when the wave crashed into them and he lost grip of my grandson he say he 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 and the questions. you pigs do your jobs you don't understand a thing. the vogue area pleasure boat sank in just three minutes on sunday now some people are saying it should never have been on the volga atoll. as the bog area passed us two hours before it looked an awful condition of they had done a pretty voice before it set off it 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 were used to work on it it was called the ukraine more and more people complained to the just change the name to the bulgaria the crew themselves always praise god for saving

them every time they got off that ship 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 despite this rescue teams say it was hopelessly outdated the crew that was working tell me they noticed water coming in through the windows at such a pace the boat went down very quickly now president medvedev has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 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 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 the told the real story. is that people were basically buried alive in china metal coffin we managed to get out through the windows i was there with my ten year

old daughter i couldn't rescue her she swallowed too much water when i was pulled out i realized my child was gone rescue workers will continue their efforts throughout the coming hours and days but hope has now gone they will find anyone else alive leaving just the shock and grief. of all go back central russia. coming up in a few minutes drawn out decision francis at a loss what to do with the libyan capital a. letter to the country sit down and talk to colonel gadhafi in. the middle east peace quartet made up of russia america the u.n. and the e.u. has gathered in washington in attempt to revive stalled israeli palestinian peace talks meeting comes a point in relations between israel and its biggest ally the u.s. but the president obama spoke in favor for

a turn to established nine hundred sixty seven borders. vast swathes of palestinian land and a sense declared much of it as its own the gathering of the quartet also comes the u.n. vote this september. officially recognizing premised on as a sovereign state only opposed by israel. and you can experience more there's so much to see the tools to kill. 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've reached a dead end and meet the failure to negotiate a solution palestinians plan to seek a vote by the un general assembly is september recognizing the state of palestine that adds 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 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 these three weeks 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 demanding israel stop building settlements on the occupied territories demands which israel effectively nors 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. 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 is

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. seen by many as the more impartial mediator moscow has held consultations with both these 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 refused to talk to one of the site. meanwhile brownback a national coordinator of the antiwar ounce of coalition says there is little chance of a peaceful resolution as long as the u.s. continues to fashion its policies around israeli interests there are different different desires different agendas within the quartet from the u.s. government point of view the purpose of these renewed talks is to put 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 that there would be a halt freeze and settlement construction in the west bank and spite of the fact that the siege of gaza has taken so much in spite 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 right of return and giving all of jerusalem to israel and allowing these west bank settlements to continue so there's there are 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 narrow. aims to gobble up more and more palestinian territory there can't be a resolution. hours before the middle east quartet convened in washington israel introduced a law that makes it a crime for its citizens to boycott jewish settlements in occupied palestinian territory nor has already been criticized for violating free speech and starting democracy. as the details of all this past late monday by a vote of ninety seven in favor and fifty eight against it is will be both to protect the state of israel to boycotts and essentially what you do now is for any kind of signal system one based business to suit for damages is rabies morning for boycotts a new presupposes fines if the queen 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 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 parliamentarians 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 woman's behavior of the peace now movement has said that the israeli government is trying to act to quote him as full police and be peace now in other human rights organizations plan to appeal this decision in these really high schools. well for more on the reasoning behind israel's crackdown on the anti settlement activity and the implications it my tab we're now joined by guy executive director of the association for civil rights in israel mr la thank you for joining us here on r t what do you think is the reasoning behind this new law. good morning the passing

of this law was a bad day for freedom of speech a bad day for his early democracy. and even more unfortunately it is only the current representation of the rising wave of democratic legislation that is gradually drowning the phone dacian of his or them ocracy yes he mentioned that over the last couple of years israel has approved a number of controversial those 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 framed third in a row that isn't a 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 on the of the majority on the contrary in democracy you do not vote on certain issues and certain rights you do not vote on the rights of

minorities you cannot vote on human 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 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 nonviolent democratic legitimate form of protest since yesterday's laws been passed. on 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 on the single issue this is now become illegal boycotting the settlement goods on protesting the

occupation it's interesting you mention israeli citizens their particular why would these many government targets and people like this just the public. i think that what is gradually seen here is a process in which norms from beyond the green line from the occupied territories well lately 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 real speech now what is happening is that we are also seeing the roshan 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 free elections strong protections for essential rights such as 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 undoing eroding those democratic principles not just a prolonged occupation for more than four decades but also targeting the rights of . minorities in the as well and specifically arab citizens of the state of israel targeting human rights organisations and the 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. thank you very much and have to leave it there for now that executive director of the say station for civil rights in israel thank you. thank you very much. well you can always find more stories on our website at r.t. dot com one with the latest news of blogs and videos just some of what you find there right now the shane circumstances surrounding the death of

a high profile russian prosecutor who shot himself place it all comes down. the street tries out the full potential of his car but the race in central moscow ends in disaster. the french parliament to share deal to vote on an extension to the military campaign in libya the government there says it's determined to take the fight to colonel gadhafi but some experts believe a ground invasion is now the only option left to president sarkozy. tell me which. books is like bragging will destroy their opponents they're often wrong and gets a surprise. french foreign minister ship a posted france would win libya in quote days or weeks the war's into

a fourth month and the final round inside nicolas sarkozy with his western allies seem short little opponents fighting back well it's not just an embarrassment for sarkozy it's an embarrassment for all nato for the whole west paris even admits libya's rebels those weapons are going to terrorists. will return some somalia. wench to libya for training within the last two or three years. documented we have to fly records 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 i think we are effectively arming al-qaeda. it's all making a mockery of the un votes on foreign intervention in the country. giving . none of. this. witnesses nato

bombing of libya is causing widespread atrocities for every one military personnel that was supposedly a casualty there were ten civilians frauds categorically ruled out sending troops predict is the only way male to break the libyan deadlock the moves of splitting the nato coalition silvio berlusconi head of keep italy admits invading libya was a mistake and did a stunning u. turn the french defense minister says the rebels should negotiate with moammar gadhafi this is the same man that they're already indicted in the international court. so. i mean from a legal point of view it's even possible what they saying they're saying now and a person accused of war crimes or crimes against humanity is

a suitable partner in negotiations men and of course our media here are not the ones who are going to pose these critical certainly not in france. to the president on the contrary. did the us vote. bombs would bring havoc in libya to play said the latest supports the. loire valley diplomats speak for. with elections just more in months away saw go with voices that a successful war could bridge the wrecked his chances instead one paper writes libya's becoming a slow motion call crutch for france's deeply unpopular president. is easy jogging for excessive sweating is understandable this is libyan spring is turning into a marathon don't you see paris. there are some other stories making headlines around the world this hour barack obama's administration says it will formally

protest the syrian government following monday's attack on the u.s. embassy in damascus rest triggered harsh criticism from washington state clinton saying present assad's government has lost legitimacy routers broke windows and raised the syrian flag at the compound before american marines dispersed them u.s. officials say they were assad's supporters spurred on by local t.v. broadcast. masked gunmen have reportedly blown up a terminal gyptian natural gas pipeline to israel and jordan is the fourth time the pipeline has been targeted. in previous frustrating we can get security official saying attack happened in the morning in the northern part of. the border with israel. the wiki leaks founder julian assange holmes will be back in london's high court today to fight extradition to sweden where he's wanted for questioning over sexual assault allegations his supporters fear that if handed over to swedish

authorities it won't be long before a sound finds himself behind bars in the u.s. or tease more emmet reports. seven months since julian our souls 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 next stop america i think. the worry is that sui which in the past has extradited people to america with a minimum of fuss when they were asked was show us a possible. dog to. water awaits him in the us is this. a notorious neo conservative group helped the swedish prime minister friedrich reinfeldt win reelection last year and there's another glaring link in the shape of

lawyer thomas bloodstream his firm's representing the two women bringing the sex charges against him 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 questions about neutrality became even even clearer thanks to some of the documents from exactly wiki leaks there is. a willingness to. do the errands 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 government in sweden sweden wants us 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 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 u.s. as sweden have a traditional role of britain to represent us foreign policy in europe but what it does you know militarily and politically and economically. very unfortunately has to do it ourselves goes back to court in london who have an eye on the british justice system which could save him from being extradited but the other eye will be firmly fixed on sweden a country that insists on its own neutrality whilst turning asylum seekers over to

the us allegedly to be tortured only our soldiers and his staff that wiki leaks know what else we did got to hide your enemies forty nine did. so with us now as we take a look at the latest business news we. think you carry this is business r.c. hello welcome to the program russia's largest lenders burbank a steaming out with this kolkata research hub the country's answer to silicon valley will host for buying sony take us to and they are indeed 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 banks globally the lender's c.e.o. going to grab outlines the terms of. we are blowing to maintain the produce budget at the wrong time in hundred to eight hundred million dollars the total will build over two and a half years and provide their own point of thousand jobs in ninety in research.

russia's going to sell at ten percent and its high tech corporation. as part of its massive prototype is ation drive the stake could be sold in two years to around one billion dollars analysts believe investors will be interested in the asset as nanotechnologies are in strong demand president dmitri medvedev has called for an expansion of the privatize ational program the stage was going to sell it stakes in one thousand and two prizes last year but only one hundred twenty cents ended up being sold. right now let's have a look at the markets oil is continuing to lose ground i mean stronger dollar and concerns about global demand that's all speculation in europe so we're in debt crisis is deepening brant bland is trading at close to one hundred and seventeen dollars per barrel while the w t i is around ninety four dollars per barrel. asian markets are sliding sharply falling u.s. he says investors are alarmed with the possible spread of the european sovereign

debt crisis to the to me and spain financials are among the hardest hate themselves about chinese monetary tightening are also weighing on property shares in hong kong meanwhile resources stocks are under pressure calling it slide in more detail european debt worries have pushed the you are allergic the yen and she's going to go next confusing tokyo so any corporation is down almost three percent. just an hour ahead to the opening bell in must in moscow the russian markets finished monday's session in the red on negative news from a poor. and market will should say russia's stock exchanges will be tracking international news flow that's a major lack of strong domestic news to guide sentiment and xander from bernie sanders capital so all eyes are on the u.s. corporate reports. all the week will be devoted to a deception that actual reports from the us company is a big banks will be reporting more more july fourteenth two of these will be really

important because the company will be missing of the targets but i don't think they will be missing but the guidance for the rest of the year can be a really negative and this will really hurt the market but don't think that there will be a lot of positive stuff to support or mark in their coming bits and year of today's have a back with more business news fear and just under an hour's time stay with us for the headlines with kerry next.

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you're watching on t.v. the headlines for you now the national day of mourning across russia around one hundred thirty people from the hills of the pleasure cruiser sank. in. the mideast quartet meets in washington hoping to jumpstart the stalled israeli palestinian peace talks decades long conflict drags on. wiki leaks founder julian assange has a fresh appeal against extradition in london's high court with allegations that sweden is nothing more than a staging post. interview show spotlight this time all going off talks to start off the presidential commission of

a 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. and today my guest in the studio is. 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. toward children adopted in 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. number of scandals where american parents badly treated the children they adopted in russia. and washington to come up with a solution a document designed by russia would make the organization is helping americans adopt to russia need international recognized convention but inside russia it's a different story children's rights are also used the country doesn't have a single juvenile court to deal with such cases. welcome to the show thank you very much for coming in first of all about this new agreement that the russians and the u.s. are planning to sign what will be the new. rules of adoption will there be new rules there are a few changes on the few rules in this.