tragic picture that we saw what condition where those people in where they panic stricken where they sang. when we got them on board we had so much to deal with of course they were panic stricken they were in deep shock what happened is quite horrible my crew members who were involved in rescue works they were deeply involved to some people were in a dreadful condition many were injured they had a oil all over their skin because when the ship sank the fuel oil came up to the surface and spread everywhere and covered the people that made rescue even harder because the oil made the victims greasy and hard to get a holes to pull them on board seeing children and a condition that was particularly heartbreaking. and cowardly it was very hard on survivors pattern and this is a tragedy. as far as i know although it may be wrong but i understand that only one family survived the wreck without losing any members most people did lose their close and loved ones and yes indeed it was very hard for both on the survivors and

on us to we all feel very deeply for them. right there is just about it's ask you how your crew were coping with it and how are they doing now it must have been hugely stressful was that another one of that will when we couldn't afford to think about stress we had to do all we could to prevent panic spreading and of course each of us felt it deep inside but we had to remain calm and professional to control our feelings. and succeeded in saving so many people a total of seven to seven what helped you do that was there anything in particular that helped. you know i find it hard to say what helped us because after that storm there was a brief period of calm and it happened just as we approached the wreck site that short moment of calm allowed us to pull people on board but once the rescue operation was over and we went to investigate the wreck site again the rough weather came back on the water was very rough again we got there just in time as for the crew. well i already said that they performed in the best possible way but

everyone acted very competently the speed of the crew significantly helped save people's lives they just wanted to get the job done how many passengers were on board at that time and how did they react lesson about one of the one of the arabella was packed to full capacity at the time one hundred fifty passengers they acted like heroes i use this loud word deliberately they helped a lot they consoled the injured and there were doctors among the tourists on the arabella they assisted the ship's medic as he rendered first aid and they gave a lot of psychological support to survivors that was very important because i thought. you know if you've got the people who survived the ship cracked all the journalists that when they found themselves in the water and the boat sank they were instantly pulled under that water that's the rock and then pumped out to the surface again one observer sat he thought it looked as though the sinking boat from the sort of funnel that put everything in what happens in reality the more than

that so that of course a sinking boat can pull objects floating on the surface under the water because of the huge water displacement that churns the water into wolf whirlpool that can suck people live about it but people who were afloat when the ship sank most of found enormous strength to fight the whirlpool and return to the surface it is difficult to tell because i have never been in their shoes and i can't imagine what it would be like had they been in the water for long before you pick them up but amounts about it i can't be precise about that but i think they were in the water for half an hour or so but also some of them are trying to get into life rafts others were still in the water it's just for a few theories of how this tragedy could have happened and one of them sas on the boat had tack around the facts you saw the bulgarian dock sometime before the sinking it's not a factor to you those that you see not all technical defects can be seen from outside experts say that the crews are listed to one side a book of what i don't know how dangerous this was for the passengers because i'm not over the video with ships of this type. i never worked on not design of the

young but it listed and everyone knows it as for the technical state of the cruiser i say again that i can't pass judgment because i never inspected its engine but if it is very difficult to tell if you don't know the particulars you'll there i'm with mrs francis out of both this it to the right even when it was dark so the listing was visible when i'm not sure it was her so because i wasn't there and i want to ask you this question is it true but then we go to you i told you just now that the boat was listing but i can't tell you how critical it was to the ship of what happened to talk with the crew of the bulgarian before the boat sailed what were they thinking if they consider the possibility that something might happen to tell you about it that unless they affected us aboard the queen the arabella dr bull got in with it was one of the planned stops better we occupied the second birth while the bulgaria was tied at the first one they were leaving at eleven o'clock and we stayed till to thirteen hundred hours when they were sailing off we had to maneuver in order to let the boat out and continue its cruise when we berth

in the morning i went ashore in spite of the former captain of the boat in the current second mate of the bulgarian another me another little of in the center of the main deck if he had worked with the bulgaria from the very beginning back in the times when she was called ukraine he was the captain of the ukraine but old age prevented him from remaining in charge because it is an exhausting post the captain works very hard and it's too tiring for an old man but he realized this and decided step down to the major position because it is easier and better for the older man what he did not want to leave the bulgaria ukraine his mother ship and i approached him and we chatted a bit we shook hands and i asked him mr nozzle are you tired of sailing at your age and he told me with this sadness you know that he's got nothing to do at home his wife had passed away a few years ago and all that was left for him as a consolation was his job but the most memorable thing he told me one that stuck in my mind was when he he said. didn't want to sail this year was i don't know he just

didn't feel like sailing this season and then this thing happened i see him from the way you're attacking this story he's no longer alive that was a hoax and that's right sadly he is gone and his body was recovered and identified it's such a pity he was a good man and a true captain such a pity is it true that the ship sank really fast yes you know i've spoken to some of the witnesses i mean survivors of course there are different versions but i attribute this to shock because they just couldn't get their thoughts together and were rather confused about it but they still say it took the ship something in like two or three maybe five minutes to sink and that really is a very short time and it is difficult to lower any boats or rafts in the meantime with a strong lurch like that brace up somehow that and that suggest that it is possible that the accident could claim so many lives because it all happened so fast but i suspect that it's talk about this or vassals that as many claim passed the bulgaria

that they were just passed by why didn't they stop at the scene what was going on but why did a package get in and i saw well we were approaching the site of the tragedy practically simultaneously with one other vessel but a heavy duty towboat with a large barge maybe it was a little bit ahead of us i don't know why they didn't stop in front of the size if they saw it happening and i can't say whether they saw it all leadership but by the time they decided to hold and come to the rescue we were already there oh i don't i don't know maybe it was because of the ship's mass characteristics and inertia maybe they had tried to stop earlier than that anyway but at that moment we were there and the ship's presence at that spot could be counterproductive and hazardous for the people who were in the water and below the surface which would have put us in that situation it was paramount that we avoided konica disaster situation but that it was necessary to observe the scene of the accident and it was necessary to start rescuing people immediately but anyway i think we did it all faster than this ownership. i would have because at that moment there was just so little time for

both of us and both you had radek on that with us yes but we had contact but we just exchanged a few phrases i merely told her captor that it was pointless for him to try to rescue anyone at that moment and i asked him to move ahead a little so as not to impede our rescue operation a dark moment there was no use for his help that's what i can tell you maybe if it had been rendered earlier it could have come in handy but at that time there was no point in it and a sign that you don't want to blame anyone but at that moment it was already too late he should have bracket there in their work with he would have to hold the ship low or a boat would move but we were already approaching the site in our ship and that i already had boats afloat and advancing towards the site and his boat what could it do we were practically beginning to collect the people from the water once again i'm not trying to accuse him was i don't know his vessels mass and inertia characteristics maybe he needed much more time to stop his ship and lower blows but i wouldn't rule that actually i was just assessing the situation realistically at

that moment and i figured that there was no use for his boat there at the time you see what was supposed to be a orders in that situation or not but of course i'm a captain of one ship he is a captain of another ship i couldn't give him any orders or instructions because he doesn't report to me and now some people in the press are already twisting the story saying i ordered him not to stop it if it didn't rise herself and had been the captain of the other ship and you were told it should move on and your help was of no here's what would you to. but i can't imagine myself a captain of that ship i don't want to offend anyone it's just that i don't know what i would do if i were in his shoes at the moment but if i had seen all that happening right in front of me or simply saw people overboard i swear i would have done the same as i did being on my ship thank you very much.

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having casualties. plus the west sam to wallet as american and the eurozone race to save their collapsing economies in the face of soaring debt and plummeting credit scores u.s. congress needs to raise the debt ceiling to avoid default while italy's on the verge of needing a bailout. time now for a sports update with natasha. welcome to the sports news live in our team thanks for joining us the headlines carlos service misses his penalty shot to let your reply not his son see that alex and the call for america while their root reach the seventies for the first time since nineteen ninety seven. darren clarke leads the way after three days of the british open with the us and johnson alone in second then bad weather continues to play the

one hundred forty eighth edition of the major. and also local man thomas butler retains the yellow jersey two weeks into the france while you're live on the death of belgian wins at today's stage fourteen. let's begin with football where half of the copa america semifinalists have been decided you're a while through after knocking out this. penalty is your why i needed six minutes to take the lead to go full free kick from the head of sciri your own battling the area across the board to diego pair is to open the scoring the argentine allies in the eighteenth minute though messi sending a precise cross to eat grain ahead of the ball into the net for one one now ninety minutes of play didn't find the women neither did the extra time forcing the highly intense emotion to a penalty shoot out when manchester city striker carlos this wouldn't be the goalkeeper meaning you're a wise because sarah's would then fire the winning goal for their fourteen time

copa america when i was. so europe while upset the crowd to make it into the last four. that i did truth is that yesterday we were watching a compilation of penalties from the club game so that players and it turned out to be really helpful because when the time came i remembered it helped me keep calm and without doubt it gives you a certain attitude and looking at who's going to fix the short begins with confidence. and they will play a pair o. who defeated the other calls and no girls scored in regulation so this one also went to overtime but their own managed a double in extra time it will become those who still lobato and finally break. after a hundred and two minutes with this powerful shot and the goalkeeper is mistake and piru sealed the victory sam minutes later i'll say paulo guerrero found one

monorail vargas in the box but made no mistake for the final result of two kneel. and stay with the ball while much to see the captain to have his couldn't convert that penalty against uruguay they probably league side defeated club america in the world club challenge as part of the north american till after exchanging some missed opportunities early on they pulled ahead in the seventy two minute try and mcgivern one thousand as far as gold pulled their citizens up to a powerful cross from shown right phillips and a clumsy error from the mexican defender who simply fell down in the area right phillip seem sell them out of manchester city's second goal all the like ten minutes later the english international will reportedly leave for another premier league side this made it to neil city travel to take on canadiens f.c. white caps on monday. and down south in los angeles david beckham's form a side real madrid made these a work of his star and to l.a.

galaxy beating them for as long as the last appears to be game under control from the start scoring twice in the close off oh say tell me your answers sell over those goals cristiano ronaldo and carry a modern added one each to go play the route while adam chris mun pulling the consolation goal for the house galaxy style back i'm spent nearly now on the fiction failed to school but received a call from useful. moving you. to go now where darren clarke will answer the last day of the british open as the man to gauge. and i played the firing off a round of sixty nine to ensure he would take the wants to lead into the final day dustin johnson had taken coming from clarke at one stage during the back nine o'clock wrestled him back with a twelve to fourteen rickie fowler seen here and thomas bjorn two shots behind jostling around humanise alongside lucas glover tied for fifth rory mcilroy

meanwhile dropped from the dogs and for overall training next round of seventy four . other people from. here this week you know i think they were expecting you to be speaking to rory at this stage and so i think that. you know if you supported me which is fantastic but not just a bit different every put it all the way through the crowd you know sort of i don't know maybe the end of the for a little bit more with me just a guy that likes a painter to just enjoy himself and you know the credit been fantastic cycling and we're now two thirds of the way through this year's tour de france with belgium here live on the celebrating his maiden stage we had on saturday that victory after stage fourteen also sold the omega farm a lot to ride a go top of the king of the mountains classification vanderjagt just two points ahead of spain someone else who trailed by twenty one seconds to come in second and the snake was third fastest twenty five seconds for the back meanwhile local hopeful told most vocal retained the jersey after finishing with the peloton

sunday's fifteenth stage will be a one hundred and ninety five kilometer run from the momentum on the year likely to end in a sprint finish. misty may train and kerri walsh have won the moscow leg of the world beach volleyball tour the reigning olympic champions upsetting the current world number one powering brazil's larissa giuliana reports. the last go round of the world beach volleyball chaw has become a regular fixture of the russian capital summer sporting calendar how were the ones for competition reaches its business and a lack of russians battling it out for medals has unfortunately become an all too familiar occurrence this year was to prove no exception and time is running out for the london olympics to to get underway in just a year's time however the reigning olympic champions misty main kerry walsh are

optimistic that russia could start to improve soon i was here last summer and they actually have a good kids program you know development program and they're just they're catching up to the rest of the world that india is where they're big things so there is a developmental program in the works and they are bringing players that it's just taking you know it's take a little time but. there's some good young tools in their developmental so you know we play to wrestle teams this weekend and they're so young and they're. no less russia could do well to take a leaf out of china's book the sport doesn't have a long tradition in even country however china just like in practically every sport from a fantastic strides in the two thousand and eight beijing bronze medalist explained why. that turned out and i'll have that benefit now with a part of. who she couldn't make it all the way to the final but they were played italian pair of mini gutty and she chalabi the bronze medal home the chinese would

easily take the first cent they started in the second degree game be a composure when it matters most take the decider and seal first place. for the main event of the day so the reigning world champions let the sun giuliana from brazil take on the currently big gold medal is misty may and carrie walsh of the u.s. saying. the american jew have been in the best of form with fear of a hit back brilliant. to see all of one sided match in straight sets and gain a much needed confidence boost for the london olympics just around the corner so i think that's what's driving us right now you know i know i think about it every term every day of training but i'm not overlooking anything you know but to be a three time god medalist and i swear to be amazing if that but i know what he's done to get to the one three you know we're capable of that so we want to do it for you are saying they have a very brazilian rivals of bread to feed this season and a good crowd was formerly entertained by one of those fans will be hoping one day

they'll be able to cheer the victory of a russian jew and hopefully for them this will happen sooner rather than later which of them hopefully don't see. now multiple standings later cases still in a has secured his sixth well the same is not the prevailing in qualifying for sunday's german grand prix it was a giant session that the results and rain has shown in former world champion stone aging out some on the team a danny jones as well title holder jorge lorenzo will come play the front row on the greens early pacesetter marcus and shelley set to start for from the green despite dominating both of friday's practice sessions. we struggled a little bit this morning until the end of the practice we did. and. on the end which was a race distance so we're really happy with that but it still wasn't quite fast enough so this afternoon we worked a lot more on those bikes going into different directions and we managed to make

big step forward each time we try and tried something different so at the end there we were able to run some really good life times with hard and then. you know with the softer i would be able to be that you know quite a bit but unfortunately couldn't really go any faster. so you would love to see. the top owners in the cars sanction all this while all this prize dominates of the truck scans agree ahead of the health they read a ride as the seven days of racing covering nearly four thousand kilometers across russia while options claim victory on the final stage from white gold to socially nine times a car with the frenchman's to try and sell second wave russian alexander to shoulder rounding out the podium in the third in the trucks category look prize who won the final stage on the overall title claiming his maiden victory in an international race come ons drivers for those could be at off and andre got to do you know where overall second and third respectively.

and finally some said news russian tennis player sickly bottom of a has revealed she has cancer the world number one see a choosing to make the announcement on her twenty second birthday on saturday he bought a hasn't played the match since may missing both the french open and wimbledon in a message on the w.c. website the moscow and said she's been treated well excuse me in pool but added she was hopeful of a chance to return to the schools either treatment is successful in the coming months. that sport for the moment joy may get into all this time and coming up shortly as to whether.

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a struggle to get the brits on the ground. plus the west's anti wallet as america and the eurozone race to save their collapsing economies in the face of soaring debt and plummeting credit scores. one pm of the russian capital you're watching r t on marina joshie the operation to lift a cruiser which sank last sunday in 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 barton's following developments on the banks of the volga river in nearby. 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 this ship sank and sank so fast at the moment a dive platform a few kilometers into the river behind me boats keep ferrying effort from the base camp here taking divers and crews out to that platform where to 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 fell 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 on a little on the first stage is about fastening the cooling cords.