anyone trying to learn anything to deal one would call the police but they said to conduct the search and rescue service we did believe there was no reply so we game here to find out at least something you didn't hear nobody knows anything. or the little things within three minutes it's food to the right side and good all down. through throw their. will there were bodies wife and grandchildren to buy it and didn't even care to stop and reach out it's an open hand. it's horribly hadn't the slightest knowledge of what's going on but this should give us at least some information and that's going to search and rescue service by they don't answer the phone. the confusion amongst the survivors from various from the sinking of the bottle garia there's also a lot of confusion amongst the emergency services over just how many people there were on the boat the current status as an estimate of people on the on the bridge

is one hundred eighty four thousand isn't necessarily a sure figure because there is at the moment no detail to rest off how many people were on board so at the moment the efforts are going to continue throughout the night to find any survivors that may still be in the water or in some small islands that surrounds where the boats bank and also to try and find what the causes of the sinking of this ship were all right thank you tom marty's tom barton reporting from cazan on the river volga and of for more details on the search operation and the latest from the russian emergencies ministry we can go live to our correspondent jake agreed in moscow now jacob we hear that the cruise ship safely worked this round for years is there any information why tragedy should strike now. well we've heard a number of theories of already being put forward but as it stands none of actually being confirmed now among them is a fire this could have been an overcrowded boat sisk pasties around one hundred

forty people officially and our best the report that we're hearing of my personal capacity on board at the time is sinking around one hundred and eighty people or so the age of this vessel is being raising questions of whether or not i should have even be sailing in the first place along the river that's fifty five years old and also whether or not it was safe enough that this is some this peacetime shaded by a crew member reportedly who said that the engines had failed just prior to setting off for a two day trip down to because they have to bear in mind here that the minister of transport in moscow well there actually checked this vessel or said it was ok there's as recently as the fifteenth of june it was attention though really the most focusing on finding survivors and those hundreds more missing and we've already spoken to a local reporter who described the situation as those crash with

a face upon entering water. the rescue mission is underway and will continue throughout the night. to which people may have been able to swing too far from where the baldwin down currents are making this search mission increasingly difficult because people may have been swept several kilometers away with them started. to have gone along the howl of the vessel you know to see if there are any people trapped inside divers are now entering the crews are using a boat at the scene is using the waves are one and a half meters high well we are currently able to do is to communicate with the divers. distance of p. would have to swim to shore being highlighted as one problem or another just how quickly this vessel actually sank in under three minutes not giving people time. the dawn life vest to enter lifeboats the result seen as tragic situation we still have over one hundred people missing a course of eyewitness reports from survivors now they're already saying that they

were think the crew members in particular the captain did enough to stop this vessel sinking that quickly on top of that the one thing that we do know is that a divers at the scene of already located this vessel on the riverbed they said is tilted slightly to the right that's about the only clue we have at the moment of what might have happened here promised a president medvedev has said this investigation will be launched a full investigation to find out more says in the meantime though we've already spoken to a representative for the company to operated the ships picking up some of the survivors they gave us their insides with wreckage the national sank in about two minutes the crew that was working on tom who they now does want to come in through the windows attach a pace the boat wind down very quickly we were surveying the airing out where the crews are sand didn't find any survivors it was only then it will have to see i'd like to say that our vast hands are ault and should have been properly maintained

i'm going to watch them but. of course the mainstay of attention now really focus on finding more survivors this search and rescue operation will be going on for the length of the night and there was scouring the fogel river in this area as long as well as the neighboring islands as well in the hope of finding more survivors. all right thanks jacob greaves reporting there from moscow and of course you'll keep us posted throughout the night as more information becomes available. egypt's prime minister is valid to say that any member of the security forces accused of killing protesters during the uprising that toppled of former president hosni mubarak this 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 artes and he said no it 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 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 mubarak's the ship is to 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 then i think they werent catching activists as much as they are doing now and take them through a prison i guess now they're being treated violent so they want to kill with this still that in the first place he's known simply as hostile here in egypt a social network or with a twitter army of some thirty thousand followers the military thought it was all 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 the same way it was before january sort of got that little official little mubarak so many remarks rather than what they're calling them are running the country people like myself have been arguing for taking the how do you get to the factories taking the how are you to the universities taking the how do you to the work places meaning that in every single word police we have an egypt that is amenable now when it was never interested in politics in tel 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 to the end i was. every every gyptian 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 and then free elections others think the news should follow the moat one thing that brings them all together this feature is no b.s. . and he's in no way archie. georgia has charged a three photo journalists including the personal photographer of president saakashvili was spying for russia tbilisi says it possesses video confessions proving their guilt they are not to have been pointing at them last year thirteen people were detained and accused of being spies on russia's payroll and sentenced to fourteen years behind bars commenting on the recent events georgia's opposition leader. told r.t. the evidence could have been obtained under pressure that was on the shoulders of the nation it's not the type of case one person who always on the right has is giving such kind of explanations

a specially we had to take into account that he was not the only himself but his wife too and they have a very small child alive but have been released after three. days to wage this photographer mentioned so of course it's like this book for me to say one hundred percent what is behind all sides but situations i think joy i get time to time with everything said scandals because these condos have no real legal outcomes and we never saw any kind of real human patients that government you think right now government decides to i read journalist verify symbolical because government we are trying to control everybody and everything until now we didn't just need to even one every day to say what some of the existing refused to really see when you have a kind of the government being cited when you have problems with social and health care when you have a problem. elementary rule for a law and the rights of the people when you lost your country twenty percent of

thirty thirty because they yell and they get caught then there is responsible election you should find somebody who will be guilty in everything which is wrong in the country because very old police calls techniques and the system just is quite easy to explain just russian size and me and everything would be wrong to the country linked with russian so suckers really creating space i kind of a me me and trying to delete everybody who is against quemoy against his regime and who is fighting for deal democracy in this country he is trying to link was russian. still ahead for you this hour managing the eurozone debt crisis that's at the top of christine lagarde to do that she said sell her stall as the new international monetary fund chief. rebels in libya are battling past government forces on the road to tripoli they are now moving towards the key town of lead time 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 due to a lack of emulation and tomatoes support there have been suggestions that the alliance is running low on arms itself and has asked germany for munitions. reports on bill and surprise turn after opposing the mission and the answer. more bombs wanted just over one hundred days of their strikes and with just over two thousand bombs dropped by nato allies in libya the mission has run into an unexpected problem a lack of sales 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 a decision the germans may not want to participate but they have decided that

position does not preclude them actually subsequent weapons in this case or systems some believe germany is under pressure from other nato members particularly the united states presence in the u.k. to take a more active part in the libyan campaign at first hand our you know ministries toward the foreign affairs minister don't go into libya it's a very bad conflict it was started by the cia and it's a dirty business don't go there so this is why you voted with russia and china now the backlash from washington is so tough. we are under pressure to do something to make up for this decision aside from peer pressure germany may be allergic to the simple financial gain of making its weapons available for nato c. use in libya probably germany will get paid for delivering these two other counts but that is normal practice between countries even between nato countries. all 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 in the everleigh a small market duthie still at the helm the coalition may be facing just the beginning of its problems. berlin is in a tough spot on the one hand it has disappointed nato by refusing to support the mission only being marched on the other by agreeing to supply bombs it may now lose friends in all 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 if you negotiate fourteen. russia is holding firm on its content and condemnation of nato military action in libya before a minister says of the mission is a political game that's already cost too many lives. but. nature is bombing

libya longer that it was bombing yugoslavia several years ago and there is no end in sight it's obvious that politics is a cynical matter we hear from the western capitals that the bombing should go on until gadhafi backs off but the human cost of these political statements is very high school used to be an update on our main story now the tragedy in central russia after a pleasure cruiser sank with almost two hundred on board in the river volga in tatarstan four people are now known to have died and more than one hundred people are still unaccounted for search and rescue efforts will continue looking for survivors through the night the vessel called the bulgaria reportedly sank within three minutes of getting into difficulty and was three kilometers from the shore when it went down it's thought to have been carrying people on a weekend sightseeing break some survivors were picked up and have been taken to for treatment i wouldn't say a storm is likely to be to blame for the sinking while others suggest a failure of the boat engines although that is not being confirmed. on to other

news now scandal plagued the britain's scandal plagued news of the world newspaper has 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 to london to take charge of the crisis which engulfed the paper and its parent company news international it's claimed journalists hacked 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 has also served as the prime minister's press chief media analyst phil reece says rupert murdoch has now lost his long standing in unity among britain's political elite. i think something changed this week you know for decades british prime ministers have been on a nice 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. ported 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 diminishing of democracy really which the murdoch press was at but after that i think and that was that 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 isn't a sprain he has a lot of things going on now one of them is to purchase the largest satellite network in britain called sky b. and that decision is about to be approved by the government that was in jeopardy and 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 parcel about the political caste who'd 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. this week of france's former finance minister stepped into strauss kahn shoes and took over as i.m.f. chief christine lagarde his first challenge is to deal with the cash strapped e.u. as well as the world's continuing economic crisis but as artie's christina for zol reports there's still more interest in muckraking rather than money matters. from violence on the streets of the middle east. to protests in north africa to europe. for portugal's credit rating has been deemed junk. and in greece. where unemployment hovers at about sixteen percent and the debt crisis has sparked anger nearly all of this anger stemming from poverty and failed economic policies in the us as well high unemployment sits atop a mountain of problems like a housing crisis and slow financial growth this is the world christine legarde

inherits as she begins at her new post as managing director of the international monetary fund in her first formal meeting with the press at the i.m.f. headquarters in washington she seemed optimistic in her hopes the international monetary fund is here to serve and to provide services to its hundred and eighty seven members it's not the sexiest of news stories but still be an honorable press conference for the new managing director of the i.m.f. then garner quite a bit of media attention most likely it had less to do with christine lagarde herself and more to do with the reason why she's here. and what lessons do you think ought to be drawn from the way the u.s. legal system handled this current case we don't be any reforms in the human relight and human resources policies here do you plan any changes in them in light of the controversy over mr strauss kahn the controversy of course with dominique strauss

kahn accused. of raping a hotel maid in new york that case now starting to crumble after it turned out the maid had credibility problems but back to the i.m.f. or lagarde will take over the next year how a couple of issues are what worries you the most guarded her best to stay on message we cannot be only driven by the hope to reduce fiscal deficits and organize fiscal consolidation in a big way whether you look at advanced economies or whether you look at emerging markets income countries the issue of employment is a critical one the one hundred eighty seven nation organization has already lent one hundred sixty billion dollars to cash strapped nations many of which have little hope for paying it back. so the real questions are manifested here on the

streets of some of the nation suffering the most are accepting aid from the i.m.f. has been presented at times as the only option as austerity measures are now being put into place the questions too are in the dollar and how its value may or may not change under her watch for managing the debt crisis around the world will fall at the top of her agenda as the rest of the world watches with hope first ability in an unstable world in washington christine freeze out r.c. . shuttle atlantis has arrived at the international space station where it's dock to for the very last time as part of the fleet last ever mission it carried a crew of four americans and several tons of what vital supplies russian american and japanese astronauts are working on the station and this last shuttle mission brings them a nurse food and equipment after thirty years of highs and lows in america's space shuttle history the final ending will be a painful time for many who've devoted their lives to the program as artie's can

reports. empty shells of what was once florida's thriving space coast. up to ten thousand people will be out of a job as soon as the last shuttle makes its final voyage back to earth home to many of the kennedy space center workers rock which is on the verge of becoming a ghost town without the space program or pretty much nothing i mean this is what you know your beach is built on the space program you know just a lot of you are going to be out of jobs are you me out of homes people are welfare left and right food stamps anthony chris a fully spent twenty three years with the shuttle launch team as an engineer with a plan to splash for its final mission it means the end of his career with nasa and the beginning of uncertainty a year ago he started looking for a new job to no avail i have applied for jobs and so far i haven't gotten any

concrete responses there's not that many jobs out there for sure the u.s. scrapped its shuttle program and now wants the private sector to come up with ways to get astronauts to space and several companies are working on new vehicles but it's not clear when they'll be able to deliver them on one thing is certain though they'll be able to hire only a fraction of the skilled space industry workers will be out of work this is the first shuttle ever it never made it to space but it was going to put tests before the columbia shuttle first launch into space in nineteen eighty one a total of five shuttles had been used for space missions since that two of them were last name tragic accidents a nine hundred eighty six and in two thousand and three those lawsuits and the skyrocketing price for each launch gradually led to the cancellation of the program but critics say it's hard to estimate the losses that the end of the shuttle program will bring about both for the space industry and the people involved i

think it's a really bad thing for the united states. to reduce the skilled work force it's going to be difficult to rebuild for years the shuttle has been the only vehicle that could very crew and a massive load of cargo to space officials say one of the reasons the program was scrapped is that it's safer and cheaper to send cargo and people separately something that russia for example has been doing for many years but whatever the reasons for scrapping the thirty year old program for those who devoted their lives to it is the end of their dream job is kind of sad because i've already seen a lot of my friends go and nobody's there being more people that are probably may never see again it also means the end of a once vibrant scientific community that's grown up around the shuttle going to check out our team.

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three people are now confirmed. with. to cross the country to protest against the interim government. demanding officials

accuse of. the syrian. opposition activists are boycotting the national dialogue they say they will not participate as long as the regime continues to crackdown on protesters a 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 are 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.