a mess. in the. news on r t a rescue that's now recovering effort sixty five now confirmed dead after their pleasure cruiser sank on sunday on the hole of a river in central russia. with hopes of finding survivors dwindling nor the search is still on the bodies beneath the gold. rush of the president made me think it says those responsible for this tragedy will be. and so will be coming down punished as he believes that the ship was bullets that would cause the same. goals goes on child's remains.

it would be more than one hundred a year and yet drowned shocked relatives struggle to accept how their loved ones were dragged to their deaths when the boat sank within minutes. seven pm in moscow i match reza continuing our breaking news coverage of the tragedy on the volga river divers in the river are now undertaking the grim task of retrieving those killed when the pleasure cruiser sank sunday in central russia sixty five are confirmed dead but recovery teams report seeing more than one hundred bodies trapped inside the sunken bowl garia artie's correspondents are following developments on barton was near the rescue operation headquarters in tatarstan in a tall you know a bit of a joins us live from moscow first to you tom you've been speaking with some of those affected by this ordeal they've got some horrifying stories to tell tell us

more about that. they have indeed been through a horrifying ordeal a lot of them were very reluctant to talk to the media today but the whole held their heads down and they were really contemplating and hoping and praying for any news of their loved ones a few have spoken out since the sinking of the bulgaria and their stories shine a light into what may have happened yesterday on the river at around two pm the ship the bulgaria a river pleasure cruise liner was going along the volga as many ships do at this time of year very popular among tourists when it ran into trouble now what happened next was really the cause of most of the major problems the ship sank within three minutes giving very little time for anyone to even put life jackets on or to organize any kind of evacuation and what we hear from eyewitness are reports are

horrifying tales of families torn apart in a matter of a few minutes mothers and fathers having to leave their children and people having to jump into the water to save themselves one one example is of a five year old who was saved who lost his mother and his grandmother who drowned and then jumped into the water to try and save himself and just as he thought he was drowning he reached up and grabbed the hand he saw he didn't know whose it was who belonged to a gentleman who saved his life it was later found out that that man had lost his pregnant wife in the sinking of the ship another man also with a pregnant wife lost contact with her as she ran to help friends and the frantic scramble to get off the boat he grabbed the nearest and dearest thing to him his young son and jumped into the water with him but the currents were too strong the water was too cold and he was pulled away from him and he had to watch his son drown before his eyes these are just two of the examples of the horrifying

spectacle that played itself out when people had to get off this boat. so fast and many of them didn't the people waiting on the banks and in nearby khazan upstream which was to be the final destination of the pope's day are still desperately waiting for any news of their relatives but from the rescuers themselves hope of finding any more survivors has all but gone out. one you know you know you both leaned 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 grip 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 any lists now i'm waiting to see photos. this is a typical story heard by many people either relatives or survivors of the sinking of the ship and all they can do now is wait. thank you john now turning to tell you

last you know the person quickly mobilized an inquiry into how this happened what president medvedev and say. was different president between the how the special meeting regarding this incident and he's not with the country's emergencies minister is to be tried he's ordered to set up a earth special states committee to investigate into the state. russian transport industry is going to be the house or the committee presently it is also announced that tuesday july its route is going to be a day of national mourning of those victims who perished in this world the accident and the number of victims is increasing by the hour as the russian emergencies ministry for its there is less and less chance or if there's any just see those people who are on the boat. i want the prosecutor general's office to check the

compliance with the political transport regulations by the owners of that vessel and state officials that certified it is 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 and not only in relation to this specific catastrophe but in relation to all vessels of this class and other classes as well a number of decrypted barges cruising along our waterways is enormous and the fact that we were lucky before yesterday doesn't mean anything like that could have happened it did happen and with the most grave consequences. russian president dmitry medvedev believes that one of the main reasons that could have caused this incident was the fact that the boat was really always and only other reports that we're getting can be pretty much should do right from what he's saying we're hearing reports that the boat did not have a license to transport passengers in the first place either for it's

a. that the capacity of the vessel was only for one hundred and twenty people and so at the time of the accident there was over two hundred people one board of the boat are also the person saying that's one of the engines broke down and the captain of the vessel actually knew about it but decided to proceed with the boat trip anyway the owner of the boat at the same time is saying that even if that's a gate that was the case and one of the engines didn't break down it would not have caused this horrible tragedy of reports saying that's of course it was a very old ship that was sailing since nineteen fifty five so all of their boss could have caused this tragedy but some of the eyewitnesses saying that's where the conditions in that region at the time were very bad it was very strong winds and some of the survivors are actually saying that it's as they were trying to evacuate

from the boat so many of the emergency exits were blocked again referring to the fact that the boat was really old so to sum up it all comes down to a vessel that was not properly prepared for a very long time and many blame it on a human mistake. right now tell you now back to tom what is the status of the recovery operation. well you can see this small strip of sand behind me this has become really the launch pad of emergency services efforts to try and recover first they hope survivors and now root to recover bodies from the sunken ship hour after hour three back through today through last night and yesterday afternoon teams of divers have gone out to a special platform is being constructed and they've been going down they've supplied us with a video quite a graphic video showing them going into the ship and bringing up bodies from the ship then now expected to be possibly starting what may be to the toughest part of

their exploration through the ship going into what's being called the play room of the games room area on one of the upper decks of the ship and as the ship sank it was said by eyewitnesses that there were thirty to fifty children maybe a third of the passengers are children playing who all gather to play in that room and it was said by witnesses that there were so many children in that room that they just couldn't get out in time and it's feared that they may all have drowned inside that room so for the rescuers themselves but obviously for the people on shore this next part of the recovery operation could indeed prove to be quite a nightmare and seeing their that come ashore i think the people who have been waiting for answers might unfortunately get the answers that they were dreading it . summer dream so one night in a matter of minutes. our child remained on that boat.

it was a sunday afternoon when the holiday river cruz garia run into difficulties on the volga catastrophe came swiftly soon think of it even people were basically buried alive and trying metal coughing i managed to get out through the windows i was there with my ten year old daughter i couldn't rescue her she swallowed too much water when i was pulled out i realised my child was gone. the bulgarian now lies at the bottom or the. reversal same can less than three minutes it flipped to the right the last word and went down and we were literally thrown out and that's how we survived our whole family was on that ship we lost everybody my wife and the grandchildren two vessels passed by and didn't even care to stop and we chatted 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 so there were a lot of children on the ship they were all in the game it was impossible for me to get out of there my grandson would be five years old tomorrow we went on the ship to celebrate my birthday. many of the passengers were families with children on the weekend sightseeing. survivors and relatives powerless to act and now able only 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 they should give us at least some information we're calling the search and rescue service but asked her the phone. as many as fifty of the passengers were under eighteen years old hurled into the

vulgar three kilometers and by 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 dart an r.c. evolved a bank central russia. artie's been hearing from a river transport supervisor who told us that it's the port authorities who are responsible for safety and for a letting the boat leave the dock in the first place. you know with it's a very old ship but it shouldn't have been used moreover it was built to correspond with safety requirements of the nineteen fifties and while quite syria has changed condition houghton's which we have to find out of the sunken cruiser had been tested in a time in faraway clone so the boat was overcrowded with around two hundred people on board which is a serious violation it should have been allowed to leave port said there's also information that one of the engines wasn't working properly there's no checks were done in this regard this type of boat is prohibited from leaving ports in bad

weather when waves threaten to reach two meters this is considering there was information of a storm what port authorities are responsible for all those safety breaches. that's a recap now our breaking news story the tragedy on the cruise boat disaster the number dead is now at sixty five and divers are recovering more bodies from the doom river craft that sank on sunday and russia's republic of tatarstan it's thought that about a third of the vote has been checked divers are now trying to reach the music hall where some thirty children are believed to have been a walk before the ship went down the emergencies ministry says there is little hope of finding any other survivors tuesday's been declared a national day of mourning president of better has ordered an investigation into why the ship went down saying that the crap at best shouldn't still be cruising the country's waters the investigative committee believes are critical technical failure may be to blame for the disaster r t is on top of the developments there is going forward and we'll be bringing you more information throughout the day here on

r.t. . going out of the day's other top stories the middle east peace quartet will meet in washington later on monday at a time when israeli palestinian divide is a growing russia the united states the u.n. any you have a tough job ahead with peace talks with iran and the up come. in un vote on a recognizing that independent palestine the impasse has been compounded so as israel rejected u.s. backing to return to the pre nine hundred sixty seven borders as a basis for talks israel started occupying palestinian territory including the gaza strip west bank and east jerusalem during the six day war also driving a wedge into finding a solution is the refusal to start or withdraw your settlements on disputed lands or his policy or visited one ancient arab village near jerusalem which its former and have it in say stands as a painful memory to injustice. nestled in the mountains of jerusalem are the remains of a once bustling arab community only the memories of those who once lived here have

survived intact but i feel as. we come back and sensibly. and since this i mean. also to. be. my plan that. could have among the cacti and fick trees but in one nine hundred forty eight just before the state of this war was declared his family evacuated unlike the hundreds of villages that disappeared in forty eight and sixty seven most of the original houses of lifter are still here so they really were headed suit them. and shall do. the will should do the whole caboodle hold. our mother took us inside the room in a corner and the so as to protect us because it 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 all of his house in london for nicholas he was forced to do. because he was created and he is considered as absent and he lost the property in the early one nine hundred fifty s. jews moved into the abandoned homes like your new york and spare ins they were also refugees fleeing arab countries where life had become dangerous after israel was created these radio government sent him to live in lifter your nieces to prevent arab owners from returning or undercurrent here on live here years without water without electricity ok i'm here to draw the line for the memory here as the very. first 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 in these how those for forty six years all that remains are stone walls where wild flowers and grass now grow if there is empty. i didn't see that emptiness that the israeli government now plans to build more than two hundred luxury homes a sheikh hotel shops and a museum insisting they'll preserve the area's history we will find ourselves with a neighborhood where history has been concert there will also be cocky mentation and the story will be told of who lives there as we do in all the neighborhoods of jerusalem but many luckier could say it's palestinian land and a double injustice. and destroy our. yeah me. for every three will came from anywhere in this weird way i got in my feelings and come back. at my village and

live. with. me. and. so i'm going for palestinians lifter is a physical reminder of injustice and survival for a fair number of israelis it's an eyesore and they'd rather not be reminded of what happened here if you time they climb into jerusalem policy r.t. lifter. trouble is brewing for italy as it edges closer to becoming the fourth european country to need a bailout borrowing is at record highs italy's debt surges past earnings rising fears over whether its banks can pass a stress test senior officials will meet later about one since italy's one of the bigger players saving it won't come cheap johan van overtveldt who's the editor in chief of belgium's leading business magazine says throwing cash at troubled nations may not help save. italy represents the seventeen percent 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 the smaller countries from portugal together so this is really something quite frightening and if indeed he really really goes into big trouble on the financial markets this is certainly a totally new face of this euro crisis new dimension throwing money at the problem good reads greece portugal ireland and certainly not also italy that is not enough or that can solve the problem on its own enormous amounts of for the i called political capital has been invested in this euro project so giving it up as a fairy of the season and a decision that 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 right revolution. 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 then your billion dollar military aid that the u.s. is currently holding back it's not washington's decision as retaliation for islam about expelling. more than one hundred u.s. military advisers the u.s. pakistan relationships been strained since the killing of osama bin laden in may and the u.s. drone attacks that have killed civilians the white house says as long the body is an important ally in the war on terror but that the relationship must be worked on over time there was talk made corrections 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 aid solution to. as a relationship with the. other ten years ago. it

was really very hard to find a clean cliched buckstone you criticize in the united states it was it was taken for granted if you're criticizing the us humans be. ready to experience it today who have people from the upper classes of pakistan really leads in very very critical of the united states so i think there's something really wrong and i think there is a responsibility also in. the u.s. media to convey the right church and the american public meeting which is unfortunately they're not doing very much telling the world ever. line of humans government so i think you know i don't see the near future many of these serious differences with the box done in the united states can easily turn out to some other stories making headlines across the globe a packed train has derailed in northern india while traveling full speed at least

eighty people are dead more than three hundred injured it's not known how the crash shop and bought some reports suggest the driver hit the emergency brakes to avoid cattle causing some of the twelve carriages to land on top of the other its army teams are now cutting through the crushed cars to find traps 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 as thought a grass fire spread to the base setting two out of almost one hundred containers a blaze the blast happened at cypress is the largest electricity station leading to island died power cuts reports say the explosives had been seized from a ship traveling from iran two years ago and were kept in the depot without proper care. hundreds of angry syrian government supporters have attacked the u.s. and french embassies in the capital damascus they broke the windows of the u.s. compound in raised the syrian fried in response to its in response to the american and french envoys controversial visits to an opposition dominated area there have

been months of protests in syria calling for president assad to quit. so recapping our breaking news the number killed in the boulder river tragedy stands at sixty five as divers recover 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 the divers are now trying to reach the music hall in the game room where some thirty children are believed to have been locked before the ship went down the emergencies ministry says there is now little hope of finding any other survivors tuesday has been declared a day of national mourning president medvedev has ordered an investigation into why the ship went down saying that they're prepping vessels and shouldn't still be cruising the country's waters he investigative committee believes a technical or critical technical failure is to blame for the disaster parties following developments as they unfold and we'll bring you all the updates as we pan

throughout the day remember you can also find our comprehensive coverage of developments on the tragedy on our t.v. dot com along with this we have many children aboard really report on their lucky escape but also those who didn't stand a chance after being pulled under and trapped under the waters within minutes was. our video footage from the rescue and recovery mission online and also on our t.v. you tube channel. four news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has seen from the streets of canada. china's hope for asians rule today. more on our breaking news throughout the day here on our t.v.

but dmitri's up next with the business news. thanks man let me get straight to my top story headline inflation could be on the way and in russia the central bank says consumer prices could decline over the summer analysts believe there is a chance this will happen given lower food prices and a positive crops for cars however they still see some risks such as rising demand and budget spending amid soft monetary policy wasn't glacial has been running at five percent since the beginning of the. gastronomy become a key invest in germany second largest energy r w e spiegel magazine says the investment could amount to fourteen billion dollars out of facing hard times after the german government decided to abandon nuclear power within a decade the time of power has been its main business now the firm is looking to invest in other sources of energy food and gas. is developing a multi-billion your lesson plan to build renewable energy stations. to move to the

markets while is continuing to decline on a stronger dollar and concerns about the u.s. economic recovery as the second quarter of reports is actually coming up we'll talk about that in a second but at ninety four dollars a barrel this hour brant is at one hundred fifteen and. so the u.s. markets kicked off on a negative note so the dow jones down more than one percent nasdaq almost two percent alcoa is leading the way among the loose this is down three and a half percent on expectations of a looming earnings report which will come after the closing bell of the u.s. markets and will kick off the second quarter results these. european stocks are also lower they've got half an hour to go before the end of trading puts you down one hundred percent the dax almost three percent this is on fresh concerns about sovereign debt but i'm putting financials under pressure investors are waiting for the results over the mergence in euro zone using it saying that the birds in their

crisis running to lead. seriously it's not just a chronic results of something heavy selloff with one you're jumping to over five percent investors are concerned about the state of italy's public debt now stands at around one hundred twenty percent of the gross domestic products here in the rush of the markets and the first day of the week on a movie you know it's the obvious down two percent my six one point three percent this is all negative news coming from abroad and from within the country also following world prices have had that fall on energy shares gazprom one point seven percent was now one point four percent come as the truck maker is also down point six percent but it was varying better than the market this is on of course the reason arranged to invest three hundred billion dollars to upgrade the company's metal production and implements nano technology. russian investment from d.s.t. global is buying a share in the second attempt the deal is said to be worth around four hundred

million dollars now twitter itself has been valued have eight billion dollars some analysts say the company is overvalued as the service is earning around two hundred million dollars a year the u.s. to global health talks with twitter last december and then the estimate of the company had less than half the current price of unders the international investment of mail dot are you group which already has stakes in other internet companies such as i see q groupon zynga and explorer and new car sales in russia are easing the market has grown just forty percent year on year in june compared to a fifty percent increase in the previous month the biggest slowdown as seen by japanese producers suffering from supply disruptions now they've run out of stocks which were made before the disastrous earthquake two years says in four hundred fifty less thousand cars as a result of production pick ups in spring. the headlines are next on i think we're not to say that.

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