were they panic stricken what were the saying. when we got them on board we had so much to deal with of course they were panic stricken they were in deep shock what happened is 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 da condition that was particularly heartbreaking. and cowardly it was very hard on survivors family members of the 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 in particular that helped. here the thing is that 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 the speed of the crew significantly 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 what are 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 aid and they gave a lot of psychological support to survivors that was very important. and you would think that the people who survived the ship cracked all the journalists that when they found themselves in the water and the boat sank they were instantly cooled under that water that's the rock and then pumped out 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 with 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 there was a film before i picked them up but i want to put in 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 us. there are a few theories of how this tragedy could have happened and one of them sas on the boat attack on the facts you saw the bulgarian talk sometime before the sinking it's not a factor to you those that you see not all technical defects can be seen from outside experts say that the cruiser listed to one side will cook with i don't know how dangerous this was for the passengers because i'm not overly you with ships of this type i never worked on that design of the young but it listed and everyone knows it as for the technical state of the cruiser i say 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're there i'm with mrs smith says the boat listed to the right even when it was docked at prato so the listing was visible 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 what we did you happened to talk with the crew of the bill garrett before the boat sailed what were they thinking and they consider the possibility that something might happen to tell you about it that unless they affected us aboard when the arabella dr bull got him with it was one of the planned 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 ten thirteen hundred hours when they were sailing off we had to maneuver in order to let the boat as you continue its cruise when we berth in the

morning i went ashore in spite of the former captain of the boat in the current second mate of the bulgarian nozzle of in the center of the main deck he had worked with the bulgaria from the very beginning 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 if you realize this and decided to step down into the maze position because it is easier and better for the older man you 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 happened and seen

from the way you're attacking this story is no longer alive that was a hoax ring 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 or brace up somehow 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 in part it's talk about their services 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 but had in a package cabinet i saw well we were approaching the site of the tragedy practically simultaneously with one other vessel 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 of 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 though i don't know if i don't know maybe it was because of the ship's mass characteristics and inertia maybe they had tried to stop earlier than dot and. well at that moment we were there in 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 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 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 just as

we had contact but we just exchanged a few phrases i merely told their captain 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 anderson that you don't want to blame anyone but at that moment it was already too late he should have bracket 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 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 out actually 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 he

supposed to bayeux it is in that situation or not but of course i'm the captain of one ship he is a captain of another ship fly couldn't give him any orders or instructions because he didn't report to me and now some people in the press are already twisting the story saying i ordered him not to stop it if it didn't rise herself and had been the captain of the other ship and you were told it should move on and your help was of no here is what would you 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 sold people overboard i swear i would have done the same as i did being on my ship thank you very much.

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a no holds barred the global financial headlines kaiser reports. today's top stories on the preview of the week from the rescuers are preparing to lift a russian cruiser from the bottom of the volga river a matter of minutes last sunday claiming around one hundred thirty nine is how the operation will provide answers as to why the catastrophe happened. it's just that the commissioner of london's metropolitan police has resigned it follows revelations the heart of former news of the world journalists is a media adviser at the same time as his force was supposed to be investigating allegations of phone hacking meanwhile rupert murdoch's former c.e.o. in the u.k. is arrested as part of the investigations. libyan rebels now have full diplomatic recognition from washington and with access to his 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. 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. is on the verge of needing a bailout. you know joins us now for the latest goings on in school and in the bookmakers the shouting out tonight after amazing weekend at gold's british open surely are i tell you what starring he hadn't reached the top ten of a major for ten years and when the british open it's an extraordinary story we've got more on that plus the rest of this sport in just a second. have you with us this is sports they have plenty ahead in looting. in memory of the

international under twenty one tournaments german side freebird triumph in the school. record breaker natalia shank is the toast of the swimming world once again claiming i'm eleven synchronized global crime in shanghai. on treating continents one of basketball's top point guards the wrong williams signs a one year contract with turkish club the sheik to us the first high profile star to leave the n.b.a. for europe because of beyond going labor disputes. that we hadn't reached the top ten of a major tournament for ten years but darren clarke is today at the top of the world golfing tree the northern irishman winning the british open by three shots clark i rank outsider before the event entered sunday's final round holding a one stroke lead the country tyrone native didn't let the wind down rain put them all falling off the second place during dustin johnson and phil mickelson only

seven players for ensuring par above in sandwich. of seventy the very definition of consistency up royal st george's the forty two year old finally raising a lofty fame for a joke after twenty attempts as a pro becoming the third northern irishman to win a major in just thirteen months let the party commence then and clark's hometown of don't get him and. let's get the latest from the tour de france the isle of man is mark cavendish winning stage fifteen of the riders approach the mediterranean sea thomas voeckler though he's still holding on to the overall leader's yellow jersey after that one hundred ninety two kilometer run from the mouth to montpellier a twenty six year old child. he's nineteen career stage when the fourth of this series addition sprinters dominating on the stage is mostly flock to rain as expected speed specialist tyler for all of us under pitofsky coming in second and third freshman voeckler still gliding the locals in yellow for the

seventh straight stage. they have yashin cup is heading to germany dominating this year's event which puts together select european under twenty one squads in moscow robert on the and explains all. he is the pride of soviet and russian food will live 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 play in the european football or of the year award in one thousand nine hundred 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 his plan although yes

and successors the young the 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 third place game a clash which was tough going for the hosts from the off. the english side we think a number of gilt edged joneses in the first half including belting after the break the visitors were left with ten men when our students eola received a second yellow card but that didn't help the novel everton the team who promptly brought the dead look. only netting in style here one. enormous push for a leveller then kills the russians a game on the counter-attack not only claiming his brace here for a final scoreline of two nil was not stitch out so it's

a good lesson for us we have to face 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 so. it's more difficult to play against him. 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 goals was very pleasing that's how it came to the final vs good and it was the germans who still the shoe just a dozen minutes in three books a bill aziz opening his team secure and finishing no it didn't move one the next turning into gold finished with this big teeters able to choose their favorite six new with one school work with three books youngsters who ring the peak of their

peers from england serbia and russia to germany and said look it's good to model so we have to train with the passing passing passing like you said with barcelona they're really good. we look for barcelona and try to bring some of the young hopefuls have every chance to perform at the twenty eighteen world cup the first miles to be filled in russia robert jordan on bertie. and italia is shameka house of a forever etched her name into the annals of synchronised swimming the russian becoming the first ever eleven time world champion after winning her latest goal at the finals in shanghai the twenty five year old giving our country the first medal of the tournament as well winning her third straight world championship and an impeccable informants in the solo program seeing a shank a score ninety eight point three points out of one hundred thousand mark topping the local favorite allowing chan while spaniard under took the last spot on the

podium this term and far from over for two thoughts on a beijing gold winner a shame though it will end state of is expected to russia's medal haul in the upcoming jewett and teen offense. three of you piece top five writers this year produce quite a spectacle at the german grand prix on sunday dummy revealing over a pool sitter dummy casey stoner and reaming champion jorge lorenzo after a race long battle at the suction ring circuit but russa getting off to a blistering start in his home the second place in what would prove a start to finish battle for dominance teammate stoner was an unwilling to budge so early on with the rentals when the knicks after starting from third producer has quite a liking for the truck having one here for previous times in different engine classes the spaniard eventually running this circuit for victory in just his second race after returning from collarbone surgery compadres lorenzo was second stoner third

australian still are still leads the overall standings though fifteen points ahead of lorraine's or. one of the n.b.a.'s elite point guards will be wearing the sheikh this colors next season duran williams officially putting pen to paper with the turkish club for one year the lockout shows no sign of being lifted stateside the twenty seven year old's contract reportedly where some five million dollars williams could whoever heads back to the new jersey nets early if the american league's labor issues are resolved in georgia native zones up the cio will also be joining up with d.-wil leaving the atlanta hawks for a european adventure is no stranger to n.b.a. talent having briefly employed the league's four time scoring champion and former m.v.p. alan iverson. and finally brazil's allison on the money well i've won the moscow leg of the beach volleyball world tour with the fourth edition of the tournament coming to an end in the russian capital on sunday evening they had to contend with

a poor but held their nerve to seal victory and then for all in final i can't switch. once again there was the russian team insights as the men's competition reached the medal rounds heavy rain had been falling in moscow since the early morning but thing fleet of cleared by early afternoon is best crowd of the event great overcast skies to watch what they hoped would be some high class beach volleyball action. first open calls was be american jew of todd rogers and phil dollhouse who took on paying and who really needs and wants was a rematch of last year's final. the call was still damn popova heavy rain but this had both his pros and cons makes it hard right back here you said but you're able to jump a little higher just kind of nice image itself proved to be a cracker of momentum swing back and forth between the pairs however it was a reigning olympic champions who held the nerve to take it in freewheeling third

set tie a break and gain some revenge for a defeat in moscow to be a chinese opponents last year it's in the middle of the season and returned in a group so obviously play well but this matter here was like the exact same match last year except we came here i wish we could just switch it because last year that before and also brazil's allison i'm going man you well taken patrick push and jeffersonville a god of switzerland power the earth soon as the teams are taken to be called the heavens opened just as they've been frightening to do for the last hour the south american jew would only been playing together for a couple of years to the first set comfortably but the rain became stronger suit of the swiss is very level of the match and sent the gold medal game into a decider. the brazilian jewel looked down and now it was better opponents opened up a six point lead however they hit back brilliantly to seal big sharee who is imo new world would go on to say the weather conditions certainly didn't help i think there

were a mix you called it myself and i can lose some concentration in many points another think the ball slips slips more than regular it's hard to control you know it's difficult for both teams but evolved to rein in the dreadful weather didn't manage to spoil what turned out to be and in for all ing day of beach volleyball for the spectators who are fairly entertained the tournament should be back in moscow next year as a sport looks to keep on developing in russia richard bumpily tarty moscow. that is your sport where there is next he said.

today's top stories in the review of the week from the. rescuers are preparing to lift the russian cruiser from the bottom of the volga river a matter of minutes last sunday claiming around one hundred thirty nine. relatives and investigators all looking for answers as to why the ship sunk so we'll bring you all the details from the recovery site in just a moment. another skulk london's police commissioner quits is the focus of the fury of the phone hacking scandal switches to the police. news international c.e.o. rebecca brooks is arrested earlier in the day. banking on change libyan rebels in full diplomatic recognition from washington and with its access to

freeze assets frozen in the u.s. . continental cash crunch is america faces up to the possibility of default europe's debt crisis contagion piles more pressure on the euro. you're watching the weekly with the main headlines of the past week and the latest developments it's being described as the biggest boat. disaster in russia's modern history in the space of just three minutes a pleasure cruiser with two hundred eight people on board went down in the volga river taking over half of its passengers with it nearly one hundred thirty people were killed many of them children a week later the operation to raise the ship from the bottom is underway is told by reports the bug area 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 they're attached to them or 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 that will garrett was leaned on his left side and then once they've right to do 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 right 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 ship divers are going to have to first of all try and find essentially the whole.