the move to the joint field to the violence the gateway to the grand imperial through the torch was the. new cana with the socialism that you see don't need to go and. read this in the kernel was hotel to retreat. today's news on the week's top stories from artsy and recovery crews to start the task of lifting the ship went down in the volga river last sunday taking a leave one hundred and thirty flights. as the operation to raise the sunken bowl garia gets underway both investigators and. bringing all the details from the recovery sites in just a moment. rupert murdoch's sorry saga tycoon a publicly eat humble pie to save his stricken empire his loyal allies leave from the police close in on both sides of the atlantic. losing battles but winning the

war the libyan rebels the foreign a recognition and access to khadafi assets and the struggle to get to grips on the ground. glass of the west's empty wallet as america and the eurozone race to save the collapsing economy in the face of soaring debt and plummeting credit score. we are highlighting the stories that made headlines this week welcome to the weekly the operation to lift the cruiser which sank last sunday in the volga river is about to start and still unclear why the boat went down quickly dropping half of those on board to their deaths. following developments on the banks of the volga 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 for a foot from the base camp here taking divers and crews out so 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 gold garia now the complications that there are with lifting the ship are all pretty much due to things that happened in those few disastrous minutes last sunday and the first is that the ship when it when it sank and then fell to the bottom it fell on to its left side which mean it means that there could be bodies trapped underneath the left side of that ship and it's also going to need to be righted so it's it's on an even keel before they can lift it

further the first stage is about fastening the cooling cords and then we stabilize the kewl after that we raise the ship and finally we transported to dock the most important part is putting the slings in place in making sure they're fixed properly and we spend most of our time for a period as for the lifting itself in war take very long so as you heard there although all the importance is in the ground work 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 lets 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 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 the answer to every. talking about white ship sank a mountain of cuddly toys never to be played like they are 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 studied together for a year she never had arguments with anyone she was very kind girl and was always ready to help. ship sank in just three minutes turning a summer afternoon on the river into a scene of horror even is that people were basically buried alive and trying metal coughing they managed to get out through the windows i was there with my ten year old daughter i couldn't rescue her she swallowed see much water when i was pulled out i realized my child was gone in the chaos to escape and many other families were also torn apart one five year old boy lost his mother and grandmother and was only kept afloat by a man who grabbed his hand another man unable to hold on to his son in the strong

current oil slick had to watch him drown in front of him yuri was the deejay for the disco on the bottom deck he only just managed to escape. and i remember clearly that water was rising very quickly it was a matter of seconds i survived because we saw a broken window and the cellar started pushing people out through it at that moment on the surface and then sort of the board was already underwater. over half the whole area is 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. as 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 field 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 from. 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 people connected with the ship came forward with damning accounts of its poor condition and the stingy management who forced it to keep sailing. i became captain of the vessel in two thousand and seven ship had 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 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 or more tales of bounds including a broken engine electricity generators failing so that no s.o.s. signal or tunnel instructions could be issued and blocked emergency exits criminal cases have been opened and arrests being made to the bulgaria. and more controversially into white ships which we've seen before well it didn't pick up a single person reports the crew members instead to through their mobile phones where you have his. hands. as was shown there were about seventeen people in a raft and many have cuts and injuries that were bleeding or yelled for help i saw

the expenses dying in a different direction many of them towards because honestly i'm. a slow process of raising the bulgaria has no start it up with it will come the potential to on 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 from boston so it's. called a captain of a ship that saved seventy seven people from drowning in the volga river has been talking to us here about so you i will bring you his account of what happened in around twenty minutes time you stay with us for that. following the intense search and recovery operation of the possible ways you can stay in touch with what's happening by visiting. or our you tube channel we're also posting developments on our twitter stream and facebook.

is the. same. you're watching the weekly here on artsy britain's government has been denying that it was too close to rupert murdoch's media empire as it scrambles to distance itself from the firm that's my own phone hacking claims but records show prime minister david cameron held more than twenty meetings with murdoch executives in the past year alone. spent the past forty eight hours apologizing full page ads on saturday and sunday in britain's newspapers beating the family of a young murder victim whose voicemail was intercepted by media moguls now deployed

a p.r. guru to rescue the new school's reputation before facing scrutiny from m.p.'s about his papers on ethical methods there's a go on britain's news channel the sunday after murdoch hastily backed the best selling news of the world its claims swirled of illegally tapping the phones of crime victims and dead soldiers families. laura reports it's a watershed moment for the uneasy relationship between britain's politicians and the press. put every media outlet in town t.v. read you even the scary. part imitates life the long running simpsons takes a shot at 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 had since about two thousand and forty thousand and five and yet they got promise facie evidence of criminal activity by these individuals and by the murdoch empire and yet they've 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 he's rival the guardian newspaper. leases catastrophic allegations of a moral journalists and their shady practices that when the deal collapses the times for example which currently loses money you could have transferred some of the profits. into investing in the times for example. or growth it 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. that would suit the government just fine the british press is famous for its shot 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 thought it as the townspeople open up their own newspaper and he's almost right. it is possible and truly the media.

murdoch found out stick mr burns that you just can't buy 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 reveals that the police have known about it for years nor have it out. and plenty more ahead for you here on the program including a story of injustice and survival was from an ancient arab community that's being light up as a luxury israeli resort almost half a century part of the palestinians were forced out. libya's rebels have become a legitimate power holders and a 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 istanbul the alliance of western and arab nations working on the crisis said it would deal with the opposition until an interim authority is in place the recognition also gives the rebels access to billions of dollars of gadhafi is frozen assets in u.s. banks the high level of knowledge may bolster opposition spirit but it's a different story in combat fierce fighting for a key eastern oil town has ended up with petty casualties all among the insurgents and as artie's it daniel bushell to france is now trying to talk with the libyan regime after failing to deliver a knockout punch to. books is lloyd brigade will destroy the report they're off to the wrong and gets a surprise. french foreign minister should pay boosted france would we need libya in quotes days weeks it was into a fourth month and the final round in saw it. because the with his with the now

lawyers seem short little opponents pointing back well it's not just an embarrassment for sarkozy it's embarrassing for all nato for the whole west paris even to me it's all being libya's rebels going to turn some somalia. went to libya for training within the last two or three years that's documented we have to fly records and everything else so it seems strange in many ways the whole western support of some of the rebel groups in libya must be questioned because in some cases i think we are effectively arming al-qaeda. it's all making a mockery of the u.n. votes on foreign intervention in the country. none of. this. witnesses have made of libya's causing widespread atrocities for every. military person that was supposedly

a casualty there were ten civilians frauds categorically ruled out sending grilled troops but experts predict is the only way you know it's a break the libyan deadlock the moves the splitting the nato coalition silvio berlusconi head of key partners italy admits invading libya was a mistake russia abstained in the un's vote warning bombs would bring havoc in libya to play said the latest tool to come to court so you can love rothwell court lloyd lee diplomats speak for a pleased to grow old with elections just annoying months away so why is it a successful war could resurrect his chances instead one paper roys libya's becoming a slow motion crash for france's deeply unpopular president sarkozy's a jogging found excessive sweating is understandable as his libyan spring is

turning into a marathon and the new bush will see paris. anytime a french opposition advisor says that nato is campaign is moving towards an iraq style scenario with foreign some libyan soil. any conflict which is entering a stall mate means that you have to bring the boys on the ground that means we have to have our boys killed on the ground that means we're going to have again and the iraqi syrian scenario it's for sure only airstrikes are not sufficient enough to reach your targets there is no war zone which can be won just what you're striking we have to think about another solution for libya and it's special because we are very worried about the threat that we know now that islamists are behind the scene of the rebellion it's not ok to it's a part of it which are operating as well in syria and egypt i mean the whole region is falling in the hands of islamist moderate or not for us this is

a big problem. you would r.t. it's good to have you with us on this sunday now the clock is ticking for america's rival politicians to agree on the next move in sorting out its soaring that congress needs to raise the current fourteen point three trillion dollars debt ceiling to avoid defaulting and president obama wants parties to ignore their differences to avert armageddon the leading credit rating agencies are already threatening to downgrade america's aaa credit score for the first time in over a decade they say there's a risk the u.s. could fail to resolve the deadlock quickly or effectively economist dr roger says that american politicians just can't comprehend solutions to the deficit. there's a personality conflict between the majority leader and the president which is quite unique and this has been taken into the public avenue of discussion once that happens and trust is lost when leaders it's far more difficult to secure an agreement behind the scenes if you cut spending you're going to also impede

economic growth because the government is one of the largest employers if you bring troops home and stop the wars you also have a problem with employment as servicemen and women come home these are classic economic problems what's required in the u.s. is a drastic program of infrastructure development and public jobs to guarantee wages and no interest loans for average americans if italy defaults for instance in europe it will be impossible for northern europe to bail out italy that will take the u.s. over if the dollar significantly loses value when the u.s. is unable to help europe that will in turn trick the u.s. down the japanese no more have do not have sufficient liquidity to help this time around as they did in two thousand and eight the euro is intrinsically we the one is not a competitor for the dollar the ruble stands to be fairly stable given russia's standing as a major energy producer a natural resource giant on the world scene so the ruble should remain relatively

stable the dollar however has nothing to go down against except that rank and if you look at the dollar and the franc that monetary relationship is an all time low and that portends trouble for the future the best two currencies probably other norwegian krone in the source frame at this point gold is over traded and as we saw in two thousand and eight there can be a paradoxical drop in the price of gold during a market market crisis so betting on gold is a highly risky proposition. well things are little better in europe with italy now the focus of stopping the eurozone heading into oblivion approved a tough seventy billion euro cut package to avoid a debt wiped out it's the euro zone's third largest economy could prove too big for its neighbors to bail out meanwhile eight out of ninety eight european banks have failed stress tests to see if they can survive another financial crisis british people novel told us the latest developments prove that a single currency union simply is not like. this was always about politics it was

not about economics the idea that you could have a connelly's in the mediterranean in line with economies like germany fast growing economies like germany was never going to wait the only way to get out of this mess is for those countries to go back home to their national couldn't see the value lost moving. on to exports going in at the moment they can't because they're there 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 hold even thought we see the people out on the streets in athens and i just wonder how long it will be before the people out in streets in rome and in lisbon i mean talk about this thing is contagious this thing will move right across the continent specifically in the mediterranean the bigger issue now facing the european union is italy italy is the third largest economy in the eurozone this late largest economy in the world i think the eurozone can actually cope with greece and portugal very small economy if italy goes the whole thing could cave in because if italy goes

italy's economy is in that's why and with spain's and spain we go then we are in serious trouble. all right as we're running down the week's top stories here on r.t. let's pause for a moment and check out some of today's world news police used tear gas and short rounds into the air to disperse a crowd who tossed a police station in the capital a clash followed an incident on friday when security forces fired tear gas to break up a demonstration and not skin the city many tunisians remain unhappy with the way interim leaders are ruling the country rather 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 he'd only been 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 crowds returned to cairo as many believe little's change since president mubarak was ousted. the u.s. led coalition in afghanistan has handed control over one of the country's thirty

four provinces to local security forces it's the first step in a gradual handover of power of the end of nato has come out of orations in afghanistan in two thousand and fourteen the money on province has remained relatively peaceful throughout the near decade long occupation of the country. in the struggle for land rights in israel there's one place that still no go area fifty years ago it was a thriving palestinian community but it was driven out israel's i get up as a luxury get away for this leader has the 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 by foods haven't come back and when. my. i've seen the hobson's of the world this. also to remind. my car that.

there could be a 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 really were heard jordan. and child. bride they will shoot you the the whole caboodle whole people whole. our mother took us inside the room in a corner and the period. with us it 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. he was forced to do just because you were free and he is considered as

absentee and he lost the property in the early one nine hundred fifty s. the jews moved into the abandoned homes like your new york and spare ins they were also refugees fleeing arab countries where life had become dangerous after israel was created these ready government sent him to live in gift or your niece is to prevent arab owners from returning or undercurrent here on live here near as without water without electricity the current here to draw the line for this memory here is the very. most of the original two hundred jewish families lived because life in the mountains was difficult and the government was slow to develop the area no one has lived in is how those for forty six years all that remains are stone walls we wild flowers and grass no grow if there is empty. and it's into battle emptiness that the israeli government now plans to build more than two hundred luxury homes a chic hotel shops and the museum insisting they'll preserve the area's history we

will find ourselves with a neighborhood where history has been concert there will also be guppy mentation 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. yeah me. for. three will came from anywhere in this weird way i can really come back. i came back to my village and living. with. this so i'm getting the palestinians lift is a physical reminder of injustice and survival but for a fair number of israelis it's an eyesore they'd rather not be reminded of what

happened here if you time they climbed into jerusalem put a c.r.t. lifter. all right i will do a quick summary of the yacht of that we can hear out in just a few moments to start with us on the back and that are two minutes.

with the end of the boer war and they're going the way of the soviet union many people thought that nuclear weapons disappeared in the risk is not zero that something might be going off by mistake specially of sounds of nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert. because of a difference to using a day as a three it all as an extra bit but you know if you keep spinning a trillion dollars a year on weapons of venture you're going to blow everybody up you can you know people are dying from these weapons but until we actually see it people don't wake up to know through weapons or build the new. that represents all the firepower of the second world war and this second sound is the equivalent firepower of the world's nuclear arsenal today. wealthy british style sun it's apparent that sometimes that is not accurate.

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