it. a national day of mourning across russia for around one hundred thirty people believed killed on a pleasure cruise that sank on the volga river two days ago. wiki leaks founder julian assange marches a fresh field against extradition to london's high court all of it allegations that sweden is nothing more than a staging post to the u.s. . the mideast quartet meets in washington hoping to jumpstart the stalled israeli palestinian peace talks even as a telephone criminalising criticism of his west bank settlements. and the record sell off is coming to russia's state fact that he's reported the government is

getting ready to its current it's probably. trying to get more investors to the russian economy the more joins you can something about twenty minutes. just after three pm here in moscow you with artsy rover sushi. flags are at half mast across russia as the city mourns the victims of its worst boat accident in three decades more than eighty people have now been officially confirmed dead while dozens of bodies remain trapped underwater so although after an overloaded pleasure cruise a sign from the volga river the republican star on sunday rescuers are say the chances of finding more survivors are remote parties from darkness following the events that lead us. there are thousands of people that have turned out here to the riverboat station in khazan which was to be the stopping point of the bulgaria on

its pleasure cruise up the ball good thing they've come to lay flowers on to say their respects to the people two rounds either trying to get out of the ship or 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 of feelings here. ones of that 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. i'm not going to go under twenty three as we traveled on these modes he was in poor condition then yes because most serial turns urine or a trip it would have to stop for something that is the engine was working properly . on those who have died to refuse person sorry

for the children the little ones it's a terrible loss because it is the one that was sinking in the crew was in there and they were busy saving their own lives we still hope that our daughter has survived because you have seen an air pocket or some other way but yet you still believe there are little angel is alive 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 up the 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 downstream the rescue efforts are going on with divers going to the wreckage to try and search the rooms inside the ship and find audi's 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 and they all drowned in that room. here now some homes blowing 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 bulgaria make paying their respects to the ship that sank. first came terror and tragedy. 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 a 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. like to give the p.c.'s do you 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 be on the volga at all that they will stay out of the bog area plasters two hours before clocked in an awful condition that they have done a preview a chair going to show before etc i would never have been allowed to sail in the 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 ukrainians 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 playrooms to sail. despite this rescue teams say it was hopelessly outdated the truth of it was not worth my time they know this water coming in through the region was it such a pace the boat went down very quickly now president medvedev has ordered wide ranging checks saying there are many more bulgaria's out there a 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 hiring accounts of what happened on the weekend pleasure cruise told the real story didn't talk is that he were basically buried alive in time metal coffin he managed to get out through the window i was

there with my ten year old daughter i couldn't rest leave 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 of hope has now gone they will find anyone else alive leaving just the shock and grief in our see the ball go back to. new pictures have emerged of the moment a russian passenger plane was forced to make an emergency landing on water in eastern siberia look at this footage right here the un tunnel twenty four which was carrying thirty six people can clearly be seen with one of its engines on fire. reported difficulties and decided to attempt the landing on the river on monday while the plane did stay afloat allowing the majority of the passengers to escape seven. to board so i was remain in serious. well coming up in just a few minutes here on ars he

a drawn out decision process is seemingly at a loss over what to do with the libyan campaign contemplating whether to invade the country or to sit down and try to cut off without. we thought you are from austria now just a few days after hosting his fortieth birthday party wiki leaks founder julian assange is appearing right now before the high court fight extradition to sweden he's wanted questioning over sexual assault actions. has been following the case from just outside the court building who we saw recently arrived at school his own cheese day he was flanked by his lawyers and his assistants and 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 not wearing gloves does he look that much older than his who is he is inside me much older than him that he did it looks like the these months 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 they have to report to the police station every day say 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 result so we might not hear what decision the judge has made for days or even weeks and insights even if this appeal is rejected and i sometimes think that he vows to take this case higher up the justice chain here in the u.k. just to the supreme court and then if he has to go into the european court of human rights because he was last seen 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 there was no reason to expect that our souls would receive a fair trial even that he's not going forward to that 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 the. this is this we did will eventually send him to the us 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 a report that you can see now. 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 the worry is that we should in the past has actually gotten people to america with a minimum of fuss when they röst was seen as a possible you know thought to bring water awaits him in the u.s.

is this. all 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 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 question. became even even clearer thanks to some of the documents from exactly with the leaks there is. a willingness to. do the errands of the united states over many years from. questions of.

making asylum seekers in sweden. to the cia for police is particularly strong now. 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 mito sweden seen as an easier way for the u.s. to get their hands on our songs 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 the u.s. as sweet and as julian assange 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 and

a country that insists on its own neutrality whilst turning asylum seekers david to the u.s. to allegedly to be tortured only asos and his stuff that wiki leaks know what's billed sweden has got to hide your enemies hoti down to. thirteen minutes past the hour here in the russian capital you can always find more stories on our website of course. along with the latest news blogs and videos here are just some. circumstances surrounding the death of a high profile russian prosecutor himself his workplace high levels of our. full potential of his car right in central moscow his need for speed and some total carnage. in the middle east peace quarter of russia america the e.u. in washington attempts 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 a stop. pritam one hundred sixty seven borders israel occupied vast swathes of palestinian land i know since declared much of it as its own gathering of the quarter it also had a very un vote this time but not officially recognizing palestine as a sovereign state it's something strongly opposed quite as well if he's going to explains why there's such urgency to see the talks 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 in effect if there is a sense that cost for negotiations alone are not enough in fact they have reached a dead end i mean the failure to negotiate is a solution palestinians plan to seek a vote by the un general assembly in september recognizing the state of palestine that 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 the israelis and the palestinians and that the starting point for those negotiations have to be the pre-one nine hundred sixty seven water 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 we just well effectively ignores so it's a snowball of conditions that have resulted in the decades old impacts 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 year when attempts to influence the situation take the settlements the obama administration has called these relief that women's 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 the resolution and they say the fact that israel is the protectorate at 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 peace really authorities and palestinian authorities many times hearing out their complaints their grievances because a palestinian vote 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 sites. 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 and you know has already been criticized for violating free speech and stifling democracy human rights organizations accuse the israeli government of acting as thought police legislation allows any circular or business to sue for damages caused by boycotts imposes fines on organizers of the law is a stark reminder of an ongoing erosion of civil rights of a country as israel seeks to preserve its decades long stranglehold on palestine well that's according to one executive director of the association for civil rights and it's red. passing of this was a bad day for freedom speech a bad day for as a democracy. and even more unfortunately it is only the current representation authorising wave of democratic legislation that is gradually drowning the foundations of is that a marker see itself for many years and i think rightfully so has been recognized as

a country with strong democratic attributes what we're seeing here is the gradual sad process in which these really parliament is by itself doing eroding goes in a crowd of principles not just a poll on a key patient for more than four decades but also targeting the rights of. minorities in israel 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 this is targeting the independence of the high court of justice and its ability to continue to defend human rights and civil liberties in israel. nearly twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital let's check out some other stories now making headlines from all around the world the brother of the afghan president hamid karzai has been assassinated in his own home initial reports suggest he was shot dead by one of his body while the taliban does claim involvement. i headed to

kandahar provincial council one of the most powerful politicians in the south of the country he was a controversial figure accused by critics of embodying corruption cronyism and criminal activity that shrouds the current afghan regime. the british investigative committee is questioning several senior police officers over allegedly obstructing an investigation into the conduct of the news of the world it follows accusations that to other newspapers also belongings are we putting botox media empire may have bribed officers for inside information his bestselling weekly was closed down over by revelations rather that it happened the phones of politicians motivic timbs other families of dead soldiers the scandal has even reached the british prime minister david cameron and made emerging details of his close relationship with the media mogul. a new wave of its original rain has swept across eastern china causing widespread flooding waters rose to around me height leaving cars immobilized and

causing huge traffic jams on the roads reports claimed that people were even removing drain covers in the hope that flooding would disperse quicker heavy rains have plagued eastern and southern china for the last month claiming at least one hundred and seventy miles. the french parliament is in charge of all to vote on an extension for the military campaign in libya says they're determined to take the fight to kind of it happen but some experts believe a ground invasion is now the only option left to president sarkozy. knock out. which. books is like bragging it will destroy the republicans they're often wrong and gets a nasty surprise i. french foreign minister should pay posted france would be libya in quotes days or weeks the wars into a fourth month no final round inside nicolas sarkozy with his western

allies seem short little opponents fighting back well it's not just an embarrassment for sarkozy from now from for. the whole west paris even admits all the libya's rebels but it and some somalia. went to libya for training within the last two or three years. documented we have the 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 full interviewed should the country where a leading ignored person. learns that giving. another. witness is. 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 that expose predict is the only way they'll to break the libyan deadlock the moves this. it's a good way to coalition silvio berlusconi head of keyport italy admits invading libya was a mistake i did a study. the fridge defense minister says the brutal should negotiate with moammar 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 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 post these critical certainly not in france. where the president on the contrary rocher upstream did the us vote really installed all those would bring havoc in libya to place the latest troops killed supports to give love ruffle quote lloyd lee steeply much heat for a blazing row with elections just annoying months away thought go ahead voices that are successful war could bridge the wrecked his chances instead one paper writes libya's becoming a slow motion cold crash of france's deeply unpopular president so is easy jogging for excessive sweating is understandable this is libyan spring is turning into a marathon all see paris right here with me now stay with us for just a. that's

right here so this is business r.t. hello and welcome to the program i reconcile is coming to russia's state newspapers as the government is getting ready to massively expanded its privatization program it's going to multiply the value of this by seven making it worth some two hundred billion dollars president richard that is says he is not satisfied with the current pace of the privatization drive the state was going to sell its stakes in one thousand and two prizes last year but only one hundred twenty assets ended up being sought 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 privatization and introducing a gold. after the. fiscal calm paul and brutalization. almost disappear the older bear got quiet oil prices the main reason of brooches each according to the president of the video is economic liberalisation of improvement in the efficiency of the prices. of the

road and i am not sure that these liberalisation is the global story or. he is a much more focused on strong garment found. unity to provide strong support thought all chambers of rules. russia's going to sell ten percent of its high tech corp nano is part of the times asian client the story could be sold in two years for around one billion dollars analysts believe investors will be interested in it as another technologies are in strong demand. and take a look at the markets oil is continue to lose ground despite crude entries had stolen from peak levels isn't something tomorrow and dominating the market with investors concerned about u.s. economic recovery and the possibility of a monetary tightening in china brant blind is trading at around one hundred fifteen

dollars per barrel while the w.t. high is at ninety six dollars a barrel. european stocks seeing a heavy sell out after a sharp drop in the previous session investors going to need to down thinking of the insurance stocks on persisting sovereign debt fears not helped by the trial as ministers say a selective default of greek debt is possible then we have the market is nervous about the possibility of the crisis spreading to easily and spain the cost of insuring spanish and italian government bonds has tried to record levels. and here in russia the markets are tracking overseas since let's take a look at something individual movies of of my six most of the blue chips are in the red with financial suffering the most spro bank is losing around one percent. we could create is weighing and the three majors passed from the start the sense. of country better than others and speculation about the byproduct of it shows from the market. as well as in the euro zone have tamed investor appetite for

risk pushing the russian price into fresh lows the verbal has lost a third of a percent against the cold if she's decided to be a safe haven i said monday's session saw its biggest decline is seven weeks the greenback is now worth over twenty eight dollars. russia's largest lenders teaming up with the it's called research hub the country's also to silicon valley where houses are buying cy t. cluster and or india the deal also involves setting up one of the world's largest data processing centers the bank says this will help at the pub one of the most technologically advanced banks globally agreed. we are learning to maintain the broader budget drawn seven hundred eight hundred million dollars. will build over two and a half years and provider on one thousand jobs in nigeria and research. and europe the date of business news in an hour's time the headlines are next.

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