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 from the rescue efforts are going on with divers going to the wreckage to try and search the rooms inside the ship and find bodies of people who went down with that ship they're moving into one of the most difficult parts of that operation into a large 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 in there but that they simply weren't able to escape or they all drowned in that room. 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 and a lot of the crews on those ships would have known the crew on the boat daria. paying their respects now to the ship that sank.

first came tara and tragedy. the both 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 said 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. why you peaks do your jobs you don't understand a thing. 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 that they don't will stay in the bog area past two hours be. for cloaked in an awful

condition if they had done a preview a chair on the show before it set off would never have been allowed to sail to get it growing evidence seems to point to gross mismanagement on the vessel including a broken engine ignored by the captain and blocked in the agency exits. what is to work on it it was called the ukraine's 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 despite this rescue teams say it was hopelessly outdated the crew that was working tell me they noticed water coming in through the windows at such a pace the boat went down through quickly now president medvedev has ordered wide ranging checks saying there are many more full gary is out there the number of

decrypted barges cruising along our waterways is enormous and the fact that we were lucky before yesterday doesn't mean anything like that couldn't have happened all of this will come to the fore when the ship itself is raised to the surface for investigation but it's the how ring accounts of what happened on the weekend pleasure cruise the told the real story didn't talk 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 the bank so to share. it with r.t. live from moscow now dramatic new pictures have emerged of the moment that a russian passenger plane was forced to make an emergency landing on water in

eastern siberia the one ton of twenty four which was carrying thirty six people can clearly be seen here with one of its engines on fire the pilot reported difficulties and decided to attempt a landing on the river on that monday while the plane did stay afloat it allowed the majority of the passengers to escape but several people did die two of the survivors remained serious condition in hospital. while a coming up your way in a few minutes or an artsy drawn out decision process is seemingly a loss over what to do with the libyan campaign contemplating whether to invade the country or sit down and talk to colonel king. for. just a few days after hosting his fortieth birthday party wiki leaks founder julian assange is appearing right now before long high court to fight extradition to sweden he's wanted for questioning over sexual assault allegations. but has been following the case from just outside the court. but we still rest. cool it's his

own cheese day he was flanked by his lawyers and his assistants he was silent obviously reserving his energies we were all asking him how he felt about how today was going to go but he didn't answer any of us but he had a hat but he's now wearing gloves does he look that much older than his forty is and certainly much older than him but he did it looks like the these months of but still house arrest that he's been on to have really taken that toll he's been staying at the home of a friend of his out in the countryside where he's had to wear an electronic tag he's been under a curfew and he had to report to the police station every day said that his two really taken its toll on him this hearing that we're seeing this week is scheduled to last until wednesday but even then the rulings expected to be resumed so we might not hear what decision the judge has made for days or even weeks and insights even if that this appeal is rejected in

a cellar says that he vows to take this case higher up the justice chain here in the u.k. thus to the supreme court and then if you have to on to the european court of human rights of course he was last in court in february here in the u.k. where the judge ruled in favor of sweden they said that he should be extradited to sweden saying that that was no reason to expect that our songs wouldn't receive a fair trial i admit that he's now in court today today to appeal that decision and he and his supporters have always suggested that the prosecution on sex charges is politically motivated and that the end goal of this is this weekend will have. she sent him to the u.s. where of course the grand jury is currently investigating the work of wiki leaks and in fact there are significant links between sweden and the us which is the subject of reports that you can see now. 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 when they were asked was show us a possible you know. to go to war to wait him in the us is this. 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 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 the question 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 right leaning. government in sweden sweden one on sex crime charges the u.s. 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 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 u.s. as sweden has to do it ourselves 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 eye will be firmly fixed on this we did a country that insists on its own neutrality whilst turning asylum seekers over to the u.s. to allegedly to be tortured it's only our soldiers and his staff that wiki leaks know what else sweden's got to hide your enemy's party did. well you can always find more stories on our website of course r.t. dot com along with the latest news blogs and videos here's just some of what you can find out right now i know the shady circumstances surrounding the death of a high profile russian prosecutor. and his workplace levels of alcohol were found

in his blood. and have a look at this footage right here a street racer tries our full potential of his car in central moscow his need for speed and carnage. the middle east peace corps made up of russia america the u.n. and the e.u. has gathered in washington in an attempt to revive stalled israeli palestinian peace talks the meeting comes at a low point in relations between israel and its biggest ally the u.s. after president obama spoke in favor of a return to established pre nine hundred sixty seven borders that you know israel occupied vast swaths. palestinian land that has since declared much of it as its own the governor of the quarter also comes ahead of a u.n. vote this september on officially recognizing palestine as a sovereign state it's something strongly as well he's going to try to explain why there's such urgency to see the talk of. 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 made the failure to negotiate as a solution palestinians plan to seek a vote by the un general assembly is september recognizing the state of palestine that and urgency to the meeting of the quartet as some analysts say could be the last chance for the global mediators to prove their efficiency before 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 elites 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 were the least find the mere 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 day when attempts to influence the situation take the settlements the obama administration has called the israeli settlement expansion illegitimate but when it came to actually voting at the u.n. security council to condemn the settlement expansion is illegal the u.s. veto resolution the. and 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 the israeli authorities and the palestinian authorities many times hearing out their complains 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 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 jewish settlements on occupied palestinian territory the new law has already been criticized for violating free speech and stifling democracy human rights organizations accuse the israeli government of acting as thought police the legislation allows any settler or business to sue for damages caused by boycotts and imposes fines on organizers the law is a law rather is a stark reminder of an ongoing erosion over civil rights in the country as israel seeks to preserve its decades long stranglehold on palestine well that's according to her executive director of the association for civil rights in israel. the

passing of this law was a bad day for freedom speech a bad day for his early democracy. and even more unfortunately it is only the current reprise and taishan of the rising good wave of democratic legislation that is gradually drowning the foundations of his that had a mock recy as well 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 let economy is by itself undoing eroding those democratic principles not just that will longer keep ation for more than four decades but also targeting the rights of. way no it isn't the is and specifically arab citizens of the state of israel targeting human rights organisations and that 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. it's only twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital you are artsy here shortly with the business now let's check out some of the headlines from around the world this hour the half brother afghan president hamid karzai has been assassinated in his own home initial reports suggest he was shot dead by one of his own bodyguards and the taliban is claiming responsibility. the kandahar provincial council as one of the most powerful politicians in the south of the country he was a controversial figure accused by critics of in bodying the corruption cronyism and criminal activity that shrouds the current afghan regime. the hacking scandal surrounding the world's most to read the english language newspaper has taken a new twist amid reports of police complicity senior law enforcement officers are being questioned over allegedly obstructing an investigation into the conduct of

the news of the world over and by rupert murdoch the weekly was closed down over accusations of hacking the phones of politicians murder victims and the families of dead soldiers it comes amid emerging revelations that two other newspapers also parts of murdoch's media empire were engaged in. a protestant turn to violence in belfast northern ireland the rest began at the start of the annual twelfth of july celebrations of protestants and catholics clashed with both themselves and police at least twenty two police officers were reportedly injured at the annual parade is dedicated to the former military victories over the catholics but has been inspired by a decade of. the french parliament vote on an extension to the military campaign in libya the government says it's determined to take the fight to colonel qadhafi but some experts believe a ground invasion is now the only option left to president sarkozy.

which. books is lloyd will destroy the republicans they're often wrong. and gets a nasty surprise. french foreign minister ship a boasted france would win libya in quote days or weeks the war's into a fourth month no final round inside because sarkozy with his western allies seem short their 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 being libya's rebels but on 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. by leading it never. giving up. 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 rolled troops protect predict is the only way they'll to break the libyan deadlock the moves the splitting the nato coalition silvio berlusconi head of key partner italy admits invading libya was a mistake and did a study u. turn the french defense minister says the rebels should negotiate with moammar

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 impossible 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 rocher upstream did the us vote warning bombs would bring havoc in libya to play said the latest support love ruffle quote lloyd lee diplomat speak for a blazing row with elections just annoying months away saw go advisors said a successful war could break the record his chances instead one paper writes libya's becoming a slow motion call crash for france's deeply unpopular president. so his easy

jogging for excessive sweating is understandable this is libyan spring is turning into a marson the new bush you see paris. where you are now up to date here on our t.v. do stay with us next with us. sorry this is business sarsi hello and welcome to the program of record selloff which is coming to russia's state sector newspaper says the government is getting ready to massively expand its privatization program is going to multiply the value of the cell of by seven making it worth some two hundred billion dollars president dmitry medvedev says he's not satisfied with the current pace of the privatisation drive so the state was going to the state was going to sell its 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 rush it suggests extending the deadline for privatisation and introducing a gold chair. after the. fiscal component of broad is the i'm. almost there on the oil prices the moon the reason of brooches asia according to residents of the video is economic liberalization. in the sea of prices or we channeling the bro i'm not sure that these liberalisation is the global thought or view he is a much more focused on strongarm one pound. opportunity to provide strongarm of support the thought of a roth. russia's going to sell ten percent of its high tech corporation ross nano as part of proper time zation plan this day could be sold in two years for

around one billion dollars and lives believe investors will be interested in the asset as nanotechnologies are in strong demand. let's have a look at the markets and how it all is continuing to lose ground despite crude in trees. and until the peak levels here's a softening demand dominating the market with investors concerned about u.s. economic recovery and the possibility of thought the money tree time training china brant blunt is trading at around one hundred fifteen dollars per barrel at the w t i is ninety four dollars but. the european stocks are seeing a heavy selloff after a sharp drop in the previous session investors continued to dump banking and insurance stocks on persisting sovereign debt free is not held by the dutch finance minister saying a selective default and leave debt is possible meanwhile the market is nervous about the possibility of the crisis spreading to italy and spain the cost of insuring spanish trying to tighten government bonds has jumped to record levels.

and hand russia the markets the trunk of the seas losses that's now take a look at some individual movies on the my six most of the blue chips are in the red with financials suffering the most as burbank is losing more around one and a hospice and we could crudities and waiting on an issue major's gas promise down the bonds and also into i slipped into the red after gains its reported and nine percent increase in earnings for the pens top of the cia. was in the eurozone have tamed investor appetite for risk pushing the russian currency to flash lows the verbal has lost a third of a percent against the dollar which is considered to be a safe haven asset monday's session saw a biggest decline in seven weeks the greenback is now worth twenty eight were making its. russia's largest lender teaming up with this cocoa research the country's also to silicon valley will host burbank's and r. and d.

the deal also involves setting up one of the world's largest data processing centers for banks as they say will help at the county one of the most technologically advanced banks globally. but it really can move us who we are blending to maintain the broader its budget are on seven hundred to eight hundred million dollars the total park will build over two and a half years and provide their own five thousand jobs in ninety and research. here of today it's more business and now it's time the headlines are throwing the next.

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top stories and a national day of mourning across russia one hundred thirty people believed killed . just two days ago. the mideast. those are the headlines here and now. to the bloody conflict in libya while remaining neutral on syria many a questioning of the alliance is real next independent journalist shows his

thoughts on what's really going on in the region. the labor conflict is entering its faith month with concerns growing that a protracted destructive civil war has been kickstarted by a western rush to regime change today my son a french intellectual and join the list founder and chairman of terror network and the axis for peace conference has been working here in libya trying to find out the truth thank you very much terry for being with us thank you where have you been in libya and what have you discovered what have you found in your time here. first of all it's quite obvious that the us a wanted to answer the war at the same time with libya and syria. that we was made public by john bolton in two thousand and two the

plan was passed over to france and britain who decided to bring it to life in november last year secondly it was necessary to verify whether an attempt of a coup had been made before that that could be organized by france or britain the attempt failed in october. after this failed attempt another coup was planned or it in this is just killing all the heads of the libyan national congress if they got together in one place during a big celebration that that field though because the situation in the region changed after the revolutions in tunisia and egypt at that moment france and britain decided to carry out a p.r. operation and presenting. as a people's rebellion this. was the aim of this regime change. every member of a call ition pursues their own particular goal it is necessary that everyone should be.