russia mourns of the victims of sunday's sinking of a pleasure cruise out on the volga river almost ninety deaths have been confirmed while the search for dozens of bodies trapped under water until. the assassination of the afghan president's half brother a powerful politician allegedly linked to drug trafficking deals a blow to nato has plans to leave a stable country behind when his troops withdraw. wiki leaks founder julian assange is fighting a decision by a british court to extradite him to sweden over sex crime allegations which are supporters say are just a pretext to hand him over to the united states. also as the french parliament you

said you to vote on continued intervention in libya palaces highlighted inconsistent scenes in paris is trying to get tempers to find ways out of the down . and global markets are on the decline in europe falls to four month lows as e.u. leaders demonstrate little action to prevent the contamination of sovereign debt problems find out more and this is our thing in twenty minutes. very warm welcome to you this is r.t. live from moscow recent shots rescuers are searching through a playroom in the sunken volga river cruise ship as the bodies of dozens of children could still be among those trapped under water almost ninety people have now been confirmed dead after the heavily overloaded pleasure cruiser sank in republic of on sunday our correspondent for the latest from.

here 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 daria. paying their respects now to the ship that sank. we still hope that our daughter has survived as you have said in an air pocket or some other way and yet we still believe that our little angel has a life but didn't. 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 there are thousands of people that have turned out here to the river boat station in khazan which was to be the stopping point of the bulgaria on

its pleasure cruise the volga they've come to lay flowers and to pay their respects to the people to drowned either trying to get out of the ship or those who were trapped in it in sunday's tragedy there's also the funerals 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 but downstream from the rescue efforts are going on with divers going to the wreck to try and search the rooms inside the ship they're moving into one of the most difficult parts about operation into a large play room and it's thought that a large number of children there meant that they simply weren't able to escape and they all drowned in the. first came terror and tragedy. the boat leans a bed 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 waves

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. like if you do your jobs you don't understand a thing. the bulgaria pleasure boat sank in just three minutes on sunday now some people are saying it should never have been on the volga at all. past those two hours before an awful condition of their. in a preview way it's going to show before it set off would never have been allowed to sail. growing evidence seems to point to gross mismanagement of the vessel including a broken engine ignored by the captain and blocked emergency exits and one point to go on the twenty third which traveled on his motivation but he was in poor

condition then yes because most serial times you're in or a trip it would have to stop for something that is the engine was working poorly 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 more timely notice water coming in through the windows at such a pace and the rain down through quickly 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 that told the real story rescue workers will continue their efforts throughout the coming hours and days but hope is now gone they will find anyone else alive leaving just the shock and grief on boston r.t. the volga bank central russia. meanwhile its claim that two vessels passed

a cruise ship as it was sinking did nothing to help a criminal case has now been launched against the ship's captain and that's also why for the coverage of this story and our website of course r.t. dot com we have an interview with the divers working up the scene giving a harrowing account of the underwater search for dozens of bodies and paul as opposed to. of course further news and analysis at r.t. dot com. the half brother of afghan president hamid karzai has been assassinated in his own home initial report so just after he was shot dead by one of his own bodyguards the taliban has claimed responsibility and described it as one of its biggest achievements yet because i headed the kandahar province a volatile region on the border with pakistan he was often accused in the media reports of having links to afghanistan's massive illegal drugs trade. a political analyst from kabul says the killing is a blow to the u.s. . past couple of years he confirmed that he had

a good relationship with their american troops american author shells because of this i think that americans lost a lot of their import in. the same day he was accused all for. being involved in. trafficking and then because of this and then we believe that the now well seek for another person to replace him. well over two years ago we spoke to wiley about how he sees the allegations against him. because of drug dogs they did never in the last several years charlie charlie greta usually community we try to enjoy every one of these being the proof log on to the free video section of our website to access this interview in full. so we can leaks founder julian assange has a back in a london court where he's appealing against an earlier ruling to extradite him to

sweden the world's most famous whistleblower is wanted for questioning over sexual assault allegations but its supporters fear that if sent to stockholm will end up in the hands of the u.s. government. has been following the case from just outside the court building. we saw wrestlers arrive at school his own cheese day he was flanked by his lawyers and his assistants and he was silent obviously reserving it then a g.'s we were all asking him how he felt about how the day was going to go but he didn't answer any of us but he had a hat he's now wearing glasses and he looked that she much older than his forty isn't certainly much older than him but he did 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 inside even if this appeal is rejected julian assange says that he vows

to take this case higher up the justice chain here in the u.k. first to the supreme court and then if you have to go on to the european court of human rights and he and his supporters have always suggested that the prosecution on sex charges is politically motivated and so the end goal of this is this we did will eventually send 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 u.s. which is the subject of the reports that you can see now seven months since today in ourselves was released on bail he returns to the high court to appeal his extradition if he fails a soldier will be sent to sweden within ten days but many believe his feet won't touch the ground next stop america i think being the worry is that sweden which in the past has extradited people to america with a minimum of fuss when they were asked was she was

a possible you know. to carry water awaits him in the u.s. is this ownership. trial four years 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 ourselves in two thousand and one he was a 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 have. some politicians cooperate intensively with the united states the. large mass of. sweden once on sex crime charges the u.s.

is reportedly preparing an espionage case and it suits non-native members 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. and sweden 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 guy will be firmly fixed on sweden a country that insists that is a new trial as he was turning asylum seekers a bit to get us to allegedly to be tortured only our souls and his stuff that wiki leaks know what else we just got to hide your enemies forty nine did. or you can

always find more stories on our website of course r.t. dot com. blogs and videos has just taste. like check out these dramatic new pictures of the russian passenger plane was forced to make an emergency landing on water. some of the. other street racer pushes his a supercar to the max right here in central moscow the need for speed and stop and total economy. wealthy british style it's time to. market finance scandals find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger for

a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars report on r.g.p. . would be soon rich bryson if you move the song from finest impression it's. news for instance on t.v. dot com. it's now a thirteen minutes past the hour here in moscow you without say the french parliament is due to vote on extending the military campaign in libya that comes after recent remarks biased defense minister suggesting that the rebels should talk to cuddle khadafi but this is part of rumors that one of the most active advocates of the nato led invasion might be starting to but pedal on the campaign at its heart is

daniel short report signs ivy is indeed growing in paris but what was intended to be a short lived mission is turning into an embarrassingly long home. how can you not tell me which. books is like bragging will destroy the republicans they're often wrong and gets a nasty surprise i mean french foreign minister ireland should pay both did france with libya in quotes days or weeks the war's into a fourth month and the final round inside because sarkozy with his western allies seem shocked their little opponents fighting back well it's not often and virus and sarkozy from for all nato for the whole west paris even admits all the libya's rebels will return some somalia went to libya for training within the last two or three years that's documented we have the prior record and everything else

so it seems strange in many ways the whole western supports some of that will 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 contrary. none of. this. misses bad nature of libya's causing widespread atrocities for every. military person that was supposedly a casualty there were ten civilians from categorically ruled out cindy grilled troops to expose predict is the only way male to break the libyan deadlock the moves are splitting the nato coalition silvio berlusconi head of keep italy

admits invading libya was a mistake i did a study you the fridge defense minister says the brittle should negotiate with gadhafi this is a man that they already indicted in the international court so. i mean from a legal point of view it's even possible. the u.s. vote foreign borders would bring havoc in libya to pay said the latest talks with child support surrogate love roth lloyd lee diplomats speak for a pleasing role with elections just annoying months away sako it was is that a successful war could resurrect his chances instead one paper writes libya's becoming the slow motion call crash for france's deeply unpopular president so his easy jogging found excessive sweating is understandable as his libyan spring is turning into a marathon the new bush will see paris. nato was lying when it says it's

a man in libya is to protect civilians that's claimed by independent journalist. see the full interview next hour here on r.t. . here's a preview. starting from the moment it was decided to launch this operation the lives of civilians were not taken into account and this is just the beginning it is rather a question of the rearrangement of this region and we are yet just seen series or wars in this case mediocre keeps lying. during the war impossible in nato would normally lie only to conceal its mistakes and this time it's being done not you can see all mistakes but you can see all the strategy. now. you're watching r.t. it's good to have you with us today now a human rights group in israel are preparing to go to court over a new law which makes it illegal to boycott jewish settlements in occupied

palestinian territory the so-called boycott bill that proved by the parliament in tel aviv imposes fines that allow settlers to sue boycott organizers for damages rights groups say the legislation is completely unlawful and violates free speech israeli settlements on the occupied territories are illegal under international law guy el ad executive director of the association for civil rights in israel says the bill is a stark reminder of an ongoing erosion of civil rights in the country. the passing of this law it was a bad day for freedom of speech a bad day for is a democracy and even more unfortunately it is only the current presentation of the rising wave of because this nation that is gradually drowning the foundations of is that of the work ethic is there for many years of living rightfully so has been recognized as a country with strong democratic attributes what we're seeing here is the gradual

sad process in which the israeli parliament is right self undoing 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 when we know it isn't is when 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 the targeting of the independence of the high court of justice and its ability to continue to defend human rights and civil liberties in israel. all right so twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital let's get to some other headlines for you in brief this hour. from rader's again turned violent in northern ireland's capital belfast bonfires where some of the annual twelfth of july celebrations catholic protesters threw stones and fire protestants police security services attempted to separate the opposing

factions and at least seven police officers were injured in the attacks this was in july months the end of the annual pederson marching season commemorates a seventeenth century victory over catholic forces. outrage is a gripping britain with allegations that reporters at the now defunct news of the world tabloid bought a secret information about the queen and fact into a private telephone and it's got to spread to other newspapers and logging also to rupert murdoch has been accused by former prime minister gordon brown of quote using criminals to obtain private information about him meanwhile a senior police officers are being questioned over allegations that they obstructed the original investigation into journalists conduct by the news of the world meanwhile we've received reports that rupert murdoch and his son james ought to be called before parliament to answer questions about stuff. the united nations is struggling its few cope with thousands of somali refugees fleeing to kenya and

ethiopia to escape starvation because the drought worsens throughout east africa both countries are themselves suffering diet conditions the u.n. expects at least ten million people will need food aid in the region as children are the greatest risk of dying. all right let's turn over to go to richard now for the latest on the world business. thanks rory the telly in stock market is under pressure after a heavy selloff pushed the regulator to ground short selling fears announcing the euro zone's third largest economy in the may request a bailout italy has a debt to g.d.p. ratio of one point two second only to greece within the e.u. and let's say an italian the fault could prove fatal so we can euro zone now to talk more on this i'm joined by stephen jacobson in studio chief economist at sykes of bank scene thank you so much for being with us so how likely first of all do you think that it's really might request funds from the you well i think we have to

make a clear distinction between greece and italy in the case that greece effectively needed funding they needed funds to get through the budget where as easily as in a totally different position it does mean however that the situation is not quite dire in terms of the political inability to move forward with an agenda of a sturdy so no i mean different starting point but it's certainly a crisis so how do you think italy has come to this situation it actually has very high risks right now suring its state lines part of the reasoning is that italy has failed to migrate into and it totally industrial nation first and most importantly a commodity and remains agriculture on top of this easily has the highest unit labor cost in europe meanwhile they haven't lost productivity not exactly the crotch other makes for a good drink so and then there fail to implemented. in due course so now and they

have actually been one hundred twenty five in for a long time but the starting point is not as we and domestic savings the extremely high you need to leave these are the european countries but what we could be seeing right now is the first steps into a crisis and going on in europe so really all these situations with greece with spain with italy demonstrated huge imbalance between different members of the euro zone countries. what do you think should be done and this was not absolutely a very. rough estimates twenty percent competitiveness difference between germany and the countries like italy i think the long term solution is very clear there is only one solution on the table which is politically not very viable that is the establishment of a minister funder for your europe was started without a minister finest there's a reason why we in the mess we're in today because the local governments when markets are spending money they didn't have so there is this where we are today the intermediate way would be to issue. the.

funds which were almost for the european politicians etc i think spain coordination what about the bodies because this is a very for the e.c.b. what can i do really he cannot really do anything easy be monitoring the monetary policy and impacting on that and i think part of the tobacco we have right now is that he has backed down i see the interest rate hike in europe from these and b. being effect it's only because he's in this and yes he will go up to your fiscal policy for years and well so we are going to give you the very low interest rates if. you need to address your stary and hence realize your table having difficulties reaching an agreement we saw yesterday is the euro zone financial chiefs i'm sure gathered for a meeting they did not take any action at all they said that they would shortly what are they doing you sold almost the price this is the politician will always

try to buy more time. the politicized being that if the custom doing nothing is zero they would do nothing but i think we come to a time where opportunity cost is becoming too big the problem all that however is that when you have the germans going into these types of negotiation you need to make absolutely sure you are not in violation of the cost. traditional courting cause rule which is actually sitting least pace and coming out with a memo on whether the so far be a lot of people equally so you can say that the problem being to be these governments are laureate ought to they they are trying to stay inside the treaty which they are clearly not in terms of practical. development but i think the problem is that the it's very difficult to strike the right balance between doing something constructive and creating insight into the b. treaty so see how long do you think will it take for all these problems to be resolved for that is possible i think ironically we need

a crisis we need to create the political and the legacy for actually accepting a fiscal union so you know a crisis is not necessarily negative you see that in russia you see that in finland and you can come back from crisis and i think people tend to forget the two generation ago they were fighting two world wars they were seeing a mini crisis and still they created a base growth the world has seen through the streets of frightening the euro leads to bleed in order to survive well thank you so much the chief economist at sykes of bring with us in the studio thanks so much. or let's move to the markets if we have time for that if we do is continue to lose ground despite crude intrusive fooling from peak levels fears of softening demand of dominating though with the market with investors concerned about u.s. economic recovery and the possibility for the monetary tightening in china therefore we are seeing is brant just over one hundred sixteen dollars per barrel light sweet down forty two cents at night it was seventy three. european stocks

seeing a sell off after a very sharp drop in the previous session for these down one percent the dax was just over one percent and s. is a continuous dump financial and insurance stocks on persisting sovereign debt fears and that's not really being held by dutch finance minister saying a selective default on greek debt is still possible meanwhile the market is nervous about the possibility of the crisis spreading to its in the end spain this is we'll talk about the program long and the cost of insuring spanish and italian government bonds has jumped to record levels. here in russia pretty much the same picture although the drop is softer so the obvious down point five percent nice or just point one percent if we look at individual share movers that's the energy stocks which are losing gas from down point four percent financials while tracking the losses are across the globe back down half a percent last nickel was actually carrying better than the market on speculation that it will be buying back shares from the markets. and that was in the euro zone

now but taint investor appetite for risk pushing the russian currency of twenty eight rubles dollar ruble as well as the foot of a percent versus the greenback which is considered to be asleep even after the moment monday session so its biggest decline in seven weeks. and in the south he will be back in fifteen minutes with an update.

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