rescue teams left for the scene as soon as reports came in all those who were immediately rescued were taken to another ship that was selling close by it's now arrived. some people managed to swim towards nearby islands who are now searching for them one woman has died another man is in the hospital with injuries so of the seven people have been saved. now we know that area of the cold is it could it be popular this time of year especially tourist plates and passenger base such as the one that is carrying people this one is traveling between the town at both ends it is that it was a two day trip there and when it went down it was only a couple of kilometers difference sure so there is some speculation that perhaps some of these people the sponsor nearby island perhaps managed to get themselves to show that this is the other night and of course the rescue is just really working out so late in the scene it's possible and ongoing speculation as to exactly what

went wrong here sara we have been hearing on some of the russian news wires already there are a couple of people reported to have swam to shore that's quite a swim three kilometers out if those reports are true as you mentioned this area those boats popular with tourists and this is a part of the new those waters well isn't it. it certainly is done the journey many times but it's thirty five years old and some commentators have been speculating that perhaps the age and some problems with the design could have contributed to the base thinking now there are a lot of conflicting opinions on exactly what was the cause of the sea the primary concern with the rescues it's like hating the people for the investigation will be launching to exactly what happened i know it was the one eyewitness that actually this area of the boat is notorious as being quite a dangerous sport that it's very strong currents and strong winds and possibly that's contributed as well to it being harder to locate some of these people that

remain in the loop as we stand three kilometers certainly quite a slim but hopefully some of them have managed to get to different parts in the rescue is working right now to try and find this quickly as possible. some of the injured are in hospital it's too early to list the reasons behind the accident but first reports suggest a call to the storm and over to. rescuers who are arriving at the scene the operation will continue until all the passengers are found. that we've also heard one eyewitness account that has pointed the finger of blame at the captain and the clearly saying that when the bait initially came into trouble that something went wrong with the way that they were managing the situation and that contributed to the turn of events is we've also heard from an eyewitness say a literally went down in about three minutes incredibly quickly so all of this a lot of concern for those who remain in the water and happening quite a number of hours again as the rescuers working incredibly hard on them to say you

know bring us what you know we'll come back to you later for more developments in spring of use know some of the latest pictures that we've got coming through and we're seeing some of the survivors as well some of this footage now is take a look see what what we've got all. well concerned friends and relatives gathered at the dockside there in where the first people who were rescued were brought to shore they were met by police and medical crews and taken for treatment so than obviously as you'd expect clearly distressed relatives are demanding already to be told what's happened to the others on board again as you can expect we could move across these latest developments in charter start if you just joined us to bring you up to date on that breaking news the boat went down in we're hearing around about twenty meters of water three kilometers off shore one of the nate latest news lines coming out we're hearing that it may have gone down in a storm that's been substantiated but the latest line is that it from some of the

people that say they witnessed this it went down within three minutes so it gives very little time for people to go for lifeboats and for lifesaving belts to put around them also some reports maybe the could have been some engine trouble on that but again unsubstantiated unconfirmed at the moment we know that one person has died one person is in hospital all of the people that were rescued there on board a boat heading to because we just saw some of them arriving there now as soon as we get more details on this very unfortunate news story this afternoon we will of course being r.t. we will be the station to bring you up to date on this one. in georgia three high profile photographers have been charged with spying for moscow tbilisi claims it has video confessions proving their guilt but skeptics say because saakashvili is on a witch hunt to score political points. reports next on what's being seen is 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 to enjoy your time to time with everything that comes out each kind of them no real well we go out there and we never saw any kind of real they're human creations that the government bring to it 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 were always there you are always there and you are the moment if you want to go. there is no. human rights because it. really isn't a russian who's never or who used that this is where is likely why was that if

you're going to. tbilisi 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. 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 people say they will keep fighting to until they see change parties innocent out 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 visions of egypt but they join together because the people we've spoken

to feel like their revolution has been stolen we go through the book so the mubarak's dictatorship is alive and well 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 and take them to a prison and i guess now they're being really violent they want to kill that evolution they still live in the first place he's known simply as uncle horst i'm here in egypt a social network or with a twitter thirty thousand followers the military trial is of civilians how if you are forced to ask about your forthcoming. now though rebels in libya are battling past government forces on the road to tripoli they're now moving towards the key turn of the litter after a six week long impasse but the capital still remains over one hundred fifty kilometers away the rebels say that progress is being slowed down because of

a lack of. support but when suggestions indeed that the alliance is now running low on arms itself and its asked germany for munitions really glad to report any surprise turn after opposing the mission from the outset. 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 in this case germany 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 some and angered others but it may now be backing out of a decision the germans may not want to participate but are they have decided that position does not preclude them actually supplying weapons in this case or

assistance some believe germany is under pressure from other nato members particularly the united states friends in the u.k. to take a more active part in the libyan campaign at first. you know ministries toward the foreign 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 now the backlash from washington is so tough 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. it's to other counts but that is normal practice between countries even 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 in libya 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 isn't goes corti. russia is holding firm on his condemnation of nato military action in libya the foreign minister says the mission is a political game it's already cost too many lives. nato 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 quality elsewhere in the trouble middle east the syrian government is open talks with opposition activists to discuss the possibility of reforms but some leading rivals in prominent campaigners are not there in the meantime mass demonstrations on what to do across the country on friday killing at least thirteen people tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets calling for president bashar assad to step down since the protests began in march government crackdowns that killed more than seventeen hundred demonstrators syria's deputy foreign minister told r.t. that any interference in the country's affairs from the west would end in disaster . syria's position has been clearly articulated and the global community is aware of the military force in syria hands so even if the west is thinking that if we would advise them not to syria is the key to the balance of the middle east if any meddling with us into israel is here to drive this radical to destroy the western

countries are well aware of this but nevertheless they keep hating arabs and syria in particular because of our political stand on the arab israeli conflict because of our chief wants of success and our progress on the reform struggle to under the leadership what was an actual summit what happened in syria expected to spread like an epidemic across other our countries in order to weaken israel in the west which would pose their civilization a supremacy of values that the mind set on us very carefully and all of the signals west wants from us especially view of recent events and i must say that in the truth they do not wish us well. and you can see the full interview with syria's deputy foreign minister in about fifteen minutes time tonight. an update now on a main story this sunday the breaking news from central russia that divers are desperately still searching for more than one hundred people in the river vulgar entire stand after a pleasure cruise some with almost two hundred on board the vessel called the

bulgaria reportedly sank within three minutes of getting into difficulty earlier on it was three kilometers from the shore when it went down it's thought to been carrying people on a weekend sightseeing break it was on route to the capital because i witnesses say a storm is likely to blame for the sinking while others suggest that the boat engines weren't working properly at the time that's not been confirmed the president to develop sort of a special investigation into what happened. and indeed dozens of people who were immediately rescued were taken to a nearby vessel they've now arrived ashore and as you can see here these are the latest we got through from. conserve friends and relatives gathering at the dock side there in cars where the first people who were rescued by police and medical crews and taken to treatment some seem to be obviously clean stress anxious relatives demanding the world to be told what's happened to the others on a lot of question marks about this story tonight we're keeping across developments in the to stand as they emerge.

the former bosnian serb general accused of ordering this represents a massacre is likely to have a new legal team to represent him at the hague knowledge angry 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 parties catarina reports. liquid little town of slippery 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 seventy 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 and 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 for you know i was only nine years old when this had already struck away everything i had in life first to kill 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. 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 an 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. 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 but 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 might 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. news stories of violent clashes in bangladesh over a change to the constitution to make the predominantly muslim regional secular appreciate tear gas to disperse angry islamist protestors at least fifty or forty

follow islam remains the official religion the government's close stacey quote absolute faith and trust in our. us is advanced 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 the white house called pakistan an important ally in the war on terror but added that the relationship must be worked on over time. the ukrainian courts reopened a criminal case against the former prime minister this allegedly to machine code made last minute changes to a contractor style of. other substantial lost of a country the exploited minister faces charges of abusing her power which carries a ten year sentence but carries a sentence of up to ten years says she is innocent though in that arrivals are fabricating the claim. britain's scandal plagued news of the world newspapers rolled off the presses for the last time its final edition was apologetic defiant

after being hastily closed by rupert murdoch this week the embattled media mogul flew to london to take charge of the crisis which in gold the paper and its parent company news international it 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 who's also served as the prime minister's press chief really around this field respect which he says rupert murdoch's now lost his long standing immunity among britain's political elite. i think something changed this week you know for decades british prime ministers have been only needs to that 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 minister you know they won it and then you find on the next day you find that prime minister really. in the sun looking like an idiot saying well the sun got me elected i mean you've got this the meaning of british democracy is that missing of democracy really which the murdoch press was at but after that i think and there was a through

a 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. let me bring up to date on the top story of this sunday the breaking news from central russia that divers are desperately searching for more than one hundred people in the river vulgar in tatarstan after a pleasure cruise sank with almost two hundred on board at the time dozens of

people who are immediately rescued were taken to a nearby vessel they've now arrived ashore in cars and these are the pictures we've got from concern of those people there on their relatives concerned friends and relatives gathering at the dock siding with the first who were rescued were brought to shore. by police and medical crews who take the treatment some of them clearly obviously distressed after what we've been through focusing on the vessel itself it's called the ball garia it's portly sank within just three minutes of getting into difficulty giving very little time of course for people to go to life rafts and to get life vests on it was three kilometers from the shore when it went down in waters that we hear. twenty meters deep at the time it was thought to have been carrying people the weekend sightseeing break it was on route to the capital cars and at the time i want to say a storm could have been to blame for the sinking other people suggesting as well unconfirmed these reports though that the boats engines weren't working properly at the time we've also heard some reports again unsubstantiated that there were

children on board we've also heard as well that maybe one or two people on the three kilometers to the nearest shore that's of course where rescuers are focusing now on the shorelines around the volga there why delta to see if people have tried to swim to safety with the help of a swim of course if you're not a strong swimmer but boat had a seating capacity of one hundred forty passengers at the time it was built back in one thousand fifty five in czechoslovakia president medvedev the south tuners ordered a special into the investigation to try to find out what went wrong there so if you just joined this the news is still that we know it's been confirmed that one person has died one's in hospital a lot of people still missing in this tragedy this afternoon the volga we'll bring you more as we get it you're watching r.t. from moscow money kevin thanks for being with us.

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with max culture for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on r g. this is r t moscow breaking news this hour a pleasure cruiser sunken in the revolver russian republic of tatarstan some survivors of arrived. divers are frantically searching for over one hundred people who are still missing. the top stories now are a view of the week georgia's. charges high profile photographers were snooping for moscow but skeptics say it's an anti russian image boosted by president saakashvili

. and it's a demo deja vu for angry gyptian as they return to tahrir square in the week to vent against the interim leaders who they say stole their revolution. the suspension of police officers accused of killing protesters during. the middle east next the syrian government is holding talks on reforms but the opposition activists are boycotting the national dialogue they say they will not participate as long as the regime continues to crackdown on protesters up next in the syrian politician shares his views on whether a solution can be found. so i would like to talk about what has been going on in syria for the last three months can you please come in under us but i'll ask you are i want to know what the new law but answer out of syria has seen complicated events in these three months when religious extremists started to destabilize the country's peace and security

and undermines to billet in syria of course the mass media have also done their bit to present syria in an unfavorable light as a country that is hostile towards its own people never in the history of modern syria has the country been attacked the way these armed bands of extremists are doing it syria is in need of reforms and we have had peaceful demonstrations in favor of reforms the syrian government and president bashar al assad responded to the demands of the people but as you may recall every time the government was about to introduce reforms violence surged in the country i witnessed these acts in daraa and other syrian provinces like many other citizens did the incumbent president of syria is committed to reforms and in two thousand he proposed a major program of reforms but events in the region that followed affected the implementation of the reforms gravely the us invasion of iraq and the potential threat that the aggression would sweep over syria after the american government

made its intentions clear the turmoil in lebanon and the assassination of the lebanese leader rafik hariri the situation in the region changed in the state of syria is threatened the reforms were shifted to the back burner and defense of the country was made the priority task and has been the most important thing ever since are today.