cool. and broadcasting live from the heart of moscow this is archie and shawn thomas was scheduled to talk with him. and he snaps cable has forced rescuers to restart the complicated operation to lift of the massive bulgaria cruiser that sank a week ago training one hundred twenty nine lives if the murdoch media scandal claims another scalp as britain's top cop quits over connections to journalists suspected of bribery and phone hacking former news international chief executive and news of the world editor rebecca brooks has also found herself once again

dealing with police behind closed doors but this time under arrest before being released on bail the. libyan rebels have been recognized as the legitimate governing authority in the country in five u.s. and thirty other countries but colonel gadhafi remains a defiant and vows never to leave libya as nato airstrikes continue. and a transatlantic for cash crunch as america struggles to raise its debt ceiling in time to avert a default while the euro crisis spreads adding more pressure on the single currency . next r.t. hears from the captain of a vessel whose crew lets to the rescue of survivors in the volga river tragedy last week. captain is out and thank you very much for this interview was the first to come to the rescue the sinking cruise ship to carry out how do you get to know about the

tragedy. yes we were the first to help we were sailing in the same direction as the bulgarian and we picked up on the radio just bits of conversations between some ships we couldn't make out what the ships were what we heard them talk of seeing people overboard and speculating that it looked like a boat or a small ship it capsized once we heard that we put on more speed to get there faster but we did arrive at the tragedy site we saw terrible things and only when we realized that it was a pleasure jerry it had sunk to the true scope of the disaster strike us. how long did it take it's it gets the same. but you know i mean 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 a panic stricken britta sang. when we got them on board we had so much to deal with of course they were kind of stricken they were in deep shock but what happened is quite horrible my crew members who were involved in rescue works deeply involved to some people were in a dreadful condition many were injured they had all all over their skin because when the ship sank the fuel 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 holes to pull them on board seeing children in that condition really heartbreaking. and probably it was very hard on survivors. lost family members in 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 too we all felt very deeply for them. rights and i was just got to ask you harry a crew were coping with it and how are they doing now it must have been hugely stressful was that. we couldn't afford to think about stress we had to do all we could to prevent panic spreading of course it was felt it deep inside but we had to remain professional to control our feelings. and succeeded in saving so many people at heart of seven to seven what helped you do that was there anything in particular that helped. you know i find it hard to say what helped us because after that storm there was a brief period of cam and it happened just as we approached the wreck site that short moment of camelot is to pull people on board with 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 for the crew when i

already said that they performed in the past 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 about what the arabella was packed full capacity at the time one hundred fifty passengers they acted like heroes are you these loud were deliberately they helped a lot i consoled the injured and there were doctors among the tourists on the hour a valid basis of the ship's medic as he rendered first aid and they gave a lot of psychological support to survivors but it was very important. to people who survived the ship cracked all the journalists that when they found themselves in the water and the boat sank they were instantly coprime to that once i saw the rock and then popped out to the surface again one observer sat as though the sinking boat from the sort of funnel but everything in what happens in reality.

more than that thank you for that 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 it wolf whirlpool that can suck people live about it but people who were afloat when the ship sank must have found enormous strength to fight the world pool 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. are they being the one before you pick them up at the podium i can't be precise about that but i think they were in the water for half an hour or so some of them a try to get into life rafts others were still in the water to start with. there are a few theories of how this tragedy could have happened and one of them sas the boat attack on the facts and saw the bulgarians out sometime before the same came up to see you. you see not all technical defects can be seen from outside experts say that the cruiser listed to one side will i don't know how dangerous this was for the passengers because i'm not overly with sheets of this type i never worked on

that design ability and what it listed and everyone knows it as for the technical state of the cruiser i see again and 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 hear i with this is my sister both listened to the right even when it was dark a problem so listening was visible i'm not sure it was her cell because i wasn't there and i want to ask you this question as a true and what is to you i told you just now that the post was listing but i can't tell you how critical it was to the ship. we did happen to talk with the crew of the bulgaria before the boat sailed over the thinking of if you consider the possibility that something might happen to tell you about it let them was. when the arabella dr bull got on with it was one of the plan to stop spreading the second birth a little barry was tied at the first one they were leaving at eleven o'clock and we stayed till thirteen hundred hours. and 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 and the current second mate of the bulgarian to me at last a little 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. the captain of the ukraine would old age prevented him from remaining in charge because it is an exhausting post the captain works very hard and it's too charming for an old man he realized this and decided to step down to the position because it is easier and better for the older man what he did not want to leave the bulgaria ukraine. his mothership and i approached him and we chatted a bit we shook hands and i asked him mr nozzle if 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 he's might have passed away a few years ago and all that was left for him as a consolation was his job but the most memorable thing he told me one that stuck in my mind was point he said he didn't want to sail this year but i don't know i just

didn't feel like sailing this season and then this thing happened and i see him from the way you're italian this story is no longer alive. that's right sadly he is gone 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 ship sank really fast progress 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 you know how they still say it took the ship something like two or three maybe five minutes to see and that really is a very short time but it is difficult to lower any boats a raft 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 all right so part is talk about it's

a gas wells that as many claim passed the bulgaria that they were just passed by right in the stark at the scene what was going on. i did a package when 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 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 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 and. way to let us know when we were there lish its presence at that spot could be counterproductive and hazardous for the people who are in the water and below the surface which rules about in that situation it was paramount that we avoided konica disaster situation but it was necessary to observe the scene of the accident and it was necessary to start rescuing people immediately or anyway i think we did a lot faster than this other ship could have because at that moment there was just

so little time for both. contact with us yes but we had contact but we just exchanged a few phrases you know 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 and a sign that you don't want to blame anyone but at that moment it was already too late should have predicted earlier with he would have to hold the ship you know or a boat but we were already approaching the site in our ship and i think i already had both the float and advancing towards the site and his boat but that it too we were practically beginning to collect the people from the water once again i'm not trying to accuse him of i don't know his vessel is 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 i thought moment and i

figured that there was no use for his boat there at the time the scene was supposed to be a zero is in that situation or not of course not mine the captain of one ship he's a captain of another ship i 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 start it had been right person and had been the captain of the other ship and you return i should move on and your help was there for his or her duty. 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 snap cable has forced rescuers to restart the complicated operation to lift the massive football garia cruiser that sank a week ago claiming one hundred twenty nine lives. the murdoch media scandal claims another scalp as britain's top cop quits over connections to journalists a suspected of bribery and phone hacking former news international chief executive and news of the world editor rebecca brooks has also found herself once again dealing with police behind closed doors but this time under arrest before being released on bail. libyan rebels have been recognized as the legitimate governing authority in the country by the u.s.

and thirty other countries but colonel gadhafi remains defiant and vows never to leave libya as nato airstrikes continue. and a transatlantic cash crunch as america struggles to raise its debt ceiling in time to avert a default while the euro crisis spreads out in more pressure on a single currency and the latest goings on in sports is next with unit. with us this is sports they had plenty ahead in looting. in memory to action cup international under twenty one tournament sees german side freebird triumph in moscow. record breaker natalia shameka is the toast of the swimming world once again claiming an eleventh synchronized global crossing in shanghai. i'm treating

consonance one of paul scholes top point guards to wrong williams signs a one year contract with turkish club machine to us the first high profile star to leave the n.b.a. for europe because they'll be ongoing at least for a dispute. now he 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 are rank outsiders before the event entered sunday's final round holding a one stroke lead on the county tyrone native didn't let the wind down rain put him off pulling off a second place during help dustin johnson and phil mickelson only seven players for ensuring far above that in sun which. have seventy different definition of consistency up royal st george's the forty two year old finally raising a lofty frame for a job after twenty attempts as a pro becoming the third northern irishman to win

a major in just thirteen months let the party commence planning clark so much on. let's get the latest from the tour de france the isle of man is mark cavendish winning stage fifteen us and riders approach the mediterranean sea thomas voeckler though he still holding on to the overall leaders yellow jersey after that one hundred ninety two kilometer run from the mouth to montpellier a twenty six year old. an issue earning his nineteenth career stage when the truth on 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 the top she coming in second and third freshman folks are still delighting the locals the golden yellow for the seventh straight stage. and you have yashin cup is heading to germany dominating this year's event which puts together select european under twenty one squads in moscow robert downey 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 the usurious first european championships four years later he's still the only goalkeeper in the history of the game to claim the european food lure of the year award in ninety six and 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 and international tournament for under twenty one teams an essential part of his plan although yashin successor is young the number hopefuls has still some work to do to fill your actions boots after losing to or keep their grudge in the sim finals the muscovites own head to head with everton in the third cli's game the clash which

was tough going for the hosts from the. huge say we think a number of field edge chances in the first half including now think after the break the business we're left with ten men when our students eola received a second yellow card but they didn't help the non everton the team who promptly grilled the dead look. only netting in style here one. enormous two for a level or then cause the russians again caught on the counter-attack but only claiming his grace here for a final scoreline of two neil was not the chatter and 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 on the other four are not all credit to the players you know so. it's more

difficult to play against them. so they showed i thought we maybe should have been leading a hard time maybe at least a couple of goals. soul to come out second half and score a couple goals which was very pleasing that's how it came to the final verses. and it was the germans who still the shoe just the. three books of guilt as east opening his team's account an issue it didn't move one little niche turning into bill frist who just because peter is able to choose their favorite sixty two with one school work with three bullets the answers hoovering the peak of their peers from the moon serbia and russia germany. it's just a model so we have to train passing passing cars like this in the bus alone they're really good. looking for barcelona and trying to bring some of these young

hopefuls at every chance to perform in the twenty eighteen world cup for smiles to be filled in russian. party. and i tell you it is shameka house today forever etched her name into the annals of synchronized swimming the russian becoming the first ever eleven time world champion after winning early this goal at the finals and shanghai the twenty five year old giving our country the first medal of the tournament as well winning her third straight world championship and packable informants in the solo program seeing a shank a score ninety eight point three points out of one hundred thought mark topping the local favorite a lying champ while spun eight hundred four entities took the last spot on the podium this term and far from over for two thought as an eight beijing gold winner a shame though it will instead of is expected to russia's medal haul in the upcoming jewett and. since.

three of moto g.p. is top five riders this year produce quite a spectacle of the german grand prix and sunday. prevailing over a pole sitter casey stoner and reigning champion jorge lorenzo after a race long battle with the suction ring circuit producing getting off to a blistering start in his home to from second place in what would prove the start to finish battle for dominance teammates to know was on willing to budge though early on with lorenzo also in the mix after starting from third person has quite a liking for the truck out in one year for previous times in different engine classes this point of entry rounding the circuit for victory in just his second race after returning from collarbone surgery. a second stoner third australian stoner still leads the overall standings though fifteen points ahead. one of the n.b.a.'s elite point guards will be wearing bush this colors next season drone williams officially putting pen to paper with the turkish club for one year as the

lockout shows no sign of being lifted stateside the twenty seven year old's contract reporting where some five million dollars could ever head back to the new jersey nets surely if the american league's labor issues are resolved georgia native designs up a truly zero will also be joining up with the well leaving the atlanta hawks for a european adventure is no stranger to n.b.a. briefly employed the league's four time scoring champion and former m.v.p. alan iverson. finally brazil's allison on a monday well as well in 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 some of the thing they had to contend with its original join poor but held their nerve to seal victory and then for all in final i can't switch. once again that was the russian team insights as the men's competition reached for medal rounds heavy rain has been falling in moscow since the early morning but thing fleet of cleared by

early afternoon the best ride of the event great overcast skies to watch will be hodes will be some might call speech volleyball action. first open calls was be american jew told rogers and filled our house we took on paying and who. in walks was a rematch of last year's final. the still damp off of a heavy rain this is pros and cons and makes it hard right back here right here you just where she said kind of nice but much itself proved to be a cracker with mentum swing back and forth between the pair is however it was the reigning olympic champions who held the nerve to take it in freeling third time break and gain some revenge for a defeat in moscow to the chinese opponents last year it's in the middle of the season and. so are usually played well but this matter here was like exact same actually last year so we came up with this which is that you will find also

brazil's allison i'm going man u. well taken patrick pusher and jeffersonville a guard of switzerland however as soon as the teams are taken to the called the heavens opened just displayed in printing to do for the last hour the south american jew we'd only been playing together for a couple of years to the first set comfortably it's been raining came stronger suit of a swiss as my level of a match and simple gold medal game into a decider. the brazilian jewel looked down and now it was her opponent opened up a six point lead however they hit back brilliantly to seal big sharee new world would go on to say but weather conditions certainly didn't help i think they were a makes you feel cold and i said. and i can listen concentration to many points another think the ball slips slips more than regular it's hard to control but you know it's the cause of both teams but the morning evolved through rain the dreadful

weather didn't manage to spoil what turned out to be unfurling day of beach volleyball for the spectators who were thoroughly entertained by the tournament should be back in moscow next year as it was told to keep on developing in russia richard pombo collegiality. is your sport where there's next thing you sit. down with the official auntie happily cation your by phone the i pod touch from the queue taps to. life on the go. video on demand all keys mindful of costs and says feed now with the palm of your. wishes. com.

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