no there were those we were literally with hello there how we will if there were bodies wife and grandchildren to wrestle by who didn't even care to stop and reach out if you obey him. it's horribly haven't the slightest knowledge of what's going on the bottom of this should give us at least some information and that's going to be such and like rescue service by they don't ask for their home. it's fair that strong currents in the volga in a very remote region downstream from meant that many people are fit to have drowned at the moment the search is on going 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 where the ship sank in the middle of the volga all the very wide point that they ship sank there's also a search on going and why the ship may have sunk and something so fast 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 before the moment the search is on for any survivors that have survived the sinking of this river cruise ship artie's tom 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 but must stress none of them of really being a firm just yet a prominent one is the fact that this. overloaded official capacity was one hundred forty people were. confirmed 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 to whether or not it should have been used as a tourist boat on the revolver in the in the first place some is being stunned by

reports of claims made by a crew member same of that had engine difficulties just before making this two day voyage to because although we have to bear in mind it's important to stress that the misha truss was said that it do have a record of the ship being given the all clear and that recently as the fifteenth of june there ever was of course that their attention is really focusing on finding some more survivors and searching out for those missing well we've already spoken to a local reporter describe the situation they would have met those who conscience of the water 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 baldwin down currents are making this urge mission increasingly difficult because people may have been swept several kilometers away with them started. we 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 as you say the waves are one and a half meters high well we're currently able to do that is to communicate with the divers. aside from the distance the passage of have to swim to get to shore and of course the currents and other problems with to do with the weather is also the fact that this ship sank very quickly indeed in under three minutes giving people really no time to put on line. vests. in the correct areas to get on the lifeboats and this is something you've heard from survivors who are on board and they they 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 this spoke going down in such a quick time now those at the scene with those divers at the scene who found the best soap on the bottom of the riverbed and they say it's actually been tipped to the rice and that may offer some clues in the future is to find out why this boat did sink but president medvedev and he's already said that there will need to be

a full on proper investigation into to find out more asses on this case but we can already. fill in some blanks speaking to one representative for a company that was on the search but it's picking up survivors at the same wreckage that all sank in about two minutes the crew was really trying time to the writers want economy influence which attach a case on the boat when john to the crew we were surveying the air now where the crews are stand we don't find any survivors it was only van auken at the scene and like to say that al ras hands are altered and should have been properly maintained . now the rescue effort is still really in full swing because there are many people missing now this is focusing along the volga river but also on those are islands nearby as well and this is something as we mentioned by the emergencies minister long as your main goal is to survey the shuras designed them into sectors and

absolutely beautiful sort of for eternity or. the islands and i see a sign reef there with conclusions and his were found there if you think you'll get it all in a street that isn't to continue the search generation. the search likely to continue for some time now as scores still remain missing and of course the hope they can find more survivors. artie's debris greaves reporting there from moscow now egypt's prime minister is a valid 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 will keep fighting until they see change parties and he said no is that 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 boat the mobile talks the ship is still a life and when the taste of freedom was short lived military is in full power mass media is being choked and oppression still rampant and worse. 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 that they want to kill with this still that in the first place he's known simply as uncle 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 with the same way it was before january some of that little officials a little mubarak so many new marks 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 workplaces meaning that in every single word police we have an egypt that is amenable 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 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 a constitution and then free elections others think the new law should follow the vote one thing that brings them all together is that this egypt is not the answer. and he's no way archie. georgia has charged three photo journalists including the personal photographer of president saakashvili with spying for russia tbilisi says it possesses video confessions proving their guilt not the first to have the finger of suspicion pointed that convo 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. told r.t. the evidence could have been obtained under pressure. it's not the type of case one person on the right has is giving such kind of explanation 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 live but have been released after three. weeks the photographer mentioned so of course it's like this before me to say one hundred percent what is behind all sides but situations i think joy get time to time with everything. base condo's 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 journalist she's fair prices go to court because the government we are trying to control everybody and everything until now we didn't succeed even one of you didn't. know what some of the existing refused to release he's going to have autonomy problem in sight when you have problems with social and health care when you're. the problem. mentary. and the rights of the people when you lost your country twenty percent of

thirty thirty because the i'm a good question but it is possible that you should find somebody who will be guilty in everything we just don't give the country big very old fully signee. just quite easy to explain groups russian stars and the nice and the ever think what the wrong thing for a country is not so suck up to the creating please i cannot pay me and try to delete everybody who's they gave him a lawyer gave he's a regime and quit fighting for deal democracy in this country he is trying to link was bush still had for you this hour managing the eurozone debt crisis that's at the top of christine lagarde to do list as she sets out her stall and the new international monetary fund and she. rebels in libya are battling past government forces on the road to tripoli they are now moving towards the key town of 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 ammunition and nato support there have been suggestions that the alliance is running low on arms itself and has asked germany for munitions you know those reports from berlin to surprise turn after opposing the mission from the outside. more bombs wanted just over one hundred days of airstrikes and with just over two thousand bombs dropped by nato allies on libya the mission has run into an unexpected problem a lack of 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 the position does not preclude them actually subline weapons in this case or systems

some believe germany is under pressure from other nato members particularly the united states friends in the u.k. to take a more active part in the libyan campaign at first 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 he 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 cunt but that is normal practice between countries even between nato countries. out of the twenty eight nato members only eight are actively participating in libya

with civilian deaths to which nato recently admitted to a shortage of weapons and the ever relentless more market duffy still at the helm the coalition may be facing just the beginning of its problems. berlin is in a tough spot on the one hand it has. disappointed nato by refusing to support the mission in libya and 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. 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'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. an update 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 while others suggest a failure of the boats engines although that's not been confirmed. to other news

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 defiant 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 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 main daily newspaper here in britain when the sun supported. a british politician running for prime minister you know they won it and then you find on the next day you find that prime

minister 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 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 going to bad this week france's former

finance minister stepped into the shoes and took over as i.m.f. chief christine lagarde first challenge is to deal with the cash strapped e.u. as well as the world's continuing economic crisis but artie's christian friends out reports there's still more interest in muckraking and then money matters. from violence on the streets of the middle east rather than. 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 if not the sexiest of news stories but still be an honorable press conference for the new managing director of the i.m.f. did 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 the strauss kahn case we could 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 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 a staring 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 for south 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 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 church account 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 the beach is built on the space program you know just a lot of people are going to be out of jobs sorry to be 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 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 i haven't got any concrete

responses there's not that many jobs out there for sure the u.s. scrapped it 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 soon 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 says that two of them were lost in tragic accidents a nine hundred eighty six and in two thousand and three those lawsuits and the skyrocketing price for each launch gradually let 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 it 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 it's kind of sad because i've already seen a lot of my friends go in the bees they'll be more people that i 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.

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a stolen revolution angry returned to the streets across the country to protest against the interim government failure to bring in reforms they are also demanding

officials accused of killing protesters during the revolution that ousted president mubarak be brought to justice. the syrian government is holding talks on reforms but the opposition and 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 that 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.