meanwhile back here at the site of the sinking divers have reached the room inside the ship where around forty children were trapped as the boat began to sink they were holding a party there because there were so many of them it's thought that they were not able to get out and 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 say 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 of your life if you do your jobs you don't understand anything. 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. area 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 blowing it i'm not long ago in the twenty three hours we travelled on these motors about he was in a poor condition then yes because most serial times are in or a trip usually would have to stop for sunday or it is 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 despite this rescue teams say it was hopelessly outdated the crew that was working in town with a notice water coming in through the windows at such a pace the boat went down very quickly all of this will come to the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 harrowing

accounts of what happened on the weekend pleasure cruise that told the real story we still hope that our daughter has survived the house in an air pocket or some other way we still believe that our little angel is alive for the start didn't is that people were basically buried alive in china metal coffin we managed to get out through the windows i was there with my ten year old daughter i couldn't rescue hand she swallowed 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 on boston r.t. the volga bank central russia. sees a terrible anguish the now there's also growing anger too 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 very human side of this tragedy on our website there you'll find an interview with the divers working at the scene to give a harrowing account of their underwater search with dozens of bodies impossibility you can read more about further analysis about what's going on so badly wrong here at r.t. dot com. 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 talk to colonel gadhafi that spy rumors that one of the most active advocates of the nato led invasion might be starting to back pedal on the campaign wants all through the book humanitarian imperialism e joins us now to talk about this news line tonight very good eventually thanks for being on our team president sarkozy has been accused by his opponents of imperialist policies including over libya but if that's the case then surely france would have done more to break this current stalemate no. they're doing whatever they can i mean there was a very interesting article in the neutral observer was just explaining old

a problem that nato has all the division that they have the fact that the hub is on which the account are actually very weak militarily and even with. the plan they're not getting anywhere and also they start to feel areas that the vast bulk of the libyan population. that you will forget after if you are opposed to any invasion just soviet occupation as opposed to the foreign invasion seventy years ago in one nine hundred forty one. so news developments today that the french parliament votes to continue the french president's the french presence in libya why do you think they did that and what's the end game as they see it or indeed do they even have a clear picture of what the end game may be. there speaking of negotiation you see but it's great to hear that they don't know because she weeks ago they were rejecting the negotiation when the telly and some are saying that there should be a negotiation and now the americans are saying there should be negotiation still

clearly they don't have a plan now that the french parliament rooted for the war is not very surprising he's in the national party because plans were somehow at the mission of the school and also because everybody in trance due to what i told you many here in india it isn't as this idea that you can intervene anywhere in the world whenever they think human rights are being very late. who played a good. job because of a problem with the skype feed there was your silence breaking up a little bit while you're still there i want to ask a few more questions of our common president sarkozy is clearly looking to do as much as he can to get reelected next year is this operation going to prove popular with the voters or is it counted against him do you think. at the start of the operation aging something like seventy percent of the population who are in stable of the war and now it's fifty one percent who said against the war and if the war last another few months i think the person to beat on a higher and recently to popularity of. he has gotten. a lot so i don't know if he's doing to help in very much depends on what happens of course he. was really

helped in that remains to be seen john brockman author of the book humanitarian imperialism on the line from brussels tonight thanks for your input of the program thank you very much your questions over the conflict in libya have also been raised in washington on a visit there russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov said the colonel gadhafi has no future in a new libya and must go out is going to future can report on that. so lavrov said colonel gadhafi must step down and there is no place for him in levy his future and that's a view shared by the obama administration as well we support the if we can you know initiative to start negotiations between the representatives of three representatives of three pollutants representatives of the big guys in the national council on the understanding good good the efficiency of of course would look to any place in the future. and the efficiency would not participate in.

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 expanding on the conflict with u.s. missile defense plans in europe are of course up for discussion here in washington foreign minister lavrov said russia needs for him legally binding guarantees that the european missile defense project will not threaten russia's security there has 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 in the 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 of the bottom line is words are good but words

even 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. while she's gone and should she come there will the main aim of sergei lavrov visit to the u.s. has been mediating the peace talks between israel and the palestinians has called for more international cooperation to jumpstart the stored peace process let's talk . detail with dr andrew kuchins from the center for strategic and international studies in washington thanks where this. representative from the arab league should be present at the quartet meetings does that mean now that russia the u.s. and the european union and the united nations are rethinking their peacemaking attempts in the current format. well i think that there is some realization amongst all the all the parties mentioned there that given the lack of progress in the in the peace process that we need to do some some rethinking i heard foreign minister lavrov speak this morning at the roast the russian embassy

and while he was not. extremely disappointed with the the talks of the quartet i think he acknowledged that. to some degree it was understandable why progress was not made and i think we need to spend some more time thinking about the way forward with the palestinian president mahmoud abbas said the fact of the quartet hasn't produced agreement means they have differences what kind of difference if you think he's talking about. well i'm not sure to what to what extent it is that the court the court has differences ms certainly mr lover off did not emphasize that so much today in his in his remarks and he emphasized today that that israel is is much more focused on security and that's understandable and that the palestinians are more focused upon national sovereignty in the establishment of

a nation state so i think that the fundamental differences really lie between the israelis and the palestinians and to a lesser extent amongst the members of the quartet. says will be another round of consultations in new york city this autumn then in september the u.n. set to vote in recognition of the palestinian state do you think we do expect any breakthroughs that in these forthcoming meetings of minds. you know i'm not i'm not particularly confident about any imminent breakthroughs on the middle east of course you know for the last six months most of the focus for in washington in moscow and in other capitals has been on other you know aspects in the middle east the so-called arab arab awakening. that's taken some of the i think it's taken some of the energy in the thai diplomats and government officials to some degree away from the middle east peace process. we're also hearing today it is ready newspaper reports that the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu might

agree to a new peace talks with the palestinians along the nine hundred sixty seven lines is netanyahu do you think start to soften is a lot of that if this report is true. well i haven't seen the report of mr netanyahu remarks myself. on the basis of mr yet met yahoo's past positions i would be skeptical that he would want to revisit pre-one thousand nine hundred sixty seven. borders for the for the state of israel if he were willing to re-examine that of course that would represent a major. major step in a different policy direction for him to try to. teach an international studies joining us washington thanks for your input. this is r t still ahead we look at the continuing saga of reporters of the glee obtaining people's private information and

ask could this be a threat to the country's national security. and fears of greek style arrested italy will bring an insight into the financial woes of a country many predict could be next in line for e.u. help. wiki leaks founder julian assange is back in a london court where he's appealing against an earlier ruling to be extradited to sweden the world's most famous whistle blowers wanted there for questioning over sexual assault allegations but supporters fear that if sent to stockholm he'll end up in the hands of the u.s. government artie's laura matters the latest from outside the court. you know so much has hired an entirely new legal team for this appeal he started the old old old lots 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 are arguing that the european arrest warrant in a case is invalid because of essentially discrepancies between the allegations made

and the testimonies of the two alleged victims there are four charges and 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 faced appeal is rejected by the high courts that you and i saw as his vowed to take the extradition case right to the supreme court 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 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 so you could correspondent laura laura's report on sweden's links with the u.s. on our web site up to you go to all the stories we're covering available along with

the latest news blogs and videos other stories as well check out the latest video footage of the plane rescue operation just hours after burning crash landed on a lake in siberia one of us not with those pictures for you but of action also look before you cross the road a street pushes a sports car the maps in central moscow lunatic but is the need for speed ends in carnage predictably pictures on one from us tonight. the half brother of afghan president hamid karzai has been assassinated in his own home initial report . suggest cause i was shot dead by one of his own bodyguards the taliban has claimed responsibility described as one of his biggest achievements karzai headed to kandahar province a volatile region on the border with pakistan he was often accused in media reports of having links to afghanistan's massive illegal drugs trade talk to have killed me a political analyst from kabul told us the killing is a blown out of the us. and the past couple of years

he confirmed that he had a good relationship with the american troops and american off because of this i think that americans lost one off their important members of the 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 american seek for for another person to replace him. who two years ago or two spoke to our karzai about how he sees the allegations against him. because of drug and obvious things but did never in the last seven years nor we challenge we challenge the international community and we challenge everyone to prove where the four we invited log on to our free video section of our website we can access that interview and follow also a huge archive of other news footage as well from r.t. . focusing on britain now outrage gripping the country over allegations ended

several newspapers in rupert murdoch's media empire including obtaining secret information about the queen and former prime minister gordon brown that's a senior police officers have been questioned by m.p.'s of a claims they knew about the scandal richard ellis is editor in chief of the day online news service he told me thinks the data could be misused and not just by tabloids and i think where this does become a question for national security is the idea that police are selling private phone numbers and private contact details of people like the royal family and the prime minister. yes well this 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 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

no step down and take a break. more world news headlines of protestant parades again turned violent in northern ireland's capital belfast as bonfires were lit to mark the annual twelfth of july celebrations catholic protesters threw stones and firebombs and protestants and police security services attempted to separate the opposing factions not least seven police officers ridgeview tax the twelfth of july marks the end of year and will put a spin marching season and commemorates a seventeenth century victory over catholic forces. a space walk still underway above us in orbit some four hundred kilometers above our heads in fact to us from working to retrieve a broken section of the international space station and the packet aboard the shuttle atlantis the six the half hour space walk will also stage an experiment in order oh but it will refueling the shuttle leaves the station next week and its landing will wrap up america's shuttle program after thirty years in space. european markets plunged tuesday over fears the country may become the next e.u.

state 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 eaves third largest economy financial advisor marco pierre poly told me the fears over italy are indeed justified. 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 ca 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. this is art international from moscow just twenty minutes away from hearing about the much touted doping scandal at the two of the firms that's in our sport with its catch up with dmitri it's got the latest world of business for you. can go to you know one welcome to business r t the customs union of russia kazakhstan and belarus wants to expand it's their next prime minister putin says it's ready to start creating free trade zones with europe has been meeting the prime ministers of other union members to discuss the first year of cooperation as the town of a good report. 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 forty three percent in the first four months old here puts it 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 but new means do we intend to erect barriers. 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 cooperation with the european union. talking about russia's

not torrijos red tape putin says that there are crosses all three conscious within the customs union will have to compete for businesses and this may finally become a real step to fight corruption. in russia on the markets on the. mixed joining the hesitation on the overseas markets with the debt crisis and you're looking at some of the individual movers on the bank is unlike other financial stocks around the world managed to. gasp point three percent as energy prices continue to grow most of the session but a major. eighty percent of the four billion dollars to western from capital wraps up today's trade . we have recovered. 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 and metals well telecoms and utilities the normalcy was defensive so that's not a surprise given the environment but also if you look within the metal sphere it's been a gold in a real scale again you could argue these are sort of head she says there's a 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 and also from the business team for now come and see the headlines to stay with us if.

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here in moscow my name's kevin irwin thanks for joining us river around the world you're watching r.t. this is our top story the first few holes have been held in russia's republic of tatarstan as the country mourns victims of sunday's pleasure cruise and sinking on the river volga over nineteen deaths have been confirmed so far many of them children meanwhile the search for dozens of bodies trapped under water continues. in the french parliament votes to extend the military campaign in libya that's while analysts highlighting consistencies and heiresses frantic attempts to find ways out of the deadlock including the recent suggesting that the rebels should negotiate with colonel gadhafi. and wiki leaks founder julian assange is back in a london court fighting an early decision to extradited to sweden over sex crime

other guy but his supporters say the case is just a pretext to hand him over to the u.s. . next who question the official aim of nato intervention in libya supposedly protecting civilians in the 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 my son a french intellectual and two on the list founder and chairman of terror 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 thank you where have you been in libya and what have you discovered what have you found in your time here. first

of all it's quite obvious that the u.s. see 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 didn't visaged killing all the heads of the libyan national congress if they got together in one place during a big celebration of 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 rebel.