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is according to russian foreign minister sergei lavrov speaking as nato chief anders fogh rasmussen is in moscow to boost ties with russia. president obama will have to make compromises to pass laws as democrats lose their hold over congress in the midterm vote thousands of representatives is now under republican control but many americans fear it's corporate money that's actually running the show. plus iraq struggles to maintain peace and one of its bloodiest weeks this year. up next we report on the fate of the so-called russian titanic the giant passenger liner that was considered a formidable cruise ship back in the soviet union find out more in a moment. always thirty first nine hundred eighty six to ten pm the joint passenger liner admiral now he says sail from the soviet portal and over the seas on a cruise of the black sea. there are more than one thousand passengers and crew

members aboard. meanwhile the large bulk carry appeal to a fully laden with canadian wheat is set to enter port the two will converge fourteen minutes before midnight the freighter will ram into the storm and side of the line at full speed the ship will sink in a record eight minutes taking more than four hundred people thousands will treat grave it was the greatest disaster in the history of the soviet fleet. always the thirty first of each year a ship sets off from the pair of know what i see sc it leaves the same as bay to embark on an unusual mission one she's at sea she stops for an hour over the site where the cruiser. awfully is the souls of those who perished.

only ask the foyer merz she'll log on murray she. most of the passengers on this memorial trip a survivors of the disaster and the relatives of people who died aboard the now he most of alexander goose is among those who attend this yearly event but he was not on the night he most of that day none of his relatives died in the disaster in one hundred eighty six he was in command of a patrolling motor boat the captain has vivid memories of the luxury of a ship entering port he had no idea that that twelve hours later he would be saving the lives of those who were on board. with those in a field of came in around nine of the trees to right here. and it's attracted our attention especially because we haven't seen her in such a long time with your beautiful ship indeed two finals and the ship is riveted all for. people came in droves to take

a look at the night he moved as she sat more just outside the marine passenger terminal the lawyer was generally acclaimed as one of the most impressive and comfortable ships cruising on the black sea yes i used to share a small flat with my parents and it was a cheerless drab existence when i was a child i got to the name of ship for many times and life became magical. it was an enormous and beautiful line it with many restaurants and past no go to start off. all the interior of the ship was made out of a very expensive karelian board so even the grand piano. these people never met although they lived in the same city but they might have met a quarter of a century ago igor tellus and a friend had decided to go on a cruise of the black sea during the one hundred eighty six summer holidays their ambition was to sail aboard the net humor of the most prestigious law of the day

the tickets were hard to get back then. getting it ticket was like a miracle for the lucky ones. me a moment my mother got hold of some tickets she was working at a regional administration for tourism. efren dumas and was to go with me. but she couldn't because she had to study for you so i had to come alone. the excitement of passengers looking at the snow white lorna was short lived in a vat for a to soon as they boarded the ship and looked around. i found out for all her external glamour it was a rotten place inside. the future passengers clamoring for a ticket on the moon the hemo of had no idea that the ship would be scrapped after that she was already more than sixty years old the ship was originally constructed

in germany in one nine hundred twenty five and was formerly known as the berlin for some time the line up operated transatlantic routes later she was converted into a cruiser during the second world war the nazis used her as a military hospital ship. the bow inside can one hundred forty five ultra torpedo attack and she hit a mine. into the soviet military a great deal of effort to raise the berlin. she was sent to the u.s.s.r. where she was refit it and renamed the admiral next e-mail although the lawyer was already in a state of great decayed nine hundred eighty six the crew was still trying their best to maintain her status as the most comfortable cruiser. solo in a boasted a cinema to swimming pools a restaurant and several bottles each annoyed the ship band played for the

passengers. but if. the weather was just fine the rest of the tourists were strolling along the streets of nova receipts. join your youth of all there were no telltale signs that the ship might be in trouble later on. you. remember we sailed from at ten pm. as soon as the pier he radioed the port traffic supervisor. to report the situation . he was told that only one vessel. was about to enter the port. in accordance with the rules the next he was to steer clear of the free but they made an exception. of the steamship line and so the freighter was ordered to give way to the. captain went to his cabin leaving his assistant

in charge. when they tell you don't ship away from the career of me and my female friends looked at the bubbling wanton she said. i will never be able to survive and i looked and said but i will. meanwhile he began to feel nervous at the freight it was headed directly for the line but made no change of speed or course. radioed the captain of the pier. to ask him whether the freight it was going to give way to the. captain to change of the peel to reassure his opposite number by saying that two ships would pass clear of each other however to go also gave no change speed course please or no ski so all the distance between the two ships was shrinking. to the left at first he changed the ship's course by five degrees five degrees and finally

ten degrees. you know what if there was as i turned my hand in i saw the fries just the combat zone right in front of me i realized then that twas about to ram into us during the race the captain of the offensive was looking at the radar display according to it his vessel in the passenger liner with pulse clear of each other in fifteen minutes past eleven one of his crew shouted to him that he saw an enormous ship heading for the freighter. immediately commanded full speed. but by then it was too late for the heavy boat kariya was not responding to the wheel and was still heading for the night he moved at full speed. the fringes barreled through the starboard side of the passenger leaving a deep pool schools of metres wide. it was that's when the collision occurred

everybody was sent crashing to the floor all the dancers to feel. as the turn of the cliff and hundreds of passengers were watching a movie in the ship's cinema. you know this pool from the projectionists room when the collision occurred everybody watched the movie i loved him more than life with the. early remember the scene where a tank runs down a soldier who sees a kid appeal a trick runs over it fast its head in a fountain oh blood a shoots out of his mouth you know that's exactly what i felt an imperative for the kind you get in a tram when the merchants are breaking schooled. the situation was made even worse by the fact that the. doors and cabin windows were open because of the heat and cold ventilation the deluge of water quickly flooded the ships.

i was on the prominent dick all of my fellow sailors and to make sure you know i would. when the deck suddenly swelled up. debris shot into the air and people started falling off. in one thousand nine hundred eighty six. was only eighteen years old and he was the youngest crew member on board it was his maiden voyage on the net he just as the ship was about to finish her service. i was at a loss i said for goodness sake dimitri what do we need to do now and then dimitris in order to go to the cabin and batten down the windows quick. only a few meters away from the stern so i did just that with the lights had already gone out. the. instantly sense that the ship was doomed. well we had just enough

time to dump the sixteen life rafts not that we're trying to do same in the port side but we only managed to drop one raft. to starboard almost too much each raft weighs one hundred eighty kilos. as sea water filled the night he moved the ship listed heavily to. three minutes later he was. with the tilt of the boat had forced those on board into one large mass with a few people could stay in place by clinging onto something that both of. the. passengers came under attack from falling objects like the paint benches and the like. the people who takes during the collision had no hope

the angle of the boat made it impossible for them to scramble out of the guts of the cruiser. the ship's design made it hard even for sailors to get about as they were newcomers to say nothing of the passengers on top of that ship the ship had been pledged into darkness that they in fact also displaced bulkheads endorse. several hundred passengers crowded into the pool right six minutes after the collision it was clear that the water was that only salvation . after climbing onto the deck i heard a cracking sound. i thought i'd read somewhere that the signals that the bulkheads a caving in under pressure. and that means the end of the story. yeah to fulfill the law i decided that there was no more time to tarrie i resolved to jump over the borders of. the then i saw that the list had already revealed the ship's

underside. anyway i crouched down and began sliding towards the other side of the still wearing the white shoes that i had on that during a performance. at the ladies he was still sliding down when i saw people stepped in as they shall cast the wind a little and i saw it with my hair nice is the. good even if you abandon a sinking ship in good time this doesn't mean you are not to problems way to sixteen life or off stump by the sailors under the direction of the boat some one else and. only one answer three passengers had managed to put on the life jacket. the struggle for survival began around the sinking of one without rules or moral to booze. culture is the same of you i can tell you that you are practicing to model the taliban bad guys we came we being in journalism or no pake organisation with an unmistakable political agenda what is the difference between. a

close up team has changed. where russia first free elections were held up thousand years ago. now party goes to the area that used to be a place of exile since the seventeenth century. where businesses take advantage of the wild growing product. more rich academic life gives birth to innovate of idea come to the top screech crusher close up on our. every year on the day of. patrol boat visits the. vivid memories of how. he received an order urging him to get into his patrol boat and head to the site of the accident as quickly as possible. when i arrived.

on the kind you see in a town is you look at it from a distance those lights from their live jackets. to arrive at the scene of the design. side. so on i went over there. and started taking people on this. twenty minutes. in the continued. myself in the water i swam a short distance away from the ship suddenly i felt a weight pulling me down. around and saw

a girl and i said to her look here if you want to stay alive all you need to do is hold onto me. not so i will side by side with the ship's doctor but when i saw he was about to drown a doctor he told me he couldn't swim and i don't and that was a big surprise there after all he was a grown man i took my life jacket off and put it on him. many of the passengers couldn't swim they tried to reach the rafts but the ones who got to the ropes for the first pushed away any others trying to hold on to them. and i guess i approached another girl and offered my help if you're on form i go. out there she was clean to a log. the call but. i pushed the log forward many times before i saw a raft with a crowd of people claim to it all of them were poor and i said to the girl i'm

going to push this log until we reach the raft and are so we couldn't even approach it is more you but they keep us away. get a huge hole showed someone and a half hours later here on the they were pleasure boats but sporting green and red lights. they immediately set about taking people on board. everyone wishing to admire the town from the sea and take pictures as well on the board to steam out. to the face has been in the business of taking tourists for a short ride around. the best part of his life and. another life saving equipment can be found under the seats a ticket costs two hundred rubles seven. tourists. don't know that in the early hours of september the first this ship captain. was taking passengers rescued

from the net he moved to safety. everybody was silent they were in a state of shock no cries no moans no bus nothing of that kind. this pleasure was the last trying to spot ship. at four am it became obvious to tim a face there was no hope of finding any more people. i spent sixteen days caring so-called packages. lifted to the surface by divers it was such a horrible sight that i couldn't eat for the first three days but later it became a matter of routine. the scale of the catastrophe became evident on the morning of september the first an inventory of who had been rescued should more

than four hundred people have died in the tragedy. teams of. the crash site on the same day their job was to retrieve dead bodies from the sunken ship. told that we were to work around the clock because without breaks. divers from other fleets like the pacific fleet the baltic fleet and the aura. but there was also a group from the special forces. in one thousand eight hundred six powerful dave was in command of a rescue ship used as a platform for diving it was around the. as soon as two dives emerged on the surface. this is the equipment similar was used by the divers one of them

did a job the other was a standby just in case any shoddy bodies were put on this platform three to five bodies at a time of war then they were taken on board. with look this is the boat in sign a rescue ship twenty one. question was one of the few journalists allowed to cover the operation he spent several days with the divers and sailors retrieving dead bodies and saw how tough the work was. to begin with the night team of was lying on its side everything inside the ship was upside down. in the wall of a corridor known as the floor what used to be the left hand wall no it was the ceiling and divers had to descend into that unimaginable hell. physical exertion was not the only problem it was psychologically difficult for

divers to cope with the job of retrieving dead bodies. really since your ship had a glass promenade deck and linux h.-a caution entered it he saw eighteen dead bodies standing erect with their heads out against the glass. and so alex a evacuated all of the eighteen law. by taking each by the hand to lead them out. moved all of us myself included who had never seen such a mass of dead bodies before. there would be a pile of twenty five to thirty five bodies on the deck at the time or. pressing effect especially during the first week because leader such emotions became. we had only one task to job done as fast as we could. the excruciating ordeal resulted in two more deaths on top of those that had been

claimed by the next. one of the divers had stayed underwater for too long eventually running out of oxygen the other became trapped inside the ship each time divers had to make their way through piles of furniture and broken partitions. were broken. the diver by the name of shouted a call got bogged down after furniture paneling or something blocked the passage in the smoke it got stuck in a cave. when he asked for help it was told to hold on until another diver came to his rescue when the words. when the diver reached him forty minutes later he was unconscious he didn't respond to questions with most of the all we heard through the microphone was his breath. so the most you could ever was hauling about the two the ladder and out into the open he stopped breathing. it was obvious

that he was dead. as the rescue operation came to an end we don't swap the living for the dead was the verdict of the fleet. sixty four bodies was still inside the night he will. an investigation go on the way into the road of the two captains. to do one of the captains on september the first in the other on september the second. charges against him were formulated in accordance with the law. of the new they were to be announced on september tenth and eleventh. second mate should move ski who was at the controls at the time of the collision toit there and then captain mark over the lorry and captain took a chunk of the free to win now the main defendant's. guilt was overwhelming he didn't want to give rights of way to a passenger ship and refused to change course he also tried to cover up

incriminating evidence of to the collision by removing pages from his log book. initially when the scale of the disaster was unclear and behavior was brazen he didn't admit his guilt. the crash occurred because he had suddenly changed the course although he shouldn't have done it. after reading newspaper reports detailing the number of deaths including loss of life among children. he completely broke. in the end the actions of both captains were qualified as criminal negligence and. sentenced to fifteen years in prison. i was so happy to see the cheap when i was child. head of the team of its

foundation is a frequent visitor to this cemetery most of the crew members were born in this city notorious grandmother was next. to serving on the ship for more than twenty years she died together with the vessel. is your left. i want you to know. that i'm missing here. my mother devoted ten years of her life to the foundation she created it from scratch i found in it with what little money she earned by doing chumps. just before the twentieth anniversary she was to have surgery when she felt she was dying which was the day before her death she said to me. the foundation must leave all the people should come here and there should be in a human museum and i promise to fulfill her wish. natalia's as it's

called not been in vain always thirty first each year surviving passengers crew members of those who helped rescue people during that dreadful noise get together around this monument in stands on. office in the side with the next team of saying the clocks stand still always showing eleven twenty those who come to the memorial observe the minutes sort of i think exactly that troy.