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 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 the on the on the small strip of step son 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 rest of the ship to the sunken ship they took some camera equipment with them and showed us something 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 through the ship that was already

a plan mooted to try and bring two ships up involve the grads specialist ships that could raise the raise the ship part of the vogue area 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 will take another four to five days to do of course when that ship comes up will be a culmination of what something they're. going to do over the last course our child remained on that boat. it was a sunday afternoon when the holiday river cruise garia run into difficulties on the . catastrophe came swiftly if you think of it didn't work 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

ball garia now lies at the bottom. of the vessel sank in listen three minutes it flipped to the right people 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 you know but 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 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 it 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 great survivors and relatives powerless to act and now able only to wait and ask. me i 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 answer the phone. as many as fifty of the passengers were under eighteen years old hold into the volga three kilometers but 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 must now discover why the boat was allowed to sail into open water in seemingly poor weather the truth the search for the truth behind the tragedy begins at the highest level as artie's an italian overcover in moscow explains. 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 that woodard to set up a special stage investigative committee that's going to look into what was this tragedy and he's appointed to the house of the ministry of transportation or russia to be the house of this investigative committee. 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 a 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 bussell 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 artie's an italian overcover reporting there from moscow to here are the main point. what we know so far of the volga cruise boat disaster the number of killed has risen

dramatically as divers discover the bodies of up to forty children in the sunken pleasure cruise or the children had gathered in a play room before they became trapped as the boat rapidly went underwater around half of the two hundred seven who were on board the vessel have died tuesday will be a day of mourning across russia surviving crew members say they could not send a distress signal because the electricity supply had failed the transport ministry has identified two boats which passed nearby without helping their captains now face prosecution and investigation into the tragedy has been ordered by president medvedev early reports point to a critical technical ferry failure as well as human error. on to 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 the bill coincides with the latest peace attempts by the international middle east quartet made up of russia united states the u.n. and the e.u. in september the u.n. is also due to vote on recognizing palestinian and tel aviv's angry that its biggest ally the u.s. supports the pre nine hundred sixty seven borders before israel seized land in gaza and the west bank and calls are growing for the u.n. to stop people being silenced for more on this that we can now cross live to our correspondent policy here who is in tel aviv now paula first of all what does this new law mean a for israelis who sympathize with the palestinian cause. while the vote is cast late monday by a vote of ninety seven in favor and fifty eight against it is called the blue she could take the state of israel to boycotts and essentially what even owls is for

any kind of safety net he says women based business suit for damages is rabies morning so boycotts and presupposes fines if the one that is not israelis he or she can also be prevented from bob from entering this country it also contains the israeli government from doing business with any kind of organization that initiate school complies with rules for boycotts now what is interesting is that the legal adviser for the knesset the israeli parliament is himself against this bill he has called it borderline illegal and this is a sentiment that is echoed by human rights organizations and civil partner mean to me and they say that it is anti democracy it is anti freedom of speech and people really should be allowed to pull from boys. plus of both the occupied territories and the settlements the head of the peace now movement has said that the israeli government is trying to act to quote him as full to police and the peace now and other human rights organizations plan to appeal this decision in the israeli high

court. it seems that the law was pushed through very quickly with two readings in just one day why the rush to support. well it's very interesting that the timing of this bull coincides with the meeting of the middle east quartet in washington the purpose of that meeting is really to try and get israelis and palestinians to reach some kind of statement that would see them return to peace talks but palestinian leaders warned prior to this bill being approved that should this bull be approved not only will it diminish any kind of possibility for resumption of peace talks between israelis and palestinians but it would also cancel out any kind of we can simulate the statement that is made by the school to meeting in washington which you need to remember that they really are three sticking points over the peace talks between israelis and palestinians these include the future of the city of jerusalem they include the whole question of

borders of a future palestinian state even turn into one nine hundred sixty seven armistice lines and this is where the settlements case such a big role a large proportion of those settlements are actually with a question mark over them we're talking of about four hundred thousand people that will need to be moved if indeed the israelis are going to return to sixty seven borders most of those say told six years saying that they refused to be moved and then the third point is really the whole question of the return of palestinian refugees now i visited a former palestinian village on the outskirts of jerusalem that is called lift and the package in that compound really explores the complexity not only of the question of palestinian refugees that will be the complexity of the whole israeli palestinian conflict. but this sort of 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 now and you have to come back and to bring.

my privilege. of seeing the hobson's this rain also to remind. my car that. your coup de graff among the cacti and fit 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. they will should do 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 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 the only says to prevent arab owners from returning when the came here on me for live here years without water without electricity the came here. for the memory here is 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 in these houses for forty six years all that remains are stone walls where wild flowers and grass grow live there is empty. and it's into

that emptiness that 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 want to destroy our house and. yanni. forward there are three world came from anywhere in this thread why i can't move in my village and come back. return back to my freedom and liberty and. this new me. and.

so i'm going for palestinians lifta 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. to get some other headlines making news tonight a train has derailed in north india while traveling at full speed at least eighty people are dead and over three hundred are injured it's not known how it crashed but some reports suggest the driver hit the emergency brakes to avoid cattle causing some of the twelve carriages to land on top of the others army teams are now cutting through the crushed carriages to find survivors and to recover bodies. a series of blasts at a naval munitions dump in cyprus has killed twelve people and wounded more than thirty others it's thought a grass fire spread to the base setting two out of almost one hundred containers

alight the blasts have damaged cyprus is largest electricity station leaving it to island wide power cuts reports say the explosives had been seized from a ship traveling from iran two years ago and were kept in the depot 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 a syrian flag u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton commented on the incident by saying that the syrian government has lost legitimacy the unrest comes in response to the american and french envoys controversial visit to an opposition dominated area there have been months of protests in syria calling for president bashar al assad to resign political writer carl shohreh says that the west is intervening in the fragile situation. there are lots of security barriers if you know where the embassy is.

on the ground in damascus so it will probably had a bit of. let's put that away but i think when you focus on the bigger picture over here. and i think this is in the. by the u.s. and france. to sort of do a bit of face saving exercise and appear as if they're on the good side in syria. and i actually i wouldn't be surprised if some of the demonstrators were actually there even genuinely by anger because that's the sort of. that nobody can tolerate i think what we need to look at is that there is a blatant intervention by the american and french governments at least if they were fully aware of what their ambassadors were doing in a very fluid dynamics tuition on the ground in syria trouble is that now brewing

for italy as it edges closer to becoming the fourth european country to need a bailout borrowing is at a record high as italy's debt surges past earnings raising fears over whether its banks can pass e.u. stress tests senior officials will meet later but since italy is one of the bigger players saving it won't come cheap the editor in chief of belgium's leading business magazine says throwing money at troubled nations will not help save. italy represents the seventeen percent of g.d.p. of the euro in g.d.p. which means that italy. is almost three times as big as the smaller countries greece 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 you mention throwing money at the problem

with greece portugal ireland and certainly not also italy that is not enough or that can't solve the problem on its own enormous amounts of what i call political capital as been invested in this euro project so giving it up is a very tough decision and a decision that will be made. overnight so a lot of energy and a lot of additional money will certainly be spent for we arrive at such a situation and according to me there is no such decision on the horizon if italy comes into these ballgame with the amounts that are involved with this country that might change things quite rapidly. a reminder now of the developments of this early tuesday morning the number killed in the volga river tragedy has risen dramatically divers have discovered the bodies of up to forty children in the sunken pleasure cruiser they had gathered in a play room before becoming trapped as the boat went under water more than half of the two hundred seventy who were on board the vessel have died tuesday has been

declared a day of mourning across russia surviving crewmembers say power cuts stopped them sending a distress signal the transport ministry says it has identified two boats which passed nearby but failed to help their captains may now face prosecution president medvedev has ordered a review of the country's water transport system early reports point to a technical failure and human error a team of psychologists is working around the clock to assist the families of course we'll be bringing new developments as they unfold in the coming hours. more now on one of our other manes news stories that we are covering the middle east peace quartet is 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. to officially recognize their state at a meeting in september next 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

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 no colonies anymore. except our. 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 president israeli prime minister of israel and preside over from the late

president arafat i think the hope was absent you. the bed this is the solution two states side by side on the holy then divided by the one 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 share

jerusalem becomes the capital of the two states and an overall peace a arrangement fifty seven a 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. try 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. 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 can there's a strategic relationship between the united states and israel that's thirty relationship. only very rarely been used to put some pressure to get the israelis to warm the baby on the peace table as far as i understand the palestinian authority is hoping to go ahead united nations recognition of the palestinian state in september i still hoping to get there is one hundred thirty votes that you initially sat sides on absolutely we have one hundred and sixteen countries who

have. recognized the independent palestinian state committed themselves to help us become members of the united nations and 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 the united 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 that zilly what we're going to do thank you very much.

with war going the way of the soviet union many people thought that nuclear weapons disappeared. the risk is not zero that something might be going off by mistake especially a lot of weapons on hair trigger alert. puppets of the victims to use it. all. you know if you keep spinning a trillion dollars a year on weapons of eventually you're going to blow everybody you know people are dying from these weapons but until we actually see it people don't wake up to nuclear weapons or a bill. that represents all the firepower of the second world war and this second sound is the equivalent. of the world's nuclear arsenal today.

and broadcasting live from the heart of moscow this is r t keeping ahead of breaking news right here on the channel divers finding the bodies of as many as forty children trapped when the pleasure boat they were on sank in central russia today has been declared a day of mourning for the victims of the accident. schools too much remind almost by. the lives of the relatives that struggle to come to terms with the loss of their loved ones officials say the captains of two passing boats that failed to come to the aid of survivors will face severe punishment surviving passengers and crew have described their desperate attempts to save. and preliminary findings into the accident say

a combination of human error mechanical failure and bad weather caused the disaster president medvedev has said that has occurred he has ordered wide checks of the country's water transport system following the accident. up next here on our ward winning report about one of the biggest environmental and human rights catastrophes in american history. on the day of this interview the small creek less than one mile from their home flows black and i it's not normal that's coming from an abandoned home on drugs come from sorry pot. i don't know. what takes bait and all caught. maybe a few more years ma. and my health this went down tremendously. and i don't ever like to be helped as i don't ever look at the time and i don't

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