the children of each. of. what you. and your motto see. is serbia lucy's available in that region see. it you should see. the signal so don't think it would be just possible by just one ship started to roast you will break the news for marty five people are now confirmed dead after a pleasure cruiser sank on the river volga in russia's republic of tatarstan with one hundred eighty five on board. the boat sank in three. like best of all. the latest just a few moments. and recapping our top stories from the week in georgia charges three photo journalists with spying for russia including president saakashvili personal

photographer. a stolen revolution angry egyptians returned to the streets across the country to protest against the interim government's failure to bring about change. and the last front page of the news of the world as a phone hacking scandal claims that the u.k.'s best selling tabloid. and broadcasting live direct from the heart of moscow this is r.t. take a look at your top stories a cruise ship sank on the river volga and central russia leaving five people dead and one hundred others still unaccounted for one hundred eighty five people were on board many of them children when the ship foundered survivors were plucked from the water by

a passing ship and taken to the republic's capital for treatment our correspondent tom barton has more details. it is known that they were the conditions that time were difficult but whatever happened the ship sank within three minutes which meant that a lot of the people didn't even have time to put on their life jackets before getting into the water as people are basically buried alive as if in a metal sickle for this and managed to get three different things there was my ten year old daughter i couldn't risk and here she swallowed too much more than when i was pulled out a realised my child was absent we still don't know where to look for survivors there were a lot of children on board even more than ellis my only came running to me and my husband to three minutes before the sheets and told us please we live chickens as the vessel is sinking i couldn't believe it you can be. telephoning everyone trying to learn anything about alan diehl ones you can call the police but they said to

conduct a search and rescue service with deed there was no reply so again here to find out at least something i didn't hear nobody knows anything being it's a. little thing with women it's the right size circle but i know there are those who are the truth hello there how with the right overboard wife and grandchildren. by who didn't even care to stop you and reach out if you obey him. it's horrible they haven't the slightest knowledge of what's going on the bottom of this should give us at least some information and that's only so much and i guess just so that they don't ask for their home. it's fair that strong currents in the volga and a very remote region downstream from meant that many people are feared to have drowned at the moment the search is ongoing and has been for some hours now and will be ongoing to try and find any survivors it's thought that some of them may have made it to safety in islands around us where the ship sank in the middle of

the volga told a very wide point the way she. sank there's also a search on going for why the ship may have sunk and some said foster for those that have been rescued they've been taken to nearby hospitals where they are being treated by psychologists for any trauma they may have experienced but for the moment the search is on but any survivors that have survived the sinking of this river cruise ship are just on barton reporting there from cousin and for more details on the search operation and the latest from the russian emergencies ministry we can go to our correspondent jacob greaves who is in moscow. officials are actually still looking for asses here a number of theories have already been put forward. some of really big just yet prominent one is the fact that this. overloaded official capacity was one hundred forty eight. one hundred eighty five people were on board of the

time of its sinking also the age of this vessel was fifty five years old and there are questions being raised whether or not it should have been used as a tourist boat on the revolver or in the in the first place some is actually being stunned by reports of claims made by a crew member same of that had engine difficulties just before this two day voyage to because although we have to bear in mind it's important to stress that the mission trials were separate do have a record of the ship being given the all clear and that recently as the fifteenth of june die rolls of course it's their heads really focusing on finding some more survivors and searching out for those missing to a local reporter described a situation that would have bet those who charge into the 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 baltimore and down currents are making the

search mission increasingly difficult because people may have been swept several kilometers away. have gone along the howl of the vessel 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 of the leaders height well we are currently able to do is to communicate with the divers. aside from the she distance passage of have to swim to get to shore and of course the currents and other problems with to do with the weather it's also the fact that this ship sank very quickly indeed in under three minutes giving people really no time to put on life. best. in the correct areas to get on the lifeboats and this is on the you've heard from past survivors who are on board and they have a report saying they're not too sure they don't really think that the crew members or any of those on board in charge actually did enough to stop despite going down it's such

a quick time now those at the scene with those divers at the scene who found the vessel on the bottom of the river bed and the base is actually being tipped to the rice and that may offer some clues in the future to find out why this boat did sink the president medvedev he's already said that there will be a full of proper investigation into to find out more officers on this case but we can already try to fill in some speaking to one representative for a company this was a crisis on the search but it's picking up survivors at the scene right now that will send in about two minutes the crew which will require a timely writers want to come in and we do see the tragic case when down to the control room or something the average cruiser stands for when find answer brothers it was only van auken at the scene i'd like to say out assonance are all well and should have been properly named. you know the rescue effort is still really in full

swing because there are many people missing now this is focusing along the river but also on those are islands nearby as this is something as we mentioned the emergencies minister. the shuras designed them in sectors and it's really sort of or even earlier should you and i see a sign read through with conclusion and because we're friendly or if you think you'll get all the news stream of the event to continue the search operation on your promotion the search likely to continue for some time now a school still remain missing and of course the hope they can find more survivors. or does david breed greaves reporting there from moscow now egypt's prime minister is a valid to sack any member of the security accused of killing protesters during the uprising that toppled former president hosni mubarak a statement comes after thousands of egyptians turned out for the biggest rally in months angered over the slow pace of prosecuting officials and reforms that people

say they will keep fighting until they see change or t.v. and he said no it's not the same. egypt's uprising might have ousted president mubarak it's a them he's far from gone thousands of people out here on top here they all say 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 that people should post a lifetime when the taste of freedom goes short with the new attire using full power mass media is being choked and oppression still rampant force. 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 greeted by the want to kill with this so that in the face he's known simply as hostile here in egypt a social network or with

a twitter army of some thirty thousand followers the military trials of civilians have to stop immediately immediately this is you know one of the major commands we're putting forward one of the many demands including transparent trials for the phone regime and the purging of corrupt officials they got rid of mubarak you know their high banking officials but now egypt is the same way it was before january so we're going through that little would be so little mubarak so many new guard sather what they're having them running the country people like myself have been arguing for taking behavior to the factories they can hire you to the universities to the work places meaning that in every single workplace we have an egypt that is amenable to now when it was never interested in politics until january she was shot with twenty three pellets by riot police twenty of which are still in her like the pain is finally gone perseverance is not the barrier of fear

is gone. and she will continue to fight to be empty. i want every every egyptian citizen to be treated as a human being every protester has their own vision of the egypt they're fighting for some want a constitution and then free elections others think the new laws should follow the boat but one thing that brings them all together is that this egypt is not the end . and he's in no way are cheap cairo. georgia has charged three photo journalists including the personal photographer of president saakashvili with spying for russia to police he says it possesses video confessions proving their guilt they're not the first to have the finger of suspicion pointed at them or though last year thirteen people were detained and accused of being spies on russia's payroll nine were sentenced to fourteen years behind bars commenting on recent events georgia's opposition leader noble janaki told r.t.

the evidence could have been obtained under pressure. it's not the size case the one person who always done the reddest even french kind of explanation they specially we had to take into account that she was. the only himself archie's wife too and they had a very small child who i think released after three. weeks the program mentioned. are difficult for me to say one hundred percent what is behind us that. situation but enjoy your time time we are receiving such candles these condo had 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 generally she's air force to go to court because the government we're trying to control everybody and everything i'm doing now we didn't you see even one minute we didn't. know what

some of the things you're really going to kind of autonomy within sight when you have coupled with social and health care when you have a problem. mentally. and the right people when you love your country twenty percent or thirty thirty because they yell and they get caught then but it is possible that you should find somebody who will be you'll never see we confronting the country very old believe me. quite easy to play good russian and to ever think what's wrong keep the country leave russia be creating peace i kind of a need. trying to link everybody who is against even more of a future regime and flee to fighting for do you seen this country gee scornfully russian. still ahead for you this hour the eurozone debt crisis that's at the top of christine lagarde is a to do list as she sets out her stall is the new international monetary fund.

the rebels in libya are battling past government forces on the road to tripoli they are now moving towards the key town of his lead time after a six week long impasse but the capital still remains over one hundred fifty kilometers away the rebels say though progress has been slow due to a lack of any mission and nato's support there have been suggestions that the alliance is running low on arms itself and has asked in germany for munitions ilene evolution reports on berlin's 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 guards dropped by nato allies on libya the mission has run into an unexpected problem a lack of sales to drop where there is demand there is supply and this is 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 a move that surprised some and angered others but it may now be backing out of a decision the germans where not want to participate but are they have decided that the position does not preclude them actually some supplying 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 part in the libyan campaign but first our. ministry's told 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 obviously we are under pressure to do something to make up for this decision aside from peer pressure germany may be lured 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 its nato recently admitted to a shortage of weapons in the everleigh a small market duffy's still at the helm because in 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 and 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 but in a goes quality. russia is holding firm on its condemnation of nato military action

in libya the foreign minister says of the mission is a political game that already costs too many lives. nature is bombing libya longer than it was only in yugoslavia several years ago and there is no end in sight and 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 the police can use to me and i played on our main story now the tragedy in central russia after a pleasure cruiser sank with one hundred eighty five on board in the river volga and try to stop five people are now known to have died and search and rescue efforts continue for that one hundred people that remain unaccounted for 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 a sightseeing break some survivors were picked up and have been taken to prison for

treatment i witness is say a storm is likely to be to blame for the sinking others suggest the failure of the boats engines although that's not confirmed. to other news and now britain's scandal plagued news of the world newspaper has rolled off the presses for the last time its final edition was apologetic but the find after being hastily closed by rupert murdoch this week the embattled the media mogul flew to london to take charge of the crisis which engulfed the paper and its parent company news international it is claimed it journalists hacked the phones of murder victims and the 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 their knees to the to the

murdoch press because they knew that when the sun which is his name 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 in 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 the meaning of british democracy is missing a democracy really which the murdoch press wants it back part of but i think and 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 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 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 going to bag this week france's former finance minister stepped into shoes and took over as i.m.f. chief christine lagarde is the first challenge is to deal with a cash e.u. as well as the world's continuing economic crisis but archie's christian result reports there's still more interest in muck raking in money matters. i hate from violence on the streets of the middle east both. to protests in north africa to europe. for portugal's credit rating has been deemed junk. and in greece. for 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 her new post as managing director of the international monetary fund and 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 actually a good news story i fill in on the world press conference for the new managing director of the i.m.f. there garner quite a bit of media attention most likely it had less to do with christine lagarde or so 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 transfer in case we will be any reforms in the human real life and human resources policies here do you plan any changes in the right 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 down to the i.m.f. we're looking hard will take over the next year how a couple of issues what worries you the most look 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 a low income countries 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 her managing the debt crisis around the world will fall at the top of her agenda as the rest of the world watches it hope first ability in an unstable world in washington christine freeze out r.c. . nasa shuttle atlantis has arrived at the international space station where it has docked for the very last time as part of the fleet last ever mission and it carried a crew of four americans and several tons of vital supplies russian american and

japanese astronauts are working on the station and this last shuttle mission brings them a years of food and equipment after thirty years of highs and lows in america's space shuttle history the final landing will be a painful time for many who have devoted their lives to the program as artie's going to check out reports. empty shells that's what was once florida's thriving space coast right now. 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 it's a lot of people are going to be out of jobs are in reality people are left and right chance anthony crystal fully spent twenty three years with the shuttle launch

team as an engineer with a plan to splice thing off 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 haven't gotten any concrete responses there's not that many jobs out three 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 will 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 used 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 says that two of them were lost in traffic accidents in nine hundred eighty six and in two thousand and

three those losses and the skyrocketing price for each launch gradually latched 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 i think that the united states. to reduce the skilled work force it's going to be difficult to rebuild it for years the shuttle has been the only be called that could ferry 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 it's kind of sad because i've already seen a lot of my friends go in nobody's going more out people they're 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 archie. back to our breaking news story five people are now confirmed dead and one hundred remain unaccounted for after a pleasure cruiser sinks on the river in the russian republic of china with one hundred eighty five people on board search and rescue efforts have continued throughout the night and into the morning dozens of survivors were picked up by a passing ship and taken to the republic's capital because actors of friends and relatives gathered at the port to meet them many of the passengers were families with children which 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 want to be can sightseeing break and was in route because on eyewitnesses say a storm is likely to be to blame for the sinking investigators are considering a number of possibilities including faulty equipment and whether the boat was

overcrowded president would get up has pledged help and a thorough investigation into the tragedy. of course we will be keeping you updated on the latest information coming in from the tragedy introduced on stay with us right here on r.t. . liz

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