tonight a nod to the first funerals are held in russia as the country mourns the victims of sunday's pleasure cruise a sinking on the shoulder river over nineteen deaths have been confirmed the search for dozens of bodies trapped in the water continues. as the french parliament votes to extend the military campaign in libya unless highlighting consistencies in paris is frantic attempts to find ways out of the deadlock also. the british and so of course would welcome their new place of the future on a visit to washington russia's foreign minister reaffirms moscow's position on the need for colonel gadhafi to go. and 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 when its troops withdraw we bring you some analysis on the breaking story to. follow it's eleven pm here in moscow my name's kevin you watching. rules have been arrested. as the country mourns the victims of its worst boating accident in decades rescuers are continuing their search for bodies including those of dozens of children who gathered in a play room just moments before the heavily overloaded shift say over ninety people have now been confirmed dead correspondent tom barr has the latest. operations continue here from the volga bank south of with divers and other teams going out to

try and recover more bodies from the sun can river pleasure cruise a little garia meanwhile in itself today is a day of mourning huge crowds thousands of people gathered on the pier next to the river boat station in cars to show their respects to those that died in the sinking of the ship as a mark of respect ships was sailing the volga participated in a blowing of their horns and a minute's silence followed to try and show respect for the dead. we went amongst the crowds and asked some of the people there what they were feeling about the aftermath of this tragic history. we study

together for a year she never had arguments with anyone she was a very kind girl and was always ready to help. her ambulance workers and colleagues in that ship semantic cruise together was only husband five year old son and also she was pregnant or was to deliver her second grade we noticed she's not found yet only husband has to survive see into sun try. meanwhile back here at the site of a sinking divers have reached the room inside the ship where around forty chilled. 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

a wave crashed into them and he lost grip of my grandson he said he swims 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 of why if you 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. past two hours before the lawful condition of their previous show before it set off 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 clo you're not long ago on the twenty three as we travelled on his motivation with he was in poor condition then yes because most serial times are in or

a trip to the moon had to stop for something that is the engine was working poorly 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 on timely notice was a coming in for the ridiculous 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 told the real story we still hope jules has survived the house in an air pocket or some other way yet we still believe that our little angel is alive for the story is that people were basically buried alive in china matthew coffin we managed to get out through the windows i was there with my ten year old daughter i couldn't rescue plan 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. evolve central russia. seems a terrible anguish there was also growing anger too after claims the 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 over here we've got more of the human side of this tragedy on our website where you find interview with divers to how to work with the sea they give a harrowing account of their underwater search for dozens of bodies in four visibility you could read what they had to say and for the news analysis of r.t. . the little house the french parliament voted to extend the military campaign in libya today it comes after recent remarks by the french defense minister suggesting that the rebels should talked of colonel gadhafi that spot rumors that one of the

most active advocates of the nato led invasion might be starting to back pedal on the campaign during a bushel reports next and desire to see is growing in paris that what was intended to be short lived mission is turning into an embarrassingly long haul. if you look up that leached of. books is like bragging they'll destroy the republicans they're often wrong and gets a surprise. french foreign minister should pay postage france would be a in quotes days or weeks the wars 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 environment for sarkozy some advice from for all nato for the whole west paris even admits libya's rebels put it on some somalia. went to libya for training

within the last two or three years that's documented we have the 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 i think we are effectively arming al-qaeda. it's all making a mockery of the un votes on foreign intervention in the country. leading. another. witnesses. of libya's causing widespread atrocities every. military person that was supposedly a casualty there were ten civilians frauds categorically ruled out send big grilled troops but expose predicted the old. greek the libyan deadlock the moves the

splitting the nato coalition silvio berlusconi head of key partners italy invading libya was a mistake and did a study u. turn the fridge defense minister says the ruble should negotiate with the world we could not free 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 possible. votes for an bombs would bring in libya to pay said bill eighty two killed supports love rothwell quote lloyd lee diplomats speak for a blazing row with elections just annoying months away soccer with boys is that a successful war could resurrect his chances instead on paper rights libya's becoming a slow motion crash for france's deeply unpopular president. is easy jogging for excessive sweating is understandable as his libyan sprint is turning into

a marathon. see paris. steven brown is contributing editor of front page joins me live to discuss the story in a bit more depth to spread hi there it looks like france is going to continue that it's participation in the libyan operation doesn't it despite the cost and the criticism you surprised by that. well france has just recently called for the rebels to negotiate with gadhafi and said the bombing will stop as soon as the are at the negotiating table this shows to me that nato is surrendering the surrendering process has begun and i think. he is continuing just putting up our front of the moment are looking for a way for peace with honor withdrawal they can be. ok with the scale of french but there's a creation was widely linked isn't it so international internal rather politics going on in the country ahead of us presidential elections but do you think the

suppose he would win more votes if he withdrew from what looks like a terrible stalemate taking what you're saying now that looking for a way it's kind of backfired on sarkozy isn't it is what he was trying to do gain political points. well i think the whole thing. cause the nato they thought was going to be easy victory. i said way back when then they should have negotiated with numbers tender ground troops in the media early the rebels were too weak to defeat an arm of what you were thinking they simply got caught up in. and they're only human rights. going through the un waging war of the un and this is the result you know there's no decision is crossing tens of millions of dollars civilians are being killed libyan civilians. here in into southern libya to protect the office all these i think he's the worst criminals in the picture shows of the war was never go protect libyan civilians it

was making sure the oil states safe with britain and france do you think presidents are cozy and the rest of the nato alliance weren't all surprised about the resilience of gadhafi and how long this has gone on do you think they have a better make going on this long. oh i do recall the story was going to go on this long i think they're very surprised. he's by saddam hussein a dictator like saddam hussein he's got billions of dollars in cash lying around like we found billions of dollars in cash out we invaded iraq he's got the same thing he's paying he's paying mercenaries he's paying people still to train his troops the president on a ruse he's paying mercenaries to fly is airplanes he's got all kinds of cash and he's a survivor and the rebels are going to come nowhere near to defeating his regular forces which are very well trained the irregulars or the rebels are still just a regular force and they want

a quick victory. to send his troops at the rate the start it would have been or within two weeks all right see the front page on one magazine. international tonight pre-shared it. nato is lying when he says it's a military is to protect civilians that is the claim of independent journalists another view through something else to think it but we've got his full interview next hour and see this is a brief clip of 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 and we are yet to see series of wars in this case nido keeps line at every stage during the war and possible nato would normally lie only to conceal its mistakes and this time it's being done not you consumes t.x. but you can see all the strategic.

questions over the conflict in libya have also been raised in washington on a visit there russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov said that colonel gadhafi has no future in a new libya or must go he's going to change you can report for him is the lever all 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 we support the african union and you should have to start negotiations between the representatives of three probably represents a two for three billion representative some guys in the transitional national council on the understanding that the definition self of course would not have any place in the future. would not participate in gold's 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 any

intervention what moscow sees is the west now clearly taking sides in a civil war and extending the conflict the u.s. missile defense plans in europe are of course up for discussion here in washington foreign minister lavrov said russia for a legally 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 this is. i would not be against russia but moscow needs to have it on paper some analysts explained it this urge their russia has for getting everything on paper with promises independence 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 in a legally binding agreement are that our 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 leave it behind and to rather turn it into an area of cooperation

. that is going to change you can watching out see from moscow still ahead we look at the continuing saga of u.k. reporters illegally obtaining people's private information of the us could this be a threat to the country's national security is from your few minutes. the half brother of afghan president hamid karzai has been assassinated in his own home an initial report to do is that we well because i was shot dead by one of his own bodyguards the taliban claimed responsibility described it as one of its biggest achievements because i headed the kandahar province that's a volatile region of the border with pakistan it was often accused of media reports of having links with afghanistan's massive illegal drug trade there's two of these developments sort of massachusetts discuss the issue with the rules journalist drug violence and mr valentine thanks for being on r.t. as i just mentioned there we know the world media rumors of murky karzai connections some even called a good while the karzai of major afghan drug kingpin the karzai brothers still

thought the u.s. could rely on in the country how serious a blow to washington is this assassination. it's more of a blip it's a big deal he was a power broker provided a lot of stability here the heart of which of course is one of the key provinces didn't it out. of place we are. where a lot of people that saw his presence will be better. what about his demise will that have a significant effect on the massive drug trafficking side from the country his absence will not affect the drug trafficking it's not to bother people who are going to. fill in the gaps. so it's has more to do with. his role. as a conduit. so he was actually very political you were. there you were

the c.e.o.'s who. represent your interests to go. with the taliban and he was considered a very very tough negotiator for the united states he was someone who represented. afghan policy so this is a very big coup for the child to. have to deal with with his hardline for a while when it's not the first time the taliban's targeted either one of the cars i brothers is it i mean is it is the group stronger now is as they claim that they've succeeded to to just to get rid of them this time is it there is it made them stronger it's a big coup i guess for them well yes really although i have to say nobody knows exactly why those. killed by the security guards. karzai hey don't know whether he was an agent of the taliban or the television

claims he was but it may have been oh. power struggle with you know could have been actually been. any number. of power struggles that were not really aware of or little certainly the mayor told him knew that he would pay with his life. usually early consulate or order so the backdrop here this is a big blow isn't it this is a high profile killing and it's and it's happening at the same times america says it wants to withdraw and leave a stable afghanistan the other is a high profile killing a man killed in his own house. you have to differentiate between stated policy and real policy and you know it. has been saying that it wants to withdraw for sure and

you know i mean going on for ten years there have been wanting to be clear. what if the united states. is actually to steer you have considerable future to control its natural resource you think they'll be there after twenty fourteen year. think what you think they'll still be there after twenty forty oh yes no doubt because it's a cheap you own military base. it regards to china. russia all those social asian countries the united states person serious just ordered food for national security interests. over in the foreseeable future. so i dug vallance on us place your listeners store in thanks for being on the program you will. know two years ago i spoke to

a because i have bad how he viewed the allegations against him. does it give a good work in august things but they never in the last seven years know we challenge you challenge me to unusual community we challenge everyone to priest being approved weird for what log on to the free video section of our website they can access the beautiful and huge archive of the news footage to. the big story today 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 whistleblowers wanted there for questioning over sexual assault allegations but his supporters fear that if he is said to stockholm he'll end up in the hands of the u.s. government. has the latest now from outside the court. and cheeriness so much has hired an entirely new legal team will this appeal he's part of 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 the old e.u. your and specifically the european arrest warrant they're arguing that the european arrest warrant enough don't cases it invalidates because they've essentially discrepancies between the allegations made and the testimonies and all of the two alleged victims there are four charges 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 or she's going to poke questioning in sweden and save her own name or now this case is slated to go through wednesday if based appeal is rejected by the high courts that you and i thought about would still take the extradition case right to the seaplane courts and even on with severe pain course of human rights my sons and his supporters have always been worried that one section devoted to sweden 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 so. corresponding watcher reforms wouldn't links with us on our website are to go home always the latest news their blogs videos chunks of your saber war stories you see on our channel pictures to always try to get some action for you like this one latest video for digital plane rescue operation for just hours after a bird an aircraft crash landed on a lake in siberia and watch the divers try and rescue of baghdad again also look before you cross the road it was a good tip revenue us first year of moscow's street racer pushing a sports car the mugs seen in the center of the city but his need for speed ends in the obvious major. more details online from. tonight. written over allegations able to 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 and please over claims they knew about the scandal spoke to richard that is sees editor in chief of the day online news service he told me things like data could be misused and not just by tabloids i think that this does become a question for national security is the idea that police are selling credit for numbers and private contact details of people like the royal family in 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 organisation 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 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. just a few minutes time find a financial guru most kaiser launches a campaign refrigerator's you hear me why i want to save the economy or the later

to catch up with the business there now with dmitri. welcome to business r t the customs union of russia kazakhstan and belarus wants to expand its links prime minister person says it's ready to start creating free trade zones with europe he's been meeting with prime ministers of other union members to discuss the first year of corporation as the terribly good report. it has been a year now since the three c.i.s. neighbors russia kazakhstan and belarus began trading with borders and russia's prime minister vladimir putin said 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 put it also says the customs union is now ready to integrate more into international trade with its closest neighbor the european union it's an

old alliance 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 we intend to erect barriers on our expense. and the country main goal is to ensure our joint efforts can more effectively integrate our countries into the global economy the customs union rules so seek free trade cooperation with the european union. talking about russia's not tourists red tape who turns out that now there are crosses all three conscious with them because you know we'll have to compete small businesses and this may finally become a real step to fight corruption. of the closing picture in russia on the markets on the session next joining the hesitation on the overseas markets with the tech price

wars and europe looking at some of the individual movers on the my sex burbank is flat unlike other financial stocks around the world are still he'd managed to gain gas from down forty three percent as energy prices continue to most of the session but a major gain on tuesday was called minor writing on the ports russia's state development bank the could by eighty percent of the minus four billion dollars peter weston from us on 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 already in telecom utilities and metal sun well telecoms and utilities the normalcy was the chance it's not so close surprise given the environment but also if you look within the metal sphere it's been called the real scoop again we are this sort of hedges archibold 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 from that rally that the

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