just hotel time ambassador to the hotel for points pleasures and i would print certain discipline brutal in touch with the who tell me touch your group the future a google how would international house flood the cim every green little hotel in talk of. breaking news on r t divers make the tragic discovery of up to forty children's bodies inside the sunken pleasure cruiser in central russia it went down in minutes killing more than half of the two hundred seventy one. hopes have parades are finding people alive from the sunken ship but the search now goes on to extract the bodies from under the water president it says those responsible for the tragedy and then speak found and prosecuted as he believes the vessel was not in a condition to say oh just the details in just. our child

remained on my part shocked relatives struggled to accept how their loved ones were dragged to their deaths when the ball here is sunk in over the water during a weekend trip. welcome you're watching r t from moscow it's ten pm here now we know in one story dominates our coverage or how during development in the volgograd tragedy in the last few hours divers say they've seen the bodies of up to forty children in a musical of the sunken pleasure cruiser two hundred seventy people are on board the boat got into trouble yesterday more more than half of them have died in a few minutes are these the telling of a cover in moscow tells us how the investigation has to uncover how the disaster happened first the time bottom who's near the rescue operation h.q. in tatarstan. hopes. parades are finding people alive

from the sunken ship but the search now goes on to extract the bodies from under the water this is the good systems responsible for the tragedy are going to be found them prosecuted he believes the vessel was not in a condition to save just the details in just. investigators now discover why the ageing boat was allowed to sail into open water and simply poor weather in the search for the truth behind the tragedy begins at the highest levels of his an italian overcovered moscow explains in fact let's go to tom. he's got the latest for us let's see if we can a culture with tom shall we. indeed we can. let's get some expert view we're hoping to get out for two correspondents in a second

a professor from moscow's academy of water transport told us that the main causes of likely bad weather and poor 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 are a lot of kids on board and when a child board the ship his weight is counted as an average adult mass there was modernization in terms of the cruiser but i don't see it as a critical factor because before anything is done to oppose it has to be approved by a commission so even if there were violations they weren't crucial the only reasons i can single out is not there are reports that the wind was eighty meters per second at the time of the accident and thought 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 with steadiness and the illuminators that were reportedly open might have filled in with water and led to the bill to tip and this is an irreversible process a vessel just loses balance and sinks with. the catch up with our correspondents in

the telling of recovering some part in just a moment let me bring you up to date on the points that we do know so far today about the volga cruise boat disaster divers have found up to forty children and music all of the sunken pleasure cruiser on the volga river the children gather the play before the tragedy struck leaving them trapped as a boat rapidly went under water two hundred seven people were on board that vessel when he got into trouble as i mentioned just now more than half of them died tuesday has been declared a day of mourning across russia president event is ordered an investigation into why the ship sank saying that the crippled vessel should not still be cruising the country's waterways investigators believe a critical technical failure and human error are likely to be behind the disaster as catch up as promised with tom barton. the people here have been waiting hour upon hour with their heads down they haven't wanted to talk to was the media and this is exactly what they would be hearing most some of them may

be related to these young victims some of them to other victims on board the boat some of them may still not have heard about the people they love but this is certainly a great blow and puts a lot of confirmation of the fears of rescuers in their life but none of those children inside. managed to escape the people looking inside the boat trying to piece together what may have happened and people have been asking questions about what may have happened rosa trying to answer to the journey to this boat it was sailing along the river cruise location lots of lots of people on their hands around the holidays and some alike to go along that when the boat got very rapidly into trouble and when i say very rapidly the whole thing got under water in under three minutes this is what gave rise to such

a terrible death toll the fact that people didn't even have time to put on their life jackets or to organize a proper kind of evacuation before the water was on them or they had to jump into the water one of the relatives of victims on the boat earlier spoke about the ordeal that she has going through. the baldwins 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 the new list now i'm waiting to see photos well our upon our past and the light in this last day on through the past night on the on the small strip of stepson behind me boats have been leaving in a riving shifts of divers and other rescue workers. range and they have been going down again and again so the rest of the ship to the sunken ship they took some

camera equipment with them and showed us some quite graphic footage of them bringing up bodies earlier on good does knows what that footage would look like if they'd taken a camera into this room but it now they have now said that they're not going to be able to bring all of these children's bodies out just through just through taking them through the ship it was already a plan mooted to try and bring two ships up from volgograd specialist ships that could raise the raise the ship part of the bulgaria and then they could make make the extraction of those bodies easier and they think that that's is now what's going to happen even though they take another four to five days to do of course when that ship comes up it will be a culmination of what suddenly turned into their night. from a summer dream so a nightmare in a matter of minutes. our child remained on that boat. it

was a sunday afternoon when the holiday river cruiser bold garia run into difficulties on the volga catastrophe came swiftly if you didn't people were basically buried alive and trying metal coffin he managed to get out through the windows i was there with my ten year old daughter i couldn't rescue han she swallowed too much water when i was pulled out i realized my child was gone. the ball garia now lies at the bottom of. the vessel sink in 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 my wife and my grandchildren to vessels pass by and didn't even care to stop and reach out a helping hand we spent around two hours in the water before we were rescued i said . i'm around searching for survivors and couldn't find anybody i thought there were a lot of children on the ship they were all in me going through it was impossible

for me to get out of that my grandson would be five years old tomorrow he went on the ship to celebrate his birthday many of the passengers were families with children on a weekend sightseeing break survivors and relatives powerless to act i'm now able only to wait for the us. media 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 on to the vulgar three kilometers in the back 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 tom watson r.t. the volga bank central russia. will investigate is a no discovering why the ageing boat was allowed to sail into water in seemingly poor condition in the search for the truth but the tragedy begins at the highest level artie's no telling off the cover reports. thanks news reaction to this has been an immediate one as a person was outraged at those behind a desk all those innocent people first of all of course he's expressed his condolences to the family members of those who never left. though he's also held up an emergency meeting during this tragedy that occurred to set up a special state's investigative committee that's going to look into. this tragedy and he's appointed the heads of the ministry of transportation to russia to be the house of this investigation it's an issue i want to 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 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 decrepid 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 right now the investigative committee is looking into retention causes that could have led to this tragedy number one being the condition of the castle whether it's been properly looked after for the past fifty five years that expands on the water number two being

human error and number three bad weather conditions at present it has also announced tuesday the twelfth of july to be the day of national mourning to remember those who died one does go to and the flags will be lowered real to country during the day president bay is also expressed his condolences to family members of those who never left the vessel. well if you just joined. in the last hour or so just bring you up to date on the latest that we do know about this unfolding tragedy in the volga river yesterday in the last few hours divers know say that they've ok to the bodies of up to forty children there in the music all of that some can pleasure cruise two hundred seven people are on board at the time and got into trouble half of them. were bringing more details. let's take a look at some of the news now and israel's being accused of stifling free speech by applying to pass a law to take legal action against its own citizens if they oppose jewish

settlements in the west bank it covers israelis who boycott or petition against the occupation of palestinian territory and coincides with the latest peace attempts by the international middle east quartet in washington russia or the united states the u.n. and the e.u. have a tough job later monday the u.n. vote on recognizing palestine lies ahead and television angry that its biggest ally the u.s. supports the pre nine hundred sixty seven borders before israel seized land in gaza in the west bank but some israelis say the u.s. must stop them being silent. if you are preventing me from expressing myself prevent me from buying whatever i want. and calling herself. a very moderate democratic state in the middle east it's not perfect adjective for such a country. what we need here is the united nations for example needs to activate its rule in accountability they needed nations needs to play the international.

league of arab street for example which is looking just for the palestinian refugees they're not intervening they have to start pushing and bridges giving good impression and in its streets in big countries the capita countries to give their. own. to to move towards a one state solution we don't have to teach illusion that we don't want it their right to return is the biggest case the biggest question in the palestinian israeli clashes. some of the areas being fought over of sense become a no man's land for the palestinians who live there once all the settlements that want to move in policy have visited one ancient arab village near jerusalem which is former inhabitants so it stands as a painful memory to injustice mistletoe in the mountains of jerusalem are the remains of a once bustling community only the memories of those who once lived here have

survived intact. back to bring. my village. since the war that's. also. my car there. among the cacti and fig trees but the one nine hundred forty eight just before the state of israel was declared his family evacuated unlike the hundreds of arab villages they disappeared in forty eight and sixty seven most of the original houses of lifter are still here so they really were headed to. and child. they really should do the whole of the whole brutal whole. hour another group of us inside the room in a corner and then there so as to prove to. us you could was one of seven hundred

thousand palestinians who became a refugee in one nine hundred forty eight is childhood home was quickly absorbed by the newly established a jewish state almost biblical as being a bowl of his house in london for the inevitable as if he was forced to go just because he was rewritten 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 or your husband's karin's they were also refugees fleeing arab countries will life become dangerous after israel was created the israeli government sent them to live in lifter you only says to prevent arab owners from returning or in the term here and therefore live here without water without electricity came here. for the memory here as the very import of most of the original two hundred jewish families left because life in the mountains was difficult and the government was slow to develop the area no one has lebanese

how this for forty six years all that remains are stone walls where wild flowers and grass now grow if there is empty. i get into that emptiness that israeli government now plans to build more than two hundred luxury homes a ship hotel 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 many like you could say it's palestinian land and it double in justice. roy our. yeah me. for every three will came from anywhere in the way i got in my village and come back. to my precinct and.

this. is so i forgot a stimulus and if there 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 every time they drive into jerusalem policy r.t. lifter. trouble brewing for italy is the edges closer to becoming the fourth european country to need a bailout already is that a record high as italy's debt surges past raising fears over whether its banks can pass a new stress test syria facials meet later but since italy's one of its biggest players said it won't be cheap in chief a belgian leading business magazine says throwing money at troubled nations will not help save. italy represents seven 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 three smaller countries and 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 a new dimension throwing money at a 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 amounts of what i call political capital has been invested in this 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 amount that they're involved with this country that might change things quite rapidly. five people being killed in a suicide bombing at a political rally in northwest pakistan it's the latest violence of the taliban stronghold and it comes after pakistan said it could manage without the billion dollar military aid which america's holding back now and still washington's decision is retaliation for islam about expelling over one hundred u.s. military advisers the u.s. pakistan relationship has been on the straight since the building in may and the u.s. drone attacks that killed civilians the white house says is i'm about to be put in a war of terror that the relationship must be worked on over time and i saw from a cray she told me the business is going to be tough to fix. i don't think we're seeing any signs that the u.s. officials are really sincere of the new solution sure. as a relationship it depends on them and they would like to work together ten years ago. if it was really very hard to find

a clean shaven foxtel you criticize in the united states it was it was taken for granted if you're criticizing the u.s. you must be some pretty stiff but today you have people from the upper classes of pakistan really lead 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 in the of the u.s. media to convey the right the church and the american public even which is unfortunately they're not doing very much toeing the whatever. line of government so i think i don't see the near future there are many of these serious differences between pakistan and the united states. more world news for you a packed train has derailed in northern india it was troubling of speed at the time at least eighty people are dead and over three hundred are injured it's not know

what caused the crash some reports suggest the driver hit your majesty brakes to try to avoid kapil that caused some of the twelve carriages to land on top of the others are meetings and no cutting through the crushed carriages to try to find trapped survivors and to recover bodies. the series of blasts naval munitions dump in cyprus has killed twelve and wounded more than thirty other people it's called a grass fire may have spread to the base setting two out of almost one hundred containers there are light blasts of damage cypresses largest like the city station leading to island wide power cuts reports say the explosives have been seized from a ship traveling around two years ago they were kept in the depo without proper care. hundreds of angry syrian government supporters of attack the american and french embassies in the capital damascus the broke windows of the u.s. compound and raised the syrian flag is in response to the american and french envoys controversial visit to an opposition dominated area have been months of protests in syria now calling for president assad to quit. good to twenty three

minutes past ten here in moscow that will bring it to date of may developments in our top story this monday evening the number killed in the volga river tragedy has risen dramatically as divers discover the bodies of up to forty children in the sunken pleasure cruise and the children gathered in a play room before they became trapped as rapidly went down more than half of the two hundred seven board the vessel at the time the guy choose they will be a day of mourning across russia surviving crew members say their boat couldn't send a distress signal because the actress of the supply transport ministry says it's identified two boats which were nearby but passed on without help think they've been identified in the captain's face prosecution their investigation into the tragedy has been ordered by president vet of early reports point to critical technical failure and human error since we know more we'll of course bring you up to date as well as our team from moscow that's catch up with a monday night business next.

well if you're watching business r.t. good to have your company headline inflation could be on the wane in russia central banks as consumer prices could decline over the summer analysts believe there is a chance this will happen given lower food prices and the positive crops forecast however they still see some risks such as rising demand and project spending amid softer monetary policy. has been running at around five percent since the beginning of the year gazprom may become a key investor in germany's second largest energy are w e spiegel magazine says the investment could amount to fourteen billion dollars out of the east facing hard times after the german government decided to exit nuclear power within a decade but are they going to do it but its main business now the firm is looking to invest in other sources of energy including gas hardly is developing a multi-billion euro investment plan to build renewable energy stations. most of

the markets now and world is still way down this is on a stronger dollar and concerns about the u.s. economic recovery in global demand therefore brant blend is down as recovered slightly one hundred seventeen and a half dollars per barrel light sweet at just below ninety five. u.s. markets also down though this is of course on worries about the debt problems in europe alcoa is among the biggest news this is down two point six percent on expectations of a gloomy earnings report which will kick off the second quarter results season that report is actually coming out after the closing bell and russian markets ended the first day of the week on a negative note the r.t.s. went down two percent my sixty one one point three. if we look at the some of the main movers there they are in energy shares are down of course on lower crude prices gazprom one point seven percent loss they have their one and a half percent drug maker come out as also losing but it was very better than the

market at the close down just put six percent on reports was now no names to invest three hundred million dollars to upgrade the company's metal production and implementing our technology products on the greek government takes its capital wraps up very straight. day we've got a leg of sentiment these things for two reasons for these is the external negative news and second people who got a lot of positions and feel that the rally will continue in the last themself and there may have to cut some positions on monday night there will be gathering all of the european financial ministers who will try to sort of some market for the night from monday to tuesday they will be forced to report or for according us. on the morning people will be watching. with this report. and russia's car markets sales of new cars are actually going down the market has grown just

forty percent in june compared to a fifteen percent increase in the previous month year on year that is the biggest slowdown is seen by japanese produces as suffering from supply disruptions they've run out of stocks which were made before the disastrous earthquake theatre says i'm a four hundred fifty thousand less cars as a result of production hiccups and spring. they're up to date we will be back in fifteen minutes time headlines the next we have.

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