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 an assumption 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 will go to my report. from a summer dream to a nightmare in a matter of. course. it was a sunday afternoon in the holiday river cruz area run into difficulties on the. catastrophe came swiftly as you might think of it didn't work is that people have basically very alive because if in the middle is a call for this if i can manage to get. there with my ten year old daughter she i

couldn't risk she swallowed too much water when it wasn't realized my child was absent from. the bowl garia now lies upon. the vessel sank in less than three minutes if you. will this year we were literally thrown out for you about how we survived our whole family was on that ship we lost everybody my wife and children it showed you two vessels passed by and didn't even care to stop on the beach after helping out we got to move around two hours in the water before we were rescued i swam around searching for survivors and couldn't for going to so there were children on the ship they were all in the going through it was impossible to get out of there my grandson would be five years old tomorrow if we were going to show up to celebrate what first of all. there were nearly two hundred people. many of the passengers families with children who want to weaken.

survivors and relatives powerless to act i'm now able to look. at that meeting was when you were 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 and 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 what they should give us at least some information that we're calling the search and rescue service but they don't ask for the phone. was very is fifty passengers were under an awful lot told to the whole week alone 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 for them turned into a living nightmare. the volga bank central russia. that would be

keeping up to date with that rescue operation throughout the day here on r.t. . other news now a major effort is being made to kick start the stall the palestinian israeli peace talks the middle east diplomatic quartet comprised of the u.n. russia the european union and the u.s. will meet in washington later today shea sions ground to a halt last year when israel failed to a new a partial freeze on settlement construction in the west bank palestinians who consider their territory their own want a recognition of their state within the established nine hundred sixty seven borders parties visited one village 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 community only the memories of those who once lived here have survived intact i fear is. to come back and.

my village. i've seen the hobson's the world this rain also to remind. my tire that. 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 the only we heard of sure thing. they will shoot through the whole the whole day with the hope that they will shoot through the. our mother took us inside the room in the corner and then the playground so as to protect us your 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 livable as the man who lived his house

in london for. if he was forced to do just because he was three it 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 really government sent them to live in lifter your nieces to prevent arab owners from returning or in their came here on me for believe here years without water without electricity the came here. 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 to me is how those for forty six years all that remains are stone walls where wild flowers and grass now go live is empty. and it's into

that emptiness that the israeli government 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 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 every three will came from anywhere in this way i can move in my village and come back return back to my village and live in. this new me.

so i'm good for palestinians lifta 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 policy r.t. lifter. there are more of our stories online at r.t. dot com let's see what else is there right now nasa says shuttle atlantis has docked with international space station on its final mission delve deeper into the future u.s. space shuttle era. it is your garden grow find out why the american city of michigan is considering getting behind bars and she doesn't ditch vegie patch. while nato reports on the success of its bombing missions over the libya some countries taking part in a campaign don't share that enthusiasm many in spain say they've simply been dragged into war under pressure from washington sara furthur ports 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. the 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. or they're that their 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 to spank continues to swear in the abyss of economic crisis political imperfect and 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 with think it's

unfair when there is a program of material aid reduction or 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 human need to. resort to go to media now because we didn't care about the human rights a year ago when we were. leaving. the libyan people have right here you didn't hear about 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 suggest they and tolerated his regime. so the operation against libya actually isn't. performed

so mean 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 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 stuff and most of those apartments stand. now those here in spain who have posed 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 whilst they themselves are still fighting such tough economic conditions

surface r.t. madrid. well back to our top story now the pleasure boat that sank on the volga river in russia's republic of tatarstan in which more than one hundred people are believed to have died we can now go back to tom barton who's monitoring the rescue efforts at the site and also join peter oliver. i want this latest reaction from americans he's a mystery in moscow but first to you a tom what about the relatives difficult to imagine what they could be going through at the moment. what exactly kerry i we've some of them have been standing here in this emergency ministries base camp where the rescue when search efforts are going on behind me and they have seen with consternation the fact that they're becoming less and less about rescue and more and more about search and by search the emergencies ministry are saying searching more for bodies they say that the chances of finding people alive here are dwindling now really and that they're now

searching primarily in the ship's hull itself to find bodies but they think within within the ship yesterday's cruise was supposed to be a pleasant sunday afternoon but it turned very rapidly into a nightmare as the ship sunk within three minutes and that gave rise to some really horrific and very hering personal stories of for example a five year old boy is one of the few survivors that have that have come out of that managed to escape from the ship and he says he told about how he had lost his mother and his grandmother and managed to stop himself from being dragged under the waters by grabbing onto the hand of a man he didn't know about man and later revealed that he had lost his own pregnant wife so this is an example of some of the trauma that people were forced into just in a matter of minutes and we can hear from one of those survivors now. with that that

he devotional shrinking little three minutes if you flew to. i went down it was with your we were literally thrown out of your boat and we survived of course our whole family was on that ship we lost everybody my wife your builder and children to you two vessels passed by and didn't even care to stop and reach out a helping hand we've been moved around two hours in the water before we were rescued i swam around searching for survivors and couldn't find anybody that would have children on the ship they were all in the going through it was impossible to get out of there my grandson would be five years old tomorrow if we were on the ship to celebrate his birthday to. some of those people who report having been in the water have talked about people almost passing ships videoing them with their video phones and instead of trying to help them those are those allegations unsubstantiated at the moment but there have been other personal stories of

allegations other people have said that the fire exits and the emergency exits on the ship were blocked so that people were unable to get off divers are now trying to find go to the wreck itself to find out why the ship sank so fast and why has ended in such a tragic death toll they have provided us with videos that we've been been watching which show inside the vessel that unfortunately there are numerous bodies inside the vessel which does indicate that perhaps there was great difficulty in people getting out of the ship. a distressing situation indeed to appear to all of the now in moscow peter i guess hope is fading of finding anyone else alive what is the emergence of his ministry saying. well that's right that's essentially the message coming from the emergency ministry that there's a very very little hope of finding more survivors at the moment divers are on the scene to retrieve the bodies of those who were trapped inside the stricken vessel

when it went down that their efforts have been hampered due to strong currents as well as the fact that the boat itself is lead. fuel making their job a lot harder well a tragedy of this kind of scale raises questions at the the highest level president dmitri made yet of i said that he wants to see a full investigation meet the head of the. emergencies ministry wants to see a report on his desk as soon as possible from from his stuff on the investigative committee here in russia of looking into what caused this terrible tragedy now it's very early stages and it's in its very early stages this investigation as you can imagine but they're saying that from their preliminary. viewpoint task it seems that a technical problem could have been the cause of this however they aren't ruling anything out just yet. an investigation into the tragedy is underway all possibilities are being examined but it has been determined

that the ship was already listing to the right when it left the port of cars on the station it's possible technical failure could have caused the accident but i'd like to stress other versions are also being looked at paperwork from the company that operated the ship is also being examined with which what they're going to do. well one of those of the options that is being looked on is the it's over crowding on board edge led to this disaster the ship itself was registered to carry one hundred twenty people believe that there was already well almost two hundred on board. the boat if you look at it. from well if there was going to be a problem with it was first put to sail in one thousand nine hundred fifty five so a very old ship however as recent as the middle of last month it was deemed to be up to spec for safety regulations in the past safety regulations safety tests with flying colors so this investigation as i say it's very early stages at the moment

but a lot of people very keen to find out what led to such a catastrophic loss of life. chris. in moscow and tom barton at the scene of the rescue operation in their pocket of the stone thank you very. and i believe that we're going to have some video of some of the rescue efforts in the dive where the divers right to exist see that it's. there we go to rescue divers at the sea on the volga river over the sea going down to see what they can do with the sunken boats at the bottom we're told that it's very unlikely they'll be any survivors at this stage but some very very distressing scenes indeed which of course will bring you more details of what may have happened for throughout the day on russia today these pictures still coming in at r.t.

of finances and support impossible to imagine that other relatives can be going through the relatives have been waiting on the shore. very distressing scenes wondering what's happened to their loved ones emergencies ministry saying that mechanical failure may have been to blame for what actually happened with the spirits and the ship itself was called the guerrier was a double decker pleasure. built in the former checkers of arcturian nine hundred fifty five ship was used for day trips all of. the tourists in the summer months these exclusive pictures coming into the here and of course attention has been drawn to the age of the vessel with some speculation that may have played a role in the tragedy or should have not been updated for more than fifty years it was all the pictures the latest pictures coming in here at r.t. . well around some other international news now in britain. several huge

explosions have struck a military camp in cyprus killing at least twelve people around thirty were injured at the base between the coastal cities of minnesota and donna kupp the blast reportedly happened in two containers of explosives inside of me missions that are from the explosions as not the largest electricity plant nearby and sparked wildfires in nearby scrub land. really mogul rupert murdoch is in london to take personal charge of the crisis threatening to ruin his empire follows the closure of the u.k.'s news of the world newspaper made a phone hacking scandal. it is chief executive rebecca brooks and despite mounting pressure for her to be sacked he said she was his top priority brooks was editor of the news of the world when the much of the illegal phone hacking into place to face police questioning as a witness denies any knowledge of water. sixty seven

people have been killed and almost two hundred fifty injured in the train accident in northern india rescuers have been working to free trapped passengers from the badly damaged carriages the train which was packed with people the rail that full speed on sunday on its way to the capital delhi is no stranger to weigh accidents where poor maintenance is often the primary cause. at least three people have been killed after a plane was forced to make an emergency landing on water in eastern siberia there are thirty six people on board the tunnel which got into trouble after reporting a far one of its engines twenty six survivors have been taken to hospital four of them suffering severe injuries plane made its landing in the river in this town afloat over several people still missing a search operation is underway. of course we'll have more on that tragedy on the ball over throughout the day here now that the business news you.

i. think it carried this is business and see how len welcome to the program and russia has increased its annual crude oil production for cost of five hundred nine million tons however they 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 the prime minister person is going to make sure it will happen he's just done a political report. prime minister was obviously unsatisfied that rush of the world's biggest oil producer has such a weak refighting industry he says it's too as it was fifty years ago demand for high quality fuel with russia grows at double digit rates annually however refining have been caused by there in volumes or in quality or as we will say legislation russian made it more profitable for world producers to the lord all over quality

all products but now because of those measures to reverse that trend will be taken up with now the steeples do you mean when you do we need to monitor the implementation of the modernization plans by the oil companies and if they don't meet their obligations this street will have the right to apply sanctions including reasonably of change. 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 in. russia may see every spike from its headline inflation the central bank says consumer prices could decline over the summer

analysts believe there is a chance this will happen given food prices and positive crops forecasts however they still see some risks such as rising demand and budget spending and that soft money tree policy russian frasier has been running at five percent since the beginning of the year. that less have entered the markets now one is extending losses on a stronger dollar and concerns about the u.s. economic recovery brant land is trading just under one hundred seventy. in dollars per barrel while the w t i is it ninety five dollars per barrel european stock some of that was fresh concerns about sovereign debt uprooting financials under pressure investors are waiting for the results of an emergency reserve meeting saying that preventing the debt crisis spreading to italy. the russian rockets are trading in the red or negative news for good and also let's take a look at some individual movies on the my six week or crude days pushing energy

ranges lower gas promise losing almost one cent this hour among miners put his golders in the positive territory as precious metal is advancing and that sector is trying to make it come others on the rise and ripples bruce not aims to invest just three hundred million dollars to upgrade the company's metal production and implement nanotechnologies. russian investment fund dia's to global is buying a share in tweets this second attempt the deal is said to be worth about four hundred million dollars to take itself has been valued at eight billion dollars some analysts say the company is overvalued with the service adding about two hundred million dollars a year just to global held talks with twitter last december and then they estimated the company at less than half that current price the fundies the international investment all move the mail dot all you group and already has stakes nothing to that companies such as i secu groupon zynga and facebook precious car market easing up sales have grown just forty percent in june compared to fifty percent

increase in the previous month the bigot's slowdown is seen by japanese produces suffering from supply disruptions they've run out of stocks which were made before the disastrous quake toyota says it made four hundred fifty thousand less cars it's a result of production he taps this bring. it right here up to date and of course we're back with more business news in about fifteen minutes time stay with us for the headlines with carol right now.

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questions on the dot com. you're watching on the headlines now party has obtained disturbing images of those beginning the operation to a couple of bodies from the doomed pleasure cruise and put sanctions on russia is holding it on sunday school say one hundred. trapped inside and there's little child's body anyone else around. distraught relatives are still desperately waiting for information from dr towns even by the survivors of the boat's final moments in the port so many children were trapped in the games room when it went down. russia's investigative committee says the ship was not seen he points to mechanical failures and possible course of the tragedy hasn't ruled out other theaters are taking

a quick rinse possible motivations of the crew. were next and ought to be a multi award winning film about one of the biggest environmental and human rights catastrophes in american history stay with us. on the day of this interview the small creek less than one mile from their home flows black and i it's not normal that's coming from an abandoned home on drugs come from sorry pot. and i don't know. what to expect and all caught. and maybe a few more years ma law. and my health this went down tremendously. and i don't ever look to be helpful as i don't ever look at the time and i don't think there's anything if i can do to help me. but i only thing i want now i want a good moral i want them to quit pump and are quitting jade and whatever they're

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