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

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

save people's lives they just wanted to get the job done how many passengers were on board at that time and how did they react lesson about one of the one of the arabella was packed to full capacity at the time one hundred fifty passengers they acted like heroes i use this loud word deliberately they helped a lot they consoled the injured and there were doctors among the tourists on the arabella they assisted the ship's medic as he rendered first date and they gave a lot of psychological support to survivors that was very important. you know with the people who survived the ship cracked all the journalists that when they found themselves in the water and the boat sank there is simply under that water that's the rock and then pumped up to the surface again one observer sat he thought it looked as though the sinking boat from the sort of funnel that put everything in what happens in reality the more that gets us out of course a sinking boat can pull objects floating on the surface under the water because of the huge water displacement that churns the water into wolf whirlpool that can suck

people live about it but people who were afloat when the ship sank most of found enormous strength to fight the whirlpool and return to the surface it is difficult to tell because i have never been in their shoes and i can't imagine what it would be like had they been in the water for long before you pick them up or much about him i can't be precise about that but i think they were in the water for half an hour or so but also some of them a try to get into life rafts others were still in the water it's just before the air a few theories of how this tragedy could have happened and one of them sas on the boat had tack around the facts you saw the bulgarian dock sometime before the sinking it's not a factor to you. you see not all technical defects can be seen from outside experts say that the crews are listed to one side a book i don't know how dangerous this was for the passengers because i'm not overly you with ships of this type i've never worked on that design of a young but it listed and everyone knows it as for the technical state of the cruiser. again that i can't pass judgment because i never inspected its engine but

if it is very difficult to tell if you don't know the particulars you'll there eyewitnesses who insist that the boat listed to the right even when it was dark a proper order to the listing was raise about what i'm not sure it was really so because i wasn't there and i want to ask you this question is it true but then we go to you i told you just now that the boat was listing but i can't tell you how critical it was to the ship of what we did you happen to talk with the crew of the bulgaria before the boat sailed what were they thinking they consider the possibility that something might happen to the town you bought it that's unless they affected us with when the arabella dr bull got in with it was one of the plans stops but we occupied the second birth while the bulgaria was tied to the first one they were leaving at eleven o'clock and we stayed till took thirteen hundred hours when they were sailing off we had to maneuver in order to let the boat out and continue its cruise when we berth in the morning i went ashore and spotted the former captain of the boat and the current second mate of the bulgarian and i to me

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

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

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

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

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

please. him in the sex abuse. six or. six m. e. m m's. war going away. many people thought that nuclear weapons disappeared. something might be going off by mistake especially a lot of weapons on hair trigger alert. because of the difference to use it.

all but you know if you keep spending a trillion dollars a year on weapons of venture you're going to blow everybody up you you know people are dying from these weapons but until we actually see it people don't wake up to. that represents all of the firepower of the second world war and this second sound is the equivalent fire power of the world's nuclear arsenal today. won't go into the. what makes him big splash in the world of high tech business what turns it science into products they don't understand. these is the fall of russian innovators to broaden and their big breakthrough back. supply of

light on stone on technology update here on a long trip we've. covered. today's top stories overview of the week on the rescuers are preparing to lift the russian cruiser from the bottom of the. matter of minutes last sunday claiming around one hundred thirty lives it's hoped the operation will provide answers as to why after becoming the first. apologies just keep on coming from rupert murdoch for the unethical practices of one of his newspapers the news corp boss is now desperately trying to rescue his media empires reputation which has been severely damaged by the phone hacking scandal. libyan rebels now have full diplomatic recognition from washington with access to colonel gadhafi has assets frozen in the u.s. meanwhile nato has intensified attacks on the capital tripoli. the libyan leader who never. plus intercontinental cash crunch as america

faces up to the possibility of default europe's debt crisis contagion piles more pressure on the euro the u.s. congress needs to raise the debt ceiling to avoid financial disaster well it is on the verge of needing. into this war to go with you and you know the post mortem begins for argentina's national football team it certainly does this was supposed to be the year argentina did something in the cost of america but here they are they're out of the quarter final stage they have to wait another four years messi is just not delivering the goods lorrimore not in the second scandal. good to have you with us this sunday afternoon here in central moscow plenty ahead in sports today including. arch hosts argentina feel to make

a loss for the cup america losing to europe while. in memory of a yabby action international longer twenty one tournaments see a german side freebird triumph in moscow. and wet windy and wide open rain fails to stop darren clarke taking the sole lead heading into the final day of the british open but dustin johnson sits just to show behind the one hundred fortieth edition of the all this major. let's kick off with football where the shock of the cup america to date has been recorded lionel messi on his argentina team it's knocked out of their own tournaments by europe why in the quarterfinals the leaving just six minutes to seize the advantage to go for a free kick climbing ahead of surgery would emerge area with the ball eventually landing in the path of this diego per is he makes no mistake they are sometimes equalizing the minute though messi crossing for one one one ninety minutes of play

in half an hour of extra time couldn't muster up a winner and so to assure manchester city striker parlous tab is the only man to miss meeting who said this is no nonsense strike with the favorites the time it seems the result well it wasn't based on luck. but i did truth is that yesterday we were watching a compilation of penalties from the comp game so that time players and it turned out to be really helpful because when the time came i remembered it helped me keep calm and without doubt it gives you a certain attitude and looking at who's gone six short begins we confidence. why not take on peru's who defeated columbia to make the semifinals for the first time in twenty eight years no goal scored in regular time so this one also went to overtime proved managing a double in the extra periods midfielder carlos i just love the town finally

breaking the deadlock with one to two minutes long to prove ian's then sealing the win ten minutes off the top one month well of us and five likely making it to no lever today brazil take on par with one chile then this way i would spots in the last two or. so carlos tevez failed to deliver for his country in a cup o. while his club side had seemingly few problems with arts and a little further north modern city defeating club america in the world club challenge in san francisco as part of their tour of the u.s. and canada after exchanging missed opportunities with the mexican i fit the premier league team promptly pulled ahead in the seventeenth minute run mcgiver netting his first goal for the blues after club america feel to clear up the mess in their penalty area. a flat showing right phillips netted city's second goal of the night ten minutes later and five final score city canadian side f.c.

white caps on monday. in los angeles david back in this former side oryol madrid made easy work of his current team l.a. galaxy beating them for the last good luck to cross control from the start scoring twice in the first time off to six. with the gold stars christiane arnaldo and green van out of one apiece after the break to complete the rights christiane netted a consolation goal for the galaxy star peckham but he spent almost an hour on the pitch and receiving them brace from his former boss to say armory at the end of it . but you have the cup is heading to germany freberg dominating this year's event which puts together select under twenty one squads in moscow robert for dani and explains all. he is the pride of soviet and russian football lev yashin was central in his national team's biggest achievements winning olympic gold in one thousand

nine hundred fifty six and then they used to source first european championships four years later he's still the only goalkeeper in the history of the game to claim the european football or of the year award in one thousand nine hundred sixty three and was voted for people's best shot stopper of the twentieth century decades later dinamo moscow the club where yes and spent his entire career strive to keep his legend alive. the live yashin cup an international tournament for under twenty one teams an essential part of this plan although yashin successor is the young number hopefuls has still some work to do to feel yeah sions boots after losing to or keep their grudge in the semifinals the muscovites went head to head with everton in the third please game a clash which was going for the hosts from the all. the english say we think

a number of gilt edged chances in the first half including a missed belting after the break the visitors were left with ten men when there is still. received a second yellow card but the didn't help the normal everton of the team who promptly brought the deadlock. only netting in style here one. enormous push for a level or then close the russians a game on the counter-attack only claiming his brace here for a final scoreline of two neil was nice to chat so it's a good lesson for us we have to be strong european schools and test ourselves against and this is the only way to produce our own generation of skilful players i mean a full form of all credit to the players you know sometimes it's more difficult to play against them. today show the thought we maybe should have been leading a half time maybe by at least

a couple of goals. so to come out second half and score a couple of goals was very pleasing that's how it came to the final versus granted and it was the germans who still the show just doesn't mince in three books a bill aziz opening his team secure and finishing off that textbook move one of the next turning into goal fest with his big taters able to choose their favorite. six new with one school work with youngsters moving the peak of their peers from. russia to germany. didn't move them so we have to train policy. like this in boston on a really good. look for barcelona and try to bring some of the young. every chance to perform at the twenty eighteen world cup the first to be.

party. to the greens now are a must have day of golf just gotten under way ryan for of the open teeing off the darren clarke leading the way the main contenders well they're not in action for an hour or so yet time then to look back at yesterday's rain soaked action talk drawing of six being nine enough for a warm stroke lead after the penultimate day dustin johnson had taken the lead from clarke a stage during the back nine but he lost about the fourteen rickie fowler here on thomas bjorn like two shots behind johnson with miguel. alongside lucas glover tied for fifth the royal meanwhile drawn from level part of four over after a disappointing run of seventy four. and the umbrella turning your attention the golf across the globe where p.g.a. tour rookie chris kirk is making things look easy at the viking classic the american play like a veteran really carded a sixty four for a one shot lead ahead of the final run the weather finally clearing up after yet

more rain here allowing the players to finish the second and third round her taking advantage of come when starting eight birdies on the day the twenty six year old making four straights on the back nine including this on the thirteenth. in a group of four players one shot behind a birdie on the twelfth going to distance for the thirty year old although he was forced to record a double bogey two. later. when i. two thirds of the way through this year's tour de france or belgians yellow celebrating his maiden state win on saturday the stage fourteen victory also seeing the omega form a lot of writer books all but the king of the month vacation. just two points ahead of spain samuel sanchez who trailed by twenty one seconds the world's second on the schleck was third fastest twenty five seconds further behind sanchez local hopeful thomas book learning to the yellow jersey after finishing with the peloton on sunday stage fifteen is a one hundred ninety five kilometer flat run from the mouth to mouth. ball

and one of the n.b.a.'s elite point guards will be wearing but this colors next season duran williams officially putting pen to paper with the turkish club as the lockout shows no signs of being lifted stateside the twenty seven year old's contract reportedly worth by a million dollars just williams could however head back to the new jersey nets early if the american league's labor issues are resolved in time georgia native. will also be joining d.-wil leaving the hawks for a european adventure there's no stranger to n.b.a. talents having briefly employed the league's four time scoring champion and former m.v.p. . back. to rugby where samoa have sent a strong message as to their upcoming twenty eleven world cup opponents second ranked a strictly a stand on home turf in a warm up match ahead of october's global spectacle the samoans leading from the thirty minutes on the winger to

a gala williams going over for tries in the first blocking thomson on center george c. having two more in the second contributing to a shocking nine point win some more will be in world cup. starting off the campaign as you see went on september fourteenth against the a welsh test the weights them four days after that before clashes with fiji world champion so i thought. i would bet against him and that evidence well out is your sport and i'll see you in just under two hours time whether it's next. hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on r t.

in india in the movie joyce below to. the gateway hotel the grand imperial truly george was the. socialist you

see don't need to go and. read the sun the colonel was hoto retreat. today's top stories on the review of the week here on the. recovery. of the russian cruiser from the bottom of the river in a matter of minutes last sunday claiming around one hundred and. relatives and investigators all all looking for as to why the ship sunk so far will bring you all the details from the recovery site in just a moment. apologies keep on coming from rupert murdoch for an ethical practices by one of his newspapers as he struggles to keep a lid on the scandal threatening to bring down his media empire. banking on change libyan rebels now have full diplomatic recognition from washington with their access to colonel gadhafi assets frozen in u.s. banks. and intercontinental cash crunch america faces up to the possibility of

default europe's debt crisis contagion piles more pressure on you. with the stories that made headlines this week you're watching the weekly show it's been described as the biggest boating disaster in russia's modern history in the space of just three minutes a pleasure cruiser with two hundred people on board. went down in the volga river taking over half his passengers with it nearly one hundred and thirty people were killed many of them children a week later the operation to raise the ship from the bottom is underway and is now at the scene and monitoring the situation for us and tom higher so how long is it likely to take you think to lift this ship out of the river get off the river bed.

well roy the bulgari is still under the water at the moment behind me you can probably see the tops of two enormous cranes that have been brought up from further downstream and then attach to them or to is it an enormous cable that goes down and is threaded underneath the ship and that cable is going to be used first of all at the moment divers and the crane teams are in the process of trying to write to the vulgare it was leaned on its left side and then once they've righted it they'll be able to start to lift it up a lot of the complications that divers are facing are due to the way under speed that the ship sank. firstly the fact that it's on its left side will mean that divers will have to go under that left side as it's righted first of all to check that the ship is structurally sound to be rich to be raised and also to try and look for some of the fifteen bodies which have still to be accounted for which still haven't been found then once they start to raise the.