all the other gaps on the ship so that once it's partially raised to be able to pump out the water from the ship making it light enough to raise it more easily a very complex operation visibility in the water is very poor for the divers there's a lot of algae in the water at this time and so it's proving to be a drawn out process but one that is crucial for all those people waiting for answers a mountain of cuddly toys never to be played with they the flowers and candles are testament to the children among those who drowned in the pleasure boat the bulgaria sank in the volga last sunday. the most we studied together for a year she never had arguments with anyone she was a very kind girl and was always ready to help. the ship sank in just three minutes turning a summer afternoon on the river into a scene of horror i didn't like is that people were basically buried alive and

trying metal 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 so 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 and 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 a broken window in the cellar started pushing people out through it at that moment waves pushed me up on the surface and then i saw that the board was already underwater. over half the bulgaria's two hundred eight passengers and crew

including the captain his wife and child never made it out meanwhile as the arabella another pleasure boat arrived at the scene she was surrounded by people screaming and drowning unable to reach the banks of the vast river three kilometers away. as we approached it was hard to distinguish in the dark water people who were alive from the rubble that was floating around people were in panic when we rescued them in a state of shock some suffering from other traumas they were all covered in oil fuel that was leaking from a sunken ship it was a terrifying picture i have to say despite a huge search and rescue operation after the initial survivors were picked up a few others were found. but divers and cranes working in this water have been trying to recover just something of the lives lost and families destroyed in those few terrible minutes but they've also been working on the question the cost so much why did the bulgaria sink and sink so fast. as the list of bodies recovered from

the ship grew so did the number of revelations about an ageing dangerous and badly managed vessel eyewitnesses and people connected with the ship came forward with 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 hadn't even 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 the port authorities say they were lied to the ship was only supposed to carry one hundred forty people but was loaded with over two hundred they were told it was carrying twenty more tales of bound including a broken engine electricity generators failing so that no s.o.s. signal or tunnel instructions could be issued and blocked emergency exits criminal cases. the pin opened and arrests being made into the ball carrier sinking and more

controversially into why two ships which reached the scene before the arabella didn't pick up a single person but reports the crew members instead took pictures on their mobile phones. all the passengers were shocked there were about seventeen people on a raft many hundreds cuts and injuries that were bleeding we yelled for help i saw the board passers by in a different direction towards. the slow process of raising the ball carrier has now started up with it will come the potential for answers but also terrible memories in particular associated with the ship's play room 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 avoidable shipping disasters tom bottom party. the captain of

a ship who helped rescue seventy seven people from the sinking has been describing the horrific disaster scene in an interview with us and you can see that in full in about twenty minutes from now we can find it online right now on the web site. has all the latest reports of the intense search and recovery operations since the tragedy happened then you can keep up to date there. remember to check out our you tube channel for videos of the salvage mission. is.

the former c.e.o. of rupert murdoch's british newspaper operation has been arrested by police investigating allegations of phone hacking and bribery rebecca brooks is the tenth person to be detained in connection with the scandal that's engulfed the defunct news of the world well for more on this i hope to talk to media analyst phil recedes joining us now live in london phil can you hear me there in london. i can hear you yes great welcome to our team good to see you here now rebecca brooks has been arrested for bribery and it's the police allegedly accepted these bribes so apart from seeing journalists being arrested the moment what we see the same action taken by police against the police. well i think that you know inevitably something will have to be done and there are two separate inquiries one being done by the police itself but also an independent judicial inquiry looking into this now i mean whatever i mean either the police here have been incredibly lazy and been cozying

up with people while an investigation has been going on which is in my view and malpractise or indeed there have been crimes committed which is largely perverting the course of justice and it's my guess that i think some people will fall in the third category when in the assistant editor of the guardian to day has been writing that he believes the arrest of rebecca brooks is an attempt by police to deflect attention away from them do you think they could actually get away with all of this . well it wouldn't be you know this is this is a good example of what the police have been doing in the kind of murdoch years they've been using a recip been leaking they've been paid for telling people when celebrities have been arrested so actually manipulating the arrests of people is actually a practice that has become in trying now in my view as a result of the kind of bribery thing so this would hardly be out of practice is a bit but i don't think it's going to deflect opinion i mean there are so many m.p.'s now and indeed so much of the british establishment which for so long kowtow

to. doc is now prepared to get to the bottom of this and we doubt those people who have been corrupted at different levels interesting you talk about public opinion obviously the public is losing trust in the media but how about losing trust in the police just how serious would that be. when it is serious i mean remember that four years ago right the police had these bags with i think it was eleven thousand letters about four thousand celebrities and victims of crime and all these other people and they knew they were taking part investigation and these bags were just left there i mean it's amazing it's remarkable that it took four years for them to do anything about this meanwhile senior police officers were wining and dining with members of the murdoch empire they were they were meeting them for drinks privately one even hired them at a thousand pounds a day to work for him so you know what does this tell us about the relationship between the police and the news corp employees well it's very very serious and if this can happen at the top of the police look at the example that gives to officers

down down the line so i think yes it is extremely serious is it possible for them to restore public confidence. well i think it will take some time and i think that the inquiry that's now going on by the metropolitan police itself now you could well you know can any organization properly examine itself but so much is at stake that if that operation is seen to be corrupted as well i think we've got you know an even bigger problem i think so many people now are watching it including you know members of parliament select committees these are investigative bodies within the british political system they're all all eyes are on this let alone all the journalists who are looking at what's going on so i think that the ramifications of this is so big i mean you know britain is is is shaking at this each day it's headline news and people are asking who's next you know what about the ramifications for the future of journalism you're a reporter yourself are going to be calls for tougher regulation of course what

could this have what sort of impact could this have on the freedom of the media in the u.k. and indeed globally because of course this isn't an issue just in the u.k. it goes beyond the u.k. borders. well it's interesting because you know the other way of looking at this is actually a journalist on the guardian who broke this story an investigative journalist now what i think people are revulse by is the kind of the to journalism which had developed in this country the domination of tabloid values if you will over a proper investigative journalism over speaking truth to power people who are just fed information about the sexual antics of celebrities or the sordid details of crime victims and what they did afterwards and to see them crying in the front of our newspapers you know this kind of thing in my view should be curtailed people's privacy should be maintained and journalism should get back to its real job and i think that could be a consequence of this yet but just finally just as there is a danger of the media being muzzled isn't there and not being able to bring those who should be protocol to account. well i think this will be

a major debate because obviously the way that the press is police did britain will definitely change but i think we must be be absolutely sure that that doesn't risk . journalism in doing its proper job bill good to hear from me thanks very much indeed for joining us live in london phil race. still ahead this hour on the the dangers of a debt default we examine why the u.s. is on the brink of a financial nightmare and what it might do to try to avoid it. and be deserted palestinian settlement the studio into a luxury community for israelis. and a story still to come but first a new round of nato airstrikes has rattled the suburbs of the libyan capital tripoli as colonel gadhafi valid never to leave his country in the face of assaults by the alliance and the rebels this comes after the opposition became the legitimate authority in the country in the eyes of more nations the u.s. and more than thirty other states recognize them at a diplomatic meeting on friday saying they would deal with them until an interim

government is in place and recognition by the contact group on libya also gives the rebels access to billions of dollars of gadhafi has frozen assets in u.s. banks but it commentator ted role says the move was a radical shift from the international stand by. the united states usually doesn't extend to diplomatic recognition to a regime that is not in the capital that isn't in our it doesn't even seem likely to be able to achieve power any time soon but you can look at the situation in afghanistan during the one nine hundred ninety six to two thousand and one civil conflict there between the taleban in the northern alliance the northern alliance were the former regime that had power in kabul and enjoy diplomatic relations with the west even though the taleban controlled ninety five percent of the country it's almost just wishful thinking and frankly if i were a diplomat i would find it disturbing it's a bizarre situation i mean if the u.s. knows who these people are they're not seeing and certainly there's no doubt that

traditionally there's always been a very high component of jihadi. around ghazi so unrealistic to assume that that is not still the case the u.s. doesn't amazing how it should be skids full of hundred dollar bills to third world countries and expecting them to end up in the right can't. really going to happen. the high level recognition of the rebels may bolster their spirit but it's a different story in combat fierce fighting for a key eastern oil town has ended with heavy casualties among the opposition as daniel bushell now reports it's thought that france is now trying the talking tactic with the libyan regime after failing to deliver a knockout blow to the. books is like bragging they'll destroy their opponents they're often wrong and gets a surprise i french foreign minister should pay boasted france would win libya in quote days or weeks the war's into

a fourth month no final round inside nicolas sarkozy with his western allies seem shocked their little opponents fighting back well it's not just an embarrassment for sarkozy it's an embarrassment for all nato for the whole west paris even admits libya's rebels but it and 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 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 were supposedly a casualty there were ten civilians frauds categorically ruled out sending troops predict is the only way male to break the libyan deadlock the. splitting the nato coalition silvio berlusconi head of key italy admits invading libya was a mistake. vote for bombs would bring havoc in libya which. supports the. loire valley diplomats speak for. with elections just more in months away thought voices 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 so. excessive

sweating is understandable this is libyan spring is turning into a marathon. see paris. plenty had in the program including red square. a four wheeled frenzy is high speed for me to screech through the center of moscow . but first time is running out for american politicians to agree on the next move in sorting out its soaring debt the deadline to lift the nation's fourteen point three trillion dollars debt ceiling is looming ever closer as lawmakers struggle to find a solution president obama is building democrats and republicans to ignore their differences to avert armageddon but leading credit rating agencies say there's a risk the u.s. could fail to resolve the deadlock quickly or effectively but zeke miller from the business insider website says that both parties understand the dangers of further

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

a tough seventy billion euro cuts package to avoid a debt wipeout is 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 economics professor patrick oppman food says that some e.u. countries may have to accept default as wealthier nations no longer want to pay for their costly rescue. and i mean we've known all along that a lot of banks in europe and the north would not pass stress tests if these stress tests included the possibility of sovereign default because of course they've got loads of greek and portuguese and spanish debt and so there was never any question that one of the reasons why it might be in germany's interest to bail out greece is that it's if it doesn't it's going to have a banking crisis of its own and will have to bailout its own banks but i think the judgment of the taxpayer is they'd rather bail out their own banks if they have to

then keep on giving money to greeks who may never get to give it back to them so there's no bailout really impressed by these rich northern countries and therefore the other countries have to think of some way of getting by and that's going to be default. and then let's have a brief look at some other stories from around the globe egypt's former president hosni mubarak has suffered a stroke and is in a coma according to his lawyers doctors were reportedly working to bring the eighty three year old deposed leader to consciousness but health officials and state t.v. of denial the information saying that his condition is stable it comes after the country's prime minister reshuffle this cabinet in response to renewed public protests demanding political reform. the u.s. led coalition has started handing over control of some of afghanistan's territories to local security forces the central region has become the first of seven areas where that's to happen the head of the end of nato is combat operations in the country in twenty fourteen meanwhile in the capital kabul

a top aide to afghan president hamid karzai has been killed after a group of armed men attacked his home. and the venezuelan president hugo chavez is back in cuba for more cancer treatment including chemotherapy no more lignite cells have been found after he had surgery to remove a chuma from his part of the region he's transferred some powers to his ministers during his absence but didn't agree to opposition calls for a temporary handover of all presidential authority his battle with cancer has raised doubts over his fitness to lead the country but officially he still plans to run for reelection next year. well in the struggle for land rights in israel is one place that's still a deserted territory it used to be a flourishing palestinian community but now israelis are a luxury getaway as paul is now reports. in this world in the mountains of jerusalem are the remains of a once bustling community only the memories of those who once lived here have

survived intact i feel it's. come back to be. my real age. since. i was. my plan there. are coup de graff among the cacti and figure trees but in one nine hundred forty eight just before the state of israel was declared his family evacuated unlike the hundreds of arab villages that disappeared in forty eight and sixty seven most of the original houses of lifter are still here so the only we heard shooting. and charged. they will shoot to 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 in london for nevertheless if he was forced to do just because he was three at the end 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 and your husband's parents they were also refugees fleeing arab countries we life had become dangerous after israel was created these really government sent them to live in lifter your nieces to prevent arab owners from returning or in their came here on their fourth live here years without water without electricity came here. for their memory here as the very improbable 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 how this for forty six years all that remains are stone walls where wild flowers 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 a sick. 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 won't destroy our homes. yeah me. for every three will came from anywhere in this way i can move in my village and come back. with them back to my village and

never. miss me. and. so i'm going for palestinians left there is a physical reminder of injustice and survival but for a fair number of israelis it's an eyesore and their brother not be reminded of what happened here every time they drive into jerusalem policy r.t. lifter. several moscow streets were impossible on sunday afternoon but not because of the tourist traffic jams they were sealed off to temporarily become the realm of the fast and the furious in a high octane performance formula one drivers burn some serious rubber against the amazing backdrop of the kremlin. it was part of the annual moscow city racing show featuring famous former one stars of the winners of world ready championships it's a taste of things to come for russian f one fans as the country will get its own in three years time.

well recap per today's and this week's main stories for in just a few moments don't go away stay with us live here in moscow.

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of the some hotel treat. today's top stories and the. rescue was a preparing to lift a russian cruiser from the bottom of the. matter of minutes last sunday around one hundred thirty nine it will provide answers as to why the catastrophe happened. in the u.k. is arrested as part of investigations into phone hacking and police bribery of the news of the world. repeated his apologies for unethical practices. in an effort to sing. his empire is crumbling reputation. libyan rebels now have full diplomatic recognition from washington and where they had access to colonel gadhafi assets

frozen in the u.s. meanwhile nato has intensified attacks on the capital tripoli in an effort to oust the libyan leader who never to leave. class international cash crunch 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 while italy is on the verge of needing a bailout. back over another summer when fifteen minutes from now in the meantime we hear from the captain of a vessel whose crew leapt to the rescue of survivors in the volga river tragedy last weekend that special interview next. capital is out and thank you very much for this interview was the first to come to the rescue of the sinking cruise ship bulgaria how did you get to know about the tragedy. yes we were the first to help and we were sailing in the same direction as

the bulgaria and we picked up on the radio just bits of conversations between some ships we couldn't make out what the ships were but we heard them talk of seeing people overboard and speculating that it looked like a boat or a small ship had capsized once we heard that we put on more speed to get there faster when we did arrive at the tragedy site we saw terrible things and only when we realized that it was the pleasure boat area that it sunk did the true scope of the disaster strike us. how long did it take you to get to the scene. but you know i would say about five to ten minutes fifteen at most from the moment we heard the radio talk but it all happened very quickly as we were nearing the site we began to figure out how many people there were in the water although that was hard to do because there was a lot of rubble floating around as well it was very hard to pick out individual people from among the floating debris it was truly a tragic picture that we saw what condition where this people in.