tv [untitled] July 10, 2011 5:01pm-5:31pm EDT
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gratian the divers have managed to locate the base itself and it is tilted to the right say at the moment we're looking into whether they're actually going to be diving in see if any of the passengers are actually shot in the data itself but as he said as time goes on and it is becoming more and more anxious for the friends and family they just put the information now we have had the seventy seven people pulled from the water they've been taken to which is the original destination of the day the sun came we can hear from one of the survivors selves to an incredibly caring experience to them about what happened. to ships have passed without stopping to signal to them what do you just passed us by just one ship stop the rescue. has been quite hard to stop list the figures that have been coming out from the since the numbers fluctuating quite slow we do know that it's around one hundred eighty people the numbers from the emergencies ministry around one hundred eighty eight on the boats
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. are still yet to be absolutely confirmed as he says it's like a one hundred people still in this ward says the fogel river itself an incredibly popular tourist area for people to travel in these type of basis is a two day trip from the town of boulder. i was going there and but what it sank it still around fifty miles from now there was some people helping that perhaps some of these people who ended up in the water could have perhaps wanted to show some to nearby islands that we have heard that the currents are extremely strong and that water still meet conditions today a local correspondents been told to stay to give us more information. 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 currents are making to search mission increasingly difficult because people may have been swept several kilometers away with a. does the rescue operation continues into the night to try and they take these
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people to find out exactly what happened questions of course now being asked about exactly how this was able to happen and if there's anyone he should be held accountable for some of the first lou soldiers one of the work those waters for many years isn't it we hear are there any clues about what went so badly wrong. we've heard numbers opinions about what could have contributed to the event that we know the ship itself the bug area was fifty five years old and there's been some commentators it is said at perhaps the age and also the design of the boat itself could have contributed and left a fundable to a situation like this happening i know it will certainly have from one of the eyewitnesses mistaken about the possible to the possible accountability of the captain and the crew themselves they said that when they came into trouble with perhaps the way that the cuts in responding contributed to the boat going down so
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quickly said that will certainly be something that will be looked into the we've heard president medvedev saying that an investigation of course will be launched on the emergencies ministry is the size of the special department had to do with that now the boat's operator that picks up the boat we can hear from them in a second but we have heard that the boat to self the song with over capacitated it was only one hundred forty people the high capacity full as we've heard a story about one hundred eighty eight passengers on board so it's certainly something that's going to be lets out. right that'll sank in about two minutes the crew that was working told me they noticed water coming in through the windows the touchup a boot window quickly we were surveying the area where the crews are sank you couldn't find any survivors it was only that it will have to see and like to say that over are owed and should have been properly maintained.
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well the boat itself was actually very fairly recently i checked a friend given the go ahead to be able to sail on the water. again is going to be something that's going to need to be investigated a large number of the passengers on board as he said with a very hundred still missing children. so of course people are going to be extremely angry about this and wanting as to how the boat was able to come into these difficulties and to sink say quickly just under three minutes for these people to react as investigation goes on of course are those with the family and friends of days that are still missing as the rescue operation goes into the like the course terrible time for them sara first thanks for bringing us up to date with what you know just reminding our viewers as well the latest of course online is one of the i don't call. in georgia three high profile photographers have been charged with spying for moscow tbilisi claims it has video confessions proving their gilbert skeptics say because saakashvili is on a witch hunt to score political points tom barn reports next on what's being seen
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as russian hype. is on a spy role and not for the first time this time the spotlight being 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 georgia north or eighty's didn't say who they thought the alleged 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 label onto anyone i guess is just a level of democracy and it 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
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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 the wife too and they have a very small child to enjoy your time to time where everything comes out but they've kind of have no real when we go out come and we never saw any kind of real they're human creations that the 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 particularly ruthless political calculation you are entire are certainly is that you are less than you are always there and you are a democracy and if you want to go. there is no more course the human rights
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because it. really isn't a russian who's never criticize or who says that this is where it's like where why was it you're going to. united states 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. egypt's prime minister is 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 foundations 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 that he's innocent now a report. 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
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inside 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 the ship is still alive 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 then 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 treated by the want to work with this still that in the first place he's known simply as uncle hostel 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
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their high ranking officials but now egypt with the same way it was before january sort of broke that little it faces a little mubarak said we need to mark souder is what they're offering them for running the country people like myself have been arguing for taking the how do you to the factories they can hire you to the universities the king to have to the wood pieces meaning that in every single word police we have in egypt that is i mean you know what it 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
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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 archie. but i'm coming up in the program a tsunami scare a powerful earthquake hits japan prompting fears of another tsunami bringing a frightening remind two of people still healing from the disaster in march. rebels in libya they were battling past government forces on the road to tripoli they're now moving towards the key town of litton 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 been suggestions indeed of the alliance is running low on arms itself a disaster germany for missions reports now on girl in surprise turn after opposing the mission from the outset. more bombs wanted just over one hundred
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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 u.n. security council resolution on libya a move that surprised some and angered 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 subserve lying 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. art in the libyan campaign at first our you know ministries toward the foreign affairs minister don't go into libya it's
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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 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 countries even in 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 is 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
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mission only being 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 in a goes corti. political blogger rick ross of believes a humanitarian mission was never made his agenda in the region in the first place. thirteen thousand meter we are missions over a country of six and a half million people including with nato itself acknowledges this five thousand combat missions it's not a war. you know this is not simply a question of protecting libyan civilians from government violence and so forth this is a concerted long term military action nato it's the world's only military or it's one that is in charge of the two major wars in the world right now those in afghanistan and libya i think you know we can dispute you know minor points of
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contention but i think we should not be confused about what the nature of the merkel army really organization. of data you are maybe used tonight the tragedy in central russia or a pleasure cruise this sank with almost two hundred on board in the revolver in tatarstan area more than one hundred people are still missing tonight rescuers are continuing to search the dark waters of the volga the vessel called the bulgarian reportedly sank within three minutes after getting into difficulty it was three kilometers from the shore when it went down is thought to have been carrying people a weekend sightseeing break some survivors were picked up and they've been taken to for treatment i witness is say a storm could have been to blame for the sinking of the suggests the failure of a boat engines although that's not been confirmed. by the top stories tonight britain's scandal plagued news of the world newspapers rolled off the presses for the very last time in its final edition was apologetic but defiant after being hastily closed down by rupert murdoch this week the embattled media mogul flew to
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london to take charge of the crisis personally which engulfed the paper and its parent company news international is playing 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 actually served as well as the u.k. prime minister's press chief major analyst phil respect to us he says rupert murdoch's now lost his long standing immunity among britain's politically. 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 that 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 that missing of democracy really which the murdoch press was at back part of but i think and that was that for silence as well because important
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people needed the murdoch press and they couldn't be they couldn't attack it because of that and i think a line was crossed rupert murdoch has a very finely tuned business brain he has a lot of things going on now one of them is to purchase the largest satellite network in britain called the sky b. and that decision is about to be approved by the government that was in jeopardy i think he felt that as a businessman he had to sacrifice the news of the world because it in terms of the whole news international it's a tiny part of 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 gone too bad. it will do so the weakest second powerful earthquake hit japan prompting fears of another tsunami much of the country lay in ruins after march's quake destroyed whole towns and killed more than forty thousand people for months on reconstruction still underway but the people will take longer to repair of course sean thomas reports. as the waves
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crew should do damage to sea wall on the japanese coast volunteers work tirelessly to clean up the debris and bring some sense of normalcy back to the area. i want to tell people we need more help more supply routes and things are still. beyond the physical destruction of there is a distressing psychological factor as well the city if you want he is right on the edge of the twenty kilometer exclusion zone for radiation contamination in fact in a recent study by japan's nuclear safety commission forty five percent of one thousand children tested in any walk and it may bring cities have tested positive for thyroid radiation exposure a figure that has parents appalled. the government has reset the great spirit to safety and are not concerned with the consequences their reaction is only to help the governments they face but they don't actually take care of the damage and the people here first there was the earthquake then the devastating
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a wave which rushed in and destroyed this part of the coastal city of it walking also there are the nuclear radiation waves that are coming into this area as well the volunteers that are coming in to rebuild this city certainly have their work cut out for them but just like the city itself the people who live here the community they need to have their spirits rebuilt as well. that. again in an effort to keep the community emotionally strong organizers have brought this acting troupe in from tokyo they say their goal is to provide something beyond a simple intertainment or we have a certain japanese pride and in this destructive situation i would like to bring good things and present the spirit of japan and japanese pride by bringing people together and making people smile. through that shared community experience there is a sense of hope that the city of the walky can indeed recover the convenience of
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a pathetic low. in city hall but if you've seen anything like this coming. and with an understanding that there is still much more work that needs to be done the people here are working to keep their community together. i just want them to stay where they want. and they found can be helpful that's a good thing that rebuilding the city one step at a time any walky city japan sean thomas r.t. . a deadly fire has broken out of the nursing home for the elderly in northwest ukraine it's killed sixteen people fire crews battled the flame for five hours and managed to rescue eleven from the blaze victims were then treated in hospital for carbon dioxide poisoning three remain in a grave condition for his own best again because of the fire reports suggest it was not stopping the. turkmenistan's government's admitted that a series of explosions that shook the city of down occurred at
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a munitions depo the blast happened on thursday and killed fifteen according to official reports now initially there were thirty said it was an incident at a fireworks factory and 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 information of being sacked turkmenistan's along with a very secretive state even the internet was banned until recently repair works are underway in the stricken town where the victims have been promised government day. world news in brief tonight there's been violence in bangladesh over a change to the constitution to make the predominantly muslim region more secular and police used tear gas to disperse angry islamist protestors at least fifty are thought to be injured although islam remains the official religion the government's move to clause stating quote absolute faith and trust in our. us has 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
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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 on over time. well our main news this hour the tragedy in central russia a pleasure cruise this sank earlier almost two hundred people on board it sank in the revolver in tartus style let's get the latest my correspondent is in the republic's capital. very good evening should give us some idea of what's happening there around you know what are officials and rescue teams telling. colors are active and yes from here from cousin into stand there where the ship sank at the moment a large rescue operation is currently underway and those rescue teams have been at it now for some hours and they'll be at it for many more at the moment the figures stand roughly like this there were approximately one hundred eighty to one hundred of one hundred seventy nine people on board it's difficult for the parties to work
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out exactly how many of the moment because the lists of passengers are not currently available to people have unfortunately died over a hundred are still missing and that's the kind of thing that they're looking for they've got they've set up they've got diving and they're trying to find out where those people are and if they're still alive at the moment the ship is or has also been found it's on the bottom of the river about three kilometers from the bank it has the ball gary is in a is ship's name it has sunk hit the bottom and then tilted slightly to the right and divers are now trying to search that ship to try and find any bodies there and to try and find out what actually happened the ship was cleared to sail as a cruise ship a tourist cruise ship by the ministry of transport on the sixteenth of june this year it was a check ship built back in nineteen fifty five and they were sailing yesterday
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around two pm along the volga mixes them in rather rough conditions not quite sure just how rough those conditions are we're not quite sure exactly what went wrong the theories at the moment proposed by the emergency services are perhaps the ship was overloaded perhaps it was down to a crew error or perhaps there was some problem with the engines but at the moment it's going to require a lot more investigation to find out exactly what did happened there yesterday afternoon. i meant the search is focusing on the area of the ship on the banks but also on a number of small islands doctors around the center of the volga which is very wide at this point and it's thought that people may have managed to escape to those islands that are on a sheltering on them so the search is fixing all the area but people have so far been rescued they've been taken to local hospitals where psychologists are trying to help them with any trauma they may have experienced at the moment that is the
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