onboard the ship were children just hours just before the ship began to sink sink a 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 eyewitnesses reported that those children because there were so many of them in 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 under some some families even having to leave their own children behind on the sinking ship or the with of 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 but my grandson would be five years old tomorrow we went on this trip to celebrate his birthday but. she was sick of it didn't 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 i couldn't risk her she swallowed too much water when it was pulled out 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 we'll live checketts as the vessel listen can i couldn't believe it. me we are telephoning everyone. and 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. it's 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 feared 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 the bulgarian sink so quickly it couldn't lower its own boat so we picked everybody up in the water it's a lucky coincidence move calling 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 the 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. and they're terrified relatives are never going to be heard from again. still no official account as to why the ship went down recovery efforts are underway at the site of the disaster more details on the progress. of its run up and down down peter what are officials saying about this really holding out much hope of finding anyone else alive. well what we're hearing is that rescue efforts are still continuing however following the grisly discovery of around one hundred bodies trapped under water to people just couldn't get off the boat the process of removing those bodies is underway however divers that are taking part in that operation are being harmed. to strong winds strong currents. the vessel itself is leaking fuel all of those factors combining to make their job

all the more difficult however rescue workers are saying that they haven't given up hope just yet of finding anybody else still alive. and rescue operations are being carried out sure divers 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 flourishes 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 ships. will continue their search until everyone is found. as far as response from russia's political elite president dmitri made yet to say so said that he wants a full investigation into why this was able to happen also the minister for emergencies here in russia has said that he needs to see a report on his desk very soon telling him why this was allowed to happen. the means is this. service sure's divide them into sectors with people responsible for

each eighty year old 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. or one of the reasons this tragedy was able to catch so many people out was due to just how quick the boat sank now we're hearing around three minutes from the moment they realized they were in trouble until it was making its way to the bottom of the volga river so quickly that they couldn't. they couldn't the lifeboats people didn't have enough time to put on the life jackets and that led to such a loss of life. people very distressing indeed is anything being said to the possible cause of the tragedy. when investigations are underway to determine exactly what happened and how this was able to happen those investigations of course now in the very very early stages while we can do is really speculate upon what we know now the the explanation for how this happened it seems to spring first

to everybody's mind this is over crowding the boat itself was licensed to carry one hundred twenty people we're hearing they could have been almost two hundred ohm board so the company that was operating this pleasure cruise certainly going to come in. now that isn't the only explanation they could have on drilling out whether there was some form of technical failure or not resulted in in the boat sinking of the boat itself first set sail in one thousand nine hundred fifty five so not a new vessel by any means however it did pass full inspections full safety inspections as recently as the middle of last month so it was passed as being up to spec as it were even though it was such an old craft but those investigations into into what caused this tragedy in the early stages at the moment but the the main. the main idea that seems to. spring to everybody's mind is just the most seriously

overcrowded. correspondent peter oliver thank you for the update from a. while there we can give you some more details about the ship itself the yobbo garia as it was called as a double decker pleasure boat built in the former czechoslovakia in one nine hundred fifty five when the ship was used for day trips alone the volga river popular with tourists in the summer months attention has been drawn to the age of the vessel with speculation it could have played a role in the tragedy the ship had not been updated for more than fifty years russia's transport ministry confirmed it had undergone routine checks the middle of june and was deemed to be safe the engines and rescue navigation equipment had all been checked a song was capable of travelling at speeds of up to twenty two kilometers per hour . of course we'll be keeping up to date with that rescue operation throughout the day here on r.t. . to other news now five people have been killed after

a plane was forced to make an emergency landing on water in eastern siberia there were thirty six people on board and an off switch got into trouble after reporting a fire in one of its engines for the survivors a set of suffered severe injuries the plane made its landing on the river several people are still missing a search operation is underway. major effort is underway to kick start the stall palestinian israeli peace talks middle east that a 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 freeze on settlement construction in the west bank palestinians who consider that territory their own want a recognition of their state within the establishment in sixty seven borders paula slayer visited one old village which its former inhabitants say stands as a painful memory to injustice. nestled in the mountains of jerusalem other remains

of a once bustling community only the memories of those who once lived here have survived intact i feel is. to come back and to be. my religion. to see the hard says this rain also to remind. my father. your coup de graff among the cacti and fick 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 herded sure thing . they will shoot do they move the whole the whole deal with the hope that 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 nineteen forty nevertheless if he was forced to do just because he was 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 only your 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 the came here on their forty eight believe here years without water without electricity the came here. for them and 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 in these houses for forty six years all that remains are stone walls where wild flowers and grass now grow lifter is empty. and it's into that emptiness that the israeli government now plans to build more than two hundred luxury homes a chicago tel 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 lived there as we do in all the neighborhoods of jerusalem but maybe luckier could say it's palestinian land and a double injustice why you want to destroy our house and. yeah me. for. three will came from anywhere in the

way i can move in my village and come back. return back to my. liver. this me made me. so only for palestinians lifter is a physical reminder of injustice and survival that 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 lifter. nato reports on the success of its bombing missions over libya some countries taking part in the campaign don't share that enthusiasm while fighting economic crisis at home many in spain say they've simply been dragged into war under pressure from washington. so first 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 a pat on the back for spain 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 to public opinion recent polls have shown a large majority of the population and now against the military campaign in a spanking tinnies to square in the abyss of economic crisis political in 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 and 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 destiny extended its mandate for involvement in libya we don't think it's a human need to. resort to go to leave you now because we didn't care about human rights year ago when we were. libyan people have right here at go and we didn't hear it 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 had caught a good south a 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 themselves 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 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 most of those apartments and. now those here in spain who oppose nato military intervention in libya favor 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 its withholding some eight hundred million dollars of military aid

from pakistan ties between the two countries have been strained since the heavens getting their combat operation despite the costs washington insists there they should share in the work of. a journalist. and the differences will easily go 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 these they would like to work together ten years ago. it was really very hard to find a clean clean shaven buckstone you 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 be 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 on the. 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 toeing the whatever the line of government so i think i don't see the near future many of these serious differences between buckstone in the united states getting. around some other international news in brief and now a huge explosion has struck and it treat camp in cyprus killing at least eight people schools more were injured at the base between the coastal cities of the most soul and donna kupp two containers of explosives reportedly caused the blast inside of munitions. from the explosions as that to widespread power cuts while to pause and thereby scrub. media mogul rupert murdoch he's in london to take personal charge of the crisis threatening to ruin his empire if one of the closer. the ukase use of the world newspaper been betting scandal that all right is chief executive

rebecca brooks and despite mounting pressure for her to be sacked said she was his top priority brooks was the editor of the news of the world when much of the most high profile legal battle took place she could face police questioning as a witness denies any knowledge of what her. class is shuttle atlantis has docked with the international space station and its bottom mission end of the u.s. space shuttle era with a crew of four carry tons of vital supplies to russian american and japanese astronauts who really working on the ice x. would learn to spend at least seven days a little bit before returning to work should be retired to want to see him or meet other nasa shuttles. sixty three people have been killed and almost two hundred fifty injured in a train accident. rescuers working to free trapped passengers from the. ridges

the train which was packed with people full speed on sunday and its way to the capital then the theory is no stranger to the accidents of poor maintenance is often thought to be the primary course. reminder of our breaking news this hour here in r.t. 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 different children eighty people were rescued so far eleven have been officially confirmed as dead we survivors say the ship went down within minutes they were awesome crews brought to the region's probable cause distraught relatives are waiting for any information on their loved ones such as being on getting for several hours rescuers say the chances of finding anyone else alive. for more on that of course throughout the day here are not the business news with.

thank you carrie no and welcome to business all to see russia has increased its annual crude oil production four calls 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 what finery capacity and prime minister putin is going to make sure what will happen as always touching on the political reports. prime minister was obviously unsatisfied that rush of the world's biggest oil producer has such a weak 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 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 we don't meet their obligations this state will have the right to apply sanctions including. just to remind you in may of russia banned the export of high quality fuel the country was facing 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. that's not the market's now all is extending doses of a stronger dollar and concerns about the u.s. economic recovery plan blend is trading at one hundred seventeen dollars per barrel

while. ninety five dollars a barrel. asian shines on now and monday with disappointing u.s. jobs report and this chinese inflation weighing on the market nationals are trading in the red in hong kong and ways and trespassing is down more than one percent in tokyo exporters are losing ground is trying to get back into trend is talking to electric power it's adding eight percent as investors. waiting for details of the government's plan stress tests of nuclear power facilities. that the russian markets have opened in the red and negative news from abroad investors are waiting for an emergency take it's aimed at preventing the debt crisis spreading to italy. that's taken to be something to be drawn movies on the my six week a crew days pushing energy majors lower gas from is losing almost one percent this on demand miners pollies gold is in the positive territory as precious metal is advancing in other sectors truck maker come others on the rise and reports bruce

nano aims to invest three hundred million dollars to upgrade the company's metal production and implemented in other technologies. russian investment fund dia's to global is buying a share in twitter the second attempt the deal is said to be worth about four hundred million dollars to attain has been valued at eight billion dollars and some analysts say the company is overvalued with these savages ending about two hundred million dollars a year g.s.t. global held talks with twitter last december and then they estimated the company at less than the whole of the current price the fund is the international investment arm of the male dog you group and already has stakes in other internet companies such as icici groupon zynga and facebook. russia's car market is easing up sales have grown just saw two percent and drink about a fifty percent increase in the previous month the biggest slowdown is seen by japanese producers suffering from supply disruptions and they've run out of stocks

which were made before the disaster as quick toyota says it made four hundred fifty thousand less cars as a result of production hiccups in the spring. and europe today it will be back with more business news in just under an hour's time stay with us for the headlines with kerry up next.

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breaking news aeronautics divers find the body and some of the hundred people trapped inside them. pleasure boat which sank in just minutes on russia's volga river recovery efforts are underway. distraught relatives and friends have gathered desperate for information about their loved ones multiple accounts given by survivors who reported many children trapped inside the ship as a plane. many theories are being investigated as to why the boat sank with such terrible consequences overcrowding and thank you it meant recklessness of the crew considered. well next to people of l. and his guests to debate when the shrimp in its massacre sixteen years ago is being used today as

a political tool cross-talk is next. if you can. follow and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle as the world remembers the tragic events the divel separate 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 we have a proper memory for all victims.

to cross not the bosnian conflict i'm joined by mohammed shock will be he's a former bosnian ambassador to the u.n. and in london we cross to me shut out of the 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 burning so are you satisfied how mainstream media portrays those events and we can use tragic events or i can you can use whatever you want but how do you feel that the description of that anniversary is being understood understood today. well i've been most unhappy for the last sixteen years the way that it has been represented lead to start out with its description most of the worst to walk crime in europe since the second world war the worst war crime in the second world war was the crime of aggression by nazi germany against a neighboring state that was not decided by meat was decided by.