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 and their mother they simply weren't able to escape and they all drowned in that room first came terror and tragedy. the board 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't find my grandson or daughter in law. now amidst the grief comes the anger and the questions. like if you pigs do your jobs you don't understand a thing. the bulgarian 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 donor 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 but we're not want to go on the twenty three as we traveled on these motives he was in a poor condition then because most serial times are near a trip that it would have to stop. 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 despite this rescue teams say it was hopelessly outdated the crew that was working tell me they noticed water coming in through the windows at such a pace the boat went down very quickly all of this will come to the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 that told the real story didn't is that 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. it's such a waste so stupid guys come soon i can't speak you see. sydney you're my friend's son was the she arrived early it's all so hard to t. and so stupid that it could have happened. 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.

the volga bank central russia. seems a terrible anguish there but now there's also 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 those ships captains but again we've got more on the human side of this tragedy on our website as well that your father interview with the divers who've been working at the scene they give a harrowing account of their underwater search for dozens of bodies in poor visibility you can read more about that get further analysis about what went on at . the lower house of the french parliament voted to extend the military campaign in libya it comes after recent remarks by the french defense minister suggesting that the rebels should too. ok look at our theme this is rumors that one of the most active advocates of the nato led invasion might be starting about pedal on the campaign and that is daniel bushell reports now anxiety is growing in paris the 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 republicans they're often wrong and gets a surprise. french foreign minister ship a boosted france would libya in quote days or weeks the war's into a fourth month no final round inside nicolas sarkozy with his western allies seems short 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 libya's rebels will return some somalia. went to libya for training within the last two or three years just 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 of it 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 to libya's causing widespread atrocities for every one military person that was supposedly a casualty there were ten civilians frauds categorically ruled out sending grilled 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 keep italy admits invading libya was a mistake and did a stunning the fridge defense minister says the rebels should negotiate with

moammar gadhafi this is the same man that they already indicted in the international court so. i mean from a legal point of view it's even impossible rocher upstream did the un's vote warning foreign bombs would bring havoc in libya to pay said belated can't support the love ruffle quote lloyd lee diplomat speak for a blazing row with elections just annoying months away sako advisers said a successful war could resurrect his chances instead one paper writes libya's becoming a slow motion call crash for france's deeply unpopular president so jogging for excessive sweating is understandable this is libyan sprint is turning into a marathon the new bush you'll see paris. going to discuss this story more we're joined now by a lot of think today and he's a european affairs adviser to the french opposition's national front party joining us from brussels very good evening chief thanks for being on r.t.

so the national assembly has voted to prolong the operation what's your reaction to that outcome. well we see that the globalist. war is going on that the french government is trying to push forward with this ideology of supporting globalist wars around the world and we completely opposed this kind of point of view actually we think this is an intrusion into a civil war which is already cost hundred sixty million euros to the french within the euro crisis when the social situation is getting worse now i mean we pose this kind of point of view and it's just nonsense. called the president's decision to intervene in libya a political one with a large upcoming elections well let's look at it now is this operation into a stalemate has this been a vote winner or a vote loser for nicolas sarkozy i think i know you're going to answer that with.

well i'm sorry for mr sarkozy that he didn't fall before the fourteenth of july which is our national holidays and actually his political agenda is a bit worrying because we went there in this war a just to show off actually with his friends on the global era and we see this quite interesting actually to see that something else is behind all of this and in the same time we are very very worried about consequences as we know now that most of the opponents and the rebels are islamists. you mention the cost just now you mentioned the cost to the french public of this operation sixty million dollars figure something has got to two hundred million dollars even if the operation continues to drag on will be justifiable for the french people themselves to spend so much money on a foreign war. well this is what i want to say that this

money is this is a waste of money for something which is not working khadafi will not step down he is still in power this money should have been used for something else completely differently. we think this is really a stalemate which is going to turn not like in so million people might think but i think more like the iraqi scenario so all this is completely irrelevant diplomacy we wish we had something else which we used to be our tradition in france which is much more independent much more wiser to see what could be. on the long term and immediate. i mean some of us but at the moment that's great of course but the moment the situation is that situation is unfolding in libya and of paris wants to take it until the bitter end well the question of introducing ground troops be considered do you think will that be stopped by the french public. any conflict

which is entering a stall mate means that you have to bring the boys on the ground that means we have to have our boys killed on the ground that means we're going to have again. and the iraqi scenario is for sure i mean air strikes are not sufficient enough to reach your targets there are no wars which can be won just striking. that is going to happen. i am not sure i think this is going to happen we fear actually this is going to happen this is why we say we have to stop this right away we have to think about another solution for libya and specially because we are very worried about the fact that we know now that islamists are behind the scene of the rebellion it's not only because it's not not actually al-qaeda it's a part of it but most of the islamic brotherhood for example which are operating as well in syria and in egypt i mean the whole region is falling in the hands of islamist model. or not for us is

a big problem the big down european affairs advisor to the french opposition's national front party thank you for your input on the program thank you very much. what nato is lying when it says it same in libya is to protect civilians says independent journalist terry. spoke to us you can see the full interview with him if you'd like to catch it on r.t. next is a quick preview of what he had to say. starting from the moment it was decided to launch this operation that took 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 in costs of war in nato would normally lie only to conceal its mistakes and this time

it's being done not to consume mistakes but you can see all the strategy. and more thoughts colonel gadhafi has no future new libya must go so says russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov is on a mission to washington right now if he's going to this is there for us he joins us live garny hi there very definite statement there for the minister isn't it well exactly foreign minister lavrov said colonel gadhafi must step down and there is no place for him in leave years future and that's a view shared by the obama administration as well but saying that mr lavrov has also criticized the scope of the international intervention in libya take a listen. we support the if we can the union initiative to start negotiations between the representative of three people represent the chiefs of three billion representatives of the benghazi transitional national council on the

understanding that the definition self of course would not have any place in the future libya. and that qaddafi yourself would not participate in those discussions . he also repeated that moscow sees the actions of the allied forces there as violation of the un mandate he said that the resolution is being wrongly interpreted as you can do whatever you want but there must be limits to an intervention what moscow sees is the west now clearly taking sides in a civil war and extending the conflict all right another subject now the u.s. undersecretary of state said monday that the miso shield would cover the whole of europe not is that so with russia which of course means very critical of washington's plans. well kevin u.s. missile defense plans in europe are of course up for discussion here in washington foreign minister lavrov said. firmly gally binding guarantees that the european

missile defense project will not threaten russia's security there have been words before washington has many times said that the system would not be against russia but moscow needs to have it on paper some analyst explained that this urge that russia has been getting everything on paper with promises into past that were not fulfilled for example when the soviet union collapsed russia was assured that nato would not be expanding towards these borders but he did it continued recruiting new members so the bottom line is words are good but words in a legally binding agreement are better foreign minister lavrov said that's probably the most irritating issue in the relations between the two countries and there is a huge desire to live it behind and to rather turn it into an area of cooperation russia has offered building the missile shield in europe together but that offer was turned down nato says russia can participate but it can't be a project because russia is not part of nato to that possible says if that's the case let's base our relations on agreements not just words but it is going to count

in the washington d.c. studio thank you. this is r t still ahead a few more trouble in afghanistan is 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 with troops withdraw for you also fears of greek style and rested it's only now we bring you inside of a financial woes of a country many predict could be next in line for the e.u. help. wiki leaks founder julian assange is back in a london court where he's appealing against an earlier ruling to extradite him to sweden the world's most famous was blows wanted there for questioning over sexual assault allegations but his supporters fear that if sent to stockholm he'll end up in the hands of the u.s. government is lauren that has the latest from outside the court building tonight. not so much has hired an entirely new legal team pull 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. lore and specifically the european arrest warrant they're all queuing that the european arrest warrant in athens this case is invalid because they've essentially discrepancies between the allegations made and the testimonies of the two alleged victims there a full 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 new charges have been brought against us all she's wanted for questioning in sweden and so far no more now this case is slated to go through wednesday if faced 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 customs 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 is 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 their hands on us dollars for you could correspond laura you can catch war of laura's report in sweden with links for the u.s. on our website or to go home for all the stories we're covering available online for you with all the latest news blogs videos chose to say all the stories you see also the church of the latest video for these the plane rescue operation just hours after burning aircraft crash landed on a kid eastern siberia so they fished everybody back out again also before you cross the road in moscow a simple shoes a sports car the bugs in central moscow his need for speed and carnage. off brother of afghan president hamid karzai has been a. noted in his own home initial reports suggest a while because i was shot dead by one of his own bodyguards the taliban claimed

responsibility described as one of his biggest achievements as i headed to kandahar province a volatile region on the border with pakistan he was often accused of media reports of having links to afghanistan's massive illegal drugs trade spoke to a doctor big means a political analyst from kabul who 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 office because of this i think that americans lost one off the important members of our troops but 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 well seek for for another person to replace him. let me take you through some more world news headlines now protestant braves violence in northern ireland up to belfast was bonfires were lit to mark the annual twelfth of july celebrations catholic protesters threw stones

and firebombs of protestants and police security services attempted to separate the opposing factions that the seven police officers were injured of the attacks the twelfth of july marks the end of the annual protestant marching season commemorates a seventeenth century victory over catholic forces. spacewalks now underway in orbit some four hundred kilometers above our heads two astronauts are working to retrieve a broken section of the international space station and part of aboard the shuttle atlantis the six and a half hour space walk will also stage an experiment in robotic refueling the shuttle leaves the station next week and its landing will wrap up america's shuttle program after thirty years in space. italy's markets plunged tuesday over fears the country may become the next e.u. state to ask for a helping hand middle east finance ministers already promised to approve a set of budget cuts within a week in an effort to avoid turmoil in the third largest economy financial advisor marco pierre from poly told me he has fear is that the could get into big trouble

now the level of debt is far greater than the peripheral countries of europe really put together in many ways whether the you can perhaps put together a rescue package for the short. is probable 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 the far as the germans are concerned i'm sure that they want this to to come to an end in many ways italy 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 easy is to be expected. looking ahead just a bit less the table it's time for now we look at one of the most devastating environmental catastrophes in u.s. history coal mining at its worst it's our documentary mountain top removal business first. thanks very much given how the warm welcome to business the customs union of russia . wants to expand its links promised official says it's ready to start creating free trade zones with europe he's been meeting the prime ministers of the other union members to discuss the first year of corporation as. it has been a year now since the three 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 volumes between the three countries grew four to three per cent in the first four months of this year put it also says that the customs union is now ready to integrate more into international trade with its closest neighbor the european union put it all into law and 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 other countries into the global economy the customs union would also seek free trade cooperation with the european union. talking about russia's not tourists red tape putin says there of course is all three conscious within the customs union will have to compete for businesses and this may finally

become a real step to fight corruption. that has now moved to the markets crude is mixed in the u.s. so for from. there actually. dominating the market however with investors still concerned about. u.s. economic recovery on the possibility of further tightening in china at the moment brant has turned positive it's up now sixteen said it was down. light sweet even more than that at ninety six and. u.s. markets showing a mixed picture of most of the session but right now they're flat to negative dow jones down by just a notch nasdaq point three percent in the worries of course dominating the market on the fate of the debt crisis in europe and they're still shilling investor interest. is the closing picture for european session on choose day footsies down

one percent tax point eight percent this is after a massive sell off on monday investors are continuing to dump financial and insurance stocks on persisting sovereign debt fears and this is not helped by the dutch finance minister saying a selective default on greek debt is possible meanwhile markets still nervous about the possibility that the crisis may spread to italy and spain the third or fourth largest euro zone countries cost of insuring spanish and italian government bonds has jumped to record levels and those in picture in russia now pretty much similar to what's happening around the world. yes negative my six like me positive burbank is actually flat unlike other financial stocks around the world which we see a massive sell off the stocks even managed to gain a notch today point zero six percent gasp wrong down point three percent as well was the down most of the session major gain on tuesday was about spots go it's

really going to reports russia's state development bank be equalled by eighty percent of the mine up for five billion dollars peter weston 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 enormously was defensive so that's not a surprise given the environment. but also if you look within the metal sphere it's been gold and reels again you could argue these are sort of head juice especially big old company 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 scene is like to be short term in this environment headlines are next with kevin.

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for a good evening this is all. in here it's. time on our top story the first funeral something held in russia's republic of tatarstan as the country mourns victims of sunday's pleasure cruise a sinking on the volga river over ninety deaths have been confirmed so far many of them children meanwhile the search for dozens of bodies trapped under water continues. the lower house of the french parliament voted to extend the military campaign in libya that's wild. highlighting consistencies and parses from to good times to find ways out of the deadlock including a recent suggestion that the rebels should negotiate with colonel gadhafi. and wiki leaks founder julian assange is back in a london court fighting an earlier decision to extradited to sweden over sex crime

allegations but his supporters say the case is just a pretext to hand him over to the u.s. . coming up now and i'll tell you no warning report for you about how whole communities in america's west virginia were driven off the land by flooding and landslides resulting from mountain top coal mining. a. day.

long a. long . most of the carbon that we mine from across the earth is millions of years old coal particularly interesting because per unit of energy generated coal actually is.