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a turn for in recognition and access to could obvious it's by their fighters struggle to get to grips the ground. plus the west's empty wallet as america and the eurozone race to save their collapsing economies in the face of soaring debt and plummeting credit scores. which in our view live from moscow with memory in a joshie the operation to lift the cruiser which sank last sunday the 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 so martin is following developments on the banks of the volga river nearby. we're in the initial stages of quite a complex operation to try and raise the sunken dog 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 for 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 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 it could be bodies trapped underneath the left side of that ship it's also going to need to be righted so it's it's on an even keel before they can lift it worth of

the first stages of al fastening the cooling cords and then we stabilize the keel 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 are fixed properly we spend most of our time for a period as for the looting itself in war take very long so as you heard there although all the importance is in the groundwork of 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 sit to sink the ship and when the divers find out they're going to have to repair that hole and pump the water out before they can live to see it 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 be answered every. talking about why this ship sank 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 study together for a year she never had arguments with anyone 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 is that people were basically buried alive anti-matter coffin he 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 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 he saw it through a window in the ceiling or started pushing people and through it at that moment waves pushed me up on the surface and then sort of 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 at the scene and she was surrounded by people screaming and drowning unable to reach the banks of the vast river three. monitors away. as we approached it was hard to distinguish in the dark water of 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 hours before. the divers in 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 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 hadn't even

been renovated for a while before that there were big problems with the engines and power generators i repeatedly mentioned 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 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 blocks emergency exits criminal cases have been opened and arrests been made to the bulgaria. and more controversially into whites from ships which weeks the scene before the hour didn't pick up a single person reports the crew members instead to a prediction in their mobile phones that a way of his. old cars. and as was shown there were about seventy people on a raft and many hundreds cuts and the injuries that were bleeding we yelled for

help when i saw the boards on some story and it's a different direction towards. the slow process of raising the bulgaria has no stop it up with it will come the potential for sins but also terrible memories in particular associated with the ship's place where a group of children were gathered when the ship sunk. just some of the young victims in what will go down as one of russia's worst and most employees of the shipping disasters from boston all to. the captain of a ship that saved seventy seven people from drowning in the volga river has been talking to our team we'll bring you his account of what happened in about twenty minutes down. for an hour he's been following the intense search and recovery operation over the past seven days you can stay in touch with what's happening by this ng are going on or our due to challenge we're also hosting the elements on our

twitter stream and facebook page. is. the. britain's government is denying it was too close to rupert 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 murdoch has spent the past forty eight hours apology. and with full page ads in british newspapers i mean in the family of a young murder victim whose voicemail was intercepted the media moguls now deployed

p.r. guru to rescue news corp's reputation for facing scrutiny from m.p.'s about his papers and ethical methods there is a get out britain's news shelves this sunday after merck hastily axed the best selling news of the world has claimed swirled of illegally tapping the phones of crime victims and their soldiers' families as more and it reports itself watershed moment for the uneasy relationship between britain's hard issues and press. the media will put into own t.v. radio even the scariest thought 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 that 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. 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 be 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 will for example be the guardian. it's our growth. and it's not just rival newspapers who stand to

gain from murdoch's empire crumbling that 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. because. you know. that would suit the government just fine the british press is famous for it 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 quoted as the townspeople put up their own newspaper and he's almost right. it is possible you

can truly the media because of rupert murdoch he is room 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 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 growth 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 ever its artsy. investigative journalist paul ussher marceau scare has compromised britain's prime minister. well it was quite a big threat to david cameron because it's the first time we've seen his judgment quite clearly brought seriously into question the decision to use and because certain who between the editor of the news of the world when some of these events

were taking place as his press advisor it was clearly a very very bad judgment and it's thrown to him and he now is trying his best to make clear blue water between him and news international what you've got to see about this is that this is a very proud we are proud of it it's a good we have good journalism because it's cautious of a guardian like nick davis of the you really have been consistently campaigning on this issue against the enormous political pressure from the complaints you know the media complaints places here against news international they've kept going i'm a bit suppose this so that's a good work ethic of journalists but i think that actually may turn the tide because it's going to be a very brave editor but now accidents on one's own or does it you know it looks at somebody's medical records because they are seeing what's happening to those who have so in terms of ethical journalism you know i think it might be

a breakthrough i think this could be some serious ramifications for the press generally but seriously. this may be a good thing. in a few minutes we asked if one death can do america's afghan mission after her eyes eyes half brother is killed by his own guard our team reports on how it hurts the u.s. on of back food that's happening to tell about. 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 stamboul the alliance of western and arab nations working on the crisis announced it would deal with the opposition until an answer and authority is in place the recognition by the cons aggro also gives the rebels access to billions of dollars of gadhafi 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 student when the united states usually doesn't extend diplomatic recognition to a regime that is not in the capital that isn't. and doesn't even seem likely to be able to achieve power any time 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 the diplomatic relations with the west even though the taliban 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 seeing and certainly there's no doubt that traditionally there's always been a very high component of jihad. around benghazi so it's realistic to assume that that is not still because the u.s.

has an amazing how it should be a skewed school of hundred dollar bills to third world countries and expecting them to end up in the right hands. really. the high level recognition of the rebels may bolster their spirit but it's a different story in combat fierce fighting for a keystone oil town as and with heavy casualties among the opposition as daniel bushell reports it's thought france is now trying the talking tactic with the libyan regime after failing to deliver a knockout blow to gadhafi. books is like bragging will destroy the reporter lives there off the wrong and gets a milstein surprise i thought french foreign minister should pay both did france would libya encroached days weeks the wars into a fourth month the final round inside nicolas sarkozy with his western allies seem sure their little opponents fighting back well it's not just an

embarrassment for stark with some advice from for. the whole west paris even admits libya's rebels put it on some somalia. wench to libya for training within the last two or three years 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 but in some cases we are effectively arming al-qaeda. it's all making a mockery of the un vote on foreign intervention in the country. giving a. number of. witnesses made to pull the good of libya's causing widespread atrocities for every one military

person that was supposedly a casualty there were ten civilians frauds categorically ruled out saying we drilled troops but expose predict is the only way you know it's a great libyan bad luck the moves the splitting the nato coalition silvio berlusconi head of cheap italy admits invading libya was a mistake rocher of staying with votes building bombs would bring havoc in libya which plays a belated tools to help support the kids of rough will cause. actually. you know with elections just moisten months away thought voices that a successful war could resurrect his chills is instead one paper royds libya's becoming a. cold crutch for all of the deeply unpopular president. so it is easy jogging for. people as he's a libyan supreme is to. 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 default again president obama wants parties to ignore their differences to avert armageddon the leading credit rating agencies are already threatening to downgrade americans triple a 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 great investment alice maxwell believes america's debt addiction means there won't be huge for. america's been dead for years this is a disaster in the making i would liken this situation here to a cancerous tumor inside a body there's no better time to cut the cancerous tumor out as 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 usually about how the government spending too much and should live within its means the debt ceiling debate 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 red. new is acceptable i don't other side 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 seat 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. sayings are a little better in europe with italy now the focus of starting to eurozone heading

into oblivion rome's approved tough seventy billion euro 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 nineteen european banks have failed stress tests to see if they could survive another financial crisis financial writer patrick young says the italian people's response to the budget cuts will kill greece. will be one significant difference between the people who take to the streets between greece and italy and greece at least thank goodness the taxi drivers don't go on strike where is nuclei expect 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 for see the fact that

silvio berlusconi due to many of the reasons most of which are outside of the direct 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 it's a big problems in western europe behave them to be more definitely to the east everyone fortunately expect further to the prizes because the epidemic can change and seems to be spreading and we have no political leadership seeming to do with it . take a look at some other stories from around the world tunisian police used tear gas and shout 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 in a mosque in the city manager reasons remain unhappy with the way interim leaders are ruling the country since january's revolution that ousted president ben ali. if your foreign minister has resigned ahead of

a massive reshuffle spurred by renewed public protests he'd only been in the job for a month but the interim prime minister has been forced to make changes after a widespread anger over of the government's record street crowds returns to cairo as many believe little changed at the top as president mubarak was ousted. the un's first humanitarian delivery for somalia's drought victims has arrived just over a week since a ban was lifted his largest insurgence which rule large parts of somalia imposed 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 east 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 the fans agenda america is steaming ahead with deploying its anti-missile shield in europe despite objections from moscow russia feels the system could compromise its own nuclear

arsenal at a joint missile defense program but that's been brushed aside by washington and nato the u.s. is also refusing to provide legally binding guarantees that system is not a against russia so you love rauf stressed to the voice of russia radio and washington no 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 the response to what is received as being the purpose of the system we want at this particular moment to stick to the original agreement that means there will be no parts of the system which would. compromise which would. create three six for the strategic stability and for the but then sure will. in the strategic stability area in the new strategic arsenal so good participants of the

system. counted on calling the assassination of the afghan president's half brother its biggest achievement in a decade a car province chief was gunned down by one of his bodyguards on tuesday journalist gerry van dyke who survived taliban captivity says the death is a blow to the u.s. led war effort while the car as it was not just the governor of 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 you know 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 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

a 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 newspaper reporter in afghanistan there were negotiations between the dean of the united states the soviet union pakistan pakistan does not want to rush 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 in afghanistan like al qaida it is in pakistan it cannot operate there independently it has to institutional backing. i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in just a few moments stephen us. see

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