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 a hand he saw he didn't know whose it was to belong 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 in 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 boat today are still desperately

waiting for any news of their relatives but from the rescuers themselves hope of finding any more survivors has all but run out. when you know you know you both lean the bed 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 list 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 tom now turning to tell you last hour the president quickly mobilized the inquiry into how this happened what president i've ever been saying. was different president between the how the

special meeting regarding this incident and he's matts with the country's emergencies minister said detroit we were ordered to start up eight earth special states committee to investigate into the states and russian transport minister is going to be the house for the committee presently it is also announced that tuesday july the twelfth is going to be a day of national mourning of those victims who perished in this horrible accident and a 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 to say those people who are on the. huge 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 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 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. 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 old and only other reports that we're getting can be pretty much should deploy from what he's saying we're hearing reports that the boat did not have a choice since to transport best injures in the first place other reports say that . the capacity of the vessel was holy for one hundred and twenty people and so at the time of the accident there was over two hundred people on board of the boats are also the brits 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 and that's again that was the case in the one over the engines didn't break down it would not have caused this horrible tragedy other reports are saying that of course it was a very old ship that was sailing since nineteen fifty five so all of the bomb could have caused this tragedy but some of the eyewitnesses saying that's where the conditions in the region at the time were very values very strong winds and some of the survivors are actually saying that's as they were trying to evacuate from of 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. or an entire you know back to tom what is the status of the recovery operation. well you can see this small strip of the sun behind me this is become really the launchpad of the emergency services efforts to try and recover at first they hope survivors and now route 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 the the the toughest part of their exploration through the ship going into what's being called the play room or 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 of children playing who would 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 that come ashore i think the people who have been waiting for answers might unfortunately get the answers that they were dreading it. from a summer dream to a nightmare 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 through much of it. people were basically

buried alive in giant metal coffin we 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 bog area now lies at the bottom. of the vessel saying can listen three minutes it flipped to the right then i swerved 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 reach out to 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 games room 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 a weekend sightseeing. survivors and relatives powerless to act and now able to wait . 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 i don't ask for the phone. as many as fifty of the passengers were under eighteen years old hold 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 has for them turned into a living nightmare. the volga bank central russia art has been hearing from

a river transport supervisor who told us that it's the port authorities who are responsible for safety and for letting the boat leave the dock in the first place but. you know with it's a very old ship it shouldn't have been used moreover it was built to correspond with the safety requirements of the one nine hundred fifty s. and one criteria has changed to boats condition hadn't which we have to find out of the sunken cruiser had been tested in a timely inferior way plus the boat was overcrowded with around two hundred people on board which is a serious violation and it should have been allowed to leave port there's also information that one of the engines wasn't working properly and 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 but the port authorities are responsible for all those safety breaches. that's a recap now our breaking news story the tragedy on the crow a cruise

a boat disaster the number dead is now at sixty five and divers are recovering more bodies from the doom river craft that sank and sunday in russia's republic of tatar that thought about a third of the boat 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 emergency ministry says there is little hope of finding any other survivors tuesday's been declared a national day of mourning president of that has ordered an investor. asian into why the ship went down saying about decrepit vessels shouldn't still be cruising the country's waters the investigative committee believes a critical technical failure may be to blame for the disaster r t is on top of the developments as they are in florida 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. n.t.e.u.

have a tough job ahead with peace talks with iran and the upcoming u.n. vote on recognizing and independent palestine the impasse has been compounded since 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 stop or withdraw jewish settlements on disputed lands party's policy or visited one ancient arab village near jerusalem which its former inhabitants say stands as a painful memory to injustice. nestled in the mountains of jerusalem of the remains of a one spot arab community only the memories of those who once lived here have survived intact i feel no need. to come back and to be. my community and. to see since the mood to this when i

was to do the my. my time there. among the cacti and fixed trees but in one nine hundred forty eight just before the state of israel was to cade his family evacuated unlike the hundreds of villages that disappeared in forty eight and sixty seven most of the original houses of lift are still here so they only were headed suit them. he shouted mama. they will shoot through the middle of the hall 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 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 livable as the man who lived his house in one hundred forty nevertheless 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 ready government sent them to live in lifter your nieces 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 their 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 in these how this for forty six years all that remains are stone walls where wild flowers and grass now grow if there is empty. i did 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 live there as we do in all the neighborhoods of jerusalem but many like your could say it's palestinian land and a double injustice why you want to destroy our house and. yeah me. for a day or three world came from anywhere in this weird way i can move in my village and come back. return back to my privilege and live. this new me. and. yeah. 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 lift. 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 the 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 is the editor in chief of belgium's leading business magazine says throwing cash at troubled nations may not help save. italy represents 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 italy really goes into big trouble on the financial markets this

is certainly a totally new phase of this euro crisis with new dimension throwing money at the problem going to be 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 what i call political capital as been invested in this in the euro project so giving it up is 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 not washington the decision is 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 islamic body is an important ally in the war on terror but not the relationship must be worked on over time for the last ahmed correction he 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 really and very very critical of the united states so i think there's something really wrong and i think there is a huge responsibility also on. the u.s. media to convey the right picture to the american public media which is unfortunately they're not doing their very much telling the whatever is the official line of government so i think i don't see the near future many of these serious differences with the box done in the united states. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe a 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 happened but some reports suggest the driver hit the emergency brakes to avoid cattle causing some of the twelve carriages to land on top of the others army teams are now cutting through the crushed cars to find trap 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 wide 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 flag 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. recapping our breaking news the number killed in the volga 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 divers are now trying to reach the music hall and 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 decrepit vessels shouldn't still be cruising the country's waters the investigative committee believes a technical or critical technical failure is to blame for the disaster is following developments as they unfold and we'll bring you all the updates throughout the day remember you can also find our comprehensive coverage of developments in the tragedy on our team dot com along with this with many children aboard we report on the lucky escape but also those who didn't stand a chance after being pulled under and under the waters within minutes was. our

video footage from the rescue and recovery mission online and also on you tube channel. four news today. these are the images. for asians rule today. more on our breaking news throughout the day here on dmitri's up next with the business news. thanks man let me get straight to my top story headline inflation could be on the wane in russia the central bank says consumer prices could decline over the summer

and this believe there is a chance this will happen given lower food prices and a positive crops for cuts however they still see some risks such as rising demand and budget spending amid soft monetary policy. has been running at five percent since the beginning of the year. gazprom may become a key investor in germany's second largest energy w.e.e.e. spiegel magazine says the investment could amount to fourteen billion dollars now that we facing hard times after the german government decided to abandon nuclear power within a decade tomic power has been its main business now the firm is looking to invest in other sources of energy gas r.w. use developing a multi-billion your investment plan to build renewable energy stations. to move to the markets an oil is continuing its 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 brant is that one hundred fifteen and a half. 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 losers is down three and a half percent on expectations over the lummi earnings report which will come after the closing bell of the u.s. markets and we'll kick off the second quarter results season. european stocks up also lower they've got half an hour to go before the end of trading the footsies down one half percent the dax almost three percent this is on fresh concerns about sovereign debt that are putting financials under pressure investors are waiting for the results over the emergency eurozone amusing it's aimed at preventing the crisis spreading to lead. and seriously it's birthmothers economy going through thousands have seen heavy selloff with bond yields jumping to over five percent investors are concerned about the state of italy's public that it 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 the a gloomy note c.r.t.'s down two percent my six one point three percent this is all negative news coming from abroad and from within the country also falling oil prices have had that toll on energy shares gazprom down one point seven percent was never one point four percent come out of the truck maker is also down point six percent but it was fairing better than the market this is on of course the responder aims to burst three hundred billion dollars to upgrade the company's metal production and the amount of nano technology. investment fund 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 at 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 held talks with twitter last december and then the estimate of the company had less than half the current price of one does the international

investment of mail you group which already has stakes in other internet companies such as i see q groupon zynga and expose 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 run out of stocks which were made before the disastrous earthquake two years says it made four hundred fifty less thousand cars as a result of production hiccups in spring. the headlines are next on r.t. with that.

oh sure is that so much i can tell you but you know larry wilmore so because we're in such a difference the world remembers that you could sense the details of her needs a ditch courtney's that peacekeepers times to protect civilians during the bosnian conflict failed in there to. download the official anti up location on the phone the i pod touch from the top story. one life on the go. video on demand tease mind gold coast's and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question on the

dot com. continuing our breaking news coverage here on our t.v. easier headlines the rescue that's now recovery effort divers retrieving more victims from the doomed pleasure cruiser that sank on sunday in the boulder river and russia's republic of tatarstan. but even with those goes my child remained on that boat the good number of those confirmed dead stands at sixty five as shock relative struggle to come to terms with how their loved ones were dragged to their deaths within minutes. russia's president orders those responsible for the tragedy to be found and punished claiming the disaster unquote barges cruising the country's one. next peter lavelle and guess debate whether this rubber needs a massacre sixteen years ago is being used today as a political tool crosstalk coming up next.

in. globe and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle as the world remembers the tragic events that befell separ need to attach court rules that peacekeepers has to protect civilians during the bosnian conflict failed in their duties sixteen years on do we have a fair and balanced interpretation of this war and do we have a proper memory for all victims. and. to crossed out the bosnian conflict i'm joined by mohammed shakopee he's

a former bosnian ambassador to the u.n. and in london we crossed the me shit out of the old vic she is a political expert on the balkans all right gentlemen crosstalk rules are in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want to go to you first today is the sixteenth anniversary official anniversary of events that occurred inside burning so are you satisfied how mainstream media portrays those events and we can use tragic events or i can you can use whatever you want but how do you feel that the description of that anniversary is being understood understood today. well i've been most unhappy for the last sixteen years the way that it is being represented lead to start out with its description was the worst to walk crime in europe since the second world war the worst war crime in the second world war was the crime of aggression by nazi germany against a neighboring state that was not decided by meat was decided by the nuremberg tribunal.