a party or gathered to play together in the play room a lot of eyewitnesses reported that those children because there were so many of them and various parts of the ship they struggled to get out and some of the eyewitnesses accounts have been extremely 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 on the some some families even having to leave their own children behind on the sinking ship or the 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 our 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 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 but. she was sick of it even people basically buried alive as if in the metal soko forgets we managed to get through the windows i was there with my ten year old daughter that i could not risky her she swallowed too much water when i was pulled out with a realised 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 might only came running to me and my husband two or three minutes before the sheep sound and told us please will live checketts as a vessel listen can i couldn't believe it. me i think we are telephoning everyone trying to learn anything about our dear ones we called the police but they said to contact the search and rescue service we did but there was no reply so we came here to find out at least something but even here nobody knows anything. is horrible we

haven't the slightest knowledge of what's going on they should give us at least some information we're calling the search and rescue service but i don't answer the phone 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 volga is immensely why does 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 the small islands around the ship and waited there and the search is still ongoing for them but it's fear that many of the people especially children who got into the water may have drowned in the rivers strong currents soon after the this ship sank a lot of the people in the water were very dismayed to see two ships pass by them or 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 but shit now. we were passing by and heard the loam man overboard we mediately started to lower the rescue boat onto the water to bulgaria saying so quickly it couldn't lower its own boat so we picked everybody up in the water it's a lucky coincidence who following the vulgarian because two other ships didn't even stop to help. us upwards of a hundred people are still missing and the human tragedy that is unfolding here is far from over on the banks or in the water but people here 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 agony waiting for any possible news of their relatives and they're terrified that their relatives are never going to be heard from again. reporting there while there is still no official account as to why the ship. recovery efforts are underway at the site of

disaster more details on the progress of the operation correspondent peter all of a peter what are officials saying about this holding out much hope of finding anyone else alive. and well as we just heard there from like our colleague tom barton we have made a grisly discovery in the past few moments investigators rescue workers saying that they discovered what they believe to be around one hundred bodies. of them believed to be children trapped they were trapped in the lower decks of this pleasure cruiser that was going through the tatarstan section of the volga river. now that rescue effort is continuing this still is hope that they they will find some people alive though if you are listening to tom's report you may have heard there are many islands around this area of the volga river and rescuers are hoping that some people who were able to escape the sinking ship where able to seek refuge on those

islands. but as it stands at the moment the rescue efforts and the rest of the efforts of investigators are being harm could be to bad weather divers that are in are looking into the lower deck solve the the ship that is now at the bottom of the volga river facing difficulties to two high winds strong currents and the fact that the ship is is leaking fuel which makes it incredibly difficult for them to get on with with their job but rescuers say that they haven't given up hope yet finding anybody else still alive. that rescue operations are being carried out. divers started at first light while police are operating twenty four hours a day there is as yet no information about those who have drowned risk your directions are still ongoing some people might have been able to swim to the islands there are many islands about a kilometer away from where the ship sank will continue their search until every.

one is found. so while that rescue effort continues president dmitri medvedev has ordered for a full investigation into what happened and the minister of emergencies minister here in russia has demanded there's a full report on exactly what went on and why the ship was able to get to the falls such a tragic course of events that report be on his desk as soon as possible. washing up the main goal is to survey the shores divide them into sectors with people responsible for each area all the island should be checked for survivors and i want to see a final report only once we know for certain there's no one there. well one of the main reasons that we've seen such a tragic outcome from this was just the speed in which this boat which had sunk around three minutes we're hearing from them first realizing they were in trouble until it found its way to the bottom of the volga river. but peter was everything

being said to the possible cause of the tragedy. well it's very early days out the moment said president dmitri medvedev the minister for emergencies. both wanting investigations to be carried out to find out what exactly went on to result in this tragedy. one of the main suggestions it's been floated at the moment has to do with the number of people there were actually on the ship now the ship in question was licensed to carry one hundred twenty people we are hearing that could have been as many as almost two hundred people on board now we have heard that. the vast majority of those on board were children the company that organized it was operating this pleasure cruise will be coming under extreme scrutiny now that's not the only course of events that could have caused this tragedy of course they are

looking into the fact that they married may have been some form. of damage to the ship some form of technical failure on board that led to this tragedy. peter thank you for that for that. and in fact we can give you some more information about the ship itself the above guarantee it was called a double decker pleasure boat built in the former czechoslovakia nine hundred fifty five the ship was used for day trips along the volga river popular with tourists in the summer months attention has been drawn the age of the vessel is speculation it could have played a role in the tragedy the ship had not been updated for more than fifty years. transport ministry confirmed it had undergone routine checks the middle of june was deemed to be safe the engines and rescue and a geisha equipment had all been checked at that time the vessel was also capable of travelling at speeds of up to twenty two kilometers per hour. of course i will be keeping you up to date with that rescue operation throughout the day here at r.t.

. but other news now. a major effort is being made to kick start the stall the palestinian israeli peace talks at least diplomatic quartet comprised of the un russia the european union and the u.s. will meet in washington later today the ground to a halt last year when israel failed to renew a partial freeze on settlement construction in the west bank palestinians who consider that territory their own want recognition of their state within the established one hundred sixty seven borders ati's paullus live visited one of our ability which its former inhabitants say stands as a painful memory to injustice. nestled in the mountains of jerusalem are the remains of a once bustling arab community only the memories of those who once lived here have survived intact i feel is not only have we come back and really. my religion. to see the hard says this rain

also to remind. my father. your coup de graff among the cacti and fit trees but in one 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 sure thing . they will shoot do they do with the whole the whole deal with the hopi they will shoot. our mother took us inside the room in the corner and then the table so as to protect 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 inevitable as the man who lived his

house in london for nevertheless if he was forced to do just because you were reared and he is considered as absentee and he lost the property in the early one nine hundred fifty s. jews moved into the abandoned homes like you and your husband's parents they were also refugees fleeing arab countries we life had become dangerous after israel was created these ready government sent them to live in lifter your nieces to prevent arab owners from returning or in their came here on may fourth the a believe here years without water without electricity the came here. for the memory here as a very important most of the original two hundred jewish families left because life in the mountains was difficult and the government was slow to develop the area no one has lived to me is how those for forty six years all that remains are stone walls where wild flowers and grass now grow lifter is empty. i didn't see

that emptiness that israeli governments now plans to build more than two hundred luxury homes a chicago tell shops and a museum insisting they'll 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 live there as we do in all the neighborhoods of jerusalem but many luckier could say it's palestinian land and a double injustice why you want to destroy our house and. yanni. four of the three will came from anywhere in the way i can move in my village and come back return back to my freedom and liberty. this. is so only for palestinians lifter is

a physical reminder of injustice 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 to see r t lifter while nato reports on the success of it spiraling missions over libya some countries taking part of the campaign don't share that enthusiasm fighting economic crisis at home many in spain say they've simply been dragged into war and the pressure from washington d.c. sarah firth reports 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. but not everyone feels quite so please with spain's involvement in libya least of all the spanish people. spanish government support. with spanish troops because they're not. there not to order that and the parliament

and the government but not the public opinion recent polls have shown a large majority of the population and now against the military campaign in a spanking timmy's to swear in the abyss of economic crisis political and public eye rest has been growing. it's been carried out in the conditions of a tough economic crisis and conditions when the government had to sacrifice a lot introduce huge reduction of costs in the social sphere we think it's unfair that when there is a program of material aid reduction the state participates in a conflict which will be damaging to the country's economy. yet the u.s. defense secretary has still couldn't spain 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 we don't think it's a few minutes to. greece and to go to media now because we didn't care about the

human rights year ago when we were. leaving. the libyan people have right here at go and we've been. welcomed in spain in recent years gadhafi was even awarded the keys to the city on an official visit to madrid the ten there is that so many western countries until recently he could to get south bay 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 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 to pressure on participants like spain 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 stopped and most of those apartments. now those here in spain who oppose nato military intervention in libya say that 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 surface r.t. madrid. the u.s. has announced it's withholding some eight hundred million dollars of military aid from pakistan ties between the two countries have been strained since of some of the knowledge of killing me in a secret mission despite the aid cuts washington since the relationship must be made to work overtime a journalist. believes the differences will not be easy on doubt i don't think

we're seeing any signs that the u.s. officials are really sincere about the relationship. as a relationship between two independent sovereign would 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 a pox on the really lead 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 only on the u.s. media to convey the right picture to the american public media which is unfortunately they're not doing their very much telling the whatever. line of government so i think i don't see the near future many of the serious differences

between buckstone in the united states getting. around some other wild news in brief now a huge explosion struck a military base in cyprus killing at least eight people schools more were injured at the camp between the coastal cities of the missile on. two containers of gunpowder reported in the course of the blasts and munitions that fire from explosions as lead to widespread power cuts and spark wildfires in nearby scranton and. media mogul rupert murdoch is in london to take a personal challenge of the crisis that's threatening to ruin his empire if one of the closure of the u.k.'s. news of the world newspaper made a phone hacking scandal. his chief executive rebecca brooks despite mounting pressure for her to be sexy and to your own event will said she was his top priority rick's was the editor of the news of the world when much of the most high profile illegal took place she now faces police questioning as a witness denies any lawyer for. shuttle atlantis has

docked with the international space station or its value mission marking the end of a u.s. specialty era crew of all americans and tons of vital supplies to the russian american japanese astronauts currently working at the outset of lantus will spend at least seven days then around after returning to earth will be able to tie it to a museum again where the other less the shuttle's. sixty three people have been killed and almost two hundred fifty injured in a train accident and rescuers have been working to free passengers from the badly damaged carriages the train which was packed with people he railed at full speed on sunday on its way to the capital then the train accident so not only usual in india with poor maintenance and human error many to name. remind our breaking news this hour divers have discovered the bodies of more than

one hundred people trapped in the pleasure boat which sank on the volga river on sunday around thirty children eighty people were rescued so far none have been officially confirmed as dead as a fiver say the ship went down within minutes picked up by a possum cruiser and brought to the region's capital because distraught relatives are waiting for any information on their loved ones which has been ongoing for several hours the rescuers say the chances of finding anyone else alive a sling. and of course we'll have that story throughout the day here dotty time for the business. thank you carrie hello and welcome to business r.t. russia has increased its annual crude oil production for courts to five hundred and nine million tons however the quality of russian oil products is still very low and it's becoming more and more urgent for russia to modernize its refinery capacity

and prime minister putin is going to make sure it will happen as oh she's such an appalling caller reports. prime minister was obviously unsatisfied that rush of the world's biggest oil producer has such a weak or refighting industry he says it's still as it was fifty years ago demand for high quality fuel in russia grows at double digit rates annually however refining has been called by there in volumes or in quality experts say legislation russian made it more profitable for oil producers to explore crude oil low quality oil products but now putin says the measures to reverse the trend will be taken. when you do we need to monitor the implementation of the modernization plans by the oil companies and if he don't meet their obligations this state will have the right to apply sanctions including the seizure of unreasonably of change. just to remind

you in may of russia bans exports of high quality fuel the country will speccing gasoline shortage domestically as producers chose to export more cashing in on the high oil prices now with the russian economy picking up and growing even faster than expected demand for high quality fuel is expected to grow at more than ten per cent annually and the prime minister made it absolutely clear producers will have to invest billions of dollars to more than ours their refining capacity. and let's have a look at the markets now on expanding norse's after a decline in demand of last week land is trading at a time of a hundred seventeen dollars a barrel. one thousand. eight hundred shares and now on monday with disappointing u.s. jobs report on the spike in chinese inflation the way the market but our shells are trading in the red in hong kong have a wait trespassing is down more than one percent in tokyo exporters are losing

ground. trying to tokyo electric power eighty eight percent as investors are waiting for details of the. from this blunt stress test of nuclear power facilities . in russia the r.c.s. has opened on a negative note the mice are just about to start trading the indices closing point nine percent in the red in friday i mean that we can't while. last week's poor days are from the u.s. have set a negative tone to russians talks and mock rubinstein from i have seen metrical expects the done what trend to rule the market in the coming days we just had a very weak us labor market the numbers come out significantly below consensus the number of new jobs created in 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 and we might see a correction in commodities this week as well looks like the first part of the week is going to be. a downpour and then i think sums to busy asian during the second half and probably going to close lower russian investment fund d.s.t. global is buying a share and twitter the second attempt the deal is said to be worth about four hundred million dollars to it itself has been valued at age billion dollars some say the company is a valued with this service ending about two hundred million dollars a year d.s.t. global held talks with twitter last december and then they estimated the company at less than hope the current price the fund is the international investment almost the mailed all you group and already has stakes another internet companies such as icici groupon zynga and facebook. i think russia's can knock it it is

easing up the sales have grown just sent in drink a bad to fifty percent increase in the previous month was the biggest slowdown is seen by japanese producers suffering from supply disruptions they've run out of stocks which were made before the disastrous us quake toyota says it produced four hundred fifty thousand of cars less as a result of land holes and bring. them to you are up to date right now back with more business news and just under an hour's time stay with us for the headlines this carry up next.

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breaking news here on our team divers find the bodies of one hundred people trapped inside a question about which sank in just minutes on russia's. covering efforts are underway . distraught relatives and friends have gathered desperate for information about that up from us. accounts have been given by someone who has reported many children trapped inside the ship and. many theories are being investigated as to why the boat sank in such terrible consequences over crowding outdated equipment recklessness and crude considering. the middle east peace corps tet is making another effort today to make a ship the stalled talks between israelis and palestinians a decades long conflict could get another twist the palestinians calling for this

state's official recognition at the u.n. in september and next we talk to a protestant politician and former foreign minister whether solution funds be found . we are now joined by the former foreign minister of the palestinian authority and the current member of the fat ammerman central committee the palestinian israeli conflict has been around for so many decades that it almost became part of you political discourse a bargaining chip and some political and some political leaders may not feel that pressure to change things really are you hopeful that any sort of lasting solution can be found i wonder why i mean why is it that. the world have ended colonization and there are no colonies anymore. except

or in our case. in line nine hundred ninety. your question was answered all right but east indians were willing to give up seventy eight percent of the country and accept the west bank and gaza that the world accepted as not israeli occupied in one nine hundred sixty seven. i spent all my life to go shaping that agreement way before school started and when all school started between the lobby in the late president of israel prime minister of israel and prison out of the late prison i think the hope was absolutely dead that this is the solution two states side by side on the holy land divided by the one nine hundred sixty seven borders and an opportunity for peace to allow the solution of the refugee problem of the problem.