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 we heard earlier from one of the local deputy transport ministers what some of those difficulties in the stages that they are in the operation. on the surface on the first stage is about fastening the pulling cords 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 won't take very long and. so as you heard there all the all the importances in the ground work 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 a century for the hole that let all the water in whatever managed to stick to sink the ship and when the divers find that they're going to have to repair that hole and pump all the water out before they can lift the ship 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 the answer that everyone is talking about why this ship sank. well absolutely tom investigation is going on at the moment trying to answer that very question so recovering the vessel will recovering the vessel in fact make a major difference to how the investigation is going. absolutely it definitely will at the moment there are still fifteen families relatives of of those fifteen people on the banks who is still waiting desperately for news other people how the news about what happened to their relatives a long time ago these people have had a

a very long an agonizing wait and there 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 arrests that 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 sets sail as was a shipping expert who had cleared the ship to sail some time before so those are just two examples of the lengths to which these are going to try and find out why the ship sunk so fast once the ship starts to be raised it's hoped 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 the disaster itself and the aftermath a mountain of cuddly toys never to be played with they the flowers and candles are 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 a new 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. 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 too much water when i was pulled out i realized my child was gone in the chaos to escape 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 that water was rising very quickly it was a matter of seconds i survived because we saw. the sailor started pushing people out through it. up on the surface and then i saw that the boy was already underwater. over half the bulgaria's two hundred eighty 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 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 fuel that was leaking from a 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. 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 and 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 had made and 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 thora t. 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 tricity generators failing so that no s.o.s. signal or tunnel instructions could be issued and blocks emergency exits criminal cases have been opened and arrests being made to the bulgaria. and more controversially into whites the ships which reach the scene before the pilot didn't

pick up a single person reports the crew members instead took through their mobile phones. all the passengers were shocked there were about seventeen people on a raft many had cuts and injuries that were bleeding we yelled for help i saw the bullets passers by in a different direction towards. 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. young victims in what will go down as one of russia's worst and most avoidable shipping disasters tom bottomed out. and the captain of a ship that saved seventy seven people from drowning in the volga river has been talking to 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 our facebook page. is. the. british government is the ny it was too close to 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 murdoch executives in the past year murdoch has spanned the past forty eight hours apologizing with full page ads in the british newspapers and meeting the family of a young murder victim whose voicemail was intercepted the media mogul's 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 gap on britain's news shelves this sunday after a murder case that we axed the best selling news of the world as claims swirled of illegally tapping the phones of crime victims and dead soldiers' families as more and reports it's a watershed moment for the young easy relationship between britain's politicians and press. but every media outlet in tune t.v. even the sky. when it imitates life the long running simpsons takes the show to its own no 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 that seems to get more scandalous every day the list of something like four thousand names which the police have have since about two thousand and four two 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. look sure to go ahead his rival the guardian newspaper releases catastrophic allegations of amoral 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. 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. producing. 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 talk to us. tree controls to go up and print journalists back in springfield mr burns is thwarted as the townspeople put up their own newspaper and he's almost right we. can truly the media because of rupert murdoch he is really beautiful murdoch found as did mr burns that you just come by 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 lot 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 is nowhere and it's all up to eat. plenty more ahead including a story of injustice and survival are you reports from an ancient arab community that's being lined up as i would your reasons really resort almost half of

a century after a palestinians were forced out of. 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 stamp of 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 cantera group also gives the rebels access to billions of dollars of kid office 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 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 thousand nine hundred 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 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 in and around benghazi so it's unrealistic to assume that that is not still the case the u.s. has an amazing how that shipping skids full of hundred dollar bills to third world countries and expecting them to end up in the right hands and that's not really going to happen. now level recognition of the rebels may bolster 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 bushel reports it's thought france is now trying the talking tactic whether libyan regime after failing to deliver a knockout blow to get off. tell me which. books is like bragging will destroy the republicans they're often wrong and gets a surprise. french foreign minister pay boasted france would win libya in quote days or weeks the war's into a fourth month and the final round inside the sarkozy with his western allies seem short their little opponents fighting back well it's not just an embarrassment for sarkozy it's an embarrassment for all nato for the whole west paris even admits libya's rebels but it's on some somalia went to libya for

training within the last two or three years just documented we have to fly records and everything else so it seems strange and 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 u.n. vote old forward into the country. giving. none of. the. witnesses. of libya is causing widespread atrocities for every one military person that was supposedly a casualty there were ten should be all you. categorically ruled out same room troops but experience predict is the only way to break the libyan. the moves the

splitting the nato coalition silvio berlusconi head of italy admits invading libya was a mistake role should abstain did the us votes. bring havoc in libya which let you play said the latest tool to help support. diplomats. with elections just moyen months away so go it forces said a successful war could resurrect his chills this instead one paper writes libya's becoming a slow motion crash for france's deeply unpopular president. so it is easy jogging for excessive sweating is understandable this is libyan spring which is turning into a mouse and. 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 the current fourteen point three trillion dollar debt ceiling to avoid defaulting

and president obama once parties to ignore their 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 is. secondly and even if the budget is approved fund managers say it's unlikely to solve america's debt. the united states 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 that their choice though for the future is they've got to take an x. no 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 was 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 if the euro zone's third largest economy and could prove too big for its neighbors to bail out meanwhile 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 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 column in the mediterranean in line with economies like germany fast growing economies like germany was never going to work the only way to get out of this mess is for those countries to go back home to their national currencies to devalue

their growth moving. into exports going in at the moment they come because they're just because they couldn't see these are controlled by frankfurt they're controlled by the european central bank they're not controlled by athens or lisbon or even top of the people out on the streets in athens and i just wonder how long it will be before the people i will clean streets in rome run in lisbon and talk about 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 this 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 if italy goes the whole thing could cave in because if italy goes it's of these economies intertwined with spain's and of spain and italy go then we are in serious trouble. let's now take a look at some other stories from around the world to police used tear gas and shot rounds into the air to disperse a crowd of 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 prime minister has resigned ahead of a massive reshuffles bird virus a new public protest he'd 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 return to cairo as many believe little with changed at 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 year has

a story this old in 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 it's known you had me come back and bring. my bridge. to see since this rain also due to. my tribe that. you're coup de grew up among the cacti and fit 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 move ahead of truth and. and shouted mama. they will shoot through the middle of the hall get a hold with the hope they will shoot through the. our mother took us inside the

room in the corner and then the table so as to protect 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 jewish state almost inevitable as the man who lived his house in london for nevertheless if he was forced to do just because he was three it and 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 and your husband's parents they were also refugees fleeing arab countries we life had become dangerous after israel was created these really government sent them to live in lifter your nieces to prevent arab owners from returning or in their came here on their for the believe here years without water without electricity the came here to jordan and for the memory

here as a very important most of the original two hundred jewish families left because life in the mountains was difficult and the government was slow to develop the area no one has lived to me is how those for forty six years all that remains are stone walls where wild flowers and grass grow if 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 of who live there as we do in all the neighborhoods of jerusalem but many like your could say it's palestinian land and a double injustice why you want to destroy our house and. yanni. forward there are three world came from anywhere in this thread

why i can move in my village and come back. return back to my village and live. this new me. and. so i'm going for palestinians lifta is 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 here every time they drive into jerusalem policy r.t. lifter. avi back with a recap of our top stories in just a few moments. the

first tree removal called clear cut. second explosives are used to blast two baby birds in the. third the remains are removed by machinery. in valley feel.

welcome back you're watching live from moscow here's a look at today's news and the week's top story recovery start the software task of lifting a ship that rapidly went down in the volga river last sunday taking nearly one hundred thirty lives. said investigators hope raising the vessel will help establish why the disaster occurred. the tycoon publicly pizza to save the stricken empire as loyal allies leave and the police close in on both sides of the atlantic the news corp mobile faces a grilling by british m.p.'s and allegations of hurting the phones of nine eleven victims and losing battles but winning the war of the libyan rebels earn foreign

recognition and access to put up the assets but they are buyers struggle to get to grips on the ground the opposition is failing to advance on a strategic eastern oil town suffer and heavy casualties. plus the west am de walt as america and the eurozone brace to save their collapsing economies in the face of storing data plummeting credit scores of u.s. congress needs to raise the debt ceiling to avoid default while italy's on the verge of needing a bailout. next an award winning documentary about one of the greatest environmental and human rights disasters in american history. on the day of this interview the small creek less than one mile from their home flows black and that's not normal that's coming from an abandoned komondor it's come from sorry. i don't know. what to expect

and i'll call it. maybe a few more years mop. i'm not helpless went down tremendously. and i don't ever look to be health wise i don't ever look at these times and i don't think there's anything i can do to help me. but i only thing i want now i want good water i want them to quit pump and are quitting jade and whatever they're doing i want them to quit that. and. it's all my life to be better. for the last twenty years. it's been hard. you can't make it without good water. louis. blues.