ported to doc the most important part is putting the slings in place and making sure they're fixed properly we spend most of our time repairing asked for the lifting itself it won't take very long so as you heard there although 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 for the hole that little water and whatever managed to to see 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 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 studied together for a year she never had arguments with a new 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 focus two thousand 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. t.j.

for the disco on the bottom deck he only just managed to escape. i remember clearly that water was rising very quickly it was a matter of seconds i survived because we saw. the sailors started pushing people through it. up on the surface and then i saw the board was already underwater. over half the bulgaria's two hundred eighty passengers and crew including the captain his wife and child never made a sound 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 the 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. 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 a damning account of its poor condition and the stingy management who forced it to keep sailing. i became captain of the vessel in two thousand ship had made 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.

portal thora to 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 and tricity 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 cold gary sick and more controversially into one speech which the scene before clearly didn't pick up a single person reports the crew members instead to truly sure some of them overall felt was the way you have is a good review and you with all the passengers were shocked there were about seven hundred people in a raft and many hundreds of cuts and injuries that were bleeding we yelled for help i saw the bullets passers by in a different direction really isn't towards because honestly it's. a slow process of raising the bulgaria has now started up with it will come the potential for answers

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 on bottom part. 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 in a little over an hour. been a following of the intense search and recovery operation over the past seven days so you can stay in touch with what's happening by visiting. or our. travel also posting developments on our twitter stream and facebook page. is eve.

it's approaching ten minutes past the hour here in the russian capital you with britain's government is denying it was too close to rupert murdoch's media empire as it scrambles to distance itself from the. 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 meeting the family of a young murder victim whose voicemail was intercepted the media mogul's now deployed. to rescue news corps reputation before scrutiny from about his papers and ethical methods. on britain's news channels the sunday after. the news

of the world swirled of illegally tapping the phones of crime victims soldiers' families and. the uneasy relationship between politicians and the press. put every media on t.v. . even the. imitates life the long running simpsons take. 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 four two thousand and five and yet they got. pramod 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. 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 from. investing in the times for example the guardian or the daily telegraph. 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 know. that would suit the government just fine the british press is famous for its sharp 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. beautiful murdoch found as did mr perkins that you just can't buy all the newspapers those. his controls have been gunning for him think it is

and this time they may have succeeded just as he looks set to consolidate control over a large section of the 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 you were at it. and are still plenty more ahead here on the program including a story of injustice and survival party reports from an ancient arab community that's being lined up as a luxury of israeli resorts almost half a century after the palestinians were forced out. libya's rebels have become a 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 istanbul the alliance of western and arab nations working on the crisis said it would deal with 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 in u.s. banks a high level acknowledgement may bolster 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 daniel bushell reports. says now trying to talking tactic with the libyan regime after failing to deliver a knockout punch to cadaver. books is like bragging will destroy the report they're often wrong and gets a surprise. french foreign minister. in quote days or weeks the war's into a fourth month. with his lawyers seem sure. well it's not just an embarrassment for sarkozy it's an embarrassment for all nato. for the whole west paris even admits to being

libya's rebels but it turns 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 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. giving. none of. this. witnesses. of libya's causing widespread atrocities for every one military personnel that was supposedly a casualty there were ten civilians for all it's categorically ruled out saying we drilled troops but experience predict is the only way they'll 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 did the us vote with all the bombs would bring havoc in libya which would you play said the latest count support so you could have ruffle quote lloyd lead diplomat speak for. you with elections just more in months away sako advisers said a successful war could resurrect his chances instead one paper writes libya's becoming a slow motion crash for france's deeply unpopular president. is easy jogging for excessive sweating is understandable this is libyan spring is turning into a marathon the new bush will see paris. meantime a french opposition adviser says that nato campaign is moving towards an iraq style

scenario with foreign boots on libyan soil. any conflict which is entering a stalemate 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 iraqis scenario it's for sure i mean airstrikes are not sufficient to reach your targets there are no wars which can be won just striking we have to think about another solution for libya. specially because we are very worried about the fact that we know now that 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 in egypt i mean the whole region is falling in the hands of islamist moderate or not for us this is a big problem. and watching the weekly hero nazi now the clock is ticking for america's arrival politicians to agree on the next move rather in sorting out its soaring debt congress and 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 leading credit rating agencies are already threatening to downgrade america's aaa credit score for the first time in over ten years they say there's a risk the u.s. could fail to resolve the deadlock quickly or effectively and even if the budget is approved the fund managers say it's unlikely to solve america's debt. you know and the states 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 value of the u.s. dollar is down fairly significantly over the past few years they have to increase it to the ceiling for the moment there's no question about that their choice though for the future is they've got to take an axe you know they've got to take a change 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 the budget

ceiling passed but it's not 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 oblivion rone rome has approved a tough seventy billion euro cuts package to avoid a debt wipeout it's the euro zone's third largest economy 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 could survive another financial crisis financial writer patrick young says the italian people's response to the budget cuts will echo greece. there will be one significant difference between the people who take to the streets between greece and italy and that is that a 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 for seeing the fact that silvio berlusconi due to many of the reasons most of which are outside of the direct school reason are well i mean he's a wounded animal at this point in time and in some ways i think that he's going to be finding it very difficult to hold his government together there are big problems in western europe they haven to be definitely to the east everyone must stop and fortunately expect further surprises because the epidemic the contagion seems to be spreading and we have no political leadership seeming to do with it. twenty minutes past the hour let's check out some of today's world news police used tear gas and shot rounds into the to disperse a crowd who tossed 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 two musicians 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 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 return to cairo many believe little 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 ban was lifted the islamist insurgents which ruled large parts of somalia imposed restrictions on foreign aid two years ago. 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 decades. 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. well russia's foreign minister was in the u.s. capital this week 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 a joint missile defense program that being brushed aside by washington the u.s. is also refusing to provide legally binding guarantees that a system is not aimed against russia so to get up off stressed to voice of russia radio in washington of the need to prevent a new arms race threats on the ground being created on the basis of a miracle national design of missile defense which was not accepted by us as

a reasonable way to respond to what is your sieved as being the purpose of 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 then the strategic stability area namely through the arsenals of the participants. with artsy it's good to have you with us on this sunday now in the 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 was driven out and now israel's eyeing it up as a luxury getaway policy as 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 i feel it's help me to come back and to bring.

my privilege. i've seen the hobson's this rain also to remind. my tire that. your coup de graff 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 the only one who heard of sure thing. they will shoot through the whole the whole day with the hope that they will shoot . our mother took us inside the room in the corner and then the liberal 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 livable as the man who lived his house and went in for nevertheless if he was forced to do just because he was three it 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 me 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 or in the came here on believe here years without water without electricity the came here. for the memory here is very involved in 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 to me is how those for forty six years all that remains are stone walls where

wild flowers and grass now go live 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 live 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. yeah me. for a day or three world came from anywhere in this way i can in my village and come back. return back to my freedom and liberty. this made

me. and. so i'm going for palestinians lifter is a physical reminder 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. live from the russian capital. now several of moscow's streets are impossible right now because of the notorious traffic jams they've been sealed off to temporarily become the realm of the fast and the furious the annual moscow city racing show is at full throttle in a four wheeled frenzy that seen drivers are pushing the pedal to the metal doing each other television is. here to kick it all off rather push it all off as they say. punching seventy meters at the end of a bungee rope yes there was somebody inside a female member of the audience who is hopefully well strapped. both women

a machine. and even the heavy rain though couldn't stop formula one's cause from speeding past the kremlin sort of rehearsal for the one grand prix which russia will host and three time. we'll hear from the nuclear campaigners who are trying to put the brakes on the world's atomic coming your way after another look at the headlines to stay with us.

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are watching of the week with today's news on the week's top stories recovery crews start. lifting the ship went down in the last sunday one hundred thirty lives. investigators hope the raising of the vessel stop it why the disaster. publicly. loyal allies leave the place close in on both sides of the atlantic. a grilling by british m.p.'s allegations of the photos of the nine eleven victims. losing the war the libyan rebels recognition.

of the fight a struggle to get to grips on the ground the opposition is failing to. while suffering heavy casualties. plus the west's. race to save the collapsing economy in the face of soaring debt plummeting predicts for u.s. congress needs to raise the debt ceiling to avoid default italy is on the verge of needing a bailout. by those are the main headlines of this week but next we follow a citizen campaign against governments who refuse to diffuse the nuclear weapons you're watching artsy stay with us. the nuclear age is over sixty years oh. i can describe exactly how an underground test was. story one zero almost you couldn't hear anything about there was

no noise at all of the when the ground lifted up. we live under the threat of increasingly sophisticated weapons. in two thousand one hundred eighty eight states parties to the nonproliferation treaty signed on to a statement providing for an unequivocal undertaking to the total elimination of nuclear weapons it has been set back by principally the united states but not alone russia france china the u.k. all have their share responsibility. disarmament agreements are not being honored. what is happening now it is that their role is intact countries are able to write a draft shod over international law because there isn't sufficient body of protest from the din that country ordering them to these basic principles. things pony's it was thrust into the midst of the nuclear tests.