so to close the meridian the leader should be hotels shirts in new delhi who took. e.b. hotel three collections among the plaza and maidens hotels believe park plaza movie the road isn't shifted it was promised but the brick house plants. on r.t. tonight a passenger ferry with more than one hundred seventy aboard has sunk on the river volga in the tide of star republic in central russia one woman has died. still missing bracing continue. in our top stories in the week spy hunter in georgia or is it charges high profile photographers with snooping for moscow but skeptics say it's ninety russian image who stood by president saakashvili. as they returned to

tahrir square to vent against the interim leaders who they say stole the revolution . and behold the front page britain's best selling newspaper rolls out for the last time as rupert murdoch sacrifices the title while phone hacking claims and reporter arrests intensified. welcome you're watching r.t. and round up of our week's top stories with me kevin first though the developing news this afternoon at least one woman has died after a passenger boat carrying more than one hundred seventy sank on the river volga and these are the first images we've got of the rescue scene in the tatarstan republic in central russia there's little to see of the boat itself after it sank in the water so many of those on board. rescue persons of passengers remain unaccounted

for sara first following the latest developments for. six hours since. what is the latest you know one of the rescue teams. we know that one person has been confirmed more than eighty people have been rescued but the majority of the passengers on board that cruise ship on the boat still to be rescued in this conflicting reports about those who are still missing and now we know there are a hundred eighty passengers on board a hundred and twenty five. there were actually clear members and we know that the helicopter and a number of times the rescue have been dispatched and working at the moment on the scene as that rescue operation continues. concern for days it is still mistake the focal river an incredibly wide with a very popular at this time of year. which is exactly what this was the ship the ball carrier i was traveling from called. and i was about fifteen miles from. when

it went. just a couple of kilometers from shore of course is a lot of people still missing and yet we can hear about the ongoing rescue operation now from a local correspondent who is at say. there was some one hundred ninety people among which the one hundred fifty seven passengers. people were rescued. sixty to seventy people. right now. some of. the reasons behind the first. arriving at the scene the operation continues. now the ship is the passengers were traveling on this he said as the cliche evoke area. by

a local tourism company politics is that this itself was eight years old and that possibly there was some design flaw that should be sort of breaches. that. take more than eighty from the water but of course this really are not like all the people who are still missing here sarah ferguson breaking news will be following with your help throughout the evening hopefully there will be a lot more survivors coming through hope for a little bit of good news come out of this tragedy would have actually later thanks very much let's look at some top stories from the week now and in georgia this is one of the main stories that made the headlines three high profile photographers have been charged with spying for moscow to be a secret it has a video confessions proving their guilt but skeptics say. a witch hunt to score political points. reports next on what's being seen as anti russian hype georgia is on a spy role and not for the first time this time the spotlight team shined on those

usually behind the camera for photographers were arrested on thursday on suspicion of spying who was the supposed must but first georgia north or tease didn't say they thought the alleged spies were working for but a day later they did russia in turn was accused of paranoid georgians are so quick to stick it to anyone i guess is just a level of democracy and it has been noticed not just by russia but. a good decision. one of the photographers who was released without charge the other three were charged with espionage and will remain in pretrial custody for two months one of them has gone on hunger strike and protest. however georgian president mikheil saakashvili is person to talk with but has reportedly made a video confession admitting to spying for russia opposition figure is skeptical he

worked there and write it not the only thing about backseat life here and they haven't read it now check out enjoy your time to time with everything that comes out at eight hundred m. no real early go out and we never know any kind of real human patients that government is paying for this isn't the first time this has happened last year thirteen people arrested and accused of being on russia's payroll earlier this week nine of them receive sentences of up to fourteen years in prison for the georgian government this is a matter of no good but others in georgia are very critical of what they see as taking a ruthless political calculation if you are a russian it means that you were always there and you are always very you are the most. difficult. it is no example in morocco see some rights because it. really isn't a russian who's never decided or used criticize worries likely. you're going to.

get to greece you must know deal with that room see you. spot it has a neighborhood with its relations are rock bottom and it has some men in jail but many of these are really just as we were told. tomas. egypt's prime minister is vowing to sack any members of the security forces accused of killing protesters during the uprising that toppled former president hosni mubarak the statement comes after thousands of egyptians turned out for the biggest rally in months angered over the slow pace of prosecuting officials and reforms the people say they will keep fighting until they see change he's innocent now is that missy. egypt's uprising might have ousted president mubarak but to them he's far from gone thousands of people out here on top here they all see different things inside egypt but they join together because the people we've spoken to feel like their revolution has been still there we go through the books of the mubarak's

. life on the way the taste of freedom was short lived the military is in full power mass media is being choked and oppression still rampant and worse than before and i think they werent catching activists as much as they are doing now. taken through a prison i guess now they're being greedy violent they want to kill that evolution this tool that in the first place he's known simply as own cult hospital here in egypt a social network or with a twitter army of some thirty thousand followers the military throws of civilians have to stop immediately immediately this is you know one of the major demands we're putting forward one of many demands including transparent trials for the fallen regime and the purging of corrupt officials they got rid of mubarak you know their high ranking officials but now egypt will be the same way it was before

january so a lot of that little officials a little mubarak some you need the americans rather what they're offering them are running the country people like myself have been arguing for taking the whole you to the factories they can hire you to go. to the wood places meaning that in every single word police we have in egypt it is a medieval book you know what it was never interested in politics until january she was shot with twenty three pellets by riot police twenty of which are still in her like the pain is finally gone but her perseverance is not a barrier of the fear is gone and she will continue to fight to the end. i want every every egyptian citizen to be treated as a human being every protester has their own vision of the egypt they're fighting for some want a constitution and then free elections others think the new laws should follow the

vote but one thing that brings them all together is that this egypt is not the end . and he's now our chief kyra. coming up in the program just before the anniversary of europe's worst massacre since the nazis troubles to spread. people are still in search of justice. rebels in libya are battling past government forces on the road to tripoli they're now moving towards the return after a six week long impact but the capital still remains over one hundred fifty kilometers away the rebels say their progress has been slow because of a lack of ammunition and nato support of the bill suggestions that the alliance is running low on arms itself a disaster germany for munitions that is really. surprising turn off the roads in the mission for me out. of more bombs wanted just over one hundred days of airstrikes and with just over two thousand bombs dropped by nato

allies on libya the mission has run into an unexpected problem a lack of cells to drop where there is demand there is supply and this is the only has agreed to provide the much needed ammunition previously berlin has abstained from voting in favor of the un security council resolution on libya and move that surprised and good others but it may now be backing out of it this is and the germans may not want to participate but are they have decided that the position does not preclude them actually subsequent weapons in this case or assistance some believe germany is under pressure from other nato members particularly the united states france and the u.k. to take a more active part in the libyan campaign at first in. ministries toward the foreign affairs minister don't go into libya it's a very bad conflict it was started by the cia and it's

a dirty business don't go there so this is why you voted with russia and china and now the backlash from washington is so tough obviously we're under pressure to do something. to make up for this decision aside from peer pressure germany may be alerted by the possible financial benefits of making its weapons available for natives use in libya probably germany will get pay for delivering these arms to other crimes but that is normal practice between crimes and nato countries. out of the twenty eight nato members only eight are actively participating in libya with civilian deaths to which nato recently admitted to a shortage of weapons and the ever relentless more market duffy still at the helm they call ition may be facing just the beginning of its problems. berlin is in a tough spot on the one hand it has disappointed nato very fusing to support the mission in libya in march on the other by agreeing to supply bonds it may now lose

friends in other high places and whatever the real reasons for its contradictory policy may be germany could find that by trying to please everyone into may end up pleasing no one in a goes corti. russia is holding firm on its condemnation of military action in libya before ministers says the mission is a political barrier it's already cost two million lives. later is bombing libya longer that it was gone in yugoslavia several years ago and there is no end in sight it's obvious that politics is a cynical matter we hear from the western capitals that the bombing should go on until put off it back but the human cost of these political statements is very high in the political system which is written over breaking news this hour a passenger boat with a least one hundred seventy aboard sunk on the revolver in russia's republic of tatarstan this afternoon one person is known to have died there are conflicting

reports as to how many people are missing still the vessel sank three kilometers from the shore an area where the river widens into a delta a nearby ship came to the stricken boat rescue to help save those aboard meantime i'm going to say that a storm is to blame for sinking the twenty metre deep. for a sinking ship in twenty meter deep water to be emergencies ministry's special investigations center into the incident double decker ship called the bulgaria was built in one hundred fifty five in czechoslovakia well these are the first images of the rescue which we're getting here at r.t. . you will see the boat itself for it sank in the water i just mentioned has to say since we get more details we will keep you posted. if not bosnian serb general accused of ordering this trouble it's a massacre it's likely they have a new legal team to represent them at the hague marriage and really disrupted his second hearing berating judges for not allowing him to have his lawyers present but

many serbs feel the notorious general's trial will not bring full justice catarina as it ever explains. the crowd little town of debate meets in bosnia and herzegovina looks at village you houses are being built people go about their business and in the center of the town a mosque and church sit side by side but this apparent unity is an illusion sixteen years ago the entire region was torn apart by ethnic clashes during the yugoslav war and seventy became infamous when the united nations stated eight thousand muslim men and boys were massacred by bosnian serb forces today and the moral for the deceased sits in the grounds of a former un military base disagreements in the moral ground as well maintained and frequently visited by locals journalists and tourists get boston and the bosnian capital of. a tourist aren't shown are the thousands of serbian graves that ride cemeteries all around us that are being it's

a region. of. thousands of people were killed during the balkan wars of the one nine hundred ninety s. but cemeteries like these were the entire families of murdered serb civilians only get visited by the very few remaining survivors but only comes here all the time his entire family lives here he says a bosnian muslim general is responsible. but you know i was only nine years old when i said already everything i had and wife first he killed my mother then my father and brother i was wounded and taken captive they held me for fifty six days and only god knows how or why i survived. but even though gonna survive his loss just like that of thousands of people here is being ignored. each was a hague tribunal and i was supposed to be a witness in his trial but in the end me and about thirty other witnesses were simply cast aside they didn't call us didn't ask what happened to our families and

the tribunal only gave him two years in prison. the balkan war so heinous atrocities visited an all sides and perpetrated by all players but the version most often propagated by western media is rather one sided ingraining the serbs the purpose of it is to. create a rationale for humanitarian interventions which. occurred in considerable number. of serpent so that so-called precedent can be traced through the years and into today's headlines bosnia iraq afghanistan and most recently libya have all played unwilling hosts to nato troops and u.s. imposed no fly zones. and the creation of. sonora for make sure that in the minds of most people. was

drones which was preventable but for whatever reasons. international community didn't do anything about it. some might say the journey from simply need such a big was evie a baghdad and kabul could now be traced as a kind of nato road map but as with any road paved with good intentions there is only one possible destination carriers are about r t button and herzegovina. turkmenistan's government has admitted that a series of explosions that shook the city of atlanta could have been issued the blasts that happened on thursday killed fifteen according to official reports initially authorities said it was an incident that a fireworks factory look there were no casualties that contradicted eyewitness pictures and reports that around two hundred were killed and scores injured it's understood that the officials responsible for giving out false public information have been sacked so we're going to stands long been

a very secretive state even the internet was banned until recently repair works were underway now in the stricken town who were victims of being promised government aid. more world news stories of grief there's been violence in bangladesh over a change to the constitution to make the predominantly muslim original secular police used tear gas to disperse angry is the most protestors at least fifty of the injured although islam remains the official religion the government for move the call stating absolute faith and trust in our. us is announced it's pulling the plug on almost eight hundred million dollars of military aid to pakistan relations between the two countries have been strained since the summer bin laden's killing in may the white house called pakistan an important ally in the war on terror but added that the relationship must be worked for a time. he craved courts reopened a criminal case against the former prime minister is a legislatively shanker made last minute changes to a contract to sell off a steel plant had a substantial loss to the country the x.

prime minister faces charges of abusing her power which carries a jail sentence of up to ten years to the shanker and says she's innocent though in that arrivals of fabricated claims. prison scandal plagued news of the world newspapers rolled off the presses for the last time its final edition was apologetic but defiant after being hastily closed by rupert murdoch was last week embattled really mogul flew to london to take charge of a crisis which engulfed the paper and its parent company news international it's claimed journalists hacked the phones of murder victims and dead soldiers families police made a number of arrests on friday including a former editor of the paper he's also served as the prime minister's pressed chief to get around this field research rupert murdoch is the last as long standing immunity among britain's political elite. i think something changed this week you know for decades british prime ministers have been on their needs to get to the murdoch press because they knew that when the sun which is his main daily newspaper here in britain when the sun supported

a british politician running for prime ministership you know they won it and then you find on the next day you find that prime minister reading the sun looking like an idiot saying go the sun got me elected i mean you've got this meaning of british democracy is that missing of democracy really which the murdoch press was at but part of that i think and it was there for silence as well because important people needed the murdoch press and they couldn't be they couldn't attack it because of that and i think a line was crossed rupert murdoch has a very finely tuned business brain he has a lot of things going on now one of them is to purchase the largest satellite network in britain called the sky b. and that decision is about to be approved by the government that was in jeopardy i think he felt that as a businessman he had to sacrifice the news of the world because it in terms of the whole news international it's a tiny part of or bad political cast have been sucking up to rupert murdoch for so many years including prime minister david cameron he now has to stand back and say

no i can't do it anymore it's gone so bad. nasa shuttle atlantis is right at the international space station restocked for the very last time as part of the last forever mission crew for americans and several times vital supplies russian american i just put these astronauts working on the station in this last shuttle mission years food equipment after thirty years of highs and lows in america's space shuttle history the final landing will be a painful time for many who have devoted their lives to the program as it is going to teach you can reports. empty shells of what was once florida's thriving space coast. up to ten thousand people will be out of a job as soon as the last shuttle makes its final voyage back to earth home to many of the kennedy space center workers rock which is on the verge of becoming a ghost town without the space program or pretty much nothing i mean this is what

you know because your beach is built on the space program you know it's a lot of you are going to be on a job sorry me. people are not welfare left and right stand anthony chris a fully spent twenty three years with the shuttle launch team as an engineer with a client his blasting out for its final mission it means the end of his career with nasa and the beginning of uncertainty a year ago he started looking for a new job to no avail i have applied for jobs and so far i haven't gotten any concrete responses there's not that many jobs out there for sure the u.s. scrapped its shuttle program and now wants the private sector to come up with ways to get astronauts to space several companies are working on new vehicles but it's not clear when they'll be able to deliver them one thing is certain though they'll be able to hire only a fraction of the skilled space industry workers will be out of work this is the first shuttle ever it never made it to space but it was used for tests before the

columbia shuttle first launch into space in nineteen eighty one a total of five shuttles i've been used for space mission says that two of them were lost in tragic accidents in nine hundred eighty six and in two thousand and three those lawsuits and the skyrocketing price for each launch gradually less to the cancellation of the program but critics say it's hard to estimate the losses that the end of the shuttle program will bring about both for the space industry and the people involved i think it's a really bad thing for the united states. we're difficult to rebuild it for years the shuttle has been the only vehicle that could carry crew and a massive load of cargo to space officials say one of the reasons the program was scrapped is that it's safer and cheaper to send cargo and people separately something that russia for example has been doing for many years but whatever the reasons for scrapping the thirty year old program for those who devoted their lives

to it is the end of their dream job it's kind of sad because i've already seen a lot of a few of my friends go in the building more people that are probably never see again it also means the end of a once vibrant scientific community that's grown up around the shuttle. r t. forty pro palestinian activist attainted israel for trying to reach gaza were being denied access to lawyers they currently held in tel aviv for taking part in the so-called fly airplane aid mission you have to visit with the tape as they try to enter israel it's to go to an airport on friday hundreds of people made attempts to enter the country by air for a second day for till it was prevented from leaving greek shores activists protesting against israel's occupation of the west bank and to express solidarity with the palestinian people protesting campaign rally bokken says that israel must abide by international court rulings that you are a patient and that is illegal. just the other

day we marked seven years in this nation of the international court of justice which clearly ruled the whole of the and station wall is illegal the whole of every single so meant is illegal and also. clearly the west bank is true islam and the gaza strip is the occupied palestinian territories that was seven years ago six years ago. civil society. in the work of national committee which is. which has over one hundred seventy different isn't a society organizations. you know you concluding women of invasions trade unions in economic incentives and so on and all political parties endorse it they came out with oil to the international community to apply nonviolent means of boycott divestment and sanctions against israel israel has no rights over. or is it only has a blog asian two to the civil society of three and a half million people are held in sub you mean subhuman

conditions in these territories. you're watching from moscow if you just joined us you can see on the bottom your screen in red the breaking news let me update you on it a passenger boat with at least one hundred seventy aboard sunk on the revolver in russia's republic of tatarstan the softer new one person is known to have died there are conflicting reports as to how many are missing now the latest we know is that the vessel saying three kilometers from the shore these are the latest pictures through no incidentally the pictures down the stream through to r.t. h.q. here it sounds about three kilometers from the shore an area where the river widens into a delta again as you can see it's a vast stretch of water there and there by ship came to the stricken boats rescue to help save the people on board still going to say that a thunderstorm could have been to blame for the sinking president would better sort of the emergencies ministry to open a special investigation now into the incident the rescue continues as the speak helicopters and divers the search for the missing if it was

a double deck ship called the bowl guerrier it was built in one nine hundred fifty five in czechoslovakia so just to recap the top story for you from a news we know is that the passenger boat that sank earlier on today with one hundred seventy on board the revolver in russia's republic of. its kind of life of one person there are conflicting reports as to how many people are still missing and south noon how many people have been saying very much across the story for you we'll keep you posted throughout the evening. also looking ahead as well we've got the sports he was well with union he's got all the latest including news of mistakes aplenty during formula one british grand prix my name is kevin i would think for choosing our team from moscow the summit of the tenth of july with the times now coming up to twenty eight hundred minutes past eight pm.

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