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his stricken empire is loyal allies leave and the police close in on both sides of the atlantic. losing battles but winning the war leading rebels earth foreign recognition and axes to cut off yes it's but their fire struggle to get to grips on the ground. plus the west and the wallet as american and the eurozone race to save their collapsing economies in the face of soaring debt and plummeting credit scores. this is our team going to live from moscow to a.t.m. here i'm marina joshing welcome to the program within the next few hours the operation will begin to lift the cruiser which sank last sunday in the volga river it's still unclear why the boat went down quickly dragging half of those on board

to their deaths are reports. a mountain of cuddly toys never to be played with they are flowers and candles a testament to the children among those who drowned on the pleasure boat the bulgaria sank in the volga last sunday. the most we study together for a year she never had on humans for the one she was a very kind girl and was always ready to help. the ship sank in just three minutes turning a summer afternoon on the river into a scene of horror i didn't like it is that people were basically buried alive and china rattle coughing we managed to get out through the windows i was there with my ten year old daughter i couldn't rescue her she swallowed too much water when i was pulled out i realized my child was gone in the chaos to escape and many other

families were also torn apart one five year old boy lost his mother and grandmother and was only kept afloat by a man who grabbed his hand another man unable to hold on to his son in the strong current oil slick to watch him drown in front of him yuri was the deejay for the disco on the bottom deck he only just managed to escape. and i remember clearly that water was rising very quickly it was a matter of seconds i survived because we saw the broken window and the sailor started pushing people like through it at that moment on the surface and then i saw the board was already underwater. over half the bulgaria's two hundred eight passengers and crew including the captain his wife and child never made it out meanwhile as the arabella another pleasure boat arrived to the scene she was surrounded by people screaming and drowning unable to reach the banks of the vast

river three kilometers away. as we approached it was hard to distinguish in the dark water people who were alive from the rubble that was floating around people were in panic when we rescued them in a state of shock some suffering from other traumas they were all covered in oil field that was leaking from the sunken ship it was a terrifying picture i have to say despite a huge search and rescue operation after the initial survivors were picked up a few others were filled. with divers and cranes working in this water have been trying to recover just something of the lives lost and families destroyed in those few terrible minutes but they've also been working on the question of cost so much why did the bulgaria sink and sink so fast. as the list of bodies recovered from the ship grew so did the number of revelations about an ageing dangerous and badly managed vessel eyewitnesses people connected with the ship came forward with damning accounts of its poor condition and the stingy management forced it to keep

sailing. i became captain of the vessel in two thousand and seven ship had need been renovated for a while before that there were big problems with the engines and power generators repeatedly mention it to the management and even had an argument with them port authorities say they were lied to the ship was only supposed to carry one hundred forty people but was loaded with over two hundred they were told it was carrying twenty more tales of bound including a broken engine electricity generators failing so that no s.o.s. signal or tunnel instructions could be issued and blocked emergency exits criminal cases have been opened and arrests been made into the bulgaria sink and more controversially into why two ships which we've seen before the arabella didn't pick up a single person to court the crew members instead took pictures on their mobile phones . his. passengers were shocked there were. people

are rough to many how it's cooked some injuries that were bleeding or you know for him i saw the consequences but in a different direction towards because on. a slow process of raising the bulgaria has now stopped it up with it will come the potential for sins but also terrible memories in particular associated with the ship's plane or a group of children who got it when the ship sank. just some of the young victims and what will go down as one of russia's worst and most avoidable shipping disasters on boston. i will bring you our full interview with a captain of a ship that saved seventy seven people from drowning in the volga river and that's around time this time here on r.t. . it's also online are teed off palm where we've got updates on all the

news we're covering as well as video reports and analysis and you can also follow us on our you tube channel as was facebook and twitter. it. is easy to see you. in the. britain's government is denying it was too close to or murdoch's media empire as it scrambles to distance itself from the firm that's mired in phone hacking claims records show prime minister david cameron held more than twenty meetings with murder executives in the past year verdict has fanned the past forty eight hours

apologizing to fold page ads in british newspapers and meeting a family. young. voice mail was intercepted by media moguls now deployed to rescue use words. for face and scrutiny from m.p.'s about his papers and ethical methods there is again on britain's new shelves the sunday. best selling news of the world as wayne's world of illegally tapping the phones of crime victims and their soldiers' families as laura amad reports it's watershed moment for the easy relationship between britain and france. every media outlet and own t.v. radio even the screenwriters when art imitates life the long running simpsons takes a shot at its owner rupert murdoch aka montgomery burns in an episode broadcast apparently coincidentally this week. but it's

not the only piece of timing in the extraordinary phone hacking case it seems to get more scandalous every day the list of something like four thousand names which the police of have since about two thousand and forty thousand and five and yet they promise facie evidence of criminal activity by these individuals and boy by the murdoch empire and yet they have not acted on it so why now just as the murdoch deal to take control of satellite t.v. giant b. sky b. sure to go ahead his rival the guardian newspaper releases catastrophic allegations of a moral journalists and their shady practices that when the deal collapses the times for example which currently loses money could have transferred some of the profits from. into investing in the times and if you are for example the

guardian or the daily telegraph. that it's not just rival news. papers who stand to gain from murdoch's empire crumbling the b.b.c. could retake t.v. territory lost to b. sky b. and the labor party which was wounded by years of relentless attacks by murdoch papers can finally take revenge but where will all this lead. you know. that would suit the government just fine the british press is famous for its shot teeth and no holds barred doggedness particularly where its own government is concerned prime minister david cameron has all but shut down the press complaints commission and already talks of statutory controls to govern print journalists back in springfield mr burns is cool to it as the townspeople open up

their own newspaper and he's almost right. as it is possible to control the media because of rupert murdoch the beautiful murdoch found as did mr perkins that you just can't buy all the newspapers those outside his control have been gunning for him think it is and this time they may have succeeded just as he looks set to consolidate control over a launch section of the ukase media markets the drugs being pulled out from under him and it's all over the hidden scandal now revealed that the police have known about it for years nor at its artsy. anymore a hair's including a story of injustice and survival are to report from an ancient arab community that's being lined up as with zero use israeli resort almost half a century after palestinians were forced out. libya's rebels

became belligerent power holders in the country in the eyes of more nations after the us. more than thirty other countries recognize them on friday at a diplomatic meeting at stamboul the alliance of western arab nations working on a crisis an ounce it will deal with the opposition until interim authorities in place recognition by the contact group also gives the rebels access to billions of dollars of cut off his frozen assets in u.s. banks but political commentator ted rall says the money and status won't change the situation on the ground. so this is really a radical shift from an international student the united states usually doesn't extend diplomatic recognition to a regime that is not in macau been told it is engine power and doesn't even seem likely to be able to achieve our anytime soon but you can look at the situation in afghanistan during the one nine hundred ninety six to two thousand and one civil conflict there between the taleban in the northern alliance the northern alliance

were the former regime that had power in kabul and they enjoyed diplomatic relations with the west even though the taleban controlled ninety five percent of the country it's almost just wishful thinking and frankly if i were a diplomat i would find it disturbing that it's a bizarre situation if the u.s. knows who these people are they're not seeing and certainly there's no doubt that traditionally there's always been a very big component to. around benghazi so it's unrealistic to assume that that is not still the case the u.s. has an amazing bit of shipping skids full of hundred dollar bills to third world countries and expecting them to end up in the right hands and really going to have . the high level recognition of the rebels may bolster their spirit but it's a different story in combat fierce fighting for a keystroke oil town has and that with heavy casualties among the opposition a stop france is now trying talking tactic with libyan regime because force is

failing to shift gadhafi as daniel bushell reports from paris. you can not tell. which. books is like bragging will destroy the reporter lives they're often wrong and gets a mill stiff surprise i thought french foreign minister should pay both the frost would be a encroached days weeks the wars into a fourth month no final round in signed nicolas sarkozy with his western allies seen short little opponents fighting back well it's not just an embarrassment for sarkozy it's an embarrassment for. the whole west paris even to me it's all being libya's rebels going to turn some somalia. went to libya for training with the last two or three years plus documented we have to fly records and everything else so it seems strange and many ways the whole western support of

some of that i will groups in libya must be questioned because in some cases we are effectively arming al-qaeda. it's all making a mockery of the un votes on foreign intervention in a country that was a leading person. that none of. this. witnesses me to be of libya's causing widespread atrocities every. military person that was supposedly a casualty there were ten civilians fraud's categorically ruled out saying we rolled troops but expose predict is the only way they'll to break the libyan deadlock the moves the splitting the nato coalition silvio berlusconi head of keep italy admits invading libya was a good steak rocher of steam did the us votes. as would bring havoc in libya.

but you pays the tools you killed supports. lloyd lee. with elections just annoying months away so voices that a successful war could resurrect his chills is instead one paper writes libya's becoming a slow motion cold crushing for fraud says the president. sarkozy's a jogging for excessive sweating is understandable as is libyan spring is turning into a. paris. and in a few minutes we ask if one death can do america's afghan mission after how many as half brothers killed by his own guard r.t. reports on how to put the u.s. on the back food tackling the taliban. the clock's ticking for america's rival politicians to agree on the next move in sorting out its soaring debt congress

needs to raise the current fourteen point three trillion dollar debt ceiling to avoid the folding and president obama wants parties to ignore their differences to avert armageddon but leading credit rating agencies are already threatening to downgrade america's aaa credit score for the first time in over ten years they say there is a risk the u.s. could fail to resolve the deadlock quickly or effect that way alice maxwells believes america's debt addiction means there won't be a quick cure. america's been running on debt for years this is a disaster in the making and i would liken the situation here to a cancerous tumor inside a body there's no better time to cut the cancerous tumor out quickly as you possibly can that said the u.s. government has been running on debt for many many years and we've been raising the budget the total debt ceiling for many many years as a budget issue and we've successfully had deals struck it has become the political norm in the united states that whatever party is in the white house has to ask to

raise the debt ceiling it's always been raised in the past the party that's not in the white house that's out of power screams and yells for three or four days at most usually about how the government spending too much and should live within its means the debt ceiling demand gets raised and it's business as usual that's been the case for thirty years so we have one side in the congress right now that's decided no increase in revenue is acceptable i don't other side that has decided that not raising revenue is unacceptable and so we've reached an embarrassing impasse that has dragged on for weeks longer than it should and is the reason that we're going to see a growing chorus of foreign and domestic voices urging congress and the white house to stop riling already strained global markets with a political impasse. things are a little better in europe with italy now the focus of stopping the euro zone heading into oblivion rose approved a tough seventy billion euro cuts package to avoid a debt by now it's euro zone's third largest economy and could prove too big for

its neighbors to bail out while ninety european banks have failed stress tests to see if they could survive another financial crisis british people told us 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 economies in the mediterranean in line with economies like germany fast growing economies like germany was never going to where it would be great to get out of this mess is for those countries to go back home for their national cotton seed to devalue their growth moving. into exports going in at the moment because if you say that because they couldn't see these are controlled by frankfurt they're controlled by the european central bank and not controlled by athens or lisbon or even probably for the people on the streets in athens and i just wonder how long it will be before the people are also in the streets in rome around in lisbon i mean for this thing is contagious this thing will move right across the continent

specifically in the mediterranean and the big issue you know facing the european union is really and italy is the third largest economy in the eurozone the least largest economy in the world i think the euro zone can actually cope with greece from portugal this world economy if italy goes the whole thing could cave in because if italy goes it's intertwined with spain's going to spain italy go very we are in serious trouble. let's take a look at some other stories from around the world and tunisian police used tear gas and shop around the air to disperse a crowd who torched epperly station in the capital a clash followed an incident on friday when security forces fired tear gas to break up a demonstration at a mosque in the city manager nations remain unhappy. it was a way interim leaders are ruling the country since generous revolution that ousted president ben ali. egypt's foreign minister has resigned ahead of a massive reshuffle spurred by renewed public protests he'd only been in the job

for months but the interim prime minister has been forced to make changes after widespread anger over the government's record street crowds return to cairo as many believe little changed avatar since president mubarak was ousted. the u.s. first monetary in a livery for somalia's drought victims has arrived just over a week since a ban was lifted islamist insurgents which ruled large parts of somalia impose restrictions on foreign aid two years ago calling them anti muslim that changed after more than ten million people became affected by the food crisis as a result of this from africa's worst drought in decades. russia's foreign minister was in the u.s. capital this week to get clarification on washington's missile defense agenda america's steaming ahead with deploying its anti-missile shield in europe despite objections from moscow russia feels the system could compromise its own nuclear arsenal and a joint missile defense program but that's being brushed aside by washington and

nato and u.s. is also refusing to provide a legally binding guarantees that its system is not aimed against russia so you lavrov stressed to voice of russia radio in washington of the need to prevent a new arms race. that's on the ground that being created on the basis of american national design of missile defense which was not accepted by us as a reasonable way to respond to what is perceived as being the purpose of the system we want at this particular moment to stick to the original agreement that mean there would be no parts of the system which would. compromise which would. create the risks for the strategic stability and for that but then short in the strategic stability area and they were just at the age of arsenals of the participants of the system. taliban is calling the sas

a nation of the afghan president's half brother its biggest achievements and in decades a kind of hard promise chief was gunned down by a lot of his bodyguards on tuesday journalist kerry then died who survived taliban captivity says the death is a blow to the u.s. led war effort. while the cars i was not just the governor or the shadow governor of kandahar he was the most powerful and the most popular person throughout all of southern afghanistan this shows that right now with the canadian troops pulling out and with the u.s. trying to now focus on eastern afghanistan feeling that they have controlled the south there is now a vacuum who is in power who can the west rely upon no one band i've also heard and others have reported that he was responsible for perhaps starting to bring the taliban together with the united states to negotiate they killed the person who had all the information we do know that there's a power vacuum throughout all of southern afghanistan he who holds kandahar holds

the country because in the one nine hundred eighty s. when i worked as a newspaper reporter in afghanistan there were negotiations between the mujahideen the united states the soviet union pakistan pakistan does not want to watch from the sidelines when pakistan says that there should be direct negotiations between the united states and the taliban what it is also saying is that pakistan wants to be at the table also because don't forget most of your viewers know this the leadership of the taliban is not enough gamestation like al qaeda it is in pakistan it cannot operate there independently it has to have institutional backing. and the struggle for a land rides in israel there is one place that's still a no go area fifty years ago was a thriving palestinian community but they were driven out and now israel's eye it up as a luxury getaway artist calls me or has a story. this old in the mountains of jerusalem are the remains of

a once bustling community only the memories of those who once lived here have survived intact i feel. the comeback and. my. hard since this rain. and. my car that. grew up among the cacti and fig trees that in one nine hundred forty eight just before the state of israel was declared his family evacuated unlike the hundreds of villages that disappeared in forty eight and sixty seven most of the original houses of lifter are still here so they move ahead and. and shouted. they will do the whole caboodle hold. our mother took us inside the

room in a corner and then the table so as to prove to us your cop was one of seven hundred thousand palestinians who became a refugee in one nine hundred forty eight his childhood home was quickly absorbed by the newly established a jewish state almost biblical as being and all of his house in london for nicholas if he was forced to go just because he would react and. consider those absentee or and he lost the property in the early one nine hundred fifty s. jews moved into the abandoned homes like you or me your comments parents they were also refugees fleeing arab countries where life had become dangerous after israel was created these ready government simply to live and lift your lease is to prevent arab owners from returning or undercurrent here. live here years without water without electricity that came here to jordan and for the memory here as a very important most of the original two hundred jewish families lived because

life in the mountains was difficult and the government was slow to develop the area no one has lived in these how those for forty six years all that remains are stone walls where wild flowers and grass now grow living there is empty. i didn't see that emptiness that the israeli government now plans to build more than two hundred luxury homes a chicago tel shops and a museum insisting they'll preserve the area's history we will find ourselves with a neighborhood where history has been conserved there will also be documentation and the story will be told there as we do in all the neighborhoods of jerusalem but many luckier could say it's palestinian land and a double injustice. roy. yanni dear for a guy i knew three women came from anywhere in this way. and my feelings

and come back. i've been back to my present and living. in this new me. and. so i'm going for palestinians left as a physical reminder of injustice and survival but for a fair number of israelis it's an eyesore and they'd rather not be reminded of what happened if you time they drive into jerusalem for to see r t lift. but dally back with a recap our top stories in just a few moments stay with us.

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