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. at the most we study together for a year never had arguments with anyone she was a very kind girl and was always ready to help. as divers reached the play room on one of the ball 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 by tears were everywhere in the corridors and cabins most of them were wearing the life west 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 that ship she went on a cruise together with her family husband five year old son and all 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 all but will have to look after her and she's only want to hear is old knowledge 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 electricity failure that stopped any s.o.s. or evacuation instructions going out criminal cases have been open. 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 bottom. and on our website r.t. dot com you can read the account of one man who alone saved almost eighty people from people daria many have praised the captain of the only ship that stopped and helped the stricken pleasure cruise if he modestly points to his crew and passengers as the real heroes he said that everyone is 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 is more on our website at r.t. dot com. washington's proposed missile shield over europe remains the stumbling block in russian american relations that's according to foreign minister sergey lavrov now in the united states what is going to church can spoke to us from our

washington bureau a little earlier. foreign minister lavrov is meeting president obama this morning and is 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 she needs 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 for 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 in a 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 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 for minutes the lab rove 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. in libya

miss a lot of said it is unacceptable that the opposition to resort to violence agitating peaceful protesters into engaging in armed clashes and 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. well later in the program marty takes you to remain where it's planned to host elements of the controversial u.s. missile shield we take a look at how america claims that the shield is not aimed at russia but uses local and russian sentiment to promote it. three explosions of struck the indian city of mumbai reports say up to seventeen people have been killed and dozens injured and islamised group called the indian much of the mujahideen has reportedly claimed responsibility our correspondent is in india for us. three bomb explosions occurred within minutes of each other and this happened in a very crowded neighborhood one was the famous jewelry market and there was a bomb that was said to be found in

a jewelry shop also near the opera house in mumbai among by it in the western state of maharashtra obviously a very important city in india it's considered the financial capital here the ministry of home affairs that this is a terror attack the national investigative service has flown from new delhi to mumbai right now to figure out what exactly has gone on down there. terrorist attacks i mean. then you ate the theory is that shootings that happened in the taj hotel one hundred sixty four people were killed there it was that you have been a fly on that terrorist 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 another theory is that coronated attacks that happened on seven different trains in india that went back to have been the students islamic movement of india one by is still trying to deal with those two recent attacks then now this has happened and people are just left wondering how

this could have occurred so soon after those two thousand and eight attacks pre-treat a reporter there from india rupert murdoch's media empire has announced its to withdraw its bid to control of the u.k.'s biggest satellite broadcast a b. sky b. it's the latest twist to the crisis that's in go for the company as the scandal goes global across the atlantic it's claimed that journalist tried to bribe new york police officers for access to the voicemail of nine eleven victims u.s. senators are also now calling for the investigation into new school british prime minister david cameron is also demanded a probe into the nine eleven claims for four more on the story we're now joined by paul national he's an investigative journalist and head of journalism a brutal university there in the u.k. thanks so much for joining us now we're hearing that rupert murdoch's empire is now withdrawn its bid for b. sky b. reading that five billion dollars has been wiped off the company's value we've just been talking about the global implications as well could this perhaps be the

beginning of the end for one of the largest media organizations in the world. well i'm hesitant to speculate because rupert murdoch has a lot of resilience. but he's getting older now and i'm not sure he is children who run the company a lot of a company of the same brazilian but i mean the events that we've seen over the last couple of weeks big strawberry what was the u.k. story it's now that can tell you should know spread through news international the u.k. right out now into united states and australia let's concentrate on what's happening there in the u.k. it isn't just about the abuse of power by the media this is now actually spreading into u.k. politics isn't it how big a threat does this pose to the british government and indeed the prime minister himself while it poses quite a big threat to david cameron because it's the first time we've seen his judgment quite clearly brought seriously into question the decision to use and recall some

who had been the editor of the news of the world when some of these events will tell you place as his press advisor was clearly a very very bad judgment and strong in it and he now is trying his best to make clear blue water between him and news international. one also about the alleged intrusion that comes royalty and top government officials are all there really now risks to national security. well there are some most of the work that is being done in news the world was really salacious some purel it was about celebrities background and you know what celebrities said to one of them which footballer was sleeping with which model that was their main area but gradually it's proved out and now we've got the fact that they appears to be in some hacking into gordon brown's private life you have to say you have to start to wonder what else is in there and of course it's not only it's not just phone hacking it's now

the use of what we call blanket these are people to change information from what should be private sources like medical records and tax records so it's develop as we speak those gordon brown allegations of course refer to the son the sister newspaper or under the same stable of course as the news of the world just to make that clear to our international viewers but all other british newspapers playing this in one of their someone you're an investigative journalists and can we be sure that other newspapers couldn't be facing similar accusations now the answer is yes of no if because i mean what you've got to see about this is that this is a very bad week for a bad job but it's a good week for good journalism because its reporters at the guardian like nick davis of the you have been consistently campaigning on this issue against the normas pressure political pressure from the complaints you know the media complaints places here against news international they've kept going i'm a bit suppose this so that's good work by ethical journalists what this is here is

all the growing number of. people who are very commercially or take it to celebrity gossip and more as we are seeing and that's a number of newspapers a smaller number of used by those but the ones that have the most money and and certainly it's not just news it's national or is my you know there are indications that one or two other news organizations have been gas gauge in. they're in this kind of doing the species exercises and motion on other people's private let me just finally paul you're a journalism you're also an investigative journalist britain prides itself on the freedom of its press are we see kneejerk reactions to scandals in the past what impact could this scandal have for future media regulation and for investigative journalism could actually have a negative impact if we do a see severe knee jerk reaction to all of this and bring in tighter regulations.

well but there's always that you know all my life is the best journalists be what the tabloids do and when they do this the celebrity stuff impacts on people who've been trying to do serious investigations into corruption and crime it always works like that it's very very depressing but i think that actually may turn the tide because it's going to be a very brave editor but now accident someone's photo or does it you know it looks at somebody's medical records because they're seeing what's happening to those who have so in terms of ethical good journalism you know i think it might be a breakthrough i think this could be some serious ramifications for the press generally but seriously. this may be a good thing. great to hear what you have to say investigate generous and head of journalism but brunello university there in the u.k. thanks very much indeed for talking to us. the decision to extradite wiki leaks founder julian assange has been deferred by a london court after an appeal hearing the world's most famous whistleblowers

wanted in sweden for questioning of a sexual assault and again however investigative journalist tony gosling thinks the case against him is focused more on destroying his name than on 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 that evidence was entered 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 kahn 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 assange is doing a chance to get at him and he's becoming quite clear now that the us can there may be actually no prosecution finally in new york against him and i think we may well see the same with. and by the way you can find more on web sites as

r.t. dot com including the latest news blogs and expert analysis here's what's lined up there for you the moment should you log on a snap shot from the stars how you could soon be able to see a picture of yourself taken from albeit with two special spy cameras installed at the international space station also there on the web site from catwalk to catfight a world of beauty turns ugly with far from model behavior the russian fashion show not the full story behind the high heeled hostilities at r.t. dot com. the eurozone has been dealt a fresh blow as our debt is downgraded to junk status by the credit rating agency moody's fueling concerns the country could need a second this comes a week after portugal's rating was also reduced and follows speculation that italy too might soon ask for a helping hand paul nuttall m.e.p. from northwest england has told r.t. 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 economies in the mediterranean in line with economies like germany fast growing economies like germany was never going to where the only way to get out of this mess is for those countries to go back home to their national policies to devalue growth moving. into exports going in at the moment because they're just 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 street and athens i just wonder how long it will be before the people are out in the streets in rome than in lisbon until this thing is contagious this thing will move right across the continent specifically in the mediterranean and the bigger issue now facing the european union is italy 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 italy's economy 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 quite frankly you can see this whole thing breaking up 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 bailout and the only way for these countries to survive is to break out of this prison which is the euro zone. and now a quick look at some other international news in brief this hour in our world update selves a protest in the egyptian capital cairo to the sixth day running demanding the removal of the military council and threatening to expand their says into other cities demonstrators are also calling for us to president hosni mubarak and his aides to face prosecution for the killing of hundreds of protesters during the uprising in february the military's war protesters against using violence but said it wouldn't try to stop the reading. was in

a world update this hour the half brother of the afghan prison. because i had been buried in kandahar ahmed wali karzai 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 the regional governor narrowly escaped a roadside bombing on his way to. moscow wants to make sure that the u.s. missile shield in europe doesn't target russia washington claims there's no need to worry but once any legal guarantees. reports now from romania where parts of the proposed shield will be placed that russian sentiment is what encourages the locals to welcome the rockets with open arms. the voice my of the romanian village of still cannot believe his luck after washington picked this place in romania region to locate a new raider base the locals have been all smiles about hypothetical investment.

when we first went to the us we'd 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 with rules luke rules 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 in romania was used by the soviet forces now with washington's plans to place the radar station here locals have a job that should book arrest 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 placed in poland the czechs suddenly

pulled out of the anti-missile defenses. in romania there have been no demonstrations like that at all there is a historical fact and it makes one of the most problematic and 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 contra balance the influence of russia in the region if that is the real case then what security with this new shield provide and most importantly defense from whom 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 worry that washington does something before informing us of these actions it is unclear what exactly they're creating as soon as we understand that this is them won't be used against russia will have legally

binding guarantees to that that this tension will be resolved. despite being described as fruitful the recent summit between president with a different nato ambassadors in sochi broke no consensus on anti-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. reporting from devore selo and book arrest in romania. to bring us up to date for the moment of some of our main news stories in about six minutes from now meantime business news is next with marina. hello and welcome to business here and our team let's start with gold watches straight in the record highs as investors run for safe haven from the debt crisis

spreading across europe seen jacobson from sex a bank believes to strengthen precious metal will continue until the east politicians find a workable solution gold is now the only currency even though ironically it's not really a currency that is valid dating your year 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 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 rescreening goal 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. now despite the nervousness in europe in fact in the russian market you know western front at some capital still believes there are good stories to tackle here. speaking about sectors i do think that in this environment you like to see more

support for defensive names like telecoms like you tube it was all you could do to what extent utilities throughout all defensive but nevertheless the more liquid name like. holding my. bets you know in this kind of environment but nevertheless you do also have the elections to look out for as we know the do to reduce them to be a so-so with high political risk. telecoms though you know i mean looks really interesting it's going to get beyond this year listing it's going to london listing and really seeing an increasing interest to that name so i you know this is something which is both defensive but it was a good story. and let's take a look at the markets wall street is trading strongly in the blank as the federal reserve says it could further stimulate the u.s. economy if conditions deteriorate also sentiment has been supported by stronger than expected economic growth data from china. now european markets are closing on a positive note helped by wall street that's the spite another downgrade of ireland

. agency over the sovereign debt for every group was up five percent in london and that's after the luxury goods maker reports of revenues rose thirty percent in the first quarter and here in moscow the markets have closed in the black let's take a look at some individual movers on the my sex is burbank ended in the red the losses were limited by an earlier reports of one hundred eighty percent jump in first half net profits there you can see it now overall carli was up more than one and a half percent after the e.u. lifted quotas on potage imports from russia and a coal miner at a spot sky rallied on expectations of a takeover bid from v e b i like to be capital wraps up the day straight for us yesterday it was a tough day for for russian market the global markets were selling off but as. there was rumors that there. going to start buying italian bonds. started falling

that helped market a propos markets higher into the close yesterday and so our movement expanded into today's earlier assertion 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 for their hand the world price. is performing quite well which is obviously positive for. russia stop fertiliser maker for psi grow 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 five billion dollars analysts believe four sagar has strong upside potential as the fertilizer sector benefits from rising demand for food and biofuels. now bellerose may sell stakes in seven companies to russia after accepting

a bailout for its crisis hit economy these will include gas pipeline companies and to refineries russian technologies corporation and state run gas from are among those interested in the assets minsk received on eight hundred million dollar bailout last month as the cash strapped economy burned through its currency reserves. now that's all the business news for now join us for another update in about fifteen minutes time in the meantime stay tuned for the headlines with bill.

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with you twenty four hours a day this is live from the russian capital top stories at eight thirty pm here at moscow time the bodies of over one hundred people including many children have been recovered from the boulder river the site of sunday's sinking of a pleasure cruiser rescuers continue to search for more. as around thirty remain missing. after seventeen people are believed dead after three explosions hit the indian city of mumbai the blasts hit the business district in a crowded marketplace as group called the indian where you had been has reportedly claimed responsibility. for american missile shield over europe remains the main obstacle in russia u.s. relations as moscow wants legal guarantees it won't be targeted a statement coming from russia's foreign minister lavrov now on

a visit to the united states. and the eurozone economic crisis deepens arlen's debt is downgraded to junk fueling fears the country may need a second burner has come shortly after similar predictions were made about portugal italy also tipped to be at risk. we'll be back with another update in fifteen minutes from now and next we asked the man in charge of the drug effort in russia other countries tackling the flow of illegal substances from central asia and europe that's an interview next. 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. in trying to 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 from drug related causes since the beginning of the year at the same time there are there are. 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. number of people who actually died from poisoning that is they took such huge doses that their organs failed most drug users however don't die from overdosing they know how to measure that says the reason for most drug related deaths is internal organ failure due to regular consumption do you think it's time for russia to implement some sort of punishment for drug. we have proposed a bill to distinguish between levels of crime which is being upheld by the good.