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good to have you with us and right now let's take a look at our headlines there right approach would be to develop a true strategic partnership between nato and russia. nato looks for closer cooperation with russia as the alliance has achieved visits moscow at a meeting in the kremlin and nato has requested more help for its afghan mission while moscow says it needs clarity on the proposed european missile defense system. 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 term vote for the future ratification of the strategic arms reduction treaty with russia could now be hanging around. iraq mourns the victims of the deadliest wave of sectarian violence in months amid concerns once more oil sunni's are being drawn back to insurgency on tuesday at least ninety one people have been killed and over two

hundred wounded in baghdad with a total u.s. pullout scheduled for two thousand and eleven many iraqis fear the situation could become even worse. next 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 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 a 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 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. fleas god bless the souls of those who perished. only ask the foyer murshid all logged on 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 is 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. in a female 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. 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 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 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 humor of the most prestigious law of the day of the tickets were hard to get back to. getting it ticket was like a miracle for the lucky ones. my mother got hold of some tickets she was working at a regional administration for tourism. efren dumas and it 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 line i was short lived in a vast array to does soon as they boarded the ship and looked around. the move i found that for all her 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 she was already more than sixty years old the ship was originally constructed in germany in one nine hundred twenty five it was formerly known as the berlin for some time the line operated transatlantic routes later she was conversed into a cruiser during the second world war the nazis used her as a military hospital ship. the berlin sign can 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 refitted 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. the loan of both 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 the tourists were strolling along the streets of nova receipts. joining showing it along there were no telltale signs that the ship might be in trouble later on. you. remember. at ten pm.

as soon as. he radioed the port traffic supervisor. 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 the way from the pier me and my female friends looked at the bubbling wanton she said. i will never be able to find and i looked and said but i was. meanwhile he began to feel nervous that the

freight it was headed directly for them but made no change of speed or course. the captain of the people. 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 were clear of each other however to. change speed course we should be sore 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. as i turned my hand in i saw the fire just the combat zone right in front of me and 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 from the passenger liner with my own to paul's clear of each other fifty minutes past eleven one of his crew shouted to him that he saw an enormous ship heading for the freighter to immediately commanded full speed. but by then it was too late 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. event that's when the collision occurred everybody was sent crashing to the floor and then in the hole the dancers to feel. as the turning 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. memory of 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 mother that's exactly what i felt an impact on the kind that you get in a tram when the mergence are breaking schooled. the situation was made even worse by the fact that all the bulkhead doors and cabin windows were open because of the heat and cold ventilation the deluge of water quickly flooded the ships. aircraft that time i was on the promenade deck careful with 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 i was only a few meters away from the stern so i did just that and 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 liferaft it's not that we're trying to do same in the portside is only manage to drop one raft. almost too much each raft weighs one hundred eighty kilos. as sea water filled the night.

the ship listed heavily. three minutes later it was. 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 bolted to. the. pileup of passengers came under attack from falling objects like the paint benches and the like. the people who takes cheering 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 the ship the ship had been plugged 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 or something. but i'd read somewhere that the signals that the bulkheads are caving in under pressure. and that means the end of the story. you had to fulfill them i decided that there was no more time to tarrie i resolved to jump over the borders of what it would have received well 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. got 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 own ice needle. 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 pull on the life jacket. the struggle for survival began around the sinking lower and up one without rules or moral to booze. culture is the same of you i can tell you if you are trying to model the taliban bad guys we came with being edged journalism or an opaque organization with an unmistakable political agenda what is the difference between. hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on. every day of. the.

vivid memories of how. he received an order urging him to get into his patrol boat and head to the. accident as quickly as possible. when i arrived. on the kind you see in a town as you look at it from a distance those lights are from their lives. to arrive at the scene of the desert. began to. get their. side. so on i went over the rail and started taking people like this.

twenty minutes. continued. 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 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 and 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 first pushed away any others trying to hold on to them. and then years i approached

another girl and offered my help if you're on permanent. not that she was clean to a log or they'll call but. i pushed the log forward many times before i saw a raft with a crowd of people claim to have a lot of very poor eyesight of the girl i'm going to push this log until we reach the raft and are still there but we couldn't even approach it more your but they kicked us a way to get a huge hole showed up some one 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 to steam out. to face it 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. of two hundred rubles seven. don't know that in the early hours of september. this ship captain. was taking the passengers rescued from the net 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 them 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. on the same day their job was to retrieve dead bodies from the sunken ship. told that we were to work around the clock without breaks. by divers from other fleets like the pacific fleet the baltic fleet and the oral. and there was also a group from the special forces. in one thousand eight hundred six pavel 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 and. this is the being equipment similar was used by the diver a circular 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 of the. wolf look this is a boat and 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 in 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 body. releases or 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. and so alex a evacuated all of the eighteen lorries by taking each by the hand to lead them out and. moved all of us myself included who 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 if that especially during the first week because leader such emotions became so. 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 neck of one of the divers it stayed under water 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. but 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 they were dealing. with and 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. that the most you could ever was hauling about the to the ladder and out into the open he stopped breathing. it was obvious that he was dead. 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 make should move ski who was at the

controls at the time of the collision toyed 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. usually when the scale of the disaster was unclear and behavior was brazen he didn't admit his guilt or. 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 actions of both captains with

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 a vessel. if you left early. i want you to know. that. 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. this is the foundation must leave all the people should come here and there should be in the human museum in the symbol and i promised to fulfill her wish. natalia's efforts have not been in vain although it was thirty first each year the surviving passengers crew members of those who helped rescue people during that dreadful noise get together around this monument in stands and keep dog office in the sword with the next he was saying the close has stand still always showing eleven twenty those who come to the memorial observe the minutes sort of at exactly that tory and.

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