to react ending up in the water and there's hundreds of people still missing amongst the base thirty children is still unknown exactly where we are where they are we've heard a lot of reports about possibilities that they may have swung to the show islands that was to divide that we've actually heard some of the people that there is quite a distance to swim to get feet columbus's often say as the night wears on the rescue operation continues to study looking like the death toll we've already had one confirmed dead can't be said surprising we've heard from a local correspondent in the area about the ongoing rescue mission. when you know the emergency ministry has created a special office to investigate the reasons behind the incident of the rescue mission is underway and will continue throughout the night. to which people may have been able to swim too far from where the bullets went down but soon currents are making to search mission increasingly difficult because people may have been swept several kilometers away with the. other has been

one confirmed dead and we said the seventy six people who survived they've all been picked up by the rescue operation that was dispatched when the dates they were put on to possibly this has continued on take a sign of those the original destination of the bulgaria possum just ship that sank and we can hear from the emergencies ministry about that. curfew when your rescue teams left for the scene as soon as reports came in from all those who were immediately rescued were taken to another ship that was standing close by but it's not the right thing because on some people managed to swim towards nearby islands who are now searching for the other one woman has died another man is in hospital with injuries seventy seven people have been saved. now the rescue operation continuing throughout the night the divers working at the same the emergencies ministry just but dispatched. very quickly when they had the ship

itself we've also heard from president medvedev did an investigation will be launched in the emergencies ministry set up a special department to investigate that because of course was the looking for those of the missing those lots of questions about exactly what happened here what role. but this is about. these waters for many many years of the ready clues as to what went so badly wrong. what we've heard from some eyewitnesses that the area of the volga is actually being quite a dangerous spot the dates that they've had to storm conditions the strong current and strong winds and it possibly that contributed now the bases so it is actually about fifty five years old and there's been some people he said that perhaps the age of the basis of the design that's touches is that they could have contributed to this happening we've also heard reports from those on board that perhaps it's something that the queen and the captain himself did to. help the situation

deteriorated about the visit to the boat going down in just a minute the some people said that the way the situation was handled contributed to that happening people on board having very very little time to react. as yet exactly what happened one of the queen members also said that before the baby even set sail that there was actually a problem with the engine and that possibly this is going to come down to a technical fault state the investigation into that will be ongoing but huge concern as the rescue mission goes on as it turns into the night and the conditions only get harder to find these people amongst the a large number of children of the sea everyone hey paying be a safe return you know not of course with the family and friends of the dead lady also of course all those people missing tonight sort of for thank you bring you some today the developments as you get to know one of things are changing quickly it's pretty shaded let me give you some background on we spoke what we know about it was a pleasure cruiser that is being used as i mentioned just now for years for day trips. and the weekend breaks along the volga river is

a double double deck chip this is a picture of it was called the ball gary it was built back in one nine hundred fifty five in czechoslovakia then it had seating we're told aboard for one hundred fifty one hundred forty passengers it could reach speeds of nearly twelve knots it was just a pleasure cruise that really which is around twenty two kilometers an hour that sort of speed that sort of thing the boat also restaurants and bars aboard it provided entertainment as well since most trips lasted a few days at a time it's a big all stretch of river down there it's being suggested that the boll gary is engine weren't working properly at the time of the activists we heard there that not yet confirmed that. in georgia three high profile photographers have been charged for spying for moscow to police and claims it has video confessions proving their guilt but skeptics say mikko suckers feelings on a witch hunt to score political points out is tom barton reports on what's being seen as anti russian i ga is on

a spy role and not for the first time this time the spotlights been shined on those usually behind the camera for 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 alleged spies were working for but a day later they did russia in turn moscow has accused george 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 the only actually the wife two and they have a very small child to enjoy your time to time where everything comes out but beach condo have no real when we go out come and we never saw any kind of real they're human creations that the government thank you 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 particularly ruthless political calculation if you are an entire actually means that you are always there and you are always there and you are a democracy or you if you want to go. there is no great example on more course it will seem right because it. really isn't

a russian who's never decided or used that this is where it's likely why we're used to doing is there still a united states to police he must know deal with the most serious of occasions 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 real justice or. from bottom to. egypt's prime minister's vying to sack any member 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'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 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 books of the mobile the ship just a life on the way and 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 i guess now they're being greedy violent they want to kill that evolution this 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 will be the same way it was before

january surprise that little officials a little mubarak so many in 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 taking the have to the wood places meaning that in every single word police we have an egypt that is amenable now water 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 fear is gone. and she will continue to fight till 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 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 massacre since the nazi era travels to spread where people are still in search of justice a special report coming up. rebels in libya are battling past government forces on the road to tripoli they're now moving towards the key terms litter 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 the nato support the alliance has been running low on weapons in its push against gadhafi forces and it's asked germany for munitions martin. from the group research on globalization told us that data members broke international law by supplying weapons to rebels in libya in the first place.

definitely years via violating the you know nations sanction as well as international law there's something called the a t t and only the a.t.v. cannot supply 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 revolutionaries whatever you want to call them they are a minority and they are being armed by the outside in some cases they are better weapons then the actual libyan military right now i don't see nato winning unless dean feed or they continue to arm the rebels. the u.s. has announced today 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 osama bin laden's killing in may two thousand and more about this is told to journalist ahmed gray she's joining us on the line from islamabad. part of a secret she thanks for being on our to international know the u.s. calls pakistan there's an important ally in the war on terror so what's gone wrong

. i think we're seeing strong signs off united states getting really frustrated with the situation upon the sun and for the past few days we've seen. we've seen signs and actions on the part of the united states that are really being described by fox and fishers as inmates who are in terms of diplomacy for example we've seen. constant reports in mainstream media in particular in the new york times in the week. really talking about issues that pertain to fox and domestic politics for example the murder of a journalist and we've seen of course admiral mike mullen no less the chairman joint chiefs coming out to actually use the box and intelligence services behind it i mean things that you really wouldn't expect in a relationship as important as this one so i think what we're seeing is that the americans are are now really very first created with the situation in the

understand and i think they would like to see the box sort of giving up on some off their positions and just getting in line with whatever new is has in its plans or from the stuff that's going to have made public you know us you saying that the relationship between the two countries must be what it's all over the top. or is it just for the press to think i want to going to take to make that happen if it is helpful. i don't think we're seeing any signs that the u.s. officials are really sincere about maintaining this relationship. as a relationship between two independent sovereign continues that would like to work together there are really very strong signs and let's begin with there's a story about the cutting off of eight hundred million dollars they're saying this is aid more than a third of this amount is actually does not include it's money owed by the u.s. government in this military to pakistani military for use in box and facilities in the for the war in afghanistan that's number one number two the united states.

close to eight billion dollars for similar use. and military facilities for the war and this money has not really been paid and it's overdue by almost a year now and the military officials and politicians have been reminding the american about this and we know that the americans are using delay tactics now for example if you come down to a couple of more details for example they're saying they're withholding some of the equipment that was supposed to go to agree to a french quarter that works on the border they're saying now that since talks now would not give to do it trainers there's no need for the equipment also to go and of course this does not make sense for smallpox hundreds of them telling the americans you know we train our elite military schools train officers from a dozen or so countries we've gone really training from the us military recruitment and if you're sincere about the war on terror you need to send that in and that's not happening so really there are a number of things that really raise question marks on the u.s.

output it does look doesn't it like america's flexing its monetary muscle a to try and make pakistan be less vocal in his criticism of washington how is this going to go down in pakistan. no i must tell you. ten years ago. it was really very hard to find a clean clean shaven buckstone you criticize in the united states it was it was taken for granted if you're criticizing the u.s. you must be some radical extremist but today you have people from the upper classes of pakistan the ruling elite and very very critical of the united states so i think there's something really wrong and i think there is a huge responsibility also on the on the u.s. media to convey the right cure to the american public meeting which is unfortunately they're not doing their very much telling whatever is the line of the the government so i think i don't see in the near future many of the serious

differences between buckstone in the united states getting. along from islam about things going on r.t. . so you look at some of stories now the stories of the week from the former bosnian serb general accused of ordering the shrub and some massacre as likely to have a new legal team to represent them but they. disrupted you second hearing berating judges for not allowing him to have his lawyers present but many serbs feel the notorious general trial will not bring full justice. over reports. liquid little town of slippery meets in bosnia and herzegovina who 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 disappearing 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 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 arm shown are the thousands of serbian graves that lined cemeteries all around the state of being 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 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 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 sore called humanitarian interventions which indeed occurred in considerable number the math and it so that so-called

precedent can be traced through the years 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 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. simmered say the journey from sibling 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. castree knows are about r t bosnia and herzegovina.

well more now on our main story this hour the tragedy in central russia for pleasure cruises some almost two hundred on board in the river volgograd turned toward a star more than one hundred people are still missing but rescue divers will continue searching throughout the night is the latest we're being told dozens of people who were immediately rescued were taken to a nearby vessel they've now arrived ashore and as you can see. concern friends and relatives gathered at the dock side obviously very worried about. trying to get more news about their relatives and. ones that may not have come back to the rescue people were met by police and medical crews and taken for treatment most clearly in distress of course by what has been through the vessel itself was called the bold carrier reportedly sank within three minutes of getting into difficulty three kilometers from the shore when it went down in water it was about twenty meters deep it is thought to have been carrying people on a weekend sightseeing break and it was indeed on route itself. i would assist say a storm is likely to blame for the sinking but it is early days others suggest the

failure of the boats engines although that's not been confirmed. to stan's government admitted that a series of explosions that shook the city of down occurred and. the blast happened on thursday and they killed fifteen according to official reports now 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 as long been a very secretive state even the internet was banned until recently repair work underway now in the stricken town and with victims have been promised government aid. britain's scandal plagued news of the world duce papers rolled off the presses for the last time its final edition was apologetic but defiant after being hastily closed by rupert murdoch this week the embattled media mogul flew into london to take charge of

a crisis which engulfed the paper and its parent company news international it claimed the journalist 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 which served as the u.k. prime minister's press chief media analyst phil reese told us that rupert murdoch's now lost his long standing ability with 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 the prime minister reading the sun looking like an idiot saying well the sun got me elected i mean so you've got this demeaning of british democracy is the diminishing of democracy really which the murdoch press with that back pocket but i think 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 is. 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 class 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 ok it was one story this dominating our news you see on the bottom of your screen in red it's the breaking news of the tragedy in central russia after a pleasure cruise at the sultan of almost two hundred on board in the revolver into . more than one hundred people are still missing tonight rescue divers are continuing to search throughout the night in those dark and waters of the volga

dozens of people who are immediately rescued were taken to a nearby vessel they've now arrived to shore and as you can see here in these pictures anxious friends and relatives gathered at the dockside for the first survivors were brought to shore most clearly in distress of course they were met by police and medical crews and taken for treatment the vessel itself called the ball garia reportedly sank within three minutes of getting into difficulty it was three kilometers from the shore when it went down and it's thought to be in carrying people on a weekend sightseeing break itself it was on route because an eye witnesses say a storm could have caused the sinking right now investigators are also considering a number of other possibilities too including faulty equipment or whether the boat maybe have been overcrowded no conclusions being drawn yet of course as we get more on that story we'll bring you up to date here on our team from moscow stay with us . stay with us.

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on news tonight divers continuing to search overnight now for over one hundred people missing after. it went down in just three minutes but it's not yet known why some survivors arrived in the city. and some of the top stories of the week. charges high profile photographers with. skeptics say it's not the russian president saakashvili. and it's. a return to tahrir square to vent against the interim leaders of the revolution. of the suspension of police officers accused of killing protesters during. next the latest in our series

exploring former soviet states now that managed to. manage since independence we take you now to. kurdistan the central asian country and former soviet republic. in the space of just five years this state has gone through two revolutions the country is divided into two parts both by the mountains and by the unresolved conflict between the developed north and i call cultural south. kurdistan overcome its political and ethnic standoff could there be a repetition of spontaneous riots involving a mass loss of life. and . tucked away in the mountains one hundred fifty kilometers from

the capital bishkek is the village of act chose at best only six hundred villagers are left here now. but when kurdistan was part of the soviet union people from all over the republic were eager to come here. with the word that these are mine don't use the or was taken from them in the open pit heavy duty bellows trucks are brought in from there as you can see the roads are still here in soviet terms they produce three hundred tons a day at that time all arcturus villagers work here but even that was not enough so they brought workers from other places. the head of administration as showing the former pride of the village the factory producing uranium ore. from the open pit was brought here it was processed and sent to the law.