could take four to five days extra just to give you a flavor really of the kind of thing that they have heard about and some of them have actually been through the survivors picture the scene two pm yesterday when the boat was cruising along the volga very popular waterway for a lot of. cruise boat to come along in the summer a lot of people enjoying afternoon there and suddenly it all went horribly wrong most of the problems stem from the fact that the boat sank so fast in just three minutes which resulted in absolute chaos and boredom not enough time even for people to put life jackets on to try and get into the water and many of this. rapid back you ation of the boats for of course the families to be torn apart and some terrible personal stories that from the few people that have talked about their experiences from a summer dream to a nightmare in a matter of minutes to go to course in my child's remains.

it was a sunday afternoon when the holiday river cruz area run into difficulties on the. catastrophe came swiftly as you can see comments believe it in fact is that people were basically buried alive in anti-matter coffin he managed to get out through the window i was there with my ten year old daughter and i couldn't rest your head she swallowed too much water the mobile phones when i was making it out i realized my child was gone. the ball garia now lies at the bottom. the vessel sank in listen three minutes if you. will hear we were literally thrown out and i know we survive it will our whole family was on that ship we lost everybody my wife and children showed you two vessels passed by and didn't even care to stop and reach out a helping hand we got in with her and two hours in the water before we were rescued i swam around searching for survivors and couldn't figure anybody outside they were . children on the ship they were all in the group it was impossible to get out of

there my grandson would be five years old tomorrow if we were going to have to celebrate what first of. many of the passengers were families with children on a weekend sightseeing the great survivors and relatives powerless to act and now able to wake. me 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. 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 they don't ask for the phone. as many as fifty of the passengers were under eighteen hours old told into the volga 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 for them turned into a living nightmare. the volga bank central russia. a relative of one of the survivors have been has been giving a whoring account of their ordeal when you know you only have good old leans a bit there are three of them in the cabin my son my daughter in law and my grandson my son said he tried to open the cabin door holding his child when the wave crashed into them and he lost a group of my grandson he says you swim towards the light and made it out alive but i can't find my grandson or daughter in law they're not on the new lists now i'm waiting to see photos. investigators must now discover why the agent was allowed to sail into seemingly open water in such poor weather and the search for the truth of the tragedy begins at the highest level as artie's an italian overcover reports from moscow. president held

a special meeting regarding this tragedy he's met up with the country's emergencies minister sergey shari who and he's set up a special states commission to investigate into the case and find those responsible he's made the had over the commission washington's support ministry. i want the prosecutor general's office to check for compliance with the political transport regulations by the owners of the vessel the state officials that certified it as suitable for cruising and generally everyone related to the organization of this cruise especially considering the fact there was so many children on board the ship the results of that investigation should be summed up a not only in relation to this specific catastrophe but in relation to all vessels of this class and other classes as well as the number of decrepit barges cruising along our waterways is enormous and the fact that we were lucky before yesterday doesn't mean anything like that couldn't have happened it did happen and with the most grave consequences to the cause of president announced

a tease the joy that swells is going to be a national day of mourning in russia to remember the victims of this horrible tragedy well as the president has said the main reason is probably because it was very rude and other reasonings or can be easily derived from that one it's just some of the reasons really some are saying that the that particular vessel did not have a permission a license to transport passengers in the first place there are other reports of a saying that's the capacity of it was only one hundred and twenty people and it had over two hundred people on board when it sank are other reasons being mains is that one of their boats engines was not working but according to the owner of the best so even if that was the case he claims that so the vessel could carry on with the trip anyway even with one broken engine some i with this is saying. the weather

was really stormy and for these a very wide river and the storms and the winds can get really strong there and what is really cool so those people who stayed in the water for two hours waiting for how someone just didn't make it through that sign and some survivors saw this warble tragedy a saying that's as they try to actually evacuate themselves from that those emergency exits were blocked again referring to the fact that the boat was really well. argue spoke with the director of moscow's river transport he explained what might have caused the boat to sink so fast. both of those lines because it's hard to name the reasons for the sinking of the cruise of before we speak to all the witnesses i think there were a number of factors human error weather conditions we know there was a storm and other factors but i would rule out overcrowding because both of these types concur up to four hundred fifty people and it doesn't matter whether there

were one hundred fifty or two hundred on board the thing that is very striking is that the boat went down so quickly we haven't heard events like this in the past fifty years at least so the fact that there was a storm and the eliminator windows were probably open letter to the crews of possibly filling up with water quite quickly especially when it leaned to one side the illuminatus should have been closed before it entered there is of one. as a recap of the tragedy for you the number killed in the boulder of a tragedy now stands at sixty five as divers continue recovering more bodies from the doomed pleasure cruiser that sank sunday in russia's republic of tatarstan it's thought about a third of the boat has now been checked divers are trying to reach the music hall where some thirty children are believed to have been lost before the ship went down emergencies ministry says there's little hope of finding anyone else alive tuesday has been declared a national day of mourning president medvedev has ordered an investigation into why the ship sank saying decrepit vessels shouldn't still be cruising the country's

waterways and investigative committee believes a critical technical failure is to blame for the accident r.t. is following developments as they unfold in this tragedy and we'll keep you fully updated throughout the day. turned out of the country to the other main news we're covering out r t the middle east peace corps tet it will meet in washington later on monday at a time when the israeli palestinian divide is growing wider russia the united states the u.n. any e.u. have a tough job ahead with peace talks with the ring and the upcoming u.n. vote on a recognizing an independent palestine the impasse has been compounded since israel rejected the u.s. backing to return to the green nine hundred sixty seven borders as a basis for the talks israel started occupying the territories including gaza the west bank and east jerusalem during the six day war also driving a wedge in finding a solution is the refusal to stop or withdraw do which settlements on disputed lands and parties paula slee are visited one ancient arab village near jerusalem

which its former inhabitants say stands as a painful reminder of injustice. nestled in the mountains of jerusalem on the remains of a once gosling arab community only the memories of those who once lived have survived intact i feel no need. to come back and be. my age. to sing the heart since this rain also to remind. my choir that. your coup de graff among the cacti and figure 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 shooting. they will shoot do they do with the whole the whole deal with the whole they will

shoot through the. 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 every bit as the man who lived his house in london for nevertheless if he was forced to do just because he was three attend 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 him to live in lifter you only says to prevent arab owners from returning or in the came here on me for believe here years without water without electricity the came here to jordan and for the memory here is

a very important most of the original two hundred jewish families lived because life in the mountains was difficult and the government was slow to develop the area no one has lived to me is how this 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.

yanni. ford there are three world came from anywhere in this thread why i can't move in my village and come back. return back to my privilege and live. this new me. and. so i'm going 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. trouble is brewing for italy as it edges closer to becoming the fourth european country needing a bailout borrowings at a record high as italy's debt surges past earnings raising fears over whether its banks can pass the stress test senior u.s. officials will meet later but since italy's one of the biggest players saving it won't come cheap your hard bet overdeveloped who is the editor in chief of

belgium's leading business magazine says throwing cash or troubled nations will not save them. italy represents the seventeen per cent of g.d.p. of the euro in g.d.p. which means that italy in its own is almost three times as big as a tree smaller countries. go together so this is really something quite frightening and if indeed italy really goes into big trouble on the financial markets this is certainly a totally new face of this euro crisis a new dimension throwing money at the problem with its greece portugal ireland and certainly not also italy that is not enough or that can't solve the problem on its own enormous amounts of for the i call political capital as been invested in this euro project so giving it up as a very tough decision and a decision that will be made just overnight so a lot of energy and

a lot of additional money will certainly be spent before we arrive at such a situation and according to me there is no such decision on the horizon if italy comes into this ballgame with the amounts that are involved with this country that might change things quite rapidly. five people have been killed in a suicide bombing at a political rally in northwest pakistan it's the latest violence in the taliban stronghold and comes after pakistan said it could manage without the near billion dollar military aid that the u.s. is currently holding back it's thought washington's decision is retaliation for his lot about expel. and more than one hundred u.s. military advisers the u.s. pakistan relationships have been strained since the killing of osama bin laden in may and u.s. drone attacks that it killed civilians the white house says as long as an important ally in the war on terror about the relationship quote must be worked on over time journalist ahmed gray she says the bitterness is going to be tough to fix. 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 depends on these they 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 apart some really neat and very very critical of the united states so i think there's something really wrong and i think very a huge responsibility also on the. of the u.s. media to convey the right it sure to the american public media which is unfortunately they're not doing their very much telling the whatever is the official line of the government so i think i don't see in the near future many of

the serious differences between pakistan and the united states. turned out as some other stories making headlines across the globe a train has derailed in northern india while traveling at full speed at least eighty people are dead more than three hundred injured not know how it crashed but some reports suggest the driver hit the emergency brakes to avoid hitting along the tracks causing some of the twelve carriages to land on top of the others army teams are now cutting through the crush carriages to find trapped survivors and recover the dead. a series of blasts at a naval munitions dump in cyprus has killed twelve people and wounded more than thirty others it's thought a grass fire spread to the base setting two out of almost one hundred containers alight the blast damaged cypresses largest electrical station leading to island wide power cuts reports say the explosives had been seized from a ship traveling from iran two years ago and were kept at the depot without proper care. sudan's president is warning that

a border dispute with the newly independent south sudan could descend into conflict northern forces seized the i.b.a. in another border region in may causing around one hundred seventy thousand people to flee in recent months president bashir said a protocol governing the area must be respected or there will be consequences it's hoped that south so say she would bring peace after decades of brutal civil war. and recapping the hour's top stories breaking news rather the number killed in the volga river tragedy stands at sixty five as divers recover more bodies from the doomed pleasure cruiser that sank on sunday in russia's republic of tatarstan it's thought about a third of the boat has now been checked divers are now trying to reach the music hall where some of the thirty children are believed to have been locked before the ship went down in emergencies ministry says there is now little hope of finding any other survivors tuesday has been declared a day of national mourning the president made about it has ordered an investigation

into why the ship sank saying that decrepit vessels shouldn't still be cruising the country's waterways at all investigative committee believes a technical critical technical failure is to blame for the disaster are to is following developments as they unfold we'll keep you updated throughout the day and of course you can also find updates throughout the day on our comprehensive coverage of the volga river tragedy at our tea dot com outline you can find with many children on board our report on the lucky escape for some but also those who didn't stand a chance after being pulled and trapped underwater within minutes plus. our video reports and footage from the rescue and recovery also online on our you tube channel. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images.

of. the day. we'll keep you updated on developments in tatarstan in a few minutes but business up next with dimitri. and i was here watching business so it seems president's been very busy met with top businessmen to brainstorm ways to improve russia's investment climate they've been looking at how to combat capital flight and the amount of safe in the economy than saltines money in the course of the wraps up. the meeting started with president reagan with the idea of giving a forecast that the capital outflow this year will be five billion dollars less than in twenty ten but he's still not satisfied with that figure he wants to see more investment in the country and better conditions for international specialists

he wants the government to make it easier for them to come and work here a lot is also banking on the privatization plans but the president says the government's proposals are sumo this and he wants to see them decrease their stake in the business sector even further at the same time we are getting reports of proposals to introduce a golden shares which will see the state have special rights to veto any strategic decisions made by the company though some fear that this will go completely against everything privatization stands for others opposed to those that proceed with their deval fulfill his goal which is to modernize the economy create more competition and make sure the government has less control in the business in the street but in the course of the reporting headline inflation could be on the way then russia the central bank says consumer prices could be quiet over the summer and this believe there's a chance this will happen given lower food prices and positive for crops however

they still see some risks such as rising demand and budget spending amid soft monetary policy russia's inflation has been running at five percent since the beginning of the. gas from may become a key investor in germany's second largest energy firm. spiegel magazine says the investment could amount to fourteen billion dollars. are they will ease facing hard times after the german government decided to abandon nuclear power within a decade and sonic power has been its main business now the firm is looking to invest in other sources of energy polluting gas audibly is developing a multi-billion euro investment plan to build renewable energy stage. into the markets and we stay with the energy while is still down ninety five dollars per barrel brant just over one hundred sixteen this is on a stronger dollar and concerns about the u.s. economic recovery. move to europe and european stocks also hit

today footsie that point eight percent of fresh concerns about the sovereign debt are putting financials under pressure investors are waiting for the results of an emergency euro zone meeting and saying that preventing the debt crisis spreading to leave your zones third largest economy countries athens have seen a heavy selloff with bond yields rising by the fact that this is all concerned by the high level with these public debt now stands at around one hundred twenty percent of the gross domestic. russian markets are also been hit badly r.t.s. down point nine percent my sixty one point two percent this is mainly due to a decline in oil prices and therefore we are seeing energy shares going with gazprom down a one and a half percent overall sniffed one point three percent try to make it come out of this also losing that it's going better than the markets this is on its worse now no pains to invest three hundred million dollars to upgrade the company's metal production and nanotechnology. russian investment fund d.s.t.

global is buying a share in twitter at the second attempt the deal is said to be worth around four hundred million dollars twitter itself has been valued at eight billion some of the say the company is overvalued with the service earning around two hundred million dollars a year here's the global held talks with twitter last december and then they estimate of the company at less than half the current price the fund is the international investment arm of a male door you group has already stakes in other internet companies such as i see q groupon and facebook. and it appears new car sales in russia are easing the market has grown just forty percent in june compared to a fifty percent increase in the previous month the biggest slowdown is seen by japanese producers suffering from supply disruptions they've run out of stocks which were made before the disaster served quick to go to says it made four hundred fifty thousand less cars as

a result of production pick ups in the spring. and insults he will be back next hour with updates matters next with the headlines to stay with.

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don't come. six thirty pm in moscow these are your r t headlines we're covering breaking news the rescue that's now recovery operation divers retrieving more victims from the doomed pleasured cruiser that sank sunday in the river and russia's republic of tatarstan . gold coast my child's remains so much that they did a number of the dead those confirmed is at sixty five i was shocked relatives struggle to come to terms with how the loved ones were dragged underneath to their deaths within minutes. of russia's president orders those responsible for the catastrophe to be identified and punished blaming the disaster on quote decrepit barges cruising the waters. up next the middle east peace quartet is making another

effort today to negotiate stalled talks between israelis and palestinians but the decade long conflict could get another twist with the palestinians asking the u.n. to officially recognize their state at a meeting in september coming up we talk with the palestinian politician to ask whether a solution can finally be reached. 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 and 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 nineteen. 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 thousand nine hundred eighty seven. i spent all my life to go shaking that agreement way before school started and when all school started between that are being delayed because the israeli prime minister of israel and prison are for billet prison i think the hope was absolutely dead but this is the solution two states side by side on the holy then divided by the one nine hundred sixty seven borders and.