the national day of mourning across russia for around one hundred thirty people believed killed when a pleasure cruiser sank on the shoulder of two days ago. the mideast quartet meets in washington hoping to jump start the story israeli palestinian peace talks as a decades long conflict drags on. wiki leaks founder julian assange launches a fresh appeal against extradition in london's high court amid allegations that sweden is nothing old misstating us.

with our take world news twenty four seven welcome to the program flags are at heart from last across russia as the country mourns the victims of its worst both accident in three decades almost sixty people have been officially confirmed dead seventy bodies remain trapped on that often overloaded pleasure cruise that sank in the form of a part of the start. of school so chances are on the ball survivors. course those events anger the grieving relatives of these this was just this tragedy such shock waves around the country and indeed around the world this day the floods the firing of havas here in russia the way i live in stay with the fans will be cancelled and that won't even be it's time to chase on the t.v. as people pay their respects to those involved in this tragedy now the los i think

it is silence house near this thing where it all happens fifty nine people. and they think there's a large number of bodies there are some people he said they have to bring to the surface around thirty four to the food to be the children that we've heard the tragic story that they got trapped in the gangs when aboard the boat as you said incredibly disturbing for the friends and family who are still way think it is and of course that now know the news that they were once and they were hoping they were praying that there would be some good news but as we said the dogs are still working to achieve those bodies that remain trapped all but i don't really try to give them a movable was because of the number of children involved because a lot of people are not saying that it could have been avoided my colleague tom barton has been down at the scene and he looks more into these loopholes that kind of contributed to the thinking of that boat to try to be on the boat on sunday.

first came tera and tragedy and the baldwins a bit there are three of them in the cabin my son my daughter in law and my grandson my son said he tried to open the cabin door holding his child when the wave crashed into them and he lost grip of my grandson he says you swim towards the light and made it out alive but i can't find my grandson or daughter in law. now amidst the grief comes the anger of the questions. if you do your jobs you don't understand anything. good. area pleasure boat sank in just three minutes on sunday now some people are saying it should never have been on the volga at all. as the bog area passed us two hours before it locked in an awful condition of their own are pretty voice share going to show before it sort of would never have been allowed to sail growing evidence seems to point to gross

mismanagement on the vessel including a broken engine ignored by the captain and blocked emergency exits. to work on and it was cover ukraine more and more people complained so they just changed the name to bulgaria the crew themselves always praise god for saving them every time they got after watching. the vessel was first built in one nine hundred fifty five and as recently as last month was given official clearance to sail. despite this rescue teams say it was hopelessly outdated the crew was working time they noticed water coming in through the windows at such a pace the boat went down very quickly now president medvedev has ordered wide ranging checks saying there are many more bulgaria's out there the number of decrypted 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 all of this will come to the fore when the ship itself is raised to the surface for

investigation but it's the hiring accounts of what happened on the weekend pleasure cruise to tell the real story is that people were basically buried alive in time metal coffin he managed to get out through the windows i was there with my ten year old daughter i couldn't rest even she swallowed too much water when i was pulled out i realized my child was gone rescue workers will continue their efforts throughout the coming hours and days what hope is now gone they will find anyone else alive leaving just the shock and grief. see the volga back central russia. coming up in a few minutes drawn out decision francis seen as a loss what to do with libyans have a. little break the country sit down and talk to colonel gaddafi. the middle east peace quartet russia america the u.n. and the e.u.

as cabin washington tent to stall israeli palestinian peace talks. between israel and the u.s. president obama spoke in favor of a return to established in sixty seven borders. israel vast swathes of palestinian land and a sense declared not of it as its own gathering it also comes with the u.n. vote and. officially recognizing understands the sovereign state of. israel. explains why there is such a state and see the words to. 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 cost for negotiations alone are not enough in fact they have reached a dead end and made the failure to negotiate as a solution palestinians plan to seek a vote by the un general assembly is september recognizing the state of palestine

there and urgency to the meeting of the quartet as some analysts say could be the last chance for the global mediators to prove their efficiency before it the possible vote in september be by international community which it most certainly will there is a vision that all quartet members share and that is a two state solution for this release and the palestinians and that the starting point for those negotiations have to be the pre-one thousand nine hundred seven border line peace release find the near mentioning of nine hundred sixty seven water 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 small ball of conditions that have resulted in the decades of impasse the two sides have not been able to come to a solution and the hope always was that wall powers to 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 you whine attempts to influence the situation take the settlements the obama administration has called the israeli settlements expansion illegitimate but when it came to actually voting at the un security council to condemn the settlement expansion as illegal the u.s. veto the resolution analysts say the fact that israel is the protectorate of the united states makes it hard to expect a balanced approach from washington whereas rushing. is seen by many as the more impartial mediator moscow has held consultations with both peace really authorities and the palestinian authorities many times hearing out their complaints 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. i mean ron burkle a national coordinator of the until war. says there's little chance of

a peaceful resolution as long as the u.s. continues to policies around israeli interests. there are different different desires different agendas within a quartet from the u.s. government point of view the purpose of these renewed tarts is the pressure on the palestinian authority which having received nothing from the israelis and nothing from the americans during the past years seen israeli settlements growing and expanding in spite of president obama's promise that this there would be a halt freeze and settlement construction in the worst pain and spite of the fact that the siege of gaza has taken so much and support of the fact that the israelis are claiming all of jerusalem for themselves so the american government in particular which is the primary sponsor of israel which gives israel three billion dollars a year the largest recipient of u.s. foreign aid they realize that israel could become increasingly isolated so they're trying to come up with some solution what the solution is not acceptable to the

broad mass of the palestinian people because it means giving up the rate of return giving all of jerusalem to israel and allowing these west bank settlements to continue so there's between a rock and a hard place they need a settlement but as long as they're following the israeli agenda or supporting the israeli agenda which has its own. aims the gobble up more and more palestinian territory there can be a resolution. just hours before the middle east quartet being in washington israel introduced a law that makes it a crime for its citizens and boycott jewish settlements what i promised a new territory or has already been criticized for violating free speech and stuff and not using nazis. it was passed late monday by a vote of ninety seven in favor and fifty eight against it is thought to protect the state of israel through boycotts and essentially what you do now is for any kind of signal system one based business to suit for damages does raise

a million for boycotts a new presupposes fines if the cooling is not israeli he or she can also be prevented from barred from entering this country can 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 see if a parliamentarian they say that it is anti democracy it is anti freedom of speech and people really should be allowed to fulfill boycotts of both the occupied territories and this is one man's behavior of the peace now movement has to be israeli government is trying to act to point to as police and the peace now in every human rights organizations plan to appeal this decision in these really high falls. well for more on the reasoning behind israel's crackdown on the anti settlement activity and the implications it might happen when our joint. executive

director of the association for civil rights in israel thank you for joining us here on r t what do you think is the reasoning behind this. good morning here the passing of. a bad day for freedom of speech a bad day for is a democracy. and even more unfortunately it is only the current representation of the rising. demographic of this nation that is gradually drowning in the different visions of preserving the workers. yes you mentioned that the last couple of years israel has approved a number of controversial laws always seeing a trend here. yes it's been going over the past two and a half years the current coalition government this is what we would frame the third in a row. democratic impeding basic democratic principles the point that we keep reiterating

is democracy is not a form of government in which citizens vote once every four years and in between there is the tire and the of the majority of the country in democracy you do not vote on certain issues and certain rights you do not vote on the rights of minorities or do not welcome you to rights you do not vote on freedom of speech the passing of the law yesterday which basically has never been explained sufficiently israeli citizens are using the boycotts as a matter of fact on a wide variety of issues as citizens in any other democratic country. on environmental issues on consumer issues and on political issues using boycotts is a well recognized none violence democratic legitimate form of protest since yesterday's laws when passed. all of these issues the citizens could continue using boycotts if you don't want to buy a different product certain product if you're angry with

a certain company issue that is your nonviolent way for instance if you so choose to express your protest on all of these issues this will remain legal issue this is now become illegal. settlement goods on protesting the occupation it's interesting you mention israeli citizens there why would these many government targets people like this just in a public. i think that is gradually seen here as a process in which norms from beyond the green line from the occupied territories where living there are constant gross human rights violations are gradually trickling into israel into the green line in the occupied territories it is a mockery to talk about feel speech now what is happening is that we are also seeing the roshon of the freedom of speech of israeli citizens as well for many years and i think rightfully so has been recognized as

a country with strong democratic attributes a free press an independent judiciary a free elections strong protections for essential freedom of speech and so on but what we're seeing here is the gradual sad process in which the israeli parliament is by itself doing eroding those democratic principles not just the key patient for more than four decades but also targeting the rights of. minorities in israel and specifically arab citizens of the state of israel targeting human rights organisations and their ability to function freely something that we've always taken for granted and is now being gradually eroded and also targeting the independence of the high court of justice and its ability to continue to defend human rights and civil liberties in israel. ok well thank you very much neal i have to leave it there for now but i add that executive director of the same station course of

a russian as well thank you. thank you very much. well you can always find more stories on our website i've gotten along with the latest news of blogs and videos just what you write about the shape the circumstances surrounding the death of a high profile russian prosecutor who shot himself placed. on. the street racing tries out the full potential of his car race in central moscow ends in disaster. the french parliament deal to vote on an extension to mention campaign libya the government there says it's determined to take the fight it out and some experts believe a ground invasion is now the only option left presents. knock out that leakage the. books is like bragging will destroy the report they're often

wrong and gets a nasty surprise. french foreign minister should pay postage france would encroach days weeks the wars into a fourth month and the final round inside nicolas sarkozy with his western allies seem shocked little. by well it's not. paris even admits libya's rebels those weapons are going to terrorists. but it's on some somalia. went to libya for training within the last two or three years. documented we have the fly record and everything else so it seems strange in many ways the whole western support of some of the rebel groups in libya must be questioned because in some cases of it we are effectively arming al-qaeda. it's all

making a mockery of the un vote on foreign intervention in that country. well by leaking it in their good person. giving. none of. this. witness is made me go of libya's causing widespread atrocities for every one military person that was supposedly a casualty there were ten civilians frauds categorically ruled out sending grilled troops but experts predict is the only way you know it's a break the libyan padlock the moves the splitting the nato coalition silvio berlusconi head of key partner italy admits invading libya was a mistake and did a study you the fridge defense minister says the brutal should negotiate with. this is the same man that they already indicted in the international court so

technically i mean from a legal point of view it's even possible that what they say they're saying now and a person accused of war crimes or crimes against humanity is a suitable partner in negotiations i mean and of course our media here are not the ones who are going to these critical certainly not in france. the president on the contrary brochure abstained in the u.s. vote wally. bring havoc in libya pay said the latest troops who killed supports love rothwell quote lloyd lee diplomats speak for a blazing row with elections just annoying months away psagot advisors said a successful war could resurrect his chances instead one paper writes libya's becoming a slow motion call crash for france's deeply unpopular president so is easy jogging

for excessive sweating is understandable this is libyan sprint is turning into a marathon and the new bush will see higher. there are some other stories making headlines around the world this hour barack obama's administration says it will formally protest in the syrian government following monday's attack on the u.s. embassy in damascus the rest triggered harsh criticism from washington secretary of state clinton saying present assad's government has lost legitimacy rotters broke windows and raised the syrian right at the compound before american marines disperse them u.s. officials say they were are said supporters spurred on by local t.v. reports. masked gunmen have reportedly blown up of terminal along the adoption natural gas pipeline to israel and jordan is the fourth time the pipeline has been targeted. the previous trustworthy we can get security official saying that attack happened early in the morning removing property. in the border with

israel. leaks founder julian assange will be back in london's high court today to write extradition to sweden where he's wanted for questioning over sexual assault allegations and suppose it's fair that if it is swedish authorities it will be long before i so enjoyed himself behind bars in the us he's more image reports. seven months since julian ourselves was released on bail he returns to the high court to appeal his extradition if he fails will be sent to sweden within ten days but many believe his feet won't touch the ground and next stop america i think the the worry is that we passed his extradited people to america with a minimum of fuss when they were asked was seen as a possible you know but thought to bring water awaits him in the us is this.

all you have to be. proud of who were used earlier a notorious neo conservative group help the swedish prime minister friedrich reinfeldt wind reelection last year and there's another glaring link in the shape of lawyer thomas strom his firm's representing the two women bringing the sex charges against our songs in two thousand and one he was minister of justice and is alleged to have helped turned over to asylum seekers suspected by the cia of terror they were sent to egypt and allegedly tortured he might well want to stop wiki leaks from functioning the questions of about neutrality became even even clearer thanks to some of the documents from exactly wiki leaks there is. a willingness to . do the ariens of the united states over many years from. questions of. making asylum seekers in sweden. to

the cia freddy's is particularly strong now with a red leaning government in sweden sweden wants authority on sex crime charges the us is reportedly preparing an espionage case and it suits nor nato member sweden just fine to be a conduit in this case and in others. all the benefits. being an intelligence partner of the united states without the baggage of being in nato sweden seen as an easier way for the u.s. to get their hands on ourselves particularly after it requested the extradition of hacker gary mckinnon from britain which so far hasn't been granted but critics say the u.k. is just as much in cahoots with the us as sweden. represent us foreign policy in europe. literally.

has cheated us dollars goes back to court in london he'll have an eye on the british justice system which could save him from being extradited but the older i will be firmly fixed terms we did a country that insist on is a new trial as he was turning asylum seekers a bit to the us the allegedly to be tortured only our souls and his stuff that wiki leaks know what else we did start to hide your enemies forty nine did. so with us now as we take a look at the latest business news we are. thank you carrie this is business sarsi hello welcome to the program russia's largest lenders burbank is stimming out good this kolkata research hub the country's answer to silicon valley will host burbank's i.t. cluster and the r. and d. are the deal also involves setting up one of the world's largest data processing centers providing says this will help it become one of the most technologically advanced globally lenders. and grab outlines returned to fifty.

who are learning to maintain the produce budgets are drawn seven hundred to eight hundred million dollars. will build over two and a half years. russia's going to sell at ten percent of its high tech corporation. as part of its massive prototype zation drive the state could be sold in two years for around one billion dollars analysts believe investors will be interested in the asset as a nano technology is there a strong demand for us and dmitri medvedev has called for an expansion of the prototype ational broke ground this stage was going to sell its stakes in one thousand and two prizes last year but only one hundred twenty are since ended up being sold. right now let's have a nuke i've been markets oil is continuing to lose ground i mean stronger dollar and concerns about global to market that's all speculation in europe somewhere debt crisis is deepening brant blood is trading at close to one hundred and seventeen

dollars a barrel while the double e.t.i. is around ninety four dollars a barrel. asian markets are sliding sharply falling u.s. law says investors are alarmed with the possible spread will be european sovereign debt crisis to italy and spain nationals are among the hardest hate there says about chinese military tightening are also weighing on property shares in hong kong meanwhile resources stocks are under pressure according to slide in order to european debt. i push the euro lurch of the year and pushes the next four years in tokyo say the corp is down almost three percent. just an hour ahead to the opening bell in mass in moscow the russian markets finished monday's session in the red on negative news from a pool. and market watchers say russia's stock exchanges will be tracking international news flow but some major lack of strong domestic news to guide sentiment and exams or crop a scare from grenades so as capital so all eyes are on us corporate reports all the

week. to discern the actual reports from the us from previous big banks will be reporting more july fourteenth two of these will be really important because if the company will give me some of the targets but i don't think it will be nice and the guidance for the rest of the year can be really made it. really hurt the market don't think that there will be a lot of positive spin off true support for the market. and year of today's our back with more business news for you in just under an hour's time stay with us for the headlines with kerry next.

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