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live pictures of the commemoration ceremony in the public's capital not far from where the tragedy took place the rescue said the chances of finding more survivors are a bad person live now to watch the storm barton who is one of the things for tom the whole nation is in grief and obviously our nations are running incredibly high where you are. they are indeed kerry there are thousands of people that have turned up here to the riverboat station in khazan which was to be the stopping points of the bulgaria on its pleasure cruise up the volga they've come to lay flowers and supposed their respects to the people who were drowned either trying to get out of the ship all those who were trapped in it in sunday's tragedy there's also a funeral starting to take place today of some of the victims twenty three families will start burying their relatives today from the sinking of the bulgaria ship

feelings here are ones of immense regret that this happened and moving really also into anger a lot of people feeling that this was very much a tragedy which could have been avoided and people we spoke to just earlier from the crowd said those kind of things. and one point to go on to twenty three traveled on these boat he was in poor condition then yes because most serial turns your honor a trip to go would have to stop here is the engine was working properly when. those who have died to you through this passion for the children. it's a terrible loss. but when the group was sinking in the crew was in bed and they were busy saving their own lives we still hope that our daughter has survived because you have said it or some other way and yet we still believe that our little angel is alive. i'm not sure but he can call us so

a sense of immense tragedy here amongst the crowds amongst the relatives and amongst the survivors but also of a growing number of questions as to why this happened. tom we understand that some relatives still believe their loved ones could be alive how is the rescue operation ok. at the moment the rescue operation well it has really turned into more of a recovery operation but the tempo has not let up we were at the site of the center of the rescue operation yesterday and boats kept going from the bank throughout the day to try and recover people you can hear some of the music being played behind me to try and commemorate the sinking of this ship but downstream the rescue efforts are going on with divers going to the wreckage to try and search the rooms inside the ship and find people find bodies of people who went down with that ship they're

moving into one of the most difficult parts about operation into a large room a play room which was where around forty children were at the time of the sinking and it's thought that a large number of children there that they simply weren't able to escape and they all drowned in that room we're going to try and recover those and on the sixteenth of july they're going to begin trying to raise the the sunken bulgaria ship to try and recover all of the the remain. as on the ship and also to try and ascertain what happened there was a growing number of accusations either given anonymously by crew members all the eyewitnesses of the big problems on the ship it's hard to verify the right moment but all together they add up to quite a damning indictment of what may have gone wrong things such as the s.o.s. alarms the tunnel is not working at the time of the sinking because of the

electricity generated stopped working one of the engines itself repeatedly kept breaking down according to crew members the caps and ignored. in here and now some holmes glowing in a memorial tribute to those that died this is a large river with many craft traveling up and down it a lot of the crews on most ships would have known the crew on the boat garcia. paying their respects now to the ship that sank. first came terrorism and tragedy. of the boat leans

a bit there are three of them and be cabin my son my daughter in law and my grandson my son said he tried to open the cabin to holding his child when the waves crashed into them and he lost grip of my grandson he says he swims 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 did p.c.'s do your jobs you don't understand anything. 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. because they are of the blog area past us two hours before an awful condition of their donor preview each publisher before it would never have been allowed to sail it 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 when it was called the 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 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 there 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 bull gary is 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 harrowing accounts of what happened on the weekend

pleasure cruise to tell the real story is that people were basically buried alive and try a matter of coughing they 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 the bank central russia . in a few minutes drawn out decision france's seriatim boss said what the game plan. that they feel sick down to colonel gadhafi. middle east peace corps to russia america and the e.u. has gathered in washington in an attempt to revive stalled palestinian peace talks

. point nations between israel and its biggest ally the u.s. at the present obama spoke in favor of a return to established one hundred sixty seven borders. israel passed swathes of palestinian land and since declare them out of it as its own. the quartet also calls ahead of a key u.n. vote. and she reckon. palestine is a sovereign state something strongly opposed by israel to which you care strains of moral situation sort of see the course 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 cost for negotiations alone are not enough in fact they've reached a dead end and the failure to negotiate is the 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 with the quartet as some analysts say could be the

last chance with the global mediators to prove their efficiency before the possible bodies' at pemberley by the international community which it most certainly will there is a vision that all core tech 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 with these release find them you're mentioning a nine hundred sixty seven border line is unacceptable the palestinians on the other hand demand israel stop building settlements on the occupied territories demands we just will effectively 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 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 do when attempts to influence the situation take the settlements the obama administration has called these really settlements expansion illegitimate but when it came to actually voting at the u.n. 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 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 locked in the u.s. the 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. just hours before the middle east quartet convened in washington israel introduced a law that makes it a crime for its citizens to boycott do something that's palestinian territory and

you know has already been criticized free speech and starting to see rights organizations use things when governments are acting as police. station and he said it's nice to see sanity squashed by us poisoned by organizers. roshon of civil rights in the country as israel seeks to preserve its decades long stranglehold on. its. executive director at the same station for civil rights and 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 current representation of the rising wave of democratic legislation that is gradually drowning the foundations of his that it is well for many years later rightfully so

has been recognized as a country with strong democratic out you're beat but what we're seeing here is the gradual sad process in which the israeli parliament is by itself doing eroding those who are proud of principles not just the poor longer keep pushing 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 debility 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. and always find more stories on our website the latest news blogs and video justice. from florida just a trickle right down the shady circumstances surrounding the death of a high profile russian prosecutor who shot himself no place by levels of up the

road from. a street race troy's out of ten stories for instance from. his need for speed games and carnage. the french parliament to show deal to vote on an extension of the military campaign in the vip the government says it's determined to take the fight to colonel gadhafi and some experts believe a ground invasion is now the only option left to president sarkozy. knock out that leakage of books is like bragging will destroy the reporter lives they're often wrong and gets a mill stiff surprise i thought french foreign minister

should pay postage france would be a encroached days weeks the wars into a fourth month no final round inside nicolas sarkozy with his western allies seen short little opponents fighting back well it's not just an embarrassment for sarkozy some advice from for all nato west piracy even admits libya's rebels but on 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 and many ways the whole western supports 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 in the country.

giving. none of. this. witnesses at the bigger of libya's causing widespread atrocities for every. military person that was supposedly a casualty there were ten civilians frauds categorically ruled out cindy grilled troops but expose predict is the only way they'll 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 stunning the fridge defense minister says the brutal should negotiate. gadhafi 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 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 pose this critical certainly not in france to the president on the contrary. really would bring havoc in libya which plays at the latest truths of child support. lloyd leap. frog. with elections just more in months away thought good voice is that a successful war could bridge the wrecked his chills is instead what people writes libby is becoming a slow motion call crashing before the deeply unpopular president. sarkozy's a jogging for excessive sweating is understandable as is libyan spring is turning into a marathon the new bush will see paris. now to some other stories making headlines

around the world. the half brother of the afghan president has reportedly been assassinated in his home. in short and those are the most powerful politicians in the south of the country and some reports suggest he was shot dead body guards. the hacking scandal surrounding the world's most read english language newspaper has taken a new twist also police. senior law enforcement officers are being questioned but eventually obstruct investigations the conduct of the world and why. it was closed down is ations confirms a platoon. no the protests and the firings of dead soldiers becomes emerging revelations to other news also. unhooking.

distant rate violent. young arrest began as bonfires. celebrations. ministers throwing stones since before the security services and a target both sides used twenty two police officers were injured. it is ok to take pictures of a complex presence was a case of bloodshed destruction. the wiki leaks founder julian assange on back in london today to fight extradition to sweden where he's wanted for questioning over sexual assault allegations supporters fear that if the swedish authorities it won't be long before a song finds itself behind bars in the us party's 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 next stop america i think the worry is that sui to look asters extradited people to america with a minimum of fuss when they were aust was seen as a possible you know but thought to get him out of britain was awaits him in the us is this. really ought to be. put on trial for war 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 his firm's representing the two women bringing the sex charges against him. 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 how he 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 but he's is particularly strong now with the. government in sweden sweden once on sex crime charges the u.s. is reportedly preparing an espionage case and it suits nor need to remember 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 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 computes with the u.s. as sweden. represent us foreign policy. and political and economic. changes very unfortunate as today that's always 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 i will be firmly fixed on this we did approach it and insist on its own neutrality it was turning asylum seekers over to the us allegedly to be tortured only a soldier and his staff that wiki leaks know what else sweden's got to hide your. see. how about all main story now a memorial services are being held all across russia to mourn the victims of its worst botox and in three decades now live pictures from the country's center

a part of the toughest over the years because it's so. simple is a. relative of the victims and survivors to take part in the narration. is something people actually can. put into trying to rescue and say the chances of finding more survivors. who couldn't sleep. after the business. thanks gary this is business r.t. hello and welcome to the program a record is coming to russia states except that the rest newspaper says the

government is getting ready to massively expand its power ties ation program is going to multiply the value of this by seven they think it works two hundred billion dollars present to be true is that it says it is not some to side with the current pace of the prioritize ational drive the state was going to sell it stakes in one thousand enterprises last year but only one hundred twenty assets ended up being sold the president is keen to get rid of state ownership as soon as possible however the government seems not likely to watch it suggests extending the deadline for privatization and introducing a gold shock. after the year two thousand. fiscal calm paul and thought brutalization. almost did. the world prices the main reason of brutalization a good rule there is a video is because the middle of the realization brueggemann inefficiency of the

crisis. bro i'm not sure that these liberalization is the global story or view he is a much more one strongarm i found. that i bought unity to provide strongarm and support the thought called champions of broth. russia is going to sell ten percent of its high tech corporation it will snow as part of productize ation plans the state could be sold in two years for around one billion dollars and lives believe investors will be interested in the exit as nanotechnologies are in strong demand. russia's largest lenders is teaming up with the research hired the country's answer to silicon valley will host eighty cluster and or india the deal also involves setting up one of the world's largest data processing centers where a bank says this will probably become one of the most technologically advanced

buying school openly. very routine. living to maintain the produce bulges or drawn children hundred to eight hundred million dollars bond will build able to in a hundred years provide their own pointed belgian jobs in nigeria in recent. times look at the markets now almost continue to lose ground amid concerns about global demand that some speculation of europe's sovereign debt crisis is deepening brant land is trading at around one hundred fifteen dollars a barrel while the w tries nearly ninety four dollars a barrel. european stocks seeing your habits after a sharp drop in the previous session investors continued to dump in pay and insurance stocks persisting sovereign debt fears. and hidden version of the markets tracking overseas and losses let's now take a look at some individual movies on the my six most of the blue trips on low road

with financial suffering the most spare bank is losing more than around one and a half percent week of crude is a waste of energy majors gas pump is down one percent also enter into the red after early gains and it's reported and nine percent increase in earnings for the first half of the year. also data boys have tamed investor how tied for risk pushing the russian currency to fresh lows the ruble has slipped to its lowest level in seven weeks ago the dollar which is considered to be a safe haven i said it's lost one percent with the greenback now worth just over twenty eight rubles. here up to date but we're back with more business is about fifteen minutes time than if you can start the headlines the next with. so.

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