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struggled accept how their loved ones were dragged to the deaths where the bulgarians sank in open water during a weekend. watching r.t. from moscow it's now eleven pm it's kevin zero in here with you this hour and one news story dominating on our coverage tonight the harrowing developments in the volga river tragedy earlier this afternoon divers say they've seen the bodies of up to forty children trapped in a room on the sunken pleasure cruise it two hundred seven people wrong boarding the boat got into trouble around half of them have perished. is near the rescue operation h.q. in tatarstan. 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 love but this is certainly a great blow and puts a lot of confirmation to the fears of rescuers and their like but none of those children inside that room managed to escape the the people looking inside the boat have tried to piece together what may have happened and people have been asking questions about what may have happened if we try and glance back at the journey that this boat took it was sailing along the volga river popular river cruise location lots of lots of people on their weekends on their holidays and 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 go out 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. and 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 a 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 pasts and a lot in this last day and through the past on the on the small strip of step son behind me popes have been leaving and arriving shifts of divers another rescue workers to. page and they have been going down again and again so the wreck 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 goodness knows what that forces 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 alone it was already a plan mooted to try and bring two ships up from volgograd specialist ships that could raise the raise the ship up. 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 that'll take another four to five days to do of course when that ship comes up will be a culmination of what suddenly turned into their nightmare. 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 cruiser bold garia run into difficulties

on the volga catastrophe came swiftly if you think of 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 swallowed too much water when i was pulled out i realized my child was gone. the bulgarian now lies at the bottom of. the missile sinking listen three minutes it flipped to the right panel 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 grandchildren two vessels passed 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 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 were 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 from the bank these people behind me are just some of the relatives desperate for news about their loved ones and what was a pleasure boat cruise has for them turned into a living nightmare tom watson r.c.

of all the bike central russia. investigators was now discover why the aging boat was allowed to sail in the open water and seemingly poor weather and the search for the truth behind the tragedy begins at the very highest level of his battalion overcover in moscow as that side of the story. this news reaction to this has been media one as a person was outraged by those behind a desk all those innocent people first of all these hold up the emergency meeting regarding this tragedy that woodard to set up a special stage investigative committee that's going to look into this was this tragedy and he's appointed to the house to the ministry of transportation or russia to be the house of this investigation because. i want the prosecutor general's office to check the compliance with

a political transport regulations by the owners of the vessel and state officials that certified it is suitable for cruising and generally everyone related to the organization of this cruise especially considering the fact there was so many children on board the ship the results of an investigation should be summed up and not only in relation to vision of civic catastrophe but in relation to all vessels of his class and other classes as well a 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 committees would be in to see the central causes that could have led to this tragedy number one being the condition old the bustle whether it's been properly looked after for the past fifty five years that it stands out when the water number two being human error and number three bad weather conditions other than give has also announced tuesday the twelfth of july to be the day of national

mourning to remember those who died on the outskirts and the flags will be lowered rail the country that during the day for the base also expressed his condolences to family members of those who never left the vessel. telling overcover there were a lot he's been hearing from river transport supervisor who told us that it's the port authorities are responsible for safety and for letting the boat leave talk in the first place. you know it's a very old ship it shouldn't have been used moreover it was booted correspond with safety requirements of the nineteen fifties but what criteria has changed the books condition hadn't 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 ports there's also information that one of the engines wasn't working properly and was no checks were done in this regard this type of boat is prohibited from leaving ports in part

weather when we've threatened to reach two meters this is considering there was information of a storm what port authorities are responsible for all those safety breaches. i disagree here today with the main points we know so far about the volk of cruise boat disaster the number killed in the vulgar of a tragedy has risen dramatically today as divers discovered the bodies of up to forty children in the sunken pleasure cruise or children had gathered in a playroom before they became trapped as the boat rapidly went under water more than half of the two hundred seventy were on board the vessel of tuesday will be marked as a day of mourning across russia surviving crew members say their boat couldn't send a distress signal because the electricity supply failed the transport ministry says it's identified two boats which were nearby but passed without helping they've been identified and the captain's face prosecution an investigation into the tragedies been ordered by president medvedev early reports point to technical failure and

human error will bring the developments as they happen in the coming hours. let's take a look at some other news now today and israel's being accused of stifling free speech by planning 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 are titian against the occupancy palestinian territory and coincides with the latest peace and service by the international mideast peace quartet in washington rushed. here 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 tell of eames angry that its biggest ally the u.s. supports the one thousand and sixty seven borders before israel sees land in classrooms the west bank and gaza growing for the u.n. to stop israelis being silent. if you are preventing me from expressing myself been to me from buying whatever i want. and calling yourself. that you

moderate the 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 dated nations needs to play the international. league of arab states for example which is looking just for the palestinian refugees they're not intervening they have to it's target pushing and bush giving getting pressure and then it's the. big countries the capita countries to give their. pressure on israel to to move towards one speech aleutian we don't have to stay solution we don't want it right to return is the biggest case the biggest question in the listing in israeli clashes. some of

the areas being fought over have since become a no man's land for both palestinians who live there and the jewish settlers who want to move in nazis paulus lee visited one ancient arab village near jerusalem which its former inhabitants say sounds is a painful memory to injustice. missiles 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. and hadn't come back to bring. my village. hobson's the world through this. also. my car that. grew up among the cacti and fig trees but the 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 they only were heard and.

they will shoot through the middle of the hall get a hold the brutal hopefully they will shoot. over another us inside the room in a corner and then they're going through the brick with. us he could 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 movable as being a ball of his house in london for. he was forced to do just because he. didn't he was considered as an absentee and he lost the property in the early one nine hundred fifty s. jews moved into the abandoned homes like you only your comments parents they were also refugees fleeing arab countries will likely become dangerous after israel was created these really government sent him to live in lifter he only says to prevent

arab owners from returning when the came here and therefore live here near without water without electricity came here to jordan and for them this memory here is the very import of 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 to me is how this for forty six years all that remains are stone walls where wild flowers and grass no grow if there is empty. and get into that emptiness that israeli government now plans to build more than two hundred luxury homes a chicago tel shops and a museum insisting they will preserve the area's history we will find ourselves with a neighborhood where history has been concert 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 really lucky i could say it's palestinian land and

a double injustice. to destroy our house and. yanni. for. him from anywhere in the way i come in my village and come back. to my precinct and live. with me through. this so only for kind of stimulants and if there is a physical the mind 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 try into jerusalem police here are t. lift. troubles brew for italy because it edges closer to becoming the fourth european country to lead a bailout or any sort of record highs italy's debt surges past the earnings raising fears over whether its banks can pass the stress tests senior officials are set to

meet later but since italy is one of the bigger players saving it will come cheap you know for a chief of belgium's leading business magazine told us throwing money at troubled nations will not help states. italy represents seventeen percent of g.d.p. of the eurozone g.d.p. which means that italy in its own is almost three times as big as three smaller countries greece ireland or 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 face of this euro crisis and you mention throwing money at the problem whether it's greece portugal ireland 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 euro project so giving it up as

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 and it's the latest violence in the taliban stronghold and comes off a pakistan said it could manage without the the a billion dollar military aid which america's planning on holding back and still washington's decision is retaliate shouldn't presume about expelling over one hundred u.s. military advisers the u.s. pakistan relationship has been on a strain since the killing in may and u.s. prototypes and killed civilians white house says is now about an important ally in the world tara but the relationship must be worked on over time as photojournalist

immigration he says the president says 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 solution sure. as a relationship with depends on who's they would like to work together ten years ago . if it was really very hard to find a clean cliched buckstone you criticize in the united states it was it was taken for granted if you're criticizing the u.s. you must be some radical extremist today you have people from the upper classes approx them 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 u.s. media to convey the right church and the american public i mean which is unfortunately they're not doing we're very much telling the world ever. in line of

events government so i think i don't see the near future many of the serious differences between pakistan and the united states is. world news briefing few know a packed train has derailed in northern india traveling a few feet at least eighty people are dead over three hundred have been injured it's not known how it crashed but some reports suggest the driver hit the emergency brakes to avoid cattle but cause some twelve carriages to land on top of the others army teams are now cutting through the crush carriages to try to find trapped survivors and the grim task of recovering bodies. a series of blasts of the naval militia is dumped in cyprus has killed twelve people and wounded more than thirty others its thoughts a grass fire spread to the base setting two out of almost one hundred containers there are light blasts of damage cypresses largest electricity station leaving two island wide power cuts reports said the explosives had been seized from a ship traveling around two years ago and they were kept in the death row without

proper care. hundreds of angry syrian government supporters have attacked the american and french embassies in the capital damascus they 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 eleven months of protests in syria calling for president assad to quit. reminder of the main news this monday night here and see the number killed in the volga river tragedy has risen dramatically today divers say from the south to do that they've now discovered the bodies of up to forty children in the sunken pleasure cruiser they gathered in a play room before becoming trapped as the boat went under water more than half of the two hundred seven who were on board the vessel of died tuesday said to be a day of mourning across russia surviving crewmembers say power cuts stop them sending a distress signal the transport ministry says it's identified two boats which passed nearby but failed to help their captain is now face prosecution an

investigation of the tragedies been ordered by president medvedev early reports point of a technical failure and human error. it took just about three minutes. the pleasure boat the bulgaria to turn over onto that starboard side and go on the water. that's according to survivors of the tragedy the sword first hand rescue is saying there are about seventy bodies and as i mentioned the dozens of children inside the bulgarian cruiser which sank. more as we get it here on r.t. . can stay with us now that we've got the business coming up. and online as well like we've also got more about the vulgar river tragedy that we tell you about before we have a business because of course you can't keep a great way of television cameras online from us twenty four seven we report there more on the tragic deaths of dozens of children who became trapped in popes in the boat play area and called on the water within minutes also we got video reports and

footage from the rescue and recovery online that our team huge channel. four news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images we're seeing from the streets of canada. showing corporations. this is r t for a moscow ok he had a bit of an early introduction to these definitely and now the meat from of the bank is gone the business for you next. thanks kevin thanks very much you watch your business r.t. could have your company headline inflation could be on the wane in russia so the

bank says consumer prices could decline over the summer analysts believe there is a chance this will happen given lower food prices and positive crops forecasts however they still see some risks such as rising demand and budget spending and soft monetary policy russian invasion has been running around five percent since the beginning of the here. russia's largest company gazprom may become a key investor in germany's second largest energy from other. spiegel magazine says the investment could amount to fourteen billion dollars on the face and hard times after german government decided to abandon nuclear power within a decade atlantic power has been its main business and other than is looking to invest in other sources of energy food and gas other developing a multi-billion euro investment plan to build renewable energy stations. look at the markets now and well is still down on the back of the stronger greenback and concerns about the u.s. economic recovery in global demand light sweet is down more than one dollar at just below ninety five dollars per barrel brant is a one hundred seventeen. in the u.s.

the markets are heading down further and further with every hour dow jones down one point three percent nasdaq more than two percent alcoa as one of the biggest losers is down two point six percent of the expectations of a gloomy earnings report which will come out after the closing bell and we'll be kicking off the second quarter results season. in russia the markets also ended the first day of the week there is session was seeing the obvious down two percent my stocks one point three percent mainly that's on the back of declining crude prices therefore gazprom down one point seven percent was now one point four percent drugmaker come ours was also losing ground point six but that's better than the market this is on record for us not going to invest free hundred million dollars in the company to upgrade its metal production and implement manno technology and it's not going to go from relations capital wraps up the day's trading. today we're getting negative sentiment these things for two reasons for reasons need stornoway

confused and second people who got a lot of positions and felt that the rally will continue the last themself and they may have to cut some positions on monday night there will be gathering more of the european financial ministers who will try to sort through some markets and for the night from monday to tuesday they will be forced to report or from a korean u.s. . when it comes to morning people will be watching what happened with this report. car sales in russia are easy newcastle's to be exact the market has grown forty percent in june year on year but that's compared to a fifty percent increase the previous month biggest slowdown a single jeff anees produces something from supply disruptions they've run out of stocks which were made before the disasters of two years and says it made four hundred fifty thousand fewer cars as a result of production pick ups in the spring. than rush investment fund d.s.t.

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