brace now for the local correspondent with that saying. there was some one hundred ninety people on board among which the one hundred fifty seven passengers about eighty people were rescued by a passing boat but the fate of sixty to seventy people. right now this boat is heading to victims on board some of the injured are in hospital it's too early to list the reasons behind the curtain but first reports suggest it was caught in a storm and overturned more rescuers are arriving at the scene the operation to continue until. now the said this the passengers were traveling on this he said as the cliche area. by local tourism company commentator says that this is the ship itself was eight years old and that possibly there was some design for. these sort of. very. deed and they've managed to take more than a week in the water but of course this really are now to find all the people who

are still missing here sara firth is breaking news will be following with your health 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 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 p.c. claims it has a video confession is proving their guilt but skeptics say. a witch hunt to score political points out is tom barton 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 spotlights being shined on those usually behind the camera four photographers were arrested on thursday on suspicion of spying but who was there suppose it must but first georgian authorities didn't say who they thought the ledge spies were working for but

a day later they did russia in turn that moscow has accused georgia of paranoia the georgians are so quick to stick a spy label on to anyone i guess is just a level of democracy and that has been noticed not just by russia but by various key international organizations like the un one of the photographers 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 in protest. however georgian president mikheil saakashvili is personal photographer has reportedly made a video confession admitting to spying for russia opposition figures are skeptical she was there and i think not they are looking actually like you and they have a very small child enjoy your time to time with everything that comes out but it can go there are no real where we go out and we never saw any kind of real they're human creations that government is going through this isn't the first time this has

happened last year thirteen people were arrested and accused of being on russia's payroll earlier this week nine of them received sentences of up to fourteen years in prison for the georgian government this is a matter of national security but others in georgia are very critical of what they see as taking a ruthless political calculation you are interaction it means that you were always there you are always there and you are the moment and if you want to go quickly to there is no predictable in most it will seem right because it really isn't a russian news network would decide what news this is where it's likely why it was that if you're going. to police he must know deal with the serious patients spine it has a neighbor with whom its relations are at rock bottom and it has some men in jail but many are questioning whether this is really justice or politics tom bottom to.

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 that they'll keep fighting until they see change in this and now it's at the same. 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 say different things inside egypt but they join together because the people we've spoken to feel like their revolution has been stolen we go through the books of the mubarak's the . life in a 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 i think they

werent catching activists as much as they are doing now and take them to a prison and i guess now they're being greedy violent they want to kill that evolution they still that in the first place he's known simply as uncle horst i'm here in egypt a social network or with a twitter army of some thirty thousand followers the military throes 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 with the same way it was before january sort of got that little officials a little mubarak's i mean the lorax rather than what they're calling them are running the country people like myself have been arguing for taking the high you to the factories for you to the universities the king to have to the world places

meaning that in every single word police we have an egypt that is i mean you know what i was never interested in politics in till january she was shot with twenty three pellets by riot police twenty of which are still in her leg the pain is finally gone but her perseverance is not the barrier of fear is gone and she will continue to fight to the end. 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 in no way are cheap kyra. coming up in the program just before the anniversary of europe's worst massacre 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 key turn after a six week long impasse 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 but the real suggestion is that the alliance is running low on arms itself germany for munitions that is really. surprising after a mission from. 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 case germany has agreed to provide the much needed ammunition previously berlin has abstained

from voting in favor of the u.n. security council resolution on libya a move that surprised some and hurt others but it may now be backing out of its decision the germans may not want to participate but they have decided that the position does not preclude them actually some supplies weapons in this case or systems 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 our you know 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 he voted with russia and china now the backlash from washington is so tough that obviously we are 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 paid for delivering these to other countries but that is normal practice between currently between 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 the coalition may be facing just the beginning of its problems. berlin is in a tough spot on the one hand it has disappointed nato by refusing to support the mission only being in march on the other by agreeing to supply bombs 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 it may end up pleasing no one it even goes corti. russia is holding firm on its

condemnation of nato military action in libya the foreign minister says the mission as a political guy really cost too many lives. but. nature is bombing libya longer that it was bombing 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 gadhafi backs off but the human cost of these political statements is very high in the political used. as will turn over breaking news this hour a passenger boat with at 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 saying three kilometers from the shore in 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 sinking the ship in

twenty meter deep water the emergencies ministry's special investigations center into the incident double deck a ship called the bow garia 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. itself and in little to see the boat itself after it sank in the deep water i just mentioned has to say since we get more details we will keep you posted. the former bosnian serb general accused of ordering with rubber and it's a massacre is likely to have a new legal team to represent him at the hague marriage angrily 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 artie's catarina as it ever explains more. the quiet little town of sibling meets in bosnia and herzegovina looks it till it you houses are being built people go about their business and in the center of the town a mosque and

a 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. became infamous when the united nations stated eight thousand muslim men and boys were massacred by bosnian serb forces today a memorial for the deceased sits in the grounds of a former un military base the sort of thing it's a memorial ground as well maintained and frequently visited by locals journalists and tourists who get boston from the bosnian capital of. what the tourist aren't shown are the thousands of serbian graves that line cemeteries all around us that have been it's a region. thousands of people were killed during the balkan wars of the one nine hundred ninety s. but cemeteries like these with 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. you know i was only nine years old when this had already struck away everything i had in life 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 but on a survive his loss just like that of thousands of people here is being ignored. each was at the 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 on all sides and perpetrated by all players but the version most often propagated by western media is rather one sided in blaming the serbs the

purpose of that is to set the stage and create a rationale for so-called humanitarian interventions which indeed occurred in considerable number the math of structure in it 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 it is very important in the creation of the. scenario to make sure that in the minds of most people. was a draw on the side which was preventable but for whatever reasons the so-called international community didn't do anything about it. some might say the journey

from setting needs it to benghazi via 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. castros are about r t bosnia and herzegovina. when the stands government has admitted that a series of explosions that shook the city of diana could it be nation's death the blast that happened on thursday killed fifteen according to official reports initially authorities said it was an incident at a fireworks factory that 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 when it stands long been a very secretive state even the internet was banned until recently repair works are underway now in the stricken town who were victims of being promised government aid . more world news stories a brief there's been violence in bangladesh over a change becomes to choose to make the predominantly muslim regional secular police

used tear gas to disperse angry is the most protesters at least fifty athol injured although islam remains the official religion the government's removed a clause state think 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 out over time. cranium courts reopened a criminal case against the former prime minister is allegedly timah shanker made last minute changes to a contract to sell off a steel plant had a substantial lost of the country x. prime minister faces charges of abusing her power which carries a jail sentence of up to ten years to me shanker insists she's innocent though in that arrivals of fabricated claims. britain 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 this last week the embattled media mogul flew to london to take charge of the crisis which engulfed the paper and its parent company news international its claim 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 who's also served as the prime minister's pressed chief media around this field research rupert murdoch as the last as long standing of unity among britain's political league. i think something changed this week you know for decades british prime ministers have been on their knees to the 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 the prime minister reading the sun looking like an idiot saying well the sun got me elected i mean so you've got this the meaning of british democracy is that initiator of democracy really which the murdoch press

was at the heart of but i think and that was there for silence as well because important people needed the murdoch press and they couldn't be there 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 all that the 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 going to bad. nasa shuttle atlantis is arrived at the international space station restocked for the very last time as part of a fleet last day of a mission carried a crew four americans and several tons of vital supplies russian american and

japanese astronauts working on the station this last shuttle mission dreams the 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 art 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 rochlitz is on the verge of becoming a ghost town without the space program or pretty much nothing i mean this is what you know your beach is built on the space program you know just a lot of you are going to be out of jobs sorry to be out of homes people are going on welfare left and right food stamps and city chris a fully spent twenty three years with the shuttle launch team as an engineer with

a plan to splice thing down 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 will be able to hire only a fraction of the skilled space industry workers will be out of work soon this is the first shuttle ever it never made it to space but it was going to put tests before the columbia shuttle first launch into space in nineteen eighty one a total of five shuttles had been used for space missions since that two of them were lost in tragic accidents a nine hundred eighty six and in two thousand and three those lawsuits and the

skyrocketing price per each launch gradually led 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. to lose the skilled workforce it's going to be difficult to rebuild it for years the shuttle has been the only vehicle that could ferry 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 kind of sad because i've already seen a lot fewer of my friends go there being more people that will probably never see again it also means the end of a once vibrant scientific community that's grown up around the shuttle going to

check out our t. . forty pro palestinian activist attainted israel for trying to reach gaza were being denied access to lawyers that currently held in tel aviv for taking part in the so-called flying airplane aid the ship the activists were detained as they tried to enter israel and 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 and campaign the republican says that israel must abide by international court rulings that the patient in gaza is illegal. just the other day we marched seven years to the decision of the i.c.j. the international court of justice which clearly ruled the whole of and station wall is illegal the whole of every single so means is illegal and also. clearly the

west bank used to rule in the gaza strip and occupy fourteen territories that was seven years ago six years ago. civil society. in the book of national committee which is. which has over one hundred seventy different is civil society organizations. anything clued in women of invasions trade unions economic institutions and so on and all political parties in dorset they came out with a call to the international community to apply nonviolent means of boycott divestment and sanctions against israel israel has no rights over the occupied territories it only has a brigade to the civil society of their three and a half million people are held in sub you mean subhuman conditions in these territories. you're watching. if you just joined us you can see on the bottom your screen there 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 this afternoon one person is known to have died there are conflicting reports as to how many missing now the latest we know is at 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 sank 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 says say that a thunderstorm could have been to blame for the sinking president would bet it was all to the emergencies ministry to open a special investigation now into the incident the rescue continues to speak helicopters and divers to search for the missing and it was a double deck ship called the bold guerrier it was built in one nine hundred fifty five in czechoslovakia so just to recap the top story for you the main 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 the stern has claimed the life of one person there are conflicting reports as to how many people are still missing the staff and how many people have been saying very much across this 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 you know he's got all the latest including news of mistakes aplenty during formula one british crown pretty my name's kevin i would think for choosing our team from moscow this summer the tenth of july with the times now coming up to twenty eight house minutes past eight pm.

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question on the. this is r t from moscow good evening if you just joined just breaking news to update you on this hour a passenger ferry with more than one hundred seventy on board sunk on the revolver in tatarstan in central russia one woman has died although many of those on board have been rescued there are reports that dozens remain unaccounted for and a rescue operation continues to be underway these are the latest pictures that we've got coming through also bringing you the latest that we know about it as well the ship went down in about twenty meters of water around about three kilometers from the shore where the river widens into a delta nearby ship did come to help and save some of those that were already still

on board as you can see it's a vast stretch of water there i would say could have been a thunderstorm maybe high waves because of the responsible for the sinking president medvedev has ordered the emergencies ministry to open a special investigation into the incident this rescue continues helicopters and divers are there as we speak the double decker boat that went down was called the bulgaria it was built back in one hundred fifty five in czechoslovakia and the latest pictures we've got in other news georgia spying charges high profile photographers snooping for moscow but skeptics say it's a russian image booster by president saakashvili. and also in top stories now a review of the demo day job. as they returned to tahrir square this week to vent against the interim leaders who they say stole the revolution while authorities ordered a suspension of policemen accused of killing protesters during yuri's uprising what other one fears well behold the front page britain's best selling newspaper rolls

out from. last time as rupert murdoch sacrifices the title while phone hacking claims and reporter intensify in the u.k. . this is r.t. international from moscow. the syrian government is holding talks on reforms but the opposition activists are boycotting the national dialogue right now and they say they are not participate as long as the regime continues to crackdown on protesters up next then for you a syrian politician shares his views on whether a solution can be found. so i would like to talk about one has been going on in syria for the last three months please come in under us for that and. i want to know what the. syrians seem complicated events in these three months when religious extremists started to destabilize the country's peace and security.