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 preparing as for the lifting itself it will take very long so as you heard there although 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 left the water in whatever managed to to see 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 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. the most 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 and even in pakistan is that people were basically buried alive in anti-matter 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 window and the sailor started pushing people out through it at that moment we've pushed me up on the surface and then i saw that 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 she was surrounded by people screaming and drowning unable to reach the banks of the vast river three kilometers away. as we approached it was hard to distinguish in the dark water people who were alive from the rubble that was floating around people were in panic when we rescued them in a state of shock some suffering from other traumas they were all covered in oil

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 a few others were found. but 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 ageing dangerous and badly managed vessel eyewitnesses and people connected with the ship came forward with a damning account 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. has

repeatedly mentioned that to the management and even had an argument with the 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 tricity generators failing so that no s.o.s. signal or tunnel instructions could be issued and blocked emergency exits criminal cases had been opened and arrests been made to the bulgaria sinking and more controversially into why two ships which we seem to fall the arabella didn't pick up a single person but reports the crew members instead took her pictures on their mobile phones whatever you have is a good review and you with your 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 boards 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 since but also terrible memories in particular associated with the ship's place where a group of children were gathered when the ship sank. just some of the young victims in what will go down as one of russia's worst and most of voidable shipping disasters tom bottom party. the captain of a ship that saved seventy seven people from drowning in a vulgar river has been talking to r.t. or bring you his account of what happened next hour. he has been following the intense search and recovery operation over the past seven days we can stay in touch with what's happening by visiting r.t. dot com or our you tube channel and we're also posting developments on our twitter stream and facebook page.

the problem is going to. be to be. a little. britain's government is denying it was too close or of murdoch's media empire as it scrambles to distance itself from the firm that's mired in the phone hacking claims but records show prime minister david cameron held more than twenty meetings was murdered executives in the past year murdoch has spent the last 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 sports reputation before facing scrutiny from employees about

his papers on ethical methods there is a gap on britain's news shelves this sunday after a murder case really x. the best selling news of the world has claimed swirled of illegally tapping the phones of crime victims and dead soldiers families as the war and it reports it's a watershed moment for the an easy relationship between britain's politicians and the press. the media put in tone t v do you even the scariest when thought imitates life the long running simpsons takes a shorter to rupert murdoch aka montgomery burns in an episode broadcast apparently coincidentally this week. but it's not the only old 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 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. 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. that would suit the government just fine the british press is famous for its shop teeth and no holds barred doggedness particularly where its own government is concerned prime minister david cameron has all but shut down the press complaints commission and already talks of statutory controls to govern print journalists back in springfield mr burns is to water it as the townspeople open up their own newspaper and he's almost right we possible can truly the media. rupert murdoch. murdoch found as did mr burns that you just can't

all the newspapers those outside his control have been gunning for him for years and this time they may have succeeded just as he looks set to consolidate control over a launch section of the e.u. case media markets the drugs being pulled out from under him and it's all over the hidden scandal now revealed that the police have known about it for years nor ever . anymore i had including a story of injustice and survival are to reports from an ancient arab community that's being lined up as a luxurious israeli resort almost half a century after palestinians were forced out. leave as rattles 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 stand all 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 could obvious frozen assets in u.s. banks but political commentator ted rall says the money and status quo 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 it a regime that is not in the accountable 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 sixty 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 joint 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 to 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 realistic to assume that that is not still the case the u.s. has an amazing how it should be a skids full of hundred dollar bills to third world countries and expecting them to end up in the right hands. really going to have. the high level recognition of the rebels may bolster their spirit but it's a different story in combat fierce fighting for a key oil town has ended with heavy casualties among the opposition as daniel bushell reports it's thought france is now trying the talking tactic was a libyan regime after failing to deliver and knockout blow to get off easy. books is like bragging they'll destroy their opponents they're often wrong and gets a surprise. i french foreign minister

ship a boasted france would win libya in quote days or weeks the war's into a fourth month no final round inside nicolas sarkozy with his western allies seeing short 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 being libya's rebels but on some somalia. wench to libya for training within the last two or three years that's documented we have to fly records and everything else so it seems strange in many ways the whole western support of some of that i will 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. by leading it.

giving. this. witness is nato bombing of libya as causing widespread atrocities for every one military personnel that was supposedly a casualty there were ten civilians frauds categorically ruled out sending troops to take sports predict is the only way male to break the libyan deadlock the moves the splitting the nato coalition silvio berlusconi head of keep italy admits invading libya was a mistake russia abstained in the us vote warning foreign bombs would bring havoc in libya which play said the latest talks of counterpart sergei lavrov will quote. with elections just the way folk would voice is that a successful war good for the rich chills is instead one paper roy libby is

becoming a. crutch for the president. so. this is libyan spring is to. see. 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 the folding and president obama wants parties to ignore their differences to avert armageddon the leading credit rating agencies are already threatening to downgrade america's triple a credit score for the first time in over ten years the say there is the u.s. could fail to resolve the deadlock quickly or effectively mellor from the business insider website says both democrats and republicans understand the dangerous further borrowing. and the impact on the u.s.

economy the world economy and the global economy really depends on what the credit agencies do. you know we heard from moody's on wednesday and then from s. and p. both warning severe consequences if the government doesn't raise the debt ceiling in time including a possible downgrade from the government's aaa rating and that increases borrowing costs not just for the federal government but for seven thousand across the country the united states i don't think anybody thinks united states is getting away with this any longer they've sort of reached the point where every everybody in both parties agrees that the debt is just too high and they're just they can't borrow any more you can't be borrowing for you know specific annual expenditures it's not a sustainable model for any country if this debt ceiling goes up or if the u.s. credit rating is downgraded that would have you know sort of. the current session and slow down the recovery. things are a little better in europe italy now the focus of stopping the euro zone heading into oblivion roams approved a tough seventy billion euro cuts package to avoid

a debt wipeout it's the euro zone's third largest economy and could prove too big for its neighbors to. meanwhile eight out of ninety european banks have failed stress tests to see if they could survive another financial crisis economics professional patrick says some e.u. countries may have to accept the fold as wealthier nations no longer want to pay for their costly rescue. but i think we've known all along that a lot of banks in europe north would not stress tests if these stress tests included the possibility of sovereign default because of course they've got loads of greek and portuguese and spanish debt and so there was never any question that one of the reasons why it might be in germany is interest to greece is that it's if it doesn't it's going to have a banking crisis of its own and will have to bailout its own banks but i think the judgment of the taxpayer is they'd rather buy a lot of their own buying if they have to then keep on giving money to greeks who

may never get to give it back to them so there's nobody really impressed by these rich northern countries and therefore the other countries have to think of some way of getting by and that's going to be default. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world to new zealand police used tear gas and shot rounds into the air to disperse a crowd who torched a police station in the capital the clash followed an incident on friday when security forces fired tear gas to break up a demonstration in a mosque in the city many tunisians 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 reshuffle spurred by renewed public protests that only went in the 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

little has changed at the top since president mubarak was ousted. israel is for bidding its citizens from campaigning against or boycotting jewish settlements on occupied palestinian territory the new law is already being criticized for violating free speech and stifling democracy prime minister netanyahu faced a stormy parliamentary session on wednesday as he tried to defend the bill some lawmakers walked out the legislation imposes fines on israeli and i settlement activists and allow settlers to sue them for compensation m r from the boy. divestment and sanctions movement in the mas says the bill will only make the pro palestinian action stronger. because israel has never been a democracy never be a democracy so long as it's an apartheid state so long as it turns your flaws discriminating between its jewish jewish citizens so long as it did no millions of

palestinian refugees the right to return home as it continues with its occupation of the west bank including this truce of them as well as gaza so a country committing such violations of international law of basic human rights cannot call its. a democracy professor illan poppy those three to his story and maybe how to try to win he said israel is ahead in four which is a democracy only for the master class not for everyone if anything israel is going it's really pushing fast forward and digging the grave of its occupation and apartheid as long as palestinian rights are not respected by israel as well as the occupation continues apartheid continues then i look refugee rights continuous palestinians have no choice but to continue to resist to continue to struggle in the struggle for land rights in israel there is one place that still and no go area fifty years ago it was a thriving palestinian community but it was driven out and now israel's eye it up

as a luxury getaway artist policy your has a story. nestled 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 this had to come back and to be. my community and. since this rain. my pride that that. among the cacti and fit trees but the 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 the new head of sure thing. and. they really should do the whole

a whole day with a whole. hour mother took us inside the room in the corner and then the playground so as to protect us here cook 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 lived his house in london for. if he was forced to do just because he was 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 or your husband's parents they were also refugees fleeing arab countries we life had become dangerous after israel was created these really government sent him to live in lifter the only says to prevent arab owners from returning when they came here on me for believe here years without water without electricity came here. for the memory here as

a very important most of the original two hundred jewish families lived because life in the mountains was difficult and the government was slow to develop the area no one has lived in these houses for forty six years all that remains are stone walls where wild flowers and grass grow this is empty. and it's into that emptiness that the israeli government now plans to build more than two hundred luxury homes a chicago tell 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 lived there as we do in all the neighborhoods of jerusalem but maybe luckier could say it's palestinian land and a double injustice why you want to destroy our house and.

yanni. for that there are three world came from anywhere in this way i can move in my village and come back. return back to my village and live in. this new me. and so i'm going for palestinians lifter is a physical the minder 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 now be back with a recap our top stories in just a few moments. it's

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back you're watching our team and let's take a look at today's news and the week's top stories to recovery crews started the somber task of lifting the ship that rapidly went down in the fall river last sunday taking nearly one hundred thirty wives relatives and investigators hope raising the vessel will help establish why the disaster occurred. rupert murdock's story saga the tycoon publicly to save his stricken empire and the allies leave and the police close in both sides of the atlantic the news corp mobile faces a grilling by british m.p.'s and allegations of hacking the phones of nine eleven victims. losing battles but

winning the war of the libyan rebels are in foreign recognition and access to gadhafi assets but their fighters struggle to get to grips on the ground the opposition's failing to advance in the strategic eastern oil town suffering the casualties. plus the west's empty wallet as america and the eurozone brace to save their collapsing economies in the face of soaring debt implementing credit scores the u.s. congress needs to raise the debt ceiling to avoid default while italy's on the verge of meeting a bailout. next r t takes you into the heart of siberia were east meets west. the region deep in the siberian far east is one of russia's newest territories. two thousand and eight it brought together the chip. regions and with it

a striking mix of asian and european culture. traveling around you can find buddhist temples spooling national parks and remote villages that still practice traditions that date back a thousand years but if you're flying here in the regions vibrant capital. one of. course the best way to get to know is to have a local show you around. a bit of what life is like in the. just over three hundred thousand people and it's a real mismatch of styles it's one of the only cities in russia that's based on a grid system and the downtown area has some beautiful european influenced architecture. the more soviet and in dust.