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issues but rather. a sure america mashable security and i hope all that we can get that done. barack obama referenced his commitment to ratifying the new strategic arms reduction treaty with russia despite his policy losing influence in congress they were assurance comes after russian gold lake is raised concerns that the outcome of the u.s. make time elections f.x. who throws a fake a. multimillion dollar contract to supply fuel to the u.s. and a base in kurdistan gets the green light despite an ongoing investigation and objections from the curious president bases used by the u.s. as a force to support his operation in afghanistan. allen debate is raging in germany over a t.v. show which uses secret filming to means to expose internet paedophiles critics say the program flops to norway and pursuit of better ratings. as the headlines up
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next also he brings you the story of the so-called russian titanic the soviet era cruise ship the admiral in the. always thirty first nine hundred eighty six at ten pm the joint passenger liner admiral not 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 kerry appeal to fully laden with canadian wheat is set to enter a 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.
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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 under 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 most of that day none of his relatives died in the disaster in one thousand nine hundred 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
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the lives of those who are on board. with the serious enough 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 the lawyer was generally claimed 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 with. all the interior of the ship was made out of a very expensive karelian board even the grand piano.
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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 then. 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 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 was short lived it
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evaporated as soon as they boarded the ship and looked around. the movie i found 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 will 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 nine 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.
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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. solo in a boasted a cinema to swimming pools a restaurant and several bottles each annoyed the ship band played for the passengers. but. the weather was just fine least of all tourists were strolling along the streets of nova receipts. joining shoney's 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.
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he was told that only one. was about to enter the port. in accordance with the rules the next. clear of the free 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 to. see it 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. 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 pier. came with the freight it was going to give way to
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the. captain to the people. by saying that two ships would pass clear of each other however. gave no change speed course please he saw that 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 as the combat zone right in front of me i realized then the twats 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 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 fray took. immediate we commanded full
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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 meters wide. your worth and that's when the collision occurred everybody was sent crashing to the floor other than the all the dancers to feel. as a 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. memory of the scene where a tank runs down a soldier whose kid appeal a trick runs over it fast its head in
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a fountain of blood to shoots out of his mother 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 bulkhead doors and cabin windows were open because of the heat and cold ventilation and 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 eighty six. 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
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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 it already gone out. 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 seawater filled the next. the ship listed heavily to. three minutes later it was. the tilt of the boat had forced those on board into one large mass with
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a few people could stay in place by clinging onto something that bolted. we pile up of passengers came under attack from falling objects like their rolls of paint been trees and the like there were. 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 plugged into darkness that they in fact also displaced bulkheads endorse. several hundred passengers crowded into the pool so right six minutes after the collision it was clear that the water was the only salvation. after climbing on to the deck i
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heard a cracking sound for something to shift i thought i'd read somewhere that the signals that the bulkheads are caving in under pressure of water. and that means the end of the story. yeah 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 a performance. he was still sliding down when i saw people setting as they show the wind and i saw it with my own night. but even if you abandon a sinking ship in good times this doesn't mean you were out of harm's way the sixteen lifer off stump by the sailors under the direction of the. only one i asked three passengers had managed to put on the life jacket. a struggle for survival
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began around the sinking of one without rules or moral to booze. wealthy british style the stock. market. can. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cons are for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines two kinds a report on. the close up team a speech. where russia's first free elections were held a founding years ago. party goes to the area that used to be a place of exile since the seventeenth century. where businesses take advantage of
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the wild growing products. where rich economic life gives birth to the no idea come to come screeching. close up. every year on the day of. a patrol. visit. 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. those lights from their live jackets. to arrive at the scene of the design.
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so on i went over the rail and started taking people on this. twenty minutes. continued. myself in the water 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
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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 go 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 or if you're on form i'm 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 effort and i said to the girl i'm going to push this log until we reach the raft. we couldn't even approach it more your but they keep us away commander get that you showed up 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.
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everyone wishing to admire the town from the sea and take pictures as welcome to board the steam out. to the face has been in the business of taking tourists for a short ride around. he was an old ship of the best part of his life. jacket another life saving equipment can be found under the sea. two hundred rubles seven. don't know that in the early hours of september the first this ship captain. was taking the 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 boat was the last trying to spot ship. with rescue people.
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at four am it became obvious to to my face there was no hope of finding any more people. i spent sixteen days caring so-called packages. 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 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 arrived at the crash site on the same day their job was to retrieve dead bodies from the sunken ship. that we were to work around the clock because without breaks. divers
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from other fleets like the pacific fleet the baltic fleet and the oracle. but there was also a group from the special forces. in one thousand nine 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 dogs emerged on the surface and. this is their neck with a 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 then they were taken on board. with look this is the boat in sign a rescue ship twenty one. cashin was one of the few journalists allowed to cover
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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 know him 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 bodies. through the ship had a glassed in 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 law. by taking each by the hand to lead them out.
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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 a time or. pressing effect 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 screw sheeting would deal 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
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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 the words. 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 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. after the loss of two dogs as the rescue operation came to an end we don't swap the living for the dead with the verdict of the fleet. sixty four bodies was still inside tonight he will meanwhile an investigation got on the way into the role of the two captains.
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arrested 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 they were to be announced on september tenth and eleventh. second mate should move ski who is at the controls at the time of the collision doughy verin then captain mark over the lorena and captain took a chunk of the freighter with 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 this. was unclear and behavior was brazen he didn't admit his guilt. the crash occurred because he had suddenly changed the course shouldn't have done
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it. people did to the number of deaths including loss of life among children. he completely. in the actions of both captains were criminal negligence and. sentenced to fifteen years in prison. i was so happy to see the cheap when i was child new. head of the team of its foundation is a frequent visitor to this cemetery most of the crew members were born in this city . his grandmother. on the ship for more than twenty years she died together with the vessel.
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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 on 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 a human museum in a similar and i promise to fulfill her wishes. natalia's efforts have not been in vain all this thirty first each year surviving passengers crew members of those who helped rescue people cheering that dreadful lloyd get together around this monument in stands on cape opus in the sword with a neck see more of saying the cloaks has stand still always showing eleven twenty
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