tical to the one that children on that ship played in but for whatever reason their fate was very different. the in the air as crowds gathered in remembrance of those killed by the sinking of the volga pleasure boat it was the younger victims that seemed to cast the longest shadow. these schoolgirls had lost one of their classmates. the most we studied together for a year she never had arguments with anyone she was a very kind girl and was always ready to help. as divers reached the playroom of one of the daria's upper decks they found the bodies of the children that had gathered there just before the boat sunk. once inside the boat the bodies were

everywhere in the corridors and cabins of us most of them were wearing 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 which to. our colleague was on that ship she went on a cruise together with her family husband five year old son and also says she was pregnant and was to deliver her second baby in august has not found yet only her husband managed to survive she and her son died. and for those children left suddenly without parents the terrible truth they may not be able to comprehend for years she lost her mother and father we're old but we'll have to look after her name she's only want to half years old but you know as to tell her we can't she wouldn't understand but there is much that people don't understand about. this

disaster reports about the ship's engines failing about blocked emergency exits and elektra city failure that stopped any s.o.s. or evacuation instructions 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 into 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 watson. and on our website artie dot com where you can read the account of one man who alone saved almost eighty people from the bull daria many have praised the captain of the only ship that stopped and helped the stricken pleasure cruiser he want to sleep points to his crew and passengers as the real heroes he said that everyone was touched by what they saw and rushed to help without hesitation he went on to describe how quote they took their own clothes and gave them to the wounded more on that on our website at r.t. dot com. washington's proposed missile shield over europe remains

a stumbling block in the russian american it relationship but according to a foreign minister sergei lavrov offer he's now in the united states artie's guy next you can swear to us all from our washington bureau just a bit out of. foreign minister lavrov is meeting president obama this morning and it's taking place the meeting is taking place behind closed doors so there's no way from knowing what they're actually discussing it could be the weather but they are definitely more pressing issues and one of the most irritating ones in the relations between the two countries is america's missile defense plans in europe president obama has scrapped the bush administration missile defense plans but they're going ahead with a new one foreign minister lavrov said where should be for a legally binding guarantees that the project will not threaten russia's security washington has made reassuring statements before but moscow needs to have it on paper some analysts explained this urge their washer 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 its borders but it did it continued recording new members so there is an understanding among the russians that words are good but words even legally binding document are better on international issues there are certain disagreements and the are being discussed with regards to leave you for example for the lever of said colonel qaddafi must step down and there's no place for him in the future of libya and that's exactly view shared by the obama administration as well but russia criticizes the scope of the foreign intervention in libya moscow sees the actions of the allied forces there as a violation of the un mandate means to live or offset the resolution is being wrongly interpreted as anyone can do whatever they want with moscow seizes the west now clearly taking sides in a civil war and extending the conflict talking about syria foreign minister lavrov said the attitude of the west is exclusively about exerting pressure on one of the parties namely the syrian government and president assad and moscow sees it as the

wrong attitude he said it sends the wrong message to the syrian opposition prompting them to believe that if they remain insistent in the situation keeps getting critical then the west will come to help them the way it is happy. being in libya miss a lot of us said it is unacceptable that the opposition resort to violence agitating peaceful protesters into engaging in armed clashes in fact only turning them into a target for the police and security forces a lot of different approaches as you can see and they are being discussed here. what is going to write the letter in the program here in our to you we take you to romania where it's planned to host elements of the controversial u.s. missile shield take a look at how america claims the shield is not aimed at russia but uses local anti russian sentiment to promote it. rupert murdoch's media empire has announced it's to withdraw its bid to buy outright control of the u.k.'s biggest

satellite broadcaster b. sky b. it's the latest twist to the phone hacking crisis that's engulfed the company as the scandal goes global across the atlantic it's claimed that journalists try to bribe new york police officers for access to the voicemail of nine eleven victims u.s. senators are also now calling for their own investigation into news corp british prime minister david cameron has also demanded a probe into the nine eleven claims editor in chief of the day news service richard adice believes stolen data could easily be misused and not just by the tabloids but 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 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 it's very serious the whole edifice of news international is deeply intertwined

with the downing street machine all that has yet to come out and will cause a lot more headaches but i think what people i talk to and. expecting is for the scandal to go up through the chief executive of news international to james murdoch and james murdoch himself many people say should step down whether he's for. this scape without serious damage is also doubtful although i don't think he's going to retire or leave the helm of the company. you with us live from moscow right now at ten minutes past the hour crosstalk is coming your way in about twenty three minutes or so. for now the explosive mixture of media and politics in the hacking scandal that's gripping the world's attention is also being discussed in today's edition of cross talk and you can join peter lavelle and his guests in fifteen minutes but here's a quick preview. particular case news of the world looks more and more like you had reporters and editors who were engaging in criminal conduct there is no concept of

free press anywhere in the world that enables journalists to break the law if someone hacked my voicemail i would love to see them in jail but if you look at the criticisms that are being leveled at murdoch it goes far beyond that people are using this as an opportunity to attack him for his politics and for his stridency and first partisanship. you with ought to live from moscow now three explosions have struck the indian city of mumbai police say at least ten people have been killed and dozens injured as the blasts hit the business district in a crowded marketplace our correspondent our prius rito is in india and joins us live and good to see you period so i would details that we have so far on this. that's very very it happened approximately one hour ago three bomb explosions occurred within minutes of each other and the latest numbers right now show that at

least ten people were killed and possibly seventy were injured this happened in three very crowded neighborhoods one was a famous jewelry market and there was a bomb that was said to be found in jewelry shop also near the offer a house in mumbai among by it in the western state of maharastra obviously a very important city in india it's considered the financial capital here of the ministry of home affairs have that it is a terror attack obviously more details are yet to be get to the national investigative service has flown from new delhi to mumbai right now to figure out what exactly has gone on down there. is no stranger to serious terror types of like this is it. that's right rory actually the most recent terrorist attack. was in and eight it was the serious of shootings that happened in the taj hotel hundred sixty four people were killed there it was said to have been

icelandic terrorists actually the pakistan for the great service otherwise known as the i.s.i. were held responsible for those attacks back in two thousand and eight two years prior to that in two thousand and six there are theories another series of coordinated attacks that have been on several different seven different trains in india that with that two have been the students islamic movement of india yet although there are still hasn't actually been a trial that has held anyone fully responsible for those blasts that happened back in two thousand and six but one by is still trying to deal with those two recent attacks then now this has happened people are just left wondering how this could have occurred so soon after those two thousand and eight attacks all right all teams are pretty sure that life in new delhi thank you. we can expand a julian of soldiers fighting against extradition and london court for a second day the world's most famous whistleblower is wanted in sweden for questioning of

a sexual assault allegations of investigative journalist tony gosling thinks the case against him is focused more on destroying his name then on presenting any substantial evidence. still hasn't been properly charged with any crime in sweden this is the crazy thing about this entire case they want to extradite him for questioning but he hasn't been properly charged and it seems that the european arrest warrant has been used for this there hasn't actually been any kind of proper probably face is the evidence presented in sweden to show that he has committed a crime this is just he's just a very basic suspect i would draw a comparison with what we've seen in the dominique strauss can fire meth case and that is that this looks to me to be some kind of sting operation so that the political people that don't like what the senate is doing a chance to get at him and he's becoming quite clear now that the extras can there may be actually no prosecution finally in new york against him and i think we may well see the same with a. quarter past the hour here in moscow the eurozone has been dealt

a fresh blow and that is downgraded to junk status by credit rating agency moody's its concerns the country could need a second bailout this comes a week after portugal's rating was also reduced follow speculation that italy might soon be asking for a helping hand paul nuttall m.e.p. for northwest england has told r.t. that the latest developments prove that the single currency union is simply not working. this was always about politics it was not about economics the idea that you could have a column in the mediterranean in line with economies like germany fast growing economies like germany was never going to work the only way to get out of this mess is for those countries to go back home to their national policies to devalue to get growth moving. into exports going in at the moment they can't reduce their debt because they couldn't see these are controlled by frankfurt they're controlled by the european central bank they're not controlled by athens or lisbon or even talk

to the people out on the streets in athens and i just wonder how long it will be before the people are out in the streets in rome and in lisbon until this thing is contagious this thing will move right across the continent specifically in the mediterranean and the big issue now facing the european union is really really is the third largest economy in the eurozone this place largest economy in the world i think the eurozone can actually cope with greece and portugal the smaller economies if italy goes the whole thing could cave in because if italy goes it's all these economies intertwined with spain and of spain and italy go then we are in serious trouble the euro is inextricably to the whole project and it's linked to the european union if the eurozone goes i quite frankly can see this whole thing breaking go but that is why they're so desperate to keep it that's why this whole desperate to say that we in the u.k. are fed up with bailouts and the only way for these countries to survive is to break out of this prison which is the euro zone. and i can always find more from

you on our website including the latest news and blogs and expert analysis his was a lot of you there right now it's evolved from a snap shot from the stars how you could soon be able to see a picture of yourself taken from orbit with two special cameras installed on the international space station plus from catwalk to cat fight there was anything but model behavior russian fashion show the world of beauty time quite ugly find out the full story behind. hostilities don't. they've already seen months of civil war but now mass hunger could be the latest threat facing people in libya tripoli says the violence has meant that not even a fifth of the country's harvests have been gathered and then one of dire consequences if fighting continues over the next few months steven brown from a front page online magazine says nato has rushed to intervene in libya looks like a major mistake the whole thing has backfired on both. nato they thought was going

to be an easy victory 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 is costing tens of millions of dollars to billions are being killed libyan civilians this shows of the war was never a bold attack the libyan civilians it was a boat making sure the oil stayed safe with britain and france. plenty more of our top stories at our website including our interactive content where you can get involved you can log on to our dot com and tell us what you think may bring the operation in libya to an end let's look at the stuff right now and see the opinions of quite divided at the moment by the majority of you believe massive protests in the countries which are part of the alliance will put a stop the campaign others are split between three options one thinks that the end may come with the escalating costs of the operation all the killing of colonel gadhafi or bio terror attacks make sure you have your say on this controversial story here along to want to dot com. all right so let's get some other headlines

now for you this hour thousands are protesting in egypt's capital cairo for the sixth day running a demanding the removal of the military council to expand their city into other cities demonstrators are also calling for ousted president hosni mubarak and his aides to face prosecution for the killing of hundreds of protesters during the uprising in february the military has protested against using violence but said it wouldn't try to stop. the half brother of the afghan president hamid karzai has been buried in kandahar. as i was murdered in his home there on choose day the taliban has described the assassination as their biggest achievement in ten years shortly after the ceremony two explosions were reported in kandahar and a regional governor narrowly escaped a roadside bombing on his way to the funeral. because i was often accused of having links with the illegal but highly lucrative afghan drugs trade the man

responsible for the fight against drugs in russia says a decade of military failures by coalition forces in afghanistan is only contributing to the problem you can see the full interview our next hour here on r t but for now i prefer. to be able to move this september will see the tenth anniversary of that interference it's longer the world war two birth the situation in afghanistan improved and even senior officials like general petraeus. for example military operation in afghanistan to put says that the number of armed clashes that increase is year after year drug production cannot be fought because it damages the security situation in the country so it's a kind of closed circuit in this respect to be worthwhile to note that a nato operation in helmand province which produces the most opium poppies in the operation was presented as a brilliant military success considerable kilometers and hectares of the province were reportedly cleared of insurgents but the production of opium but it has a new us dollar to those words.

moscow wants to make sure that the u.s. missile shield in europe doesn't target russia and washington claims there's no need to worry but any legal guarantees. reports from a romania where parts of the proposed shield will be placed that are anti russian a sentiment meantime is what encourages the locals to welcome the rockets with open arms. 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 that the us would build a retard base here we were a little bit scared police who we were informed that having this peace would mean better infrastructure and possibly jobs through as luke rules proposed is 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 cellar in romania was used by the soviet forces now with washington's plans to place a radar station here locals have a joke that should booker us change his foreign policy again the place will be occupied by the chinese similar plans were no joke for some in 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 it and. in romania there have been no demonstrations like that at all there is a historical fact that makes romania one of the most pro or merican countries the companies came from the east everybody was expecting the american to rebalance the whole thing told there is this sentiment and this feeling that. the president of

the us is contrabands the influence of russia in the region if that is the real case then what security would this new shield provide and most importantly different 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. with worried that washington does something before informing us of these actions it is unclear what exactly they are creating as soon as we understand that this is them won't be used against russia will have legally binding guarantees to that this tension will be result of that despite being described as fruitful the recent summit between president with a very different nato ambassadors in sochi brought 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 solo would most likely be in full swing. see reporting from and book arrest in romania are now a twenty four minutes past the hour here in moscow and time for the business news with maria. hello and welcome to business here on our team let's start with gold which is trading near record highs as investors run for safe haven from the debt crisis spreading across europe jacob sent from saxo bank believes the strength in precious metal will continue until the politicians find a workable solution. gold 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 money i think the reason why gold is going out 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 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. well the spike the nervousness in europe in fact in the russian market peter weston from at some capital still believes there are good stories to trade here speaking about sectors i do think that in this environment you're likely to see more support for the defensive names like telecoms like utilities although you could argue to what extent utilities are rational defensive but nevertheless the more liquid names like was hydro holding might not be. you know in this kind of environment but nevertheless you also have the elections to look out for and we know that utilities tend to be a so-so with high political risk. telecoms though you know i mean ross telecom

looks really interesting it's going to get beyond this year listing it's going to london listing and really we're seeing increasing interest to that name so i you know this is something which is both defensive but it's also a good story. and let's take a look at the markets now u.s. markets got off to a strong start as better than expected chinese growth gave and left to sentiment. european markets are positive this hour helped by the american this is and that's this spike the downgrade of ireland by moody's rating agency pushing sovereign debt worries for a very group myself five percent of london and that's as the luxury goods maker reported revenues up thirty percent in the first quarter. and here in moscow the markets have closed in the black let's have a look at some individual movers on the my saxes burbank ended in the red that their losses were limited by an earlier report of one hundred eighty percent jump in first half net profits overall colleen was up more than one and

a half percent after the e.u. lifted quotas on potage imports from russia and coal mining at a spot scarred rallied on expectations of a takeover bid from beat. to be kept its all wraps up the day straight for us yesterday was it was a tough day for for for russian market the global markets were selling off but as the start of the. and there was a rumor that they were going to start buying italian bonds mostly b. yields on. unintelligible and started following that help market propelled markets higher into the close yesterday and movement expanded into today's earlier session generally volumes have been subdued investors are bit lost as to how to position themselves because in the one hand there's a lot of very tricky in difficult circumstances in the west of the other hand the oil price is is performing quite well which is obviously positive for us in stocks

. russia still further lies or maker force agra has raised a little over half a billion dollars from its london initial public offering the stock was priced at the bottom of the range value in the company at just five billion dollars and then there's been a full sidebar has strong upside potential as a fertilizer sector benefits from rising demand for food and biofuels. well that's all the business news for now join us for another update in about fifty minutes time in the meantime stay tuned for the headlines with a bori. wealthy

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colonel was hotels as a treat. without a lot from moscow a quick recap now off the top stories the bodies of five hundred people including many children have been recovered from the site of sunday's sinking of a pleasure cruise up the rescuers continue the search from all around the main mosque. at least ten people are believed dead after three explosions hit the indian city of mumbai you can actually see local t.v. coverage of the aftermath right here the aftermath of the blasts that hit the business district on a crowded marketplace like. an islamic group called the indian mujahideen has reportedly claimed responsibility. on the american missile shield over your main obstacle in russia u.s. relations with moscow wants

a legal guarantees it won't be targeted the statement came from russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov currently on a visit to the united states. at the eurozone economic crisis deepens that has downgraded to junk fueling fears the country may need a second bailout this comes shortly after similar predictions were made about portugal italy now also to be on the brink. daughters here in half an hour's time but don't go anywhere to stay with us because the people of elena's crosstalk crew are coming up next this time they're focusing on the phone hacking scandal that is gripping britain and much of the western world you with arts.

and you can see. a low in welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle an empire in disarray rupert murdoch and his immense media assets are under investigation in what is being called voicemail gate is this scandal all about murdoch and his sleazy business practices or a media that no longer serves the public good. and you can see. the crosstalk media today i'm joined by tony pedersen in dallas he's a professor and bell distinguished chair in journalism at southern methodist university in los angeles we cross to thaddeus russell he's a historian and the author of a renegade history of the united states and in oxford we go to shawn powers he's an assistant professor at georgia state university all right gentlemen this is crosstalk that means.