every effort but it will do little to take away from the horror of that moment on sunday when they lost so much in such a short space of time. this is the happy scene that should have seen this ship is designed almost identically to the bulgaria in this room almost identical to the one that children on that ship played in but for whatever reason their fate was very different. to 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 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 bokhari as arthur decks they found the bodies of the children that had gathered there just before the boat sunk. in that once inside the boat the bodies were everywhere again recorders and cabins and us most of them were wearing the life firsts 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 do say 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. may not be able to comprehend for

years she lost her mother and father we're old but will have to look after and she's only one and few years old you know if you tell her we can't she wouldn't understand. 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. on our website you can read the account of one man who alone saved almost eighty people from the bulgaria many have praised the captain of the only ship that

stopped and helped the stricken pleasure cruiser he modestly 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 they pulled took their own clothes and gave them to the wounded all this and more at our t.v. dot com. turning to other news here on r t washington says it will consider a proposal from moscow to reopen talks with iran over its nuclear program the idea suggest making limited concessions to tehran if it goes along with the demands of the international community the statement comes after u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton held talks with russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov in washington they also touched on the u.n. libya mandate with mr lavrov saying that russia has less misunderstanding on the issue with the u.s. than some of its european partners are he's got a house the latest from washington. with regards to leave 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 the means if you will 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 minister laugh it off 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 it 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 remain insistent in the situation keeps getting critical the west will come to. them the way it is happening in libya mr lavrov said it's unacceptable that the opposition to resort to violence agitating peaceful protesters into engaging in armed clashes and effectively turning them into targets

for the police and security forces take a listen going to deploy. diplomacy exists not to condemn and score political points diplomacy exists to solve problems and make it condemnation without proposing any solution won't leaders to any breakthrough neither in syria nor in any other place there is a good example of how we are dealing with the situation in yemen no one's tripos into condemning anyone or adult the u.n. security council resolution supporting one or another signed everyone is urging the two sides to see down and hold negotiations dance a responsible approach that we hope will prevail well on bilateral issues there have been some agreements and disagreements as usual but top diplomats bravely 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 election the u.s. of that landmark deal on arms reduction they deepen cooperation out of ghana and

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 a 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 bad independent adoption adoptions will only be conducted beer licensed agencies also the states that all foster children from russia will retain their russian citizenship until they reach legal adulthood that it's. three 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 i count now as for disagreements russia's missile defense plans 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 had with a new plan for the lab rob said russians need for him 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 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 comment on that yet. stay with us here on our team we've got plenty more headed your way including this . report on the deadly terror attack on mumbai which police suspect is the work of

homegrown militants. but first rupert murdoch's media empire has announced it will withdraw its bid to buy a right control of the u.k.'s biggest satellite broadcaster b. sky b. it's the latest twist in the phone hacking crisis the us and gulf the company as the scandal goes global across the atlantic it's claimed journalists tried to bribe new york city police officers to access the voice mails of nine eleven victims u.s. senators are now calling for their own investigation into news corp british prime minister david cameron has also demanded a probe into the nine eleven claims from our investigative reporter and head of journalism at grinnell university told my colleague earlier that the story is gone beyond the u.k. and well beyond just hacking into voice mail. the events that we've seen over the last couple of weeks be extraordinary what was the u.k. story is now that can tell you should know spread through news international in the u.k. right out now into united states and australia well it was 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 andy cole son who had been the editor of the news of the world when some of these events will tell you your 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 of 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 blanket these are people played to obtain information from what should be private sources like medical records and tax records so it's develop as we speak the

explosion exploits of mixture of media and politics and the phone hacking scandal that's gripping the world's attention also the topic of discussion in today's edition of cross talk join host peter lavelle in the next hour here's a sneak peek. in this particular case with news of the world it 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. three explosions have struck the indian city of mumbai reports say at least twenty

one people were killed more than one hundred injured our correspondent preassure to has more. three bomb explosions occurred within minutes of each other this happened in very crowded neighborhoods one was a famous jewelry market and there was a bomb that was said to be found in a jewelry shop also near the offer a house in mumbai. 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 most recent terrorist attack. and eight it was the period of shootings that happened in the taj hotel as it was that to have been a fly on the terrorist actually the pakistan 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 have been on seven different trains in india that with that two have been the students islamic movement of india is still trying to deal with those two recent

attacks then now this is happening and people are just left wondering how this could have occurred so soon after those two thousand and eight attacks. police suspect and as long as a group called the indian mujahideen behind the three explosions in mumbai this means they could have been organized for a broad according to ashish katon investigations editor at the telco weekly in mumbai. well you know with. chad we were i'm going to tell nor do a lot of. you i don't want to kind of out of this group i got this group basically has not strictly financial support because the border pakistan's i.s.i. has been telling his group. decides. to let you can simply trump less fully but get more information which we know he can do six eleven let's get it does not has been no during this time or getting jamiel do not seventy two years there have been

providing logistical interventions the police have been. seeking to get a high dose in pakistan. to come back into india and then didn't get. all the decor the e-mail. boxes back in pakistan and getting them to buy them and plan to get a strike eagle on the mission. in pakistan. the eurozone has been dealt a fresh blow as ireland's debt is downgraded to junk status by the credit rating agency moody's moody's fueling concerns of the country could need a second battle out this week after portugal's credit rating was also reduced and follow speculation in a lead might soon follow paul natal m.e.p. for northwest england has told our team that the latest developments prove 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 commie 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 on to their national policies to devalue to get those moving. on to exports going in at the moment they can't use 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 lisburn or even though we see the people out on the streets in athens i just wonder how long it will be before the people who are out in the streets in rome run in lisbon and talk 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 but is it if italy goes the whole thing could cave in because if italy goes italy's economy is intertwined with spain's and spain and this illegal 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 go but that is why they're so desperate to keep that's why this was 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. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe thousands are protesting in the egyptian capital cairo for the sixth day in a row demanding the removal of the military council and threatening there to expand their sit in to other cities demonstrators are calling for ousted president hosni mubarak and his aides face prosecution for the deaths of hundreds of protesters during the uprising in february the military has warned protesters against using violence but said it wouldn't try to stop the rally. and the half brother of afghan president hamid karzai has been buried in khandahar ahmed wali karzai was murdered in his home on tuesday the taliban has described the assassination as their biggest

achievement in ten years shortly after the ceremony two explosions were reported in khandahar and a regional governor narrowly escaped a roadside bombing on his way to the funeral. plenty more stories lined up for you at r.t. dot com here's what's a click away right now. follow the world's most famous some would say notorious whistleblower after a high court in london defers his extradition to sweden plus the. u.s. army under fire is hackers released the e-mail addresses and passwords of almost one hundred thousand soldiers this much more only a click away. coming up we ask the man in charge of the anti-drug effort in russia how the country is tackling the flow of illegal substances from central asia and europe stay with us.

the problem of drugs and drug trafficking. anywhere no matter how much we fight it and today we're meeting with. federal drug. to talk about the details of his fight and the problems that. drugs. thank you very much for joining us today according to a. more than seven thousand people have died in russia. 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. 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 from overdose and they knew how to measure. the reason for most drug related deaths is fairly 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 very good 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 to afghanistan have the greatest density of drugs. simply because they are closer to the epicenter further away the drug flows splits into lots 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. if you are. 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 mayor 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 mentioned 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 cells 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 launch a military operation the decision of the world community to interfere in the fans of this for the country first to put an end to the taliban rule to set up an interim administration and hold free elections. these tasks were supposed to be 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 said. stana hasn't improved it's become even worse and. general petraeus for example is commanding the military operation in afghanistan he says 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 have the assigned tasks been achieved. security in afghanistan has only gone. 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 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 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 matches very well with the russians. 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. the head of russia's federal drug control service thank you very much for speaking with us today by

civil thank you very much.

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read this in the kennel was toto as a retreat. or jihad like. as were everywhere on the border. most of them were in the lead divers continue the task of bringing the bodies of victims to the surface following sunday's sinking of the boulder river cruise ship of this size former captain planes he raised the alarm years ago over the ship's condition he says the vessel was run on a shoestring budget and needed constant repairs and you void. rupert murdoch's big bid for the u.k.'s biggest satellite broadcaster b. sky b. troubles under political pressure as the hacking scandal spreads beyond britain senators in the us are now calling for an inquiry following reports that

journalists from murdoch's papers tried to bribe police for information following nine eleven. and more trouble for the eurozone as the irish economy slides further e.u. central bankers fear italy and spain could be heading for their own financial abyss and brussels fears that it would not have enough cash in its trillion and a half euro fund to bail out italy. coming up our special report on one of the most scenic regions in russia from lush woodlands to mighty mountains of the ski region presents a sight to discover stay with us. the region deep in the far east is one of russia's newest territories. two thousand and eight it brought together the chip. regions and with it a striking mix of asian and european culture. traveling around 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 region's vibrant capital. one of. course the best way to get to know is to have a local show you around. a bit. in the. 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. this is a great way to see the city.