breaking news here on our take the bodies of more than a hundred people have been found trapped inside a pleasure cruise that sank just minutes on the russians call. witnesses report children trapped inside the sinking ship join us from the scene of the rescue operation in just a moment. believe your golf course much for me don't look like it but if it. is. your relatives are devastated fearing they may never see their loved ones again . the ship was not sea worthy that's the only conclusion of an investigation into

the disaster which points to some sort of mechanical failure is the likely cause but getting down such disastrous consequences. you're watching artane live from moscow straight to our top story now divers have found the bodies of more than one hundred people around thirty of them children trapped inside a pleasure cruiser that sank on russia's falcon matter so far twelve people have been officially confirmed dead from sunday's tragedy republican stan search and rescue teams worked throughout the night on the recovery operation continues today teams talk about is monitoring the efforts. the hunt is still on going for any possible survivors the count the emergencies ministry has set up behind me next to the ball go on a small beach here the 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 area river pleasure cruiser sank to try and find any people still in the water although that looks looking increasingly unlikely now or scattered on some of the small islands around where the boat sank we heard from one of their spokesman earlier about what they found when they reached the scene of the sun can push across a. hole and waited for an answer and unfortunately there was nothing. for the cargo holds and restrooms and. 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 tourist in the summer to travel a long haul good in pleasure cruise this upstream was its final destination 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 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 struggle to get out and some of the eyewitnesses accounts have been extremely carwin 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 for more background on how this sinking happened and all the details leading up to this current search for people who go to my reports. some a dream so a nightmare in a matter of minutes. both my child her mind on that. it

was a sunday afternoon when the holiday river cruz area run into difficulties on the. catastrophe came swiftly if you think of it is that people are basically buried alive as if in the middle soko forgets who managed to get zero three the windows there was my ten year old daughter ashley i couldn't risk in her she swallowed too much water when it was a realised my child was absent. the bowl garriott now lies at the bottom or the river that the view of the vessel sank in less than three minutes it flipped into the right password i went down there we were literally thrown out of you and that's how we survived our whole family was on that ship we lost everybody my wife abel grandchildren thirty two vessels 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 survivors and couldn't find anybody outside the world of

children on the ship they were all in the game true it was impossible to get out of there my grandson would be five years old tomorrow if he went on the ship to celebrate my birthday. there were nearly two hundred people. many of the passengers were families with children on the weekends. survivors and relatives powerless to act i'm now able to tell where. we are telephoning everyone trying to learn anything about our dear ones we called the police 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 but you know it's horrible we haven't the slightest knowledge of what's going on but they should give us at least some information we're calling the search and rescue service but i asked her the phone. as many as fifty of the passengers

were under eighteen dollars all told into the vulgar three kilometers but these people behind me are just some of the relatives desperate for news about their loved ones and what was a pleasure boat cruise has for them turned into a living nightmare tom watson r.t. the volga bank central russia. russia's investigative committee is now saying that mechanical failure could have caused the tragedy because of the efforts are underway at the site of disaster for the progress of the operation cost correspondent peter all of. this hope is fading real finding anyone else. well following me grisly discovery of those people who died while still trapped on the stricken bessel the process of removing their bodies from the bottom of the volga is underway however divers taking part in the operation struggling against strong winds strong currents and also the fact that the the vessel itself is

leaking fuel all of these things making their job much harder. the emergencies ministry are telling us now though that the the chances of finding any more survivors is very very slim. absolutely. although with one hundred divers have been sweeping the bottom of the rivers throughout the night there is very bad visibility where the ship sank both been searched myself as an index to examine close. in on this right side the waves are quite high and this is also making the world difficult because i'm tossing nationalist there's almost no chance of finding a canister point with still more sense and the ship will get a chance. to. try judy over the scale of course raises questions at the highest levels of government present to me to make us. call for a full investigation to determine what went on the emergency ministry here in

russia he's demanding i reports on his desk as soon as possible find out what happened that the interim head of the region where the secure the interim head of the republican guard to stand has said that even though chances are slim of finding anybody still alive they are going to continue with those operations. or those. rescue operations are going on both the reverse banks as well as many islands in this area of the volga are being checked rescue ships are patrolling the river also we have doctors and psychologists working with us. and messing. with the shoes speed of how this tragedy escalated is really led to so by this be so many deaths three minutes from the time that they they first skill that they had a problem to the people making its way to the bottom of the bowl the river so quick

in fact people couldn't get on life jackets the lifeboats couldn't be lowered and that led to such a press stoppage loss of life. so what more do we know about what kind of cause this tragedy has hit. the investigations into what caused the very early stages at the moment the emergencies ministry though as saying they believe a technical fault would be the most likely cause from what they've seen already the most likely cause of this disaster another also saying that when the boat left course it was listing to one side of course this investigation and it's very very early stages they'll be looking into that to try and find out if there was a problem when the the ship left port and contribute to this disaster now the boat itself was licensed to carry one hundred twenty people and we're hearing that they may have been a. two hundred forty so over crowding hasn't been ruled out some very serious

questions asked in the direction of the company operated. along the river though the boat itself was first put into the water in one thousand nine hundred fifty five so it's certainly not a new vessel just as recently as the middle of last month it passed all the required safety checks so it was apparently deemed to be up to code. safe to carry passengers but these investigations stressed more in the very early stages with the investigative committee hearing russia thinking that a technical fault may lead to this. breakthrough all over for now thank you for that update. we can give some more details about the ship itself the dog area as it was called was a double decker pleasure boat built in a former chicas of accurate ninety five when the ship was used for day trips on the volga river popular with tourists in the summer months attention has been drawn to

the age of the vessel or speculation it couldn't play the role in the tragedy of the ship dated for more than fifteen years russia's transport ministry has confirmed i don't go on routine checks and was deemed to be safe engines and rescue navigation equipment checked at that time the press was capable of travelling at speeds of up to twenty two kilometers. of course we'll be keeping you up to date with that rescue operation for the day here at r.t. . or to other news now or at least three people have been killed after a plane was forced to make an emergency landing on water eastern siberia there were thirty six people on board which got into trouble after. engines twenty six. for suffered severe injuries the plane made its landing on the. river the still staying afloat so people are still missing their search

operation is underway. a major effort is being made to kick start the stalled palestinian israeli peace talks at least that it ought to have called the un russia european union and the u.s. will meet in washington later today because she is ground to a halt last year when israel failed to renew a partial freeze settlement construction in the west bank postilions it's about hitting the road want recognition of a state within the established sixty seven borders got easier paullus live visited one old arab village which it's i wouldn't say stands as a painful memory justice. nestled in the mountains of jerusalem are the remains of a once bustling out community only the memories of those who once lived here have survived intact i feel this and you have come back and to grieve. my village in. the heart since the spring.

and. my car there. among the cacti and fig trees thirty 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 only were heard shooting. and. they will shoot you with the whole caboodle whole group a whole. hour another took us inside the room in the corner and then the table so as to prove to. us he could 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 ridiculous thing of all of his house in london for the inevitable is that if he was forced to do just because he was

rewritten 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 or your comments parents they were also if you g.'s feeling arab countries will likely become dangerous after israel was created these really government simply to live in lifter your nieces to prevent arab owners from returning or in their care and here on live here without water without electricity came here to the land for the memory here as the very import of 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 had lived to me is how those for forty six years all that remains are still wars where wild flowers and grass now grow and if there is empty. i get 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 will preserve the area's history we will find ourselves with a neighborhood where history has been concert 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 many like your could say it's palestinian land and a double injustice. roy. and. yanni. for. him from anywhere in this where i can. leave and come back. and live. this new. so only for palestinians and if there is

a physical reminder of injustice and survival for 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. while nato reports of the success of its bombing missions over libya some countries taking part in the campaign don't share that enthusiasm for fighting economic crisis at home and many in spain say they've seen being dragged into war and the pressure from washington sara furth reports with dread. 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 there not everyone feels quite safe please with spain's involvement in libya least of all the scottish people. spanish government support. with spanish troops because they're not. the

natural order of that 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 economic crisis political and public arrest has been growing. it's been carried out in the conditions of a tough economic crisis and conditions when the government had to sacrifice i want to introduce hundred auctions of course and the social sphere we think that 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 has in death and he 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 human

rights year ago when we were. leaving. the libyan people have right a year ago and been. welcomed in spain in recent years he was even awarded the keys to the city on an official visit in a trade he turned there is that of many western countries until recently he could be and tolerated his regime. think of the operation against libya is an action performed song. 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 cells 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 the majority can see signs everywhere of the pre-crisis construction much of that work now starts in most of those apartments. 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. and for it. the u.s. has announced it's withholding some eight hundred million dollars of military aid from pakistan pi's between the two cards has been strained since some of the many operations. that russian relationship is made to work full time journalists are. not easily i know. i don't think we've seen any

signs that the. ten years ago. it was really very hard to find if. it was it was taken for granted if. you must be some. who have. class is a proxy ruling elites and very very critical of the united states so i think there's something really wrong and i think very soon a huge responsibility. of the us media to convey the right church to the american public meeting which is unfortunately they're not doing very much toeing the whatever is in line of government so i think in the near future

many of these serious differences within the united states. around up there are some other international news for you this hour. a huge explosion struck a military camp in cyprus killing at least twelve people around thirty were injured at the basement in the coastal cities of the solomon. blasts reportedly happened in two containers of explosives and suddenly missions. were fired from explosions as metal widespread power cuts and wildfires and there. media mogul rupert murdoch is in london to take personal charge of the crisis threatening to ruin his empire before the closure of the u.k.'s and into the world with a phone hacking scandal that is chief executive rebecca brooks and it's like mounting pressure for her to be sacked and said she was his top priority brooks was editor of the news of the world in a high profile illegal phone hacking to place people police questioning as

a witness who denies any knowledge of what happened. the shuttle atlantis has docked with the international space station on its fun mission brocchini any of the u.s. space shuttle. crew for all it carried tons of vital supplies to the russian american astronauts already working in the sense that this seven days at all before turning to were actually retired to a museum the other the shuttles. sixty three people have been killed and almost two hundred fifty injured train accident and rescuers have been working to free truck passengers from the badly damaged carriages the train which was prepped with people of the rails at full speed on sunday on its way to the capital delhi india is no stranger to railway accidents where paul maintenance is often thought we had a primary cause. but our minds and our of our breaking

news this hour divers have discovered the bodies of more than one hundred people trapped in the. pleasure boats which sank on the volga river sunday thirty of them children eighty people rescued so far from either. of their survivors say the ship went down within minutes picked up plants and crews in the region's. distraught relatives are waiting for any information of their ducklings. for several hours rescuers say the chances of finding anyone else alive so. that of course throughout the day care about business and. thanks carrie this is business r.t. hello and welcome to the program russia has increased its annual crude oil production forecast to five hundred nine million tons however the quantity 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 all says does he on a 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 small so high quality fuel in russia grows at double digit rates annually however refining has been called either in volumes or in quality of the guys who say legislation russian made it more profitable for world producers to explore all over quality all products but now kusa says the measures through jurors the trend will be taken. we need to monitor the implementation of the modernization plans by the oil companies and if we don't meet their obligations this street will have the right to apply sanctions including the seizure of reasonably of chain traffic. just to

remind you in may a rush of ban the export of high quality fuel the country was facing gasoline shortage the mess to clear as producers chose to exports more cashing in on the high oil prices now with the russian economy picking off and growing even faster than expected to malls 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. better hurler carbon markets all of extending north as owns a stronger dollar and concerns about the u.s. economic recovery current plan is trading just under one hundred seventeen dollars a barrel while the w t i a is a ninety five dollars a barrel. or so european stocks and as fresh concerns about so rand are pushing

financials under pressure investors are waiting for the results of emergency or isn't meeting saying that preventing the debt crisis spreading to italy. the russian markets are trading in the red a negative news from a growing. also let's take a look at some individual movies on the my six we could create expression energy majors and gas from is losing almost one percent this star among mine is potus gold is in the positive territory less precious metal is advancing in other sectors truck maker come ons on the rise and reports of ross nano aims to invest a three hundred million dollars dollar grade the company's metals production and implement nanotechnology. russia investment fund d.s.t. global is buying a share in twitter at the second attempt the deal is said to be worth about four hundred million dollars twitter itself has been valued at eight billion dollars but some analysts say the company is overvalued with the service only about two hundred million dollars you get the it's to global health talks with twitter last december

and then they estimate of the company i left in heart the current price fund is the international investment arm of the mail got all you group and already high stakes and i think that companies such as i see q groupon and zynga and facebook. precious come market is easing up sales have grown just saw two percent and drink compared to fifty percent increase in the previous month if we get slowed down as seen by japanese producers suffering from supply disruptions they've run out of stocks which were made before the disastrous earthquake toyota says it made four hundred fifty thousand less cars as a result of production hiccups in this spring. and europe today for the bank with more business news in about thirty minutes time stay with us for the headlines with carol up next.

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