this is the news coming to you live from berlin and little hope left in the hunt for survivors of the budapest boat accident and i'm bill and spokesman says the search for missing passengers could be few time after a storm sank a sightseeing boat with over 30 tourists on board also coming up a setback for israel's binyamin netanyahu 2 months on from elections the country's long time leader fails to form a government the class it votes to send the country back to the polls. and former

u.s. special counsel robert muller breaks his silence he says his reporting to russian election meddling does not exonerate president dollar trump from criminal wrongdoing. hello and welcome i'm a pleasure to have your company. rescues and with the best said this quote minimal chance of finding survivors after a boat accident on the danube late on wednesday a storm sank a sightseeing vessel with more than 30 south korean tourists on board of the 7 are confirmed dead so far after emergency services searched through the night. the rain kept flashing dein as rescuers scoured the dark cold water. they were searching several kilometers dian 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 joined 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 has that.

policy at the time of the water level was high but other crews operating as usual not just out but. one expert told gary intellivision that the pleasure boat called the mermaid likely went down very fast children were reportedly among its passengers so cool all the fun stefan both standing along the banks of the river danube in budapest i asked him to give us an update on the rescue operation. well delay just a stance here behind me ships are really working around the clock to say fly so i can tell you every minute it's that it's getting increasingly difficult there is rain currents off the danube face quite fast and i'll storage space at this hour i desperate day saying more than 20 people are still missing and they are very concerned about their fate i do know that during the night to there were also some

lamb so you stayed on by a. group because many films are being recorders here in in budapest they were helping these lamps a lot of people but it seems not to have been and also still more than 20 people are missing at this hour do we know anything more about the circumstances i think condition which led to this accident. which yes what we do know is that there was a coalition which is an older sightseeing boat or a cruise boat if you will and that's a really cost to the ship to capsize lately. so serious that they are now looking for a ford to vote and also what they are saying is questions remain how did what's possible because these ships are supposed to have quite advanced g.p.s. or satellite systems if you will and apparently death difficult work so questions

will be raised how this was possible to just the most serious then you refer this asteroid 75 years in hungary so questions will definitely be raised and i do know that within a few hours a south korean foreign minister along with that team of experts will also rife here to austin that same question i'm sure and shift under what extent is bad weather affecting the rescue operation and we can see still raining there the river appears to be very high and the current very strong. well indeed i can tell you it's a polling right here and tell force that makes it very difficult for the rescue workers as well i mean at the water is cold i mean it's not freezing but it's it's it's it's very cold and you can imagine that many many hours have passed now since said that the sas are so it's getting a greasing really difficult to find survivors stefan we're standing on the banks of

the danube river in budapest thank you very much for that update. let me now bring you up to date with some other stories making news around the world bruce president has threatened to dissolve congress on this lawmakers pass reforms aimed at ending corruption in a televised address on martin misc are accused lawmakers of trying to obstruct the fight against graft off the move to reject 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 mexican state of veracruz dozens were also injured most of the victims were catholic big grins on their way home to mexico city the bus burst into flames after colliding with another vehicle on a very steep highway. a man charged with a bombing in leon france is reportedly confessed to the crime the explosion last

week injured 30 the suspected bomber a 24 year old algerian citizen was arrested along with other family members in what is being treated as a terrorist attack. turning to israel now where lawmakers have voted to dissolve parliament after prime minister binyamin netanyahu free to form a coalition government talks stalled because of infighting among netanyahu is right wing allies he was unable to broker a compromise between the secular nationalist party of former defense minister avigdor lieberman and ultra orthodox jewish parties on the issue of military conscription netanyahu missed a deadline for forming a government building the way for an unprecedented 2nd stop election in september the last vote was held just 7 weeks ago. correspond in jerusalem and joins me now from outside the israeli parliament turning a big setback for netting out 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 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 question partners and now the secular writing part is right be tane know. just how to leave a man mr netanyahu lost the 5 seats of even months a party so he was unable to form the question we needed 61 seats out of the 120

so that is why we will see now elections are 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 after the vote last night in the knesset. it is just unbelievable unbelievable i began lieberman is now part of the left you give him votes for the right and he doesn't give his vote to the right wing government this is what we see. we will run a shop clean 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 you he is seems pretty confident in my need to now that he'll win the next election but that does not the last election april it was close why wasn't the runner up benny gantz given a chance to form the government. well that's also being debated

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 president mr rivlin to form the coalition 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 bill for the dissolution and so paving the way for the elections but i think the opposition all of the opposition would go for mr netanyahu pretty hard 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 they could mr netanyahu secret party so donna as the country goes back into campaign

mode what about the criminal investigations against bibi netanyahu. there will be certainly also over setting the next election 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 so 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 in his own way so it's a question whether you know they will. actually have 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 in the united states former special counsel robert muller has broken his silence over his 2 year investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election monitors contradicted white house claims and says his report does not exonerate the president of committing crimes he added it is the job of u.s. congress to hold the president accountable raising the prospect house democrats could begin impeachment proceedings. the justice department gave washington's media less than 2 hours to prepare for the special counsel's statement in the 2 years since his appointment robert mueller had never publicly commented on the investigation. but on wednesday with his office formally closing down he seized the opportunity to push back against president donald trump's repeated

claims that the investigation had cleared him of any wrongdoing. if we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime we would have said so we did not however make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime and also stressed that charging the president with a crime was not an option his office could consider justice department policy holds that it is unconstitutional to charge a president with a federal crime while he's in office. trumped reacted with a quick tweet saying there was insufficient evidence and that therefore he was innocent case closed. but congressional democrats believe miller statement confirms that they are right to pursue their investigations of the president. progress to respond to the crimes lies and other wrongdoing of president

we will do so make no mistake no one not even the president of the united states is above the law his testimony he said is contained in the report that he submitted mueller made it clear to congress that it could not expect further help from him. following those developments in washington he sent us this assessment. 2 years of utter and complete silence and for the 1st time since robert smaller launched his investigation on russian interference in the 2016 election campaign he actually spoke to the public and while many were wondering if this would mark the end of the saga it could in fact be the beginning of something new robert muller delivered a clear statement essentially saying that if you could have indicted the us president he would have done it and that's not the exoneration donald trump and his

attorney general have been claiming it's a setback for him and his rhetoric calling the investigation an illegal witch hunt but it also emboldens democrats whose calls for impeachment have been getting louder and louder every week. on of a sonic reporting that up next on the documentary in the alarming rise of gun sales stay with us if you can. the 1st economy must. continue on her journey to freedom. documentary. returns home. tanks.