of the likud party dr tanya crema standing outside the knesset or parliament in jerusalem thank you very much for that. and even having up to date with some other stories making news around the world want president has threatened to dissolve congress on this lawmaker spots reforms aimed at ending corruption in a televised address martin with. lawmakers a front have struck the fight against kraft after they moved to eventually one of his proposals a series of corruption scandals have discredited major political parties and institutions in recent years. more than 20 people have died in a bus crash in the southern.