out of the ship all 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 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 but that they simply weren't able to escape and they all drowned in that room 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 the wave crashed into them and he lost a group 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 if you take so 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 have been on the volga at all at the. past two hours before it looked an awful condition of their done a pretty voice before it would never have been allowed to sail. growing evidence seems to point to gross mismanagement on the vessel including a broken engine ignored by the captain and blocked emergency exits are not long ago on the twenty three as we travelled on these motives are but he was in a poor condition then yes because most serial turns in or a trip really would have to stop for sunday or 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 despite this rescue teams say it was hopelessly outdated the crew that was working tell me they noticed water coming in through the windows at such a pace the boat went down very quickly all of this will come to the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 wring accounts of what happened on the weekend pleasure cruise that told the real story we still hope that our daughter has survived as you know happens in an air pocket or some other way but we still believe that our little angel is a line from the star even people who are 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 small way 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 is now gone they will find anyone else alive

leaving just the shock and grief. the volga bank central russia. there is growing anger after claims that two vessels passed the cruise ship as it was sinking but did nothing to help a criminal case has been launched against the ship's captain don't forget we've got more of the human side of the tragedy on our web site well before that interview with the divers working at the sea they give a harrowing account of their underwater search for dozens of bodies impossibility you can read further news analysis at our team dot com. the french parliament voted to extend the military campaign in libya comes after recent remarks post offense minister suggesting that the rebels should talk to colonel gadhafi this is rumors that one of the most active advocates of the nato led invasion might be starting to back pedal on the campaign i was artie's during a push on reports anxiety is indeed growing in paris that what was intended to be a short lived mission is turning into an embarrassingly long haul. not tell

me which. books is like bragging they'll destroy their opponents they're often wrong and gets a nasty surprise i french foreign minister ship a boasted france would win libya in quote days or weeks the war's into a fourth month no final round inside nicolas sarkozy with his western allies seem shocked their little opponents fighting back well it's not just an embarrassment for sarkozy it's an embarrassment for all nato for the whole west paris even admits being libya's rebels but on some somalia. wench to libya for training within the last two or three years. documented we have to fly records and everything else so it seems strange in many ways the whole western support of some

of the rebel groups in libya must be questioned because in some cases we are effectively arming al-qaeda. it's all making a mockery of the un votes on foreign intervention in the country. giving. none of. this. witnesses nato bombing of libya is causing widespread atrocities for every one military personnel that were supposedly a casualty there were ten civilians frauds categorically ruled out sending troops to take spurs predict is the only way male to break the libyan deadlock the moves the splitting the nato coalition silvio berlusconi head of key partner italy admits invading libya was a mistake and did a stunning u. turn the fridge defense minister says the rebels should negotiate with more money.

this is the same man that they're already indicted in the international court so. i mean from a legal point of view it's even impossible. vote while the bombs would bring havoc in libya would you please said bill it is called support. lloyd lee diplomats speak for. the elections just more in months away psagot advisors said a successful war could resurrect his chances instead one paper writes libya's becoming a slow motion paul crouch for france's deeply unpopular president. is easy jogging for excessive sweating is understandable this is libyan spirit is turning into america's new bush you'll see paris. john 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 whose 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 n n o 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. nato is lying when it says it's a made libya is to protect civilians says independent journalist mess sand you can

see the full interview with him in less than twenty minutes from now 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 and this is just the beginning it is rather a question of the rearrangement of this region we are yet to see a series a war in this case keeps lying. during the war in class a war you need or would normally lie only to conceal its mistakes and this time it's being done not to consume mystique's but you can see all the strategy. outrages gripping britain with allegations that reporters obtained secret information about the queen and former prime minister gordon brown 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 m.p.'s of relegations that they're complicit in the scandal that certain get up to speed with the latest on this fast moving story richard and 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 of 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. you had the m p expenses scandal then you have media scandal today and the police and i think where this does become a question for national security is the idea that police is. elling private phone numbers and private contact details of people like the royal family and the prime minister yes obviously it's 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 what about the current prime minister's format a communications has been arrested in connection with these hacking allegations of imagine over 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 news international is deeply intertwined with the downing street machine all that has yet to come out and will cause a lot more headaches for him but what about executives of rupert murdoch's empire

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 m.p.'s i mean could 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 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 many people say should step down and take a break he may be able to return to news corp one day but they're advising 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 when you talk about the police possible involvement earlier on in this scandal because of allegations of police corruption at a previous failure to properly 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. the new police officer 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 if we 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 that is that it's really she for the day online news service thanks for joining us on the line from london much appreciated thank you thank you. we can leaks founder julian assange is back in a london court weighs appealing against an earlier ruling to extradite him to

sweden the world's most famous whistleblowers wanted there for questioning over sexual assault allegations but his supporters fear that if he sent to stockholm will end up in the hands of the u.s. government artie's lorimer's got the latest from outside the court building. not so much has hired an entirely new legal team for this appeal he's fired the old old lot 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 e.u. law and specifically the european arrest warrant they're all queuing that the european arrest warrant enough case is invalid because of essentially discrepancies between the allegations made and the testimonies of the two alleged victims there are four charge is that they range between on lawful coercion to sexual assaults right down to rape they're also saying it's important to remember that no charges have been brought against authorise he's wanted for questioning in sweden and so

far no more now this case is slated to go through wednesday if based appeal is rejected by the high courts that you and i saw as his vowed to take the extradition case right to deceive queen courts and even on words to the european court of human rights to films and his supporters have always been worried that one section to sweden they would he would be sent to the u.s. that this case was politically motivated and of course have noted that a grand jury in the u.s. is investigating wiki leaks and that some people in america would love to get hands on ourselves. just like you know you can watch lowers report on sweden's links with the u.s. our web site out called all the stories we're covering a few available there along the latest news blogs and videos chunks of you'll say two of the stories you see also the checker the latest video footage of this plane rescue operation just hours after burning aircraft crash landed on a lake in eastern siberia dramatic pictures there online tonight also. always look

we flee across the road a street racer pushes a sports car to the max in central moscow is need for speed. come on edge those pictures online to. italy's markets plunged on tuesday over fears the country may become the next to use states to ask for a helping hand italy's finance ministers already promised to approve a set of budget cuts within a week in an effort to avoid turmoil in the used third largest economy to get more insight on this and talk about italy's financial woes with financial advisor marco pietro polly marco a very good evening to you just how bad is the situation in italy are all these fears justified. well that 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 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 things get really grim there's look at it in these the euro zone's third largest economy isn't it bailing it out give it a heck of a lot of cash more i guess than the that in greece or ireland does the e.u. have that kind of money. well yes that the level of debt is far greater than the the peripheral countries of europe really put together in many ways whether the you can perhaps put together a rescue package for the short term. is probable whether they can afford to to have a 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 where the germans want to keep bailing out countries for far as the germans are concerned i'm sure that they want this to 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 of the euro all there needs to be a split up of the euro and effectively what 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 mark if it does go down the road if they do decide to do another patch if it gets that bad now we all witnessed the public reaction in greece to the austerity measures that of course come with any bailout if italy brings in budget cuts to avoid that worst case scenario will italy be swamped in civil unrest. i think it's to be expected i think that in many ways it's really like many western countries have been 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 and of course the public sector tends to be much higher unionized than the than the private sector and therefore union militancy and civil unrest is is to be expected mark up here triple the financial advisor always good to get your views on the program get a bit of insight from you too thanks very much. the half brother of afghan

president hamid karzai has been assassinated in his own home initial reports of just because i was shot dead by one of his own bodyguards the taliban has claimed responsibility described as one of its biggest achievements cars ahead of the kandahar province a volatile region on the border with pakistan he was often accused of media reports of a link to afghanistan's massive illegal drugs trade talk to 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 the american troops and american officers because of this i think that americans lost one of their important members of the earth drops out at the same time he was accused of being involved in corruption and drug trafficking and then because of this many believe that the now. seek for for

another person to replace him. two years ago i spoke to us about how he sees the allegations against him. it was a drug in august things but did never in the last seven years nor we challenge we challenged the international community we challenge our everyone to please bring the proof where the for me will log on to the free video section on our website they can access that interview in full on the huge archive of other news footage from us as well. as a twenty three other news world the world news headlines no protestant parades again violence in northern ireland's capital belfast as bonfires were lit to mark the annual twelfth of july celebrations cuffing protesters threw stones and firebombs protestants and police security services attempted to separate imposing factions in at least seven police officers were injured in the attacks the twelfth of july marks the end of the annual protestant marching season and commemorates the seventeenth century victory of the catholic forces. up above us the space walks now

underway and all but some four hundred kilometers above earth two astronauts working to retrieve a broken section of the international space station pocket aboard the shuttle atlantis the six and a half hour space walk will also stage an experiment a robotic we fueling the shuttle leaves the station next week and its landing will wrap up america's shuttle program of thirty years in space. just twenty minutes where it's major sports now with you know he's got details the first doping case of this year's to france that's ahead then but choose the evening business next. the customs union of russia kazakhstan and belarus wants to expand its links prime minister putin 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 corporations. it has been a year now since the three c.i.s.

neighbors russia belarus began trading with no borders and russia's prime minister vladimir putin says it has already brought tarnishing results of the trade models between the three countries to forty three per cent in the first four months of this year and 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. by removing barriers within the customs union means do we intend to erect barriers on our external borders on the contrary main goal is to ensure our joint efforts can more effectively integrate all countries into the global economy the customs union would also seek free trade co-operation with the european union. talking about

russia's not torrijos red tape putin says now there are of course as all three contrasts with them to customs union will have to compete for businesses and this may finally become a real step to fight corruption. let's move now to the markets we start with the united states and their markets assuring defiance the indices are flat and mixed with worries about the fate of the crisis in europe still chilling investor interest point two percent. mt. european stocks ended choose day session on a negative note seeing a heavy sell off after a sharp drop the previous session investors are continuing to dump financials 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 is nervous about the possibility of the crisis spreading further to italy and spain the cost of insuring spanish and italian government bonds has jumped to record levels. and this

is the closing picture of war the choose the recession in russia and the markets also mixed as in the united states my stocks up point three percent r.t.s. down just a notch if we look at the individual share movement on my sex you'll see that burbank is flat and like financial stocks around the world the stock even managed to gain a notch gazprom down point three percent as energy prices mostly wood 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 mine a forty five billion dollars peter western from out on capital wraps up today. we have recovered slightly russia has actually done better than most other markets but if you look at the sectors that have been doing well it's been telecom utilities the metals telecoms and utilities are normally seen as defensive so that's not a surprise given the environment but also if you look within the metal sphere it's

been gold in the reals again you could argue these are sort of 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 the sea is like would be short term in this environment all right see you in fifteen minutes i'll be here with an update.

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com. hello tsotsi from kevin i was here with you to my bringing up to date on the top stories in the first funerals have been held in russia. as republic of tatarstan as the country mourns victims of sunday's pleasure cruise the sinking of the volga river ninety deaths have been confirmed so far many of them children meanwhile the search for dozens of bodies trapped under water continues. wiki leaks founder julian assange is back in a london court fighting an early decision to extradite him to sweden over sex crime allegations supporters say the case is just a pretext to how devoted to the u.s. . the half brother of afghan president hamid karzai has been assassinated in his own home with the death of a powerful politician allegedly linked to drug trafficking deals a blow to nato his plans to leave

a stable country behind when its troops withdraw. next week question the official aim of nature's intervention in libya is supposedly protecting civilians in our latest interview. the labor conflict is entering its fifth month with concerns growing that a protracted destructive civil war has been kickstarted by a western russia to regime change to the amazon a french intellectual and two on the list founder and chairman of pair network and the axis for peace conference has been working here in libya trying to find out the truth thank you very much terry for being with us to thank you where have you been and what have you discovered what have you found in your time here. first of all it's quite obvious that the us a wanted to answer the war at the same time with libya and syria. that we was made public by john bolton in two thousand and two the

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