joyce below to see how lovely that's the case we go to the grand imperial truly that's all it was to score alone till you can a letter to the socialist civility to go and publicly and read this in the kernel was her job as a retreat. a snap to cable has forced rescuers to restart their complicated operation to lift the massive bulgaria cruiser that sank a week ago claiming one hundred twenty nine lives. from the murdoch media scandal claims another scalp that has britain's top cop quits over connections to journalists suspected of bribery and phone hacking the former news international chief executive and the 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 in val's never to leave libya as nato airstrikes continue. and a transatlantic cash crunch as america struggles to raise its debt ceiling in a time to avert a default while the euro crisis spreads adding more pressure on the single currency . broadcasting live direct from moscow russia's capital this is archie and sean thomas glad to have you with us. russian emergency crews are to restart efforts to lift of the wreck of a sunken cruiser which went down in the river volga last week killing one hundred twenty nine people including many children a cable snaps during recovery efforts which have had to be restarted the cruiser bulgaria went down in minutes leaving most of the two hundred eight passengers and

no chance of escape and one of russia's worst ever shipping disasters our seas tom gardner reports from the site of the catastrophe. as if to demonstrate just how difficult the covering the ball carrier is going to be the cable holding it just snap for the norm mighty bang the crane holding it rocked backwards and the cable whips up against the side of the ship that cable was there to try and support the ship to try and write it before they began lifting the ship with other straps the later to be put under it is certain demonstrate just how difficult and dangerous this operation is going to be if there were divers under there they could have been in great danger from the snapping cable had previously been trying to turn the ship round to get into position in order that they could write the ship and then bring it up to the surface but there's a lot of other complications involved very poor visibility a lot of weight involved and a long a long and lengthy process is going to be needed and we were told just recently by

a spokesman from the emergencies ministry it's going to take many days before they can begin to even start raising the ship that's going to come as a blow to all the investigators who were hoping for answers to come from the raising of the ship and all the relatives and survivors waiting on the bank for some news of the remaining fifteen bodies a mountain of cuddly toys never to be played live they are the flowers and candles a testament to the children among those who drowned in the pleasure boat the bulgarian sank in the volga last sunday. we study together for a year she never had arguments with anyone she was a very kind girl and was almost immediately help. the ship sank in just three minutes turning a summer afternoon on the river into a scene of horror. that people were basically buries a line to anti-matter coffin we managed to get out through the windows i was there

with my ten year old daughter i couldn't rescue hand she swallowed too much water when i was pulled out i realized. it was gone in the chaos to escape and 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 to watch him drown in front yuri was the d.j. for the disco on the bottom deck the only just managed to escape me i remember clearly that water was rising very quickly it was a matter of seconds i survived because we saw two in the series started pushing people out through it's a god moment we opened the surface and then i saw 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 the people who were alive from the rubble that was floating around people were in panic when we rescued them in a state of shock some suffering from other traumas they were all covered in oil fuel that was leaking from the sunken ship it was a terrifying picture i have to say despite a huge search and rescue operation after the initial survivors were picked up. the divers and cranes working in this water have been trying to recover just something of the lives lost and families destroyed in those few terrible minutes but they've also been working on the question of cost so much why did the bulgaria sink and sink so fast. as the list of bodies recovered from the ship grew so did

the number of revelations about an aging dangerous and badly managed vessel eyewitnesses people connected with the. ship came forward with damning accounts of its poor condition on the stingy management forced 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 them portal thirty 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 pounds 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 have been opened and arrests been made to the bulgaria sinking and more

controversially into why two ships which we've seen before the arabella didn't pick up a single person reports the crew members instead took her pictures on their mobile phones. and you with all the passengers were shocked there were about seventeen people on a raft many had cuts and injuries that were bleeding we yelled for help i saw the boat passes by in a different direction towards. the slow process of raising the bulgaria has now started up with it will come the potential for answers but also terrible memories in particular associated with the ship's plane or 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 on the us a party. in an exclusive interview with r t the captain of the ship who helped

rescue most of the survivors from the bulgaria has described the horrific scene you can watch is it dramatic account in an hour here on our t.v. or on our website r.t.e. dot com. britain's most senior police officer has resigned the latest high profile casualty caught up in the news of the world phone hacking scandal which continues to escalate sir paul stephenson equipped as metropolitan police commissioner following revelations he hired a former deputy editor of the paper with being arrested by his own officers investigating illegal accessing of mobile phones and corruption the former news of the world editor rebecca brooks was arrested and questioned for twelve hours as part of the same probe before being willing to bail any machine on who's a former intelligence officer for m i five believes the timing of her arrest raises a lot of questions we ask this one hundred slightly suspicious turn of mind one

might think that the police by taking this step at this stage are allowing a little wriggle room i shouldn't have to say too much and perhaps also we've had stated much about the leaks the police service in london is welfare it's very very interesting timing the amount of information that is noticed about the into the linkage between news international and the police i mean it's amazing that the focus has tended to be on the journalists themselves and not on the open legibly corrupt police officers that have been receiving money to provide protected information and of course it's not just about the phone hacking scandal there are other practices their peers have been implicated such as a technique a known as pinging where you triangulate some of the location using and they've all phones now the only people who really have access to that sort of information would be vetted police officers working for counterterrorism branch office special branch or potentially of course the spies so where and when all this is going on is a very interesting question but it does show that there's a sort of pity and then a corruption and a failure of accountability and oversight as well we can police force. meanwhile

rupert murdoch is trying to rescue news corp's crumbling reputation he's spent the last forty eight hours apologizing for the phone hacking scandal with full page newspaper advertisements well also meeting the family of them or. whose voicemail was intercepted and as laura and reports it's a watershed moment for the cozy relationship between britain's our traditions and the press good every media outlet and on t.v. read you even the scariest part imitates life the long running simpsons takes a shot at it only rupert murdoch aka montgomery burns in an episode broadcast apparently coincidentally this week. but it's not the only piece of timing in the extraordinary phone hacking case that seems to get more scandalous every day the list of something like four thousand names which the police have have since about two thousand and four three thousand and five and yet

they got probably facie evidence of criminal activity by these individuals and boy or the murdoch empire and yet they've not acted on it so why now just as the murdoch deal to take control of satellite t.v. giant b. sky b. look sure to go ahead his rival the guardian newspaper releases catastrophic allegations of a moral journalists and their shady practices that when the deal collapses the times for example which currently loses money you could have transferred some of the profits from. into investing in the times and if you are for example the guardian or the daily telegraph. it's not just rival newspapers who stand to gain from murdoch's empire crumbling the b.b.c. could retake t.v. territory lost to b. sky b.

and the labor party which was wounded by years of relentless attacks by murdoch papers can finally take revenge but where will all this lead. you know. that would suit the government just fine the british press is famous for its sharp teeth and no holds barred doggedness particularly where its own government is concerned prime minister david cameron has all but shut down the press complaints commission and already talks of statutory controls to govern print journalists back in springfield mr burns is quoted as the townspeople open up their own newspaper and he's almost right. it's a possible can truly the media. rupert murdoch he is beautiful murdoch sounds as did mr burns but you just can't buy all the newspapers those

outside his control have been gunning for him think it is and this time they may have succeeded just as he did sets it consolidate control over a lot section of the case media markets across pulls out from under him and it's all over the hidden scandal now reveals that the police have known about it for years nor and it's hard to see. still ahead this hour the dangers of a day before we examine why the us is on the brink of a financial nightmare and what if i do try to avoid it. and of square in four wheeled frenzy as high speed formula one super cars screech through the center of moscow. new nato airstrikes have hit the suburbs of the libyan capital tripoli as colonel gadhafi

vows he'll never leave his country this comes after his opponents have been recognized as the legitimate governing authority by over thirty nations by the u.s. they said they would deal with the. transitional national council until an interim government is in place new measures that give the insurgents access to cut off its assets including billions of dollars which have been frozen in american banks but as political commentator ted rall says the move marks a radical shift the united states usually doesn't extend still not equipped to a regime that is not in the capital that is in power and doesn't even seem likely to be able to achieve power anytime soon but you can look at the situation in afghanistan during the one nine hundred ninety six to two thousand and one to civil conflict there between the taliban in the northern alliance the northern alliance were the former regime that had power in kabul and they enjoyed diplomatic

relations with the worst even though that's not the gun control ninety five percent of the country it's on is just wishful thinking and frankly if i were a diplomat i would find it disturbing it's a bizarre situation 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 to jihad these in eden around ghazi so it's unrealistic to assume that that is not still the case the u.s. has an amazing habit of shipping skids full of hundred dollar bills to third world countries and expecting them to end up in the right hands and really going to. the recognition of the rebels by more nations may bolster their spirit but it's a different story in combat fears of fighting for a key eastern oil town has ended with heavy opposition casualties as daniel bushell reports it's thought france is now trying the tactic of talks with the libyan regime after failing to deliver a knockout blow to could die off. books is like bragging will destroy the reply

lives they're often wrong and get the mills the surprise was with french foreign minister alan should pay both did france with libya in quote days or weeks the war's into a fourth month the final round inside nicolas sarkozy with his western allies seen short little opponents fighting back well it's not often and both north and south i think it's an embarrassment for all neko the whole west paris even admits all the 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 the records and everything else so it seems strange in many ways the whole western supports some of that i will 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. well for a legal person. giving. none of. this. witnesses had made me go of libya's causing widespread atrocities for every one military personnel that was supposedly a casualty there were ten civilians fraud's categorically ruled out cindy grilled troops but exposed predict is the only way to break the libyan. the moves the splitting the nato coalition silvio berlusconi head of key partners italy admits invading libya was a mistake russia abstained did the us vote would install and bombs would bring havoc in libya which she plays at the latest talks with counterpart sergei lavrov

lloyd lee diplomats speak for openly. with elections just annoying months away sako it voices that a successful war could resurrect his chances instead one paper writes libya's becoming a slow motion crash for france's deeply unpopular president sarkozy's a jogging fan's excessive sweating is understandable this is libyan spring is turning into a mouse and the new bush will see paris. russia's foreign minister was in the u.s. capital this week to get clarification on washington's missile defense agenda america is steaming ahead with a deployment of its anti-missile shield in europe despite objections from moscow the u.s. claims the project is aimed at protection against an attack by iran or north korea but russia feels the system could threaten its own national security moscow has suggested a joint missile defense program that's being brushed aside by washington and nato

the u.s. is also refusing to provide a legally binding guarantees that it's a proposed system is not aimed against russia so again lab stressed the voice of russia radio in washington the need to prevent a new arms race. facts on the ground being created on the basis of a myriad national design of missile defense which was not accepted by us as a reasonable way to respond to what is perceived as being the purpose of being the system we want at this particular moment to stick to the original agreement that we would be you know all parts of the system which would. compromise which would. create risks for the strategic stability and for the but then short in the strategic stability area namely through the age of course in the halls of the participants of the system now let's have a brief look at some other stories from around the globe. egypt's former president

hosni mubarak has suffered a heart attack and is in a coma according to his lawyers but denied by health officials and state t.v. doctors were reportedly working to bring the eighty three year old depos leader to consciousness speculation about mubarak's condition has intensified as the date of his trial on charges of corruption and unlawful killing of protesters approaches. venezuelan president hugo chavez is back in cuba for more cancer treatment including you know therapy no more malignant cells have been found after he had surgery to remove a tumor from his pelvic region he has transferred some of his powers to his ministers during his absence but didn't agree to an opposition call for a temporary handover of all presidential authority his battle with cancer has raised and doubts over his fitness to lead the country but he still plans to run for re-election next year. a senior aide and a close ally to afghan president hamid karzai has been killed in the capital kabul

after a group of armed men attacked his home a member of parliament also died in the attack because while a band said it was responsible claiming it was one of their biggest achievements in a decade the attack happened on the day the u.s. started handing over control of some of afghanistan's provinces to local security forces and less than a week after the assassination of president karzai half brother. time is running out for american politicians to agree on the next move in sorting out its soaring get the deadline to lift of the nation's fourteen point three trillion dollar debt ceiling is looming ever closer as lawmakers struggle to find a solution president obama is urging democrats and republicans to ignore their differences to avert armageddon leading credit rating agencies say there is a risk of the u.s. could fail to resolve the good luck we already fact of way but zeke miller from the business insider website says both parties understand the dangers of further

borrowing the impact on the u.s. economy the world economy in 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 that increases borrowing costs not just for the federal government but for several thousand recent pallies across the country the united states i don't think anybody thinks united states is getting away with setting a longer they've sort of reached the point where 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 a country if this debt ceiling goes up or if the u.s. credit rating is downgraded and that would have you know it's a big problem because of the current recession and slow down to recovery. things are a little better in europe with italy now the focus of stopping the euro zone heading into oblivion roams approved a tough seventy billion euro parentage to avoid

a deadline about its the euro zone's third largest economy and could prove too big for its neighbors to bail out while eight out of the ninety european banks have failed stress tests to see if they could survive another financial crisis economics professor patrick min for it says some e.u. countries may have to accept default as wealthier nations no longer want to pay for their costly rescue. money we've known all along that a lot of banks in europe and north would not pass stress tests if the stress tests included the possibility of summer in 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 that 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 bailouts 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 in the struggle for land rights in israel there is one place that still deserted territory and used to be a flourishing palestinian community but now israelis are eyeing it up as a luxury getaway or geez i was clear as the story. this sort of the mountains of jerusalem are the remains of a once a sling arab community only the memories of those who once lived here have survived intact i feel it's. come back to be. my village. to see the hugs since the spring. also to remind and. my car that.

i could have among the cacti and fit trees but in one nine hundred forty eight just before the state of israel was declared his family evacuated unlike the hundreds of villages that disappeared in forty eight and sixty seven most of the original houses of lifter are still here so they really were heard shooting and shouted mama mama cried they will shoot you they remove the whole the whole debacle hoping they would do away with our mother took us inside the room in a corner and. so as to protect. us here cook was one of seven hundred thousand palestinians who became a fijian nine hundred forty eight his childhood home was quickly absorbed by the newly established jewish state almost all of two thousand and four. he was forced to do just because you were rewritten he is considered as absent and he lost the property in the early one nine hundred fifty s.

jews moved into the abandoned homes like your new york and spare ins they were also refugees fleeing arab countries where life had become dangerous after israel was created these raided government seem to live in lifter your lease is to prevent i would owners from returning or in their term here. live here years without water without electricity they came here. for the memorial here as their own for the most of the regional 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 when wildflowers and grass now grow living there is empty. and eventually that emptiness that the israeli government now plans to build more than two hundred luxury homes a chic hotel shops and a museum insisting well preserved the area's history we will find ourselves with

a neighborhood where history has been conserved there will also be gucky mentation and the story will be told of who lived there as we do in all the neighborhoods of jerusalem but many latter could say it's palestinian land and a double injustice why you want to destroy our. yanni. for the root real world came from anywhere where the way i come in my village and come back i came back to my precinct and. this new. and. so i'm going for palestinians lifter is a physical reminder of injustice and survival but for a fair number of israelis it's an eyesore and they'd rather not be reminded of what happened here if you timely live in jerusalem policy r.t.

lifter. several moscow streets were impassable on sunday afternoon but not because of the notorious traffic jams they were sealed off to temporarily become the realm of the fast and the furious and a high octane performance formula one drivers earn some serious rubber against the amazing backdrop of the from the walls it was part of the annual moscow city racing show featuring famous f one drivers and winners of the world rally championships it's a taste of things to come for russian f one fans as the country will get its own grand prix in three years time. i'll recap today's end of this week's main stories for you in just a few moments don't go away. wealthy

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