hour after hour third 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 obviously for the people on shore this next part of the recovery operation could indeed prove to be quite a nightmare and seeing that that come ashore i think the people who have been waiting for answers might unfortunately get the answers that they were dreading. from a summer dream to a nightmare in a matter of minutes. my child remained on that boat. it was a sunday afternoon when the holiday river cruise a bold garia run into difficulties on the volga catastrophe came swiftly if you think of it is that 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 realized my child was gone. the bog area now lies at the bottom of all. of that but the vessel sink in listen three minutes it flipped to the right then i swerved and went down we were literally thrown out and that's how we survived our whole family was on that ship we lost everybody my wife and my grandchildren two vessels passed by and didn't even care to stop and reach out a helping hand we've 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 going through 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 break survivors and relatives. powerless to act and now able

only to wait and go ask. me something 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 answer the phone. as many as fifty of the passengers were under eighteen years old hold into the volga three kilometers about 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. in r.t. the volga bank central russia. when investigators discover why the ageing boat was allowed to sail into open water and saving the poor weather and the search for the

truth behind the tragedy begins at the very highest level as it is now telling of a cover of moscow explodes. russian president between the how the special meeting regarding this incident and he's nuts with the country's emergencies was just to be sure that we ordered to start up a special state committee to investigate into this case and russian transport minister is going to be out of the committee. i want the prosecutor general's office to check for compliance with the political transport regulations by the owners of that 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 were so many children on board the ship the results of an 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 present it is also an else that tuesday july the twelfth is going to be a day of national mourning as we see with video 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 do right from what he's saying we're hearing reports that the boat did not have a license to transport that's injured in the first place other reports say that the best seat of the vessel was all the one hundred and twenty people. at the time of that that there were over two hundred people on board of the boat are also the brits saying that's one of the engines group 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 that if that was the case and one of the engines did break down it would not. of course this horrible tragedy of reports is saying that course it was a very old ship it was savings nineteen fifty five so all of their thought could have caused this tragedy but some of the eyewitnesses saying that's where the conditions in that region at the time was very values very strong winds and some of the survivors are actually saying that as they were trying to evacuate from the boats that 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 repaired for a very long time and many blame it on a human mistake. in turning over cover there was a professor from moscow's academy of water transport told us that the main causes

of likely to be bad weather and for safety regulation. there was information that the ship was overcrowded but the number of passengers i think wouldn't to cause the ship to tip over lose balance there were a lot of kids on board and when a child board the ship his wages counted as an average adult. there was modernization done to the cruiser but i don't see it as a critical factor because before anything is done to a boat it has to be approved by a commission so even if there were violations they weren't crucial the only reasons i can single answer is that there are reports that the wind was eighty meters per second at the time of the accident and boats of this kind can lose balance in such strong winds and also the boat might have been carrying liquid cargo and this could also affect the boat steadiness and the illuminators that were reportedly open might have filled in with water and lead to the boat to tip and this is an irreversible process the vessel just loses balance and sinks with. well we bring you up to date with the key point is that we know so far about the volga cruise

boat disaster divers have found bodies of up to forty children in the musical of the sunken pleasure cruise wrong the volga river the children had gathered there to play before the tragedy struck leaving them trapped as the boat rapidly went under water two hundred seven were on board the vessel got into trouble more than half of them died tuesday has been declared a day of mourning across russia president medvedev has ordered an investigation into why the ship sank saying that decrepit vessels should not still be cruising the country's waterways investigators believe a critical technical failure and human error are likely to be granted disaster we'll keep you fully informed across the. to other news now the middle east peace quartet meet in washington later monday at a time when the israeli palestinian divide is growing wider russia the united states the u.n. and the you have a tough job ahead of them with peace talks with the ring and with the upcoming u.n. vote on recognizing independent palestine the impasse has been compounded two since israel rejected u.s.

backing to return to pre-one nine hundred sixty seven borders as the basis for talks israel began occupying palestinian territories including garza the west bank and east jerusalem in the six day war also driving a wedge and following a solution is the refusal to stop or withdraw jewish settlements on disputed lands at his policy of 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 are the remains of a once bustling arab community only the memories of those who once lived here have survived intact i feel this no need. to come back and to believe. my real inch. to see the house since the road to this green also to. my. among the cacti and figure trees but in one nine hundred forty eight just before

the state of israel was declared his family evacuated and like the hundreds of arab villages that disappeared in forty eight and sixty seven most of the original houses of lifter are still here so they only heard shooting. and shell but. they will shoot through the whole the whole day with the hope they will shoot. our mother took us inside the room in the corner and then the playbill 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 inevitable as the man who lived his house in london for. if he was forced to do just because you were 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 live here years without water without electricity came here to the land for their memory here as 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 houses for forty six years all that remains are stone walls where wild flowers and grass no grow live there 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 houses and. yanni. for route three will came from anywhere in this way i can move in my village and come back. to my freedom and live in. this new me. and. so for palestinians lifter 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 or. the stalled marriage

a representative of them from the bad deal resource center of a palestinian residency and refugee rights earlier one hundred days in jerusalem for us so well thanks for being on our taste pretty sheeted the u.n. vote on the palestinian regulation is closing in on how does this affect the work of a quartet when could peace talks really take place in the shadow of this vote. having disaggregation to raise any opportunity for the vicinity fiji's to be to pay some of the general assembly united nations resolutions which is one one for that means they're not going to be back to their original houses as this resolution say's so if we get that listing in state in the west bank and gaza that's means the refugees will only be eligible to go back to the palestine which is which means west bank and gaza so me as a refugee from

a lead which. arab in gori an airport located now i'm not going back to my own original house that's one of the things that you could think about there's a lot of things that you could think about but the first thing that the most important thing is the right to return is not just. raised it's going to be. not not just a right it's it's not just to recognize a state and including the bill of rights in it you know i don't know where you get the energy from here at this i guess must get you down you see this story going all day in day out the international community's strong words isn't it when it comes to israel's continued settlement building or indeed the gaza blockade but then they are there seems to be little changes impasse impasse what more can the international community do do you think. there is there's

a lot of things have been says except. rather than gas suppresion war settlers settlers harassment settlers attack. vacation home demolitions. land confiscation there's a lot happening in the west bank and gaza there's a lot happening inside israel itself and the one nine hundred forty eight land there is dense now the arab residents of this israel are suffering from the abutted regime that they had now but what they what the international community can do is but ingrates into practice that means that they have to protect the civilians that they are suffering from everything now they have to to commit themselves to accountability they have to commit themselves to protection they have to do what they have to do legally and we are not asking something weird to do we are asking

to be and to apply to apply international law to apply the hague convention to apply the geneva conventions. the so they also want to ask you as well very shortly later on tonight in fight israel to approve isn't it a bill that says that activists who pick it up boycott the country will face a civil lawsuit what do you think of that what is israel want to achieve achieve a way that you think can you please say it again there's a little bit later on tonight in israel to to approve a bellwether here that says that activists who picket or boycott the country will face a civil lawsuit they could be voting on that in about one o'clock moscow time what do you think of that. it's like killing you and be venting to you from screaming. if you if your country is a coup by you have to decide sometimes to be on one side to defend your country

or to deal with the occupation as it's a friendly government. b.d.s. movement and other organizations that chose this. rule and the palestinian society and even internationally choose to be defending their rights within civilized means which means that they they want to defend and they want to their worth as. the western word specially to know about the israeli apartheid regime and what happened in south africa's south africa for example as one of the examples that applied to be the s. movement so if you are preventing me from expressing myself bent me from buying whatever i want. and calling yourself. that democracy the democratic state in the middle east it's not the perfect adjective for such

a country. what what we need here as they needed nations for example needs to activate its rules and accountability the united nations needs to pay the international law that league of arab states for example which is looking just for the palestinian refugees they're not intervening they have to start pushing and bush giving getting pressure and then it states on the big countries the capital countries to give their pressure on israel to to move towards the one state solution we don't have two state solution we don't want it the right to return is the biggest case the biggest question and the palestinian israeli clashes and. patient about hydrogen is here. in jerusalem thanks having your say on the program it's been

a pleasure to have you on r.t. thank you. troubles bridge originally was the edges closer to becoming the fall of european countries need a bailout for rigs that a record high is italy that surges past raising fears now over whether its banks can pass the stress tests senior e.u. officials are set to make but since italy is one of the bigger players saving it won't change their dream chief of belgium's leading business magazine told us throwing money at troubled nations will not help save. italy represents the seventeen percent of g.d.p. of the euro g.d.p. which means that italy in its own is almost three times as big as a tree smaller countries greece i want important 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 phase of this euro crisis you mention throwing money at the problem

whether it's greece portugal ireland and certainly not also italy that is not enough or that can't solve the problem on its own enormous amount of what 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 you just overnight so a lot of energy and a lot of additional money will certainly be spent before we arrived at such a situation and according to me there is no such decision on the rise and if italy comes into this ballgame with the amount that they're involved with this country that might change things quite rapidly. also making headlines tonight packed trains derailed in northern india all trouble for speed at least eighty people are dead over three hundred are injured it's not known how it crashed but some reports suggest the driver to avoid apple causing some of the twelve carriages to land on

top of the others are meetings are now cutting through. the crushed carriages to try to find truck survivors and recover bodies. a series of blasts of the naval the nation's dump in cyprus has killed twelve and wounded more than thirty others it's thought a grass fire spread to the base setting it to have almost one hundred containers alight the last of the damaged cypresses largest just the station two leading to island wide power cuts reports say the explosives have been seized from a ship traveling from iran two years ago they were kept no doubt over the care. and the language syrian government supporters of attack the american and french embassies in the capital damascus they broke the windows of the u.s. compound and raised the syrian flag this in response to the american and french envoys controversial visit to the opposition dominated area the big moments of protests in syria calling for president assad to quit says r t from moscow bring you up to date on the latest we know but the breaking news the number killed in the

volga river tragedy has risen dramatically today as divers now discover the bodies of two forty children in the sunken pleasure cruiser the softer news the children are gathered there to play before they became trapped as that boat rapidly went down underwater more than half of the two hundred seventy who were on board the vessel have died tuesday's been declared a day of mourning across russia president medvedev has ordered an investigation into why the ship sank saying that decrepit vessels should not still be cruising the country's waterways investigators believe a critical technical failure or human error likely to be behind the disaster we will of course bring you developments as they happen throughout the evening. now it's coming up to eight twenty five pm moscow time i'm kevin i won't let me hand you over to me to move a donkey he's got the latest business for you. i

don't warm welcome to business artie headline inflation could be on the wane in russia central bank says consumer prices could decline over the summer and those believe there is a chance this will happen given lower food prices and positive crops forecasts however you still see some risks such as rising demand and budget spending amid soft monetary policy russian inflation has been running at five percent since the beginning of the year. gazprom may become a key investor in germany's second largest energy firm r.w. the spiegel magazine says investment could amount to fourteen billion dollars on w.'s facing hard times after the german government decided to abandon nuclear power within a decade atomic power has been its main business and now the firm is looking to invest in other sources of energy including gas. developing a multi-billion your own investment plan to build renewable energy stations. look

at the markets we start with commodities and the oil is still down on a stronger dollar and concerns about the u.s. economic recovery light sweet is down one a half dollars and ninety four sixty four a barrel and brant is now recovered slightly it's at arden and seventeen dollars per barrel. u.s. markets are down on the same worries about the recovery of the global and the u.s. economy alcoa is leading the way it's down half percent on expectations of a gloomy earnings report which will come out after the closing bell and will kick off the second quarter results in. european markets ended monday's session on a negative know as fresh concerns about sovereign debt are putting financials under pressure investors are waiting for results and emergency euro zone meeting are preventing the debt crisis spreading to italy years and the largest economy in the country's assets have seen a heavy sell off with the. rising by this that the masses are concerned by the high

level of italy's public debt stands at one hundred twenty percent of the gross domestic product. in russia a pretty similar picture the r.t.s. end of the session down two percent my six one point three percent main losers of the day energy shares on a declining crude gas problem therefore down one point seven percent one point four percent truck maker come others also losing both herring better than the market this is on imports rose nano aims to invest three hundred million dollars to upgrade the company's metal production and then nanotechnology. relations capital wraps up today's trade. today we're getting negative sentiment these seas for two reasons for these is the external negative news and second people who got long positions the rally will continue in the last themself and they have to cut some positions on the night there will be gathering more of the european financial ministers who will try to assuage some market for the night from monday to tuesday

they will be forced to report or fall on the korean u.s. . on tuesday morning people will be watching what happened with this report finally in the program car sales in russia seems to be easing the market has grown just sixteen or forty percent rather year on year in july that's compared to a fifty percent increase the previous month the biggest slowdown seen by japanese producers suffering from supply disruptions they've run out of stocks which were made before the disastrous earthquake so yoda says i'm a four hundred fifty thousand less cars as a result of a production hiccups in the spring. headlines are next with kevin go away.

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dot com. hello this is our team from moscow just one story dominating our news coverage today divers make the tragic discovery now of up to forty children's bodies inside the sunken pleasure cruiser in a simple russia that went down in minutes killing one half of the two hundred seven aboard. the but the missile sank in listen three minutes our whole family was on that ship but we lost everybody my wife and grandchildren shocked relatives are struggling to come to terms with how their loved ones but dragged to the deaths within three minutes. to find and punish those responsible for the tragedy early indications by the mix of circumstances from technical failure to human error. the middle east peace corps turret's making

another effort today to negotiate the stalled talks between israelis and palestinians but the decades long conflict could get another twist with the palestinians asking for the un to officially recognize the state of the meeting in september next that we talked to a palestinian politician and former foreign minister 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 thought and one central committee the palestinian israeli conflict has been around for so many decades that it almost became part of you political discourse a bargaining chip and some political and some political leaders may not feel that pressure to keep 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 alright palestinians 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 shaping that agreement way before school started and when no school started between the lobby in the late president israel's prime minister of israel and prison our father the late president i think the hope was absolutely there but this is the solution two states side by side on the holy that divided by the sixty seven border.