honestly it's an old clothes and the radio alina joins the hotel's shirts in new delhi who took the most recent babyhood to carry collection among the clothes of the maidens hotel the leader part of the movie the medicine it was promised they promised. russia mourns the victims of sunday's sinking of a pleasure cruise on the volga river almost ninety deaths have been confirmed while the search for dozens of bodies trapped under water can see. the assassination of the afghan president's half brother a powerful politician allegedly linked to drug trafficking deals a blow to nato plans to leave a stable country behind when his troops withdraw. wiki leaks founder julian assange just fighting a decision by a british court to extradite him for sweden of a sex crime allegations which is supporters say just a pretext to hand him over to the u.s. . and as the french parliament is due to vote on

a continued intervention in libya analysts highlight inconsistency in paris is a frantic attempt to find ways around the. world wide news live from the heart of moscow this is r.t. rescuers are searching through a player and the volga river cruise ship as the bodies of dozens of children could be still among those trapped underwater almost ninety people have now been confirmed dead after the heavily overloaded pleasure cruiser sank in the republic of tatarstan on sunday our correspondent now has more from the. scene holmes glowing in a memorial tribute to those that died this is a large river with many craft traveling up and down it's a lot of the crews on leadership. well of knowing the crew on the ball daria.

paying their respects now to the ship itself. we still hope that our daughter has survived as you have said an air pocket or some other way yes we still believe that our little angel is alive. is that people were basically buried alive in time michael 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 which was to be the stopping point of the bulgaria on its pleasure cruise up the volga they've come to lay flowers and to pay their respects to the people who were drowned 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 coal garri a 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 of that operation into a large play room and it's thought that a large number of children there but that they simply weren't able to escape and they all drowned in a room. first came terror and tragedy. the baldwins a bit there were three of them and be 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 buy my grandson or daughter in law. now amidst the grief comes the anger and the questions of why if you page 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 been on the volga at all. as the bog area passed those two hours before the awful conditions of their developer you've always shared before it would never have been allowed to sail it growing evidence seems to point to gross mismanagement of the vessel including a broken engine ignored by the captain and blocked in the sea exit polling a month long ago on the twenty ferries we travelled on these modes he was an important mission then because messed up cereal turns urine or a trip to stop for some layers because the engine was working properly 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 timely notice what's coming in through the weekend it's such a case when down pretty quickly all of this will come to the fore when the ship itself is raised to the surface for investigation but it's the flowering accounts of what happened on weekend pleasure cruise that told the real story 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. see the ball go back to. plenty of anguish but now there's also growing anger following claims that two vessels passed the ship as it was sinking but did nothing to help a criminal case has been launched against oh shit happens again we've got more on the human side of this tragedy at our website r.t. dot com there you'll also find an interview with the divers working at the scene

who give a harrowing account of the underwater search for dozens of bodies and caught this affinity you can read that and further news and analysis are. the half brother of afghan president hamid karzai has been assassinated in his own home initial reports suggest karzai was shot down by one of his own bodyguards the taliban has claimed responsibility and described it as one of its biggest achievements karzai 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 talk to me a political analyst from kabul says the killing is a blow to the u.s. . the past couple of years say he he confirmed that he had a good level relationship with there and there are contracts then american officials because of this i think that americans lost one of their important members of our troops out at the same day. he was accused of being involved in

corruption and drag trafficking and then because of this many believe that a now well seeker for another person to replace him. two years ago we spoke to karzai about how he sees the allegations against him because it is a drug in augustine's but did never in the last seven years nor we challenge. that community if you try to enjoy every one to prove to the video section of our website where you can access this interview in full and of course a huge archive of other news footage. wiki leaks founder julian assange is back in a london court where he's a feeling against an earlier ruling to extradite him to sweden the world's most famous whistleblowers one questioning of a sexual assault allegations that his supporters fear that if sent to stalk it will end up in the hands of the u.s. government. has been following the case from right outside the courthouse. we saw

wrestlers arrive at court here on 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 he's had a haircut he's now wearing glasses so we look that much older than his forty years and certainly much older than him but he did this pairing that we're seeing this week a shuttle to last until wednesday but even then the rulings are expected to be reserved so we might not hear what decision the judge has made for days or even for weeks and in fact even if this appeal is rejected and i saw 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 that the end goal of this is this

weekend 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 cheatin 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 to sink the the worry is swinging which in the past has extradited people to america with a minimum of force when they were asked was she was a possible you know. to carry water awaits him in the u.s. is this. trial for what he is a notorious neo conservative group help the swedish prime minister. friedrich

reinfeldt win reelection last year and there's another glaring link in the shape of lawyer thomas strom his firm's representing the two women bringing the sex charges against our songs 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 you have the military and some politicians cooperated. with the united states with. large amounts of population probably unaware. sweden wants us on sex crime charges the us 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 us 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 sweet and as judy that's always goes back to court in london who have been i 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 on is a new trial as he was turning asylum seekers a bit to the u.s. allegedly to be tortured only our souls and his stuff that wiki leaks know what else sweden has got to hide your enemies hearty wanted. more stories on our website us r t got along with the latest news blogs videos is just a taste of. right now check this out amazing footage showing the. rescue

operation about to take place there just hours after. burning aircraft crash landed on a lake in eastern siberia. and even know what is on. this street racer pushes his super car to the max right here in central moscow st anselm college. with the end of the board war and going the way of the soviet union many people thought that nuclear weapons specifically at. the risk is not zero that something might be going off by mistake especially nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert. but simply using a day as a three or four as an extra bit of you know if you keep spending a trillion dollars a year on weapons of eventually you're going to blow everybody up you can't you know people are dying from these weapons but until we actually see it people don't

make up nuclear weapons or a bill. that represents all of the firepower of the second world war this. is the equivalent firepower of the world's nuclear arsenal today. so it's thirteen minutes past the hour here in moscow the french parliament is a jew to vote on extending the military campaign in libya that comes after recent remarks by its defense minister suggesting that the rebels should talk to colonel gadhafi this is a spot rumors that one of the most active advocates of the nato led invasion might be starting to back pedal on the campaign and if not he's down a bushel reports anxiety is indeed growing in paris that what was intended to be

a short lived mission is turning into and virus and. young. you can look out. each of the books is like bragging will destroy the reporter lives there off the wrong and gets a surprise i thought french foreign minister allen should pay both did france what we may be our encroached days weeks the wars into a fourth month no final round in signs nicolas sarkozy with his western allies seen short little opponents fighting back it's not just an embarrassment for sarkozy for members from for all nato but the whole west paris even admits all the libya's rebels with it and some somalia. went 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 but in some cases i think we are effectively arming al-qaeda. and it's all making a mockery of the un vote on foreign intervention in a country where a legal person. learns. that none of. this. witness is made of libya's causing widespread atrocities for every one military person that was supposedly a casualty there were ten civilians frauds categorically ruled out saying the grilled troops but expose predict is the only way they'll to break the libyan padlock the moves the splitting the nato coalition silvio berlusconi head of key partner italy admits invading libya was that mistake and did a study you

a fridge defense minister says the brutal should. negotiate with moammar gadhafi this is the same man that they're already indicted for in the international court so technically i mean from a legal point of view it's even impossible rocher of staying in the un's votes warnings to foreign bombs would bring havoc in libya but you pays abilities told through counterparts to get love roughly called lloyd leaders diplomats speak for a blazing row. with elections just more in months away psagot advisors said a successful war could resurrect his childe says instead one paper writes libya's becoming a slow motion car crash for france's deeply unpopular president so his easy jogging for excessive sweating is understandable as his libyan spring is turning into a marathon. see paris. nato is lying when it says its aim in libya is to protect civilians while that's claimed by independent journalists it

makes us see the full interview in about a fifteen minutes time right here on r.t. but for now it's a small 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 to see a series of wars in this case nato keeps lying at every stage during the war impossible and nato would normally lie only to conceal its mistakes and this time it's being done not to conceal mistakes but to conceal the strategy. seventeen minutes past the hour now here in moscow a protest rally has been held in israel against a new law which makes it illegal to boycott jewish settlements on palestinian territory the bill which was approved by the parliament in jerusalem imposes fines

and on our settlers to sue boycott organizers damages human rights activists say it's a violation of free speech and are preparing to go to war trace elements on the occupied territories are illegal under international law how can i tell that 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 was a bad day for freedom speech a bad day for as a democracy and even more unfortunately it is only the current representation of the rising wave of democratic legislation that is gradually drowning to the foundations of visited iraq receive it well for many years and i think rightfully so has been recognized as a country with strong democratic out your view it's what we're seeing here is the gradual sad process in which these really parliament is right self undoing

eroding those democratic principles not just the color of your two creation 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 of ability to function freely something that we've always taken for granted and is now being gradually eroded and that's a good thing in the independence of the high court of justice and its ability to continue to defend human rights and civil liberties in israel. we've got a lot of moderates in our twenty past six in the evening and such about some other headlines for you from around the world this hour a protestant parade again turned violent in northern ireland's half of the belfast and bonfires will bit them on the annual twelfth of july celebrations after the protesters threw stones pliable protestants and security services attempted to separate the opposing factions and at least seven police officers were injured in its patrols in july and not the end of the annual protestant marching season and it

commemorates a seventeenth century victory over the late forces. outraged groups britain with allegations that reporters at the shut down news of the world tabloid secret information about the queen and into private telephones and scandal spreads as other newspapers also belonging to rupert murdoch have been accused by former prime minister gordon brown of using criminals to obtain private information about him meanwhile senior u.k. police officers are being questioned over allegations that they obstructed the original investigation into journalists conduct by the news of the world rupert murdoch and his son james are now to be called before parliament as part of an investigation into the news groups activities. the united nations is struggling to cope with thousands of somali refugees fleeing to kenya and ethiopia to escape starvation but as the drought worsens throughout east africa both countries are themselves suffering dire conditions the u.n.

expects at least ten million people will need food aid in the region with children at the greatest risk of dying. so i don't time now for the business update dimitris here. thanks very much rory alone a warm welcome to business and so you could have your company your top story the italian stock market is under pressure after a heavy sell off cost the regulator to ban short selling fears announcing that the euro zone's furred largest economy may request a bailout analysts say and sally in default put proved fatal to a weakened years own chief economist at saks the bank scene jacobson believes only a radical solution could contain the debt crisis. what exactly could be done and the only real solution long term is for europe to establish a ministry of finance for europe europe was born without a minister of finance every single country is allowed to conduct their own checks policy their own fiscal policy read the clearly didn't work in order to move

forward we need to consolidate and act as one europe and dabney that as one minister of finance correlating all fiscal policy that will make europe credible and of all that allow for the distribution of funds internally within the area. so you can look at the markets now traditionally we start with crude oil is continuing to lose ground despite threw in the trees in the us or in levels fears of softening demand the dominance in the market with investors concerned about u.s. economic power for you on the possibility of further monetary tightening in china now what we're seeing is brant just over one hundred sixteen dollars per barrel of light sweet at ninety four i know. you as markets are showing defiance of the season opening flat to negative with worries about the fate of the debt crisis in europe still showing investor interest therefore down by just a notch nasdaq point three percent european stock markets have slightly come off the heavy losses we saw in the beginning else choose a session after

a sharp drop in the previous session investors are continuing to dump financial and insurance stocks on persisting sovereign debt fears and the statement by the dutch finance minister saying a selective default in greek that is possible is not helping either meanwhile the market is nervous about the possibility of a crisis spreading simply in spain was an insurance spain and italian government bonds has jumped to record levels. here in russia the picture is slightly softer than lots of figure and the united states the obvious down help us on my six probably just a notch another twenty minutes left to go on the clock for tuesday's session of look at some of the individual movers you see there. g. shares just gazprom down around half a percent per bank also dampen the very same amount transplant scare however the call producer is up five and a half percent so it's rallying on reports russia state development bank even could come and buy eighty percent of the minor for five billion dollars.

that was in the euro zone are saying the best appetite for risk pushing the russian currency of the twenty eight rubles dollar the rule of law for the percent against the dollar again the same numbers as the euro and those considered to be a safe haven asset and monday's session saw its biggest decline in seven weeks. prime minister person has given his approval for the potential creation of a new ratings agency the idea comes after recent downgrades by existing agencies caused turmoils on many financial markets but the. bank explains why a new agency is being debated in the answer probably is there. such an agency needs to be to prove that there are more clear value to the markets is to be more forward looking and to warn about potential crisis rather than reports after the crisis happened and saying you know or it could become your

homework from here it will be useful pull towards a few months in advance of all the wording sighs when things are still good and measures can be taken at an early state rather than when the crisis is already out there can be built through it will take a lot more money and effort and time. reconcile of his going to russia's state sector going to the newspaper says the government is getting ready to massively expand its privatization program it's going to multiply the value of the sell off by seven making is worth some two hundred billion dollars presentation of says he's not satisfied with the current pace of the privatization drive the states was going to sell its stakes in one thousand and surprises last year but only one hundred and twenty and that are being sold the president is going to get rid of state ownership as soon as possible however the government seems not likely to rush in suggests extending the deadline for privatization and introducing a shared veto. after the two thousand pound the fiscal component

of brutalization. almost disappear the world prices the mean the reason our pruitt is each that is good and there's a video is economical of the realization and improvement in the official sea of empathy with. their hands i'm not sure there are these liberalizations. there pickle thought. he is a much more focused on strongarm i found that opportunity to provide strongarm of support the thought of roth russia's largest lenders burbank is teaming up with these cork of research up the country's answer to silicon valley will host burbank's i.t. cluster in r. and d. on there also involves setting up one of the world's largest a data processing centers for boeing says this will help it become one of the most

technologically advanced banks globally. we are planning to maintain the project's knowledge as it's around seven hundred to eight hundred million dollars the techno part will build over two and a half years and provide their own five thousand jobs in id and research. after that we will be back in fifteen minutes time what. you say about. if. the books.

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