india oh she's available in the moviegoer the joint the hotel rooms the i love you that's a great way to go to the grand imperial truly the george west coast coromandel you can a letter to the socialism which says 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 r.t. your recovery crews start a somber task of lifting the ship that gravelly went down in the volga river last sunday taking nearly one hundred thirty lives. as the operation which will raise the song some bold area get some the way both investigates. awaits you from sears bring you all the details from the recovery site in just a moment. rupert murdoch's sorry saga tycoon publicly it sound why the save his stricken empire is more oil allies leave and the police close in on both sides of the atlantic. losing battles but winning the war and even rebels earn foreign

recognition and access to khadafi assets but they are fighters struggle to get to grips on the ground. plus the west and the wallet as america and the eurozone race to save their collapsing economies in the face of soaring debt and plummeting credit scores. eleven am in the russian capital you watching our tionne marina joshie the operation to lift the cruiser which sank less sunday in a volga river is about to start it's still unclear why the boat went down quickly dragging half of those on board to their deaths tabards following developments bang some nearby town recovery crews say everything is just about ready to lift the boat so how long is that likely to take. well marina that's

a question many people are asking not just yet seems to be the answer at the moment we're in the initial stages of quite a complex operation to try and raise the sunken bug area which will hopefully help to reveal where the remaining bodies that haven't been found yet are and hopefully provide the answer as to why the ship sank and sank so fast at the moment a dive platform a few kilometers into the river behind me boats keep ferrying a foot from the base camp here taking divers and crews out to that platform where two huge cranes have been brought up from volgograd further downstream down the river and those cranes have now been used to attach cables to enormous cables around the bottom of the sunken bowl garia now the complications that there are with lifting the ship are all pretty much due to things that happened in those few disastrous minutes last sunday and the first is that the ship when it when it sank

and then fell to the bottom it fell on to its left side which mean it means that there could be bodies trapped underneath the left side of that ship and it's also going to need to be righted so it's it's on an even keel before they can lift it so what will happen is and what's due to supposedly according to the information we have could start very shortly is that that ship will be righted in preparation to be lifted divers will then be able to go under and search potentially for bodies that may have been trapped underneath that ship and we heard earlier from one of the local deputy transport ministers what some of those difficulties in the state is that they are in operation. the sets of eyes on the door the first stage is about fastening the pulling cords and then we stabilize the kewl after that we raise the ship and finally we transported to dock the most important part is putting the slings in place and making sure they're fixed properly we spend most of our time repairing asked for the lifting itself it will take very long. so as you

heard there all the all the importance is in the groundwork for preparing the lifting another very important moment is going to be when they just start to lift the ship they're going to try and send the divers in to search for essentially for the hole that let all the water in whatever managed to sink the ship and when the divers find out they're going to have to repair that hole and pump all the water out before they can lift the step so in both of those operations they met that may also at the same time hopefully provide answers as to where these remaining fifteen bodies are and also beyond so that everyone is talking about why this ship sank but absolutely tom investigation is going on at the moment trying to answer that very question so recovering the vessel were while recovering the vessel in fact made a major difference to having best occasions on. absolutely it definitely will at the moment there are still fifteen families relatives of those fifteen people on

the banks who is still waiting just the news other people how the news about what happened to their relatives a long time ago these people are part of a very long agonizing wait and they're as well as wanting to know where their loved ones are they going to want to know the same as the investigators what caused such a disastrously fast sinking and it's thought that there's been many theories and revelations about what may have happened to the ship criminal investigations have been launched and the first sort of arrests were made a few days ago into why this ship may have sunk one of the lady who was in charge of the company the rented the boat was a rescue she was thought maybe she knew about the poor quality of the ship that's been so much talked about before it set sail as was a shipping expert who had cleared the ship to sail some time before so those are

just two examples of the the lengths to which authorities are going to try and find out why the ship sunk so fast once the ship starts to be raised its hopes it will what has been so mysterious up to now will become instantly obvious but for more about the background of this of this disastrous sinking we prepared a report let's look back over the past week but disaster itself and the aftermath a mountain of cuddle e 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 study together for a year she never had arguments with anyone she was a very kind girl and was always ready to help. a ship sank in just three minutes turning a summer afternoon on the river into

a scene of horror. is that people were basically buried alive and trying metal coffin we 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 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 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 series started pushing people out through the back we've pushed me up on the surface and then i saw the

board was already underwater. over half the bulgaria's two hundred mate passengers and crew including the captain his wife and child never made itself 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 the 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. the divers and cranes working in this water have been trying to recover just something. 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 aging dangerous and badly managed better eyewitnesses people connected with the ship came forward with a damning account of its poor condition on the stingy management who forced it to keep sailing. i became captain of the vessel in two thousand and seven ship hadn't even been renovated for a while before that there were big problems with the engines and power generators repeatedly mention that to the management and even had an argument with them portal for at least 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 about and including a broken engine attic tricity 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 to the bulgarian. and more controversially into why three ships which we've seen before well it didn't pick up a single person reports the crew members instead took her choice of on their mobile phones the way it is here to go with you and you with your old passengers were shocked there were about seventeen people on a raft and many have cuts and injuries that were bleeding or yelled for help i saw the board passers by in a different direction towards cars on. the slow process of raising the bulgaria has now started up with it will come the potential for answers but also terrible memories in particular associated with the ship's place or a group of children were gathered when the ship sank. just some of the. victims you know what will go down as one of russia's worst and most affordable shipping

disasters from boston. and the captain of a ship that saved seventy seven people from drowning in the volga river has been talking to r.t. watch his interview right here in just over an hour. artie's been following the intense search and recovery operation over the past seven days you can stay in touch with what's happening by visiting r.t. dot com or our you tube channel we're also posting developments on our twitter stream on facebook which. is.

britain's government is the nih 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 but records show prime minister david cameron held more than twenty meetings with murder executives in the past year has spanned the past forty eight hours apologizing with full page ads in british newspapers and meeting the family of a young murder victim whose voicemail was intercepted the media moguls now deployed p.r. gurus to rescue news corp's reputation before facing scrutiny from m.p.'s about his papers on ethical methods there is a gaffe on britain's news shelves this sunday after murdoch hastily axed the best selling news of the world as claims swirled of illegally tapping the phones of crime victims and dead soldiers' families as laura emma reports it's a watershed moment for any of the easy relationship between britain's politicians and press. but every media outlet in town t.v.

radio even the screenwriter when 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 have had since about two thousand and forty thousand and five and yet they promise trace evidence of criminal activity by these individuals and boy. power 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. look 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 you could have transferred some of the profits from. investing in the times and if you are for example of the guardian or the daily telegraph you would welcome that it's not just 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 be. all. that would see.

government just fine the british press is famous for its shock teeth and no holds barred doggedness particularly where its own government is concerned prime minister david cameron has shut down the press complaints commission and already talked of statutory controls to government print journalists back in springfield mr burns's thought it was the townspeople put up their own newspaper and he's almost right we . can truly the media. the 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 it is 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 with rocks 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 newer and it's hot seat. finding more ahead including a story of injustice and survival are reports from a nation arab community that's being lined up as a with juries is really resort almost half of a century after a palestinians were forced out. libya's rebels have become the legitimate power holders in the country in the eyes of more nations after the u.s. and more than thirty other countries recognize them on friday at a diplomatic meeting in a standoff the alliance of western and arab nations working on the crisis announced it would deal with the opposition until an interim authority is in place the recognition by the contact group also gives the rebels access to billions of dollars of khadafi is frozen assets in u.s. banks but political commentator ted rall says 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 a regime that is not in the capital that isn't in power 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 civil conflict there between the taliban and the northern alliance the northern alliance were the former regime that had power in kabul and into our diplomatic relations with the west even though the taliban controlled ninety five percent of the country it's always 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 saying and certainly there's no doubt that traditionally there's always been a very high component of jihadi around benghazi so it's unrealistic to assume that that isn't 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 against the really going to happen. and i love all recognition of the rebels may go through their spirit but it's a different story in combat fierce fighting for a key is turned while town has ended with heavy casualties among the opposition as they are bushnell reports its start france is now trying the talking tactic whether libyan regime after failing to deliver a knockout blow to gadhafi. knock out. the check. books is like bragging will destroy the reported rooms they're often wrong and gets a nasty surprise. french foreign minister should pay both did france would libya in quote days or weeks the war's into a fourth month and the final round inside. sarkozy with his western allies seen short little opponents fighting back well it's not just an environment

of sarkozy and for all nato for the whole west paris even admits libya's rebels will return 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 because in some cases i think we are effectively arming al-qaeda. it's all making a mockery of the un vote on foreign intervention in the country. person. none of. this. witness says they too will be go of libya's causing widespread atrocities for every one military person that was supposedly a casualty there were ten civilians frauds categorically ruled else in the room

troops but exposed predict is the only way to break the law to the splitting the nato coalition silvio berlusconi head of italy admits invading libya was that mistake. the us votes. would bring havoc in libya to play said the latest tool to kill the support. for a plea. deal with elections just annoying months away saw voices that a successful war could resurrect his chills is instead one paper writes libya's becoming a slow motion cold crutch for france's deeply unpopular president. sarkozy's a jogging for excessive sweating is understandable this is libyan spring which is turning into a marathon the new bush will see paris. 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 a current fourteen point three trillion dollar debt ceiling to avoid defaulting and president obama wants parties to ignore differences to avert armageddon 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 effectively and even if the budget is approved fund managers say it's unlikely to solve america's debt. you know and the state's already has been downgraded in the world markets every i'm not the only person who knows that the united states is the largest debtor nation in the history of the world look at the value of the u.s. dollar is down fairly significantly over the past few years they have to increase the debt ceiling for the moment there's no question about their choice so for the

future is they've got to take an axe you know they've got to take a chainsaw to government spending and do something about it they're not going to do that they might announce they're going to do it for this to get the budget ceiling passed but it's not going to have any effect everybody sees that washington is not going to solve this problem and more and more people are looking for something to replace the u.s. dollars. things are a little better in europe with italy now the focus of stopping the eurozone heading into oblivion realms approved a tough seventy billion euro cuts package to avoid a debt wiped out it's the euro zone's third largest economy and could prove too big for its neighbors to bail out while eight out of ninety european banks have failed stress tests to see if they could survive another financial crisis british euro m.p. paul natal told us the latest developments proves the single currency union is simply not working you know 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 be great to get out of this mess is for those countries to go back home to their national policies to devalue moving. on to exports going in at the moment because if you say that because they couldn't see the controls by frankfurt they control about european central bank they're not controlled by athens or lisbon or even thought would be for the people out on the streets in athens and i just wonder how long it will be before the people out in the streets in rome run in lisbon i mean this thing is contagious this thing will move right across the continent specifically in the mediterranean and the bigger issue you know facing the european union is italy is really is the third largest economy in the eurozone the least largest economy in the world i think the eurozone can actually cope with greece and portugal smaller economies but if italy grows the whole thing could cave in because if italy goes italy's economy into triumph with spain's and spain and italy go then we are in

serious trouble. let's now take a look at some other stories from around the world police used tear gas and shot rounds into the air to disperse a crowd 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 at a mosque in the city manager nugent's remain unhappy with the way interim leaders are ruling the country since january's revolution that ousted president ben ali. egypt's foreign minister has resigned ahead of a massive reshuffles heard by renewed public protests it only been a job for a month but the interim prime minister has been forced to make changes after widespread anger over the government's record street crowds returned to cairo as many believe a little strange that the top since president mubarak was ousted. in the struggle for land rights in israel there's one place that still

a no go area fifty years ago it was a thriving palestinian community but it was driven out and now israel's eyeing it up as a luxury getaway our disposal your has the story this what in the mountains of jerusalem are the remains of a once bustling arab community only the memories of those who once lived here have survived intact i feel it's. come back to be. my village. and since this rain. my car that. grew up among the cacti and fig trees but in one nine hundred forty eight just before the state of israel was declared his family evacuated and like the hundreds of villages that disappeared in forty eight and sixty seven most of the original houses of lifter are still here so they heard two

thousand. he shouted. they will shoot you the rhythm of the whole caboodle hold. our mother took us inside the room in a corner and then the so as to prove to us you could 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 the indian forty nevertheless he was forced to do just because you were rewritten he is considered as absentee and he lost the property in the early one nine hundred fifty s. the jews moved into the abandoned homes like you only your comments parents they were also refugees fleeing arab countries will likely become dangerous after israel was created he's ready government simply to live in lifter the only says to prevent

arab owners from returning when the current here on live here years without water without electricity came here. for this memory here as the very end for the 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 we wild flowers and grass now grow litter is empty. and it's into that emptiness that the israeli government now plans to build more than two hundred luxury homes a ship hotel shops and a newseum 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 of who live there as we do in all the neighborhoods of jerusalem but many like you could say it's palestinian land and

a double injustice why you want to destroy our. i mean and for that there are three words came from anywhere in this where right i can move and my feelings and come back. i think back to my breathing amid. all this for me. and so i'm going for palestinians lift 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 if you time they climbed into jerusalem to see r t lift i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in just a few moments take us. first

tree removal call that a clear cut. second explains our use of plastic deeper than the cure. her remains are written by machinery. finally someone who actually is going to judge investment fees. on a.