when we were in the life of us divers now have the awful task of bringing the bodies to the surface those left behind can only wonder at how fast their families were torn apart. our colleague was on dock ship she went on a cruise together with her family husband and five year old son and daughter says she was pregnant and was to deliver her second baby in august which is not found yet only her husband managed to survive she and her son died. and for those children left suddenly without parents a terrible truth they may not be able to comprehend for years she lost her mother and father we're all but will have to look after her and she's only want to hear is old you know as to what will you tell her we can't she wouldn't understand but there is much that people don't understand about this disaster feelings here amongst all of the people gathered here are very much ones of respect but all of

big growing questions as to why this happened reports about the ship's engines failing about blocked emergency exits and the electricity failure that stopped any s.o.s. or evacuations struction going out criminal cases have been opened into why two ships passing straight after the sinking didn't stop to pick up a single person and did to why the aging vessel was allowed to sail in the first place but for those who have lost loved ones the case will never be closed tom bottom. watching are to live from moscow and still have for you this hour deciding his fate will be covering the london high court session which will rule whether the extradition to sweden now that we can expound or julian assange will go ahead at. the fury over the phone hacking scandal gripping britain goes international as the u.s. senate takes a. rupert murdoch's media empire. washington's planned missile

shield over europe has been labelled as the main irritant behind why i think has an russian american relations by foreign minister sergey lavrov the u.s. has brushed off moscow's concerns over the project maintaining the shields only to protect against attacks from rogue states but some say it's taking advantage of posts via bitterness to see its rules are just going to stick our reports u.s. missile defense plans in europe are of course up for discussion here in washington foreign minister lavrov said russian news for a 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 analysts 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 it did it can do it continued recruiting new members of the bottomline 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 on the ground that being created on the basis of american national design of missile defense which was not accepted as a reasonable way to respond to what is sieved as being the. system so we want to stick to the original that there would be no parts of the system which would create three six for the strategic stability and for the but then. strategic stability area named through the course in the list of the participants of the system 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 joint project because russia is not part of nato so that moscow says if that's the case let's base our relations on agreements not just words the shield itself according to the state department will have the whole of europe covered my colleague alex a year he went to romania where the u.s. plans to build the radar and found out what it means for the local population take a listen. the voice my of the romanian village of the still cannot believe his luck after washington picked this place in romania region to locate a new raider base locals have been all smiles about hypothetical investment. when we first heard to the us would be able to retire we were a little bit scared when the police who we were informed having this piece of infrastructure and possibly. earpiece in their pursuit was deserted for a long time. it will have

a second chance. proposed to consist of raider facilities and interceptor rockets it is scheduled to be built by twenty fifteen and will become instrumental in president obama's european anti-missile defense shield in the one nine hundred fifty s. an airbase in the town of davis selu in romania was used by the soviet forces now with washington's plans to place the radar station here locals have a job that's to bucharest changed its foreign policy again the place will be occupied by the chinese similar plans were no joke for some other european countries thousands in the czech republic and poland protested against the initiative to have military bases on their soil with mixed results while the first line of interceptor missiles was eventually place full and the czechs suddenly pulled out of the. enormously. demonstrations like that. there is a historical fact. makes me now one of the most pro american countries in the world

it has been explained by our ancestors the better things and the companies came from the east everybody was expecting the american to rebalance the whole thing sold there is this sentiment and this feeling that. the present of the us is contra balance and specifically the us is contra balance. the presence or influence of russia in the region if that is the real case then what security would this new shield provide and most importantly difference from who not even two years since barack obama restructured the bush era european shield scheme moskos delight over the us president's move was replaced by feelings of discontent and concern. we're worried that washington does something before informing us of these actions it is unclear what exactly they are creating soon as we understand that this is

them won't be used against russia but will have legally binding guarantees to that this tension will be resolved. despite being described as fruitful the recent summit between president with nato ambassadors in sochi broke no consensus on missile defense so experts say the issue will remain a thorn in the side for both moscow and washington at least until next year when the next nato russia council meeting will be held in chicago by the time construction of the raider facility endeavor sello would most likely be in full swing. reporting from devore sello and book arrest in romania. well you know its founder julian assange continues his fight against extradition to the high court in london sweden wants to question the world's most famous whistleblower overt sexual assault allegations but his supporters fear extradition to the scandinavian country will open a way for the u.s. to get its hands on him laura amatus covering the trial from outside the court

building. today is the second day of was expected to be a two day hearing that holds the appeal of june in a song say but whether he's to be extradited to sweden we're expecting wednesday to be given a bit to evidence on the hall full of the swedish prosecutor's office since yesterday was given a visit to. defense i phone left the court last night's completely tight lipped he didn't ways to any of his supporters who were standing outside the court he just walked away which must be a direct instruction from his new legal team that he has high especially to deal with a steering the new legal team seem to taken on a new strategy that much more conciliatory about this case a much more concerned with european door and specifically the european arrest warrant under which students request to be extradited has been requested to the legal team auguring that the european arrest warrant is invalid because of discrepancies essentially between the allegations that have been made and the

testimonies told the two alleged victims that a full counts to be considered ranging from coercion to right up to break and the defense team has said that there is nothing in the victim's statement that amounts to that and that no option evidence so a lack of consent in those statements three of the full relegations they say wouldn't even amounts to crimes in the u.k. so it's very much the approach that that's taking hold a they are drawing attention to the fact that us almost has not been charged in sweden that he's wanted them maybe for questioning and they're saying has the prosecution started has he actually been accused of anything and if not then the european arrest warrant is in we may be able to expect a verdict at the end of wednesday but we may know the judge may refer the decision to another day he may put his off and get decision a few days or even a few weeks time we're hearing. reported there from one and you can find more from

r.t. on our web site including the latest news blog. an expert analysis some of the stories in find our teeth dot com right now. world famous fast food chain turned into a grocery store officially at least five dollars in russia serves up a smart move to save itself supersized tax a bill. also tightening the screws on child molesters chemical castration could be used on convicted paedophiles in russia as the president pushes for tougher punishments. the world's two fastest growing economies india and china appear to have reached an economic faceoff the giants have huge mutual export amounts but it's mostly raw materials on india's part of china sells manufactured goods the and even trade is putting new delhi at a growing disadvantage now explains. it's dragon versus tiger in the battle for asian supremacy india and china are two of the fastest growing economies with the

world's largest population vying for power and prestige and asia and beyond that where india led the way in i t. and back offices china recent head in mobilizing its masses on to the factory floor fueling a huge trade deficit and a reality india is forced to accept. india post world class nuclear programs yet struggles to create every day jobs making every day goods something this cotton tycoon knows all too well it's cheaper for him to export to china to get the job done than let india buy it back. we make a profit of ten percent more in the international market than the domestic market ironically it's indian efficiency that's part of the problem with supply rapidly

outpacing domestic demand. if you don't export in the cotton prices in india will crush and farmers will suffer as they won't get even the original price this will increase the quantity of cotton and even the indian government is encouraging the export of course and here in the cotton fields of india lies the heart of the indian chinese trade relationship more than seventy percent of the exports from india to china are raw materials like cotton however ninety percent of the exports from china to india are manufactured goods if india is selling well then why should it matter well having a twenty billion dollar gap with your next door neighbor puts power in their hands and makes jobs in savings dry up at home and economists know that only by sewing up a successful manufacturing sector will india's large unskilled workforce be soaked up but it's a blind spot that's leading to blind faith. and we should focus on different models and of the. rest of the picture.

looking at. growing and growing maybe. it's a bit different future indian traders seem satisfied too because the set up means the money keeps rolling in. the benefits in exporting is that we get a bigger volume of cotton and we also get paid on time but new delhi is worried knowing it has to cut its cloth before its economic run of luck is sewn up preassure there are tea in door india the taliban's biggest achievement in ten years that's what the group called the assassination of the half brother of afghan president karzai had of the khandahar province a volatile region on the border with pakistan jerry van dyke back in two thousand and eight was held by the taliban for forty five days says the killing leaves washington with no one to rely on when it comes to securing the region. well the cars it was not just the governor or the shadow governor of kandahar he was the

most powerful and the most popular person throughout all of southern afghanistan this shows that right now with the canadian troops pulling out and with the u.s. trying to now focus on eastern afghanistan feeling that they have controlled the south there is now a vacuum who is in power who can the west rely upon no one the taliban have claimed responsibility for this but it's not clear that the taliban are responsible it could very easily be a power struggle i've also heard and others have reported that he was responsible for perhaps starting to bring the taliban together with the united states to negotiate therefore someone would have had a definite reason perhaps pakistan perhaps the taliban to stop this we don't know yet who is responsible because they killed the person who had all the information. ahmed wali karzai was often accused of lengths were the taliban in afghanistan

illegal drugs trade they have russia's federal drug control service victory even off says a decade of military failures of the coalition forces in the country aren't helping watch his full interview in around ten minutes time but here's a quick preview. for you. this september will see the tenth anniversary of that interference it's longer than world war two the situation in afghanistan hasn't improved it's become even worse and even senior officials like general petraeus for example the military operation in afghanistan says that the number of clashes there increases year after year in fact the number of clashes over the past ten years has increased more than a hundred times so have the assigned tasks been achieved we see that security in afghanistan as only got worse it's said that our drug production cannot be fought because damages the security situation so it's a kind of closed circle. the

scandal surrounding rupert murdoch's media empire has gone international after u.s. senators called for their own probe into the news corp company it follows allegations that some of murdoch's newspapers attempted to bribe new york policeman for access to the call records of nine eleven victims in britain the outrage has turned explosive as details of the sheer scope of the hacking from royalty to murder victims began to set in which your dad is editor of the day online news service things that you legally gain data could be misused and not just by tabloids but i think where this does become a question for national security is the idea that police assailing 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 you. so it's very serious but i think what people are. 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. take a break. now take a look at some other stories from around the world at least ten people have been killed after an explosion at a boston the pakistani capital of islamabad police suspect the blast was triggered by a faulty gas cylinder or that ruptured and ignited all injured passengers were taken to hospital but officials warned the death toll is likely to rise. french lawmakers have voted in favor of continuing the country's military operation in libya this was supported by the majority of the lower house of parliament meanwhile french officials claim colonel gadhafi is representatives have told them that libyan leader is ready to discuss around are in power steven brown contributing editor of the front page online magazine believes the french are looking for an honorable way

out of libya. france has just recently called for the rebels to negotiate with gadhafi and if the bombing will stop as soon as the. the negotiating table this shows to me that nato is surrendering the surrendering process has begun i think. it's continuing but just putting up a front of the moment looking for a way sort of peace with honor withdrawal they can be they thought was going to be easy victory. i said way back when. they should i've negotiated with numbers ten their ground troops in the immediately the rebels were too weak to defeat what they were thinking they simply got caught up in. their own human rights. going through the u.n. waging war of the u.n. and this is the result you know there's no decision has cost tens of millions of dollars civilians are being killed libyan civilians. sheerin into southern libya to protect the oil facilities i think he's the worst criminal

the. shores of the war was never both protecting libyan civilians it was a vote making sure the oil stayed safe with britain and france and was there a time lucky for russia's space agency which finally managed to launch six u.s. communication satellites into orbit one of its carriers the satellites have already got to work following the early morning blast from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan initially the launch was scheduled for the eleventh of july but it was postponed twice due to technical reasons the global star satellites on board will provide high quality voice and data services from more than one hundred twenty countries across the world. for a business update. thanks marina good morning and the welcome to business out in switzerland as one of the top ten investors in russia country's trade is only getting stronger leaders of the

two are meeting today to talk business the proposed free trade agreements and the not duration of the wholesome cement plant near moscow now we caught up with the swiss economic minister to find out what's next in terms of projects. which is. from a cyclical production it's an investment of about five hundred million. a huge investment for a huge and very successful swiss company very much interested in. being developing this. sort of project around football championship in two eighteen in particular the president of him playing a big. construction company recently and he mentioned i look for some piece of the cake around the stadium infrastructure in sochi.

well recently still stakes in seven companies to russia after accepting bailout funds linked to the state's ceding of assets the crisis hit economy may sell stakes in gas pipelines to refineries and other saving of monies russians acknowledge of cooperation and savor gazprom are among those in talks with minsk the country received an eight hundred million dollar bailout last month as the cash strapped economy burned through its currency reserves the loan is linked to bella who says sale of seven and a half billion dollars of assets and its privatization program. european commission has removed quotas for protests coming from russia and belarus the use says the restrictive tariff set twenty years ago no longer relevant amid growing fertilizer prices on the world's largest producer by output currently meets around thirteen percent of europe's demand the u.s. department of energy is set to award a seven hundred thirty million dollar loan to the american unit of the russian

steel manufacturers that are still. funds will be provided to upgrade the michigan factory that supplies us auto makers so sell north america provides steel components for general motors ford and chrysler the company specializes in high technology steel used in car production that is lighter safer than conventional metal. into the markets now all while prices are actually recovering flat however after a three day high as investors but that increasing u.s. crude supplies and crisis in europe may hold demand for oil materials for flights we brant well just ten cents a different from what they were yesterday at the close across asia markets are positive after data showed that china's g.d.p. expanded faster than expected pace on comparably soaps gained as a result so with china overseas land investment adding almost six percent at one point financials are also heading higher with china construction bank you'd be

around two hundred percent japanese stocks so also on the rise however the strong yen is dampening sentiment chip related stocks energy lower exporters are gaining on bargain hunting in the shop for the previous day. here in moscow the my six will open within a matter of minutes the r.t.s. is up however point three percent is driven by energy share. russian stocks supposed to moderate games on the my six on tuesday after a sharp sell off monday market jitters are driven by fears that europe's debt problems could spiral out of control into western for months on capital says sentiment is still difficult to navigate. you could have a slight recovery day today but at the same time and the bad news out of your stocks up again it's a really difficult market to navigate and also to predict i wouldn't i wouldn't bet my own money on the ride up or down but i think the term you know if you looking at the trend i think we're going to try to lower before we go higher but you you know

you could have into the intraday gains but the trend looks to be down at this point of time. gold's close of a record high on tuesday as investors are running back to safe haven assets on worries over the spreading debt crisis in europe is likely to keep up the pace until the e.u. finds a solution to its financial traumas that steen jacobsen from sex and bank explains the goal is now the only currency even though ironically it's not really a currency that is validating your your long term investment criteria is in the sense that this is a currency that cannot be devalued by printing of money i think the reason why gold is going up right now is that everyone seems to sense that the political solution once again becomes throwing more dead at a dead issue we need to change that will probably take some pressure off the rescreening gold but gold is going up today tomorrow and for the next week as long as the politician play this game of hide and seek and no decision making. is next with headlines amounting to statements.

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. read this and the colonel was her job as used to retreat. welcome back here was our t. here's a look at the top stories one hundred people are now officially confirmed dead after a russian closer sank in the volga river in the country's worst boating disaster divers have been pulling the bodies of victims including manage children from the vessels packed game or. washington's missile shield over your chips away at relations with moscow as u.s. stands accused of taking advantage of antics sentiment to secure a future basis and you are. the world's most famous whistleblower julian assange continues his bid at the high court and london defied extradition to sweden his wanted there for questioning over sexual assault allegations by his supporters fear sweden will be only a staging post to the u.s.

. with an estimated two million drug addicts in russia manny questioned whether there is a way out of the narcotics labyrinths next to read english go talks to the head of russia's federal drug control service victorian off to see how the problem is being tackled. the problem of drugs and drug trafficking seems to not go anywhere no matter how much we fight it and today we're meeting with the head of russia's federal drug control service. to talk about the details of his fight and the problems that. drugs on the global scale. thank you very much for joining us today according to officials there more than seven thousand people have died in russia drug related causes since the beginning of the year at the same time there are others. that is

actually more than one hundred thousand and that is actually. why is there such a huge difference in the numbers you see the figure of seven thousand dead reflected in the number of people who actually died from poisoning that is they took such huge doses that their organs failed most drug users however to die from overdosing they knew how to measure that the reason for most drug related deaths is internal organ failure due to regular consumption after. russia is in the third place in the world when it comes to drug consumption do you think it's time for russia to implement some sort of very stringent punishment for drug use. or term in prison. we have proposed a bill to distinguish between levels of crime which is being upheld by the government individuals selling.