i'm towards the light and made it out alive but i can't find my grandson or daughter in law they're not on the new list now i'm waiting to see photos well our upon our past and a lot in this last day and through the past night 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 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 phases and through the ship there 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 bulgaria 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 suddenly went to their nightmare but even over the last course our child remained on that boat. it was a sunday afternoon when the holiday river cruiser garia run into difficulties on the volga catastrophe came swiftly if you think of it didn't work is that people were basically buried alive in anti-matter coffin we managed to get out through the windows i was there with my ten year old daughter and i couldn't rescue hannah she swallowed too much water when i was making it out i realized my child was gone and the ball garia now lies at the bottom. of the vessel sinking listen three minutes it flipped to the right people swerved and went down in. 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 to vessels pass 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 games room it was impossible for them to get out of that 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 in the us. media 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 cold and 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 aging a boat was allowed to sail into open water in seemingly poor weather and of the search for the truth behind the tragedy begins at the highest level. in moscow explains. this news reaction to this has been an immediate one answer because it was an outrage that those behind the desk all those innocent people first of all of these hold up emergency meeting regarding 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 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 was 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 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. telling overcover reporting for us there here in moscow now here. the main points we know so far of the volga cruise boat disaster the number killed has risen dramatically as divers discover the bodies of up to forty children in the sunken pleasure cruiser 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 couldn't send a distress signal because the electricity supply had failed the transport transportation ministry has identified two boats which passed nearby without helping their captain's face prosecution at this point an investigation into the tragedy and has been ordered by president medvedev early reports point to a critical technical failure and human error. turning now to other news the middle east peace quartet made up of russia america the un and the e.u. has gathered in washington in an attempt to kick start stalled peace talks between israel and palestine the meeting comes out a time of strained relations between israel and its biggest ally the u.s. after president obama spoke out in support of reestablishing pre-one thousand nine

hundred sixty seven borders and ahead of a u.n. vote on officially recognizing palestine artie's correspondent going to church you can reports. the quartet has met at a time when its efforts as the global mediator in the middle east peace process are largely seen as ineffective there's a sense that calls for negotiations alone are not enough in fact they've reached a dead end and we'd easier to negotiate as a solution palestinians plan to seek a vote by the un general assembly tembe or recognizing the state of palestine that and urgency to the meeting of the quartet as some analysts say could be the last chance with the global mediators to prove their efficiency before at the possible voting september divides the international community which it most certainly will there is a vision that all quartet members share and that is a two state solution for the israelis and the palestinians and that the starting point for those negotiations have to be the pre-one nine hundred sixty seven border lines but these three least find the near mentioning of nine hundred sixty seven

border lines unacceptable the palestinians on the other hand demand israel stop building settlements on the occupied territories demands we just will effectively ignores so it's a snowball of conditions that have resulted in the decades old impasse the two sides have not been able to come to a solution and the hope always was that wall powers could mediate a peaceful outcome but even though the quartet members say they want to see two independent states eventually they have not been united in how they see the path to the solution the u.s. for example blocks every u.n. attempt to influence the situation take the settlements ration has called the israeli settlements expansion illegitimate but when it came to actually voting at the u.n. security council to condemn the settlement expansion is illegal the u.s. veto the resolution and they say the fact that israel is the protectorate of the united states makes it hard to expect a balanced approach from washington whereas russia is seen by many as the more impartial mediator moscow has held consultations with both the israeli authorities

and the palestinian authorities many times hearing out their complaint. their grievances because the palestinian vote voice is virtually blocked in the us their leadership is labeled as terrorists here and experts say mediation is next to impossible when you refuse to talk to talk to one of the sides there is a growing pressure from the international community to listen to the palestinians voices while the civilian population is got in gaza is still under a blockade of. ten ten ships from different countries with mentoring the eight spain heading for cause a nuisance sort of in an attempt to challenge the blockade but they were stopped so there's this urgent may need to take matters in their own hands and meet the inaction of authorities and the quartet too has yet to prove that they can actually act together rather than. rather than each on their own or he's going to just you

can in washington d.c. and just hours before the mideast quartet gathered in washington israel passed a law which allows it to take legal action against its own citizens if they oppose jewish settlements in the west bank or polis leader explains. the ball was passed late monday by a vote of lucky statement in favor and fifty eight against it is called the bill to protect the state of israel through boycotts and essentially what it allows is for any kind of signal says when one based a business to suit for damages is rabies puling so boycotts a new presupposes fines if the cooling that is not an israeli he or she can also be prevented from barred from entering this country now what is interesting is that the legal advisor 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 parliamentarians

they say that it is anti democracy it is anti freedom of speech and people really should be allowed to call for boycotts of both the occupied territories and the system and the head of the peace now movement has said that the israeli government is trying to act to quote him as tool to police and the peace now and other human rights organizations plan to appeal this decision in the israeli high pools trees of whole slayer in tel aviv now meanwhile. d.j. from the center of the palestinian refugee rights says that if israel values democracy it should practice what it preaches. if you are preventing me from expressing myself bent me from buying whatever i want. and calling yourself. that democracy that democratic state in the middle east it's not the perfect adjective for such a country. what what we need here as the united nations for example needs to

activate its rules and 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 that 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 time now take a look at other headlines making news around the hour. a packed train has derailed in northern india while traveling at full speed and 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 trapped survivors and recover bodies. the 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 of almost one hundred containers alight the blasts have damaged cypresses largest electricity station leading to island white a 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 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 karl rove says that the west is intervening in the fragile situation there are lots of security barriers if you know where the embassy is and the situation on the ground in damascus so it will probably had a bit of. let's put that that way but i think we need to focus on the bigger picture over here. and i think this is indicative of. 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. 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 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 e.u. 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 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. 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 you mention throwing money at the problem but 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 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 a dish. the 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 these ballgame with the amounts that are involved with this country that might change things quite rapidly now a reminder of the developments on the story we're following this 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 it been declared a day of mourning across russia surviving crewmembers say power cuts stopped them sending a distress signal the transport ministry says it's identified two boats which passed nearby but failed to help their captains that 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 are working around the clock to assist in the families and of course we'll be bringing you developments as they unfold in the coming hours.

more now on one of our other main news stories we're 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 a current member of the thought and one central committee that the palestinian israeli conflict has been around for so many decades that it almost became part of you political discourse and 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 or in our case. 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 shaping that agreement way before school started and when all school started between the lobby in the late president israel's prime minister of israel and prison our father the late president i think the hope was absolutely. bad but this is the solution two states side by side on the holy then 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 the share jerusalem becomes the capital of the two states and then over all peace and 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 of determination 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 thirty relationship. only very rarely 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 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 in 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 against usually the united states israel michael

nisha and 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. with the boer war and the going away of the soviet union many people thought that nuclear weapons disappeared. the risk is not zero that something might be going off

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staying on top of breaking news. divers find the bodies of the forty children. pleasure boat they were on sank in central russia. mourning for the victims'. remains. as relatives struggled to come to terms with the loss of their loved ones officials say the captain. failed to come to the aid of survivors will face severe punishment. described. combination of human error. bad weather caused the disaster president.

of the country's water transportation system the following. interview show spotlight this time talks to. the presidential commission for children's rights about how moscow is working to protect russian children adopted by foreigners and taken abroad. hello yellow welcome to spotlight the show an hour. and today my guest in the studio is our stuff the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov is on an official visit to the united states among other things he's trying to strike a deal with americans concerning the child adoption process just recently several

american families have been blamed. who toward children adopted in russia south moscow wants to have a right to examine the living conditions of adopted children what problem does the russian children almost when faced here's a presidential commission for the children's rights by the left. the number of scandals where american parents badly treated the children they adopted in russia forced moscow and washington to come up with a solution a document designed by russia would make the organizations helping americans adopt to russia need international recognized convention but inside russia it's a different story children's rights are also used in the country doesn't have a single juvenile court to deal in such cases.