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 are testament to the children among those who drowned when the pleasure boat the belgariad sank in the volga last sunday. we studied together for a year she never had arguments with anyone she was a very kind girl and was always ready to help. the ship sank in just three minutes turning a summer afternoon on the river into a scene of horror even is that people were basically buried alive in china metal coffin we managed to get out through the windows i was there with my ten year old daughter i couldn't rescue her she swallowed too much water when i was pulled out i

realized my child was gone in the chaos to escape many other families were also torn apart one five year old boy lost his mother and grandmother and was only kept afloat by a man who grabbed his hand another man unable to hold on to his son in the strong current oil slick had to watch him drown in front of him yuri was the deejay for the disco on the bottom deck he only just managed to escape. and i remember clearly that water was rising very quickly it was a matter of seconds i survived because we saw a broken window in the cellar started pushing people out through it at that moment waves pushed me up on the surface and then i saw that the board was already underwater. over half the bulgaria's two hundred eight passengers and crew including the captain his wife and child never made it out meanwhile as the arabella. another pleasure boat arrived at the scene she was surrounded by people

screaming and drowning unable to reach the banks of the vast river three kilometers away. as we approached it was hard to distinguish in the dark water people who were alive from the rubble that was floating around people were in panic when we rescued them in a state of shock some suffering from other traumas they were all covered in oil fuel that was leaking from 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. 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 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 who 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 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 blocks emergency exits criminal cases have been opened and arrests been made into the bulgaria sinking and more controversially into why two ships which reach the scene before the arab didn't pick up

a single person but reports the crew members instead took pictures on their mobile phones. all the passengers were shocked there were about seventeen people on a raft many 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 ball carrier has now started up with it will come the potential for answers but also terrible memories in particular associated with the ship's play room where a group of children were gathered when the ship sank. just some of the young victims in what will go down as one of russia's worst and most of voidable shipping disasters tom bottom party. in any. 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 his dramatic account in twenty

minutes here on our t.v. or on our website or to 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 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 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 arrests they've been leaking they've been paid for telling people where celebrities have been arrested so actually manipulating the rest of

people i mean it's 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 now prepared to get to the bottom of this and weed out those people who've been corrupted different levels remember that four years ago right the police had these bags with i think it was a level one thousand letters about four thousand celebrities and victims of crime and all these other people and they knew they were taking part the investigation and i didn't these bags were just left there i mean it's amazing it's remarkable that it took four years for them to do anything about this meanwhile senior police officers were wining and dining with members of the murdoch empire they. 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 but 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 that the ramifications of this is so big i mean you know britain is this is shaking at this each day it's headline news and people are asking who is next. meanwhile rupert murdoch is trying to rescue news corp scrambling 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 with the family of

a murdered teenager whose voicemail was intercepted laura reports it's a watershed moment for the cozy relationship between britain's politicians and the press. but every media outlet in turn on t.v. . even the scary to when art imitates life the long running simpsons takes a shot at its 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 and nine as which the police of have since about two thousand and four two thousand and five. and yet they promise i see evidence of criminal activity by these individuals and boy by the murdoch empire and yet they have not acted on it so why now just as the

murdoch deal to take control of satellite t.v. giant b. sky b. short to go ahead his arch 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. investing in the times 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 be.

that would suit the government just fine the british press is famous for its shop teeth and no holds barred doggedness particularly where it 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 thought it has the townspeople opened up their own newspaper and he's almost right we possible can truly the media. rupert murdoch. beautiful murdoch found as did mr perkins that you just can't all the news. papers those outside his control have been gunning for him to get is and this time they may have succeeded just as he gets set to consolidate control

over a lot section of the u.k. some media markets the drugs being pulled out from under him and it's only over the hidden scandal now revealed that the police have known about it for you know we're at it. and still ahead this hour of the dangers of a debt default. we've salmon why the u.s. is on the brink of a financial mind where and what it might do to try to avoid it. and red square a four wheeled frenzy has 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 val's he'll never leave his country this comes after his opponents have been recognized as the legitimate governing authority by over thirty nations led by the u.s. they said they would deal with the rebel transitional national council on the hill

an interim government is in place new measures that give the insurgents access to get off these 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 diplomatic recognition to a regime that is not in the counting all that. it doesn't even seem likely to be able to achieve power anytime soon do you mean the situation in afghanistan during the one thousand nine hundred sixty two thousand and one civil conflict between the time of only the northern alliance the northern alliance were the former regime that had power in kabul and enjoy diplomatic relations with the west even though the taleban controlled ninety five. instead of the country it's almost just wishful thinking and frankly if i were a diplomat i would find it disturbing it's a bizarre situation i mean if the u.s.

knows who these people are they're not seeing and certainly there's no doubt that traditionally there's always been a very high component to families in even around being ghazi so it's unrealistic to assume that that is not still the case the u.s. is amazing it should be a skids full of hundred dollar bills to third world countries and expecting them to end up in the right can't. really going to have. 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 of thought france is now trying the tactic of talks with the libyan regime after failing to deliver a knockout blow to khadafi books is like bragging will destroy the republicans they're often wrong and gets a surprise all right. french foreign minister should pay boosted france would libya in quote days or weeks the war's into

a fourth month no final round inside nicolas sarkozy with his western allies seem short their little opponents fighting back well it's not just an embarrassment for sarkozy it's an embarrassment for all nato for the whole west paris even admits libya's rebels but on some somalia. went to libya for training within the last two or three years. documented we have to fly records and everything else so it seems strange in many ways the whole western support of 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 u.n. votes on foreign intervention in the country. giving. none of. this. witnesses.

of libya's causing widespread atrocities for every one military person that was supposedly a casualty there were ten civilians for all it's categorically ruled cindy grilled troops predict is the only way male to break the libyan deadlock the moves the splitting the nato coalition silvio berlusconi head of keep italy admits invading libya was a mistake rocher up steam did the un's votes for him bombs would bring havoc in libya. said the latest count supports the. loire valley diplomat speak for a blazing row with elections just more in months away psagot advisor said a successful war could resurrect his chances instead one paper writes libya's becoming a slow motion call crash for france's deeply unpopular president. is easy jogging

for excessive sweating is understandable this is libyan sprint 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 chemotherapy no more malignant cells have been found after he had surgery to remove a tumor from his pelvic region he is transferred some of his powers to ministers

during his absence but didn't agree to opposition calls for a temporary handover of all presidential authority his battle with cancer has raised doubts over his fitness to lead the country but 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 dollar debt ceiling president obama has urged the republican controlled house of representatives to come up with whatever mechanisms it 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 threaten to downgrade the united states prize to aaa rating but even if the budget is approved investor jim rogers says it's unlikely to solve america's debt problem. you know how the states already has been downgraded in the world markets every i'm not the only person who knows it the united states is the largest debtor nation in the. history of the world look at the value of the u.s. dollar is down fairly significantly over the past few years they have to increase the debt ceiling for the moment there's no question about that their choice though for the future is they've got to take an x.

no 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 this to get the budget ceiling passed but it's not 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. dollars. a moment of destiny is also approaching for the eurozone a struggling to contain sovereign debt crisis italy became the latest european country to approve a tough seventy billion euro cuts 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 euro m.p. paula not all believes that the eurozone can cope 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 a column in the mediterranean in line with economies like germany fast growing economies like germany was never going to where the only way to get out of this mess is for those countries to go back home to their national potencies to devalue growth moving. into exports going in at the moment they can't use their debt 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 thought of we see the people out on the streets and i things i just wonder how long it will be before the people i was in the streets in rome ran in lisbon until this thing is contagious this thing will move right across the continent specifically in the mediterranean and the bigger issue now facing the older people you know this is really the third largest economy in the eurozone this place largest economy in the world i think the eurozone can actually cope with greece and portugal the smaller

economies if italy goes the whole think ok even because if italy goes italy's economy is intertwined with spain's and of spain and italy go then we are in serious trouble. in the struggle for land rights in israel there is one place that's still a deserted territory it used to be a flourishing palestinian community but now israelis are eyeing it up as a luxury getaway artie's policy or as the story. in this world in the mountains of jerusalem are the remains of a once bustling arab community only the memories of those who once lived here have survived intact i feel is. to come back and to bring. my village. to see the heart since this rain also to remind. my tire that. among the cacti and fick trees but in one nine hundred forty eight just before the

state of israel was declared his family evacuated unlike the hundreds of arab villages that disappeared in forty eight and sixty seven most of the original houses of lifter are still here so the only we heard of shooting himself but. they will shoot do they do with the whole the whole group the whole day they will shoot through the. our mother took us inside the room in the corner and then the table so as to protect us here cook was one of seven hundred thousand palestinians who became a refugee in one nine hundred forty eight his childhood home was quickly absorbed by the newly established jewish state almost inevitable as the man who lived his house in london for nevertheless if he was forced to do just because he was three it and he is considered as absentee and he lost the property in the early one nine hundred fifty s. jews moved into the abandoned homes like you and your husband's parents they were

also refugees fleeing arab countries where life had become dangerous after israel was created these ready government sent them to live in lifter your nieces to prevent arab owners. from returning or undercurrent here on live here years without water without electricity came here. 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 lived in these houses for forty six years all that remains are stone walls where wild flowers and grass now grow if that is empty. and it's into that emptiness that the israeli government now plans to build more than two hundred luxury homes a chicago tell shops and a museum insisting they'll preserve the area's history we will find ourselves with a neighborhood where history has been conserved there will also be documentation

and the story will be told of who lived there as we do in all the neighborhoods of jerusalem but maybe luckier could say it's palestinian land and a double injustice why you want to destroy our house and. yeah me. for that. came from anywhere in this way why i can move in my village and come back. back to my privilege and live in. this new. and. so i'm going for palestinians lifta 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 every time they drive into 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 in a high octane performance formula one drivers burn some serious rubber against the amazing backdrop of the kremlin was it was part of the annual moscow city racing show featuring famous f one stars and of the winners of the world rally championships gets a taste of things to come for russian f one fans as the country will get its own grand prix in three years time. snapped cable has. forced. and i'll be back with a quick look at your headlines in just a second. we'll

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markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy is. broadcasting live from the heart of moscow. let's take a look at your top headlines. cable has forced rescuers to restart a complicated operation to lift the massive of bulgaria cruiser that sank a week ago i mean one hundred twenty nine lives. the murdoch media scandal claims another 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 by the u.s. and thirty other countries but colonel gadhafi remains defiant never to leave libya nato airstrikes continue. cash crunch as america struggles to raise its debt ceiling in a time to avert default while the euro crisis is spread out in more pressure to the single currency. and a rocket carrying a telescope with just launch right there will be the most powerful in space just launch as you're looking at it right now live. pictures from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan pretty impressive there if you take a look scientists have already nicknamed three s believe the green rocket because it uses kerosene and oxygen as its fuel and is it environmentally friendly it develops jointly by russia and ukraine will propel into orbit

a new generation space telescope that is designed to extend the mankind understanding of the forming of galaxies and this will be the first radio telescope that russia has put into space in more than twenty five years and will boldly see where no telescope has ever seen before in space transmitting images back to earth scientists have chosen a highly eccentric orbit for the station to allow it to turn under the moon's gravity to scan the sky it will also synchronize its work with telescopes on earth to make high definition shots of the far distant objects and to mark their locations at the ten metre long telescope will also be capable of registering solar wind quasars black holes and a neutron stars. and having been down at baikonur as they have launched in the past and it certainly is a magnificent thing to see now next r.t. here is a for.