it is of self-sacrifice and heroism of those who understand it fully you have to live a. real life stories from world war two hundred. sixty nine hundred forty five dollars r.t. talk column. breaking news here on r t one hundred people are feared dead after a pleasure boat sank in a matter of minutes in the volga river republic of tatarstan divers have now reached the ship. distraught relatives and friends are desperate for information about their loved ones survivors give traumatic accounts of what happened. witnesses report children trapped inside the sinking ship join us from the scene of the rescue operation in just a moment. overcrowding outdated equipment on a recklessness of the crew all theories are being investigated to find out why the

boat went down such terrible consequences. you're watching r.t. live from moscow well straight to our top story now one hundred people are missing feared dead after a pleasure boat sank in the volga river russians were part of qatar to start eighty people have so far been rescued eight including a child have been confirmed dead and search has been continuing throughout the night and is still ongoing. monitoring the rescue efforts and joins us now live by rescuers managed to find anyone else alive. so far carrie the hunt is still ongoing for any possible survivors the count that the emergencies ministry has set up behind me next to the ball go on

a small beach here small boats keep coming to and from this site and they're part of the largest search effort this is screening the area where the carrier river pleasure cruise sank to try and find any people still in the water although that looks looking increase. unlikely now all scattered on some of the small eyelets around where the boat sank we heard from one of their spokesman earlier about what they found when they reached the scene of the sunken pleasure cruiser. we knocked on the boat's hole and we could for an answer and unfortunately there was not getting the flashlight into the cargo hold so the restrooms and. those efforts to try and find survivors will go on for many hours yet. and. traumatic time for the relatives. absolutely kerry the scene that unfolded yesterday was one of

a quiet sunday afternoon river cruise along the volga many many people do this is very popular among tourists in the summer to travel along the volga in pleasure cruisers because down the upstream was its final destination and then around two pm the ship got into difficulties and whatever happens the ship actually sank within three minutes it was such a fast sinking that the chaos that ensued on board caused much of the problems that we see now. there were many children on board the ship it seems maybe a third of the passengers. on board the ship were children just hours just before the ship began to sank a single group of about thirty children had gathered on one of the upper decks in the play room to hold either a party or gathered to play together in the play room a lot of the eyewitnesses reported that those children because there were so many

of them in various parts of the ship they struggle to get out and some of the eyewitnesses accounts have been extremely harrowing of families torn apart in the struggle to try and escape into the water not even time for people to put their life jackets on under some. some families even having to leave their own children behind on the sinking ship because here for some of those of course now. with 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 i swam around searching for any survivors and couldn't find anybody there were a lot of children on the ship they were all in the games room it was impossible for them to get out of there but my grandson would be five years old tomorrow we went

on this trip to celebrate his birthday. and she was sick of it is that people are basically very alike as if in the middle soko forgets the minutes to get through the windows i was there with my ten year old daughter actually i could not risk it she swallowed too much water when it was pulled oh they realized my child was upset that we don't know where to look for survivors there were a lot of children on board even more than everest might only can run into me and my husband two three minutes before the sheep sound and told us please we live chickens as a vessel a cynic and i couldn't believe it because it can't be anything more telephoning around trying to learn anything about our deal lines or call the police but they said to contact the search and rescue service or deed that there was no reply so again here to find out at least something that even here nobody knows anything. but it's horrible having the slightest knowledge of what's going on it should give us

at least some information about the search and rescue service by the don't ask for the home. so we can hear some of the very high rowing accounts of the attempts from to escape. on the ship and also from the lack of information now which is. causing a lot of stress among a lot of the relatives that have gathered in nearby upstream and some of them here at the emergency ministries when people were able to get off the ship into the water they found that their troubles were unfortunately far from over the point of which the ship sunk was three kilometers from the nearest bank and the river the river there the bog is immensely wide it's around ten kilometers wide at that point so anyone in the water would have an awful job trying to get to the bank some of them may have sheltered on that small island around the ship and waited there and

the search is still ongoing for them but it's feared that many of the people especially children who got into the water may have drowned in the rivers strong currents there's also complications to the rescue efforts because of a dispute about the numbers of people on board the ship some people think it's more like one hundred eighty or as high as two hundred others think it's more a around one hundred sixty six so this discrepancy making it difficult to know how many people they're actually looking for one of the soon after the the ship sank a lot of the people in the water were very dismayed to see two ships passed by them and not pick up anyone it's not quite known why that was yet but the third ship did arrive and did start to pick people up we can hear from someone who was on board that ship now. being alone. we need usually story to lower the rescue boat on to the water the bulgarian sink

so quickly you can. see everybody up in the water it's a lucky coincidence gary because two other ships didn't even stop to help. these asleep. upwards of one hundred people are still missing and the human tragedy. it is unfolding here is far from over on the banks or in the water but people there on the banks that are waiting we're trying to speak to them they really don't want to speak to cameras they're holding their heads down in silence they are in waiting for any possible news of their relatives and they're terrified that their relatives are never going to be heard from again. ok with a half an hour tom barton i thank you for that update. with as we just heard from tom barton over one hundred people or so far missing and feared dead in the tragedy with no official count as to why the ship went down parties agree brings us more details on how the search operations progressing. officials are actually still

looking for answers here a number of theories have already been put forward stress none of the really big just yet 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. in the first place some is actually 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 than although we have to bear in mind it's important to stress that mr trask was said that he do have a record of this ship being given the all clear and that recently as the fifteenth of june of course it's there tensions really focusing on finding more survivors and

searching out for those missing. operations are being carried out. started at first light while police are operating twenty four hours are doing there is as yet no information about those who have drowned risk your russians are still ongoing some people might have been able to swim to the islands there are many islands of boats a kilometer away from where the ship sunk will continue to search until everyone is found aside from the shoot 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 described this ship sank very quickly indeed in under three minutes giving people really no time to put on life vests. in the correct areas to get on the lifeboats and this is something you heard from survivors who are on board and they've they report same of the not too sure they don't really think the crew members or any of those on board in charge actually did enough. to stop this boat going down it's

such a quick time now those at the scene with those divers at the scene of the best so i'll go bottom of the riverbed and this is actually been tipped to the rice and that may offer some clues in the future to find out why this boat did sink but presently he's already said that there will need to be a full of proper investigation into to find out more answers on this case though the rescue effort is still really in full swing because there are many people missing now this is along the volga river also on those are islands nearby as well this is something that's been mentioned by the emergencies minister. the main goal is to survey the shuras divide them into six just the people responsible for each year all the island should be checked for survivors and i want to see a final report only once we knew for certain there's no wonder the search likely to continue for some time now as schools still remain missing and of course the hope

they can find more survivors. we can give you some more details about the ship itself the morgue area as it was called was a double decker pleasure boat built in a form which is a vacuum and i think by now the ship was used for day trips and only popular with tourists in the summer months attention has been drawn to the age of the vessel the speculation could have played a role in the tragic ship had not dated for more than fifteen years russians transport ministry. checked the vessel was capable of travelling at speeds of twenty kilometers. of course you're keeping up to date on the rescue operation throughout the day here on r.t. . well to some other news now a major effort is being made to kick start the stall the palestinian israeli peace talks middle east diplomatic quartet comprised of the u.n.

russia european union and the u.s. will meet in washington later today. ground to a halt last year when israel failed to renew a partial reasons settlement construction in the west bank estonians consider their territory their own once recognition of their state established in the sixty seven borders. this is another one village which its former and hamilton say stands as a painful memory justice. nestled in the mountains of jerusalem are the remains of a one sparsely arab community only the memories of those who once lived here have survived intact i feel is. back to be. really. hard since the spring. and. grew up among the cacti and

fit trees but the nine hundred forty eight just before the state of israel was declared his family evacuated unlike the hundreds of arab villages that disappeared in forty eight and sixty seven most of the original houses of lifter are still here so they really were headed. they will shoot to the whole of the whole group a whole. hour another book us inside the room in a corner and then they're going to break with us here cook was one of seven hundred thousand palestinians who became a refugee in one nine hundred forty eight his childhood home was quickly absorbed by the newly established jewish state almost everybody has been called lived his house in london for the inevitable as if he was forced to do just because he was rewritten he is considered as simply he lost the property in the early one nine

hundred fifty s. jews moved into the abandoned homes like you only or hundreds terence they were also refugees fleeing arab countries will likely become dangerous after israel was created these really government sent him to live in lifter he only says to prevent arab owners from returning or undercurrent here and therefore live here near without water without electricity the came here for jobs there and for the memory here is a very important most of the original two hundred jewish families lived because life in the mountains was difficult and the government was slow to develop the area no one has lived in these how this for forty six years all that remains are stone walls we wild flowers and grass no growth and this is empty. and it's into that emptiness that israeli government now plans to build more than two hundred luxury homes a chic hotel shops and a museum insisting they will preserve the area's history we will find ourselves

with a neighborhood where history has been conserved there will also be documentation and the story will be told of who lived there as we do in all the neighborhoods of jerusalem but maybe luckier could say it's palestinian land and a double injustice. to destroy a world. yanni. ford. came from anywhere in the gray i. believe and come. back. and live. through. this so only for palestinians lift there is a physical the mind of justice and survival but for a fair number of israelis it's an eyesore and they'd rather not be reminded of what happened here every time they drive into jerusalem policy r

t lift while nato reports on the success of its bombing missions over libya some countries taking part in the campaign don't share that enthusiasm while lighting economic losses at home many in spain say they've seen simply being dragged into war under pressure from washington ortiz etc further thoughts from madrid. we appreciate spain's contributions to enforcing the no fly zone and the arms embargo the nato led mission is on track a pat on the back for staying the not everyone feels quite simply it was going to involvement in libya least of all the stylish people. spanish government support. with spanish troops because they're not. there not to order that parliament and the government. recent polls have shown a large majority of the population and now against the military campaign the

spanking tinnies this of economic crisis political and public arrest. 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 huge reduction of costs and a social sphere think in some further when there is a program of material aid reduction 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 his intestine the extended its mandate for involvement in libya we don't think it's human is too. recent to go to the media now because we didn't care about human rights year ago when we were. leaving. the libyan people hard right we didn't hear about.

spain in recent years good thing was even awarded the keys to the city on an essential visit to madrid the ten there is that so many western countries until recently he caught it and tolerated his regime. so the operation against libya is an action performed so. the strategic interests of the major powers such an example of double standards of morals cannot be justified by the international community but eighteen members and so have taken a very different visa power the action being taken in libya less than half the countries even taking part to pressure on participants like state to increase their involvement and 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

much of that works. and most of those apartments. now those parents who have a military intervention in libya favor of course they don't support the dictatorship but they also thank support their country being dragged into a war well they themselves are still fighting for that tough economic condition. if you're it's. the u.s. has announced it's withholding some eight hundred million dollars. start ties between the two strains it's a song sounds like a secret mission despite the costs washington insists the relationship made to work . for this. easily but. i don't think we're seeing any signs that we.

were together ten years ago. if it was really very hard to find a clean shaven criticizing it was it was taken for granted if you're criticizing the u.s. you must be. ready. to have. classes apart sounds really really neat 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 in. the u.s. media to convey the right church and the american public i mean because unfortunately they're not doing their very much telling the world ever is the fishing line of government so i think i don't see the near future there are many of these serious differences with the united states. around that now some other world news in brief. media mogul rupert murdoch is in london to personally handled

crisis threatening to rid his home in part because of the closure of you trace musical world newspaper and the phone hacking scandal that it was under fire chief executive rebecca brooks despite mounting pressure for her to be sacked and eight year old said she was his top priority looks for senator clinton well when some of the most high profile illegal for interacting with her now faces police questioning as a witness nicely noise from a place. we will this is shuttle atlantis has docked with the international space station it's an illusion created at the u.s. space shuttle era for water for americans and friends of vital supplies to the russian american and japanese astronauts currently sets. will spend at least seven days right after returning to earth tired to museum along with the other such letters. sixty three people have been killed and almost two hundred fifty

injured in a train accident and. rescue is working to free trapped passengers from the badly damaged carriages the train which was packed with people the rail that full speed on sunday that went to the capital train accidents on its own usually their own maintenance and their meeting. the breaking news this hour one hundred people are feared dead after a pleasure boat sank in the program river in russia's republic of thought the star divers are working at the scene say they found any bodies inside the tube but. the rescue so far eight being officially confirmed is dead and survivors say the ship went down within minutes they were picked up from person trees and brought to the region's cattle cars on instruct relatives are waiting for any information on it afterwards. it's going on for several hours but rescuers say the chances of finding

real life are fading. of course i will keep you updated on the rescue operation you can also follow the progress on our web site it's a party dot com. it's also obvious where you. thank you carrie hello and welcome to business owners it's national rating agency fitch says it could downgrade number of russian state companies up to productize ation the move will offense only the ones where the state sheryl crow below three percent i mean hailed from b. to be counted so says the possible downgrade will not change investor sentiment towards privatizing action. investors are dealing with russian corporate. doing their own research not relying much on what the rating agencies say is another thing is that they will read carefully through what perfect shows will understand what was nothing was no threat or no imminent risk or any abrupt rating

moves and finally i guess they would remember back in zero eight or nine when the financial crisis hit the markets russian government was supporting not only state controlled but also privately owned companies the same was true for bonds all those thoughts pulled together and your conclusion will likely be the market moves from one privatization happens will be quite new to. let's have a look at the markets all is extending the losses after a decline in the end of last week brand plan is trading at over one hundred seventeen dollars per barrel while the w.t. high is it around ninety six dollars the. patient shares are lower in monday with disappointing u.s. jobs report on the spike in chinese inflation weighing of the market and i charles are trading in the red in hong kong anyways top of the h. w.

sorry page has deceived down more than one percent in tokyo exporters are losing ground is trying to get back into trying these talking of electric power it's adding eighty percent as investors are waiting details on the government's plans trusts submit their power facilities. just one hour ahead to the opening bell in moscow by three hours he has in my six close point one percent in the red and friday made a week out. last week's poll days are from the u.s. have such and negative turned to russian stocks and mark rubenstein i see that should pull expects a downward trend to rule the markets in the coming days. we just had a very weak us labor market numbers come out significantly below consensus the number the new jobs created the united states during the months of june this is our lead big negative for the markets 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 will might see a correction in commodities this week as well looks like the first part of the week is going to be. part and then i think sums to visitation during the second half and probably going to close a lower. risk on markets is easing up sales have grown percent in june compared to fifty percent increase in the previous not to get slowdown has been seen by japanese produces suffering from supply disruptions they've run out of stocks which were made before the devastating earthquake in launch two years has produced four hundred fifty thousand less cars that's a result of totals. and you have to report with more business news just under now it's time stay with us for the headlines with kerry next.

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