sight of a 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 grip of my grandson he say 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 of why 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 atoll at. the bog area 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 blowing it and not long ago in the twenty three hours we travelled on these motors he was in a poor condition then yes because most serial times are in or a trip they would have to stop for some of the years because the engine was working properly the vessel was first built in one nine hundred fifty five and as recently as last month was given official clearance to sail. despite this rescue teams say it was hopelessly outdated the crew that was working tell me they notice water coming in through the windows at such a pace the boat wind down very quickly all of this will come to the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 the told the real story we still hope that our daughter has survived your house in an air pocket or some other way but yet we still believe that our little angel is a line for the 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 her 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 dumbarton r.t. the volga bank central russia. sees a terrible anguish there and also growing anger tonight too after claims that two vessels passed the cruise ship as it was sinking with did nothing to help a criminal case has been launched against those ships captains and i've got more on

the human side of the tragedy on our website r.t. dot com there you'll find an interview with the divers working at the scene they've been through such a lot too they give a harrowing account of their underwater search for dozens of bodies importers ability you can read more about that for us with r.t. dot com. the lower house of the french parliament has 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 in turn spy rumors that one of the most active advocates of the nato led invasion might be starting to back pedal on the campaign and as artie's during a bushel reports now anxiety is growing in paris. what was intended to be a short living mission is turning into an embarrassing long haul. a knock out that linkage. books is like bragging will destroy their opponents they're often wrong and gets a mill city surprise i french foreign minister allen

should pay both did 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 seeing 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 all being libya's rebels but on some somalia. when should they be up for training within the last two or three years. documented we have to fly records and everything else so it seems strange and many ways the whole western support of some of the rebel groups in libya must be questioned because in some cases i think we are effectively arming al qaeda. it's all making a mockery of the un votes on foreign intervention in the country. by leading it in

their good person. giving. none of. this. witnesses they too will be go of libya's causing widespread atrocities for every one military personnel that was supposedly a casualty there were ten civilians for all its categorically ruled out saying that the real troops protect predict is the only way down to three the libyan deadlock the moves the splitting the nato coalition silvio berlusconi head of italy admits invading libya was a mistake and did a study in 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 up steam did the u.s.

votes will be interested all the bombs would bring havoc in libya which would you pay said the latest talks with counterparts to get love ruffle quote lloyd lead diplomat speak. 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 it is easy jogging for excessive sweating is understandable this is lip. it's too early you. don't see. john locke close director of the institute of democracy and cooperation in paris he told us france now 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 only 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. it was lying when it says it's a military response civilians says independent journalist cherry misao spoke to us we got a full interview with him in fact in ten minutes to you 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 a series of wars in this case nato keeps line at every stage during the war impossible 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. questions of the conflict in libya have also been raised in washington on a visit to russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov said colonel gadhafi has no future in a new libya and must go out his gun and shoot you can report foreign minister lavrov said colonel gadhafi must step down and there is no place for him in leave 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 representative of three bullets representatives of three bullet and representatives of the then guys in

transitional national council on the understanding that gadhafi. of course would not have any place in the future libya. and the fish and self would not participate in those discussions he also repeated that moscow sees the actions of the allied forces there as violation of the u.n. 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 the u.s. missile defense plans in europe are. of course 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 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 into power

that were not fulfilled for example when the soviet union collapsed russia was assured that nato would not be expanding towards these borders but it did it can do 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. this is odd to you still ahead for you we look at the continuing saga of u.k. reporters of the believe taking people's private information we ask could this be as to the country's national security for you. first the wiki leaks founder julian assange is back in a london court where he's going against an earlier ruling to extradited to sweden the world's most famous whistleblowers wanted for questioning over sexual assault allegations but his supporters fear that if he is sent to stalk oh he'll end up in the hands of the u.s.

government. is the latest from outside the court building. the cheering us on has hired an entirely new legal team full this appeal he started the old laws old laws and he's got people who are much more have much more experience in criminal law and they're much more concerned with the ins and outs of e.u. law or 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 that are full of charge is that they range between are no full coercion to sexual assaults right down to rape they're also saying it's important to remember that no charges have been brought against after all she's wanted for questioning in sweden and so far no more now this case is slated to go through wednesday in face the pale is rejected by the high courts that you and i saw says about to take the

extradition case right to the supreme court and even our own words to the european court of human rights ourselves and his supporters have always been worried that one section devoted 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 their hands on ourselves. so you can correspond lauren that you can see a report about sweden's links for the us on our website as well as r t the com they're all stories we're covering available to all the latest news blogs videos plus pictures of this latest video footage of a plane rescue operation just hours after a burning aircraft crash landed on a lake in siberia in eastern siberia rather you can see the trying to fish it back out again but those pictures for you tonight also always wise to look before you cross the road specially here in moscow with that street racer pushing a sports car to the very marks in central moscow the lunatic but his need for speed

ends in carnage we've got the pictures online. outrage grips britain over allegations entered 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 officer has been questioned by m.p.'s over claims they knew about the scandal spoke to richard addie's he's editor in chief of the day online news service he thinks the data could be misused and not just by tabloids 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 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 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 many people say should step down and take a break. we'll take you to some other world headlines a protestant parades again turned violent all the others capital belfast as 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 and 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 over catholic forces. now says astronauts are back to the international space station after a six hour long space walk some four hundred kilometers above earth two astronauts were working to retrieve a broken section of the international space station and package aboard the shuttle atlantis they also staged an experiment in robotic fueling the shuttle leaves the station next week and it's landing will wrap up america's shuttle program after

thirty years in space. european markets plunged on choose day over fears that italy may become the next e.u. state to ask for a helping hand italy finance ministers already promised to approve a set of budget cuts within a week in an effort to avoid turmoil in the news third largest economy financial advisor marco pierre to polly 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 term. 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 far as the germans are concerned i'm sure that they want this to to come to an end 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 easy is to be expected. next r.t. talks to depend a journalist who questions the official aim of nato intervention in libya that it supposedly protecting civilians.

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 usa wanted to answer the war at the same time with libya and syria. that we should 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 secondly it was necessary to have very quiet weather an attempt of a coup had been made before that that could be organized by france so breaking the attempt failed in october. after this failed attempt another coup was planned it in this is killing all the heads of the libyan national congress if they got together

in one place during a big celebration. that failed 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 present this good town as a people's her belly and. what was the aim of. every member of a call ition pursues their own particular goal it is necessary that everyone should be interested in the war however in terms of basic goals. it is worth noting changes that have started in africa like those which begin large areas of the middle almost all feel there are already two zones being created first of all it was decided to create if west african soon have all this with ivory coast as the center which in fact explains the differential intervention in the ivory coast go

with after that it was planned to obtain a considerable part of northern africa except when egypt left the latter being part of northern africa represented another block. in case old states are indeed thought it through control would be spread first to morocco and if northern africa is revamped the conflict would have to be a creative effort not between shiites and sunnies as was attempted in the middle east but between arabs and the berbers this is where the real source of the bensimon guys ease. our civilians dying and that. indeed 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 of it is there either a question of the rearrangement of this region and we are yet to see a series of wars so what's that's the strategy. is it will be the initial goal

of this thread and you want to overthrow the people's government that was in power and to establish western authoritarianism in the country i believe though that they had actually given up the plan because of the military resistance to prove stronger therefore it was decided to act in a different direction of the besides western t.v. channels that don't speak of repression and rebellion anymore but it was civil war just trying to prepare a public opinion for a declaration that there is a need to divide the country into two parts that they will say they were protecting the civilian population as you could and that is enough. they're planning to set up a base in gaza to land and deploy their troops there and in about ten years to start conquering africa. there is an even a more serious problem we will big nato has begun a campaign on destroying the psychological resistance of the country's leaders for

this campaign and visitors for the feeling their families to meet like we can't reach them because they never stay in the same place and they are protected so our sound isn't too good a concern they're homeless even a children's bedroom you could be a target or you can systemic method of pointed liquidation of children apparently being the main target you know what a task is to simulate their parents do you think the truth based truth could ever be established could ever be recognised. i think that the lies have begun to dissipate at least to some extent for instance by the time of the un security council vote everyone decided on the bases over the reports submitted to the council and the security council was certain that during the ride some demonstrations and been ghazi that going to rights the government killed six thousand citizens a terrible number but now five months later the prosecutor at the international criminal court which accused the libyan leadership has reduced the number after

many inspections it has been proven that the previous number was wrong what we know the prosecutor is building up he said it ends up on two hundred and eight victims instead of six thousand several more inspections will turn out that there were no the terms of tall then what happened in the ghazi is quite different from think what we were told to be forgotten the fact that it was a staged event has international mainstream media have held its response of this into the control of media truly happened several times a day for that one something happens before the journalists are brought to the site . show them after which they make their reports telling quite different things then they witnessed. for example a form was shelled several days ago you know nobody knew why perhaps it was a mistake for joining this were brought in to show them what happened all confirmed it was a former full stop on the day that followed the footage was shown on many satellite

channels with captions from that he had been shot in misrata and that he could die off his troops had caused a destruction by what the jorn list and they had seen with their own eyes except channel look at that l r b i was the first channel to that it is a us finance a channel belonging to saudi arabia as it were based in the united arab emirates the same report was repeated by many other satellite channels but this is deliberate. also we saw a c.n.n. report not long ago from a mobile phone you about gadhafi soldiers raping women it was surely no pleasure to see the footage so some frames were blurred it turned out though that someone recognized the audiotapes being from a libyan who are now on the movie but they are not so many leaving the porno movies so that one was widely known so that fragment was used to claim that it had been

a rape in my conduct his troops at the think it was a deliberate montage with the not a mistake to say demanded that this set a loud protests or libyan channels are stopped all over the world they have already shut down the arab channels despite being a stakeholder and now they are shutting down. to prevent libya's version being heard in the arab world have already shut them down on the other satellites are broadcasting to other countries as their way to thank you very much for being with us today thank you. we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from the realms of russia.

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this is from moscow our main news the first funerals have been held in russia's republic of thought to stop as the country mourns victims of sunday's pleasure cruise is sinking on the river volga almost one hundred deaths have been confirmed so far many of them children meanwhile the search for dozens of bodies trapped under water continues. below i was the french parliament voted to extend the military campaign in libya swallow highlight in consistencies in congress is frantic attempts to find ways out of the deadlock including a recent suggestion of the revolution to go with colonel gadhafi. and wiki leaks founder julian assange just back in a london court fighting an earlier decision to extradite him to sweden over sex crime occasions but his supporters say the case is just a pretext to hand him over to the u.s. . next to an outfit award winning report about how whole communities in america's

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