long. breaking news here on r t one hundred people are feared dead as rescuers reach a pleasure boat which sank in a matter of minutes in the volga river in the republic of tons of stuff. distressed relatives and friends are desperate for information about their loved ones i survived this give traumatic accounts of children trapped inside the sinking ship. overcrowding outdated equipment all recklessness of the crew all theories being investigated find out why the boat went down with such terrible consequences.

broadcasting live from moscow you're watching r.t. one hundred people are missing feared dead after a pleasure boat sank on the volga river in russia's republic of tatarstan eighty people have so far been rescued six including a child have been confirmed dead rescuers are currently working at the scene tom barton is monitoring the situation and joins us live on the line now tom as we understand it the ship is lying at the bottom of the river do we know that rescuers have reached yet. maybe. next. ship went down from i was going.

through it right. that record i have saved from my looking at the chart and find it to try and find survivors and find work out why they escaped hudson. and try and find the survivors of south sensurround divers and small children sites about people. looking at full survivors all around the speicher family where the ship's bank we can just stand from where one of their officials knew about what they found when they called the sign the accounts and ok area recruits. were not in the booth and we could for you know answer which includes not being the police lights into the car to get hold of the restroom and it's a bloody stare as though you can. and tom an extremely traumatic time for the

relatives. put a relative. right trauma. hundred of. their relatives who may or may not survive the thinking of the present crew. or people making a very small crew. carrying. what. i see. now about. what they want. about. the vessel sank within three minutes it flipped to the right swerved and went down we were literally thrown out that's how we survived the whole family was on that

ship we lost everybody my wife and grandchildren two vessels have passed by and didn't even care to stop and reach out a helping hand we spent around two hours in the water before we were rescued by swim around searching for any survivors and couldn't find anybody there were a lot of children on this ship they were all in the games room it was impossible for them to get out of there my grandson would be five years old tomorrow we went on this trip to celebrate his birthday. she was sick of it didn't work it's just that people basically buried alive as if in the middle sickle forgets we managed to get through the windows as there was my ten year old daughter i couldn't risk it she swallowed too much water when it was pulled aerialist my child was absent we don't know where to look for survivors there were a lot of children on board even more than adults mainly came running to me and my husband two or three minutes before. the sheeps and told us please we'll live

checketts as the vessel is simple and i couldn't believe it could be anything you want to telephoning around trying to learn anything about geology or ones or call the police but they said to conjure up the search and rescue service we did but there was no reply so the game here to find out it was something that even here nobody knows anything. it's horrible we haven't the slightest knowledge of what's going on they should give us at least some information about the search and rescue service by they don't ask for the phone. so as you can have very distressing accounts at the moment trying to find the one hundred people who are still missing it's proving something of a challenge it goes at this point to the car river and the pope three kilometers from the the nearest or any survivors would be for trying to make it the crank hole through a scattering of more islands which are around rapid. time and where vamping

them as we speak to try and sleep and so survive it and check itself was known to be all those killed in one thousand nine hundred fifty five and it was around that one in the significance of the moment we are full of mice and people of the house the overloads and believe this coming more complete and my heart like it to have remained with the arrow or perhaps the ancient ship meant the parable engine failure or some other mechanical problem of the moment passes and no need of his whereabouts. which we would have been doing a. man who believed we needed me to to lose would be rescued into the water couldn't hear you think so quickly. it would take everybody up in the water it's

a lucky coincidence who flew even gary if you still had a ship he didn't even still. does not know what that means but that was an account from someone on a ship which following her will carry people as witnesses you know they were alarmed at the fish caught by without stopping because they hadn't seen them all they can understand with the parting it was quite because she did stop and pick up a complete island goal really quickly become the. there's a lot more people on the now but it's in the many hours. ok for now tom barton thank you for that update. as we just heard from over one hundred people who are still missing and feared dead in the tragedy with no official count as to why the ship went down parties or trade agreements and brings a smooth details on how the search operation is progressing. officials there actually still looking for answers here

a number of theories have already been put forward but not stress none of them of really be confirmed just yet prominent one is the fact that this. overload its official capacity was one hundred forty people whereas the. one hundred eighty five people were on board at 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 or in the in the first place some is being stunned by reports of claims made by a crew member same it 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 mission trance was a very do have a record of this ship being given the all clear and that recently as the fifteenth of june di rose of course it's their attention. more survivors and searching out

for those missing. operations are being carried out sure started at first light while police are operating twenty four hours are doing there is as yet no information about those who have drowned riskier for asians are still ongoing some people might have been able to swim to the islands there are many islands across a kilometer away from where the ship sank will continue their search until everyone is found aside from the distance the passage would have to swim to get to shore and of course the currents and other problems with to do with the weather is also described in this ship sank very quickly indeed in under three minutes giving people really no time to put on life vests yes symbol in the correct areas to get on the lifeboats and this is something you've heard from past survivors who are on board and 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 is such

a quick time those at the scene with those divers at the scene move down to the vessel on the bottom of the river bed and it's actually been tipped to the right some that may offer some clues in the future to find out why this boat did sink but presently it is already said that there will need to be a full of proper investigation into the final morasses on this case though 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 this is something as we mentioned by the emergencies minister. the main goal is to survey the shuras divide them into six with people responsible for each and all island should be checked for survivors and i want to see a final report only once we knew for certain there's no one there to search likely to continue for some time now as scores still remain missing and of course the hope they can find more survivors. whether we can give you some more details about the

area was a double decker a pleasure boat built in the form of. a ship was used for day trips along the. popular with tourists in the summer months attention to the age of the vessel the speculation that played a role in the tragedy. dating four hundred fifty years russia's transport ministry had undergone checks june was deemed to be safe engines were checked on the ship water as well as rescue equipment vessel was capable of travelling at speeds of up to twenty two kilometers. of course up to date on the rescue operation throughout the day here. it's just the big news a major effort is being made to kick start with all the palestinian israeli peace talks. at least about a quartet of u.n. russia european union u.s.

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t lift. while nato reports on the success of its bombing missions over libya some countries taking part in a campaign don't share that enthusiasm fighting economic losses at home and many in spain are saying they've been simply dragged into war and the pressure from washington sara firth reports from madrid. we appreciate spain's contributions to enforcing the no fly zone and the arms embargo the nato led mission is on track but pats on the back this saying everyone feels quite as they please with spain's involvement in libya least of all the scottish people. spanish government support. with spanish troops because they're not of. the natural order of god and their parliament and the government not the public opinion recent polls have shown a large majority of the population and now against the military campaign this thing

continues to play on the abyss of the economic crisis political inflict on rest. it's been carried out in the conditions of a tough economic crisis and conditions when the government had to sacrifice a lot and introduce hundred auctions of course in the social sphere i think in some further when there is a program of material reduction of state participates in a conflict which will be damaging to the country's economy. yet the u.s. defense secretary has still couldn't sustain among others to play a more active role in the nato mission and despite the collapse of the housing market and with unemployment at critical level spain has in death and the extended its mandate for involvement in libya i don't think it's a human need to. resort to go to media now because we didn't care a. great year ago when we were. leaving. the equipment the libyan people had right

a year ago and we've been hearing about welcomed in spain in recent years he was even awarded the keys to the city on an official visit to the turn there is that so many western countries until recently he caught a good south bay and tolerated his regime we're going to. think of the operation against libya is an action performed so. strategic interests of the major powers such an example of double standards of morals cannot be justified by the international community and the team members and selves have taken very different views about the action being taken in libya with less than half the countries even taking part the pressure on participants like stay to increase their involvement a commitment they simply can't afford right now. evidence of the internal struggles the country is facing it's not hard to find here on the outskirts of madrid you can see signs everywhere of the pre-crisis construction boom much of that works now

stuff and most of those apartments and. those parents spain who oppose nato military intervention in libya of course they don't support the dictatorship but they also don't support their country being dragged into a war while they themselves are still fighting such tough economic conditions. if you're it. u.s. has announced its withholding some eight hundred million dollars of military aid to pakistan ties between the two countries have been strained since a sign of the killing in may and secret mission a scarf cuts for washington and sister nation ship must be made some work in journalist author meant and use the differences will not be easily. i don't think we're seeing any signs that the u.s. approach it was a really sincere of the solution. as

a relationship between. these they would like to work together ten years ago. it was really very hard to find a clean clicheed in bucks county criticizing 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 really relieved and very very critical of the united states so i think there's something really wrong and i think very. responsible the also. the u.s. media to convey the right it sure to the american public media which is unfortunately they're not doing very much toeing the whatever it is the line of government so i think i don't see the near future many of these serious differences in the united states. about to our top story now

a hundred people are feared dead after a pleasure boat sank on the volga river in russia's republic of tatarstan number of fatalities has now risen to eight school activities tom barton who's seen you know . as we understand it rescuers have reached the bottom of the river do we know if they have found any survivors. well kerry they reached the sunken ship some hours ago while it was while it was still dark now that the sun has risen the search is really intensified to try and find the upwards of one hundred people who are suspected to be out there who knows whether they are alive or whether they are unfortunately drowned because the wreck sank the requirements from the nearest bank of the volga from the bank behind me you can see some of the efforts that the emergencies ministry is making boats have been arriving at this small beach behind me they have one of a lot of boats out there searching for other people when they did arrive some

survivors were found they've been taken to hospitals to be treated worse any trauma they may have experienced the number of dead has now written risen to eight but the figure that's really been focused on is this one hundred people that are currently missing there is reportedly a one hundred eighty five people on board that is according to the emergencies ministry so those are the figures they're going on to work on how many people they're now looking for around eighty have been rescued so that leaves these people that maybe try to swim from the boat they think they may be tried to get to some of the small islands that are around the point where the boat sank we spoke to one of their spokesman for the merger smith says ministry who told us what they found when they arrived at this. part of the sun can bog area. but we're not going to pull

this hole and we can for any answer unfortunately who is knocking the flashlight into the cargo hold and restrooms. so that's what they found when they arrived there now this these this search is very much continuing to try and find where these people could be somewhere out in the volga. and tom an extremely traumatic time for the relatives. absolutely absolutely kerry they a lot of them have gathered in nearby. city just upstream from here now it was going to be the eventual destination of this essentially a pleasure boat cruise up the river some of them of the survivors are also are desperate to find out where members of their family were who were also on the boat who they were separated from in the in the evacuation the boats i say evacuation the boat sank so quickly just three minutes it took for the bow to sink that many

people didn't even have time to grab a life jacket before they had to jump into the water we had family separated from their children various members of families just having to leave others or jump into the water some were even thrown into the water they reportedly said by the violent jerk but the boat received a lot of those people we been speaking to are just desperate to find out any information from the emergencies ministry of the emergencies ministry of the moment is focusing on trying to find people and and if he has to say to them unfortunately there is very little we can say we're just going to have to try and find these people and we'll let you know when we know so as you said carry a very traumatic experience for them but to find out what's happened to these people what's happened to the boat itself and to the fate of many people's loved ones unfortunately a lot of people here are just a. i have to wait. kate on live at the sea thank you for that. of course i

will keep you updated on the rescue operation throughout the day here at r.t. business news that is next. thanks gary hello and welcome to business starting thanks for joining us international raceway just if it says it could downgrade a number of russian state companies after privatization in the still affects only the ones where the state share will go below fifty percent and held out in front of me to be careful so says the possible downgrade will not change investor sentiment towards privatization investors are dealing with russian corporate. going their own research and not relying much on what the rating agencies say another thing is there again they will read carefully through what the future has said and will understand that there's nothing there's no threat and no imminent risk of any abrupt moves and finally i guess they will remember

back in zero eight zero nine when the financial crisis hit the markets russian government was supporting not only state control but also privately owned company is the same was true for banks all those thoughts put together and your conclusion will likely be the market moves and one privatization happens will be quite muted. let's have a look at the markets now oil is extending the losses after a decline in the end of last week brenda bland is trading at one hundred seventeen dollars a barrel while the w.t.r. is a ninety five dollars per barrel. asian shares alone monday with disappointing jobs report on display can chinese inflation weighing on the market and i shoals are trading in the bread in hong kong either way it's interesting to see is down more than one percent in tokyo exporters are losing ground on strong began the trend is

talking about electric power it's adding eight percent as investors are waiting for details of the government's plan stress tests of nuclear power facilities. two hours ahead to the opening bell in moscow the r.c.a.'s and with my six close point nine percent in the red and friday i mean. last week's poor days are from the us have such a negative total russian stocks and mark rubenstein from all expects they done with trend to rule the markets and. we just had a very weak us labor market numbers come out significantly below consensus than our. new jobs created the united states during the month of june this is our little big negative for the market i think at the current we could see some profit taking and some correction but of course you know it's going to be very much contingent on what's going on in the commodities markets who might see

a correction in commodities this week as well looks like the first part of the week is going to be. john poured and then i think sums to be as a sugar in this circuit and probably going to closure lower and here today it will bank with more businesses and just under an hour's time stay with us for the headlines with carol. all.

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