oh she's available to move go argument joy see her jewels the home of the lights the gateway hotel the grand imperial troy that's all she was to push coromandel you can to let her tell the socialist civility to go publicly and run this in the kernel was her child as risk or retreat. is now cable has forced rescuers to restart the complicated operation to lift the massive bulgaria 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 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 . would 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 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 time to avert a default and while the euro crisis spreads adding more pressure on the single currency. in broadcasting live direct from the heart of russia's capital moscow this is r t i'm john thomas let's take a look at your top stories. 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. cable snapped during recovery efforts

which have had to restart since the cruiser of all garia went down in minutes leaving most of the two hundred eight passengers no chance of escape in one of russia's worst ever shipping disasters dumbarton reports from the side of a catastrophe. as if to demonstrate just how difficult a covering the ball gary is going to be the cable holding it just now for the norm might see buying 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 is serves to demonstrate just how difficult and dangerous this operation is going to be if they were divers under there they could have been in great danger from the snapping cable they'd previously been trying to turn the ship around 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 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 are the flowers and candles a testament to the children among those who drowned in the pleasure boat the bulgaria 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 girl and was always really to help. 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 michael 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 and the cellar started pushing people out through it. 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 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 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 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 and the stingy management forced it to keep sailing. i became captain of the vessel in two thousand and seven the ship had 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 port authorities say they will lie 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 being made into the bulgaria sinking and more controversially into why two ships which reached the scene before the arabella didn't pick up a single person reports the crew members instead took pictures on their mobile phones. for those of the good. old 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 now started but 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 avoidable shipping

disasters tom watson. 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'd been arrested by his own officers investigating illegal accessing of mobile phones and corruption hours earlier the former news of the world editor back up brooks was arrested as part of the same inquiry media analyst phil reese says the practice of police and being paid for information by the media is not likely to disappear anytime soon. this is a good example of what the police have been doing in the kind of murdoch years they've been using a recip been leaking they've been paid for telling people when some celebrities have been arrested so actually manipulating the rest of people is actually a practice that has become in 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 have been corrupted and different levels remember that four years ago the police had these bags with i think it was a leaven 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 meanwhile senior police officers were wining and dining with members of the murdoch empire they were they were making 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 leeds sample that gives the

officers down down the lines go 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's next. meanwhile rupert murdoch is trying to rescue news corp's crumbling reputation he spent the last forty eight hours apologizing for the phone hacking scandal with full page newspaper advertisements while out on meeting the family of a murdered teenager whose voicemail was intercepted and reports it's a watershed moment for the cozy relationship between britain's politicians and

press. every media outlet and own t.v. reveal even the scary truth when art imitates life the long running simpsons takes a shot at its own no 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 forty thousand and five and yet they promise facie 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.

look sure 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. into investing in the times and if you will for example the guardian or the growth it would welcome 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. b. sky. 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 shot 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 put up their own newspaper and he's almost right. it is possible and true love the media because of rupert murdoch these were 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 think it is and this time they may have succeeded just seen it sets it consolidate control over a launch section of the e.u. case media markets the drugs being 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

it's r.t. . and 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 it might do to try to avoid it. a senior advisor to the afghan president hamid karzai and a member of parliament have been killed during a suicide attack in the capital kabul the incident times a week after karzai as half brother was assassinated. has claimed responsibility for the killing describing it as one of its biggest achievements in a day. meanwhile the u.s. led coalition has started handing over control of some of afghanistan's territories to local security forces but journalist jerry van dyke who was once held hostage by the taliban says the u.s. led efforts in the region have been seriously undermined by the death of karzai brother. well the cars i was not just the governor or the shadow governor of

kandahar he was the most powerful and the most popular person throughout all of southern afghanistan this shows that right now with the canadian troops pulling out and with the u.s. trying to focus on eastern afghanistan feeling that they have controlled the south there is now a vacuum of who is in power who can the west rely upon the taliban have claimed responsibility for this but it's not clear that the taliban are responsible it could very easily be a power struggle i've also heard and others have reported that he was responsible for perhaps starting to bring the taliban together with the united states to negotiate their force someone would have had a different reason perhaps pakistan perhaps the taliban to stop this we don't know yet who is responsible because they killed a person who had all the information. that was journalist gerry van dyke commenting

on the killing of the afghan president's half brother. the new nato airstrikes have hit the suburbs of the libyan 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 do deal with the rebel transitional national council until an interim government is in place new measures to give the insurgents access to cut off these assets including the billions of dollars which have been frozen in american banks but as political come. tator ted rall says the move marks a radical shift. the united states usually doesn't extend diplomatic recognition to any regime that is not in the capital that isn't 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 civil conflict there between the taleban in the northern alliance the northern alliance that were the former regime that had power in kabul and the interior diplomatic relations with the west bank even though the taliban controlled ninety five percent of the country it's always 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 saying and certainly there's no doubt that traditionally there's always been a very high component of jihadi. around and ghazi so it's unrealistic to assume that that is not still because the u.s. has an amazing bit of shipping a skids full of hundred dollar bills to third world countries and expecting them to end up in the right hands what's not 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 keystone oil town has ended up 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. book says lloyd bragg will destroy the report they're often wrong and gets a surprise. french foreign minister should pay posted france would be libya in quote days or weeks the wars in soft forth month and the final round inside. because the with his western allies seem short little opponents pointing back well it's not different environment for sarkozy from embarrassment for all nato for the whole west terrorists even to me it's 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 fly records and

everything else so it seems strange in 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 un vote on foreign intervention in the country. and other. witnesses. of libya's causing widespread atrocities for every. military person that was supposedly a casualty there were ten civilians fraud's categorically ruled out cindy grilled troops at the experts predict is the only way to break the libyan deadlock the moves of splitting coalition silvio berlusconi head of key partly italy

invading libya was a mistake. the un's vote wallie foreign bombs would bring havoc in libya. the latest talks who can't support love rothwell quote lloyd ling diplomats week for a role with elections just annoying months away thought wise is that a successful war good bryza wrecked his chances instead one paper roys libya's becoming a slow motion call crash for france is the president sarkozy's a jogging for excessive sweating is understandable this is libyan sprint is turning into a marathon 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 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 but 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 it not aimed against russia sergey lavrov stressed to voice of russia radio in washington the need to prevent a new arms race. fix on the drone that being created on the basis of a miracle design of missile defense which was not accepted as a reasonable way the response to what is received as being the purpose of the system we want at this particular moment to stick to the original agreement that there would be no parts of the system which would. compromise which would. create three six for the strategic stability and for the but then short in the

strategic stability area in the midst of the drug arsenals of the participants of this. now let's have a brief look at some other stories from around the world. egypt's former president hosni mubarak has suffered a heart attack and is in a coma according to his lawyers but the night 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 gate of his trial on charges of corruption and of the arm awful killing of protesters approaches. venezuelan president hugo chavez is that back in cuba for more cancer treatment including came a therapy you know more malignant cells have been found after he had surgery to remove a tumor from his pelvic region he's it transferred some powers through his 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 reelection next year. the clock is ticking for american politicians to agree on the next move in so. reading 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 and the list 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' prized aaa rating and maxwell senior analyst at green crest capital says the political debt over the u.s. debt ceiling has been going on for two. americas been running on debt for years

this is a disaster in the making i would liken this situation here to a cancerous tumor inside a body there's no better time to cut the cancerous tumor out as quickly as you possibly can that said the u.s. government has been running on debt for many many years and we've been raising the budget total debt ceiling for many many years as a budget issue and we've successfully deals struck it has become the political norm in the united states that whatever party is in the white house has passed to raise the debt ceiling it's always been raised in the past the party that's not in the white house that's out of power screams and yells for three or four days at most usually about how the government spending too much and should live within its means the debt ceiling debate gets raised and it's business as usual that's been the case for thirty years so we have one side in the congress right now that's decided no increase in revenue is acceptable i don't know other side that has decided that not raising revenue is unacceptable and so we've reached an embarrassing impasse that

has dragged on for weeks longer than it should and is the reason that we're going to see the growing chorus of foreign and domestic voices urging congress and the white house to stop riling already strained global markets with a political impasse. a moment of destiny is also approaching for the eurozone struggling to contain sovereign debt crisis italy became the latest european country to approve a tough seventy billion euro package including higher taxes and a lower pensions meanwhile greece's prime minister has appealed to the country's european partners to wake up and ended the euro zone's continuing turmoil as comes as eight out of ninety one european banks failed stress tests to see if they could survive another major economic crisis financial writer patrick young says the italian people's response to the budget cuts will be even more chaotic then and greece. will be one significant difference between the people who take to the streets between greece and italy and that is that greece at least thank goodness

the taxi drivers don't go on strike where is nuclei expected almost everybody is going to end up on strike and it's going to be absolutely chaotic the only way they can slip this through is perhaps because we do have this long lead in time until the cuts really start to make an impact in two thousand and thirteen but i think the problem is in the meantime a large amount of the sort of the leftist opposition in italy for see the fact that silvio berlusconi due to many of the reasons we'll see which are outside of the direct school reason are well i mean he's a wounded animal at this point in time and in some ways i think he's going to be finding it very difficult to hold his government together there are big problems in western europe they havens to be more directly to the east everyone not so fortunately expect further surprises because the epidemic the contagion seems to be spreading and we have new political leadership seeming to do with it. and iraq and carrying a telescope which will be the most powerful in space has launched from the baikonur

cosmodrome in kazakhstan. scientists have already nicknamed the senate three s v the green rocket because it uses kerosene and oxygen as its fuel and is environmentally friendly it will propel into orbit a new generation of space telescope that will see further than any telescope before its ten meters long and will also be capable of registering solar wind quasars black holes and neutron stars. recap today's and this week's main stories for you in just a few moments stay with us. culture

is that so much i'm going to use music as a person on the mark when libya is still in the same nikos bombing campaign in egypt and thank you rebels have only hardened political facts on.

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