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nine thirty pm in moscow good to have you with us as we take a recap of the stories that shape the week moscow calls georgia's arrest of thirteen alleged russian spies a political parcell tips according political points back home to be seasonal was also met with mistrust. whatever russia's top investigative journalist severely beaten in moscow police say oleg cautions professional activities might be linked to the attack. dimitri medvedev has told russia's far east currall islands has angered japan which also claims the territory moscow says its ownership is beyond dispute and promises to invest in the remote region. and president obama's party suffers a defeat us mid-term elections but many say it's ordinary americans don't really last out as big businesses played a big role in deciding the outcome. of a giant passenger passenger ship admiral not him all the was the most comfortable soviet vessel but many wanted to experience the floating luxury only

a lucky few managed to get their hands on tickets but their luck may have been about to run out stay with us here on our team. 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 down to 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 mers she'll log on mercy. most of the passengers on this memorial trip a survivors of the disaster and 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

the lives of those who are on board. serious enough came in around nine of the tree of to right he. here and it's attracted our attention especially because we haven't seen her in such a long time with your beautiful sheep indeed two finals and a sheep preserve to do 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 the lawyer was generally acclaimed as one of the most impressive and comfortable ships cruising on the black sea. 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 then boys 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. a friend of mine 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 it

evaporated as soon as they boarded the ship and looked around. them a move 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 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 conversed 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.

where she was refitted and renamed the admiral next email 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. the lot of boasted a cinema to swimming pools a restaurant and several bottles each annoyed the ship band played for the passengers. or the weather was just fine least of all tourists were strolling along the streets of nova receipts. join me show you the law 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 night he was to stick clear 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 in charge. see it 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 i will. meanwhile he began to feel nervous that the free to was headed directly for the law 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. gave no 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. as i turned my hand in i saw the fries 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 the cooling 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 lee 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. and that's when the collision occurred everybody was crashing to the floor all 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. early remember the scene where a tank runs down a soldier who sees a kid 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 you get in a tram when the mergence your brakes woold. the situation was made even worse by the fact that the. 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 dick my fellow sailors were there to make sure you know i would dream. 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

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. three minutes later it was. the tilt 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. 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 at the impact 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 for something to shift i thought i'd read somewhere that the signals that the bulkheads a caving in under pressure of water. 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. 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 wood is really still sliding down when i saw people stepped in as they shall cast the wind a little and i saw it with my own eyes is the deal. 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 boats and. only one of three passengers had managed to pull on the life jacket. a struggle for survival

began around the sinking of one without rules or moral to booze. if our cell phones would be useless without this mineral. of tiny pieces needed to make them work but every piece of culture and is extracted at a cost to human life. were. a moment when the world has changed forever. thousands passed to nothingness. sars on those wounded. and noone to suffer to the last. it was the first

but probably not the last unitary uses of this weapon. how many more will be come. children calm and get on in the future. 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 night he more 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 from their live jackets. to arrive at the scene of the desert. began to.

get their. side. so on i went over the railing 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. 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. 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 any others trying to hold on to them. i approached another girl and offered my help if you're on form. 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 clinging to a little girl of a and i say to the girl i'm going to push this log until we reach the raft and are so poor we couldn't even approach it more your 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 as welcome to board the 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. of two hundred rubles seven. don't know that in the early hours of september the first this ship captain. was taking passengers rescued from the night 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 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. 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. of. the crush 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 oral. but it was 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 it was used by the divers are 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 without 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's been 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 what had been 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. through the ship had a glass promenade deck and linux h.-a caution entered it he saw eighteen dead bodies standing erect with a headset out against the glass with the screws and so alex

a evacuated all of the eighteen law. by taking each by the hand to lead them out and. move 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. we had only one task to job done as fast as we could. 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. 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 they were dealing. with and when the diver reached him forty minutes later he was unconscious he didn't respond to questions with all we heard through the microphone was his breath. you could be a diver was hauling about that a 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 is at the controls at the time of the collision toyed there and then captain mark over the lawyer 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 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. the crash occurred because he had suddenly changed the

course 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 chief when i was. head of the next team of its foundation is a frequent visitor to this cemetery most of the crew members were born in this city . as grandmother. to serving on the ship for more than twenty years she died together with the vessel.

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. 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 the family and i promise to fulfill her wishes. natalia's efforts have 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 instead on dog overs in the sword with the next team of saying

the clocks stand still always showing eleven twenty those who come to the memorial observe a minute's silence at exactly that torrent.