hope of finding survivors now it's time for grieving for those killed in the sinking of the volga pleasure boat join. of the rescue efforts in just a moment. the mideast quartet meets in washington hoping to jumpstart the stalled israeli palestinian peace talks even the projects criticism west bank settlements. or to the rest of the against the traditional. made allegations that is nothing

more. to the u.s. . you're watching r.t. live from moscow welcome to the program. flags at half mast across russia as the country mourns the victims of its worst boat accident in three decades sixty five people have been officially confirmed dead dozens of bodies remain under water overloaded pleasure cruiser sank in the river republic of the start on sunday. say the chances of finding more survivors are remote. and public. commemoration services are indeed argue to begin tom a difficult day for the republican and a difficult day for the country but. where you are right now. well carrie behind me i'm sure you can see the amount of flowers that are starting to be laid against

the riverboat station here in khazan which was to be the final point of the of this cruise of the ship the bull guard here is growing the number of flowers there is growing as is the number of people coming here to pay their respects to share their grief over what happened on sunday there's also a number of funerals that are starting today twenty three of the families who lost people in the sinking of the ship are going to start burying their relatives today has now been sixty five people confirmed dead from the sinking that number is expected to change as it's known that there are more bodies still trapped in the ship under the waters of the volga later on more people and more flowers are expected here and as they continue so will the recovery efforts at the scene of the sinking of the ship. as well as shock and there is immense anger among grieving

relatives who believe the desk could have been avoided had a chance to speak to some of them what have they been saying to you. absolutely i mean all of yesterday we were at the site of the the rescue efforts and then which then turned into the recovery efforts as hope faded of finding survivors and there were groups of her relatives and survivors there desperately waiting for news of any of their loved ones they were even more of them here in in cars and waiting for the same information and very little of it came in the end they decided that a lot of them had been given somewhat false hope by the authorities originally saying they could probably find most of the people alive and then a u. turn as they realized that so many had gone down inside the ship. the divers themselves at the scene of the sunken ship are now moving into what is probably going to be the hardest part of the recovery efforts they've been searching room by

room to try and find bodies but it's it was the first feared and now confirmed that one of the rooms was a a large playroom on one of the upper decks and as the ferry began to sink there were a perhaps forty children inside that a large proportion of the passengers they'd all gathered there either to have a party or to also play together and because there were so many in that room and once it's thought that they weren't able to get out and they all drowned inside that room and divers have reached that room now they've started to go into that room and they're going to try they say and end extract those bodies from inside that room it's a very difficult task and a very emotional one it will be the end of this very traumatic saga for many people a lot of them starved of information for so long this will be the end that they dreaded the most but this is the end that has come from the sinking of this ship. first came terror and tragedy. the baldwins of bet there were 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 said he swim towards the light and made it out alive but i can find my grandson or daughter in law now amidst the grief comes the anger and the questions of why you think so do your jobs you don't understand a thing. the bulgaria pleasure boat sank in just three minutes on sunday now some people are saying it should never have been on the volga at all i think. is the bog area past us two hours before than an awful condition of their donor privilege chair going to show before it's out of would never have been allowed to sail and growing evidence seems to point to gross mismanagement on the vessel including a broken engine ignored by the captain and blocked in the n.c.a.a.

exists. to work on it it was called the ukraine more and more people complained so they just changed 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 in town they know is water coming in through the windows at such a pace the boat wind down very quickly now president medvedev has ordered wide ranging checks saying there are many more bulgaria's out there a 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 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 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 on boston r.t. the volga bank central russia. well you know on that coming up in a few minutes on the program a drawn out decision brown says it's a loss of what to do with a view plane contemplating going to play to sit down and. the middle east peace cortef made up of russian american and u.n. e.u.

as gathered in washington terms to revive israeli palestinian peace talks between come as no point in relations between israel and us after president obama spoke in favor of a return to established three nine hundred sixty seven borders. israel wants. and since declared much of it as its own. quarter tones. in september when officially recognizing the list on states who strongly opposed the use well. explained why there's such intensity to see the talks take off. the quartet has met at a time when its efforts as the global mediator in the middle east peace process are largely seen as in the fact that there is a sense that cost for negotiations alone are not enough in fact they've reached their dead end and made the failure to negotiate as a solution palestinians plan to seek a vote by the un general assembly in 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 the possible vote in september of 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 nine hundred sixty seven border lines but these released find the mere 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 roll effectively nourse so it's. all of conditions that have resulted in a decades of impasse the two sides have not been able to come to a solution and i hope always was that war 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 these release battlements 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 extract a balanced approach from washington whereas russia is 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 complains their grievances because the palestinian vote voice is virtually blocked in the u.s. the leadership is labeled as terrorists here and experts say mediation is next to impossible when you refused to talk to one of the sides. well meanwhile brian becker national coordinator of the antiwar oncet coalition says there is little chance of a peaceful resolution as long as the u.s.

continues to fashion its policies around is really interests there are different different desires different agendas within a quartet from the u.s. government point of view the purpose of these renewed hearts is to put pressure on the palestinian authority which having received nothing from the israelis and nothing from the americans during the past years seem israeli settlements growing and expanding in spite of president obama's promise that this that there would be a hard freeze and settlement construction the west bank and spite of the fact that the siege of gaza has taken so much and 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 can become increasingly isolated so they're trying to come up with some solution but 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 a there 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 there 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 the new gore has already been criticized for violating free speech and stifling democracy. was passed late monday by a vote of ninety seven in favor and fifty eight against it is hoping to protect the state of israel boycotts and essentially what it allows is for any kind of signal system one based business to suit for damages is rabies morning so boycotts

a new presupposes fines if the feeling is not an israeli he or she can also be prevented from barred from entering this country now what is interesting is that became legal adviser for the knesset the israeli parliament is himself against this bill he has called it borderline illegal and this is a symptom and that is echoed by human rights organizations and civil parliamentarians they say that it is anti democracy it is anti federman speech and people really should be allowed to fulfill boycotts of both the occupied territories and the system and the head of the peace now movement has to be israeli government is trying to act to quote him as police and be peace now and have a human rights organizations plan to appeal this decision in the israeli fight which. growing pressure on israel to commit to a peaceful resolution to the culprit that's causing ongoing erosion of civil rights in the country israel says to preserve its decades long stranglehold on palestine

that's according to. the director of the association for civil rights in israel. the passing of this was a bad day for freedom speech a bad day for is a democracy. and even more unfortunately it is only the current representation of the rising wave of democratic legislation that is gradually drowning the foundations of his a democracy is that for many years and i think rightfully so has been recognized as a country with strong democratic out your beats but what we're seeing here is the gradual sad process in which these really thought him and his right self undoing eroding those in a crowd of principles not just a prolonged occupation for more than four decades but also targeting the rights of . minorities in the israel 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. they can always find more stories on our website r.t. dot com along with the latest news blogs and yes it's just some of what you can find right now to share the circumstances surrounding the death of a high profile admission prosecutor and shot himself why pets. are not. a street racer tries out the attention of his current. need for speed in college.

the french parliament to shelter vote on an extension to the military campaign in libya government that says it's determined to take the fight to colonel gadhafi but some experts believe a ground invasion is now the only option left the president. can't let me think chuck. books is like bragging will destroy the republicans they're often wrong and gets a surprise. french foreign minister should pay posted from when libya encroached days weeks the wars in so forth month and the final round inside. the with his western allies seen short little opponents fourteen well it's not far from garrison for sarkozy and for all nato. 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 plus documentary we have the fly record and everything else. so it seems strange in many ways the whole western supports of some of the i will groups in libya must be questioned because in some cases of it we are effectively arming al qaida. it's all making a mockery of the un votes on foreign intervention because. they are breaking it in their good person. none of. this nature witnesses they too will be 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 cindy grilled troops but expressed predict is the only way they'll to break the libyan deadlock

the moves the splitting the two coalition silvio berlusconi head of keep italy admits invading libya was of mistake and did a study due to the fridge defense minister says the gribble should negotiate with worldly gadaffi 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're saying they're saying now i know 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 pose these critical certainly not in france today but at present on the contrary role should the u.s. votes will be installed bombs would bring havoc in libya to play said the latest

can't support the love rothwell quote lloyd lee diplomat speak for a blazing row with elections just annoying months away so go with boys is it a successful war could resurrect his child. instead one paper roy's libya's becoming a slow motion cold crutch for france is deeply unpopular president sarkozy's a jogging for excessive sweating is understandable as is libyan sprint is turning into a marathon the new bush will see paris. nato has been concealing the real number of civilian casualties in libya since the operation started that's according to pentagon journalists larry and so he says it's being done to hide the real motive behind the military campaign a full scale rewrite of political map before into next out of his point that. indeed starting from the moment it was decided to launch this operation the lives

of civilians were not taken into account everything that we used to see in the middle east is not transpiring in this region and this is just the beginning it is rather a question of rearrangement of this. and we are yet to see a series of wars in this case nato keeps line here recently which is surprising because during the war in casa want nato would normally like only to conceal its mistakes this time it's being done not to conceal mistakes but to conceal the strategy. some other stories making headlines around the world itself. last a gunman have reportedly blown up or turner only gyptian natural gas pipeline to israel and prudent as a fourth town apartment has been targeted in recent months previous just to get security official say the attack happened early in the morning in the northern part of sonora and the border with israel. the hacking scandal

surrounding the world's most read english language newspaper has taken a new twist also police city senior law enforcement officers up in question were allegedly obstructing an investigation into the conduct of work it was closed down over his ation of the backing of the friends or relatives of the victims the families of dead soldiers relations of which was outrage and british public. fast moving storms continue to rage across the midwest united states causing the heaviest blackouts in the least a decade strong winds and radio. trace trees power lines ripped roofs off buildings was a number of russians. claims reporter about two hundred flights have also been delayed at least seven people have been seriously injured in the rescue workers in

the west. well we can expound at your son's will be back in london's high court today to fight extradition to sweden where he's wanted for questioning of a sexual assault allegations is. handed over the swedish authorities won't be long before our son's finds himself behind bars in the u.s. . courts. 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 we should look rosters extradited people to america with a minimum of fuss when they were aust was seen as a possible you know but thought to bring what awaits him in the us is this. is a cruel your to be. put on trial for the usual you're

a notorious neo conservative rove helped the swedish prime minister friedrich reinfeldt win reelection last year and there's another glaring link in the shape of lawyer thomas strum his firm's representing the two women bringing the sex charges against ourselves 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 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 great leaning government in sweden sweden wants out on sex crime charges the us is reportedly preparing an espionage case and it suits non-native member sweden just fine to be a conduit in this case and in others they get. all the benefits of being. 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 computes with the us as sweden trying to. represent us foreign policy in europe. militarily and politically and economically. as 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 other guy will be firmly fixed on sweden a country that insists on its own neutrality whilst turning asylum seekers over to the us the allegedly to be tortured only as stars and his staff the wiki leaks know what's going on sweden has got to hide your enemy's hearty good. time for the kind of business news that we. carry this is business r.t. hello and welcome to the program russia's largest lender teaming up with the skulker research hub the country's answer to silicon valley will host for brands i t cluster and our india on the deal also involves sitting at one of the world's largest data processing centers providing says this will help it because one of the most technologically advanced binds globally groups. we are planning to maintain

the broadest barges are on telling hundred eight hundred million dollars the total will build over two and a half years and provide their own point of belgian jobs and research. russia's going to sell ten percent of its high tech corporation as part of its massive profits isolation drive this tell you could be sold in three years for around one billion dollars and is believe investors will be interested in the us and as nanotechnology is going strong demand president dmitry medvedev has called for an expansion of that probably taxation program the state was going to sell stakes in the thousands and the prices last year would only manage to offload assets in a hundred and twenty. right now let's have a look at the markets oil is continuing to lose ground that made stronger dollar and concerns about global demand it's all speculation of your it's sovereign debt crisis is deepening landis' trading at around one hundred sixteen dollars per barrel while the w t i is ninety four dollars per barrel. asian markets are sliding

sharply falling u.s. losses investors are long with the possible spread of the european sovereign debt crisis to even as spain the naturals are among the hardest hit their size about chinese like a tree tightening are also weighing on property shares in hong kong resource stocks are in the pressure following a slide in commodities in tokyo a strong leader has pushed exporters lower. and here in russia the r.t.s. in my six have opened in the red the russian markets finished monday's session lower on negative news from abroad. let's take a look at the individual who is on the nicest most of the blue chips are lower with financials suffering the markets provide he's losing more around one and a half percent put that crude is weighing on and if you majors grandslam is down about percent bucking the trend there is loss intel and it's up almost one percent off beat reporter nine percent increase in earnings with us top of the. boys in the euro zone have tamed investor appetite for risk pushing the russian

currency to fresh lows the ruble has slipped to its lowest level in seven weeks against the dollar interest considered to be a safe haven asset it's lost one percent with the greenback now worth just over twenty eight ruble its. and you're up to date for the back with more business news in about fifteen minutes time trials and if you can headlines this cannot.

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