and then which then turned into their recovery efforts as hope faded of finding survivors and there were groups of relatives and survivors there desperately waiting for news of any of their loved ones there were even more of them here in in waiting for the same information and very little of it came in the end they decided that a lot of them have 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 effort they've been searching room by room to try and find bodies but it's it was but first feared and now confirmed that one of the rooms was a large play room on one of the upper decks and as the ferry began to sink there were perhaps forty children inside that

a large proportion of the passengers they'd all gathered there either to have a party or two or to 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'll 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 the ship. first came terror and tragedy in. the boat leans 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 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 of why you do your jobs you don't understand anything. the bulgarian pleasure boat sank in just three minutes on sunday now some people are saying it should never have been on the volga atoll at the. at the bog area past us two hours before it looked an awful condition of they had done a pretty voice before it set off 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 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 tell me they noticed 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 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 how ring accounts of what happened on the weekend pleasure cruise that tell the real story didn't work it is that people were basically buried alive in giant 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 on boston r.t. the volga bank central russia. well moving on coming up in a few minutes on the program a drawn out decision brown says it's a loss of what to do with libyan pain to play to integrate the sit down and down. the middle east peace corps heads made up of russia america the un and the e.u. as governor in washington in an attempt to revive stool israeli palestinian peace talks meeting comes no point in relations between israel and its biggest us of the present obama spoke in favor of a return to established nine hundred sixty seven borders. is read occupy the vast

swathes of palestinian land and since declared much of it as its own the government of the quartet also the. un vote the september one officially recognizing palestine as a sovereign state one who strongly opposed by israel was very much if you can explain why there is such a huge and seemed 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 ineffective there's a sense that calls for negotiations alone are not enough in fact they've reached a dead end and 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 the possible vote in 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 demand israel stop building settlements on the occupied territories demands which israel effectively ignores so it's a. no ball 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 un 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 russia is seen by many as the more impartial mediator moscow has held consultations with both these really authorities in the palestinian authorities many times hearing out there complains their grievances because the palestinian vote voice is virtually blocked in the u.s. their leadership is labeled as terrorists here and experts say mediation is next to impossible when you refused to talk to one of the sides. 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 israeli tourists 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 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 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 the new law has already been criticized for violating free speech and stifling democracy what is clear the details of all this past late monday by a vote of ninety seven in favor and fifty eight against it is thought to be both to protect the state of israel to boycotts and essentially what even now 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 cooling 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 one man's behavior of the peace now movement has said that the israeli government is trying to act to quote him as police and the peace now in other human rights organizations plan to appeal this decision in the israeli high schools. and growing pressure on israel to commit to a peaceful resolution to the conflict of course an ongoing erosion of civil rights in the country as israel seeks to preserve its decades long stranglehold on palestine that's according to. executive director of the association for civil rights in israel. the passing of this was 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 good wave of democratic legislation that is gradually drowning the foundations of his that had a mock recy for many years and i think rightfully so has been recognized as a country with strong democratic attributes but what we're seeing here is the gradual sad process in which these letters column and is by itself undoing eroding those democratic principles not just a call along to keep ation 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 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. wait and always find more stories on

our website at r.t. dot com along with the latest news blogs and videos here's just some of what you can find there right now the shady circumstances surrounding the death of a high profile russian prosecutor who shot himself and why pets. alcohol. and a street racer tries out the tension of his current son. his need for speed ends in carnage. the french parliament to shuttle 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.

the future of. books is like bragging will destroy their opponents they're often wrong and gets a surprise. french foreign minister should pay both did france would be are in quote days or weeks the war's into a fourth month no final round inside. the with his western allies seeing 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 that's 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 vote on foreign intervention because tree. giving . none of. this. 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 saying what the real troops but experience predict is the only way to break the libyan deadlock the moves the splitting the nato coalition silvio berlusconi head of keep italy admits invading libya was a mistake and did a study in the fridge defense minister says the rebels should negotiate with

gadhafi this is the same man that they 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 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 russia abstain did the u.s. vote will be interesting as would bring havoc in libya to play said the latest count supports the love ruffle quote lloyd lee diplomat speak for up. with elections just more in months away sako advisers said a successful war could resurrect his chills this. instead one paper writes libya's

becoming a slow motion call crutch for france's deeply unpopular president. so it is easy jogging for excessive sweating is on the stand will this is libyan spring is turning into a marathon don't you see paris. nato has been concealing the real number of civilian casualties and libya since the operation started that's according to independent journalists hearing he says it's being done to hide the real motive behind the military campaign a full scale rewrite of the region's political map you can see the full interview next hour that has a preview for you now. indeed starting from the moment it was decided to launch this operation the lives of civilians were not taken into account everything 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 the rearrangement of this. we are yet to see series all wars in

this case nato keeps line at every city which is surprising because during the war and also want nato would normally lie only to conceal its mistakes this time it's being done not to conceal mistakes but you can see all the strategy. some other stories making headlines around the world a south. master gunman have reportedly blown up a terminal only gyptian natural gas pipeline to israel and jordan is the fourth time the pipeline has been targeted in recent months and a previous just weeks ago security officials say the attack happened early in the morning in the northern part of gypsy sinai peninsula the border with israel. the hacking scandal surrounding wells most read english language newspaper has taken a new twist also lease the city. senior law enforcement officers are being questioned

over allegedly obstructing an investigation into the conduct of well it was closed down over his actions of hacking into the phones of petitions victims' families of dead soldiers revelations of which was outrage among the british public. a. fast moving storms continue to rage across the midwest united states causing the heaviest blackouts in at least a decade strong winds measuring up to twenty. trees power lines ripped roofs off buildings and cause a number of crashes. claimed chicago about two hundred flights have also been delayed at least seven people have been seriously injured leading rescue workers in the worst affected areas. now we can expand their sons 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 by supporters fear that if handed over to swedish

authorities it won't be long before our son finds himself behind bars in the us parties reports. seven months since today in 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. was seen as a possible you know. to carry water weight him in the us is this. is a quibble we ought to be. used earlier 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 handover two 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 arrogance 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 leaning government in sweden sweden once a sex crime charges the us is reportedly preparing an espionage case and it suits no nato member sweden just fine to be

a conduit in this case and in others they get. all the benefits of 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 our soldiers 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 u.s. as sweden it's kind of a traditional role of britain to represent us foreign policy in europe but what it does you know militarily and politically and economically. now it changes very unfortunately as today in our souls 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 just got to hide your enemies forty. time for look at the business news. thanks gary this is business r.t. hello and welcome to the program russia's largest lender. teaming up with a skulker research hub the country's answer to silicon valley will host a cluster and our india on the deal also involves setting up one of the world's largest data processing centers for a bank says this will help it become one of the most technologically advanced banks globally but if. we are planning to maintain the produce budget at the wrong time one hundred to eight hundred million dollars the total park will build over two and a half years and provide their own point of thousand jobs in one thousand and research. russia's growing to sell ten percent of its high tech corporation as

part of its massive privatized nation drive this take could be sold in two years for around one billion dollars believe investors will be interested in the acid as nanotechnology and strong demand president dmitry medvedev has called for an expansion of that probably ties action 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 and made stronger dollar and concerns about global demand it's all speculation sovereign debt crisis is deepening brand lending is trading at around one hundred sixteen dollars per barrel while the w t i it is ninety four dollars a barrel. asian markets are sliding sharply informing us losses investors are long and with the possible spread of the european sovereign debt crisis to spain are among the hardest hit concerns about chinese like a tree tightening are also weighing on property shares in hong kong meanwhile

resource stocks are under pressure following a slide in commodities in tokyo. has pushed exporters. here in russia the aussie s. and my six have opened in the red the russian markets finished monday's session lower or negative news from abroad. let's take a look at an individual who was on the my six most of the blue chips are low with financials suffering the most bovine is losing more around one and a hospice and we could cruise weighing on energy majors gazprom is down one percent bucking the trend is ross into and it's up almost one percent in all states reported a nine percent increase in earnings for the first top of the. debt was 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 which is considered to be a safe haven asset one percent with the greenback now what's just over twenty eight

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dot com. you're watching r t the headlines for you now a national day of mourning across russia around one hundred thirty people need killed when a pleasure cruise assange called the whole two days ago. the mideast quartet meets in washington looking to jumpstart the stalled israeli palestinian peace talks as a decades long conflict drags on. we could expound the julian assange launches a fresh appeal against extradition in london's high court and the negotiations that sweden there's nothing bolton stated to the u.s. . financial group names and shames who he thinks is behind the financial turmoil that continues to grip europe that's in the cards or falls.

max kaiser this is the cause or report let's get all the details from stacey or tax europe declares war on rating agencies a chorus of policymakers from europe and across the world have denounced the moody's drastic downgrade of portuguese debt as an act of financial vandalism accusing the anglo-saxon rating agencies of driving states into bankruptcy and destabilizing the global system yeah that's right they call it financial vandalism or upping the rhetoric and we we've been talking about financial terrorism for months and months and months now they're upping their rhetoric they're going to get to the point now where they realize that this is in fact not vandalism which is a quaint way of saying terrorism they didn't accuse a son of in law of vandalism on nine eleven or who ever did that it was an act of

terrorism mooney's s. and p. if it's our financial terrorists and they are purposefully targeting these countries for destruction because they want their assets for nothing well portugal's new premier pedro passos coelho said moody's downgraded was a punch in the stomach at a time when the new government has done everything demanded by the e.u. and i.m.f. inspectors well that's part of a racket moody's a publicly traded company warren buffet's one the biggest shareholder they manipulate that stock price they manipulate their ratings they telegraph what the regs are going to be before they make them so the insiders can profit from the inside information inside information is legal in washington they are lining their pockets they're disenfranchising the people live in these countries who are led to the austerity measures imposed upon them for things they never did and debts they never incurred and this is continuing unabated because nobody stepping in to represent the interest of the people the government like papa joy in greece is in the pocket of the terrorist proper drill you are a terrorist if you are a financial terrorist.