it's to head down to that state of course everyone's very concerned to find missing people establish exactly what happened and get them out of the water this is a boat of course the knew those waters well isn't it one of the thoughts about what went so badly wrong you know that. well the boulder river it's very popular this time of year for these types of places it is a passenger but it takes two days to travel from the town of boulder. and it's thought to have been about fifty miles from only a couple of kilometers from the sure that there are because of the loss of questions now i think that what went wrong we can hear from the local correspondent who said the same about some of the versions that are being with. them 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 right now this boat is heading to. some of the engineering. it's too early to list the reasons behind the accident but first reports suggest

a call to the store went over to the rescuers who were arriving at the scene the operation will continue until all the passengers are finally here. but. now the passenger base itself was fifty five years old and some commentator says that possibly there was some design flaw with the boat the left to breaches of this kind we've actually also heard reports of a clean member he said that the fall of the ship sails that there was problems with the engines to quite possibly a technical difficulties might come into play here an investigation will be all going into exactly what happened to the time being of course the focus really on establishing exactly where these missing people are getting them out of the water as soon as possible absolutely sort of for years for you know let me bring our views small part about what we know of this vessel the ship that was a pleasure cruise really been used for years for do. trips and weekend breaks along

the volga river it was a double deck ship it was called the bowl game it was built in one nine hundred fifty five in czechoslovakia as picture in there that had seating for one hundred forty passengers aboard it could reach a speed of nearly twelve knots that surround twenty two kilometers an hour the boats also had restaurants and bars aboard and it provided intertainment as well since most trips lasted a few days at a time it's being suggested that the bulgaria's engines as we just heard in sara's report there may not have been working properly at the time of the accident that hasn't been confirmed yet but to say as soon as we know more on this breaking news if you just joined us just to recap what the headline is pleasure cruises gone down current nearly two hundred people on the river volga casualties at least one so far we know that one woman has died we're hearing that many of been rescued but also confusion over how many people are still missing this happened in the republic of tatarstan in russia as you can see there from those pictures it's where the of all

the river broadens out why delta it went down in twenty meters of water about three kilometers off shore as a say soon as we know more we are the station to keep you updated on this unfortunate breaking news. in georgia three high profile photographers have been charged with spying for moscow to police he claims it has video confessions proving their guilt but skeptics say because soccer's village on a witch hunt to score political points out is tom barton reports next on what's being seen is the russian high. 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 moscow has accused georgia of paranoia the

georgians are so quick to stick a supplier 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 not there are looking like you know wife two and they have a very small child enjoy your time time with everything and don't like them no real we go out there and we never saw any kind of real human case that government is going to 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 particular ruthless political calculation you are into iraq surely. you are always there and you are a democracy and if you want to go. there is no more course words because all that. really isn't a russian who's never or who's criticised who are slightly why it was that if you're going. to police he must know deal with the most serious about a geisha spying 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 about justice or about politics tom

bottom ninety. dozens of probe activists detained in israel for trying to reach guards it with some reports suggesting though subjected to brutal treatment they currently held in a detention center in tel aviv for taking part of the so-called fly till airplane mission let's talk to an attorney who spent the day with them and an old day is in jerusalem is on the line to talk to us now mr o'day very good evening to thank you for being on the r.t. international news channel what are the activists saying about their treatment in israel and. good evening thank you a. lot about the treatment there are different arguments. the main thing is what they. talked about is that treatment at the airport which means from the moment they arrive to the airport to the moment they arrive to the jails where are they hold. things then you know. most of the people that i

met the last two. were saying that the israeli soldiers and security forces treated them very very badly some of them was being attacked by saying they hit some woman and men they were. very very small rooms. to people and one of the. for a long time after that they told them that they are going to take them to the hotels and they were surprised when they put them in a big vehicles of metal vehicles that the use for the prisoners and they keep them for more than four hours in the hut with or without water without food a and until they arrived to the jail we're staying now with care for somebody i don't go to for hours so for all of this period these people were treated very very badly. since they didn't get any food any water also they didn't get

any explanation about the reason for not allowing them to enter. a. distillation so i guess the reason is because it's not really paul kate and i landed in tel aviv surely must have expected that to happen. these people actually. came here or they were planning to come to bethlehem to participate peaceful activists to visit him like cultural activities to visit. some places in the west bank and there when the israeli security them on the airport about the reason of the visit they explained that and they also question them if they are going to participate on demonstrations or. things and all of the people that i met today answered very clearly that they

don't have any. go to participate or they are not planning to participate in any demonstrations or they are not planning to broke the israeli law so their goal was to i arrive to the west bank and to meet the palestinian people to get more close to the palestinian culture and to learn more about it and also to support them to support them peacefully ways and i will talk about greece why it may or may not be involved here and there's a lot of pressure high level pressure the moment on greece to allow the gaza still leave paul why do you think greece is preventing them from setting sail and getting and getting involved like this in the first place. i i'm not sure about that but i think it's a question of a question of interest relationships between different countries and. when i

read the news and follow up with the developments of this issue i think that israel had a big version of the groups allow. people to go. and i don't see any illegal. excuse for not allowing the ships to move toward. the were you surprised that only let me put it another way you yourselves surprised that greece has got involved and hasn't let these people set sail. sort of could you repeat the question let me put it another way then are you yourself surprised that greece's got involved here and let these people set sail. yes kind of. i believe of the. nation the good supporters of the palestinian

cause and maybe the question is different when we are talking about the government saw a i was expecting more pressure from the greece people on their government to act different way and not to prevent this to move it was because of course the other side of the story is last year's flotilla raid saw israel hugely condemned internationally you'd think wouldn't they be wary again in dealing with these eight activists this time around or or might they see it as a punishable provocation. i think after we are after the last experience with a model or a full flotilla i think everything is expected from the israeli side and they say if they said that clearly. media that they are going to stop the ships from getting to gaza. if they want to have to use the force and.

i think that israel is trying. not to be obliged to use the force the against anyone who is coming to go. this is one of the ways how they doing this by not allowing these ships to ship once they ship towards gaza i think there is there is will attack this. not sure about because you will it is how far this will this will go and in the day we really appreciate being on the program human rights lawyer who met as i mentioned before the detained guards eight activists thank you for taking the time to be with us from jerusalem. egypt's prime minister's vying 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 artie's in this and now is at the scene. 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 stolen we go through the books of the mubarak's the . life and when 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 really 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 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 same way it was before january sort of got that little officials a little mubarak there meaning 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 taking the higher 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 like the pain is finally gone but her perseverance is not the 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 to constitution 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 archie cairo. coming up in the program just before the anniversary of europe's worst massacre since the nazi era travels to struggle in its where people are doing searches. that's ahead. you're watching r.t. from moscow it's now eighteen minutes past nine rebels in libya are battling past government forces on the road to tripoli they're now moving towards the key town of zlitan 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 the alliance has been running low in fact on weapons in its push against gadhafi forces and it's asked germany for munitions mardy there's employer from the group research on globalization says nato members broke international law by supplying weapons to rebels in libya. definitely years via violating the nations' sanctions as well as international law there's something called the a t t and under the a t.v. supplying arms to the rebels this is not new news either they've been saying this from march they've been sending arms to the rebels whatever you want to call them the transitional council forces revolution whatever you want to call them they are a minority and they are being armed by the outside and in some cases they are better weapons than the actual living military right now i don't see needle winning unless steen feed or they continue to armed the rebels. one menu story dominating

our coverage this half hour an update on the breaking news about the pleasure cruiser with almost two hundred on board the sun to start a new number of a vulgar in russia's republic of tatarstan so far we know that one person is reported to have died there are conflicting reports about how many people are missing without vessel saying here in within three minutes we're hearing now that the latest news line through of getting into difficulties obviously went very quickly it was three kilometers from the shore when it sank kids thought to have been carrying people on a weekend sites. break it was on route to the republic's capital because on a nearby ship managed to save some of those who were on board the fifty six year old vessel which was called the bulgarian rescue operation continues with helicopters and divers searching for the missing i witnessed his say a storm is likely to be to blame for the sinking president would bet it was all to be emergency for his crew to open a special investigation looking at the latest pictures we've got through from the

scene unfortunately not much to see obviously that storm or whatever caused the problem has died down now but does this say the latest news we're just getting through now adding to this is the details coming through hearing maybe quite important is that the vessel sank within three minutes of getting into difficulty that's not allowing many people to get to life jackets and such like so since we know more we will of course update you. the former bosnian serb general accused of ordering with the massacre is likely to have a new legal team to represent him at the hague luggage angrily disrupted his second hearing berating the judges for not allowing him to have his lawyers present but many serbs feel the notorious general's trial will not bring full justice his catarina of the reports. liquid little town of sibling meets in bosnia-herzegovina looks a delicate 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 separate needs 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 city but 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 arm 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 so you know i was only nine years old when this had already struck away everything i had and why 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 serves the purpose is to set the stage and create

a rationale for so-called humanitarian interventions which indeed occurred in considerable number of the mouth 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 it is very important in the creation of the. scenario to make sure that in the minds of most people. was drawn aside which was preventable but for whatever reasons the so-called international community didn't do anything about it. some i'd say the journey from seventy 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. minister and governments admitted that a series of explosions that shook the city of arbor darren occurred editions depo the blasts happened on thursday and killed fifteen people according to official reports initially authorities said it was an incident at a fireworks factory and that there were no casualties but 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 of being sacked turkmenistan's long been a very secretive state even the internet was banned until recently repair works and i've said to be underway in the stricken town and all the victims have been promised government any. 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 embattled media

mogul flew to london to take charge of the crisis which engulfed the paper and its parent company news international has claimed journalists had to 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 u.k. prime minister's press chief media analyst phil reese's rupert murdoch's long lost his standing among britain's political elite. i think something changed this week you know for decades british prime ministers have been on the needs 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 that prime minister reading the sun looking like an idiot saying well the sun got me elected i mean you've got this demeaning of british democracy is that missing of democracy really which the murdoch press was that back after but i think there was a for a 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 go. now one of them is to purchase the largest satellite network in britain called east 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 had 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 too bad. if you just joined us here at r.t. this sunday afternoon let me bring you up to date on our breaking news a pleasure cruiser with almost two hundred on board of sunk on the revolver in russia's republic of tatarstan one person is known to have died and there are conflicting reports about how many people are missing now the vessel reportedly

sank within three minutes of getting into difficulty and it was three kilometers from the shore when it went down it's thought to have been carrying people on a weekend sightseeing break it was on route to the republic's capital. a nearby ship saved some of those who were on board the fifty six year old vessel which was called the bulgaria say a storm is likely to be to blame for the sinking but others suggest that the boat engines weren't properly working at the time that something has not been substantiated or confirmed a rescue operation continues receiving with helicopters and divers searching for the missing russian president medvedev has ordered a special investigation into what happened. i'm kevin and you're watching our team from moscow and more on this breaking news in just a few moments. spending the year in iraq as a military journalist. is there's kind of wasting time

trying to get killed. i thought was the link to the five hundred. twenty seven days to publicize the people invited to make. started to have a dialogue. with students. hello

this is all to international top story a pleasure cruise a carrying two hundred people the sun within just three minutes on the revolt in central russia confirmed dead herself. been saved over one hundred remain missing a rescue operation is underway it's all main story today. the news that made the headlines of the week from us georgia's spy hunter says it charges high profile photographers with snooping for moscow but skeptics say it's a russian image boosted by president saakashvili. it's deja vu for. the return to. are you squared event against the interim leaders who may say stole the revolution one of forty told of the suspension of policemen accused of killing protesters during federal up right. next to nazi special reports the story of the

american army journalist who was hundreds of miles in his home state to deliver his antiwar message. barry something you can't have one without the other and that's the same way if you're going to support the troops you got to support the war earth you don't support it they keep your mouth shut about it you don't need it out gives just be quiet if you can't. report it like it be quiet and a message from the president of the united states george w. bush good morning the generals are trying to divide america and break our will and we must not go in with their just succeed we will defeat the jurors every where they make your skin and we will leave a more hopeful world for our children and our grandchildren our goal in iraq is clear and changing our goal is victory. veterans for peace is chapter one

eighteen in salt lake city is peace justice organization we basically. work with all soldiers and all veterans to bring about peace some of us all even actually march with him all the way today. one guy who has it and are protesting he was is an army ranger. it started out pretty tense and actually if you guys got to do this also if you know what this is a u.s. ranger man. i should say i'm going to say look i mean i think i'm going to. think so i think and go to a different country. that's what he wants that's to is credit so. if you're not for reading and writing your morning systematic. yeah i think there's a middle ground. then i think we agree on everything.