russia mourns the victims of sunday's sinking of a pleasure cruise on the volga river ninety deaths have been confirmed while the search for dozens of bodies trapped under water continues. as the french parliament due to vote on continued intervention in libya analysts highlighting consistencies in paris is frantic attempts to find ways out of the deadlock. nation of the afghan president's half brother a powerful politician allegedly linked to drug trafficking deals a blow that nato has plans to leave a stable country behind when its troops withdraw. and wiki leaks founder julian assange is fighting a decision by

a british court to extradited to sweden over sex crime allegations which his supporters say is just a pretext to hand him over to the u.s. . i would say pm here in moscow you are watching r t with me kev you know him and first rescuers are searching through a play room in the some kind of volga river cruise ship has the bodies of dozens of children could still be trapped underwater ninety people have now been confirmed dead after the heavily overloaded pleasure cruise ship sank in the republic of tatarstan on sunday a correspondent tom barton brings us the latest from there. some holmes glowing in a more real tribute to those that died this is a large river with many craft traveling up and down it a lot of the crews on motion would have known the crew on the boat daria. paying

their respects to the ship that sank. it such a waste so stupid. i can't speak you see that . signal to my friend's son was there she writes. it's all so hard to take and so stupid that it could have happened. and give us workers a call it was in that ship she once in a cruise together was her kindly husband five year old son and she was pregnant it was to deliver her second baby noticed she's not found yet only husband to survive she enters hunter i'd. 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 up the volga they've come to lay flowers and supply their respects to the people for 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 gold area 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 they're moving into one of the most difficult parts about operation into a large play room. and it's thought that the large number of children and their mother they simply weren't able to escape and they all drowned in that room first came terror and tragedy hit. 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 your life if you speak so 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. of the bog area past two hours before the awful conditions of their donor pretty voyage 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 emergency exits chloe are not long ago on the twenty three we travelled on his motives are but he was in

a poor condition then he has catastrophic cereal turns in or a trip to the moon how to stop for so many years 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 tell me they noticed water coming in through the windows at such a pace the boat went down very quickly 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 to tell the real story. we still hope to have survived this yaps in their pocket or some other way but yet we still believe that our little angel is alive and still the. people were basically buried alive and trying to match the coffin we managed to get out through the windows i was there with my ten year old daughter i couldn't rescue her she saw i

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 dumbarton r.t. of all the bank central russia. there's growing anger now after claims that two vessels passed the cruise ship as it was sinking but did nothing to help a probable cases the normally gets the ship's captain going to get a good morning human side of the plane a website where before that interview with the divers working the sea big a harrowing account of the underwater search for dozens of bodies and all this information from three further news analysis that our team. the french parliament voted to extend the military campaign in libya comes after recent remarks by its defense minister suggesting that the rebels should talk to

colonel gadhafi this is part rumors that one of the most active advocates of the nato led invasion might be starting to backpedal on the campaign as ours is don't go push the reports i see is indeed growing in paris what was intended to be a short lived mission is turning into an embarrassingly long haul. tell. which. books is like bragging will destroy the report they're often wrong and gets the mills the surprise. fridge full. pay posted frauds would. quote weeks the wars into a fourth month and the final roll. inside the last sarkozy with his western allies seem short little opponents fighting back well it's not often and paraffin for sarkozy and some guys from for all nato for the whole west paris even admits

all the libya's rebels were to turn some somalia wench to libya for training within the last two or three years. documented we have the why record and everything else so it seems strange and many ways the whole western support of some of the rebel groups in libya must be questioned because in some cases of it we are effectively arming al-qaeda. it's all making a mockery of the un votes on foreign intervention in the country. illegally. and other. witnesses need to be go of libya's causing widespread atrocities every line of military personnel that was supposedly a casualty there were ten civilians fraud's categorically ruled out cindy grilled troops expose predict is the only way male to break the libyan deadlock the moves

the splitting the nato coalition silvio berlusconi head of keep italy admits invading libya was a mistake and did a study you the fridge defense minister says the rebels should negotiate with more of the good are free this is a man that they are already indicted in the international court so. i mean from a legal point of view it's even possible rocher of. votes. would bring in libya to play said the latest tool to count support so you could love ruffle quote lloyd lee diplomat speak for. the leg. just annoying month the way thought was is that a successful war good bryza rick says charles is instead one paper reuters libya's becoming a flow more gradual process in the field what rule of president sarkozy's jogging

for existence we're seeing is understandable this is libyan spring is to. see paris. go laughlin's director of the institute for democracy and cooperation in paris he says france now realize it realizes it has to find a way to save face in libya here we see a european union which very obviously cannot manage its own affairs which is falling apart at the seams whose founding member states and the members of his single currency cannot afford to pay their own debts setting off on a military escapade which seems doomed to failure and which is going to cost them and has already cost them a huge amount of money it's absolutely ridiculous but then you know in a perverse way that's what makes their determination only the more dog get to continue just as their determination to shore up the euro the euro is completely doget they have invested infinite amounts of political capital in these ventures in nato and in the european union and if they fail then these men's careers and

reputation are completely on the line and that's why they're determined to find some way out of this mess. and nato is lying when it says it's a me libya is to protect civilians says independent journalist syrian mess than you can see the full interview with him in less than twenty minutes from here on r.t. is a brief look at what he had to say. starting from the moment it was decided to launch this operation the lives of civilians were not taken into account this is just the beginning it is rather a question of the rearrangement of this region in we are yet to see a series of wars and this peace. line. during the war in castle one 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 strategic.

outrages gripping britain with allegations that reporters obtained secret information about the queen and former prime minister gordon brown and other newspapers which are part of rupert murdoch's media empire also being accused of illegally breaching privacy that's a senior law enforcement official has been questioned as well by a panel of peter relegations that they're complicit in the scandal sir try and get up to speed with the latest on this fast moving story richard this is editor in chief of the day online news service thanks for being with us richard so this hacking scandal just gets bigger and murkier as every day passes doesn't it have a former prime minister the queen now being named as victims is this now a matter of national security. it's been a bad year for powerful elites in this country first you have the institutions that they run first you had the bankers. who were paying themselves too much in bonuses then you had the then you had the m.p. expenses scandal then you have media scandal today and the police and

i think that where this does become a question for national security is the idea that police is. telling private phone numbers and private contact details of people like the royal family and the prime minister yes obviously is not necessarily the same to sell these things to a newspaper as it would be to sell them to a terrorist organization but if you can do one you may be able to do the other so yes it's very serious i would have thought the current prime minister's format a communications has been arrested in connection with the sacking allegations of imagine of the last few days how far could this scandal attach itself to david cameron and the government is he out of the woods yet. definitely not and it already has attached himself to him and is causing huge damage i think his ratings are severely down because of it. he still hasn't really faced the problem because soon and he hasn't admitted that he made a mistake i think that will come back to bite him soon the whole edifice of views

international is deeply intertwined with the downing street machine all that has yet to come out and will cause a lot more headaches or in what executives rupert murdoch's news international they're now increasingly being dragged into the fray are they know we're hearing he and his son have been called to appear before a panel of this actually bring about the end of the. british news operation do you think. well for the first time today this is really quite astonishing is that there are there are rumors no more than rumors and you can confirm them that he might sell all his british newspapers i mean that would be. unheard of and would not have been taken seriously two days ago but i think what people i talk to and. expecting is for the scandal to go up through rebecca brooks who's the chief executive of news international to james murdoch and james murdoch himself and many

people say should step down and take a break he may be able to return to news corp one day but there advise him to go away whether he's for. this escape without serious damage is also doubtful although i don't think he's going to retire or leave the helm of the company so yes it's having a huge effect on the whole business and you talk about the police possible involvement earlier one of the scandal has deepened because of allegations of police corruption and a previous failure probably investigate the hacking do you think there's no confidence that the police investigation will really get to the bottom of this. well one piece of good news is that the new police. commissioner in charge of the inquiry sue acres has got very high respect and she's been in front of parliament today being grilled by m.p.'s and they generally said they think they have confidence in her. i think the police have learned from their previous mistakes and

they won't let this sort of thing happen again let's hope so anyway ok richard is editor in chief of the day online news service thanks for joining us on the line from the much appreciated thank you thank you. we could be a sarge is back in a london court weighs appealing against an earlier ruling to extradited to sweden the world's most famous whistleblowers wanted there for questioning over sexual assault allegations supporters fear that if he sent to stockholm will end up in the hands of the u.s. government at his door and most got the latest from outside the court building. cheeriness so much has hired an entirely new legal team pool based appeal he spied the old old laws and he's got people who are much more have much more experience in criminal law and they're much more concerned with the ins and outs of old e.u. law and specifically the european arrest warrant they're all doing bad it's the european arrest warrant enough those cases invalidate because they've essentially discrepancies between the allegations made and the testimonies of the two l.h.

victims there are four charge is that they range between are no full coercion to sexual assaults right down to rape they're also saying it's important to remember that no charges have been brought against our phones he's wanted for questioning in sweden and say for a name all now this case is slated to go through wednesday if based appeal is rejected by the high courts that you and i saw says that was to take the extradition case right to the supremes court and even on woods to the european court of human rights i thought and his supporters have always been worried that one faction tried to sweet and they would he would be sent to the us that this case is politically motivated and of course have noted that a grand jury in the us is investigating wiki leaks and that some people in america would love to get back hands on ourselves. just like you know you can watch lowers report on sweden's links with the us website out so you know call the stories we're covering a few available there are a lot of latest news blogs and videos chums or go straight to one of the stories

you see also the check or the latest video footage of this plane rescue operation just hours after burning aircraft crash landed on a lake in the eastern siberia dramatic pictures there are mines and i also. always look before you crossed the road a street racer pushes a sports car to the max in central moscow is need for speed and zinc on edge those pictures online. italy's markets plunged on. tuesday over fears the country may become the next you states to ask for a helping hand if the finance ministers already promised to approve a set of budget cuts within a week in an effort to avoid a huge for the largest economy get more insight on this and talk about italy's financial woes with financial advisor mark. mark a very good evening to you just how bad is the situation in italy are always fears justified. well the fears are justified in the last few weeks the situation

has deteriorated substantially and italy is having to pay. much higher interest now to it to raise money and it's essentially an issue of perception if the markets fear italy is unable to sustain the level of debt will service the level of lead it has moving forward then they keep demanding a higher and higher interest that in itself pushes pushes italy closer to the brink because they're having to pay higher interest so it is a matter of perception and the situation is deteriorating all right so things get really grim there's a look at it at least the euro zone's third largest economy isn't it bellinger that's going to need a heck of a lot of cash. war i guess the good in greece or ireland does he have that kind of money. well yes that the level of ease is far greater than the the peripheral countries of europe really put together in many ways.

the you can perhaps put together a rescue package for the short. is probable whether they can afford to have a long term debt restructuring solution for for italy remains to be seen but it's not so much in many ways about. whether they can afford which is questionable but it's also about whether they want to wear the germans want to keep bailing out countries for the far as the germans are concerned i'm sure they want this to come to an end. and that is the fundamental problem that this this situation that started with with ireland and greece and and then envelops portugal and we're now talking about spain and italy and seems to have no end and as i mentioned some time ago the eurozone as it stands is unsustainable there needs to be either

structural reform of all of the euro all there needs to be a split up of the euro and effectively what. politicians have been doing is he's patching things up patching things up kicking the can down the road and the situation has deteriorated and got worse and worse as time goes on if it does go down the road if they do decide to do another patch if it gets there now we'll witness the public reaction in greece to the austerity measures that of course come with any bailout if italy brings in budget cuts to avoid the worst case scenario will italy be swamped in civil unrest. i think it is to be expected i think that in many ways it's really like many western countries are be living well beyond their means for many years and this will mean significant cuts in spending which will mean job cuts it will need a reduction in public sector pensions all this will be painful one of course the public sector tends to be much higher unionized only than the private sector and

therefore union militancy and civil unrest is is to be expected mark up here tripoli financial advisor views on the program good and so from you to thanks very much. the half brother of afghan president hamid karzai has been assassinated in his own home an initial reports suggest because i was shot dead by one of his own bodyguards the taliban claimed responsibility described it as one of its biggest achievements as i headed to kandahar province a volatile region on the border with pakistan he was often accused of media reports having links to afghanistan's massive illegal drugs trade look to have been have had me a political analyst from kabul spoke to us he says the killing is a blow to the u.s. and the past couple of years he confirmed that he had a good relationship with their american troops and american officers because of this i think that americans lost one of their important members of the our troops

out there percent he was accused of being involved in corruption and rack trafficking and then because of this we only believe that the now well seeker for for another person to replace him. two years ago r.t. spoke to a about how he sees the allegations against him. this is going to work in all these things but they never in the last seven years nor we challenge you challenged me to use a community of you challenge everyone to please prove where the for me but log on to the free video section on our website they can access that interview in full and huge archive of other news footage from us as well. so twenty three other news world world news headlines now a protestant parades again to violence in northern ireland's capital belfast was born with fires were lit to mark the annual twelfth of july celebrations public protesters threw stones and firebombs of protestants and police security services

attempted to separate the opposing factions that the second police officers were injured in the attacks the twelfth of july marks the end of the annual protestant marching season in the seventeenth century victory of the catholic forces. up above us the space walk on the way albeit some four hundred kilometers above earth two astronauts working correctly of a broken section of the international space station had it aboard the shuttle atlantis for six and a half hour space walk will also stage an experimental robotic refueling the shuttle leaves the station next week and its landing will wrap up america's shuttle program after thirty years in space. just twenty minutes we're going to sports now with you know he's got details the first doping case of this use to france that's ahead then but choose the evening business next. the customs union of russia has done a better route wants to expand its next prime minister cruz and says he's ready to

start creating free trade zones with europe he's been meeting with the prime ministers of other union members to discuss the first year of corporation to turn it over. it has been a year now since the three c.i.s. neighbors russia kazakhstan and belarus began trading with no borders and russia's prime minister vladimir putin says it has already brought tarnishing results of the trade volumes between the three countries to four to three per cent in the first four months of this year could also says that the customs union is now ready to integrate more into international trade with its closest neighbor the european union puts it all into law and that the three countries together have a population of eight hundred and sixty five million people a very lucrative market for foreign partners and this allows the c.i.s. countries to ask for better conditions in international cooperation. removing barriers within the customs union the new means do we intend to erect

barriers on our extended borders on the contrary main goal is to ensure a joint efforts can more flexibly integrate all countries into the global economy the customs union would also see free trade co-operation with the european union. talking about russia's not torrijos red tape putin says the reference is all three conscious with them to customs union will have to compete for businesses and this may finally become a real step to fight corruption. and let's move now to the markets we start with the united states and their markets are showing defiance the indices are flat and mixed with worries about the fate of the crisis in europe still chilling investor interest downturns are point two percent. european stocks ended tuesday's session on a negative note seeing a heavy sell off after a sharp drop the previous session investors are continuing to dump financial and

insurance stocks on persisting sovereign debt worries not helped by the dutch finance minister saying a selective default on greek debt is possible meanwhile the market has never set out the possibility of the crisis spreading further. if only and spain the cost of insuring spanish and italian government bonds has jumped to record levels. and this is the closing picture of the choose the session in russia and the markets are also mixed as in the united states my stocks up twenty three percent r.t.s. down just a notch if we look at individual share movement on my sex you'll see that burbank is flat unlike financial stocks around the world it's not even managed to gain a notch gazprom down twenty three percent as energy prices mostly were down for most of the session but a major gain on tuesday was a rest parts go to coal miners rallying on reports that russia's state development bank could buy eighty percent of the miner for five billion dollars peter weston from out on capital wraps up today. we have recovered slightly russia has actually

done better than those other markets but if you look at the sectors that have been doing well it's been telecom utilities the metals telecoms and utilities enormously was defensive so that's not a surprise given the environment but also if you look within the metals here it's been golden reels again you know it was sort of a head she says there should be gold companies so it is a very defensive mode and we don't see a lot of sort of conviction you know any kind of relief rally that seems like a short term in this environment right see in fifteen minutes i'll be here will not take. cool. calm.

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