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a strategic partnership as the alliance is chief visits moscow russia says it is ready for cooperation but only on an equal footing. president obama could be facing a tougher challenge pushing through his reforms including his foreign policy agenda after the democrats lose their hold over congress in the midterm vote the future ratification of the strategic arms reduction treaty with russia could now be hanging in the balance. iraq victims of the deadliest wave of sectarian violence in months amid concerns. are being drawn back to insurgency at least ninety one people have been killed and over two hundred wounded in a series of attacks in baghdad. we report on the fate of the so-called russian titanic the giant passenger liner was considered a formidable cruise ship back in the soviet union.

always thirty first nine hundred eighty six 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 a thousand passengers and crew members aboard. the large boat carrying appeal to fully laden with canadian wheat is set to enter a port the two will converge forty minutes before midnight the freighter will ram into the storm the side of the lord 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 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 crews are. please god bless the souls of those who perished only ask the foyer merz shield law and mercy. most of the passengers on this memorial trip a survivors of the disaster and the relatives of people who died aboard the net he most of alexander goose of his among those who attend this yearly event but he was not on the night he moved 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 a luxury 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 intervening of came in around nine of the tree of 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 your. people came in droves to take a look at the night he moved as she sat more just outside the marine passenger terminal following it was generally claimed as one of the most impressive and comfortable ships cruising on the black sea yesterday he 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 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 decided to go on a cruise of the black sea during the nine hundred eighty six summer holidays their ambition was to sail aboard the net him 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. a friend of mine who wants 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 line was short lived it evaporated as soon as they boarded the ship and looked around what on the move i found it for all our external glamour it was

a rotten place inside. the future passengers clamoring for a ticket on the moon that he more had no idea that the ship would be scrapped after that rum 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 king one hundred forty five after a 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 email although the line 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. alone opposed to the 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 least of all tourists were strolling along the streets of nova receipts. joining shone with of all there were no telltale signs that the ship might be in trouble later on. you. remember we sailed from. ten pm. as soon as. he radioed to traffic. to report the situation. he was told that only one. was about to enter the port. in accordance with the rules the next. but they made an exception for the.

ship and so the freighter was ordered to give way to the passenger. went to his cabin leaving his assistant in charge. when they tell you don't ship away from the pier 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. meanwhile he began to feel nervous that the freight it was headed directly for the but made no change of speed or course. the captain of the pier. came with the freight it was going to give way to the. captain to change of the peel to reassure his opposite number by saying the two ships would pass clear of each other however to. change speed course

we should be sort of 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 make the battle right in front of me i realized then that twas about to ram in too much sun during the race the captain of the offensive was looking at the radar display according to it his vessel in the passenger liner with paul's clear of each other and 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 crashing to the floor all the dancers to. the turn of the cliff 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 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 of blood a shoots out of his mouth you know that's exactly what i felt an impact use for the kind you get in a tram when the emergency brake is called. the situation was made even worse by the

fact that the bulkhead doors and cabin windows were open because of the heat and cool ventilation the deluge of water quickly flooded the ship's. time i was on the promo not to care for 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 sixty serbin was only eighteen years old and he was the youngest crew member on board it was his maiden voyage on and 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 ordered to go to the cabin and batten down the windows quick but it was 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 tried to do same on the port side but we only managed to drop one raft. to starboard almost too much each raft weighs one hundred eighty kilos. as seawater filled the. the ship listed heavily. three minutes later he was a. bit tilt of the boat had forced those on board into one large mass or a few people could stay in place by clinging onto something that both of. you put me at the. pileup of passengers came under attack from falling objects like barrels

of 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 the only salvation. to climbing onto the deck i heard a cracking sound for something to shift. read somewhere that this signals that the bulkheads a caving in under pressure of the board and that means the end of the story.

i decided that there was no more time to tarrie i resolved to jump overboard. but 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. the wood is really still sliding down when i saw people setting as they shall cast the window and i saw it with my own knights as leader. but even if you abandon a sinking ship in good time this doesn't mean you are out of harm's way the sixteen lifer off stump by the sailors under the direction of the boat some were not enough only one out of 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.

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how hoffa now before midnight he received an order urging him to get into his patrol boat and head to the site of the night he moved accident as quickly as possible. when i arrived at the scene i saw a shiny little lights. of the kind you see in a town as you look at it from a distance those lights who are from their lives. to arrive at the scene of the design. began to. give their. side. some would so on i went over the rail and started taking people like this. twenty minutes. in the continued.

on myself in the water i swam a short distance away from the ship suddenly i felt a weight pulling me down. i turned 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. side with the ship's doctor but when i saw he was about to drown a doctor he told me he couldn't swim. that was a big surprise there after all he was a grown man and i took my life jacket off and put it on him. many of the passengers couldn't swim they tried to reach the roof. but the ones who go to the. pushed away any others trying to hold on to them. and. i approached another girl and offered my help. not that she was clean to

a log. but. i pushed the logs forward many times before i saw a raft with a crowd of people clean to shift. and i said to the girl i'm going to push this log until we reach the raft. we couldn't even approach it but they keep us away. get that you showed some one and a half hours later you know 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 is welcomed aboard the steam out. to the face sidorov has been in the modest business of taking tourists for a short ride around same as. he was an old ship which he had the best part of his life and got a license. life jackets and other life saving equipment can be

found under the seats a ticket costs two hundred rubles seven dollars. tourists. don't know that in the early hours of september the first this ship captain by sidorov was taking the passengers rescued from the night he moved to safety. everybody was silent they were in a state of. no cries no moans no bus nothing of that kind. this pleasure boat was the last vessel trying to spot ship. with rescue people. at four am it became obvious to tim a face when there was no hope of finding any more people. i spent sixteen days caring so-called packages dead bodies lifted to the surface by divers but 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 showed that more than four hundred people had died in the tragedy. teams of his arrived at the crash on the same day their job was to retrieve dead bodies from the sunken ship. that we were to work around the clock without brakes. divers from other fleets like the pacific fleet the baltic fleet. and there was also a group from the special forces. in one thousand nine hundred six per day of was in command of a rescue ship used as a platform for diving it was around the operation as soon as two dives emerged on the surface.

this is. similar was used by the. one of them did good job the other was a standby just in case any shoddy bodies were put on this platform three to five bodies at a time then they were taken on board. with look this is a boat and sign a rescue ship twenty one. cashen 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 what had been the wall of a corridor known as the floor what used to be in the left hand wall 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. through the ship had a glass promenade deck and looks h.-a caution entered it he saw eighteen dead bodies standing erect with their heads out against the glass. aleksei evacuated all of the eighteen lottie's by taking each by the hand to lead them out and. moved all of us myself included had never seen such a mass of dead bodies before. there won't be a pile of twenty five to thirty five bodies on the deck at a 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. the diver by the name of shouted a call got bogged down after furniture paneling or something blocked the passage. the smoke got stuck in it. when he asked for help it was told to hold on until another diver came to his rescue when we were dealing with. when the diver reached him forty minutes later he was unconscious he didn't respond to questions

all we heard through the microphone was his breath. you could be a diver was hauling about the to the ladder and out into the open he stopped breathing. it was obvious that he was dead. of true dory because 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 meanwhile an investigation got on the way into the role of the two captains. to do one of the captains on september the first in the other on september the second the 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 toyed there and then captain mark over the lorena and captain took

a chunk of the free to win now the main defendant's. guilt was overwhelming he didn't want to give right away 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. completely. 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 chief 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 natalya's grandmother was next. to serving on the ship for more than twenty years she died together with a vessel. if you left early. i want you to know. that i'm missing here. my own mom 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 wasn't

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 wishes. if it's been in vain always thirty first each year surviving cousin just crew members of those who helped rescue people during that dreadful noise get together around this monument in stands on cape dog office in the sword with a neck see more of saying the close hairs stand still always showing eleven twenty those who come to the memorial observe the minutes sort of at exactly the torrent.

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