i made it out alive but i can 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 son behind me boats have been leaving and arriving shifts of divers another rescue work has changed and they have been going down again and again to 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 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 volga grads 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 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. child remained on that boat. it was a sunday afternoon when the holiday river cruise garia run into difficulties on the volga catastrophe came swiftly as you can see from its believe it in fact 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 on the bow garia now lies at the bottom. of the middle of the vessel sinking listen three minutes it flipped to the right people swerved and went down a bit here we were literally thrown out and that's how we survived our whole family

was on that ship we lost everybody my wife your grandchildren two of you 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 swam around searching for survivors and couldn't find anybody so there were a lot of children on the ship they were all in the going through it was impossible for me to get out of that my grandson would be five years old tomorrow he went on the ship to celebrate the 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 for the us. media to think 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 but they should give us at least some

information we're calling the search and rescue service but i don't ask for 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. the volga bank central russia. investigators know discover why the ageing boat was allowed to sail into open water and seemingly poor weather and the search for the truth behind the tragedy begins at the very highest level as it is now telling of a cover in moscow explains. this news reaction to this has been an immediate one and it's a visit was outrage at those behind the desk all those innocent people first of all of these hold up emergency meeting guarding this tragedy that 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 investigative committee which 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 old 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 other than give has also announced tuesday the twelfth of july to be the day of national mourning to remember those who died on doubts boats 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. there's little hope of finding survivors but the emergencies minister says the intense search operation will go on . which was converged to the rescuers have circled around the scene of the tragedy four times and also nearby islands in search of survivors helicopters and boats are patrolling the area around the clock additional help from psychologists is very

much needed we are expecting more medical personnel to arrive shortly to cancel the victims and relatives. so the main point is that what we know so far about the walker cruise boat disaster to sum up for you the number killed has risen dramatically today divers discovered the bodies of up to forty children in the sunken pleasure cruiser the children gathered to play room before they became trapped as the boat rapidly went on the water a right half of the two hundred seventy were on board the vessel died tuesday will be a day of mourning across russia surviving crew members say they couldn't send a distress signal because the electricity supply had failed the transport ministries identified two boats which passed nearby without helping their captain's face prosecution now an investigation into the tragedy has been ordered at the highest level by president medvedev there are reports point to a critical technical failure and human error as soon as we know more of the coming days we will of course keep you posted. look at

some other news now israel has passed a law which allows it 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 but it coincides with the latest peace attempts by the international mideast peace quartet made up of russia the united states the u.n. and the e.u. in september the u.n. is also due to vote on recognizing palestine and televisa angry that its biggest ally the u.s. supports the pre nine hundred sixty seven borders before israel sees land in gaza or the west bank calls to growing for the u.n. to stop people being silenced. if you are preventing me from expressing myself been to me from buying. whatever i want. and calling yourself. that democracy the democratic state in the middle east it's not perfect adjective for

such a country. what what we need here is dated 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 to move towards 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 since become a no man's land for both the palestinians who live there and the jewish settlers who want to move in his policy visited one ancient arab village near jerusalem

which is foreign habit and say there's 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. the come back and to bring. my village. to see the hobson's the world this rain also to remind. my tire that. 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 child to mama. they will shoot do they do with the whole the whole deal with the whole they

were. 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 inevitable as the man who lived his house in nineteen forty 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 only your husband's parents they were also refugees fleeing arab countries we life had become dangerous after israel was created these really government sent them to live in lifter your nieces to prevent arab owners from returning or in their came here on their for the a believe here years without water without electricity that came here. for their memory here

as a very important most of the original two hundred jewish families lived because life in the mountains was difficult and the government was slow to develop the area no one has lived to me is how those for forty six years all that remains are stone walls where wild flowers and grass now go live is empty. and it's into that emptiness that the israeli government now plans to build more than two hundred luxury homes a chicago tel shops and a museum insisting they'll preserve the area's history we will find ourselves with a neighborhood where history has been conserved there will also be documentation and the story will be told of who lived there as we do in all the neighborhoods of jerusalem but maybe luckier could say it's palestinian land and a double injustice why you want to destroy our house and.

yanni. four of the route three route came from anywhere in the way i can move in my beliefs and come back. to my freedom and live. with me. and. nice so only for palestinians lived there 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 if we time they drive into jerusalem policy r.t. lifter to take you through some of the news headlines this morning a packed train has derailed in northern india travelling a full speed of the time at least eighty people are dead over three hundred have been injured it's not known exactly what happened but some reports suggest the driver hit the emergency brakes to try to avoid cattle but then caused some of the twelve carriages to land on top of the others are meetings and no cutting through the crushed carriages to find truck survivors and recover bodies. a series of

blasts of the naval munitions dump in cyprus has killed twelve people and wounded more than thirty others it's all a grass fire spread to the base setting two out of almost one hundred containers there are light blasts of damaged cypresses largest electricity stations led to island wide power cuts reports so the explosives had been seized from a ship travelling from around two years ago and they'd been kept in the depo without proper care. hundreds of angry government supporters have attacked the american and french embassies in the syrian 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 a bit months of protests in syria now calling for president bashar al assad to quit sports a political writer col shari told me that the west and syria try to maintain the delicate balance in the region. the two parties are to die and seeing where they've

arrived at the stage where they both need each other and i'm talking about the syrian government and the west and specifically syria where i think the perception is now that the us wants to find. convenient solution if you like that maintains their billet in syria and the government is running out of options it's quite obviously has lost a lot of its austerity if it if if not most of its authority on the ground in syria and any sort of at them that they are starting to buy. into anti american sentiment or nationalistic national rather sentiment or sentiment would sort of give them the illusion they're getting by credibility so there's a very fine balance that it's being done or very here but i don't think it's convincing to anyone who was observing the situation from the outside neither the u.s. really is willing or has the power to actually intervene realistically in syria and

the syrian government or all story these are in a very tight corner. troubles break for italy as it edges closer to becoming the fourth european country to need a bailout borrowing the record highs italy's debt surges past raising fears therefore over whether its banks can pass e.u. stress tests senior officials are set to meet later but since italy is one of the bigger players saving it won't come cheap the editor in chief of belgians leading business magazine told us 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 greece i went in portugal 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 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 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 rise and if italy comes into this ballgame with the amount that they're involved with this country that might change things quite rapidly. if you just joined us here are you watching around the world thanks for being with us you can see what our main story is on that red strap but the bottom line there let me bring you up to date as well as what you're seeing on the bottom of your screens the number killed in the volga river tragedy has risen dramatically today divers have discovered the bodies of up

to forty children now in the sunken pleasure cruise if they gathered in a playroom before becoming trapped. as the boat went on the water more than half of the two hundred seven who were on board the vessel died tuesday is 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 and investigation into the tragedies been ordered by president vet of early reports point to a technical failure and human error we're bringing up to date with more as we get it. but now to one of our other top stories the mideast peace quartet's due to make another effort shortly to negotiate the stalled talks between israelis and palestinians but the decades long conflict could take another twist with palestinians asking for the u.n. now to officially recognize the state at a meeting in september next on r.t. we talked to a palestinian official 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 fat ammerman central committee the palestinian israeli conflict has been around for so many decades that it almost became part of political discourse a bargaining chip and some political and some political leaders may not feel that

pressure to change things really are you hopeful that any sort of lasting solution can be found i wonder why i mean why is it that. the world that have ended colonization and the no colonies anymore. except are. in line nine hundred ninety. 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 nine hundred sixty seven. i spent all my life to go shake that agreement way before school starts and when all school started between the lobby in the late because the israeli prime minister of israel and prison are for the late prisoner of. the hope was absolutely there that 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 peace to allow the solution of the refugee problem of the problem unfortunately this process is facing grave difficult the president the president ruler of israel and his coalition do not want to give up the west bank. and not really. under any pressure to do so by their internal or external pressure and that is what really makes it difficult the parameters of the solution are there but accepted by the international community there accepted by the road map they accepted by the arabs and the muslims as well that once you have two states side by side with shared jerusalem becomes the capital of the two states and an overall peace

a arrangement fifty seven arab and muslim countries will recognize israel and will normalize the relations with israel but the present government of israel is not interested this is really the problem now why isn't this pressure forthcoming part of it has to do with the the history of the jewish people i mean israel in the final analysis has. tried to resolve an issue with the jews in europe in particular and in germany specific where. persecuted in fact a genocide take place during world war two against them and therefore it is very difficult to put pressure on people who all the time refer to that genocide that happened with the book. those who did that genocide.

europeans and not palestinians are not arabs and we were willing to share in the solution but not on account of the palestinian people their dignity their rights to determine. this very difficult really to do to see what israel can get away with but no other occupier. there is a strategic relationship between the united states and israel that's the relationship. only very rarely used to put some pressure to get the israelis to the people on the peace table as far as i understand the palestinian authority is hoping to go ahead united nations vote on their recognition of the palestinian state in september i still hoping to get those one hundred thirty votes that you initially sat here sides on absolutely we have one hundred sixteen countries who have. recognized the independent palestinian state and committed

themselves to help us become members of the united nations one of them of course is russia and. i believe that adding another twenty to this one hundred sixty is not difficult we don't really need the mathematical two thirds because the united nations the two thirds is counting out of those present and voted never in the past had we more than three or four countries voting against usually denied states israel micronesia. the marshall islands both against us which means that the two thirds have always been assured but our drive for more countries is a drive for legitimacy for international support and that's really what we're going to do thank you very much.

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is art international from moscow thanks for being with us one may new story tonight divers making the tragic discovery early on a salty children's bodies inside the sunken pleasure cruiser in central russia it went down in a minute c s they killing almost half of the two hundred seventy. four the old myth of the party the vessel sank in listen three minutes our whole family was on that ship and we lost it removed my wife and grandchildren shoprite of a struggling to come to terms with how their loved ones were dragged to the deaths survivors have been describing their desperate attempts to save others. and russia orders mcquarrie defines and punished. those responsible for the traffic the indications they were a mix of circumstances for technical failure to human error. next

tweet got some debate on our team's cross talk show on the sixteenth anniversary of the streb and it's a massacre people of says guess if we have a fair and balanced interpretation of events these days. in the welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle as the world remembers the tragic events that befell 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 cross-talk 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 share 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 inside burning so are you satisfied how mainstream media portrays those events and we can use tragic events where 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 is being represented like to start out with it's description was 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 her.