he 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 the light 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 in a riving shifts of divers another rescue work has changed 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 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 alone 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 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 cruz garia run into difficulties on the volga catastrophe came swiftly to think of it is that people were basically buried alive in china 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 the or the with of the vessel sinking 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 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 them 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. 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 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 for them turned into a living nightmare. the volga bank central russia. investigators was now discover why the aging boat was allowed to sail into open water in seemingly poor weather and the search for the truth behind the tragedy

begins at the very highest level. in moscow as that side of the story. this news reaction to this has been an immediate one and subversive was outrage at those behind the desk all those innocent people first of all of these hold up emergency meeting with gordon this tragedy woodard to set up a special state investigative committee that's going to look into what could have caused this tragedy and he's appointed to the house ministry of transportation know russia to be the house of this investigation that is. 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 over of the vessel whether it's been properly looked after for the past fifty five years that it spends on the water number two being human error and number three bad weather conditions the president gave has also announced tuesday the twelfth of july to be a day of national mourning to remember those who died on that boat and the flags will be lowered throughout the country during the day president is also expressed his condolences to the family members of those who never left the vessel. until you

know of a cover there will artie's been hearing from a river transport supervisor who told us that it's the port authorities are responsible for safety and for letting the boat leave dock in the first place. but . you know it's a very old ship it shouldn't have been used moreover it was built to correspond with safety requirements of the one nine hundred fifty s. and one criteria has changed condition hadn't we have to find out of the sunken cruiser had been tested in a timely in for a way plus the boat was overcrowded with around two hundred people on board which is a serious violation and it should have been allowed to leave port there's also information that one of the engines wasn't working properly and no checks were done in this regard this type of boat is prohibited from leaving port in bad 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. or disappearing yet today with the main points we know so far about the volga cruise

boat disaster the number killed in the volga river tragedy has risen dramatically today as divers discovered the bodies of up to forty children in the sunken pleasure cruiser the 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 have died choose day 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 boycott of petition against the occupancy of palestinian territory and coincides with the latest peace attempts by the international mideast peace quartet in washington rushed. 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 cedes land in gaza and the west bank and gaza growing for the u.n. to stop israelis being silent. if you are preventing me from expressing myself bent 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 they netted 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 and then it states on the big countries the capita countries to give their . pressure on israel to do to move to our it's 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 in the palestinian israeli clashes. some of the areas being fought over have since become a no man's land for both the palestinians who live there and the jewish settlers who want to move in ne polis live visited one ancient arab village near jerusalem which its former inhabitants say stands as a painful memory to injustice. this old 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 is. to come back and to be. my village. to see the heart since the spring. also to my. my clan there. 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 they really were heard shooting. and shell but. they will shoot do they do with the whole the whole day with the hope that they will shoot through the. our mother took us inside the room in the corner and then

the table so as to protect us here cook was one of seven hundred thousand palestinians who became a refugee in one nine hundred forty eight his childhood home was quickly absorbed by the newly established jewish state almost livable as the man who lived his house in london for nevertheless if he was forced to do that just because he was three it and he is considered as absentee and he lost the property in the early one nine hundred fifty s. jews moved into the abandoned homes like you and your husband's parents they were also refugees fleeing arab countries we life had become dangerous after israel was created these ready government sent them to live in lifter your nieces to prevent arab owners from returning when they came here on their for the i believe here years without water without electricity the came here. for the memory here as the very improbable most of the original to. 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 grow this is empty. i did into that emptiness that the israeli government now plans to build more than two hundred luxury homes a chicago tell shops and a museum insisting they'll preserve the area's history we will find ourselves with a neighborhood where history has been conserved there will also be documentation and the story will be told of who live there as we do in all the neighborhoods of jerusalem but maybe luckier could say it's palestinian land and a double injustice why you won't destroy our house. yanni. for. three more came from anywhere.

where i can move in my village and come back. back. and live. with me. 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 already is it a record high is italy's surges past raising fears over whether its banks composite stress tests senior officials are set to meet later but since it leaves one of the big players saving it won't come cheap. for belgium's leading business magazine told us throwing money at troubled nations will not help states. italy represents

a 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 three smaller countries 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 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 have been killed in a suicide bombing at a political rally in northwest pakistan it's the latest violence of the taliban stronghold and comes after pakistan said it could manage without the the a billion dollar military aid which america is planning on holding back it's thought washington's decision is retaliation for islamabad expelling over one hundred u.s. military. the u.s. pakistan relationship but on a strained since the killing in may and u.s. drone attacks that killed civilians white house says is not an important ally in the war on terror but that the relationship must be over time i spoke to journalist ahmed cray she says 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 about the relationship. as a relationship between two independents often 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 very a huge responsibility also on. the u.s. media to convey the right picture to the american public media which is unfortunately they're not doing very much toeing the whatever. line of government so i think i don't see the near future many of the serious differences between pakistan and the united states. the world news briefing pack train has derailed in northern india traveling a full speed 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 call some of the twelve carriages to land on top of the others teams are now cutting through the crush carriages to try to find traps surviving the grim task of recovering bodies. a series of naval munitions dump in cyprus is killed twelve people wounded more than thirty others it's thoughts a grass fire spread to the base setting two out of almost hundred one. containers there are light the blasts of damage cypresses largest the tricity station leading to island wide power cuts reports say the explosives had been seized from a ship traveling around two years ago and they were kept in the death row without proper care. under divine grace 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 doing 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 have died tuesday is 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 into the tragedies been ordered by president medvedev early reports point to a technical failure and human error. it took just about three minutes for the pleasure boat bulgaria to turn over onto its starboard side and go on the water.

that's according to survivors of the tragedy that saw it firsthand rescuers saying there are about seventy bodies and as i mentioned the dozens of children inside the bulgaria cruiser which sank. we'll bring you more as we get it here on r.t. . you can stay with us now that we've got the business coming up. as well oh we've also got more of the. before we have of business because of course you can people buy a television online from us twenty four seventh's. more on the tragic deaths of dozens of children who became trying to. play area and the water within minutes also video reports and footage from the rescue and recovery on law. teams channel two.

news today violence is once again. these are the images. from the streets of canada. for racial to rule the day. this is o.t. for a mosque ok he had a bit of an early introduction but he's definitely in. the business next. thanks kevin thanks very much you're watching business you could have your company headline inflation could be on the wane in russia central 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 the soft monetary policy russian inflation has been running around five percent since

the beginning of the. russia's largest company gazprom may become a key investor in germany's second largest energy firm. spiegel magazine says the investment could amount to fourteen billion dollars facing hard times after the german government decided to abandon nuclear power within a decade atomic power has been its main business now the firm is looking to invest in other sources of energy including gas. is developing a multi billion euro investment plan to build renewable energy stations. but you have the markets now an oil is still down that's on the back of a stronger greenback and concerns about the u.s. economic recovery and global demand light sweet is down more than one dollar at just below ninety five dollars per barrel brant is that two 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 stations 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 this session was seeing the obvious down two percent my six one point three percent maybe that's on the back of declining crude prices therefore gazprom is down one point seven percent was never one point four percent truck make it come ours was also losing down point six but that's better than the market in this is on the board for us now knowing to invest free hundred. billion dollars in the company to upgrade its metal production and implement nanotechnology and i'm going to go from relations capital wraps up the day's trading. 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 that the rally will continue they just lost 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 there will be forced to report or according us. on tuesday morning people will be watching what happened with this report. and car sales in russia 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 the biggest slowdown as seen by japanese producers suffering from supply disruptions they've run out of stocks which were made before the disasters so it is says it may four hundred fifty thousand fewer cars as a result of production pick ups in the spring. and russian investment fund d.s.d. global is buying a share and twitter at the second attempt the deal is said to be worth around four hundred billion dollars twitter itself has been valued at eight billion some analysts say the company is overvalued with the service earning around two hundred

million dollars a year the is the global held talks with twitter last december and then they estimated the company at less than half the current price the fund is the international investment arm of mail dot ru group which has stakes already and other internet companies such as i seek you group. and facebook. for me join my colleague. a.t.m. moscow times you'll be doing you choose day's business update if you can join of course headlines are next with kevin.

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a new story coverage tonight 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 almost half of the two hundred seventy. three minutes i'll family was on that ship the last everybody my wife and grandchildren. struggling to come to terms with how their loved ones were dragged to the deaths survivors have been describing the desperate attempts to save others. and. to find and punish those responsible for the tragedy early indications claim a mix of circumstances from technical failure to human error. it's eleven thirty

one pm here in moscow up next people of ellen is guest about whether the massacre sixteen years ago is being used today as a political tool crosstalk. close in the welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle as the world remembers the tragic events the divel separate needs a dutch court rules that peacekeepers task to protect civilians during the bosnian conflict failed in their duties sixteen years on do we have a fair and balanced interpretation of this war and we have a proper memory for all victims. to crossed out the bosnian conflict i'm joined by mohammed shakopee he's a former bosnian ambassador to the u.n.

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