and almost identically to the ball carrier in this room almost identical 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 shot it. was. these schoolgirls that 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 one of the bokhari as 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 again the scorer's 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. 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 who 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 now she's only one of the half years old but you know it's just 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 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 barton. on the web site how to you don't call me can read the account of one man who learns most people from the area many of praise the captain of the only ship that stopped and helped the stricken pleasure cruise and he modestly points to his crew and passengers as the real heroes he said everyone was touched by what they saw and rushed to help without hesitation he went on to describe how quote we took their

own clothes and gave them to the wounded more on our website it's r.t. dot com. russia has more understanding with the u.s. over libya with some of its european partners that's according to foreign minister sergei lavrov who held talks with u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton in washington well let's get the latest from our current she's in the american capital going there was plenty of the sky global issues between the two countries and. well yes with regards to leave here both russia and the u.s. have the view that colonel gadhafi must step down and that leaves should be able to choose their future leader it's the path towards those aims that moscow and washington disagree on your world russia criticizes the scope of the into the foreign intervention in libya the actions of the allied forces forces there as a violation of the u.n. mandate minister lavrov said the resolution is being wrongly interpreted as anyone

can do whatever they want for a minister was also asked about why russia is blocking a u. and they should have to condemn the syrian president assad he said the attitude of the west is exclusively about exerting pressure on one of the parties namely the syrian government and president all side of moscow sees this as sees it as the wrong attitude russia says it sends the wrong message to the syrian opposition prompting them to believe that if they were remain insistent in the situation keeps getting critical the west will come to help them the way it is happening in libya mr lavrov said it's unacceptable that the opposition real. by less agitating peaceful protesters into engaging in armed clashes and if actively turning them into a target for the police and security forces take a listen. right a diploma to diplomacy exists not to condemn and score political points diplomacy exists to solve problems and naked condemnation without proposing any solution want

leaders to any breakthrough neither in syria nor in any other place there is a good example of how we are all dealing with the situation in yemen no one is proposing to condemn anyone or adopt the un security council resolution supporting one or another side everyone is urging the two sites to see down and hold negotiations that's a responsible approach that we hope will prevail. well governor there were several of common issues that also came up during this meeting what can you tell us about. well on bilateral issues there have been some agreements and disagreements as usual the top diplomats mainly focused on agreements both pointed out the positive and constructive mode in which the cooperation between the two countries is going on many issues in the last few years russia and the u.s. have that landmark deal on arms reduction they deepen cooperation on of ghana's then have gone forward in preparations for russia's accession into the world trade organization the obama administration is all for it and hillary clinton has once

again stressed the american leadership support for russia joining the w t o also they have signed the long awaited agreement on adoption after scores of horrible incidents involving russian children mistreated by their adoptive parents in a number of cases murdered by them to stress the need for an agreement and a better oversight over how the adopted children are treated in their families and the deal finally came through the points in vision there included a ban on independent adoption adoptions will only be conducted via licensed agencies also the agreement states that all foster children from our show will retain their russian citizenship until they reach legal adulthood that is very important as the agreement states that applicable laws from both countries will be used to add adoption related trials up until recently the americans did not want to hear anything about taking russian laws into account now as for disagreements russia's missile defense plan excuse me america's missile defense plans is one of

the most irritating issues in the relations between the two countries you could sense that both foreign minister lavrov and secretary of state clinton preferred not to go into details and talk much about disagreements but nevertheless we know that there has been discussions behind closed doors president obama has scrapped the bush administration missile defense plans but they're going ahead with a new plan for minutes the lab rob said russians need. for a legally binding guarantees that the project will not threaten russia's security washington has made we're shoring statements before but moscow needs to have it on paper so there is an understanding among the russians that words are good but words in a legally binding document are better but again no specific comments on that yet thanks very much indeed for that live update going to change conference lottie's washington bureau. this is all to you live here in moscow still to come the program this as the u.k. phone hacking scandal goes international look at the possible repercussions in

britain. still to come but first three explosions of struck the indian city of mumbai twenty one people being killed and over one hundred injured a correspondent is in india for. three bomb explosions occurred within minutes of each other and this happened in a very crowded neighborhood one was a famous jewelry market and there was a bomb that was said to be found in jewelry shop also near the offer house in mumbai is 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 has that this is a terror attack the most recent terrorist attack. and eight it was mysterious that shootings that happened in the taj hotel as it was that to have been 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 series of coordinated attacks that

happened on seven different trains in india that with that two have been the students islamic movement of india one by is still trying to deal with those two recent attacks then now if it happened people are just left wondering how this could have occurred so soon after those two thousand and eight attacks. police suspect an islamist group called the indian mujahideen is behind the three explosions in mumbai that music could have been organized from abroad says ketone he's an investigations editor with the weekly magazine in mumbai. shared we will go on joe nor do a lot of. new york and i want to kind of out of this group. this group basically has lodged an actual support for because the border pakistan's i.s.i. has been noted in this group i do you. think unsupported from. the get more the kind of nation which was you know you can do six eleven kind of less

fit or does it not has been no giulini this term or given your jamile the last seven eight years there have been none stipulated to mention some have been really . secret did a high dose in pakistan and a lot of them come back into india and then do you think. all the decor lot of emails. boxes back in pakistan and getting them to them and plan to go to strike eagle admission. in pakistan. 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. is 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 paul lashmar who's an investigative reporter and head of journalism a university in the u.k. told me earlier that the story is gone beyond the united kingdom and well beyond just the king interview. the events that we've seen over the last couple weeks been extraordinary what was the u.k. story is now that can tell you should know spread through news international the u.k. right out now into the united states and australia is 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 you also who had been the editor of the news of the world when some of these events were taking place as his press advisor was clearly a very very bad judgment and it's strong in him and he now is trying his best to make clear blue water between him and news international and now we've got the fact

that they appears to be in some hacking into gordon brown's private life you have to you have to start to wonder what else is in there and of course it's the height of the it's not just phone hacking it's now the use of what we call blankets these are people played to obtain information from what should be private sources like medical records and tax records so it's it's the develop as we speak. the explosive mixture of media and politics in the hacking scandal that's gripping the world's attention is also discussed in today's edition of cross talk you can join peter lavelle in the next hour but for now here is a quick preview. in this particular case with news of the world it looks more and more like you had reporters and editors who are 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 a straight and see as far as partisanship. and. cross talk later here on r.t. the eurozone has been dealt a fresh blow as arlen's debt is downgraded to junk status by the credit rating agency moody's concerns the country could need a second bailout 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 a colony 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 thought of we see the people out on the streets in athens i just wonder how long it will be before the people are out in the streets in rome ran 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 italy is the third largest economy in the eurozone of late largest economy in the world i think the euro zone can actually cope with greece and portugal the smaller economies but 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 i quite frankly 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 bailouts are the only way for these countries to survive is to break out of this prison which is the euro zone. time now for a brief look at some other international news in a world update this hour thousands of protesting in the egyptian capital carre for the sixth day running the removal of the military council and threatening to expand their city 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 when it was one protesters against using violence but said it wouldn't try to stop the rabbit. the half brother of the afghan president hamid karzai has been. in kandahar ahmed wali karzai was murdered in his home there on choose the taliban as describe 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 the funeral. when we can find more on our web site it's dot com including the latest news blogs and expert analysis and here's what's in the moment should you go on a snap shot from the start about this you could soon be able to see a picture of yourself taken from orbit with special spy cameras installed at the international space station plus. catwalk to catfight world of beauty turns ugly with far from model behavior at a russian fashion show. the full story behind the high heels hostilities at r.t. dot com. well i'll be back with a summary of the main news stories for in about ten minutes from now in the meantime we asked the man in charge of the drug effort in russia how the country is tackling the flow of illegal substances from central asia and europe that's our

special interview next. the problem of drugs and drug trafficking. anywhere no matter how much we fight it . to talk about the details of his fight and the problems that. drugs.

thank you very much for joining us today according to a. thousand people have died in russia. since the beginning of the year at the same time there are other. than one hundred thousand and that is actually. in the numbers. the figure of seven thousand. number of people who actually died from poisoning that is they took such huge doses that their organs failed to drug users however from overdosing they knew how to measure that the reason for most drug related deaths is. a regular consumption according to. that. is. what is the problem.

drug users. these figures are in fact common for the whole world i mean police. all over the world europe or america only managed to confiscate around ten percent of illegally traded drugs within their countries another thing is the extremely low efficiency of our borders and their administrative and legal methods lead to the only north point two percent of all drugs are intercepted. drugs that get into russia first have to go through the states of central asia where they're not intercepted those states themselves above all are victims of afghanistan's enormous drug production. as a matter of fact afghanistan itself is the victim of global drug mafia work which creates the demand and the political will to continue production in the country. this is why countries next going to stand have the greatest density of drugs. simply because they are closer to the epicenter of further away the drug since a lot of different channels and then drugs get to russia for example through the

seven thousand kilometer border with because it's done. so their parents as well. testing people on mass would be far too radical no of course not we're talking about establishing an early warning system to detect drug addicts and abusers after all people are not born addicted to drugs it all starts with experimenting mostly and. when kids start spending more time on the streets away from their parents that's when they get to know drugs this needs to be detected at an early stage and if parents are warned in advance sometimes it just takes parental action and advice to put an end to these dangerous practices if not stopped in time these experiments later lead to regular consumption which in turn requires longer and more costly treatment. according to. what you're. i have to say that we rejected this kind of conclusion

so did my. colleagues in the u.s. russia presidential commission mr gil kerlikowske harsh statement we discussed it immediately with washington over the hotline and criticized the global commission legalizing drugs is a road to nowhere more than that it will result in the growth of drug. let me remind you of a referendum on legalizing marijuana in california in september last year i was there when it was held where we decided with mr gil kerlikowske at a number of meetings with officials including the man the sheriff the chief of police the prosecutor respectable professions have a clear position against a legalizing marijuana and the referendum confirms that it should not be legalized . as far as the withdrawal from afghanistan is concerned the picture is unclear so

far it was said that the withdrawal would start and certain parameters for it had been set. thirty thousand troops by the end of the year but when i was in washington last september they were talking about the need to increase the military contingent in afghanistan exactly by thirty thousand now they're planning to return least thirty and so in fact nothing has changed i think the world community and you can disagree is beginning to consider the situation in afghanistan because several reasons behind the decision to military operation and the decision of the world community to interfere in the fans of this for the country. to put an end to the taliban rule to set up an interim administration and hold free elections. these tasks were supposed to be in six or twelve months but this september we'll see the tenth anniversary of that interference it's longer than world war two but the situation in afghanistan hasn't improved it's become even worse and. general

petraeus for example is commanding the military operation in afghanistan says that the number of armed 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. security in afghanistan has only gotten worse because it said that drug production cannot be fought because it damages the security situation in the country so it's a kind of closed circle in this respect to the be worth a nato operation in helmand province which produces the most opium poppies the operation is called. which translated from persian means together. the operation was presented as a brilliant military success considerable kilometers of the province were reportedly cleared of insurgents but the production of opium has never stopped that's why peaceful settlement is necessary but we've started talking about this at long last it was highlighted at the london conference on afghanistan in two

thousand and ten that the autumn conference in kabul also stressed the need to find a peaceful settlement but the latest initiative was voiced by the us president barack obama on negotiations with the taliban and the latest resolutions of the united nations security council which divided responsibility between the taliban and al qaeda are offering a unique opportunity in my view to drop a program of eliminating drug production i've just come from meeting of the parliamentary faction of the progressive alliance of socialists and democrats the second largest faction in the european union here outside the european parliament building we discussed the e.u. strategy towards afghanistan large sections of that strategy are devoted to liquidation of drugs production strategy is very well with the russian drafted plan called ready. to liquidate the production of drugs in afghanistan in fact the direction that russia and the european union are taking together very well so today we have a unique opportunity for resolution and decisive action. thank

you very much. thank you very much.

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see don't need to go and. read this in the kenilworth hotel treat. within twenty four hours a day this is our. top stories. of over one hundred people including many children have been recovered from the volga river the site of sunday's sinking of a pleasure cruise that rescuers continue the search for more as around thirty remain missing. russia has more in common with the u.s. on the conflict in libya than with many european nations says foreign minister sergei lavrov talks with hillary clinton in washington. at least twenty one people are dead after three explosions hit the indian city of mumbai last hit the business district in a crowded marketplace for the suspect an islamist group called the indian which i had seen is behind the attack. economic crisis deepens as.

junk fueling fears the country may need a second bailout. shortly after similar predictions were made about portugal italy also tipped to be. well i'll be back with more news. in thirty minutes from now in the meantime it's our special report one of the most scenic regions in russia from lush woodland to mighty mountains the region presents a sight to behold discovering russia is next on r.t. . the region deep in the far east is one of russia's newest. two thousand and eight it brought together the chip. regions and with it a striking mix of asian and european culture. you can find buddhist temples

spooling national parks and remote villages that still practice traditions that date back a thousand years but if you're flying here in the regions vibrant capital. one of. the best way to get. around. a bit of. just over three hundred thousand people and it's a real mismatch of styles it's one of the only cities in russia that's based on a grid system and the downtown area has some beautiful european influenced. but. the more soviet and industrial it becomes.