i think wouldn't do cause the ship to tip over lose balance there are a lot of kids on board and when a child boards a ship his weight is counted as an average adult mass 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 out is not there are reports that the wind was eighty meters per second at the time of the accident and boats of this kind could lose balance in such strong winds and also the boat might have been carrying liquid cargo and this could also affect the boat sturdiness 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. to catch up with our correspondents in the telling of a cover in tomball 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 in the music hall of the sunken pleasure cruiser on the volga river the children gather

the play before the tragedy struck leaving them trapped as the boat rapidly went under water two hundred seven people were on board that vessel when it 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 medvedev has 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 then 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 were fearing 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 loved but this is certainly a great blow and puts

a lot of confirmation to the fears of rescuers and their life but none of those children inside that room managed to escape the the people looking inside the boat trying to piece together what may have happened people have been asking you questions about what may have happened those are trying to answer but it's a bit of the journey that this boat took it was sailing along the volga river popular river cruise location lots of lots of people on there are no tears on their holidays as someone like 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 been 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 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 well our upon our past and a lot in this last day and through the past night there on the on the small strip of step sound behind me boats have been leaving and arriving a shift of divers another rescue work has to. range and they have been going down again and again to the rescue 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 just 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 there was already a plan mooted to try and bring two ships up from volgograd specialist ships that could raise the raise the ship up of the bulgaria and then they could make make the extraction of those bodies easier and they think that that is now what's going to happen even though that will 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 to a nightmare in a matter of minutes. my 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 if you were sick of it and didn't like it is that people were basically buried alive in time 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 smiled too much water when i was pulled out i realized my child was gone. the bog area 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 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 said. i'm 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 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 and now able only to wait and ask. me if 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 tom watson r.t. the volga bank central russia. well investigators are now discovering why the aging boat was allowed to sail into water in seemingly poor condition and the search for

the truth by the tragedy begins at the highest level artie's nataly north of kabul reports. this news reaction to this has been media to visit was outrage at those behind the desk all those innocent people first of all of course he's expressed his condolences to the family members of those who never left. those he's also held up an emergency meeting during this tragedy the order to set up a special state investigative committee that's going to look into what could have caused this tragedy and he's appointed the heads of the ministry of transportation of russia to be the house of this investigation it's a huge 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 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 right now the investigative committee is looking into three potential causes that could have led to this tragedy number one being the condition of the vessel whether it's been properly looked after for the past fifty five years that it stands on the water number two being human error and number three bad weather conditions present here has also announced tuesday the twelfth of july to be the day of national mourning to remember those who died on that boat and the flags will be lowered throughout the country during the day

present also expressed his condolences to the family members of those who never left the vessel. well if you just joined just 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 now say that they've located the bodies of up to forty children there in the music hall of that sunken pleasure cruise two hundred seven people were on board at the time when that boat got into trouble half of them died we'll bring you more details here on out here as we get it let's take a look at some other 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 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.n. must stop them being silent. if you are preventing me from expressing myself been to me from buying whatever i want. and calling yourself a. democracy the democratic state in the middle east it's not perfect adjective for such a country. what what we need here is the united nations for example needs to activate its rule in accountability dated nations needs to pay the international. 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 on the in its streets on the big countries the capita countries to give their. own. to to move towards their one state solution we don't have two state solution we don't want it their right to return is the biggest case the biggest question in the palestinian israeli clashes. so are the areas being fought over of since become a no man's land for either the palestinians who live there once or the settlements that want to move in polis leave visited one ancient arab village near jerusalem which is former inhabitants a standard 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 is not only have me come back and bring. my village. to see the house since this rain

also to remind. my choir that. your coup de graff among the cacti and fick trees but in one nine hundred forty eight just before the state of israel was declared his family evacuated unlike the hundreds of arab villages that disappeared in forty eight and sixty seven most of the original houses of lifter are still here so the only we heard of sure thing. and shelved. they really should do the whole the whole debate the whole they would shoot through the. 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 livable as the man who lived his house in london for 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 or 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 the only says to prevent arab owners from returning or in their came here on may fourth live here years without water without electricity came here to jerusalem for the memory here as the very improbable 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 lived in these houses for forty six years all that remains are stone walls where wild flowers and grass grow lifter is empty. and it's into that emptiness that the israeli government now plans to build more than

two hundred luxury homes a chicago 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 every three world came from anywhere in this way i can move in my village and come back. return back to my freedom and live in. this new me. and. so i'm 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. lifter. trouble brewing for italy is it edges closer to becoming the fourth european country to need a bailout borrowings at a record high as italy's debt surges past raising fears over whether it can pass a new stress test syria fishelson meet later but since italy's one of its biggest players said it won't be cheap. for belgians leading business magazine says throwing money at troubled nations will not help save. italy represents 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 the three smaller countries i wouldn't 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 new dimension 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 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 need

a billion dollar military aid which america is holding back now it's the 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 of sell a bit about killing in may and the u.s. drone attacks that killed civilians the white house says is i'm about is an important ally in the war on terror but that the relationship must be worked on over time john i saw from a great she told me 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 independents other things they would like to work together ten years ago. it was really very hard to find a clean clean shaven pakistani criticizing 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 a pox on the really lead and very very critical of the united states so i think there's something really wrong and i think various are a huge responsibility also on the on the u.s. media to convey the right it sure to the american public media which is unfortunately they're not doing their very much telling the whatever is the line of the government so i think i don't see in the near future many of the serious differences between pakistan and the united states getting. more world news for you a putt trains derailed in northern india it was traveling at full speed at the time at least eighty people are dead and over three hundred are injured it's not what caused the crash some reports suggest the driver much as it brakes to try to avoid capital that caused some of the twelve carriages to land on top of the others. army teams are now cutting through the crushed carriages to try to find trapped survivors and to recover bodies. the series of blasts naval munitions dump in

cyprus is 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 to city station leading to island wide power cuts reports say the explosives had been seized from a ship traveling from iran two years ago when 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 of in months of protests in syria now calling for president assad to quit. give it to twenty three minutes past ten here in moscow let me bring you up to date on the main 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 the boat rapidly went down more than half of the two hundred seventy hold the vessel at the time he died tuesday will be a day of mourning across russia surviving crew members say their boat couldn't send a distress signal because the city supply failed to transport ministry says it's identified two boats which were nearby but passed on without helping they've been identified in the captain's face prosecution and investigation into the tragedies 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 this is r.t. from moscow it's catch up with the monday night business next. hello to you 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 the low food prices in the positive crops for cost

however they still see some risks such as rising demand budget spending and soft monetary policy inflation 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 r.w. . spiegel magazine says the investment could amount to fourteen billion dollars out of the east facing hard times of the german government decided to exit nuclear power within a decade what are they going to do is 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 in oil is still 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 six declined one point three. if we look at the some of the main movers they are in energy shares are down of course on lower crude prices gas problem one point seven percent after one and a half percent truck make it come are also losing but it was faring better than the market at the close down just point six percent on reports was nano aims to invest three hundred million dollars to upgrade the company's metal production and implementing our technology alexander got to go from renascence capital wraps up the biggest 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 and felt that the rally will continue they just lost themselves and they have to cut some positions on the night there will be gathering more of the financial ministers who will try to assuage some market for the night from monday to tuesday that will be forced to report or fall on the korean u.s. and on tuesday morning people will be watching what happened with this report. and russia's car markets sales of new cars actually going down market has grown just forty percent in june compared to a fifty percent increase in the previous month year on year that is the biggest slowdown as seen by japanese produces suffering from supply disruptions they've run out of stocks which were made before the disastrous earthquake says i'm

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a report on. this is r.t. from moscow the main news tonight divers made the tragic discovery of up to fourteen children's bodies inside the sunken pleasure cruise from central russia it went down in minutes killing almost two hundred seventy. because of the vessel sinking listen three minutes i'll family was on that ship we lost everybody my wife from grandchildren shocked relatives are struggling to come to terms with how their loved ones were dragged to the survivors have been describing their desperate attempts to save them. and russia are orders an inquiry to try to find and punish those responsible for the tragedy that the indications from a mix of circumstances from technical failure to human error. the middle east peace quartet'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 u.n. to officially recognize their state at a 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. hopeful that any sort of lasting solution can be found i wonder why i mean why is it that. the world have

ended colonization and there are no colonies anymore. except or in our case. in line nine hundred nineteen. your question was answered all right but east indians were willing to give up seventy eight percent of the country and accept the west bank and gaza that the world accepted as not israeli occupied in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven. i spent all my life to go shaking that agreement way before the start and when most of us started between the lobby in the late president of israel prime minister of israel and preside over five billet prisoners i think the hope was absolutely dead but this is the solution two states side by side on the holy that divided by the one nine hundred sixty seven borders and an opportunity for.