up to the rates a verbal going down. we're literally going well if you will survive everybody why and grandchildren believe that if you use the human it's a horribly having the slightest knowledge of what's going on in the bottom of this should give us at least some information that's going to end like rescue service by they don't accidentally it's fair that strong currents in the volga in a very remote region downstream from meant that so many people are fit to have drowned at the moment the search is ongoing 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 the ship sank in the middle of the volga volga very wide at the point that the ship sank was also a search on going for why the ship may have sunk and sunk so fast for those that have been rescued they've been taken to nearby hospitals where they have 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. tom barton reporting there from cazan and for more details on the search operation and of the latest from the russian emergencies ministry we go to our correspondent jacob greaves who's in moscow. officials are actually still looking for asses here a number of theories have already been put forward but i 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 of course it's their attention 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 such 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 as you say the waves are one and a half meters high well we're currently able to do is to communicate with the

divers. aside from the distance the passage of have to swim to get to shore and of course the current 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 life. best. 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 same of the 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 boat 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 river bed and this is actually being tipped to the rice and that may offer some clues in the future to find out why this boat did sink but president medvedev is 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 speaking to one representative for a company that was on the search by picking up survivors at the same wreckage that all sank in about two minutes the crew that was right time to the right is what economy influenced it was a tragic case on the boat when john to the crew we were sitting there and i asked where the cruiser stands we don't find any survivors it was only then i left the scene and like to say that our last 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 actually materials around for even eighty or. the islands and i last year's honorees there with conclusions and his were found they were a few to get all the news stream didn't to continue the search operation. the search likely to continue for some time now as scores still remain missing and of course the hope they can find more survivors. jacob reeves reporting there from moscow now egypt's prime minister is vowing 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 of 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 now 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 still a 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 forced them to feel 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 read in violence they want to kill with evolution they still live 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 is the same way it was before january so what are you that little officials little mubarak so many numerics rather what they're calling them are running the country people like myself have been arguing for taking the high due 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 in till january she was shot with twenty three pellets by riot police twenty of which are still in her like the pain is finally gone but her perseverance is not the barrier of fear is gone and she will continue to fight till the end. every every 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 was spying for russia to believe he says it possesses a video confessions proving their guilt they are not the first to have the finger of suspicion pointed at them so last year thirteen people were detained and accused of being spies on russia's payroll nine were sentenced to up to fourteen years behind bars commenting on recent events georgia's opposition leader. told r.t. the evidence could have been obtained under pressure on the shoulders of the mission it's not the type of case one person who always 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 why i have been released out for three. weeks the photographer mentioned so of course it's quite difficult for me to say one hundred percent what is behind all sides but situations i think joy i get time to time we are receiving such scandals these condos have no real legal outcomes and we never saw any kind of real human patients that government is saying so right now government decided to hire its journalists there quite symbolic or because government we are trying to control everybody and everything until now we didn't see if you even one of the dems had said what some are insisting. he's going to have a chronic problem in sight when you have problems with social and health care when you have. well then we 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

action you should find somebody who will be guilty in everything which is wrong in the country because very old police called technique and they seized just as quite easy to explain just russian size and the meat and everything would be wrong to keep the country linked with russian so suckers really creating these i kind of a me me and trying to leak everybody who is against quemoy against these regime and who is fighting for to heal democracy in this country he is trying to link with russian. coming up in the program just before the anniversary of the worst massacre since the nazi era r.t. travels to chevron where people are still in search of justice. rebels in libya are battling past government forces on the road to tripoli they are now moving towards the key town of after all 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 but there have been suggestions that the alliance is running low on arms itself and has asked germany for munitions to report on berlin's surprise turn after opposing the mission from the outset. more bombs wanted just over one hundred days of their strikes 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 and 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 and 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 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 friends 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 that obviously we. and the 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 nato 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 and the everleigh the small 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 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. sticking with his story political blogger rick ross off believes a humanitarian mission was never high on nato's agenda in the region. thirteen thousand made a way or missions over a country of six and a half million people including with nato itself and knowledge of those five thousand combat missions if it's not a war. you know it this is not simply

a question of return to libyan civilians from the over the government violence and so forth this is a concerted long term military action nato it's the world's only military force it's one that is in charge of the two major wars in the world right now those in afghanistan and in libya i think you know we can just feel it you know minor points of contention but i think we should not be confused about what the true nature of the mirthful are the treaty organization. and an update on our main story of the tragedy in central russia after a pleasure cruiser sank with one hundred eighty five on board in the river volga and tartar ston six people are now known to have died and search and rescue efforts continue for the almost one hundred people that still remain unaccounted for the vessel called the bulgaria reportedly sank within three minutes of getting into difficulty and it 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 wouldn't says say a storm is likely to be to blame for the sinking while others suggest a failure of the both engines although that has not been confirmed. to other news that 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 it 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 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 pressed chief media analyst phil reese says. rupert murdoch has now lost his longstanding immunity among britain's political and. i think something changed this week you know for decades british prime ministers have been on the needs to the to the

murdoch press because they knew that when the sun which is his main daily newspaper here in britain when the sun supported a british politician running for prime ministership you know they won it and then you find on the next day you find 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 diminishing of democracy really which the murdoch press with that back pocket but i think there 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 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 bit partial about the political cast who've 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. the former bosnian serb general accused of ordering a massacre is the likely to have a new legal team to represent him at the hague. angrily or disrupted his second hearing braiding judges for not allowing him to have his lawyers present but many serbs feel the notorious general's trial will not bring full justice artie's cuts or no explains the liquid little town of sibling meets in bosnia and herzegovina looks at delic you houses are being built people go about their business and in the center of the town a mosque and a church sit side by side but disappearing unity is an illusion sixty years ago the entire region was torn apart by ethnic clashes during the yugoslav war instead of bringing became infamous when the united nations stated eight thousand muslim men

and boys were massacred by bosnian serb forces today and more of the deceased sits in the grounds of him or one military base the sort of thing it's a memorial ground as well maintained and frequently visited by locals journalists and tourists who get boston from the bosnian capital of. what the tourist arm shown are the thousands of serbian graves that lined cemeteries all around the state of being it's a region. thousands of people were killed during the balkan wars of the one nine hundred ninety s. but cemeteries like these with entire families of murdered serb civilians only get visited by the very few remaining survivors but only comes here all the time his entire family lives here he says a bosnian muslim general is responsible so you know i was only nine years old when the sorority's took away everything i had in light of the first to kill my mother

then my father and brother i was wounded and taken captive they held me for fifty six days and only god knows why i survived. but even then but on a survive his loss just like that of spin thousands of people here is being ignored he was at the hague tribunal and i was supposed to be a witness in his trial but in the end me and about thirty other witnesses were simply cast aside but they didn't call us didn't ask what happened to our families and the tribunal only gave him two years of a personal. the balkan war seventeen is a tri cities visited an all sides and perpetrated by all players but the version most often propagated by western media is rather one sided and blaming the serves the purpose of that is to set the stage and create a rationale for sore called humanitarian interventions which in the occurred in considerable number. of structure and it's that simple precedent can be

traced through the years and into today's headlines bosnia iraq afghanistan and most recently libya have all played unwilling hosts to nato troops and u.s. imposed no fly zones it is very important in the creation of the. scenario for make sure in the minds of most people. was a draw on the side which was preventable but for whatever reasons the so-called international community didn't do anything about. sin might say the journey from sitting meets it to benghazi via baghdad and kabul could now be traced as a kind of nato road map but as with any road paved with good intentions there is only one possible destination. castree knows are about r t bosnia and herzegovina

a fire at a nursing home for the elderly in northwest ukraine has killed sixteen people fire crews battle the flames for five hours and managed to rescue eleven people from the blaze victims that were then treated in hospital for carbon dioxide poisoning three remain in a grave condition the authorities are now investigating the cause of fire but early reports say it was not started deliberately. turkmenistan's government has admitted that a series of explosions that shook the city of occurred at a munitions depot the blasts happened on thursday and killed fifteen people according to official reports initially authorities said it was an incident at a fireworks factory and that there were no casualties but that contradicted eyewitness pictures and reports that around two hundred were killed and scores injured it is understood the officials responsible for giving out false public information have been sacked turkmenistan has long been a very secretive state even the internet was banned until just recently repair

works are now under way in the stricken town and all the victims are being promised government aid. the u.s. 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 osama bin laden's killing in may journalist ahmed says that the differences between washington and islamabad will not be ironed out easily. i don't think we're seeing any signs that the u.s. officials are really sincere about the ending of this relationship. as a relationship between two independent sovereign don't like to work together ten years ago. it was really very hard to find a clean clean shaven buckstone you criticize in the united states it was it was taken for granted if you're criticizing the u.s. you must be some radical extremist but today you have people from the upper

classes of pakistan the ruling elite and very very critical of the united states so i think there's something really wrong and i think there is a huge responsibility also on the u.s. media to convey the right church to the american public union which is unfortunately they're not doing their very much telling the whatever is the official line of the u.s. government so i think i don't see in the near future many of the serious differences between buckstone in the united states getting. back to our breaking news story now six people are now confirmed dead and almost one hundred remain unaccounted for after a pleasure cruiser sinks on the river volga in the russian republic of tatarstan 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 cazan and friends and relatives gathered at the port to meet them many of the passengers were families with

children the vessel called bulgaria reportedly sank within three minutes of getting into difficulty and was three kilometers from the shore when it went down it is thought to have been carrying people on a weekend of sightseeing break and was in route to. eye witnesses 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 medvedev has pledged help and a thorough investigation into the tragic. of course will be keeping you up to date on the latest information on this tragedy throughout the day interest on stay with us right here art.

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. follow and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle as the world remembers the tragic events that befell supper needs a dutch court rules that peacekeepers task to protect civilians during the bosnian conflict failed in their duties sixteen years on do we have a fair and balanced interpretation of this war and do we have a proper memory for all victims. and. to crossed out the bosnian conflict i'm joined by mohammed choco be he's a former bosnian ambassador to the u.n. and in london we crossed the misha going to be all that she is a political expert on the balkans all right gentlemen crosstalk rules are in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want to go to you first today is the sixteenth anniversary official anniversary of events that occurred inside bernie's .