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top stories of the week here on our team spies lies and videotape many georgians fear it will leases and a russian paranoia could find him accuse of vast being ash next. fall cold a chill whacking critics say it was just a good old beating but something cashin of both are sure of the republicans to victory in this week's you ask me term elections. archipelago outraged tokyo's angered by president here's a visit to russia's coraline. which japan claims as its own moscow says it will keep investing in its remote region. a well known investigative journalist was brutally beaten in the center of moscow police say his professional activity was most likely to cause. the giant passenger ship admiral knew him a fused to be the most comfortable vessel in soviet times many wanted to experience this floating walk free but only a lucky few managed to get their hands on tickets but how lucky were they that's next on our. 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 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 stall 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 are seas it leaves the same as bay to

embark on an unusual mission once she's at sea she stops for an hour over the site where the crews are. the souls of those who perished only ask the foyer merz shuttle launch mercy. most of the passengers on this memorial trip a survivors of the disaster under 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 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 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 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 all of. that all the interior of the ship was made out of a very expensive karelian would say 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 laureano of the day of 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 line was short lived it evaporated as soon as they boarded the ship and looked around. the move my fun dad

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 run 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 berlin sign can 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. 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. join your use 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 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. of the free but they made an exception. of the steamship line and so the freighter was ordered to give way to the passenger liner. captain mcauliffe went to his cabin leaving his assistant to. see it when they tell you don't shoot the way from the career of me and my female friends looked at the vulcan wanton she said. i will never be able to survive and i looked and said but i will. meanwhile he began to feel nervous afraid to 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 the. captain to change of the peel to reassure his opposite number by saying that two

ships would pass clear of each other however. gave no change speed course. 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. as i turned my hand in i saw the fries as 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 my own to pulse clear of each other at fifteen minutes past eleven one of his crew shouted to him that he saw an enormous ship heading for the fray took. immediate lee 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 whole the dancers to feel . as a turn of the cliff hundreds of passengers were watching a movie in the ship 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 is 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 use for the kind that you get in

a tram when the mergence 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 pull ventilation the deluge of water quickly flooded the ships. aircraft that time i was on the promenade dick 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 seven 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 metres away from the stern so i did just that with the lights and 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 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 sea water filled the night he moved the ship listed heavily to. three minutes later he was slowing on it's. been told of the boat had forced those on board into one large mass only 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 their

rolls of paint benches and the like they 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 pledged into darkness that they in fact also displaced bulkheads endorse. several hundred passengers crowded into the pool soit six minutes after the collision it was clear that the water was the only salvation. to climbing on to the deck i heard a cracking sound as for something to shift i thought i'd read somewhere that the signals that the bulkheads are caving in under pressure of water i'm getting bored

and that means the end of the story. yeah to fulfill the law i decided that there was no more time to tarry i resolved to jump overboard but it was received well then i saw that the list had already revealed the ship's underside sleep anyway i crouched down and began sliding towards the other side of the still wearing the white shoes that i had on during a performance because 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. 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.

i was cell phones would be useless without this mineral. the tiny theses needed to make them work but every piece of culture and is extracted at a cost to human life. the moment when the world has changed forever. thousands passed to nothingness. thousands wounded. and noone to suffer to the end of the land. that was the first

but probably not the last unitarian using this weapon. many more will be come. children common get on in the future. every year on the last day of august alexander goose of former commander of a patrol motor boat visits the nevada cska pier. alexander has vivid memories of 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 to 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 were from their live jackets. captain goose of the motor boat was one of the first to arrive at the scene of the disaster. to stopping its engines the sailors immediately. began to pull survivors on board. but when

almost the entire crew gathered on this tora bora outside the risky boat some would so on i went over the railing and i started taking people on the board of like this . the first risky was the roy the desire to seeing twenty minutes. meanwhile the struggle for survival in the water continued. i found myself in the water i swam a short distance away from the ship and 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 on to me you would be dealing 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 go to the ropes for pushed away and the others trying to hold on to them. and i guess i approached another girl and offered my help i threw on for michael not that she was clean to a look at the video yeah i'll call but. i pushed the log forward many times before i saw a raft with a crowd of people claim to have a bunch of airports and i say to the girl i'm going to push this log until we reach the raw often are so we couldn't even approach it it's more here but they keep this a way of going on to get that you showed someone and a half hours later you're 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 welcome to board the steam out. to the face has been in the business of taking tourists for a short ride around. here was an old ship the best part of his life and got a license. jacket another lifesaving 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 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 vessel trying to spot ship. with rescue people.

at four am it became obvious to tim a fate 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 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 divers arrived at 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. but 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. this is dave bing equipment similar was used by the divers were one of them did a job the other was a standby just in case any shoddy bodies were put on this platform of three to five bodies at a time of war then they were taken on board without the. wolf look this is the boat in 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 deny 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 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 lawdy 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 won't be a pile of twenty five to thirty five bodies on the deck at the time or. pressing if that 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. but 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 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 ever was hauling about the two the latter 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 road of the two captains. 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 new they were to be announced on september tenth and eleventh. second mate should know of ski who was at the controls at the time of the collision 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. usually 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 actions of both captains were 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 notorious grandmother. to serving on the ship for more than twenty years she died together with the vessel. you're left.

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 wasn't dying which was the day before how she said to me. the foundation must leave all the people should come here and there should be in the human museum in the similar and i promise to fulfill her wish is. notorious as it's could not be in vain oldest 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 cape opus in the sword with the next team of saying the close friends

stand still always sharing eleven twenty those who come to the memorial observe the minutes sort of at exactly twelve point.