he has to be a movie that's the great way to go to the ground in theory true and that's all it was. you can oh well it's no slows richard to see don't need to go and koreans read this and the colonel was so told as used to retreat. a snap cable has forced rescuers to restart the complicated operation to live to the massive goal garia cruiser that sank a week ago claiming one hundred twenty nine lives. the murdoch media scandal claims another scalp as of britain's top cop quits over connections to journalists suspected of bribery and phone hacking former news international chief executive and the news of the world editor were back of brooks has also found herself once again dealing with police one hind closed doors but this time under arrest before being released on bail he could be in 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 that 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 the single currency . and you are watching r t direct from the heart of moscow from our central studios and 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 crews are bulgaria went down in minutes leaving most of the two hundred eight passengers no

chance of escape and one of russia's worst ever shipping disasters archies tom barton reports from the scientific downstream. as if to demonstrate just how difficult the covering the ball gary is going to be the cable holding it just snapped with an almighty bang the crane holding it rocked backwards and the cable whipped 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 that were later to be put under it it serves to 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 they'd previously been trying to turn the ship round to get into position in order that they could right 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 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 with they the flowers and candles a testament to the children among those who drowned in the pleasure boat the gold carrier sank in the volga last sunday. we study together for a year she never had arguments with a new i'm sure was a very kind of girl and was always really to help. the ship sank in just three minutes turning a summer afternoon on the river into a scene of horror. is that people were basically buried alive anti-matter 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 when i was pulled out i realized my. child 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 had to watch him drown in front of him yuri was the deejay for the disco on the bottom deck he only just managed to escape. 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 series started pushing people out through it at that moment waves 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. but as we approached it was hard to distinguish in the dark water of people who were alive from the rubble that was floating around people were in a panic when we rescued them in a state of shock some suffering from other traumas they were all covered in oil field 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 a few others were found. but divers in 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 aging 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 forced it to keep sailing. i became captain of the vessel in two thousand and seven the ship hadn't even been renovated for a while before that there were big problems with the engines and power generators to 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 have been opened and arrests been made into the bulgaria sinking and more

controversially into why two ships which which has seen before the arabella didn't pick up a single person reports the crew members instead took pictures on their mobile phones. all the passengers were shocked there were about seventeen people on a raft and many had 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 bulgaria has no start it up with it will come the potential for. but also terrible memories in particular associated with the ships plane or a group of children were gathered when the ship stopped. just some of the young victims in what will go down as one of russia's worst and most avoidable shipping disasters. already. in an exclusive interview with r.t.

the captain of the ship who helped to rescue most of the survivors from the bulgaria has described the horrific scene you can watch as dramatic account in twenty minutes here on our t.v. or on our website 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 quit as metropolitan police commissioner following revelations he hired a former deputy editor of the paper who had been arrested by his own officers investigating illegal accessing of mobile phones and of corruption the former news of the world editor rebekah brooks was arrested and questioned for twelve hours as part of the same probe before being released on bail media analyst phil reese says of the practice of police being paid for information by the media is not likely to disappear anytime soon so this is a good example of what the police have been doing in the kind of murdoch years

they've been using a recipe been leaking they've been paid for telling people when celebrities have been arrested so actually manipulating the rest of people is actually a practice that is becoming trying now in my view as a result of the kind of bribery thing so this would hardly be out of practice 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 murdoch is probably paid to get to the bottom of this and we are out those people who. been corrupted different levels remember that four years ago where i police had these bags with i think it was a level 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 and meanwhile senior police officers were wining and dining with members of the murdoch empire 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 the officers down down the lines now you could well you know can any organization properly examine itself put so much is at stake but 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 the ramifications of this is so big i mean you know britain is in shaking it is each day it's headline news and people are asking who's next. meanwhile rupert murdoch is trying to rescue news corp crumbling reputation he's spent the last forty eight hours apologizing for the phone hacking scandal

with full page news or newspaper advertisements while also meeting up with the family of a murdered teenager whose voicemail was intercepted and laura emmett reports it's a watershed moment for the cozy relationship between britain's politicians and the press. every media outlet and t.v. we reveal in the scary. part imitates life the long running the simpsons takes a short it's own. 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 nine which the police have have since about two thousand and forty thousand and five and yet they probably facie evidence of criminal activity by these individuals and boy

by 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. 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 will for example the guardian or the daily telegraph. that 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. that would suit the government just fine the british press is famous for its shock 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 as the townspeople put up their own newspaper and he's almost right. it is possible to control the media. rupert murdoch he is beautiful murdoch found as did mr burns that you just can't buy all the newspapers those outside his control have been gunning for him for years and this

time they may have succeeded just as he that sets a consolidate control over a lot section of the e.u. case media markets pulled out from under him and it's all over the hidden scandal now reveals that the police have known about it for years nor ever see. and still ahead this hour of the dangers of a phone. with them and why the u.s. is on the brink of a financial mind where and what it might do to try to avoid it. and square a four wheeled frenzy as a high speed formula one super cars screeched through the center of moscow. new nato airstrikes have hit the suburbs of the libyan capital tripoli as colonel gadhafi vows he will never leave his country this comes after his opponents have been recognized as the legitimate governing authority by over thirty nations led by

us they said they would deal with the rebel transitional national council one be chill an interim government is in place new measures that would give it me insurgents access to get off his assets including the billions of dollars which have been frozen in american banks but as a political commentator ted rall says the move marks a radical shift. the united states usually doesn't extend still nothing. to a regime that is not in macau going all that isn't in power and doesn't even seem likely to be able to achieve our anytime 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 taliban and the northern alliance the northern alliance were the former regime that had power in kabul and ensured diplomatic relations with the west even though the taliban 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 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 jihad. around benghazi so it's unrealistic to assume that that is not still the case the u.s. has an amazing habit of shipping a skids full of hundred dollar bills to third world countries and expecting them to end up in the right hands i'm really going to happen. the recognition of the rebels by more nations may bolster their spirit but it's a different story in combat fierce 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 gadhafi. books is like bragging they'll destroy their opponents they're often wrong and gets a surprise i. french foreign minister should

pay posted from libya in quote days or weeks the wars into a fourth month and the final round inside that vehicle sarkozy with his western allies seems short their little opponents fighting back well it's not often and beareth mr sarkozy and for all nato for the whole rest paris even admits all the libya's rebels but on some somalia. wench to libya for training within the last two or three years that's documented we have the fly records and everything else so it seems strange and 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 u.n. votes on foreign intervention in the country. illegally.

and other. witnesses. of libya's causing widespread atrocities for every one and military personnel that was supposedly a casualty there were ten civilians frauds categorically ruled out cindy grilled troops that expose predict is the only way to break the libyan deadlock the moves the splitting the nato coalition silvio berlusconi head of key partly italy of invading libya was a mistake. wally bombs would bring havoc in libya. the latest count supports the. loire valley diplomat speak for. all the elections just annoying months away so go it was the said

a successful war could bryza wrecked his charles's instead one paper roy's libya's becoming a slow motion call crouch for fraud says the president. is easy jogging for excessive sweating is understandable as his libyan spring is turning into a marathon the new bush will see paris. 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 deposed leader to consciousness speculation about mubarak's condition has intensified as the date of his trial on charges of corruption and the unlawful killing of protesters approaches. venezuelan president hugo chavez is back in cuba for more cancer treatment including

a came of therapy you know more malignant cells have been found after he had surgery to remove a tumor from his pelvis region he is transferred some of his powers to ministers during his absence but didn't agree to opposition calls for a temporary and over of all presidential authority is a battle with cancer has raised 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 the taliban 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 is half brother. the clock is ticking for american politicians to agree on the next move in sorting out its

massive national debt to avert the looming possibility of default august second is the deadline for raising the nation's fourteen point three trillion dollars debt ceiling president obama has urged the republican controlled house of representatives to come up with whatever mechanisms they can to ensure the u.s. can continue to pay its bills analysts say if washington lacks the money interest rates could skyrocket and the value of the dollar could decline the seriousness of the situation was reinforced when two rating agencies threatened to downgrade the united states prize to aaa rating even if the budget is approved investor jim rogers says it's unlikely to solve america's debt problem. you know and the states already has been downgraded the world markets every i'm not the only person who knows it united states is the largest debtor nation in the. you know the world look at the value of the u.s. dollar is down fairly significantly over the past few years they have to increase

a good ceiling for the well there's no question about that their choice for the future is they've got to take an axe you know they've got to take a change so to government spending and do something about it they're not going to do that they might announce they're going to do it for it is to get the budget ceiling passed or decide going to have any effect everybody sees that washington is not going to solve this problem and more and more people are looking for something to replace the u.s. . a moment of destiny is also approaching for the eurozone a struggling to contain sovereign debt crisis italy became of the latest european country to approve a tough seventy billion euro package including higher taxes and lower pensions meanwhile greece's prime minister has appealed to the country's european partners to wake up and end of the euro zone's continuing turmoil this comes as eight out of ninety one european banks failed stress tests to see if they could survive another major economic crisis british people not all believe that the eurozone can pull

with greece but if italy goes and then trouble is unavoidable. this was always about politics it was not about economics the idea that you could have economies in the mediterranean in line with economies like many fast growing economies like germany was never going to wait to get out of this mess is for those countries to go back home to the international court and see the value moving. exports going in at the moment because if you think that because they couldn't see these are controlled by frankfurt they're controlled by the european central bank they're not controlled by athens or lisbon even the people out on the streets and i think i just wonder how long it will be people the people that i wouldn't speak to in rome right in lisbon on in this thing is contagious this thing will move right across the continent specifically in the mediterranean. if you know three from the european union this is really. largest economy and yours only leaves largest

economy in the world i think your overall correctly called with greece and portugal the smaller economies italy goals the whole thing could cave in because if italy because italy's economy is in the prime good strains on a spring really grow then we are in serious trouble. in the struggle for land rights in israel there is one place that's still deserted territory it used to be a flourishing palestinian community but now israelis are eyeing it up as a luxury getaway archies policy clear as the story this old 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. back constantly. and i. can see the hard since this rain. and. my father. grew up among the cacti and

fig trees thirty 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 suddenly we heard and. and shelby. they will shoot you with the whole caboodle whole group a whole. hour another class room in a corner and the playground so as a group with us you could 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 a jewish state almost biblical as being and who lived in london for and he was forced to go. because he was free and here 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 your new york and spare ins they were also refugees fleeing arab countries with life had become dangerous after israel was created these really government simply to live in lifter you only says to prevent arab owners from returning when they came here and therefore live here without water without electricity came here to jerusalem for the memory here is very important 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 limits how those for forty six years or whatever means are stone walls where wild flowers and grass mold grow if there is empty. and gets into that emptiness that the israeli government now plans to build more than two hundred luxury homes a chicago tel shops and a museum insisting the opposite of the area's history we will find ourselves with

a neighborhood where history has been concert there will also be documentation and the story will be told of who lived there as we do in all the neighborhoods of jerusalem but many luckier could say it's palestinian land and a double injustice. roy. and. yanni. four of only three people came from anywhere in this where why i got in my village and come back. back to my friends and live. with me. and. so i'm good for palestinians and if there is a physical reminder of injustice and survival put forth a number of israelis it's an eyesore and they'd rather not be reminded of what happened here every time they drive into jerusalem policy r

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