joyce leave it to the home of the let's begin we go to the grand imperial through the george wesley to school until you can tell the most religiously to see don't need to go and. read this and the colonel was hotel as you secure a treat. today's news and the week's top stories from our t.v. and recovery crews start. lifting the ship that rapidly went down in the polgar republic sunday taking nearly one hundred thirty lives as the operation to raise the sunken bowl get really get some the way both investigators and bullets. will bring you all the details from the recovery sites in just a moment. report sorry saga the tycoon publicly eats humble pie to save his stricken empire as loyal allies leave and the police close in on both sides of the atlantic. losing battles but winning the war the libyan rebels are foreign

a recognition and access to these assets but their fighters struggle to get to grips on the ground. plus the west's empty wallet as america and the eurozone in a race to save their collapsing economies in the face of soaring debt and plummeting critics will say. you're watching the weekly on r.t. with the main headlines of the past week showing the operation to lift the cruiser which sank last sunday and the is about to start it's still unclear why the boat went down quickly dragging half of those on board to their deaths. is following developments on the banks of the balkan thereby. 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 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 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 was one of the first stages about fastening the pulling cords and then we

stabilized 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 appearing as for the lifting itself in war take very long so as you heard there all the all the importance is in the ground work the pairing 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 put a hole that left a lot of water in whatever managed to to sink the ship and when the divers find out 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 to every. talking about white ships are 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 bulgaria sank in the volga last sunday. the most we studied together for a year she never had on humans for the one she was a very kind girl and was always ready to help its ship sank in just three minutes turning a summer afternoon on the river into a scene of horror didn't just disaster people were basically buried alive in china rattle coffin they managed to get out through the windows i was there with my ten year old daughter i couldn't rescue her she small i 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 and

a strong current oil slicks had to watch him drown in front of him yuri was the d.j. 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 them going to the sailor started pushing people experience but that moment we can show you up on the surface and then it's all over 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 itself meanwhile as the arabella another pleasure boat arrived to the scene and she was surrounded by people screaming and drowning unable to reach the banks of the vast river freaks. a moment where as we approached it was hard to distinguish in the dark or to people who were alive from the rubble that was floating around that people were in panic when we receive 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. the divers in 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 badly managed vessel eyewitnesses people connected with the ship came forward with a damning account of its poor condition and the stingy management forced to keep sailing. i became captain of the vessel in two thousand ship had neede been renovated for a while before 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 more tales of bounds including a broken engine electricity generators failing so that no s.o.s. signal or tunnel instructions could be issues and blocks emergency exits criminal cases you know from and arrests being made to the care. and more controversially to one speech which the scene before well it didn't take up a single person course the crew numbers instead to through their phones the way you're busy. we'll show there were people in a raft or in any house caught some injuries that were bleeding we yelled for help

and i saw the police passers by in a different direction feels towards because of. the slow process of raising the bulgaria has now started up with it will come the potential for instance but also terrible memories in particular associated with the ship's place or a group of children who gathered when the ship sank. just some of the young victims you in what will go down as one of russia's worst and most avoidable shift change in substance from bottom. well the captain of a ship that saved seventy seven people from drowning in the volga river has been talking to us here at r.t. we'll bring you his account of what happened and a little over an hour after years of being a following of the intense so recovery operation over the past seven days you can stay in touch with what's happening by visiting www dot com or our. travel we're also posting developments on our twitter stream and crisper page.

is. approaching i ten minutes past the hour here in the russian capital with artsy britain's government is denying it was too close to rupert murdoch's media empire scrambles to distance itself from the firm that's mired in phone hacking claims but records show prime minister david cameron held more than twenty meetings with murdoch executives in the past year has spent the last forty eight hours apologizing full page ads. on saturday and sunday in britain's newspapers and beating the family of a young bird a victim whose voicemail was intercepted the media mogul's deployed a p.r.

ruse to rescue news corps reputation before facing scrutiny from m.p.'s about his papers on ethical matters there as i go on britain's news channels the sunday after about hastily axed the wrestling news of the world its claims swirled of illegally tapping the phones of crime victims and soldiers' families. reports it's a watershed moment for the uneasy relationship between britain's politicians and the press. good every media world wouldn't own t.v. read you even the screen. when fox imitates life the long running simpsons takes a shot at it rupert murdoch aka more comrie 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 promise facie evidence of criminal activity by these individuals and boy 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. look 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 you could have transferred some of the profits. into investing in the times and if you are for example the guardian all of the daily telegraph you would welcome that. but 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. you in. that would suit a 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 thought it has the townspeople put up their own newspaper and he's almost right. as it is possible to control the media because of rupert murdoch he

used. murdoch sounds as did 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 ukase 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 at its artsy. going to stop any more on the program including a story of justice and survival party thoughts from an ancient arab community that's being lined up as our jury is an israeli resort almost half a century after the palestinians were forced out. libya's rebels have become a legitimate country and. more nations after the u.s. and more than thirty other countries recognize them on friday i hate diplomatic meeting in istanbul the alliance of western and arab nations working on the crisis

said it would build the opposition until the new interim authority is in place the recognition also gives the rebels access to billions of dollars of gadhafi is frozen assets and u.s. banks a high level acknowledgement opposition spirit but it's a different story in combat fierce fighting for a key eastern oil town has ended up with heavy casualties among the insurgents it's not easy daniel bushell reports and says now are trying the talking tactic with the libyan regime after failing to deliver a knockout punch to get out. books is like bragging will destroy the reply there off the wrong and gets a surprise i. french foreign minister should pay postage for all we libya in quote weeks the wars into a fourth month the oil all rolled in sides. because the with his western allies seem short little apologists fighting back well it's not just an

embarrassment for sarkozy from for all nato for the whole west paris even to me it's all the libya's rebels return some somalia. went to libya for training with the last two or three years just 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 un vote on foreign intervention in the country and i waylaid no good person. giving. none of. this. this is. of libya's causing widespread atrocities for every one military person that was supposedly

a casualty there were ten civilians frauds categorically ruled out cindy grilled troops would expose 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 invaded libya was a mistake russia of staying did the un's vote. bombs would bring havoc in libya to play said the latest tools who killed supports the. lloyd lee diplomat sheikh for a blazing row. with elections just annoying months away thought it was the citizens this will war could resurrect his chills this instead one paper writes libya's becoming a slow motion call crash for france's deeply unpopular president. sarkozy's a jogging fan's excessive sweating is understandable as his libyan spring is turning into a marathon the new bush will see paris. in time

a french opposition adviser says that nato campaign is moving towards an iraq style scenario with. any conflict which is entering a stone made means that you have to bring the boys on the ground that means we have to have our boys killed on the ground that we were going to have again. and the iraqis scenario it's for sure i mean airstrikes are not sufficient to reach your targets there are no wars in which can be won just what you're striking we have to think about another solution for libya and especially because we are very worried about the fact that we know now about islamists are behind the scene of the rebellion it's not al qaeda 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 and moderate or not for us is a big problem. but watching the weekly here on our t.v.

now the clock is ticking for america's arrival politicians to agree on the next move rather than 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 make nor their differences to avert armageddon leading credit rating agencies are already threatening to downgrade america's aaa credit score for the first time i know but yes i say there's a risk the u.s. could fail to resolve the deadlock. and even if the budget is approved the fund managers say it's unlikely to solve america's debt. you know and the state already has been downgraded in the world markets every i'm not the only person who knows that the united states is the largest debtor nation in the history of the world look at the back of the u.s. dollar is down fairly significantly over the past few years they have to increase it and ceiling for the moment there's no question about their choice though for the future is they've got to take an axe you know they've got to take

a chain so to government spending and do something about it they're not going to do that they might announce they're going to do it for this to get deflated ceiling passed but it's going to have any effect everybody sees that washington is not going to solve this problem and more and more people are looking for something to replace the u.s. dollars. well things are little better in europe with italy now the focus of stopping the euro zone heading into a movie and rome has approved a tough seventeen billion euro currency package to avoid a debt wipeout it's the euro zone's a third largest economy and could prove too big for its neighbors to bail out meanwhile eight out of one thousand european banks have failed stress tests to see if they can survive another financial crisis financial writer patrick young says the italian people's response to the budget cuts echo greece. there will be one significant difference between the people who take to the streets between greece and italy and that is that greece at least thank goodness the taxi drivers don't go on strike where is nuclei expected 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 through see the fact that silvio berlusconi due to many of the reasons most of which are outside of the direction school reason are well i mean he's a wounded animal at this point in time and in some ways i think he's going to be very difficult to hold his government together there are big problems in western europe the havens to be identically to the east everyone not some fortunately extend further to the prizes because the endemic the contingent seems to be spreading and we have new political leadership seeming to do with. you with r.t. live from moscow with an hour twenty minutes past the hour let's check out some of today's world news to see and police used tear gas and short rounds are going to go

to disperse a crowd torch a police station in the capital a clash followed an incident on friday when a security forces fired tear gas to break up a demonstration in a mosque in the city many to museums 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 you know only been in the job for a month but the interim prime minister is being forced to make changes after widespread anger over the government's record street crowds return to cairo as many believe it will change at the top since president mubarak was ousted. the un's first humanitarian delivery for somalia's drought victims has arrived just over a week since the aid ban was lifted the islamist insurgents which ruled large parts of somalia impose restrictions on foreign aid two years ago calling them anti muslim but that changed after more than ten million people became affected by the food crisis as a result of eastern africa's worst drought in. 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 ahead of nato's end of combat operations in afghanistan in two thousand and fourteen. remained relatively peaceful throughout the near decade long occupation of the country. russia's foreign minister was in the u.s. capital as we to get clarification on washington's missile defense 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 and enjoyed a missile defense program being crushed aside by washington are related the u.s. is also refusing to provide legally binding guarantees that a system is not aimed against russia so get off stressed to a voice of russia radio in washington of the need to prevent any new arms race. on

the drone that being created on the basis of a myriad of national design of missile defense which was not accepted by us is a reasonable way to respond to what is received as being the purpose of being the system we want at this particular moment to stick to the original agreement that there would be no parts of the system which would. compromise which would. create three six for the strategic stability and for the but. strategic stability area in the industry or symbols of the participants of the system it would not see it's good to have you with us on this sunday now in a struggle for land rights in israel there's one place that still a no go area fifty years ago it was a thriving palestinian community but it wasn't driven out and now israel's i get up as a luxury get away. as the story. missiles in the mountains of jerusalem are the remains

of a one star sling arab community only the memories of those who once lived here have survived intact i think it's. come back to bring. my real age. and the hobson's spring. also. my car that. you're cooking grew up among the cacti and fick 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 shooting. in childhood. they will shoot you in the middle of the hall get a hold little hope. our mother put us inside the room in a corner and then the playground so as to break with us you could 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 every policy and all of his house in london for. if he was forced to do that just because you. don't. consider those absently on the lost property in the early one nine hundred fifty s. jews moved into the abandoned homes like you only your comments parents they were also refugees fleeing arab countries will likely become dangerous after israel was created these really government sent him to live in gifter he only says to prevent arab owners from returning when they came here on me for live here and got water without electricity the came here. for the memory here is 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 when wildflowers and grass now grow if there is empty. and it's into that emptiness that the israeli government now plans to build more than two hundred luxury homes and ship 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 documentation and the story will be told of who lived there as we do in all the neighborhoods of jerusalem but we lack a cook states palestinian land and a double injustice. roy. yeah me. for every three will came from anywhere in this where.

my knowledge and come back. through my precinct and. this. is so for palestinians left there is a physical the mind 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 every time they drive into jerusalem policy r.t. lifter. live from the russian capital this is artsy now several of moscow's streets are impossible right now but not because of the traffic jams they've been sealed off to temporarily become the realm of the fast and the furious the annual the moscow city racing show is at full throttle in a four wheel frenzy the scene drivers are pushing the pedal to the metal and doing each other but television is our hero team we're here to kick it all off or rather push it all off my space this unlucky the sun punching seventy meters at the end of

a bungee rope yes there was somebody inside a female member of the audience who was hopefully well strapped. both women a machine gun. and even the heavy rain though couldn't stop formula one's cause from us speeding past the kremlin sort of rehearsal for the f one grand prix which russia will host and three time. we'll hear from the nuclear campaigners soon who are trying to put the brakes on the world's atomic blast the noise that's coming your way after another look at the headlines to stay with us.

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