great ability to move the joint the photos a movie that's the case where you go to the grand imperial truly george weston to score a loan deal you can a let's go to socialist hutto see don't need to go and. read this in the kernel was her job as used to retreat. today's news and the week's top stories from our team recovery crews started the summer task of lifting the ship that rapidly went down in the volga river last sunday taking nearly one hundred thirty lives in. the operation to raise the sun to the bulgarian has begun hopefully providing arms to the grieving relatives and investigators will bring you all the details from the recovery site in just a matter of. the programmer added story saga of the tycoon publicly eats humble pie to save his street and hire as well allies leave and the police close in on both sides of the atlantic. losing battles but winning the war the libyan rebels are in

for a recognition and access to get out the essence but the air fire struggle to get to grips on the ground. plus the west and the wallet as america and the eurozone raise to save their collapsing economies in the face of soaring debt at plummeting credit scores. in the russian capital you're watching r.t. was nearing a joshing 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 the flowers and candles

a testament to the children among those who drowned when the pleasure boat to bulgaria sank in the volga last sunday. we studied together for a year she never had arguments with anyone sure is very kind of 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 even is that people were basically buried alive in china metal coffin i managed to get out through the windows i was there with my ten year old daughter i couldn't rescue her she swallowed see much water when i was pulled out i realized my child was gone in the chaos to escape and then the 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 had 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 the water was rising very quickly it was a matter of seconds i survived because we saw two in the cellar started pushing people out through it at that moment on the surface and then sort of the board was already underwater and. 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 at 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 found. the divers and cranes working in this water had 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 the 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 aging 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. but again captain of the vessel in two thousand and seven the ship had need been renovated for a while before that there were big problems with the engines and power generators

were repeatedly mention that 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 or 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 being made into the bulgaria sinking and more controversially into why two ships which reached the scene before the arabella didn't pick up a single person to port the crew members instead took pictures on their mobile phones whatever you have is here. all the passengers were shocked and there were boats. seventeen people on a raft and many hundreds cuts and injuries that were bleeding well you know for help i saw the responses by anything from direction towards cars on. the

slow process of raising the bulgaria has no stops in it up with it will come the potential to since but also terrible memories in particular associated with the ships plane or a group of children were gathered when the ship sank. just some of the young victims in what will go down as one of russia's worst and most of the boy to pull ship and disastrous. policy. will bring you our full interview with the captain of a ship that saves them the seven people from drowning in a bald river in our twenty minutes time here on our team. and it's also online at r.t. dot com where we've got updates on all the news we're covering as well as video records and analysis and also follow us on our you tube channel as well as facebook and twitter.

is. that. the. british government is denying it was too close to six million pyar as it scrambles to distance itself from the firm that's mired in phone hacking claims but records show prime minister david cameron held more than twenty meetings with murdoch executives in the past year has spanned so the past forty eight hours apologizing with full page ads in british newspapers i mean in a family of a young murder victim his voicemail was intercepted the media mogul's. now deployed p.r. gurus to rescue news course reputation before facing scrutiny from m.p.'s about his

papers and ethical methods there is a get out on britain's news shelves this sunday after murder case all the x. the best selling news of the world as quine swirled of illegally tapping phones of crime victims and their soldiers' families as lauren reports it's a watershed moment for the uneasy relationship between britain's partitions and press. media on t.v. radio even the screenwriters art imitates life a 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 piece guy b. looked sure to go ahead he's bought 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. investing in the times and if you will for example the guardian or the daily telegraph. that it's not just the rival newspapers 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 shop 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 to water it as the townspeople open up their own newspaper and he's almost right. as it is possible and truly the media has of rupert murdoch. beautiful murdoch found as did mr burns that you just

can't buy all the newspapers those outside his control have been gunning for him for years and this time they may have succeeded just as he looks set to consolidate control over a launch section of the u.k.'s 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. richard adams who runs a media education firm believes it's naive to assume it's only in the tabloids which are capitalizing on the dodgy data. where this does become a question for national security is the idea that police assailing private phone numbers and private contact details of people like the royal family and the prime minister well it is not necessarily the same to sell these things to a newspaper as it would be to sell them to a terrorist organization but if you can do one you may be able to do the other so it's very serious the whole edifice of news international is deeply intertwined

with the downing street machine all that has yet to come out and will cause a lot more headaches but i think what people talk to and. expecting is for the scandal to go up through the chief executive of news international to james murdoch and james murdoch himself and many people say should step down whether he's for. this escape without serious damage is also doubtful although i don't think he's going to retire or leave the helm of the company. plenty more had including a story of injustice and survival reforms from an ancient era community there's been a wind up as well as your reasons really resort on the after century after of palestinians were forced out. maybe as rebels became diligent power holders in a country near eyes of more nations after the us and more than thirty other countries recognize them on friday at a diplomatic meeting in a sample of the alliance of western arab nations working on the crisis announced it

would deal with the opposition until an interim authorities in place the recognition by the contact group also gives the rebels access to billions of dollars of gadhafi has frozen assets in u.s. banks but political commentator ted rall says the money and status won't change the situation on the ground. this is really a radical shift from an international standpoint the united states usually doesn't extend diplomatic recognition to integration that is not in the capital that isn't an hour and doesn't even seem likely to be able to achieve power anytime soon but you can look at the situation in afghanistan during the one nine hundred ninety six to two thousand and one a civil conflict there between the taleban and the northern alliance the northern alliance were the former regime that had power in kabul and enjoy diplomatic relations with the west even though this kind of uncontrolled ninety five percent of the country it's almost just wishful thinking and frankly if i were

a diplomat i would find it disturbing 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 high component of jihad even around benghazi so it's unrealistic to assume that that is not still the case the u.s. has an amazing habit of shipping skids full of hundred dollar bills to third world countries and expecting them to end up in the right hands. really going to happen. how the level of recognition of the rattles may bolster their spirit but it's a different story in combat fierce fighting for a keystone oil town has and of with heavy casualties among the opposition it's thought france is now trying the target tactic of the libyan regime because forces failing to shift obvious daniel bushell reports from paris. the knockout. feature of. books is like bragging will destroy the republicans they're often wrong

and gets a mill steel surprise i thought french foreign minister ireland should pay postage france would be a encroached days weeks the walls into a fourth month no final round inside nicolas sarkozy with his western allies seen short little opponents fighting back it's not just an embarrassment for sarkozy and some embarrassment for all nato for the whole west paris even admits being libya's rebels but on some somalia. wench to libya for training within the last two or three years that's documented we have to fly records and everything else so it seems strange in many ways the whole western support of some of the rebel groups in libya must be questioned but in some cases i think we are effectively arming al-qaeda. it's all making a mockery of the u.n.

vote on foreign intervention because dream that way leading it in a good person. that none of. this. other witnesses had made of libya is causing widespread atrocities for every one military person that was supposedly a casualty there were ten civilians for all to categorically ruled out saying we grilled troops but expose predict is the only way they'll to break the libyan bedloe the moves the splitting the nato coalition silvio berlusconi head of keep italy admits invading libya was a mistake russia abstained did the us votes. as would bring havoc in libya. you killed supports so. much leaks.

with elections just annoying months away so voices that a successful war good resume wrecked his chills is instead one paper ride sleep is becoming a slow motion cold crushing deeply unpopular president sarkozy's jogging for excessive swing. as his libyan spring is turning into a. city paris. in a few minutes we ask if one death can do america's afghan nation after hundred guys have brothers killed by his own garden party reports and how puts the u.s. on the back foot in tackling its taliban. the clock is ticking for america's rival politicians to agree on the next move and sorting out its soaring debt congress needs to raise a current fourteen point three trillion dollar debt ceiling to avoid defaulting and president obama wants parties to ignore their differences to avert armageddon the

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's a risk the u.s. could fail to resolve the deadlock quickly or effectively by seek mellor from business insider website says both democrats and republicans understand the danger is further borrowing dangerous for. the impact on the u.s. economy the world economy and the global economy really depends on what the credit agencies do. you know we heard from moody's on wednesday and from s. and p. growth warning severe college surprised if the government doesn't raise the debt ceiling in time including a possible downgrade from the government's aaa rating that increase costs not just for the federal government but for seven thousand miss apologies across the country the united states i don't think anybody thinks united states is getting away with this anyway longer there. sort of reached the point where it everybody in both parties agrees that the debt is just too high and they're just they can't borrow any more you can't be borrowing for you know the sort of annual expenditures it's

not a sustainable model for a country if this debt ceiling goes up or if the u.s. credit rating is downgraded then that would have you know sort of the current bit of the current recession and slow down the recovery. things are a little better in europe with italy now the focus of stopping to eurozone heading into oblivion roams approved a tough seventy billion euro cuts package to avoid a debt i found it's a eurozone third largest economy and could prove too big for its neighbors to bail out meanwhile ninety european banks have failed stress tests to see if they can survive another financial crisis and actual writer patrick young says the people's response to the budget cuts. there will be one significant difference between the people who take to the streets between greece and italy and that is that they greece at least thank goodness the taxi drivers don't go on strike where is nuclei expected almost everybody is going to end up on strike and it's going to be absolutely chaotic the only way they can slip this through is perhaps because we do

have this long lead in time until the cuts really start to make an impact in two thousand and thirteen but i think the problem is in the meantime a large amount of the sort of the leftist opposition in italy to see the fact that silvio berlusconi due to many of the reasons most of which are outside of the direct for school reason are well i mean he's a wounded animal at this point in time and in some ways i think that he's going to be finding it very difficult to hold his government together there are big problems in western europe the havens to be definitely to the east everyone fortunately expect further to the crisis because the epidemic the contagion seems to be spreading and we have no political leadership seeming to do with it. let's now take a look at some other stories from around the world to nishan police used tear gas and sharp rounds into the air to disperse a crowd and who torched a police station in the capital the clash followed an incident on friday when security forces fired tear gas to break up a demonstration in

a mosque and the city many tunisians remain unhappy with the way the interim leaders are ruling the country since january's revolution that ousted president ben ali. egyptian foreign minister has resigned ahead of a massive reshuffle spurred by renewed public protests but only been in the jar for a month 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 a little change at the top says president mubarak was ousted. the un's first humanitarian delivery for somalia's drought victims has arrived just over a week since the aid ban was lifted islamised insurgents which rule 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 eastern africa's worst drought in decades. the taliban's calling the assassination

of the afghan president's half brother its biggest achievement in a decade that kind of our province chief was gunned down by one of his bodyguards on tuesday girl as jerry van dyke who survived taliban captivity says the death is a blow to the u.s. led war effort. well 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 us 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 building and 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 that country because in the one nine hundred eighty s. when i worked as a route newspaper reporter in afghanistan there were negotiations between the then 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 get to stand like al qaeda it is in pakistan it cannot operate there independently it has to have institutional backing. and the struggle for land rights in israel there is one place that still no area fifty years ago was a thriving palestinian community but it was driven out and now israel's eyeing it up as a luxury getaway i guess policy or has the story. in this sort of the mountains of

jerusalem of the remains of a once bustling community only the memories of those who once lived here have survived intact i feel you know and you had to come back to be. my dream and. to sing the hobson's of this ring. to remind. my car that. got caught up among the cacti and fick trees but 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 really were heard shooting. they will shoot to the rhythm of the whole the whole caboodle whole. our mother took us inside the room in

a corner and then there so as to bring. us here 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 jewish state almost new palestinian who lived in london for. if he was forced to do just because he was rewritten he is considered as absentee and he lost the property in the early one nine hundred fifty s. jews moved into the abandoned homes like you only your comments parents they were also refugees fleeing arab countries we like it become dangerous after israel was created these really government simply to live in lifter your nieces to prevent arab owners from returning when the current here on live here years without water without electricity can hear our job there and for the memory here is 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 is how those for forty six years all that remains are stone walls where wild flowers and grass now grow litter 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 concert there will also be documentation and the story will be told of who lived there as we do in all the neighborhoods of jerusalem but maybe like a cool sade's palestinian land and a double injustice. one. hour. and. yanni where for that there are three world came from anywhere in this where

why i can't move in my village and come back if they're back to my precinct and live. with me. and so i'm going for kindest unions lifter is a physical the mind 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 here every time they drive into jerusalem or to see r t lift or. olive raises after they hear in our she'll be back with a recap our top stories in just a few moments states. will

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